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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt: Let the Countdown Begin - Preload Now
SBFord
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CD Projekt Red has announced that preloading for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has begun on both Steam and GoG.com for PC and XBox Live for XBox One players. The final game in the trilogy of Witcher titles is set to launch next Tuesday, May 19th Warsaw time, or late afternoon / early evening on May 18th for NA players.
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be officially released and unlocked on May 19, at 1:00 AM CET (Warsaw time), i.e:
May 18th, 4.00 pm PT (Los Angeles)
May 18th, 7.00 pm ET (New York)
May 19th, 00.00 am BT (London)
May 19th, 2.00 am UT (Moscow)
May 19th, 8.00 am JT (Tokyo).
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Hope i can manage 40fps+ :S
This game offers the promise of becoming the new SKYRIM. I think it will move the open world rpg genre to a new level.The game is different from SKRIM.There is a powerful story line.....combat has great depth and offers a variety of development paths...graphics are cutting edge....the world is dark and brutal. An independent company made the game. They wanted. it to have an edge to it that large AAA game corporations would never have in their games.
This is the 3rd game in THE WITCHER award winning series.
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And let's not forget you can sail and swim the oceans. The devs are also working on a player modding system for the game as well.
And this prove that Passion/Quality and small is still owning money and big
I dont want stear any fire but i doubt this game is any good. It has already downgraded graphics like shown previously, also the game is marketed like hell, wich means the game is probably garbage. Those new games are more about marketing then having good storyline and content (whatever that individually means).
Many middle eastern software distributors do not honor release dates.
Many youtube reviewers were invited to Poland for a two day presentation...extended play time and given non final game copies to play and review. Live game play will appear on TWITCH starting on May 19th...launch day.Snippets from the game abound on youtube.
You can buy and pre download the game from GOG.com and activate it on the 19th. GOG sells a version of the game that does not tether you to them. You do not need to be online or load the game through them to play. It is your game..unlike STEAM.
Guess the hundreds of game awards the series has received mean nothing as well ?
I love the smell of troll flesh in the morning.
The company has authorized the release of reviews starting 1 week BEFORE launch ( starting today).
Here is the 2nd one I found:
Not many companies will allow the unvarnished scrutiny...before they have released their game.
well im sad my 3000$ computer will be not realy needed
the graphic they have show last year and the game were 2x better looking
they downgraded the game hardcore im not sure im going buy this game it look like shit
I don't think any one one has seen the final PC version of the game. Videos shown often have PS or even xbox footage...that is not final. PC release version hasn't been see as far as I know.(the review above I posted was PS4 footage.
My suggestion...wait till the game is released and find a non youtube site to view known PC video footage. Or maybe just forget about this game that seems to be causing you so much angst.
Well if it's good then it only helps. Get some more pre-orders in
And it looks like it'll be good. Real good.
Gamespot review in, just saw it. 10/10
IGN - 9.3
Game Informer - 9.75
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I tried first through GOG GALAXY but got 0.1 mb download speed so i download through GOG downloader which is much faster.
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Why should anyone accept your generalization on how everyone feels about the value of awards. What omniscient powers do you have to know how everyone thinks, and that they concur with YOUR opinion ?
IF you read more carefully you would have realized I was speaking about awards of the first two WITCHER games. Not the one that hasn't been released. Perhaps you can share with all of us how a game that has not been released gets awards I certainly have not seen that before.
Why should anyone accept your generalization on how everyone feels about the value of awards. What omniscient powers do you have to know how everyone thinks, and that they concur with YOUR opinion ?
IF you read more carefully you would have realized I was speaking about awards of the first two WITCHER games. Not the one that hasn't been released. Perhaps you can share with all of us how a game that has not been released gets awards I certainly have not seen that before.
