The Witcher 3 new trailer!

[QUOTE="Tessellation"]the superior PS4 version :cool:heeweesRus

Has Youtube videos been kinda pixelated for anybody else this past week?

i must admit that i'm stoked.

The trailer was cool, but was it the big announcement for today???

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dualshockers...funny name

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I'm replaying Witcher 2, but I still don't fully understand what the Wild Hunt is (and do we need Spoiler tags to discuss it?)

princeofshapeir

The Wild Hunt is originally presented as a group of spectral riders who gallop through the world, heralding an era of war while snatching up people in the mortal realm to join them. You learn what they really are at the end of TW2 (I think):

[spoiler] In the lengthy dialogue with Letho where he "spills the beans" and tells Geralt of his past, Geralt finally recovers his memories and learns the details of the Wild Hunt and the events that transpired before the first Witcher game. 

The Wild Hunt is actually an elven cavalry who serve powerful elven sorcerers, hailing from a world dominated by elves. Their spectral form is merely their physical manifestation in the realm in which they are "invading." Their leader is shown below: 

They basically control time and space and travel between dimensions. [/spoiler]

At the end of TW2 Nilfgaard begins the invasion of the Northern kingdoms, and this war is the focus of TW3, so it makes sense why they have returned as the game's primary antagonists. 

Man, I still have to play Witcher 2. I've had it for a while but I saw how much PC gamers were **** riding the original, so I played it and never before have I ever been so bored by a game in my life. So when people tell me The Witcher 2 is better....I've just been skeptical and have just sort of being avoiding it. Perhaps I should give it a try :?II_Seraphim_II

You should. I never played The Witcher 1, but TW2 was a damn brilliant game! I'm glad i gave it a try.

[QUOTE="II_Seraphim_II"]Man, I still have to play Witcher 2. I've had it for a while but I saw how much PC gamers were **** riding the original, so I played it and never before have I ever been so bored by a game in my life. So when people tell me The Witcher 2 is better....I've just been skeptical and have just sort of being avoiding it. Perhaps I should give it a try :?PAL360

You should. I never played The Witcher 1, but TW2 was a damn brilliant game! I'm glad i gave it a try.

[QUOTE="PAL360"]

[QUOTE="II_Seraphim_II"]Man, I still have to play Witcher 2. I've had it for a while but I saw how much PC gamers were **** riding the original, so I played it and never before have I ever been so bored by a game in my life. So when people tell me The Witcher 2 is better....I've just been skeptical and have just sort of being avoiding it. Perhaps I should give it a try :?II_Seraphim_II

You should. I never played The Witcher 1, but TW2 was a damn brilliant game! I'm glad i gave it a try.

[QUOTE="II_Seraphim_II"][QUOTE="PAL360"]

You should. I never played The Witcher 1, but TW2 was a damn brilliant game! I'm glad i gave it a try.

dommeus

If this game is a quart of what was shown on that video i would be so happy..

Highly doubt  the countdown was for a CGI trailer.

Awesome CGI trailer probably from the same guys who did the Cyberpunk one.

Snugenz

[QUOTE="Snugenz"]

Awesome CGI trailer probably from the same guys who did the Cyberpunk one.

RR360DD

Ok...

Day 1, cannot wait.

They are characters in the novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, which predate the PC games. Geralt is presumed dead after the novels, having died to the Wild Hunt. CDPR retcons this with TW1 by having him reappear in the human world, albeit with amnesia. [spoiler] Geralt and Yennefer were lovers. They were both taken by the Wild Hunt, but Geralt made a deal with the Wild Hunt's leader offering his life in return for hers. He is thus presumed dead in the novels' chronology but returns in TW1. Yennefer is also presumed dead but Letho reveals at the end of TW2 that she is alive, though in Nilfgaard. [/spoiler] princeofshapeir

I knew as much, it's just that the flashbacks had too much emphasis on something I thought I was missing - that something was in the books. Bummer, I'll have to get around to read them before playing it again before Witcher 3 comes out.

I like CD Project but this just seems like a bad attempt at replicating the live action Skyrim thing.

Hey CD, The Witcher is a great game and a fantastic series, Skyrim sucks, stop whoring yourself sons. You're better than this.

I like CD Project but this just seems like a bad attempt at replicating the live action Skyrim thing.

 

Hey CD, The Witcher is a great game and a fantastic series, Skyrim sucks, stop whoring yourself sons. You're better than this.

uninspiredcup

This game will be so AWESOME :D

This trailer is pretty ok.

Anyway, if only I could create my own chracter, I'd probably enjoy this game.  

Highly doubt  the countdown was for a CGI trailer.

Crossel777

The countdown is over and the page leads to the CGI trailer, so yeah the countdown was for a CGI trailer.

