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The Witcher 3 will likely have the best graphics yet (New Screenshots)
- Thread starter Dennis
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Fahrenheit
Banned
Same here, i have a feeling this is gonna be a good ass game.
Guessing it will look really bad compared to the PC version? =/
Yeah its worrying.
I totally understand the XONE deal and I am ok with it.
but at least reassure some of the potential userbase in regards to this version of the game.
I fear we won't find out till release day /:
Killroyskbg
Member
Not stunned by the graphics. Worst is that everything looks like it is made of rubber.
Do you think that the PS4 is secretly horrible looking compared to what we've seen on the other platforms? I don't get what's bothering you so much.
Yeah it looks good in pictures but i dont play pictures 
In motion i dont see it, still looks janky, strange animations, basicaly everything in battle looks janky, animation, startup, recovery and range are all to short or to long etc ohh and framefrate dibs all over the place..
I really hope this time they fix some of the battlesystem its always really dissapointing to have a big awesome rpg and then you realise that ALL the battles are just a chore!
I am talking about morrwind,oblivion,skyrim, witcher1, witcher2, two worlds 2 etc...
In motion i dont see it, still looks janky, strange animations, basicaly everything in battle looks janky, animation, startup, recovery and range are all to short or to long etc ohh and framefrate dibs all over the place..I really hope this time they fix some of the battlesystem its always really dissapointing to have a big awesome rpg and then you realise that ALL the battles are just a chore!
I am talking about morrwind,oblivion,skyrim, witcher1, witcher2, two worlds 2 etc...
That it doesn't turn out like ACU on consoles.
We've seen it on XB1, though.
EmptySpace
Banned
1) what a leap and a stretch. secretly horrible-looking? please.
2) you don't get it? i want to see a multiplat game running on a system. devs can sugarcoat all they want but in the end the game speaks for itself not the devs.
CyberPunked
Member
It's almost as if they're still images, not gifs....I'm somewhat underwhelmed.
As it looks no where as good as this
Then what are you worried about?
E-Cat
Member
"Why did you come here!? Because you enjoy all the killing, that's why!"
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
But the lighting IS different. Isnt it? Like these new screens look a lot more "cartoony" or something.
DOWN
Banned
Love this game's looks. The alpha is nicely improving and it uses Cryengine beautifully for the landscape.Looks plasticky.
Kingdom Come is the most organic and realistic looking, IMO.
Looks extremely cartoony. That's not a knock at fidelity, but it seems at odds with the tone and kind of in contrast to some of the videos I've seen prior.
I'm imagining this in motion and it's impressive. I just wish it had a grittier look like Witcher 2, instead of something more like Disney Infinity and/or Fable.
I'm imagining this in motion and it's impressive. I just wish it had a grittier look like Witcher 2, instead of something more like Disney Infinity and/or Fable.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
I don't see how this game is close to being a similar scenario. A big part of crysis infamy is due being PC only, and then to running as intended on a reduced group of them at launch. If anything the Order 1886 is at higher risk of it. People are only talking about graphics here because Dennis made them do so with the title.
I don't really see the lighting is that different. The particle effects I think add a lot to the 'next gen'-ness of that GIF, though, and we haven't seen anything that suggests that wont be in the final game.
AO is prominent in the screens, sure.
OminoMichelin
Member
I might get some flak for this, but it looks like something that will look heavily outdated 4 years down the line
lifeexpectancy
Member
At least of any open-world game.
Them villagers on the left though...
lightchris
Member
Not technically the lighting, they just tuned the colors in a different (more "cartoony") direction.
Bl@de
Member
I don't care about the graphics. Looks good enough already. But I can't imagine a game so big with the dense world and feeling of Witcher 2. If they pull that off ... Skyrim and everything else can go home. I will have no more time in 2015. I mean ... I played Witcher 2 for 35h, and that was a "small" linear RPG.
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
In the most recent video they DO have particle effects after casting a spell, so Im pretty sure theyre still in.
Which is really weird considering the tone they were setting with the announcement trailer.
