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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition |OT| They Call it Switchcraft
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This game is a way more impressive port job than any other before it. Saber easily take the crown imo.
During my bus ride (30 min) I just went on a nice little stroll and encountered both a Wyvern and a water hag. Two tough fights, but really fun. It feels GOOD to be playing Witcher 3 portable like this!
Oh, Crookback runs fine from what I've seen (15 minutes). Some stutters here and there when in full gallop, but none when traversing on foot.
Oh, Crookback runs fine from what I've seen (15 minutes). Some stutters here and there when in full gallop, but none when traversing on foot.
At this point we could be seeing demoscene "wizardry" a la Shin'En/Factor5 in terms of trying to push for absolute theoretical limits.
How are the controls?
Are day one patches usually in later prints of physical copies? Say during holiday season? I could wait.
Great to hear! I actually prefer traveling those open worlds by foot, when I have the chance. Riding only when necessary. If that helps with loading/streaming in assets and thus making the framerate more stable, I'm even more incentiviced to march throughout those terrains.
Good as they are. They are easily as responsive as on PS4. They sometimes are not as responsive as one hopes (same as on PS4), where your sign casting might not register sometimes or Geralt doesn't throw the bomb you wanted him to. But in general, it works well, and I find the combat to be fun, especially when tackling tougher enemies like that Wyvern.
Witcher 3 is my Game of Forever and it was that BEFORE the amazing DLC was added.
I envy all of you that get to go through this journey for the first time. I wish I could go in blind and do it all again from start to finish. Its an amazing experience. Be sure to explore every nook and cranny. Never know what you might find!
I envy all of you that get to go through this journey for the first time. I wish I could go in blind and do it all again from start to finish. Its an amazing experience. Be sure to explore every nook and cranny. Never know what you might find!
If my Walmart is listed as having this "In Stock" online, does that mean it's on the shelf/won't get flagged at register?
Hope to get it today. Do you have any other tips for someone who has never played a Witcher game?
I say it a lot, but the biggest piece of advice I can give to people new to the series is not to treat Geralt and the character skill tree like other RPGs, namely Bethesda's work and old school CRPGs. In those games if you're not investing points into particular skills or playstyles they're essentially useless; a powerful mage with no points in lockpicking and sneaking will need to find alternatives to get past locked doors, and a powerful warrior expert in sword and shield may not find much use in magic if they've no investment in the skills.
In The Witcher 3 everything is always useful in some capacity. You might not want to invest points into Signs (Witcher's universe magic), but the signs Geralt has are all still useful. Feel free to ignore the potion/oils skill trees for the entire game if you want, but actually brewing and using potions, and coating your sword in oils, never stops making a huge difference.
Upgrading Geralt in The Witcher 3 is more about picking how you want to buff his skills, particularly the ones you use most regularly, and not which skills to use full stop.
Story wise? I would watch a few of the videos out there that summarize Witchers 1 and 2 for those who are new to the series. Several of them came out leading up to Witcher 3. Which is what I did because I had only read the books before Witcher 3. I never played the first two games. Its not required though if you don't want to, but it will make ALOT of things in the game make more sense and allow you to be familiar with the core cast of returning characters. And there are quite a few of them to keep track of. Because the game does a great job of getting you into the setting of the game and the premise behind it, but generally doesn't do a great job of explaining who the returning characters are unless you read ALL of the journal entries.
Also this is not a spoiler so much as it is a piece of advice. Your dialogue choices do matter. Its not one of those games where you get 3 dialogue options and then the NPC responds the same no matter what you say. How you talk to people and what you do can have direct consequences on how the story proceeds. So just keep that in mind as you play. And I meant what I said. Explore EVERYWHERE and grab literally every single side mission you can. Don't just go where the game tells you to go. You will miss soooooooo much if you do that. I found that out after my first playthrough. Turns out I missed like 60% of the game.
And be prepared for the cocaine addiction that is Gwent.
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God damn it talking about it has made me wanna play it lol
Maybe its time for a 4th playthrough.....
Maybe its time for a 4th playthrough.....
I still think there's a lot of that in the game tbh.
There's a point on Skellige where you're talking to Yennefer and you choose between asking what she knows or give her a complement that she looks nice. If you pick the first option she inserts a response before getting to the same dialogue that "why did you not notice my hairdo" or something, and I was like "Ha! I see what you did there..."
Most effective choices revolve around whether you want to go somewhere or not do it (like Imlerith with Ciri or the Emperor). Those lead to significant but also relatively minor sequences.
I will also say I felt the causality around the ending with a certain someone feels arbitrary based on a set of parameters. The game makes a case for how some things you said earlier to the character made them win or lose and that is too unclear to be satisfying and ultimately frustrating if one gets the bad ending, which is depressing as hell (thankfully I got Witcher ending) but I do like how the epilogue wraps up their story in the two "win" endings.