Not as good as they said it would be, but they're probably just hyping people up for Gamescom footage.

Trailer was fvcking badass. Good to see Geralt move extremely fast like a Witcher is supposed to and not the slow ass tank that he was in TW2

My reaction after the trailer.

Trailer was fvcking badass. Good to see Geralt move extremely fast like a Witcher is supposed to and not the slow ass tank that he was in TW2

seanmcloughlin

Music? Yes, Badass. 

My reaction after the trailer.

IgGy621985

Why is it that I tend to ignore a game until a CGI trailer comes out and my hype goes crazy?

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My reaction after the trailer.

Ravenshout

In all seriousness, the trailer was pretty damn good. And the result is there, it got me hyped.

[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

Trailer was fvcking badass. Good to see Geralt move extremely fast like a Witcher is supposed to and not the slow ass tank that he was in TW2

Ravenshout

Music? Yes, Badass. 

yeah yeah yeah we've talked about your excessive admiration for CG before. No one cares

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"]

[QUOTE="IgGy621985"]

My reaction after the trailer.

IgGy621985

In all seriousness, the trailer was pretty damn good. And the result is there, it got me hyped.

Ravenshout nit picks every tiny little detail in CG trailers. It's pointless to get into it with him

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[QUOTE="seanmcloughlin"]

Trailer was fvcking badass. Good to see Geralt move extremely fast like a Witcher is supposed to and not the slow ass tank that he was in TW2

seanmcloughlin

Music? Yes, Badass. 

yeah yeah yeah we've talked about your excessive admiration for CG before. No one cares

I've been observing this pattern among few gamespotters since the Cyberpunk teaser.Ravenshout

You take this shit way too seriously.

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

"Killing monsters."

Trailer was great, even if it was CGI. Can't wait for this game.

Doom_HellKnight

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

 

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

jhonMalcovich

He probably would shag her later on.

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

 

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

jhonMalcovich

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

 

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

jhonMalcovich

Hmmm I don't agree.

Geralt isn't cold enough to let three dudes beat, probably rape, and hang a women. Geralt isn't a jerk, he is very much a "hero to the rescue" and won't let someone be murdered in front of his eyes.

[spoiler]
A good example from the books would be (two years since I read this so I forgot all the details) how Geralt got the whole "butcher" nickname. Some cruel magician expiermented on a girl and she returns later grown up with a gang of bandits to get revenge. She threatens to kill the whole village if Geralt doesn't hand over the magician but he refuses and instead he kills the girl and the bandits. In other words, the 3 men > 1 woman theory doesn't hold.
[/spoiler]

I like how Geralt has to choose between walking away and letting the Nilfgarrdians torture the guilty girl to death, or jump in and save her despite her being guilty.

Holy hell that was one of the best cinematics I have ever seen.

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

 

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

jhonMalcovich

Holy hell that was one of the best cinematics I have ever seen.

NaveedLife

[QUOTE="NaveedLife"]

Holy hell that was one of the best cinematics I have ever seen.

Ravenshout

That really wasn't worth starting a countdown over.

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"]

[QUOTE="NaveedLife"]

Holy hell that was one of the best cinematics I have ever seen.

NaveedLife

[QUOTE="jhonMalcovich"]

I don´t get this trailer. Geralt was always a grey character, an anti hero. He doesn´t save people for nothing. He just hunts monsters for money and tries to stay off politics.

Why would he save a woman he doesn´t know. I know the scene is tough to look. But this is Middle Ages. The justice wasn´t pretty back then. Will developers will politecorrect this game, introducing western liberal values into a pseudo-history background that shouldn´t have them. 

What if she ´s a real murderer and deserves to die. Why interchanging one life for three is a good trade, especially without even knowing the background story of that hanging.

So let me understand this:

Geralt collects his reward, then kills his former employers in order to save a convicted to death murderer. But as she´s a woman, we automatically assume she´s innocent ?

If he walked away, that would be much more interesing twist than a typical hero-to-the-rescue-of-the-maid-in-trouble bullshit.

 

Conclusion: nice visuals, absurd story and atypical behavior of Geralt of Rivia.

tagyhag

Pretty much spot on what Tagy said, Geralt is a pretty neutral person when it comes to pretty much everything tell it involves a woman or as the trailer even implies when he says "picking between two evils, he'd rather pick the lesser one".

Now I want to finish the Blood of Elves book :?

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[QUOTE="Ravenshout"] In terms of what? Animation? Detail? The D3 expansion cinematic will blow it away visually.

Ravenshout

[QUOTE="Ravenshout"]

[QUOTE="NaveedLife"]In terms of everything.  My bro watched it and said "damn, even I want to play this", which is surprising given his lack of interest in singleplayer games.  

parkurtommo