HRose
1882
Yep, what’s wrong in the line “this review confirms some of the doubts”. It did.
Still, it’s one review. Another could say the opposite. Another tomorrow could as well say the game is total shit. The review confirmed some doubts. It’s a fact.
Whether those doubts are actually confirmed in the game itself is a different matter.
Confirming a doubt in spoken and written UK and American standard English involves an empirical proof of non-objective fact.
It aren’t a fact, goofball.
So villages pay for their idiots now, huh?
Bateau
1886
Can you quote the article if you still have the site in your cache? Url is returning a server error.
That’s the thing about social norms. No one dictates anything. It’s about what feels awkward.
One thing that’s awkward in normal conversation is when someone shows up only when he wants to be a wet blanket. Nobody likes that, no matter how right he is. Instead it helps to engage in honest participation with the rest of the group to build rapport. You could talk about the games you’ve played recently and what you’re excited to play.
You’re more than welcome to post your personal disappointment about the downgrade. You could say something like, “you guys are smart and already know this, but we probably aren’t getting the fancy environments the marketing department showed us in those trailers.” No one would argue with that. But it becomes an awkward interjection if you treat it like a salvo in a war we’re not fighting.
I’d pay you irl to STFU, because your special brand of smug condescension and incessant negativity over the years makes you easily one of the most tedious, annoying Qt3ers I can think to name.
Just want to point out that I was harsh about POE pre-release and A LOT of, wait, A. LOT. of what I said was spot on. Go back and read the thread if u doubt it.
Some of you came out to declare that you didn’t want to hear it, not that I was wrong, just that you didn’t want to hear it. Being a total “downer” and such. (and some of you are still in denial about half assed features post release)
If they, CDPR, had to heavily adjust their graphical goals during development, that’s completely understandable, and should be to anyone. It’s denying it that is grinding people’s gears. (not me, I don’t have the rig to run this properly)
Expectations confirmed! The game is looking awesome, and full marks to CDPR for maintaining their legacy of quality.
The only mildly concerning thing is that they haven’t released PC code to reviewers. I guess this is probably down to piracy concerns, not technical ones - though they claimed the reason was that the PC patch wasn’t finished yet.
Given CDPR’s post-release support record, and how well The Witcher 2 ran I’m not too worried though. I’m all pre-loaded and ready for release!
Yup, the witcher3.exe in the preload is only 243kb, so it obviously isn’t a copy of the actual game executable.
Looking amazing, gif courtesy of GAF.
Full Disclosure: If CDPR were to release a steaming turd, I would buy it with confidence knowing that I would adore it. I’m a huge fan of both previous games. This is my favorite series from my favorite dev. They’ve never done me wrong and when I play their games, i feel like they made the game specifically for me (which is kooky, I admit). I’ve been mostly on media blackout but went to gaf and read through some of the review thread, silly arguments. Same with Rose. No matter what the criticism is, unless it’s flat out broken, unplayable, nothing can sway my opinion. My blind fanboy-ism is showing.
Best, comparative, endorsement for purchasing the Witcher III yet!
Timex
1895
They pay you to listen to yourself?
olaf
1896
Whats the rest of the system like? CPU, RAM, etc. I looked up thread but I either I didn’t go back far enough or didn’t see it. The reason I am curious is that while I also have a 970, my CPU is actually below the minimum requirement being an i5 760.
robc04
1897
I’ve got an older core i7 (860 @ 2.80 GHz) with 8 Gig of Ram. My system and game drives are SSDs.
I don’t know how much your CPU will hurt your ability to run the game. Some games are more CPU bound than others. I guess it also depends if CDP was conservative in the requirements or not.
In other words, we’ll know in 5 days and 19 hours. :)
Razgon
1899
Nice delurking - 9 years - I applaud you, Sir :-)
So, the downgrade thing.
In a certain paid-to-enter forum, a certain CDP dev that post there said there was no downgrade.
Because he said, the game never looked like the VGX 2013 trailer in first place, it couldn’t be downgraded from that point. He specified how marketing is inherently false, and how people shouldn’t trust it.
So technically it wasn’t downgrade, it was just a case of false marketing!
He mentioned how people who shout downgrade have no idea of how games are really developed. Games really aren’t enough finished to show off 1.5 years or 2 years before the release. Imagine a game at 20 fps, with textures missing, animations not connecting properly, placeholder trees, etc. Which in part it’s a reason of why the marketing is false. It has to be.
Of course, it’s all semantics. I think that even admitting that argument, there was a bit of downgrade in stuff like grass, you can see in lots of screenshots how they modified to make the transparency channel less used. It’s something that I know it happens in lots of games, when you have a sprite of grass, and you see one on top of the other from your pov (like a fps crouched in a wheat field, for example Arma), and you see dozens of grass layers the framerate tanks 10fps. Here I think they modified the sprites from individual stalks of grass to more solid “bunches” to avoid that problem.
Again, it’s all semantics: that’s no downgrade, that’s optimization done in the final phases of development, a dev would say.
So, the false marketing. Is false marketing bad, and should be avoided? Yes. Does it have anything to do with the final quality of the game, in the graphics department or otherwise? No. You have to judge a game at its own, or against other games of the same year, but not against a video that was marketing.
ShivaX
1901
This guy waited 8 years just to flip you the bird. I think that says something.
