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Sword swings in W2 didn't cost Vigor but they did less damage the less Vigor you had. It was the trade off for using a Sign, especially Quen.
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chaosapiant posted:Doug Cockle has really loving nailed Geralt's voice. Between the facial animation and voice direction, you can see Geralt's frutration with trying to be patient with this dumb rear end troll. There's a bit in one of my quests with an even more ridiculous conversation and you can really hear Geralt's amusement/frustration/exasperation.
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May 14, 2015 13:39
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:There's a bit in one of my quests with an even more ridiculous conversation and you can really hear Geralt's amusement/frustration/exasperation. Do we finally get a Geralt facepalm? We need that, and then it can become a goon emote. 
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May 14, 2015 13:44
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If Geralt didn't facepalm when Dandelion went into the Succubus cave, I'm not sure anything else will do it either.
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May 14, 2015 13:51
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1stGear posted:Sword swings in W2 didn't cost Vigor but they did less damage the less Vigor you had. It was the trade off for using a Sign, especially Quen. Yeah I know but that's not what the review said. Comte de Saint-Germain posted:There's a bit in one of my quests with an even more ridiculous conversation and you can really hear Geralt's amusement/frustration/exasperation. Once the game is out, can we have a list of the names of the quests you did?
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GrossMurpel posted:Once the game is out, can we have a list of the names of the quests you did? Sure, but I came on to the project relatively late, so most of "my" quests were originally written by someone else. Comte de Saint-Germain fucked around with this message at 14:17 on May 14, 2015 |
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May 14, 2015 14:08
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Spoilers for a small quest involving trolls: This has made me rethink my entire view on Trolls.
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May 14, 2015 15:00
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beer_war posted:That Polygon review is really something. Can someone break it down for me? I took a look at it's length and just could bring myself to read all that.
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May 14, 2015 15:25
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Tatum Girlparts posted:This has made me rethink my entire view on Trolls. You mean you killed the trolls in 2? You monster!
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May 14, 2015 15:25
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Spikeguy posted:Can someone break it down for me? I took a look at it's length and just could bring myself to read all that. It's a try hard review that goes into a long rant about women representation in the game, and claims that Geralt is sexist. This is a horrible misreading of the character and the gameworld of Witcher 3. This reviewer has a history of doing this, his Bayonetta 2 review was blatant clickbait garbage and the only negative review of that game that even feminists called him out on. He likes to throw in feminists/social justice rants into his reviews, they are completely random and out of place in every instance.
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May 14, 2015 15:27
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chaosapiant posted:How did you access this? I found the page mentionining the stream, but it's only showing the review. What am I missing? Here's the Youtube link. There's a lovely podcast at about 2 hours and 6 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PahEFn5aQSg
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May 14, 2015 15:43
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Can we talk about beard simulations again? That guy you guys are talking about really isn't worth having conversations about.
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May 14, 2015 15:44
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Norns posted:Can we talk about beard simulations again? MOH: Warfighter had beards and it was a failure.
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May 14, 2015 15:44
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Yeah, the elves in the witcherworld basically got out-bred, and when push came to shove you might be a centuries old badass but a crossbow bolt doesn't care--or the 3-4 other guys next to the arbalest. Elven society has collapsed to the point where the ones that escaped into the countryside are trying to rediscover farming, and raid human villages for supplies. The Valley of the Flowers in Nilfgaard (their elven puppet state) is probably the only elf-friendly area left outside Vergen. Elves either have to live in ghettos or try and eke out a subsistence life in the wilderness--where there be monsters.
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May 14, 2015 15:54
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Tatum Girlparts posted:This has made me rethink my entire view on Trolls. Trolls have always been awesome; what were your views before?
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May 14, 2015 15:57
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Only good elf is a dead elf.
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May 14, 2015 16:02
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I said come in! posted:That dude blocked me on Twitter when I asked him a question about one of his reviews. It under no circumstances was trolling. It was about Bayonetta 2, and all I wanted was for him to clarify one sentence out of the entire review. He is a really bad writer who can't take any kind of critique of his work. 4pm PST is closer. :p
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May 14, 2015 16:02
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Do the retail versions of the game have a cd key or something? I preordered it from amazon.ca but moved halfway around the world in the meantime, so the DVDs alone aren't going to be of much use to me while sitting in my parents' basement.
