Game News The Witcher 3 delayed to February 2015

[mindx2]

OH wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Codex warning before... didn't even know we had them.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

OH wow, I don't think I've ever seen a Codex warning before... didn't even know we had them.

They get handed out if someone spams, posts NSFW stuff or just generally behaves like a cunt. I thought it was a bit overkill to use it there.

 

[Paul_cz]

Or do you just like writing about stuff you know nothing about?

Irony. Don't get butthurt because you're a Witcher fanboy.

Ah, so you are an asshole, who, in the absence of arguments, resorts to ad hominems. Ok, fuck you then.

 

[Servo]

Paul_cz, welcome to the Codex! Keep in mind that most people here have argued the same points over and over again, and if you don't have the strength of mind and of will to read the last ~10 years worth of posts, you will get called a fanboy, cunt, plant, and maybe even a faggot (if you're lucky).

 

[Monty]

Keep in mind that most people here have argued the same points over and over again, and if you don't have the strength of mind and of will to read the last ~10 years worth of posts, you will get called a fanboy, cunt, plant, and maybe even a faggot (if you're lucky).

You sound butthurt, Servo. Are you butthurt?

 

[Servo]

Posting on the Codex is like running backwards through a cornfield with your pants down. But it's not corn, and they aren't corn stalks, but multi-headed dick monsters.

 

[nil]

[...]

Ok. Bob wants to make an fps. He can afford either the Crysis engine, or the engine SupCom used.
If he buys cryengine, he doesn't have to bother with camera control (built in setCameraType()), collision detection, AI (not necessarily the AI itself, but at least the framework to implement AI actors is probably there), hit detection etc.
If he chooses the SupCom engine, he won't even have default fps camera (he has to implement his own mousemovement>>cameramovement logic), collision detection is only in 2d etc.

Of course, even if he picked the CryEngine, he can replace all the built in stuff with whatever he wants, and keep only the rendering part, but when you have a fully working physics system that you paid for, it can be hard to justify rewriting the whole thing.

As for the unreal engine, it was (I assume) designed to be licensed out so they made it easily customizable (doesn't mean it doesn't have a lot of default stuff for FPS games).

edit: The engine being basically a barebones game doesn't mean it has to be a working, running program.

 

[Servo]

FFS you autists are arguing a moot point. If anything combat in Witcher 3 will be even more popamole than the previous two.

 

[MasPingon]

Witcher 1 combat was ok. As for TW2 - the fact is you can't do it more popamole. I mean, how?

 

[Servo]

CDPR: Exceeding your wildest popamole expectations since 2007.

 

[FeelTheRads]

It's a great storyfag game. Especially the second.

I don't know what you're talking about. Combat sucks therefore nothing else about the game matters.

 

[eremita]

It's a great storyfag game. Especially the second.

I don't know what you're talking about. Combat sucks therefore nothing else about the game matters.

 

[Decado]

You keep using that smiley. I don't think it means what you think it means.

 

[Serika]

Yeah, too bad Torment was such a horrible game because of its combat. Nobody still remembers it...

 

[whitepony]

It's a great storyfag game. Especially the second.

I don't know what you're talking about. Combat sucks therefore nothing else about the game matters.

Feels like a case of double irony here

 

[whitepony]

Any good examples of non popamole combat in ARPGs? Its an action game FFS, if it has a decent_to_good story its a fucking Godsend, is it not?

 

[Darth Roxor]

They need more time to polish the boobie cards

 

[ZagorTeNej]

Any good examples of non popamole combat in ARPGs? Its an action game FFS, if it has a decent_to_good story its a fucking Godsend, is it not?

Gothic I and II, Risen, Dark Messiah of M&M.

 

[Grunker]

They know their target audience: graphic whores.

yeah i'm sure people ate up tw1 because of the purdy graphixxx

The writing is terrible

writing is basically all this game's got going for it

 

[MasPingon]

They know their target audience: graphic whores.

yeah i'm sure people ate up tw1 because of the purdy graphixxx

The writing is terrible

writing is basically all this game's got going for it

Not really. Witcher 1 still have one of the best graphics and environments in 3D crpgs. It also got great OST with every track dedicated for the specific location. And it's one of few games in which day/night cycle actually have an impact on quests. Thinking about it, there are a lot of little touches you won't find in other crpgs.

 

[Grunker]

They know their target audience: graphic whores.

yeah i'm sure people ate up tw1 because of the purdy graphixxx

The writing is terrible

writing is basically all this game's got going for it

Not really. Witcher 1 still have one of the best graphics and environments in 3D crpgs. It also got great OST with every track dedicated for the specific location. And it's one of few games in which day/night cycle actually have an impact on quests. Thinking about it, there are a lot of little touches you won't find in other crpgs.

Hmm, you're right. I concede to that.

Well, I don't agree on W1 graphics. The art style was extremely nice and authentically medieval, but the technical quality wasn't that great, and aren't "graphics whores" primarily interested in technical quality? The rest I agree with.

 

[Decado]

They know their target audience: graphic whores.

yeah i'm sure people ate up tw1 because of the purdy graphixxx

The writing is terrible

writing is basically all this game's got going for it

I don't ever want to see any game fail. But the writing in The Witcher basically went off the rails for me when it took itself too seriously. I don't blame CDPR for that, since they were using canon developed by the author. So maybe it is unfair to blame the writing on them. But it was still pretty bad, basically hard-boiled detective fiction mixed with super-hero cliches and over-the-top skirt chasing. Also, and this is just my opinion, I can't stand it when fantasy games use modern speech patterns and phrases. It sounds so lame.

 

[Zetor]

I played TW1 a long time ago, so I don't remember if the writing was better or worse then -- but TW2's writing was really bad IMO, *especially* the dialogues. In fact, it was so bad that it was the main reason I put the game down in chapter 2. The style was really... disjointed, switching between super-srs-bsns cliche-medieval English and modern English seemingly every second sentence. Also, something about the dialogue gave off a "non-native English speaker trying too hard" vibe.

Maybe it's a translation thing, though.

 

[zerotol]

if it takes delay to make the game better, then please do so.

I am tired of these rushed out "gems" that are ruined because of time issues.

 

[Servo]

Any good examples of non popamole combat in ARPGs? Its an action game FFS, if it has a decent_to_good story its a fucking Godsend, is it not?

Look no further than the Souls games.

Also BioShock.