The Witcher 3 Catch-All

MrDeVil909 wrote:

What the whaaaat?!

CDProjeckt unveils second playable character. Ciri.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/th...

Cool! I was wondering if they were going to bring her in at some point. She plays such a large role in the books that I'd have been surprised if they ignored her completely.

It's been so long since I've read the books I don't remember her at all.

Scars are kinda hawt.

She's a witcheress. Witcheress. Witch-er-ess.

System requirements. Urk

After The Witcher 2 was pretty easy going on my system I kind of assumed the same would apply here, but the minimum requirements are a touch hardcore. Think I'm out for a while.

Or as Penny Arcade put it:

Minimum System Requirements: SkyNet

Recommended System Requirements: Two SkyNets

Vector wrote:
beanman101283 wrote:

Was she mentioned in the earlier games? It's been a while since I've played them but I don't remember her.

She's new. Could be similar to playing as Catwoman in Arkham City.

She was mentioned in one of the animated sequences where Geralt gets some of his memory back, but that's it.

Archangel wrote:

Or as Penny Arcade put it:

Minimum System Requirements: SkyNet

Recommended System Requirements: Two SkyNets

Pretty much. I was initially hung up on the GPU, then I saw the Ram, then I saw the CPU. It's nuts.

Yeah, I'm out too. I'm somewhat relieved, means there's one less new release this year that I'll be tempted to buy and ignore my existing games for.

Well, there goes my witcheressing.

*Looks at recommended specs*

*Giggles*

I'm weirdly excited for this game, considering I didn't play either of the first two and almost never finish open world games.

Thin_J wrote:

*Looks at recommended specs*

*Giggles*

I'm weirdly excited for this game, considering I didn't play either of the first two and almost never finish open world games.

I only played the second one, so I can't speak to the first or third, but Witcher 2 was far far from being an open world game. It was something that I thought as well before playing it, but it is a very contained and directed narrative and game, despite having some different choices to make. If that's what's holding you back from playing Witcher 2, you can stop worrying.

maverickz wrote:
Thin_J wrote:

*Looks at recommended specs*

*Giggles*

I'm weirdly excited for this game, considering I didn't play either of the first two and almost never finish open world games.

I only played the second one, so I can't speak to the first or third, but Witcher 2 was far far from being an open world game. It was something that I thought as well before playing it, but it is a very contained and directed narrative and game, despite having some different choices to make. If that's what's holding you back from playing Witcher 2, you can stop worrying.

No no, you're missing my point here

I was pointing out that it's weird that I'm excited for the third game when it is, in fact, the first to be a true open world game. I don't finish them. It would have made far more sense for me to enter the series with 2.

Instead... super excited for the series' first open world entrant. Super dumb, but there you have it.

MrDeVil909 wrote:

System requirements. Urk

After The Witcher 2 was pretty easy going on my system I kind of assumed the same would apply here, but the minimum requirements are a touch hardcore. Think I'm out for a while.

I'm there on everything but the GPU (I have an R9 280X rather than an R9 290). Which means it will probably be the first game I can't play on Ultra settings, but High should be fine.

And I bought this computer specifically in anticipation of TW3, which I thought would be out by now.

This is where it hurts for those that built the "budget build" PC in the last few years. It looks like I should be able to run it on medium-ish settings. RAM I am good, but everything else I am in between.

This game is going to be pretty awesome. I never played the first one but cracked out on the second one after buying it on sale (to see what all the raving was about). They just do such a good job with the sense of atmosphere.

EvilDead, don't worry. If it's going to run on consoles, then any budget gaming PC from last few years should run it. I think those high requirements are due to CDP trying to cram in more stuff into the PC build instead of lack of optimisation. It is a company that's full of experienced PC devs, after all.

(Speaking of which, my very wild guess as to delays is that their inexperience with making console titles is primarily what is holding them back.)

UCRC wrote:

EvilDead, don't worry. If it's going to run on consoles, then any budget gaming PC from last few years should run it

Not so sure about that. 6 GB of RAM required. Also the Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz is the minimum. I think we are going to start seeing more games that require lots of RAM and more cores to make console ports easier.

Mine is OK but I went medium-high end a few years ago then upgraded to a 760 Ti last year.

Case might be that what they mean by "minimal" specs is still a configuration that will run the game with higher level of details than consoles.
Anyway, I'd stay optimistic.

UCRC wrote:

EvilDead, don't worry. If it's going to run on consoles, then any budget gaming PC from last few years should run it.

I also agree that a budget PC from a "few years" ago may likely not have a 3.3 GHz quad core CPU or 6 GB of RAM or a GTX 660. A mid-range PC (and above) surely will though.

As expected, the release of this new generation of consoles is finally facilitating a rise in PC system requirements.

FYI: 15 minutes of gameplay with devs + Q&A, live on GOG's Twitch channel today at 2 PM EST. http://www.twitch.tv/gogcom

If you can't watch it live, it will automatically appear on their Past Broadcasts page after it ends.

It is live now...they are not the most polished presenters. I like seeing the game but they could use some training on giving presentations.

*edit*

I just noticed one thing that bugs me; I am watching a Gametrailers discussion about it and the scenes are the same as the ones the developers were showing. Which means they were not really playing the game in the Twitch stream as much as discussing a video. Not bad really but I liked how the Bioware folks did it when they actually played and talked about the game as they played.

Oh and the Gametrailers video is much higher quality than the Twitch stream. If I am not going to get unique video I think I will just watch the highest quality version.

I'm so torn on this; I'm very interested in Witcher 3, but I've bounced repeatedly off of both of the previous entries in the series, so I really shouldn't be bothering with this. But I love what the devs are doing and want to like the games more! ARGH!

Farscry wrote:

I'm so torn on this; I'm very interested in Witcher 3, but I've bounced repeatedly off of both of the previous entries in the series, so I really shouldn't be bothering with this. But I love what the devs are doing and want to like the games more! ARGH!

I loved the first game, but the story in the second game bugged me and I stalled halfway through. I really want to like this game though. Did anyone else notice that when they go to the quest board, the first quest that's displayed is a woman looking for a feisty male companion? I wish I had audio on so I could tell if that was a joke.

I loved the first 2 games and really want this one but can't afford a new system

Thank you. Those were great recaps. I only got through 2/3 of the first game so it was great to know the history.

Hm. I have the recommended specs for everything except CPU, which I'm only a hair short on. I was planning on gutting my computer and upgrading the motherboard and CPU just to play this, but now I might wait and see how it runs before putting the money in.

Warriorpoet897 wrote:

Hm. I have the recommended specs for everything except CPU, which I'm only a hair short on. I was planning on gutting my computer and upgrading the motherboard and CPU just to play this, but now I might wait and see how it runs before putting the money in.

I exceed all the recommended specs except for the CPU: I'm running an overclocked i5-2500K, so hopefully the game isn't particularly CPU-bottlenecked.