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This post has been edited by mALX: May 17 2015, 03:44 AM

Playing The Witcher 3. Absolutely fantastic game, having so much fun. So many locations to find, monsters to hunt, people to chat to. Really beautiful game, and hunting monsters has real depth to it.

For example, in a quest I just completed, I had the option of killing a rare monster or performing a ritual to appease it. It was unhappy at people setting traps rather than hunting properly. After tracking it through a beautiful, ancient forest and learning that it protects the village nearby by being bound to a random villager I decided to help it out. Several wolf-hearts-burnt-at-a-shrine later and the skies filled with ravens as a sign that the monster was happy and the village was safe once again.

Rarely do games live up to the name 'Open World'. Yet here we are.

Also, now I have a fancy Xbox One I can do screenshots. Spending lots of time exploring the nordic islands of Skellige.

The sun trying to peer through the clouds

Skyrim-esque feel to this one

This is gorgeous! I never saw any screens or vids of Witcher done on the exterior, these are fantastic!

Hazmick - MALX is right, the game does look gorgeous and Skyrimesque. I've heard about the Witcher series and it seems well-thought of. I like the open world aspect. Looks like its challenge would be playing a character that is simply given to you instead of being able to create your own. Let us know how it goes!

The Boy is playing Witcher 3 right now. He’s been waiting all week for Friday when he could get his hands on it. It looks gorgeous, but I got so motion sick after less than a minute I had to leave the room. He was running around inside a fort or something and you could see over the walls to the mountains. Ugh, I really wanted to watch!

Great pictures, hazmick. Enjoy!

What causes that? I get it really badly playing Oblivion, or especially watching someone else play it that is very fast or moves the camera a lot. (like happens in some gameplay vids).

I would guess camera movement. He is very fast and jerky with the controller.

Yes, the jerky action of the camera from side to side is a big cause for me.

Lots of times in gameplay when someone is going somewhere they know well they will hurry through on a run and just dart their "head" from side to side like they are checking the place out (or trying to show it to the viewer) - that kills it for me, I get severe motion sickness and the rest of the day is shot for me.

But my question - what I was asking was: I wondered if there was a cause physically in some people that makes them get motion sick watching gameplay when others don't. Because my son never gets motion sickness from games, and I have staggered from his room sick after watching him play for a relatively short time - and he feels nothing, goes on playing for hours with no problems - and the oddest thing about it is, my son used to have seizures riding in cars when the sunlight flickered on the car window through trees - strobe light effect. But he is very fast and jerky with the controller in games and never gets sick.

Head-bobbing in games does make some people sick. Many games have an option to turn it off just because of that.

I got sick playing Oblivion the other day, but played Fallout 3 all those weeks without getting sick once.

What I used to have to do to watch KC's "Aravi" vids was to stand behind the chair at my desk and watch them, because if I sat too close to or at eye level with the monitor and watch gameplay vids I get sick.

Re: motion sickness from camera movement - I get a bit of that playing Oblivion, or more accurately I did get a bit of it until I installed ChaseCameraMod?, and I've never played without it, nor have I ever had any motion sickness, since.

It seems to not actually be related to the camera movement itself, but to the camera movement not corresponding with point of view. In the vanilla game, the camera lags behind changes in the point of view, and it appears to actually be that lag that causes the motion sickness, since the mod definitely works for me, and all it does is eliminate the lag, such that the camera just stays in position behind the character at all times.

I suspect, but don't know, that if one is susceptible to that motion sickness, it's just that much worse watching someone else play, since you don't even have that bit of warning you'd have if you were playing. At least when you're playing, you know when you're turning the character's head, so you can be a bit prepared for the camera motion. When you're watching someone else, it just happens.

To the thread topic: STILL playing Uncharted Waters: New Horizons on the SNES (emulated). Just this morning, I finished up the last of the six available characters/scenarios. I'd actually already started a replay of one of them, but set that aside for a bit so I could finish the first playthrough of the sixth one. Now that I've finished that one, I'm going to go back to that replay, and I'm already planning a replay of at least one of the other characters as well.

