The Witcher 3

[AUChase]

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The Witcher 2 was on sale for $3 on Steam so I bought it. I want to play through it before getting The Witcher 3, but it's hard on PC. I'm dying way too much for a game that doesn't seem too difficult looking in. The control setup for PC just isn't used friendly and I'm not good with a mouse and keyboard

I wonder how much I'll miss by skipping straight to 3 on the PS4 ? I'm going to to give 2 some more time on PC before deciding..

[choadler]

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The Witcher 2 was on sale for $3 on Steam so I bought it. I want to play through it before getting The Witcher 3, but it's hard on PC. I'm dying way too much for a game that doesn't seem too difficult looking in. The control setup for PC just isn't used friendly and I'm not good with a mouse and keyboard

I wonder how much I'll miss by skipping straight to 3 on the PS4 ? I'm going to to give 2 some more time on PC before deciding..

I switched to a controller and it was so much easier. I recommend you do for the witcher. I know...I know.... I am hardcore mouse and keyboard guy as well, but this game is better with a controller. Try it.

[Candyman5]

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I switched to a controller and it was so much easier. I recommend you do for the witcher. I know...I know.... I am hardcore mouse and keyboard guy as well, but this game is better with a controller. Try it.

Most action games like Witcher, Skyrim, fallout are horrible with mouse and keyboard on PC.

[trobinson97]

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The Witcher 2 was on sale for $3 on Steam so I bought it. I want to play through it before getting The Witcher 3, but it's hard on PC. I'm dying way too much for a game that doesn't seem too difficult looking in. The control setup for PC just isn't used friendly and I'm not good with a mouse and keyboard

I wonder how much I'll miss by skipping straight to 3 on the PS4 ? I'm going to to give 2 some more time on PC before deciding..

Use a controller, or change the keybindings to something that suits you better.

I've never had issues with kb/m and that game but everyone is different.

[Skyboxer]

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Most action games like Witcher, Skyrim, fallout are horrible with mouse and keyboard on PC.

Skyrim PC I Played KB/Mouse (and a game keyboard) and it was much better than controller for me. Witcher 2 I prefered the controller..

[choadler]

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Skyrim PC I Played KB/Mouse (and a game keyboard) and it was much better than controller for me. Witcher 2 I prefered the controller..

Yes skyrim and fallout are actually better with keyboard and mouse. Witcher 2 better with controller

[AUChase]

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I switched to a controller and it was so much easier. I recommend you do for the witcher. I know...I know.... I am hardcore mouse and keyboard guy as well, but this game is better with a controller. Try it.

Use a controller, or change the keybindings to something that suits you better.

I've never had issues with kb/m and that game but everyone is different.

I got home and switched to my DS4 and the game is much more fluid and easier for me, except not being able to use any sign at any time. It just felt broken with a keyboard and mouse.

Thanks for the advice. I forgot it had controller support and didn't want to bother with Pinnacle.

[Gagnon39]

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World

Essentially Witcher 3 is 5 ot 6 times as big as Skyrim and has no bland quests that Skyrim had. At least thats their main goal. The devs loved skyrim and played it to death but they had a lot of things they didt like about it.

The big point they wanted to make is that you in essence mattered what you did. In Skyrim you were basically just there doing your thing and nothing you did changed much in the core world.

In the Witcher say there is a monster that requires a human sacrifice every month but in return the villiage has stable economy and great furtile lands. You have a choice, to either kill the monster so people can stop living in fear of sacrifice or deliver the months sacrifice safely to the monster.

In this situation say you choose to kill the monster, well everything is fine and people dont live in fear however later the villiage goes through a drought, crops die, water dries up and it goes from a thriving economy to a poor, crime riddled dump.

Say you deliver the girl, the villiage opinion of you may suffer and the family may hate you (Not give you information, etc) but the Villiage will stay bustling and be a good area for you to shop, etc.

They are trying to make where there is a very blurry line between right and wrong and where your decisions could shape the world or destroy it. Hell from what I heard you can even effect the ecosystem and make things go extinct.

