Awesome trailer, albeit it left me a little bitter-sweet after all the "downgrade quality to meet the console specifications" fiasco.

Eh... I understand the world, amount of money in the console sh**world, and requirement for the studio to make money. It just still seems wrong, especially, lying "there won't be such downgrade" not so long ago. I think that while facing this moral choice, CDPR went the "worst outcome" scenario ;)

Which doesn't mean the game isn't gorgeous, anyway.

/Estel

But they weren't spoiler free! In W1 you basically show us a story (spoiler for those who haven't read it), in W2 there are also spoilers - LETHO IS KILLER!, and in W3, well, you saw it. I wonder who was that lady, Alp, High Vampire? :p

Edit your e-mail, mate, or you'll get a lot of traffic ticket, penis enlargement pills, offers to earn money fast, of hook up with fiancée from East Europe.
P.S. I thought you said your PC isn't ready. ;)

Are those CGI videos in the game too?

Very good launch cinematic, although the fight have some weak points, but it is more for show than else...

Fantastic video. The Witcher's trailers always grip me, unlike say the Assassin's Creed ones which are like "oh look I'm cool" but fail to convey any kind of emotion.

I doubt it, since it was supposed to be spoiler-free. So it must be a standalone story.

I think like a bonus in Extra section.

LOL, thanks... I fixed that.

Indeed, I have an underspec GPU and since they published the specs I decided I would wait until I was able to test the game somehow, a friend's computer or a demo/benchmark or something etc. But over the last two weeks the trailers and marketing for the game has totally blown me away, especially the new one above and it's made me more excited about the game than I already was. The real decision maker though, was last week when I read the news of a competing retailer selling GOG keys they obtained through "unnamed sources" which were probably the underground market or something similar. That particular retailer was my favourite source for Steam games, but I was quite outraged by their audacity to screw over CDPR/GOG in the way that they did. It almost felt like someone punching a family member in the face or something. I do not usually feel emotional reactions to just about anything but it made me feel an even greater sense of loyalty towards CDPR+GOG when I read the news of that unscrupulous retailer and I decided that I would be buying The Witcher 3 from GOG directly prior to the game's release to support CDPR and GOG as a result, and that I will never buy games from the other retailer again ever no matter how great their prices are just because of my loyalty to GOG and personal ideology.

So, I've now officially voted with my wallet to support them and I feel happy about that. Incidentally, this is the most expensive single game I've bought since 2006, and there's a good chance I wont buy another one at release day or preorder pricing until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out too. :)

But... I know that the game may end up unable to run on my system properly too, however due to the ideology mentioned above I've come to terms with that being ok for me in this rare case of emotional loyalty. :)

On the upside, I have a friend who is super eager to see the game too and he's been scouting to buy a new video card. Even though the game wont run on his own computer, he suggested the possibility of putting his card into my system if he does end up buying one, just so we can see the game in action so I may still get to see it shine. :)

Impressive!!! Please add this video to the "Game Goodies", GOG.

Try this one instead! Lullabye Song - NSFW

Enjoy! ;oP

Damn, say whatever you want, but I love these trailers (would always prefer devs putting their money in development instead, but CDPR has enough of 'em, obviously :D). Haha!

If CDPR wanted, they could bring her back as an important NPC in the game. Since high vampire wouldn't die so easily. And this event could take place some time in the past (before the game events). So you can interpret it as Geralt deciding not to finish her off (see how he didn't use the hook in the end).

You're welcome. Just be careful, it's the internet - you only create your new e-mail, and you already have some pixx of cute gurrrls, dreaming to meet you, or highly profitable investment somewhere in the arse of the world, or delivery ticket from shipping company you never used. :D

That is the thing that worries me a lot - it looks like CDPR used PR MRLS to get maximum possible coverage (I'm quite frightened to open fridge these days /grin), and personally I'd prefer to get those resources redirected to game itself, not marketing. Not that I can't appreciate the quality of cinematic.

And what had happened in 2006, if it is not secret? Oblivion, NWN2, Gothic 3? Heh, it's funny, I remember events based on games' release date, not calendar: "when they met, in May? Nuh, three days before Oblivion was released". :D

Hey, it's CDPR, their game may be unable to run even on rig they marked as necessary for "Ultra" settings for all I know. :p Tends to happen with games from East Europe.
Jokes aside, I think we are getting ordinary console port with bloated PC system requirements, so it should be relatively fine. Maybe Nvidia and AMD will create separate pages with FAQ dedicated to Witcher 3, same way they did with GTA V. But I don't expect anything worse.
Also, instead of that competitive store that has similar abbreviation to GOG, you can use HumbleBundle. Nice bundles there for decent prices. In case you didn't know. Sharing is caring and all that :)