Thanks for the tip on the mod, just downloaded it and will most def be trying it out. Appreciate the help!

I hope whoever you're talking about is pretty mature. The Witcher series is known for having incredibly adult themes like explicit sex.

I don't know about the explicit sex, but I can confirm that the Chase Camera Mod works as advertised. I have been using it for a while. The weird, laggy camera in Oblivion always got to me as well. It never made me sick, but I never liked it.

Another endorsement for the Oblvion Chase Camera mod. Pseron Wyrd turned me on to it many years ago and I've had it installed ever since.

Come to think of it, a good Chase Camera Mod would probably make explicit sex scenes better to watch as well...

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KABOOOOOM!


*mALX's head explodes. She hurries off to buy Witcher*




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For sex scenes on the run?


Yeah, I had a great looking guy pounding on my door all night last night, I finally let him out,






Well, I did install that mod, and Acadian suggested I toggle the grass off too - trying that as well.

I'll probably get in game again tomorrow and test these changes out a bit; so for right now I'm still playing Oblivion, lol.

Thank you everyone for your help on this, it is HUGELY appreciated, especially if it works!

I just figured I'd warn Grits as a matter of courtesy, I wasn't sure how old the person she was referring to was.

The Witcher series is definitely not for kids. The violence is extremely detailed, there is explicit sex/nudity, and more adult language than an underground fight club.

I think it's refreshing because it is a game for adults and it makes no apologies for this. It's a dark, gory, terrible world that is extremely detailed in it's lore. Basically it's an average medieval fantasy story without the rose colored glasses most people wear when revisiting the renaissance.

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So I finished the main story. It was full of twists and turns, ups and downs, I laughed, I cried, I thought "woah" quite a lot. But seriously it's a really well written story, which actually changes on the choices you make. You meet loads of characters as you go and feel a real connection with them as you help them out or whatever you choose to do.

One particular section that really impressed me was with a character known as the 'Bloody Baron' and it involves several different characters, including the ghost of a miscarried child. Can't say more without spoilers, but by the end of it I felt invested in the story of these people and actually cared how it turned out.

Kiln's right about those adult themes, it has loads of 'grown-up stuff' but it's all there for a reason and isn't just thrown in for fun. They handle loads of themes really well. Side note: not quite as much sex and nudity in this one (that I've seen, I don't go looking for it). No shortage of attractive sorceresses though, as always.

You get to play as a character called Ciri for a few levels in the main story. She's kind of the adopted child of Geralt (it's a long story) and trained as a Witcher when she was younger (just without the mutations). She also has pretty cool magic abilities. Her sections of gameplay allow you to build her up as a character since the entire Witcher 3 story focuses on Geralt looking for her. Their relationship is so adorable too. Warms my heart.


Also completed all of the Witcher contracts. These are individual missions where you hunt a specific monster for a reward. Basically what Witchers do everyday. They're supposed to be side quests but each is so well written and full of flavour that they're more like mini-stories. Hearing people talk about monsters, going off to track it down, preparing to fight it, the fight itself. Really fun.

Now I'm just exploring the open world a bit more, doing some treasure hunting quests for some witcher's armour. Finding hidden gems all over the place.



More screenshots for you to peruse, I can't stop looking at stuff!

Walk in the woods

The witcher fortress of Kaer Morhen

Some secret place

edit: Not sure why the picture quality suffers so much when I upload them from the Xbone (via OneDrive). Darn it, Microsoft. The graphics are actually stunning, I promise.

This post has been edited by hazmick: May 25 2015, 11:04 AM

Thanks for mentioning The Witcher 3’s mature content, folks. Though I call him ‘The Boy,’ he’s not a kid any more. I appreciate you looking out for him!