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May 14, 2015 16:10
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:There is no downgrade, this is a dumb conspiracy theory. Witcher potions can't melt steel beams.
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May 14, 2015 16:13
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Tatum Girlparts posted:This has made me rethink my entire view on Trolls. Vampires and Succubi are also sentient/can be friendly and helpful in the Witcherverse as well. One of Geralt's best friends who helped him on many occasions was a Vampire Lord, who pointed out that in the Witcherverse, drinking blood basically makes you a Vampire frat boy, and polite Vampire society looks down on them as idiots ( since they can live just fine without blood ). Most are glad to help a Witcher out/stay anonymous. Succubus are basically just sex spirits, but only the bad ones kill people in the Witcherverse. Apparently though according to the stats CDPR released at release, the majority of players killed the Succubus in 2, because "oh it's an evil creature.". Lot's of stuff in the Witcher universe isn't 1:1 with ours. Rookersh fucked around with this message at 16:37 on May 14, 2015 |
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May 14, 2015 16:29
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Maybe Mr. Gies couldn't find any people of color because he's ascended to the point of no longer seeing color? He just sees everyone as sepia. I hope to one day achieve this state of enlightenment--and that's why I read Polygon three times a day.
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May 14, 2015 16:30
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Archimago posted:Maybe Mr. Gies couldn't find any people of color because he's ascended to the point of no longer seeing color? He just sees everyone as sepia. I hope to one day achieve this state of enlightenment--and that's why I read Polygon three times a day. 
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May 14, 2015 16:33
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Seriously, moaning endlessly about a review that spends a few paragraphs on social issues is really not worth anyone's time. Especially because he gave us an 80, apparently mostly because he didn't like the gameplay and for stability issues.
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May 14, 2015 16:38
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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:Seriously, moaning endlessly about a review that spends a few paragraphs on social issues is really not worth anyone's time. Especially because he gave us an 80, apparently mostly because he didn't like the gameplay and for stability issues. He's still slightly brain damaged though because he is intentionally leaving out the part where a day one patch fixes these issues.
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May 14, 2015 16:40
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From what I can gather, brain damage is a requirement to work at Polgyon.
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May 14, 2015 16:41
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Can we get a confirm or deny is Mousesack is in the game? I want to hang out with a really poorly named Druid.
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May 14, 2015 16:44
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I'm not moaning, he can give the game whatever score he likes. I was late to the party but still wanted to make a bad joke. ALLOW ME MY ECCENTRICITIES. If you're interested in more bad jokes, discussion of Geralt donge/butte, or want to listen to the woes of one goon as he makes his way through the swamps of TW1, join the dozen or so of us nerds hanging out on IRC because we have nothing better to do at work/our great aunt's basement. irc.synirc.net #witcher3
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Rookersh posted:Vampires and Succubi are also sentient/can be friendly and helpful in the Witcherverse as well. What? The best sex scene was with that succubus and seeing her goat legs pushed up behind her ears. It was just an amazing amount of 
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I thought this criticism from PC Gamer's PS4 impressions was interesting:quote:Those familiar with The Witcher 2 will know this, but it’s worth mentioning for everyone else: Geralt is a big, cumbersome, burly old lunk. If you’ve poured hours into Dragon Age or Souls games of late, it’ll come as a rude shock. Geralt’s turning circle is tank-like and his movements seamlessly animated, meaning the combat and even exploration can feel a bit syrupy at first. It initially feels unresponsive—and an unpredictable lock-on camera doesn’t help the issue—but once you understand the rhythm of the combat it’ll become second nature. It’s not a problem per se, just a learning curve. I don't mind Geralt being slow or fast, I'm mostly hoping he's consistently one or the other, and that I always feel in complete control.
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If the day 1 patch improves framerate and removes bugs that people found in the PS4 reviews, I wonder if the Xbox One version will receive higher scores. Would review sites update their scores/reviews of the PS4 if things were fixed in a day one patch for PS4 that they base their Xbox One reviews on?
