Spending Time In The World Of 'The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt'

[Guest]

"The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt" is finally here, and I took some time to take the game out for a spin.

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[James Mason]

inb4 all the hate comments because you posted a positive review.

 

[obviousfrog]

Good game. Bad movement control.

 

[vir_cotto]

The Screenshots don't look quit as great as I hoped, hopefully I can kick up the graphics a bit on my system!

 

[clonazepam]

Hi, you link part 2 of your build in this article. I suggest editing part 2 to include a quick rundown of the components, especially if you plan to refer to it again in the future. I skimmed over it and I'm pretty sure I'd have to go find part 1 to find out what GPU model you used.

Have fun in the Witcher 3. I haven't picked it up yet. I'm skerred.

 

[Gerry Allen]

Looks to me like the game was designed for a gamepad. I'll have to look up some reviews in order to try one.

 

[none12345]

From those screenshots the graphics don't look very good to me. I guess they are ok, but i expect far more from a brand new game.

We've had this same graphics quality for more then 5 years. Time to actually make things look better.

 

[balister]

From those screenshots the graphics don't look very good to me. I guess they are ok, but i expect far more from a brand new game.

We've had this same graphics quality for more then 5 years. Time to actually make things look better.

That's because it's a screen cap and not a movie. If you were playing it and saw how *everything* moves even when you may be standing still (due to wind and general motion of living people/creatures) you'd see how impressive the graphics actually are. And if you have an nVidia card and it's powerful enough to turn on hair works, things become very realistic in movement (from the fur on animals to the hair on people along with all the motion of the world).

 

[everygamer]

I'm currently playing the console (Xbox One) version of the game, it looks like they didnt adjust the inventory for large screen game play, the text and descriptions when using the inventory and shops is a little small and hard to read on a TV. Other than this so far I have been really enjoying it myself.

 

[uber_national]

is it wrong to be surprised that a reviewer is using an amd gpu on an nvidia game? kind of a breath of fresh air, really. (don't know why you're benchmarking it with vsync on though, telling us that the max framerate reached 61fps is kind of redundant)

 

[maxiim]

Im seeing a lot of folks complaining about the movement, but if you set your mouse sensitivity right for you, the movement is not an issue at all. I've played about 15 hours now on the keyboard only and have no issues.

 

[JonnyDough]

I'm with everyone else on the low graphics issue here...this game looks like previous two Witcher titles, if going by the screenshots posted here. I guess I'll have to track down another site and see some better screenies.

 

[Merry_Blind]

is it wrong to be surprised that a reviewer is using an amd gpu on an nvidia game? kind of a breath of fresh air, really. (don't know why you're benchmarking it with vsync on though, telling us that the max framerate reached 61fps is kind of redundant)

Personally, I think benchmarking with VSync ON is good if you're benchmarking the actual "playability" of the game. Minimum FPS is just as important as Average FPS, and not having those useless, high numbers above 60fps affecting your benchmark means your Average FPS will be more representative of how the game actually plays.

Of course when benchmarking exactly how a given set-up runs and/or how well a game is optimized, you have to benchmark without VSync.

 

[clonazepam]

Going full ultra across the board won't help much. They just used some really low quality assets in probably the worst places (the ground, where we're all focused).

I just wish it wasn't such a jarring transition between game and cutscene.

 

[ilter]

Good graphics and environments but gamepad game at all, Bad control game.

 

[Justin C]

I'm with everyone else on the low graphics issue here...this game looks like previous two Witcher titles, if going by the screenshots posted here. I guess I'll have to track down another site and see some better screenies.

So..you obviously didn't play or don't have the first Witcher. Even Witcher 2 was miles ahead of it graphically. Also, I dare someone to fire up Witcher 2, take some screens and then try to say the third installment looks no better. Put down the pipe people, while not miles better, it does indeed look better than 2 (even with ubersampling enabled).