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Here's Five Minutes of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in Action

Come for the magic and adventure, stay for the war crimes and elf racism.

Apr. 10 2015

Posted by: Alex

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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Less than one minute in...

"Drink with me ya cocksucker!"

SOLD!

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Seems cool but I never finished the first two games. I need to go back to that before getting this and I don't know if I will.

I really wish i could make my own character in this game. Geralt is so generic to me.

I agree. I thought this time you got to choose to play as a woman if you want since they revealed her a while back but then I read that you just play as her for small portions of the game you cannot choose. Creating your own character of your own race and gender like Dragon Age is more my thing. But I understand that they want to focus on Geralt.

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I love the last part, in the open world of witcher you can see boobies, play cards, see different boobies, hunt and see more boobies.

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The voice-over copy for this trailer was so cringe-inducingly bad I had to turn it off halfway through,

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Surprised people are so enthused by this. As soon as it got to the romancing stuff and mentioning horse racing minigames as though they're a selling point I had the sinking, crushing feeling of open world drudgery. Is there anything to suggest this isnt an entirely rote open world experience.

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And it will only cost you 2500 usd to run it at a acceptable framerate that does not ruin the experience.

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Yup, I need more of this in my life.

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@altairre said:

@tuxfool said:
@basketsnake said:

@the_ruiner said:

I really wish i could make my own character in this game. Geralt is so generic to me.

And his voice sounds like every other character in games these days. Dark. Gruffy. GENERIC!

They're telling a story. AFAIK the voice has been the same all the way since the Witcher: EE

Exactly. I can only recommend the books, they're actually excellent. The previous games have done a really good job of portraying the character. They obviously took some liberties here and there but that is necessary since they don't follow the books though this one is closest to them. Ciri is the other major character in the books, she's great and I'm really looking forward to seeing what they do with her especially since she is playable as well. I do enjoy creating my own character but this is not the place for it.

Tottaly agree! i was so stoked when i found out Ciri was gonna be in this game. I loved her in the books.

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Oh my God, this voice over really kills the trailer. If they'd just let it speak for itself it would have been 100x better.

However, this game looks so fucking cool and I'm ridiculously excited.

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This looks incredible, truly amazing.

Serious question. I played a couple of hours of The Witcher II (Never played one) and thought the combat just awful but the world, characters and design are all incredible...do I just need to keep going and get used to it, or is one of those games that if you don't like it, you're just not going to?

I **REALLY** want to like the Witcher series. Would appreciate any advice.

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They had me at "cocksucker"

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And it will only cost you 2500 usd to run it at a acceptable framerate that does not ruin the experience.

More like between 1k and 1500 but ok

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@johaneriksson said:

And it will only cost you 2500 usd to run it at a acceptable framerate that does not ruin the experience.

More like between 1k and 1500 but ok

That is 3 to 5 PS4s or xbox ones still

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@pyrodactyl: I wasn't aware that consoles were being talked about but thanks for displaying your ability to do math.

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@gruff182 said:

@mrnovember13 said:

"...where breath-taking magic.." (a woman's top disintegrates into glitter)

There's no way that wasn't intentional and probably a jibe at all the crap from last year. CD Projekt Red are fantastic.

My thoughts exactly.

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I spent a grand overhauling my PC just for this.......because, video games....

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@basketsnake: Yep totally so generic. I'm one of few who can speak polish. Even though English comes more naturally to me I played the second game with polish VO and cant stand Geralts eng voice.

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This woman's voice is hilarious mixed with the random bits of dialogue. They should have gotten Shadow of Mordor trailer guy.

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I usually don't preorder games, but I made an exception for this game

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Even Racism.

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@assirra said:

@pyrodactyl said:

@tuxfool said:
@weaponboy said:

"And racism!" -a line written by an actual human being.

as opposed to what?

Here is what a monkey might write:

dfjgidghjioghjgh

You gotta admit ''religious fanatism, war crimes, even racism'' is dumb line.

Well when the world is fucked up as in the witcher it makes sense tough. Especially racism has been a big part of the series ever since the first short story book (the very beginning)

Not to mention more often than not, 'racism' in The Witcher universe results in things much worse then religious fanaticism or war crimes. Its an awkward line in the trailer but I can see why they said it like that. It is a little confusing if you don't have the context.

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Holy shit this looks amazing.

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@the_ruiner said:

I really wish i could make my own character in this game. Geralt is so generic to me.

And his voice sounds like every other character in games these days. Dark. Gruffy. GENERIC!

You want some JarJar Binks action i take it?

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This may have motivated me to finally finish the Witcher 2. :)

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Everything in this game looks original...outposts,mini games,hunting quests....

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The woman narrator sounds like she should be doing VO for a tool and die company's corporate marketing video. Gibes a bit with the tits, 'sexy' blood rituals and blue dialogue.

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I love RPG's, but I also love making my own character / build. I feel like crafting your own character is integral to playing though a 100hr+ game. You feel like you're building something over time. I just can't stand Gerald as a character, he's flatter then a wood elf.

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I really should finish Witcher 1, hey.

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"...where breath-taking magic.." (a woman's top disintegrates into glitter)

[Eye rolling intensifies]

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"go away... or I'll kill you"

good to see fantasy game writing still as convincing as ever

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also lol at all the racism between different white people

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@csl316 said:

Cool stuff, now I gotta go and finish the rest of the translated novels.

And man, I can't wait to finally see Yennefer in game. Her history with Geralt always leads to a memorable encounter.

Come to think of it, between her and Triss and Ciri, this game's going to feature some amazing female characters.

I was going to looks those characters up, but I'm at work and will probably get spoken to if I look at that stuff here.

I picked up Witcher 1 & 2 on Steam sales. I should get around to playing those things.

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Racism? Oh sweet! I love racism!

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EVEN RACISM!

I hope poland never changes.

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Looking forward to it still, but man, this trailer is sorta blah. Im really starting to wonder if they bit off more then they can chew. Also... racism as a selling point is ridiculous.

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@sanity said:

Looking forward to it still, but man, this trailer is sorta blah. Im really starting to wonder if they bit off more then they can chew.

How come?

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@sanity said:

Looking forward to it still, but man, this trailer is sorta blah. Im really starting to wonder if they bit off more then they can chew.

How come?

I dont know, it just seems like too much, and usually that means they spread there resources to thin. I hope im wrong but i guess i just wonder if it will be a lot of filler that wont really matter.

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May 19th? Shit that's soon. Never played a Witcher game, but I've heard a lot of people saying that this game could be Skyrim 2.0, so if that's true I'm sold.

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Older bearded Geralt <3 <3 <3 I love this so much!

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I wish I could muster up any excitement for this. I hope it turns out good for others though.