EmptySpace
Banned
i want to see the ps4 version, period. don't keep putting words into my mouth. wanting to see something doesn't automatically mean being worried.
Somehow, I am not that impressed with the graphics. The art direction is amazing, and it sure looks pretty, but nothing mind-blowing or unseen before. Assassin Creed Unity impressed me more for example.
That being said, I am super excited for this game ^^ May can't come soon enough.
That being said, I am super excited for this game ^^ May can't come soon enough.
StoppedInTracks
Member
Whoa @ the downgrade. Looks very flat and Dragon's Dogmaish. Sorry but the pre-release, E3 showcase was looking much better than this.
Arondight
Member
I think CDprojekt at least deserves better than being mentioned along the same lines as ACU. It's not like TW2 was bad performance/bug wise and they're obviously delaying the game to polish a game not to mentioned the great post launch support.
There's curiosity and then there's pessimism and I'd like to think it's the former. It's not like there's anything wrong with having at least seeing a footage of the version for a particular platform a person is going to buy.
You expect another delay ?
WetTreeLeaf
Neo Member
Hush dont say it out-loud!
Porcelain and plasticy looking character models (the main characters look very good but the random npc are bad) in Witcher 2 moving in the Vergen or Kaedweni or other places was like moving inside a mannequin factory, seems like this will be the same.
Well lets see how it runs on consoles before giving them praise for being better than Unity...
The game is still over 3 months away.
Interceptor
Banned
Yep. The prologue had a gigantic scale. A giant city under siege, hundreds, thousands of troops, etc.
A beautyful act 1 with flotsam and the nearby woods but already far more limited than the cities in Witcher 1.
Act 2 was supposed to have an epic scale too. Then Gerald and like 3 other people fought off an entire "army" which was trying to storm the stronghold with 2 ladders. Compare this to the prologue..
Act 3 was a joke and even worse with some lackluster ruins and a few NPCs thrown in.
The storytelling was better than the first game, everything else was worse. (Minus the prologue)
Lighting in ACU is baked. You can't compare baked lighting quality with realtime tod quality in a fair way. More so, TW3 has a very hparticular graphic style that does not try to be photorealistic.
The lighting is a bit flat in the new images, cartoonish even. It's really noticeable on the npcs.
It's the lack of haze. It's hard to give things a sense of distance when there's no "air" between point A and B.
LookAtMeGo
Member
Reminds me of how we never saw a single screen of Destiny on X1 right up untill the beta.
DOWN
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Why would you not do baked? Baked looks much better in that unfair comparison.
Turin Turambar
Member
Skyrim mods don't have any artistic sense, though.
Yeah Unity looks better. But maybe W3 can run better than Unity in both pc and consoles...
There were prostitutes in W1, in W2, and of course there are in Witcher 3. It's a gritty low/dark fantasy world, not having prostitutes would be weird.
You can solve clipping at 95%. The last 5%? It's harder to solve. The last 1%? It's even harder. Etc etc.
Vegetation looks alot worse than what they had shown before
That zone still can be like that in the game. You have to understand the trailers are made with totally cherry-picked examples of the zones in the game. The use the top 10% of the areas, the ones they know they are most beautiful.
Even the CE statue has been downgraded
Lol, that's pretty bad. I would be kind of angry if I would picked one.
No. He just bathes in wax.
Optimization always comes in the last months of development. And with "optimization", 90% of the time devs mean to see what areas they can cut back graphics. Shadows, lods, view distance, are some of the fist casualties.
Maybe someone will make a mod to improve LOD, like they did in W2.
Very interesting. It seems they were too ambitious, they hyped themselves with their own development, thinking they were doing the best game EVER, and therefore they wanted to have the "best graphics evar!", and "we Will be remembered!", and in the end they finally woke up. Lots of AAA devs have fallen in that trap.
I don't think they have done it willingly to make deceptive advertising. Understand they actually wasted months of development (expensive development!) in lightning systems and in more detailed vegetation models that in the end they couldn't use.