Most effective choices revolve around whether you want to go somewhere or not do it (like Imlerith with Ciri or the Emperor). Those lead to significant but also relatively minor sequences.
I will also say I felt the causality around the ending with a certain someone feels arbitrary based on a set of parameters. The game makes a case for how some things you said earlier to the character made them win or lose and that is too unclear to be satisfying and ultimately frustrating if one gets the bad ending, which is depressing as hell (thankfully I got Witcher ending) but I do like how the epilogue wraps up their story in the two "win" endings.
IMO Witcher 3 is more run of the mill in its implementation of choices than people gives it credit for but it is still one of the good choice/consequence games. I would rank it on par with Mass Effect 1 probably. It isn't an Alpha Protocol or a Detroit Become Human in that regard. It has fantastic world building and characterization and then a solid dialogue choice design. I wouldn't go further than that.
Yeah Roach sucks anyway so you're better off just running everywhere.
I seriously doubt it's 720p, more like 540p.
I seriously doubt it's 720p, more like 540p.
Eh yeah thats true I guess there is a little bit more of that now that I think about it, but its not nearly as prevalent as other games out there. But there are definitely games that do it better.
I still believe Shin'En take the crown on pushing Switch to its limits as far as blending high resolutions, high framerates, and fantastic visuals at the same time - with little compromise is concerned.
But Saber may take the crown when it comes to optimising a game not designed for the chipset and putting it on the chipset. With Panic Button coming second in this category.
Sorry, but this isn't the place to be chastizing the Switch version and telling people to get other versions instead, in case you haven't seen the thread title. Unless you were doing it on purpose for just drive-by postings.
Hmm, fair enough. I guess Shin'En and Factor 5 can really design their engines from the ground up, but in terms of porting code, Saber has done a monumental work by retaining most of the Witcher 3 with reasonable, if not very little compromises (in comparison to what people might've thought initially).
Yay! My copy arrived (and Overwatch as well which I can't refund so that's something). Now to wait for this painfully slow download to finish and I'll be playing.
Honestly I still can't believe that a game I played on a £1000+ PC at launch is nearly playable on a device smaller than the very box it comes in. It's crazy.
Honestly I still can't believe that a game I played on a £1000+ PC at launch is nearly playable on a device smaller than the very box it comes in. It's crazy.
Thanks for the tips Coyote Starrk and EatChildren
I will especially keep the exploring in mind as I tend do go where the game wants me to go way too soon in other games.
I will especially keep the exploring in mind as I tend do go where the game wants me to go way too soon in other games.
So if you start the game and pick the option to play one of the expansions from the off (already completed base game on ps4), could i still dabble in and out of the base game content and story (i assume in an over-leveled state), or is it locked out to me?
A good method that i used on my second playthrough was to just look at the map and then look for buildings and such on the map that were in the middle of nowhere because they show up on the map, but might not have any icons on them.
Completely agree, Saber have done a fantastic job. I just wish Capcom would observe other companies and look into asking a company like Saber to port their RE Engine games over. I am not sure if it's company politics that's preventing them like they don't trust another developer with their engine or money. Or if their Switch strategy is just to drip feed games and we'll get ports later down the line.{shrugs}
Yeah, it's definitely a bug or glitch that's making it not working. The Gameplay Overview video had it quite obviously and that would have been before the game went gold:
I would get this if it wasn't so close to Pokemon release, I'd be nowhere near done by then and it'll get totally sidelined.
Post-patch
I've tried docked and undocked, same thing, nothing
I hope that DF pick it up in their analysis so the problem could have some exposure
I really love the exaggerated motion blur present on the other versions
Hmmm... Do I buy for a 3rd time and play again to add to my 350 hours I already have with this masterpiece?
Switch performance analysis by VGtech
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Per object motion blur was only introduced in blood and wine . The normal motion blur was only noticable in interiors , like when you meet the king after White Orchard.
You can barely tell theres motion blur even when playing on PC , the main game that is
You can barely tell theres motion blur even when playing on PC , the main game that is
It's way harder to have many and really impactfull choices and consenquences in a open world game, than it is in a more linear games (which AP and DBH are).. Witcher 3 does it better than most other modern RPGs (save for example Fallout New Vegas).. I mean, Witcher 2 and even Witcher 1 had way more and more interesting choices and consenqunces than TW3, but they were more linear RPG games
Exactly. That's why I like to say that Witcher 3's accomplishment is wanting to do Skyrim but with Mass Effect 1's style of side content, which was very focused and of equal production as the main campaign, and that's what it succeeds at.
Did 8 hours of this yesterday, and got to Velen. I only intended to play a short amount, but got fully immersed. It's a superb port and is very playable. Performance is generally very smooth with dips so far being noticeable because they are rare. Though I've not been to Novigrad yet.
Basically, it really is Witcher 3 on a handheld, and that's kind of amazing.
Basically, it really is Witcher 3 on a handheld, and that's kind of amazing.
