@Lulu_Lulu:

well it's not like they aren't dedicating time to improving the gameplay. from what I saw the responsiveness, animations and pace has improved.

storytellers and worldbuilders.

This is very important for immersion, especially for RPG gamers. The world needs to make sense and have internal logic in order for the immersion to be bigger.

What open world games do you like?

Are you insinuating something?

Brothels exist in real life, there is a brother disctirct in Amsterdam, I don't know if it's intentional since Novigrad is based on medieval Amsterdam.

I've had it with people saying that including brothels in the game somehow makes it immature and pandering. Brothels exist, sex is essential and normal get over it.

Here's a newer 3min gameplay video that got me pretty excited. The graphics are unfinished but that's beside the points.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqQMV4LRPi0

Even though it's a 100 hour RPG, they're still using body language and decent facial animation to tell the story. Johnny feels like a real character even though it's mute, most RPG's just like to tell the story with unengaging exposition dialogue.

The swamps look really atmospheric and the combat looks like fun (great improvement over Witcher 2 which many people didn't like but I did)

I don't know but we really shouldn't compare them. The game won't have loading screens when enterering houses, houses are part of the gameworld. Skyrim is a previous gen RPG, I'm sure Bethesda will deliver something even more impressive than this game when they make their PS4/Xone/PC Elder Scrolls.

Yeah man, I've been following a bit about what's going on E3. It's crazy, What they showed at the MS press conference wasn't even that impressive.Their 45 minute closed presentation was apparently very good.

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/e3-2014-could-the-witcher-3-be-one-of-the-best-rpgs-ever-made/1100-6420354/

It's certainly not the biggest gameworld out there, but they're promising that it won't have generic quests and randomly generated terrain. Every scene is hand made and every side quest and encounter will have some kind of story and context to the gameworld.

Uwotmate I love Skyrim but capital of Empire had 20 people living in it

Plus everything in the world is handcrafted and there will be dozens of handcrafted dungeons.

http://www.gameswelt.tv/the-witcher-3-wilde-jagd/e3-2014-video-interview-mit-peter-gelencser,40585

ALSO EVERY CITIZEN HAS A DAILY ROUTINE, LIKE GETTING UP AND GOING TO WORK AND GOING TO BED

edit: here's some city gameplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sufwxU_Uaz4

you're right. the gameplay becomes stale and 90% of video game stories are not worth seeing to the end