The "Living World" of The Witcher 2

kinda feel bad for never playing the first one =\

i hate when the developers point out the little details of their game before it even ships...

" AW SHIET. I was going to wait until BF3 to buy a new GPU, but this presents... complications. "

Looks great!  Between this and LA Noire I will have all my gaming time tied up!

Looking good. Hopefully it won't be as umm "shallow" as first one.

RPG of the year right here. This and L.A. Noire makes for an awesome week coming up.

" This.. doesn't look groundbreaking at all.  What modern RPG hasn't had this?  Fable?  Oblivion?  Fallout?  Any of them?  Come on, this is not a feature, this is a basic requirement of a good RPG. "

I do hope the quest npcs don't travel around too much.
The quest npcs in the first game tend not to stick around the place the 'quest tracker' points to =/

Had to use a wiki to figure out where Triss was most of the time.

Reminds me of..... I hate to say it, Oblivion. Don't get me wrong, it looks a whole hell of a lot better than Oblivion - but the "NPCs have their own lives" claim is strongly associated, in my mind, with Oblivion. Hopefully Witcher 2's NPCs won't be as... em, eccentric has Oblivion's NPC's whose behavioural AI was comical at best.... game breaking at worst.

This.. doesn't look groundbreaking at all.  What modern RPG hasn't had this?  Fable?  Oblivion?  Fallout?  Any of them?  Come on, this is not a feature, this is a basic requirement of a good RPG.

I'M GONNA BUY THE SHIT OUT OF THIS GAME

" @Hef said:

" Apparently people sleep in the clothes they're going to wear the next day in this world. "

you can't really single out the Witcher for doing that. Has ANY game ever avoided that particular problem? "

Something's amiss; not a single potato farmer to be seen.

ooh, wow looks fantastic.

Damn I preordered it like half a year ago so totally forgot about the release date. One week left already? FUCK YES!

The cook cooks, HOLY SHIT!
Anyways, why does this game have to come out on 17th of May? stupid independence day for Norway :(

Looks pretty prominsing. Still not finished the first game yet. I was getting really into it until i had to do a system restore and lost all my save files :-(

Looks nice, though this sort of thing never impresses me, since the only real difference between this way and having npc's standing around constantly is that they all go to sleep at the exact same time and then go back to their spots at the same time in the morning. That always bothers me.

I would love to see them take this 'living world' a level further and add some more randomization to it, so maybe a man decides to go fishing in the afternoon or something. I am confidant those women get up, and gossip in the market until bed time, every single day. That drives me crazy.

I don't really care for the video, but hypeity hypeity hype!
"Living world" is more about immersion than realism, and I'm cool with that, but I don't think most people will notice. I know I probably won't.

FYI: Witcher 1 is $5 on GoG.com now. Might as well give it a try and figure out whether you like it if you haven't already.

" If I was capable of having a boner I would have one right now. "

I played the original and loved it from start to where I got upto before my pc went and took a hardware dive in the deep oceans of broke town.

3 or so years on I'm playing it again now to hopefully complete it this time and loving it all over again. :-)

And I didn't even know that The witcher 2 was almost out, CDProjeckt thanks for giving us that RPG that does what DA 2 failed to do, which is; give us an RPG that has some continuity and a story that makes sense in it's own right.

This looks nice, can't wait.

HYPE!

" Apparently people sleep in the clothes they're going to wear the next day in this world. "

Man, I loved the Witcher. Slow start, but totally worth it in the long run. One of the most immersive games I ever played, somehow, it's hard to explain.
And this also looks pretty rad.

" @HS21: Mm sorry I was still counting The Witcher 1 CD Red numbers.. No idea they've grow this much, Cool!

Yet have to say, Bioware is around 800 employees! Among 2 major studios and it's owned by EA. It is worth mentioning Ray Muzika is part of the board of directors at EA.  Founding, Workforce, Marketing and Distribution reach is well far from CD red's one.. 

"

"And of course there's also times when friends prefer to gather out in the open"........with a hooker :P

Nice stuff, but none of this is revolutionary and/or dependent on currentgen tech. Games like Gothic, Outcast and even the otherwise completely lifeless Elder Scrolls titles did this years ago. It adds to the immersion, sure, but as a gameplay feature I'm not sure how meaningful it really is.

This game looks sweet, it was completely off my radar. Now I have to go preorder it.

" Amazing! 

I can´t believe how a small budget studio for Poland is outclassing a behemoth like Bioware ? 

"

The wildlife documentary narration cracks me up.

My god this game looks so sweet.  To bad my computer can not come anywhere close to running this game like it is meant to be.  Will just play the Witcher 1 again though.

Ah so they occasionally gain personalities. Great.

" It's hilarious to me that the thing that has me most on the edge of my seat prior to the witcher 2's release. Is whether or not Geralt can wear hats, because I hate his stupid hair. I saw a hood in this video so things are looking promising I might be able to finish this game unlike the hatless catastrophe that was its successor. "

I am disappointed, where is the young teenage boy who wanders around town and harasses the local women? ;)

so what would happen if you killed one of them????

would that shut down the village?

"Every single npc lives its own life." Laying it on thick, I see. It does look like they put quite some work into detail, giving them three instead of one repetitious cycle, with some breaks in those three, to make it feel like six. The game looks great either way. No need to Molyneux it up.

7 more days.... i can't handle it.

" Amazing! 

I can´t believe how a small budget studio for Poland is outclassing a behemoth like Bioware ? 

"

But can I screw with the living world and turn the main character into a sociopath? Can I break into buildings and set fires at night?

The only thing I could think about is if they used speed tree.

Can't wait for this game !!!!

Radiant AI eat your heart out.

Watching people doing repetitive task all day is exciting.

I just couldn't get into the first Witcher. Hopefully this is better