Remember that preview from CD-Action? They published a review now. Downgrade in full effect, at least on PS4. A couple of key points/quotes:
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I would be able to defend a score all the way from 7 to 9.5
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I started the game on Hard and almost from the very beginning, but definitely to the very end, I strolled through enemies and no one was able to touch me. During one of the quests Geralt had to equip a wooden prop sword. I swear I thought he changed it back to the steel one during the cutscene. However, two hours later I still played with the cheap prop because I didn't notice, and I didn't die once. I finally realized my mistake when I looked at the damage output
• Quen is still massively overpowered
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Wild Hunt quickly stopped being a challenge- and for a game that's 1/3 swordfighting that's kind of bad.
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The game was so easy that I didn't even need to upgrade Geralt. Throughout most of the game I had 8 points that I could spend, but I didn't feel the need to. None of the offered abilities mattered to me. I unlocked a "windmill" attack out of pure curiosity and used it once. I didn't even touch the Alchemy tree. I invested in the Quen sign and a "suggestion" ability that unlocked more dialogue options (I didn't use Axii in dialogues). I mainly just spammed two buttons and could get away with everything easily
•Ciri is insanely OP:
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I didn't need to use bombs, I used potions maybe 7 times, and the crossbow only to make flying enemies come to the ground. I find it hard to imagine someone playing the game on Easy and enjoying it- something is horribly wrong with the difficulty curve and the balance.
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When it comes to describing how running and jumping with Geralt feels, I could write for hours, and 90% would be complaining. Everything works fine in open areas, but as soon as you enter a building the controls become clunky and awkward.
• Game isn't as "open" as advertised when it comes to jumping etc.:
• Swimming is clunky, but there are tons of treasure to find underwater.
• Sometimes you get hit for no apparent reason and it gets annoying:
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After a couple of hours I got incredibly tired of using Witcher senses. Almost every quest uses the mechanic. I often felt as if it was introduced to pad out the gameplay time. Each of the screens below is from a completely different quests, and I didn't take that many screenshots (each screen says "use witcher senses" in Polish in some form or another)
• The UI sucks:
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At first it seems that it's more or less rational how the equipment is sorted. There are swords, ingredients, quest items, books, etc. You still can't sort your equipment by weight, which gets incredibly annoying when you get over encumbered and want to get rid of the heaviest things. The weight mechanic is incredibly frustrating, since 5 minutes of running around in a forest gets you 7 swords, 4 shields, two pairs of shoes and 14 billion ingredients for alchemy and crafting. After a few hours your book inventory looks like this:
which is basically unusable. I never found a chest to store any of the things
The PS4 version sucks:
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I have no idea why CDP decided to give out PS4 copies of the game, a console for which "1080p60fps" was only included in the very first marketing materials. Sometimes PS4 starts coughing blood and gives a *wonderful* gameplay of 12 FPS. I want to say the game is beautiful, but it's not. It's not a beautiful game on the PS4. THere are some things that potentially could be beautiful- but they are obstructed by blockyness, simplicity and bad models. Some people say that the game looks as good as DA:Inquisiton. I envy those people, since for me some places look worse than The Assassins of Kings.
Downgrade confirmed:
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This is not the game that we saw on the trailers. What once was grimy and cold, now is colorful, almost cartoonish. It's hard to describe, so here's a screenshot:
This guy looks like he could star in the next Shrek movie.
I'm also not convinced that almost each woman in every village could be on the next cover of Playboy:
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The game looks extremely average when, for some reason, the game decides to switch post-processing off:
The PS4 version is also a festive of hundreds of bugs. Maps not loading, characters appearing 30 seconds too late because i ran into a house too fast than the game wanted, or something like this:
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To sum up, don't waste your money on PS4. Or for the PS4 version of TW3.
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The game is broken in many places, so many that I could potentially defend a 7/10 for the PS4 version. However, it's also that good, that even though there are so many annoying things, I'd give it a 8.5/10. What's more, it's so breathtaking in other places that I could just forget about the shortcomings and give it a 9/10 when I play it on PC, which is the platform to play the game on. Meanwhile, all that is left to do is wait for CDP to start patching the game.
Woah. Fucking harsh, but somehow it sounds more real than all those pro journo reviews. :\
-Texture Resolution from PC is the same asthe Console Version
Well they did officially announce that a while back, so it shouldn't really come as a surprise.
It is no surprise to me, I've been saying for months now that CDPR stated all version are the same. It's the fangirls that have whined and bleated at me for "daring" to suggest that the PC version will be the same as console, despite the fact that CDPR have already stated it will be.
Larger view distance and higher display res, with various AA techniques and nV "Hairworks" - the rest? The lighting, the models, the textures, the UI... all the same.
I started the game on Hard and almost from the very beginning, but definitely to the very end, I strolled through enemies and no one was able to touch me
I started the game on Hard and almost from the very beginning, but definitely to the very end, I strolled through enemies and no one was able to touch me
Also the IGN's comments are weird
They've said that you spend about 3/4 of the game searching for Ciri, and you spend almost 3/4 of the novels searching for Ciri, yet the characters and events that occur along that journey are incredible. I'm assuming that as a book reader, I'm not only going to get a lot more out of the story/characters, but the 3/4 of it being a search for Ciri will feel right at home and perfectly fine.
It seems they completely replaced the head models for Triss and Yennefer (and Ciri as well?), and de-aged them by a few years to boot. Triss originally looked more or less like she did in TW2, but now looks completely different. Yennefer seems to have better looking hair though.
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All versions have "asset parity", so the most you could expect from PC would be higher display resolution and, according to the config files, 3x longer view distance and some adjustable shaders. Other than that? They're all the same.. including the lousy new lighting and the terrible textures.
That sucks and i already pre-ordered, i even bought a gtx980 a few months ago mostly for it and a couple others on my future playlist.
The skies shall rain fire and the seas will become as blood.
The mean streak of misogyny from the earlier games is gone (you actually control a female character now, in a few linear story sections) but there’s still an element of try-hard machismo about the whole setting, especially in Geralt’s absurdly gravelly video game hero voice.
I hope the REDKit will be done properly this time, allowing us to replace textures...or even models, all other post-process effects shouldn't be a problem with proper modding kit. Hope they deliver that at least
It seems that Polish sites overall are rating the game a lot harsher. Here's 8.5, but it also mentions a ton of technical problems and downgrade-a-thon.
Sounds like a difficulty mod will be my first download with this one. Assuming we can mod such things.
CDPR are really bad at difficulty, both the previous games were terrible for it. Dark mode was only marginally more difficult than hard on TW2, and the overpowered sets more than made up for that. I really hope they improve this with their next title.
CDPR probably has new difficulty settings planned for the future as free DLC anyway. That won't stop me from playing the game the minute it's released and then just replaying it with the new added difficulties a-la-darkmode, etc
It seems that Polish sites overall are rating the game a lot harsher. Here's 8.5, but it also mentions a ton of technical problems and downgrade-a-thon.
i guess the game has a lot of issues but they in now way outwoight the pros
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