CDPR stop! just stop! I'm already too hyped up for a game that I have no system that can run it >.< (saving up for a pc) and you have to go and make this awesome Cinematic:p


...now I'm going to watch this a few more times

I've mentioned it here in the forums a few times in the past but the short story is that I had formerly been a big fan of Ubisoft and EA Games and considered their games to be among the highest quality on the market in general. I was a huge fan of all of the Tom Clancy series of games and many other individual titles and series they both offered. But the first time I went to play multiplayer GRAW, GRAW2 and some of the Rainbow Six titles with a friend who also had bought these games - halfway through a mission the game abruptly halted and told me I had an invalid CD key. This happened randomly and not every single game, and my friend independently experienced it as well. 2 other friends who also purchased these games indicated that they too experienced these problems. We researched it online and it turned out that countless zillions of customers were having the same issue.

The story was the same every time - someone bought an Ubisoft game, brought it home and installed it and were immediately told their CD key was invalid when playing multiplayer, then they contacted Ubisoft support (as did I) who blamed it on the customer not keeping their CD key private and that a friend or someone must have used it without the customer's knowledge and there was nothing Ubisoft could or would do about it. Every single one of me and my friends experienced this and exactly zero of us had our CD keys stolen by anyone period. The truth of the matter is that all video games are pirated, and any games that use registration keys end up with pirates reverse engineering the algorithm that is used to generate keys, then generating fake keys for themselves which get used in the wild until a collision occurs and the company detects it and invalidates the key. The problem though is that it is possible for these pirate keygen programs to create a key that is identical to some legitimate customer's key and when the pirated key gets invalidated the paying customer gets fucked up the ass too even though they had done absolutely nothing wrong.

Ubisoft refused to acknowledge the problem or give even the slightest crap, choosing instead to say "tough luck, it's the way it is sorry about your luck, please buy more of our games so we can fuck you over even more". In addition to this they used SecuROM or something similar which has a bug in the way it detects CDROMs based on speed characteristics or something and it would claim that the legitimate store bought CD I had was a copy and not the original. Rifling through Ubisoft's support materials their recommended workaround was to disable DMA on your CDROM drive and slow all CDROM access on your system with all software down to a crawl as a workaround to their ridiculous copy protection bullshit.

My friends and I all ended up having to download cracks for our BOUGHT games from gamecopyworld.com and crack our games to even get them to start as we all faced both of these problems, and we ended up having to install 3rd party VPN software much like a pirate would just to play multiplayer online through LAN mode.

That is the wonderful experience I got for buying $300+ of their games all legitimately. Not long after that I heard about the ridiculous DRM on one of the Assassin's creed games which required online connectivity constantly to phone home, a limited number of installations you could perform until you would be forced to buy another copy of the game or jump through some other bullshit hoops and other insane crap.

I had experiences that weren't much different with EA Games also, with equal results so both of these companies went on my "fuck you" list and I vowed to never buy another one of their games ever again if they had any copy protection whatsoever on them. But when I looked out there at what else was happening it seemed like more and more companies were going down this shitty DRM road too and saying "screw you" to their customers plus the whole DLC nickel and diming going on and other bad practices and I decided that being a paying customer supporting the gaming entertainment industry was only rewarding them for anti-consumer behaviour.

I decided to no longer support the gaming industry at all period and immediately stopped buying games from then onward until I discovered GOG.com although it was a few years until I really fully understood GOG (due to not paying close enough attention). Once I realized what all GOG was about though I quickly became interested in being supportive of at least the part of the industry that respects their customers. Later on I lightened up a bit towards some lighter forms of DRM too, but to this day I steadfastly refuse to spend money on what I consider hostile anti-consumer DRM which strongly affects the customer experience from my own personal eyes/judgment.

As such, Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, Warner Bros. are on my "will never buy your games unless they are 100% DRM-free period" list - each one of them due to extremely bad personal experiences with each company's DRM as a paying consumer that bought their games. I make exceptions however for any of their games that appear in the GOG catalogue as I want them to see that DRM-free works and that I will buy their stuff if they make it DRM-free.

Yes, believe it or not... that's the short story. :)

Even though it isn't generally my cup of tea... I have that "AMD Evolved Raptr" whatever application installed that comes with the Catalyst drivers or wherever the hell I got it, and while I find it to be a little spywarish of a feel to it, I disabled all of the phone-home type of features and I have used it to optimize the settings of a few games which I then went and slightly refined by hand. It ended up helping in a few cases, so hopefully it might also come in handy for Witcher 3.

Yeah, I'm a fairly regular customer of all the big bundle sites including Humble too and had good experiences with most of them so far (excluding Groupees which sucks rocks). :)