Witcher 3: Wild Hunt -- The World Map, The Gameplay, and Our Impressions So Far

simply awesome.

MAY YOU BE STRUCK BY THE LIGTHNING OF MY MOUSE AND THE THUNDER OF MY KEYBOARD

Kudos for including the origin material on the USSR and the gaming culture that birthed the company. It was really interesting and helps explain their DLC policy and the trust they place in their customers. They treat their fans like adults, which is a welcome change from the default behavior, treating customers like imbeciles who will pay for broken games, cut content in the form of DLC, and then act like they are one step from becoming a software pirate tycoon as well. Good on them. The only complaint I have is that, if I ever was going to consider traveling to Poland for vacation, this series cured me. It looked seriously bleak in the vid (though I realize it was just one area). That tower (I forget the name) looked like it was built out of Opression (tm) brand building blocks, seriously.

I didn't realize until today May18th is a holiday in much of Canada (maybe all?) so people who pre-order online might get it a day or two later. Sometimes when that happens they ship the game extra early, in this case it would have to be Friday, so that it might arrive on the release day Tuesday.

These series are amazing Gamespot! I seriously come here only because of the feature series and always find new things to read on the site. It's very hard to find a series about video games that dig deeper like this series did by tying the soviet union with the concepts behind The Witcher series. Raise the salary for the filmmakers and whoever is creating the scripts for these docs, they are amazing!!!!!

Guys.. anyone knows if you buy the physical PC version, do you need the DVD inserted to play?

The physical PC copy comes with "dvds" so I assume several discs. I have been playing on STEAM forever.. I have no idea how it works noways, especially with those non-steam games.

I am also finding it hard to decide between the physical PC version or the Steam version. The Steam version includes pretty much everything from the solid copy, expect the "compendium", and is much cheaper: 20% off preorder + loyalty discount. The digital version also comes with artbook which is not included with the physical. However a solid copy is neat, and the package is beefy still. Any thoughts?

only played for six hours.....thats a COD campaign right there!

Cant wait for this anyway

Can't wait!!

Not much longer to go now!

The two men, Danny and someone, are extremely sexy in "The World"-video. Was expecting some nakedness. Hmmm.

I have seen footage of The Witcher in water with monsters, I am wondering if there is underwater combat?

I don't think there's ever been this much coverage for a video game. But then again, maybe it's also because CDPR has been so forthcoming about everything.

Will there be an uber sampling option for the pc version like in the Witcher 2?

So I have a question - Can one play this game without having played any of the other games? I never did any of the other ones but this looks like it might be fun.... But sometimes it can feel like one is coming in in the third act when you go to the third game in a series...

Amazing series, congratz gamespot!

I work Wednesday next; good, I can finish the first Witcher, and perhaps jump back into the second one. I finished the second already two years ago on 360, but perhaps finishing the first (which is being a pretty great experience overall aside from some hurdles), two will be better than it initially was, which was good, but kind of disappointing. So far, aside from the way combat works, I think I'm liking the first better. I'm interested to see though now.

this game looks incredible. can't wait to play on ps4

I hope The Witcher 3 got a world that you can actually do something in, unlike Dragon Age Inquisition where you couldn't, like the desert "A big pile of nothing", that was true, what's the meaning of making a vast world that you can't do anything in?, everything is placed on the map, just go there, go there, go there done, still people think it was the best RPG ever made, i wonder how many RPGs they've played in their life.

I hope they create a world where you get rewarded well for exploring, not you go around for hours and then you stumble on a letter marked "Return to sender", oh no, the sender might be looking for this letter, i better get it going to deliver as fast as i can, never mind, the AI is scripted, doesn't matter if i deliver it now in 2 minutes or 200 hours, he's still gonna stand there looking into the wall saying "Thanks!, i've been looking for this one".

Thank you for the text transcripts. I don't mind reading about it but I don't want to watch someone else play the game for me.