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I said come in! posted:He's still slightly brain damaged though because he is intentionally leaving out the part where a day one patch fixes these issues. Polygon posted:Ed's Note: Our review of The Witcher 3 is based on non-final PS4 code provided by CD Projekt Red. In our time with the game, we saw significant technical issues, including hard crashes, endless load screens, major framerate drops both at random and during more crowded fight scenes, and failures by the game to trigger even scripts which would halt forward progress within a quest until the game was reloaded, or, on occasion, the console restarted entirely.
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Dark_Swordmaster posted:e: Oh yeah, Witcher 2. WILD framerate swings and I have no idea what the gently caress's up. I have an i5 2500K @ 3.3 (nb4 OVERCLOCK NEWB!) and a brand new 970. A good chunk of it runs at 60 or at least the high 50's or sometimes the high 40's wait why is it running mid-20's or low 30's I don't... What? Disable "Cutscene Depth of Field" it's a massive resource hog and isn't that big of a deal. When I was playing it all maxed out on my 770 I had the same issue and disabling that one setting fixed it. It will also make fix stupidly low frames in fist fights. Also, this is a better tool for adjusting the settings than the default configurator. In particular the shadow settings are bugged when using the built-in one and won't actually use the high-res values unless you manually edit the ini files or adjust them using something like the above tool  The shadow size settings will use the lowest values unless manually changed. e. That being said, you have a 970, and I can run the game with cutscene depth of field turned on and even supersampling enabled at a steady 40+ FPS. The only place that gives me some issues is running around in the forest outside Flotsam, so I'm not sure why you're having issues. How much RAM do you have? Regardless, I'd still try disabling that one setting and see if it fixes it for you. You won't have blurry backgrounds when talking to people anymore, but I imagine you can learn to live without that. Oh, the other important setting you can change either using that tool or manually in the ini is the "Texture Memory Budget." The game will let you set a max value of I think 600mb, but you can easily set it to 2000 with a 970 (maybe even higher, but I use 2000, half of the available 4GB). Archimago fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 14, 2015 |
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I said come in! posted:He's still slightly brain damaged though because he is intentionally leaving out the part where a day one patch fixes these issues. Do they? We won't know until it gets released.
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I said come in! posted:He's still slightly brain damaged though because he is intentionally leaving out the part where a day one patch fixes these issues. It's supposed to improve those issues, but it's not like a reviewer can verify that, and the game they have was what CDPR said was ready to be reviewed (not previewed). It's totally appropriate to evaluate how the game actually plays, and to wait for the day-one egg to hatch before counting it. Edit: I missed that it was labeled as pre-release. Why on earth give a reviewer a debug build, though?
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That wasn't in there when I saw the review originally. They waited until people read the review before sneaking it in there. Gametrailers is the review i'm going off of and they didn't mention these issues.
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chaosapiant posted:Trolls have always been awesome; what were your views before? Kill em all and let god sort them out. Also I'm enjoying that there are people itt more butthurt over a review than the guy who actually worked on the game.
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Subjunctive posted:Edit: I missed that it was labeled as pre-release. Why on earth give a reviewer a debug build, though? To generate lots of publicity before launch. It's interesting though, since bugs and performance issues where the main criticism, and the biggest hit for review scores. I've never seen review scores get updated, but the whole "PS4 reviews only" thing could make things interesting; Xbox One and PC reviews will include the day one patch, and given that's the case, one would think that the PS4 version might be revisited.
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May 14, 2015 17:08
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I thought this criticism from PC Gamer's PS4 impressions was interesting:
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Shakugan posted:To generate lots of publicity before launch. I understand why they give out pre-release stuff, but why a debug build? It's not like the reviewer is going to be debugging, and you'd want the game to be as optimized as possible. It sounds like a lot of stuff came in pretty hot if a pre-release build that's only a couple of weeks premature has a bunch of engine shakiness. I'm expecting that my overbuilt PC will just brute force through performance problems, but I'd be nervous if I'd gone the PS4 route.
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Comte or anyone else familiar with the lore, dumb lore question here. Spoilering because people are weird about this poo poo. About the plague in the Witcher universe. Ciri is supposed to have brought it over during her time warping bullshit sometime after The Battle of Brenna, but earlier along the time that Geralt cures Duny of his hedgehog poo poo there is mention of the plague and during the time Geralt is traveling with Zoltan they encounter a plagued woodland village. Just an oversight in writing or am I seriously loving up the timelines here?
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