Game News The Witcher 3: Q&A Podcast + Screenshots

[Infinitron]

Tags: CD Projekt; The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The most recent feature in Game Informer's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt series is a "Special Edition Podcast". It's a half-hour Q&A session with two of Game Informer's staff who visited CD Projekt RED HQ in Poland.

Takeaways from the podcast:

• Despite being an open world title, the game will retain some of Witcher 2's more "directed" cinematic presentation style.
• The Game Informer guys have the impression that the secondary characters from previous games (such as Triss, Dandelion, and Zoltan) will be of lesser importance in Witcher 3.
• There will probably be some repeatable quests, but they won't be as large a part of the game as they are in Skyrim.
• There will be a combat "Focus Mode", which will either be similar to VATS or be based on special abilities (they haven't decided yet).
• The inventory system will be improved over what was in Witcher 2.

Besides that, CDPR have also released a collection of Witcher 3 screenshots to various press sites. Many of you have probably seen these already, but it's nice to have them all one in place.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Haha, they weren't kidding when they said they were influenced by Skyrim.

 

[Infinitron]

Haha, they weren't kidding when they said they were influenced by Skyrim.

Skellige = Vikings

 

[Jaesun]

Witchrim.

 

[JarlFrank]

Haha, they weren't kidding when they said they were influenced by Skyrim.

Skellige = Vikings

Yes but those helmets are 100% Skyrim.

 

[Infinitron]

Listened to podcast, updated OP. RPGCodex, listening to boring shit so you don't have to.

 

[Jaesun]

VATS? Oh gawd this is just getting worse and worse.

 

[Infinitron]

VATS? Oh gawd this is just getting worse and worse.

Not exactly like VATS (there won't be hit percentages, and it'll probably slow down combat, not pause it)

Anyway they might end up not doing that

 

[made]

<3

The Witcher, to me, has always meant riding around on a horse, killing things.

 

[Whisky]

I actually liked Witcher 2, though it did have its flaws. I'm a bit skeptical on this one right now though, it seems like they're trying too hard to copy Skyrim.

Gotta love how Geralt doesn't have his feet in the stirrup there.

 

[Kahlis]

>inventory system from Witcher 2

 

[Infinitron]

>inventory system from Witcher 2

I hope it's more clear now.

 

[MasPingon]

The inventory system from Witcher 2 will be improved.

 

[General Maxson]

They sure want those Skyrim sales...

 

[J_C]

A Witcher game in an open world like Skyrim, with a bit more linearity would be heaven. I don't what's your problem.

 

[Black]

Jesus fuck, this entire podcast is retarded and everything the devs have said compromised by the fact that consoleinformer know only skyrim and apparently get paid for dropping bethesda games all over the place.
I have no idea if CDPR said that OH IT'S LIKE SKYRIM BUT or is it just this dumbfuck's failure at explaining anything without going back his beloved goty, skyrim, vats and other stupid shit.

 

[Misconnected]

Jesus fuck, this entire podcast is retarded and everything the devs have said compromised by the fact that consoleinformer know only skyrim and apparently get paid for dropping bethesda games all over the place.
I have no idea if CDPR said that OH IT'S LIKE SKYRIM BUT or is it just this dumbfuck's failure at explaining anything without going back his beloved goty, skyrim, vats and other stupid shit.

Can't be arsed to listen to a podcast, but still...

On the one hand your description makes the P(R)od Person sound fucking stupid.
On the other hand, though, I'm a little bit glee-filled to overflowing that a P(R)od Person hypes the wrong game in its ad.

It kind of sounds like an even more retarded Doritos Gate :D

 

[Mrowak]

I listened through the entire podcast, and can't say there was anything worth raging about. Codex gonna Codex.

VATS? Oh gawd this is just getting worse and worse.

Yeah In the podcast there was this stupid question from clueless Bethfag, asked in Russian, so they couldn't make out what it was about - they managed to read something about VATS. The game informer editor replies that he hasn't seen anything like it, but the closest thing to it he witnessed was the focus system which is going to be tied to lore of monsters that you acquired:

To clarify a little bit on the focus mode that's where you use your witcher senses[...] If you are fighting something that you have knowledge of, like vampires and you know that they have a venom gland, so then you can use this mode to hit the venom gland and take out its capability to poison you. [...]

In other words it's not VATS but a different aiming system tied to character's skills and knowledge of the world. Since when adding extra feature into character progression is a bad thing? Are aiming systems popamole now?

 

[Tytus]

I listened through the entire podcast, and can't say there was anything worth raging about. Codex gonna Codex. :rpgocodex:

VATS? Oh gawd this is just getting worse and worse.

Yeah In the podcast there was this stupid question from clueless Bethfag, asked in Russian, so they couldn't make out what it was about - they managed to read something about VATS. The game informer editor replies that he hasn't seen anything like it, but the closest thing to it he witnessed was the focus system which is going to be tied to lore of monsters that you acquired:

To clarify a little bit on the focus mode that's where you use your witcher senses[...] If you are fighting something that you have knowledge of, like vampires and you know that they have a venom gland, so then you can use this mode to hit the venom gland and take out its capability to poison you. [...]

In other words it's not VATS but a different aiming system tied to character's skills and knowledge of the world. Since when adding extra feature into character progression is a bad thing? Are aiming systems popamole now?

Only way to evade being a popamole is shipping each game with set of dice - the gamer does his own rolls duirng gameplay - this way you have real comabt immersion.

 

[pistletoe]

Worthless podcast. And no VATS in TW3 please...

 

[Misconnected]

Only way to evade being a popamole is shipping each game with set of dice - the gamer does his own rolls duirng gameplay - this way you have real comabt immersion.

Semi-seriously: play Armageddon Empires. The only RP in it is whatever LARP you bring, and the dice gets rolled on screen.

 

[Zed]

they should just get rid of the witcher name and geralt and do a new franchise with the same idea. even that guy who wrote the witcher books thinks the games sucks his balls.
even VATS would be an improvement over QTE/bullshit twitch rock paper scissor combat.

 

[Micmu]

Witcher 3 will be shit.

 

[Licaon_Kter]

Is it just me or are they just fishing out for ideas, throw out "vats", "language", "horses", "open-world" etc and then measure up the gamers reactions or something. this might be a good thing or not.

 

[Lagole Gon]

staph it guise
TW3 will be a quality popamole, we all know that