My apologies, I misread your comment. But as to your comment about prelease awards.. it does happen quite a bit, at the moment I don't have time to look up and find proof for you, but I do suggest keeping your eyes open for it, it does happen, as I'm sure other people on this site will attest to. ( hopefully or I'll look like I'm full of it). I will stick to my statement that video game awards should be taken with a grain of salt " EA NHL 15 " has one a lot of awards as well.Anyways I hope we both have a ton of enjoyment from TW3 cheers.
Ok, ok, ok!! Just a second here. So you're saying you can't trust awards and then you use NHL 15 as your benchmark? SO many problems with that. Specifically, the game is more contextually-specific than just about anything else (It's a sports game). Secondly, there is, literally, no competition. There are NO other hockey games. Secondly, as far as the Sports category goes, you could easily argue that there are a whopping 5 or 6 other titles in the entire genre. Soooooooo, yeah, it'll win a lot of awards. That being said, it's not horrible by any means.
I think you'd have difficulties finding a game that won best in show (at E3, PAX, etc) or GotY from popular websites which are NOT good. It's not like the academy awards where you don't know what you're getting (good or bad) even with Best Picture. If it's GotY it's good. Check this out.
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Azarelos - 90 Hunter - Emerald
Durnzig - 90 Paladin - Emerald
Demonicron - 90 Death Knight - Emerald Dream - US
Tankinpain - 90 Monk - Azjol-Nerub - US
Brindell - 90 Warrior - Emerald Dream - US
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Witcher 3 will be epic. downgrading is not good but almost all games in the past few years were downgraded. the public just got more aware since Watch Dogs and Dark Souls 2 made it too obvious.
the advertising was done by Microsoft, they didn't put budget for it and spent it on making the game. unlike Destiny.
Witcher 1 and 2, already proved that CDPR can make a good story but i can agree that they lacked emotional impact. however Witcher 3 won't have that problem at all. Ciri and Yennefer will add the emotion to the story.
Shadanwolf i doubt Witcher 3 becomes the next skyrim. i prefer Witcher 2 to Skyrim myself but that's because i like games with heavy story more, doesn't mean i don't see why Skyrim is a massive success. Dragon Age and Witcher both got inspired by it's open world. Witcher 3, like Dragon Age Inquisition seems to be a mix of Skyrim and Mass Effect. (with Witcher 3 working more on open world aspect and inquisition working more on characters)
also not sure how being Dark and Brutal is a feature. post GoT era i guess. i love both Dark and Light as long as the story is great.
my top MMOs: UO,DAOC,WoW,GW2
most of my posts are just my opinions they are not facts,it is the same for you too.
Preloading now using GOG's beta Galaxy. DL'ing quickly at my ISP max.
I do wish the option of which drive to DL to would have been more obvious in Galaxy: had to stop the first attempt when I realized it wanted to do it on my OS C: drive and had to hunt for the option to send it to the drive I wanted it on.
Getting great reviews already... 10/10 at Gamespot is not something that happens every day.
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Well I think it's more just about precedent. There are awards every year. Sports is a category of games, so someone is going to get an award. It's like if you don't give out an award, then fans will think that you're an inferior site? I don't know. Honestly, I haven't really found a sports game that's worthy of an award for a few years now.
As for Titanfall, I haven't actually played it, but have read reviews on it and understand it underwhelmed. However, that doesn't mean it's a horrible game. Titanfall still got lots of critical acclaim and was rated quite highly. The gaming community, on the other hand are split but, thanks to Metacritic, I actually tend to weigh any sort of purchase decision on critical reviews, again, since people are, generally, idiots. If you don't believe me, feel free to read some of the wonderfully objective reviews.
As far as critics getting it right, there is a list of the past and present Game Critics Awards from E3. As far as accuracy goes, they're not bad. IMO, if you can strike gold like 80% of the time then you're doing well.
Crazkanuk
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Azarelos - 90 Hunter - Emerald
Durnzig - 90 Paladin - Emerald
Demonicron - 90 Death Knight - Emerald Dream - US
Tankinpain - 90 Monk - Azjol-Nerub - US
Brindell - 90 Warrior - Emerald Dream - US
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