The Witcher 3
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Sweet Jesus. Game looks nuts. Reviews are pretty great also.
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Has anyone been following the "graphical downgrade" controversy? Sounds like its shaping up to be another Watch Dogs. Each iteration of the "gameplay footage" from 2013-2015 appears to show a drastic loss in quality, in part to make room for console viability.
http://www.gamepur.com/news/18811-new-witcher-3-near-finish-build-vs-2013-build-comparison-screenshots-shows.html
Hopefully this is reversible (to whatever extent is possible) with the post launch PC version.
Yea looks a lot alike, still a good looking game, but the first videos were far too impressive to be final i guess.
It'll never look like the reveal gameplay trailer, It won't even look like it did back in 2014.
The consoles have turned out to be the lead platform and as such the pc version looks pretty much the same even on max settings.
CDPR have been very cryptic about the whole thing, denying it at every chance and talking about mysterious super settings for the pc version. Many people up to this point are still writing off any comparison shots or videos as not being the final version, and that the launch version will be fantastic.
So while the game still looks pretty good it has been downgraded and CDPR have decided to not come clean about it.
If there's an XB1 version, there's your answer.
Anybody who has worked with that thing knows the kind of bottleneck it is compared to gaming PCs...
...from ten years ago.
If they had to make it run on that, they probably didn't bother keeping the PC-only art content in a separate branch, which would have meant QAing and bugfixing two versions of the game that effectively only shared a name and a plot.
Woah..
So you would rather them not show they game at all than them show you what graphical fidelity they hope to achieve at final ship.
These arguments have all been stupid. They have shown plenty of demos that show the final ship quality if you don't like it don't buy the game. It was a game in development the majority of the time the game is going to look worse at ship because you have to balance for overall performance. This is what happens in game development you make a visual target, then you balance for performance, then you balance for performance across all of the consoles. The game would most likely look the same if it was PC only.
*Also the game looks amazing. Can't wait to pick it up.
so that I won't be annoyed with too many bugs.
If it's over a year out from ship and they have several updates showing the final ship quality yes. It's not like they are convincing you that the game looks like that. The game hasn't shipped and you know it doesn't look like that. I fail to see how it is dishonest.
You guys probably know this stuff but sometimes developers do a 'vertical slice' of the project and really push the quality sometimes with not much optimisation, this is done for many reasons. One reason may be to impress the publisher or shareholders, another may be to just internally figure out workflows and project management schedules and set a quality bar for 3d artists etc, another may be to impress gamers who will purchase the game. If the publisher or shareholders aren't impressed then it could get pushed back or canned etc etc. Doubt thats the case here but just some things to consider. I dont think most companies would normally show a vertical slice to the public, doesnt seem a great idea to me.
They withheld the highest settings on purpose while in reality they don't really do that much.
The fidelity of the PC version has been anyone's guess up to just maybe a few days ago, even CDPR wanted people to believe that it would be amazing compared to the footage that was out.
http://wccftech.com/cd-projekt-the-witcher-3-ultra-will-be-a-slap-in-the-face-new-gdc-gameplay/
Actually this is the biggest flaw in your argument. They have been telling people the game looks BETTER not worse than the previous footage. So yes, they have been trying to convince their target audience that the game looks like that, worse...better than that.
They have been actively talking about how much better the game looks and when questions have been raised they began blaming youtube compression of all things. Its the active denial or refusal to step away from the "it looks better" hole they dug thats rubbing some people the wrong way.
Too many red flags with this one, from the review codes to the rampant censorship on their forums over the subject... Just too much is resulting in bad optics on their part.
It was amazing on every level a cinematic could be. Stunning art, animation, combat, sound and self contained narrative.
Been a long time since a cinematic has floored me like this one. Cant wait for the game as well
I dont think it would be a good idea to make a movie and call it gameplay, did they do that?
"slow mo speed up slow mo speed up slow mo, flashy fx, slow mo.... speed up SLOOOW MO... slow. mmmmoooooo"
something like that...
The reviews I've read says it plays more like a classic linear RPG than a big shallow sandbox like Skyrim. You theoretically can run off in any direction, but in practice the plot and the difficult curve keep you on a fairly straight path.
Obviously it doesn't say anything about quality of gameplay, but it does give a better feel for the tone and story than any given two minutes of in-game footage would.
edit: removed 2nd paragraph, happy monday!
the only thing that confuses the fuck out of me is how turning down all my graphics significantly does NOTHING to the framerate. Everything medium/high with all post effects? 20-24fps.
everything low, no post effects? 20-24 fps.
wat..
Also, I personally think that this was a pretty good representation of both the game and the world it takes place in, probably the best mix of these elements we've ever done.It made me want to read up on the background lore and appreciate CDPR's efforts a lot more.
There's an unusually high amount of content in this single piece and it's all so effortless, thanks to the quality of the script that we were given. It was also a lot of fun to work on - just consider the ramifications of naked female vampire monsters
restarted it, everything is now on low except textures on medium, vignetting on, and bloom on. I can get 28-32. To be fair, I'm on a 660 which is literally their minimum spec. I just thought it was very interesting how playing with most things all the way up didn't really affect my fps that much. It still looks great on low though, and I'll probably upgrade my card around xmas. I'm just glad to have a steady framerate, and more importantly, more responsive menus/controls.
I'm on a 760 and running on mostly high/ultra at 30+ fps. The biggest performance sink for me is NVidia's hair effects which runs like complete garbage, I had to disable it completely.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/292030/discussions/0/617335934149733152/
PS. if someone experiences crashes at launch, that GoG galaxy program just downloaded 2.6 MB of something and then it worked, over the regular GoG installer + 1.01 patch.
The wind and the trees, and how everything reacts to the weather. Just awesome stuff. Epic sunsets, and clouds. Its like a good mix of skyrim and red dead redemption.
Looking forward to playing some more of this.
It's running pretty smooth on my rig, but I do have some issues with flickering flowers and such, and had a blackscreen crash, however I have downloaded the new nVidia drivers and going to install it and see if that solves it.
except if i turn on hairworks then everything became a bit slow hahaha, oh well i guess untill next 2-4 years until we can get proper hair in 60 fps
gameplay wise, finally no more confusing sidequest vs main quest tracking like in witcher 2 ... , now everything feels much easier to track.
Apart from that, has been great, haven't gotten so far yet, but it looks good and works well. If anything, I have a problem with the default 'walk/run', it's too fast when I just want to walk around, it feels a bit jerky. Prefer to be able to run when I press a key.
There are way to many herbs
Must. Pick. Up. Absolutely. Everything.