Combat

As for the combat its very tactical. Skyrim/fallout was a hell of a lot more lenient and you could just spam RT half the time and get away with it. The witcher there is weight behind every attack, fluid motions and depending on the enemy you got to be very careful. You have different powers (Flame, mines, etc) that allow you to set up ambushed and fight on your terms. There are 2 bl;ades you use and a cross bow for range (In previous games upgrades for these were available but not like skyrim and Fallout here there are many different types). Every fight is a learning experience in its own sense.

Story

IMO the story of Witcher is great, its a good telling narrative that puts you in Geralds shoes. You feel for characters and some actually hate or like. In skyrim for example there were only about 3 or so characters I even remembers after the fact or cared for. The Witcher wants each person to have a story, etc. This isnt really a fact or anything, just my personal experience.

EDIT:

Here are some notes from the dev:

Some Notes: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost...46&postcount=1

• "Everyone in this studio plays Skyrim" - team is a fan of open world games.
• Lessons learned from Skyrim: you need to care about immersion in the game.
• "Skyrim was generic". Disliked the way Skyrim handled quests, where NPCs would never really acknowledge what you accomplished or did. You'd have a generic set of quests and that's it. The team feels that quests should be unique and NPCs should acknowledge the things you've done for them.
• Felt this is where The Witcher 2 succeeded: choice and consequence. You got to see how your quest choices impacted the lives of NPCs, and you can speak to them about it, whether they're angry or happy.
• "(Skyrim) didn't have very good characters". Tried to remember and name five different characters from the game and couldn't.
• Thought exploring in Skyrim was great, but the story and characters were generic. So they want to learn from Skyrim how to best make an "open world". Make sure they have huge vistas, but plenty of adventures and stuff to do.
• Vistas are important. Notes the sensation of leaving the first dungeon in Skyrim and seeing the mountains and towns in the distance, delivering a feeling of a huge world to explore. Vistas need to deliver the feeling that you can explore things in the distance.
• Acknowledges the challenge of blending a cinematic experience and cutscenes with freedom of adventuring, not making boundaries. Always an issue with story driven games.
• Notes Fallout: New Vegas: thought it had a really good story and open world without too many cutscenes, but felt something was missing. Thought it might be caused by the tools, or something else, but whatever it was it shows that it's a big challenge to blend the two.
• Notes Assassin's Creed III: felt there was always something to do in the main quest, but trying to hunt down side quests always lead to generic stuff, and that hurt the immersion of the world.

Thanks for the info. It sounds great. However, many, many games make promises of "we're going to to this," and, "in our world decisions will matter." They often give an example like the one you just provided. It all sounds wonderful but the execution is often lacking. I'll probably end up getting this and checking it out but I'll maintain my expectations. Which, in turn may make the game that much better.

[Flawless]

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When it comes to moral ambiguity and offering meaningful choice and consequence, The Witcher 2 is one of finest examples in RPGs of the past decade. Others could learn something from how well that game avoids black and white choices, has good setup and payoff, and how even relatively minor choices can have a noticeable impact on the world. It's these strengths that I hope aren't diminished in a game that is now vastly larger in scale.

[mestevo]

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Game is really starting to get hammered in some places for over-use of motion blur and detail reduction from earlier shots now that console screens/footage is becoming available.

[trobinson97]

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The motion blur doesn't bother me as much as the removal of assets and downgrading of textures and lighting effects.

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[mestevo]

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Hoping on PC we can get a lot of those features back. The gifs I posted are from the PS4 I'm told.

[Quint75]

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Definitely disappointed about the graphics/textures. Hoping the gameplay is as good as advertised. Still pre-ordered and excited about the game.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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Are the most recent grabs from the consoles? I have always been under the impression that everything we've seen before now has been a PC build.

Either way the game still looks great to me.

[trobinson97]

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Of course it still looks great, but there have been obvious downgrades from what we saw in the earlier builds. The Nvidea screen is definitely from the PC version, as it was posted to show Nvidea's "Hairworks". We also know the "Ultra Settings Gameplay" shot is from the PC, I watched that video and the uploader listed the specs being used on that system.

The thing is, and this is why I'm not getting too down about it right now, we don't know what the day one patch (which has been confirmed) will bring. They said it(the patch) wasn't actually necessary, but they were putting it out because they want it to be the best that it can be. We'll see what that means on release day.