By John Walker on November 29th, 2010 at 6:01 pm.
You look like the sort of person who wants to see ten brand new screenshots of The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings. There’s just something about your eyes, your frown. Fortunately I’m here, and posting them. They’re a tad similar. I recommend getting ten monitors, lining them all up in a straight row, and then running past them all, your head turned to face them, as fast as you can. See if it makes a cartoon.
Click on them all for fullsize versions.
Those are sure orange.
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And blue! Don’t forget about the blue!
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Extremely apropos:
http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-posters/
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Extremely apropos:
http://www.slashfilm.com/orangeblue-contrast-in-movie-posters/
(oops, didnt log in.)
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See also: http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
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Argh!
Must… Un… See… That… Page…
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…And now I’ll recall the above every time I see my desktop wallpaper.
http://firstpersonshooters.net/Games/Brink/images/wallpaper/brink-wallpaper-1920×1200.jpg
Truly my eyes have been awakened. Rudely, violently awakened.
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I remember reading that into the abyss post a while ago and it really frustrates me now I know what I’m seeing when people pull out the orange and teal.
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I say, that colour balance does look quite artificial, doesn’t it?
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Rascals! I bet they created the entire thing on a computer.
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CGI is even ruining our games! This must stop!
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That sequence is from a dream/spell/magical world or something like that. It’s not real, that’s why Geralt is fighting strange (well, more strange than usual) enemies.
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Damn right! Less CG, more FMV!
Except, no, really what I meant to say is, rather, that it seems to be a deliberately surreal cast to the thing, and not, to be implying what you seem to have been inferring, that that would necessarily be somehow a bad thing. Big ol’ dose of the bloomy, tinted, oddly hued “this is a dream of some sort” vibe, ya? Not being anything close to realistic optics is a-ok when you weren’t trying to be.
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I really should play the first witcher before it becomes all spoiler-y witcher 2 coverage.
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I can highly recommend it, depsite being a little bit rough around the edges
It does lack a sense of drama in places and as a result can be anticlimactic.
Especially in comparison to say DA:O.
But the world itself is very detailed and the quests are varied and interesting, a lot more so than Dragon Age. As a result I’m enjoying it a fair bit more.
Plus, it has the best line in any video game ever.
It may be a little puerile, but I chuckle every time I hear it.
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I think it looks pretty stunning. It’s not the entire game that’s orange and blue.
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People, I think you’ll find that is cyan. As in the dodgy looking colour you pay over the odds for to fuel your hungry beast of a printer.
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But does something awesome happen when I push a button?
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Only if you press the Boobs Button (all of the buttons are the Boobs Button).
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Woohoo for the abandonment of Brown. Long live game graphics that are GAME-like. Have you ever looked around and seen quite how boring and samey most of the real world looks? More games that look like games!
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Relavent
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=222
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Witcher was one of the best-looking games I have ever played.
It had best in-game forest ever. Witcher 2 looks even better.
Preordere’d.
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Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!
Please Stop The Madness, please!
http://theabyssgazes.blogspot.com/2010/03/teal-and-orange-hollywood-please-stop.html
I can’t take any more teal and orange, I CAN’T!
Edit: Ah, somebody beat me to it. Still, it can’t be repeated often enough. Had a terrible movie-festival this year, where the Asian movies tried to out-teal n’ orange one another. It was no pretty sight, I tell you.
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Whoever wrote that is seeing teal and orange where it just isn’t. Counting skin colour as orange is a bit pedantic too. Especially in the case of the oompa loompas.
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Also, spelling. Is it just me, or does dude come off as a dunce when every fifth word is spelled wrong?
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I know that a lumbering skull faced giant would be pretty scary in real life, but he looks quite amiable in these screenshots.
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If this is The Witcher 2′s design of their version of the Fade (of the DA:O fame), then I say, jolly good work!
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Shambling Shoggoth! Those are some nice looking flames! Too bad about the obviously “fake” mountain in the background, but… wow, that is some pretty, roleplaying action!
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better than the endless shades of gray and brown most games come in
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It seems relevant enough to ask here, with all the swordfighting screens… I’ve played about 15 minutes of the demo for the first Witcher, and I was wondering if the combat gets any better? Having to stare at a little cursor for pixely flames to appear on it is just terrible.
If not: are they improving it in the second game.
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@Ganders: No (it’s pretty awesome, though). Yes (supposedly).
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Play it on hard. No flames on your cursor then; you just have to learn the timing.
Probably not what you wanted to hear. :(
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IIRC, at normal and higher difficulty settings in the Enhanced Edition you don’t see the cursor flame, but there are subtle audio cues for when to click. That’s helpful when you’re starting out, although you probably don’t want to hear this either if you’re into more “hands-on” control during a battle.
Combat in the first Witcher at the higher levels was more about gathering, preparing, and then using the right potions (for buffs) and oils (for sword damage) for the tougher battles. The combat itself was kinda mindless, especially for all the lower level “filler” monsters you run into. It’s pretty good as eye candy, though. Nice finishing moves and animations if you go all the way down any of the combat skill trees.
I enjoyed The Witcher very much, but it was more for the storytelling, and for the way it was something of a different take on a sword & sorcery genre.
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Also, hooray for releasing screenshots taken straight from that video they already showed. You guys should check it out… it’s a bit like these screenshots except moving.
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Brink went through almost the same thing when it was delayed. They reset the drip of screenshots and developer diaries, giving us ‘new’ ones that were virtually identical to the first set.
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BLOOM! moar BLOOM!
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Blue. Orange.
BLORANGE!
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I think it’s pretty. But then, I like orange.
Maybe Larfleeze makes a cameo in that part of the game?
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Hope the story doesn’t jump about so fast in this one.
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Yea, that 100+ hours The Witcher game really was just blur whoosing by in 5 acts. :P
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At least it’s not BROWN.
But that blue fog! Oh my gosh the blue fog. LEAVE THAT CRAP TO BLIZZ GAMES PLEASE. No blue fogs. No please.
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I get it… blue and orange make brown! Or wait they also contrast really well.. who knows the hidden meaning?
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Mmmm, realistic swords and armor, I love it.
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… eh… looks a bit like a crossover between The Witcher and Warhammer, or I’m seeing things?
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I would rather have news of them abandoning their support for the masses-milking lawyer fraudmachine that is raping more-or-less supposed p2p users and their families.
Not only does this clog up the legal system (stuff like this is the reason why e.g. an inheritance suit can end up taking longer than those that stand to inherit might still be alive..), it also encourages fear-and-oppression tactics vs the consumer rather than trying to work via social and ethical change.
It’s a bit like simply smashing people in the face who disagree(and, to stay parallel to the degree of exaggerated fees demanded here, kick them in the nuts repeatedly, cut off all their hair, p*ss on them, take all their clothes and leave them a hollow, frightened and depressed shell for the next months to years), rather than arguing with them and living and example.
I know this is an unpopular viewpoint for some people (although I cannot fathom why, I have seen first hand people go into depression because their 15 y/o daughter allegedly downloaded a single chart MP3 and now a 1200 EUR bill of lawyer bill+infringement cost is lying on their coffee table), but I can’t help but feel this cannot be repeated often enough, as there just is not enough awareness and counteraction against this abuse yet.
And if you think I am just whining for the poor old pirates, the “fraudclosures” in the USA that are currently ongoing basically use a similiar schematic abuse of the judicial system and are just as bad in my eyes.
Just because some people love to hate pirates does not mean these methods are on scale, just or non-abusive of the system within they occur.
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