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E3 2014: New The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Gameplay on Xbox One

CD Projekt has unveiled new gameplay footage of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at Microsoft's press conference.

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An agile Geralt was shown jumping and vaulting through the open world of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt at Microsoft's E3 press conference. This type of movement is new to the series, and appeared to work well in allowing Geralt to pursue his prey: a wild griffin. As he chased the beast through No Mand's Land, Geralt used his Witcher sense--now with its prior black and white filter removed--to follow the griffin's trail of blood.

Along the way he encountered a group of deserters and took them down with melee combat and magic skills. We saw Geralt finish the last bandit with a brutal, gory execution move that sliced the enemy in two. We also caught a brief glimpse of the game's inventory system and deep potion crafting mechanic.

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Ok, here we have learned a few things:

- CD Project is one of the best studios we have in Europe.

- "Gamers" are unable to discuss about the game instead of comparing consoles.

- PC fanboys are far too obsessed with graphics and take too much pride in owning a piece of hardware.
- Gamespot comments section shares half its population with youtube. It's the only explanation for such a hi concentration of trash-talking

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yes. And then they don't shut up when a game is released and it does not run like they want it to on their precious machines. When will they learn that developers don't care about PC gamers. PC is just added weight on their backs. With the exception of a few developers such as CD Projekt, Valve, and Blizzard, but even they had to move into developing for consoles.

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>PC fanboys are far too obsessed with graphics and take too much pride in owning a piece of hardware.


Oh, and you console players don't? Get off your high horse.

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I think the game would look fantastic on ultra level on a PC, so don't judge what you see here on a last gen graphic(ATI 6000 series GPU) console. Especially with the washed out colours that the Xbox One has. Waiting to see what the recommended specs are and hope my gaming PC surpasses them as usual.

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people bitch about the graphics being not as good as they expected.

guys, just be glad they're being honest and giving you what to expect on consoles.

jeez, gamers are really hard to satisfy nowadays.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Most of gamers are self-entitled and immature.

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Probably just the console version or poor quality vid,even AC5 looks bad because of the low quality video.I'm worried whether TW3 will run on my mid range rig.Gameplay looks interesting.

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Besides there's still 8 months and they themselves had stated that the game needs some finishing touches.

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As much as I want to buy the game...the absolutely disgusting fanbase just stops me from getting this great game..

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Why would you care about the fanbase of a single player game?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Why does the fan base disgust you also why do they stop you from getting the game. You're missing out on a fantastic series that I would recommend to all gamers.

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I know how to stop the stutter! Moar corez!!!

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Hhhhhrrrrrnnngggg!!!!


Ahhhhh....


*lights cigarette*

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Was looking pretty good until he used that cheap magic on the bandits, and the gryphon only took out a sliver of his health.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> You expect them to die when they show their games?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> they were probably playing on god mode.

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wow this game makes skyrim look like a piece of garbage :D


CD pro you are gods among men

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<< LINK REMOVED >> technology advances by a ton in 3 years. But still, excuse me while I go place my pre-order

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ugh consoles


my eyes bleed from the angles and pixels

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<< LINK REMOVED >> So does our brain when we read that kind of statements.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> First people complain that it look too good to be consoles, now the exact same video look too bad...

Make up your mind.

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People are trying to throw it on consoles , NO . Throw it on X1 , that game can't even handle W3,never seen console game studder like this ever

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<< LINK REMOVED >> "never seen console game studder like this ever"
Heh... You must be new to consoles then

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I'm slightly worried that the world won't just have things happening that you can come across, but rather it will spawn little instanced things while you are traversing for other reasons, such as hunting that creature. I realize for the demo they wanted to show the idea that you can happen upon other things when you're not expecting it, but things like the dialogue make me wonder if it's all pre-determined.


I really would prefer to just find things, some random and some fixed like locations, but the key being that stuff happens just because, not because I'm on another "mission" and it decides to call up one of the matching submissions with accordingly related dialogue and such.

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This comment section depresses me. Seriously, there are so many grafx whores and PC Master Race who just don't shut up.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Point me to a comment section that isn't full of assholes

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> You know your place,virgin...will you be able to compare yourself with a person that has a social life?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Don't worry, they're just mad that they have no games to look forward to other than games that are coming to consoles anyways. They spam games that aren't even coming to PC and never will because they have nothing else to do with their lives other than wish console games would come to PC. They spend thousands of dollars upgrading their PC throughout the years and all they have to play is The Sims: On Mars Because We Ran of Ideas For Earth and Roller Coaster Tycoon 43: Zoo Edition. All they can really hope for is Half Life 3 and it's been about a decade since the last was released. Bunch of crybaby dopes.

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You know what? This is getting tiresome, here, go through them yourself. << LINK REMOVED >>

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Whole gameplay in excellent Full HD quality to stream and download.

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I dunno I think there's something wrong with the vid..

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Are people really complaining about graphics here? WTH is wrong with the graphics? It looks great...it will look even better on PC and even better after 8 months of polishing. Plus this is a crapy quality video. Wait for a download version and full HD to see it for real. (just like pre e3 trailer). Witcher 2 has amazing graphics but what is better here are the colors...they are much more fitting to the Witcher universe. It looks a lot better then 2 dunno what the complainers are talking about. It appears that Watch Dogs craze still didn't pass (and WD on ultra looks rly close to those first E3 trailers, people are overreacting).

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@pentraksil Yep. It certainly looks better than TW2, even on a great PC (though performance is unknown, Id assume this is running at 30fps). I dont get why people are saying otherwise. They must be comparing by memory. And Xbox has the least capability of all platforms now so its going to look even better for sure. Id be happy with it as it is.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Agreed. It looks terrific actually. But I was also surprised that the demo was on an Xbox One instead of a PS4. I wish they had done the demo on a PS4. It just looks to me like Xbox may have paid them some money to get them to demo on their console instead of Sony's. But then again, I have no idea what I am talking about. Who knows how they choose which platform to demo on at E3.

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Also a lot of lame PC fanboys in the comments that make me ashamed to say I'm a PC player first... grow up guys, seriously, graphics don't make the world turn, even though they're absolutely awesome on some PC games... let console players enjoy what they have, no one likes an arrogant prick which is much of what I'm seeing.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It's not about arrogance just personal insecurity, it gives them some sense of self worth and accomplishment by saying they have better graphics....as strange as that is. I really like this IP btw even the rough around the edges first Witcher and am glad the console crowd gets to enjoy this game with improved gfx.

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The game world looks really huge... he covers a lot of space in that little teaser and still seems to have gone nowhere... and their are 3 islands I believe... and underwater goodies.

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LOL at the geniuses whining about the graphics. It's a Gamespot video for christ's sake & it's being played on the weaker of the 2 latest consoles. Of course the video isn't going to be as shiny & sparkly as you want.

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And when I remember Witcher 1 was PC exclusive...

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<< LINK REMOVED >> This is not X1 exclusive, it's out for both current consoles and PC.

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Dat last kill after the Axii doe. I dig the kill bill blood physics on that one :P

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Looks epic. Not my cup of tea, tho. I have to believe there'll be some more polish before the game goes gold.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well they have 8+ months to do it. I believe it'll be ready

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