Witcher 3 - Official Gameplay Trailer

[Avantre]

I wonder if using narration like that was some sort of inside joke. Talk about mashing two completely different tones together.

 

[Xian]

I really liked the first Witcher, but the second took off on a different track, much more action oriented with rolling and jumping out of the way, and I didn't care for it as much. The Witcher 3 looks like it will be closer to the second as far as combat goes. Still, I am going to preorder it from GoG anyway. After playing both Souls games, I am a lot more familiar with the action oriented combat so I think I am going to enjoy TW3 than I did playing the second.

 

[Gabriel]

I've been on a blackout of watching anything concerning the game but I gave in and watched this. Really didn't like the woman's monotone delivery of the game but I have to say it got me excited and I think will help people who've never played the first two games give this a try.

 

[CelticFrost]

I really liked the first Witcher, but the second took off on a different track, much more action oriented with rolling and jumping out of the way, and I didn't care for it as much. The Witcher 3 looks like it will be closer to the second as far as combat goes. Still, I am going to preorder it from GoG anyway. After playing both Souls games, I am a lot more familiar with the action oriented combat so I think I am going to enjoy TW3 than I did playing the second.

Not just you, a lot of people talk about combat in not only the WT2 and other games I have played which I never really noticed the combat at all. With the Witcher games and a few others I was so into the story the combat was just means to care on with the story that was unfolding.

Just like PoE, I don't really like that sort of pause start combat. Though after getting use to it again I didn't even notice it and there are some hard azz battles in it. Risen the combat I found very, very hard until I was half way through the game. Though I just loved the game I stuck with it and soon I didn't notice it as much LOL.

Though that is just me, I know a lot of people play games for the combat part of it.

 

[suibhne]

Finally got home from work and watched this. I pre-ordered over 6 months ago and will be playing at release, but: godawful narrator/narration, and the E3 trailer from last year remains vastly more compelling. This one seemed like it was farmed out to an American PR firm specifically to reach Assassins Creed-coddled audiences. I had to rewatch the 2014 trailer a few times just to remind myself of its superb narration, music, and presentation.

It doesn't make me doubt the game itself, but sheesh, CDPR's marketing is really aiming at a more mainstream audience than with the previous games.

 

[azarhal]

I really liked the first Witcher, but the second took off on a different track, much more action oriented with rolling and jumping out of the way, and I didn't care for it as much./QUOTE]

The first game also had rolling and jumping out of the way, but you had to click on the ground away from an enemy to see Geralt somersault or roll away.

 

[TheMadGamer]

I'm really looking forward to this game. I'm still a dog with its head tilted sideways at some remarks about the graphics not being very good. To each his own I guess. My first order of business will be to climb to the very top of the mountain at the end of the video where you see that troll/ogre looking monster running toward Geralt.

By the way, does anyone know if it's possible to buy a boxed collector's edition (Windows PC) anymore?

 

[lostforever]

Ok prepurchased this after watching the video…

I can imagine your review already :lol:

 

[CelticFrost]

I hope Triss didn't miss me to much….and Yes my wife knows about us LOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mSm8Dc407g

 

[Brumbek]

You died mashing buttons in TW2

I liked combat quite a bit, though it was a bit too imprecise and frantic at times.

Maybe you died! I'm a pro. I button-mashed and did just fine. Ok...it wasn't button mashing...it was press X, roll, roll, X, X, X, more spam, win. It just wasn't precise (agree with you) like Souls games or Kingdoms of Amalur. True story: I did the Witcher 2 tutorial arena where it picks your difficulty based on your success and survived for ages and the game recommended I play Insane, where if you die you have to start the entire game again. LOL. The game was a cakewalk, but again I'm an expert at walking with cake. I am. Don't doubt me.

 

[Ithilien]

This game has huge potential, but it will probably either be one of my all time favourites or something that I'll put away within a few hours.

I've never really been a fan of The Witcher series, as I've found them too linear (and they really lost me by using QTE - which I hate with passion), but I like their ambition and the story telling so I hope this will be the one where everything just clicks.

 

[Thaurin]

All this talk about being or not being impressed by the graphics in The Witcher 3, I have to say... is it normal that I'm not so much impressed by The Witcher 2 now after having watched all those trailers? Blegh, I still need to finish it and it looks so last-gen now.

 

[Couchpotato]

I believe the slang term for gamers who obsess over graphics is graphic whores according to the internet. Please dont be one of them as they ruined games.

Graphic Whore, or Graphics Whore is a slang term for someone who values the quality of a video game's graphics over the actual gameplay.

I'm so glad a vast majority of us on this site still enjoy isometric games.

Warning: The above post is sarcasm mixed with facts for the reading impaired.

 

[joxer]

That is not true.
Graphics whores, and I'm definetly one as I do enjoy spectacular graphics although it's not the most important thing in a game, are the reason games, on PC of course, don't look like on C64, nintendo and phones any more.
We're in year 2015, everyone has a decent GPU at home to run modern games at least on medium setting.

Games were ruined by publishers who decided to invest only in repetitiveness, grind and boredom. Sadly, fresh ideas, unique material and diversity is something we could find only in indies.
Yet this year proves there is still hope. Franchiseruiner company killed SimCity, but it was resurrected by a small developer who knew what the audience needs and a publisher who didn't refuse the challenge and who didn't want just to play safe with grinders. Last year's D:OS and WL2, then this year's PoE, just shown that people want a game, a real game, not a graphics spectacle that's not really a game but just a boring graphics showoff.
Wasn't Child of Light yet another proof that a game doesn't have to look like real world to be fun? And isn't AC:Rogue another proof that a game can still be better than another one in series that was released at the same time, AC:Unity, which has superior graphics, but fails in every other department?

Thank god for trends 2014. and 2015. are setting!

On PC.
On consoles, just check what Order:1886 or something like that is.
Disgusting. Should I change my opinion and say - consoles ruined games? Nah... Someone made those and such games on consoles.

 

[Couchpotato]

Someone obviously doesn't get I mixed sarcasm, and some truths together.

 

[Deleted User]

Isometric games are my favorite.

 

[Couchpotato]

Isometric games are my favorite.

Mine to and their cheaper to make compared to modern graphic games.

I was reading an article about how many people are hired by modern developers just to make those graphics its wasteful. That's why I love Unity and kickstarter games.

It allowed anyone to make a game at a cheaper price, and with less people.

 

[joxer]

Someone obviously doesn't get I mixed sarcasm, and some truths together.

True, but till we don't discuss that Order 1886 game in detail…
I mean, do we really want that thing and similar stuff on PC?
I'm a graphics whore and I say we don't. But maybe I'm the minority. I'm definetly minority when it comes to similar thing from last year I didn't buy nor would: Destiny.

 

[Deleted User]

Mine to and their cheaper to make compared to modern graphic games.

I was reading an article about how many people are hired by modern developers just to make those graphics its wasteful. That's why I love Unity and kickstarter games.

It allowed anyone to make a game at a cheaper price, and with less people.

I agree Couch, and one of my mottos if I ever get to design a game myself would be:

"Gameplay over graphics!"

I would probably end up making an isometric RPG and dumping most of the resources into the gameplay and not the graphics.

 

[sakichop]

Hmm, I love great graphics but I can also play the gold box games on dosbox or wizardry 1 with wire frame graphics.

I don't know, does that still mean I'm a graphics whore? Or maybe just a graphics escort.:lol: