The White Wolf Returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[kommando367]

Hell
The
Fuck
YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to patiently wait for the 360 port...

 

[Tar Palantir]

Open-world map means we'll be stuck in the same place for the entire game. I'm not sure about that, Skyrim looked all the same, snow, mountains and dungeons.....boooring. I'm curious to see how they'll handle it.

Also, less politics and more personal...not a big fan of that either.

 

[Frostbyte666]

Excellent Will be looking forward to this I do so hope I can screw over everyone else while reaching my personal goals this time instead of being used.

 

[devotedsniper]

Yes oh thank you!

I've been wanting a new one ever since finishing the second one, i don't know why but i love this series. It quickly overtook Dragon Age after the terrible number 2.

 

[omicron1]

Everyone keeps saying "We're mixing in Monster Hunter!" Guys, if you're gon' mix in Monster Hunter, kindly do it right: Enemies which are neither bullet sponges nor glass cannons, but which take skill to bring down. Deep crafting systems from monster parts - not just potions, either, Geralt. Oh, and an actual hunt now and then, not just an arena battle, would be nice.

Anyway, great news! But am I the only one who's disappointed that open worlds are still measured in tens of square miles (SimCity 4 managed 100, for crying out loud!), and not (say) hundreds of thousands? We have the tech to make maps the size of, y'know, Europe.
It doesn't have to be bland, either. Keep the questing compacted near townships, but with epic journeys (montage-style?) between cities - and things like hunting/foraging/minor wilderness quests surrounding the more focused main game.

/pipedream
Maybe for Elder Scrolls 6: We Can Use More Than 512mb Of Shared Memory Edition?

 

[In Search of Username]

Oh my godddddd

Oh my godddddddddddddddddd

So excited for this, I just replayed Witcher 2 recently as well. :'D

 

[Owlslayer]

This is pretty damn awesome news, i loved The Witcher 2. However, I'm a bit skeptical regarding the open-world style. Witcher 2 was great, i loved the story, but I'm afraid that when it goes open-world, it might get a bit... not sure what the word is. Less tightly-knit? I'm not sure. And I almost never finish open-world games. I just wonder off and do loads of random sidequests and such, and quite often, i just forget about the main plot. But I'm really hoping that won't happen with this one.

Also, i doubt i can run it on my PC, when it comes out. The screenshots looked really beautiful, and the second game was already quite the tough game to chew for my PC. But even if i can't run it, I'm still damn excited for it. So, in conclusion, I'm quite hyped.

 

[Groenteman]

Oh yes! An excuse to buy an oversized radeon 8000 card! 2013 will be good.

Especialy since that card will replace a 4890.

 

[AlotFirst]

To be honest, I think the whole "World will be bigger than Skyrim's"-thing hasn't got anything to do with the content in the game. I think that they plan to make settlements more spread out and they are going to make you walk (or more likely, ride) from location to location instead of loading you into a different location. And I don't actually mind this, as I rally like the idea of having a large world, that is relatively easy to traverse AND doesn't have an unnecessarily high content density.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

The Witcher is a weird series for me.

I'm a big fan of RPGs. I love the premise, the story and the in-depth gameplay that the Witcher series provides, but for some reason I never finished the first game until the second one was on its way to me in the mail.
And it seems this story will repeat itself again, as I still haven't finished The Witcher 2.

I don't know why, but somehow I just stop playing them when they near their end.

I just couldn't stand The Witcher (first game). It was so tedious and boring, the story was meh, characters more so. The stilted acting, character designs, and combat were all so horendous.

I haven't played The Witcher 2, but is it any better?

I had the same problem with the original Witcher game, but I have been playing The Witcher 2 recently and trust me the game is a massive improvement on the original in every way.

OT:

Hell yes bring on 2014!

 

[CardinalPiggles]

Can't say I agree with that developer that everyone likes open world games. Some people prefer a more restricted story because they don't like the fluff that comes with open world.

I'm still definitely looking forward to this though, as long as they flesh out the world and make it absolutely beautiful I'm sure it won't hinder the game.

 

[Zing]

Awesome.

The Witcher 2 made Dragon Age 2 look like amateur hour.

 

[Piorn]

Oh YES! My Savegame is ready!

I'm actually in a bit of a dilemma.
On one hand, I regard my savegame as my story. I made the choices I found reasonable at the time and I stand to it, even if they're not the best possible outcome. It's something personal, and going back to do something else would devalue the entire concept of consequences.
On the other hand, I missed out on almost a quarter of the game...

 

[W3rK]

The Witcher is a weird series for me.

I'm a big fan of RPGs. I love the premise, the story and the in-depth gameplay that the Witcher series provides, but for some reason I never finished the first game until the second one was on its way to me in the mail.
And it seems this story will repeat itself again, as I still haven't finished The Witcher 2.

I don't know why, but somehow I just stop playing them when they near their end.

I know EXACTLY what you mean, it's very similar with me. It might seem like a contradiction but I think some part of me enjoys the world so much that it doesn't want the story to end; so instead of continuing I choose not to play at all. I've had it with some Elder Scrolls games as well.

 

[Norrdicus]

I think I got to Act III. I was trying to find the leaders of Salamandra, screwed some rich girl and had to sneak around in the sewers. Couldn't get any further as I managed to get into some glitch where the game would crash as soon as I tried to leave the sewers. Trish was mad at me, I joined with the other girl at her grandmother's house.

The first two acts just felt like absolutely nothing happened and just felt boring overall. As for the combat, it just felt really floaty to me. While the story was getting better, I don't want to play through 10 hours of absolute bore to get there again.

EDIT: In short, I shouldn't have to get through 10 hours of boring story and gameplay with tons of tedious sidequests (I did them all that I could) to reach the good parts of the story.

You only got a little ways into act 2.

Nah, it's Act 3. The first time you meet Triss after the prologue is in the beginning of Act 3 when you're recovering from Azar Javed's ambush

 

[kommando367]

Hell
The
Fuck
YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to patiently wait for the 360 port...

Won't happen. Maybe a 720 (or whatever they're going to call it) port will.

They were calling it the Durango last time I checked.

Imma probably buy one of those anyway.

 

[WashAran]

I would have loved to here the conversation about Geralt new design.
I imagine it went like this.
Dev1 "How can we make Geralt look more badass?"

Dev2 "Beard?"

Dev1 "BEARD!!!"

 

[Rad Party God]

Holy crap... I jizzed my pants a little... I hope their new engine is better optimized than the previous one, although I highly doubt it... I guess that it'll be the first game that makes me consider a serious upgrade for my PC (and The Secret World, that game is definitely pretty).

Also, REDengine 3?... what?, when did they used REDengine 2?.

 

[Norrdicus]

Also, REDengine 3?... what?, when did they used REDengine 2?.

They used that for the Xbox360 version of Witcher 2

 

[aelreth]

Something in 2014 to preorder besides the Kickstarters.