Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[rk47]

Yeah I picked this up on EA's origins. Take that, GMG. 

[Azazel]

GMG price is back up to $60. Unless it's an Australia Tax that's even eating through a US proxy?

[schild]

GMG price is back up to $60. Unless it's an Australia Tax that's even eating through a US proxy?

Nope, it's $60.

[Azazel]

Thanks for confirming.

Ok, I guess I'll wait two years or so in that case. No biggie 

[PalmTrees]

Conan did one of his clueless gamer segments, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfjLRuE1CLw

They could do with losing the feature where you bump into people and they stagger back, always found that annoying.

[NiX]

Thanks for confirming.

Ok, I guess I'll wait two years or so in that case. No biggie 

You should be using Nuuvem for new releases. It's a brazilian site, but if you use Hola to checkout, you're fine. Often times new releases are $25-30 USD.

[schild]

Sure nuff, $30

[Kitsune]

Apparently Witcher 3 has joined the illustrious community of games where the beautiful demo graphics are nowhere to be found on the release edition.  When asked about it on their forums, a developer basically replied, "We don't want to address rumors."  I'm sure that's true, I wouldn't want to address rumors either if the answer to the rumor is, "Oh yeah, we stripped the shit out of the graphics to fit it on consoles, suck it PC gamers."

[Tannhauser]

Yeah, that's what I'm hearing too.  Not going to buy Witcher 3.  I bought 1, thankfully at a bargain, and hated it.  I bought 2 not too long ago and quickly lost interest.  I really love rpg's so color me 

So no Witcher 3 until it hits the bin.

[Tebonas]

And I read thats just the standard setting and in can be cranked up to Ultra on Higher End Systems.

I guess we'll know the truth when the game comes out.

[disKret]

Some final cinematic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-l29HlKkXU

[jakonovski]

Graphics whoring is boring anyway, what I'm interested in is how they've built the game world. If it's another collectible-fueled open world game with a disjointed HURRY WE MUST SAVE THE WORLD RIGHT NOW plot, I'm going to sigh heavily.

[disKret]

I can only quote:

"There is no saving the world, here, no great evil force pervading the landscape, or a doomsday clock ticking down to inevitable destruction, with only you to stand in its way. The story of Wild Hunt is a personal one, set in a huge and unrelentingly beautiful world. And moving through it in that way makes you feel like a part of it, rather than an honoured guest, all eyes swung expectantly towards you." (from Telegraph).

[Paelos]

I'll believe it when I see it.

[rk47]

No guise, we totally did not neglect the PC audience here.
PC master race for lyfe.
Even if we used gamepad to demo the gameplay on vids.
We have a tactical camera too.
And it's not broken.
Really.
Trust us.

[Velorath]

They only sent out PS4 copies for reviews, but they promise that's only because their day 1 miracle patch for the PC wasn't ready yet but it totally will be by Tuesday guys!!!!!!!

[schild]

(pc copies are available for review as of today though, so that's weird)

[Velorath]

(pc copies are available for review as of today though, so that's weird)

Might be available now I guess. The last word I'd read about it from any game sites was when the embargo was lifted a few days ago. At that point they didn't know when they'd get PC review code, just that the patch wasn't ready at the time which was what was keeping it from getting sent out.

[Cyrrex]

Kevin VanNerd gave it a 10 on Gamespot.  I am not sure what to make of that, except that it moved my Interest Meter from zero to something greater than five.

[Gimfain]

Kevin VanNerd gave it a 10 on Gamespot.  I am not sure what to make of that, except that it moved my Interest Meter from zero to something greater than five.

He has a tendency to give high scores for RPG's but his writing usually shows which part of the game he wasn't happy about. He might have given dai a score of 9, but he also gave excellent reasons why I wouldn't like the game. He gave pillars of eternity a score of 8, but he also wrote why I would love it.

I didn't read his review for witcher 3, but that's because a friend already bought the game for me.

[Jeff Kelly]

They have a very weird PR strategy for launch.

First they only send out PS4 copies because reasons but claimed that 'review copies for other systems are totally available guys'. Now they've apparently sent out PC copies. Secondly they have different embargos and embargo dates for reviews, video reviews and showing in-game video footage. So basically you can publish reviews but are still under embargo from publishing in game video footage that is not a video review.

[Malakili]

A whole bunch of people were streaming it on Twitch yesterday.  I assume they just had special permission?  That seems like a thing lately too - giving popular streamers a copy of your game and permission to stream it.

[Jeff Kelly]

The Giantbomb guys said on Wednesday that they are still under embargo and can't do one of their quick looks until later this week. Apparently because their quick looks are technically not 'video reviews' and are therefore still under embargo. They cited different embargos and embargo dates depending on content type as the reason.

So if there are Twitch users that stream the game, they either have special permission (which would be telling) or simply don't care about embargo dates (equally likely).

[Paelos]

Review embargoes pretty much guarantee I'm not buying this thing for months.

[jakonovski]

Giant Bomb made a video on Friday: http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/gbe-playdate-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt/2300-10194/

[Jeff Kelly]

Yes I've heard but they had extremely short notice. They basically got told friday at noon that they could do it. They mentioned on another stream that they had to cut it short because they just got the news that they could do a vdeo stream on the witcher 3.

As I said the PR strategy is a bit weird and wonky.

[schild]

Ok, so I got my PC reviewable code.

The game unlocks in 11 hours.

I literally can't even.

[schild]

I should note, I don't blame any of the people involved in this for the weirdness of the reviewables of this game. Between Gog Galaxy, another piece of software, and "day 1 patch" I can kinda see how this became a clusterfuck.

[Lucas]

Isn't a "Day 1" PC patch planned? Not that it matters to me 'cause I still have...*checks GOG Galaxy"....19GB to go on a 7Mbit line   . I decided to proceed with the purchase only today (27% discount 'cause I also have The Witcher 1 and 2 on GOG).

[Paelos]

Just do us all a favor after the holiday weekend and let us know if this thing is worth buying now, or waiting until they unfuck it.

[Ginaz]

Review embargoes pretty much guarantee I'm not buying this thing for months.

Seriously, fuck review embargoes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEg4F9csPzo

I guess I'll wait for a Steam sale a year from now.

[schild]

Isn't a "Day 1" PC patch planned? Not that it matters to me 'cause I still have...*checks GOG Galaxy"....19GB to go on a 7Mbit line  . I decided to proceed with the purchase only today (27% discount 'cause I also have The Witcher 1 and 2 on GOG).

Took me 1 hour to download 25GB. Yay Time Warner? :awkward:

[Lucas]

Isn't a "Day 1" PC patch planned? Not that it matters to me 'cause I still have...*checks GOG Galaxy"....19GB to go on a 7Mbit line   . I decided to proceed with the purchase only today (27% discount 'cause I also have The Witcher 1 and 2 on GOG).

Took me 1 hour to download 25GB. Yay Time Warner? :awkward:

I'm temporarily living in a VERY small village on the hills together with my girlfriend (citizens: about 300, lol), and 7MBit is the absolute best we can get; in two-three months we'll go back to civilization and I'll experience a glorious 10MBit fiber once again (yeah, long live Italy connectivity :P)
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Anyway, speaking of GOG, HOW RETARDED the friend list on GOG Galaxy is at the moment? Would like to add some of you but currently the method is just ridiculous (only way is clicking on a username on the GOG forums)

[schild]

I have zero plans on using GOG Galaxy regularly. I'm a bit upset they didn't give the reviewers Steam codes.

[Merusk]

Why would you give out codes for your competitor's platform? Are you upset when EA doesn't give-out Steam codes for EA games?