CD Projekt Red was apparently having so much fun with Geralt's skidding mechanic while making The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the team briefly turned him into a snowboarder, slapping a hat and a pair of goggles on him, a board under his feet and then shoving him down a snowy mountain.
CD Projekt Red was apparently having so much fun with Geralt's skidding mechanic while making The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, the team briefly turned him into a snowboarder, slapping a hat and a pair of goggles on him, a board under his feet and then shoving him down a snowy mountain.
The Witcher creators are too busy making Cyberpunk 2077 and playing 200-card pick-up in Gwent to be working on a fourth game in the series, according to a translated interview with the developer’s president, Adam Kiciński. They’ve always said that the Witcher himself is retired as a character, following the Witcher 3’s last expansion. But Kiciński has taken a chance to remind us that this doesn’t mean they won’t return to the world in some form in the future. If they were to abandon that universe, he says, fans and investors would “not forgive us”.
Of course, new games in the same world could mean anything – more Gwent expansions, visual novels, a monster-hunting match-three game for smartphones. It doesn’t mean you should hold out for a third-person RPG with more billowing trees and idiot horses, even if that too is a possibility. It just means that, despite sending Geralt of Rivia to the old folk’s home, CD Projekt Red aren’t putting their most successful series in a big box and locking it away in the spare room.
This all comes from a video interview with Polish investment website Strefa Inwestorow which has been translated into a bulleted list by a resetera.com forum member (thanks, Cornbread78). The original video could just be two geography teachers talking about amethysts for all I know. But we can’t afford to hire another Polish translator, especially after what happened to the last one. So we’re going to give Cornbread the benefit of the doubt today.
Kiciński also repeated the boast that upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 2077 would be “bigger in scope” than the Witcher 3 (but didn’t say how) and skirted around the question of multiplayer. We know CD Projekt have been researching “seamless multiplayer” but don’t know what the exact craic is with that. He also said that new features would be coming to the card game Gwent early next year. We knew that one. Basically today has been a big game of “What Do We Know?” in the RPS office.
Seems a no-brainer that they will eventually return to the franchise. There's no way they won't continue to milk it. My bet would be something set well before Geralt's time, something around when Witchers were first created. That would give them pretty much free reign for the plot, and would also allow them to go with a user-created character (albeit still male only, per the lore).
i wouldnt mind that, OR one set hundreds of years into the future. As long as they keep their promise and leave gerry's story concluded and do something new, im totally fine with it.
Seems a no-brainer that they will eventually return to the franchise. There's no way they won't continue to milk it. My bet would be something set well before Geralt's time, something around when Witchers were first created. That would give them pretty much free reign for the plot, and would also allow them to go with a user-created character (albeit still male only, per the lore).
To be honest Sapkowski gave them so much material to work with they can still use a younger Geralt as a protagonist and make another trilogy if they want to.
i wouldnt mind that, OR one set hundreds of years into the future. As long as they keep their promise and leave gerry's story concluded and do something new, im totally fine with it.
So a Witcher game without the witcher?
well hes certainly the most famous witcher of his time, but gerry is still just one witcher. would be great to see what the witchers have become hundreds of years into the future.. or indeed, what they were like in their heyday..
as for what others said, i dont want to see a ciri game. i think she was characterized well enough in witcher 3, and its time for new stories and characters.
Bleh, i dont want to play as a woman, we already havw tomb raider and the fucking feminist Uncharted. Id rather make this an rpg where you xould create your own witcher.
You could start the game as someone who's hunting for new Witchers (like how the TV series begin) - that's how you select your class.. So it starts kind of like a mini-game / tutorial as another character.. So the first quest is just to find your character / class depending on the quest you accept + to learn to usual controls and UI navigations etc...
Or they could make you choose among the many different characters that we already have in Witcher series already, plenty of variety.
Don't really want a Ciri game to be honest. I'm just kind of tired of these RPGs, I want to play some high quality, AAA, Bioware style RPGs, where you get to create your own character/party, and role-play. Bioware obviously are incapable, and Obsidian don't have the resources to make a large scope game. So who else but CD Projekt could do it?
Leave that shit to Bethesda, I am fed up with creating characters that dont have any proper place in the world and are simply the new arisen, or avatar, or dragonborn or any other shite.
I want to play as a real character with his own special traits and place in the story and world, like Geralt or Ciri.
would be great to see what the witchers have become hundreds of years into the future..
Extinct, presumably. Once Geralt and his contemporaries die off, that's it one would think. Professional monster hunting would either cease to exist as a profession (being left to soldiers/guards under the employ of local government), or would be undertaken by non-mutants.
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or indeed, what they were like in their heyday..
That's why I suggested something near to their beginnings. If they want to stick with the whole mutant shunned by society angle, but at the same time keep the book closed on Geralt, that seems the most practical approach.
Witcher Vesemir and all his conquests (Of various kinds.) in his 400 some odd years of life?
Eh probably going to be someone else, would be interesting to see the earlier years of these hunters because things had to be really fucking bad if a bunch of very powerful mages and sorceresses aided by alchemists had to create these from usually young children with a very high mortality rate during the training and various processes.
Though I suppose having a bunch of elven arse-holes riding around in the sky would drive people to desperate measures.
To say nothing of all the other stuff that happened due to that eclipse causing weird stuff to happen to what was probably a pretty standard world before magic happened.
EDIT: Would regular soldiers even be able to deal with supernatural enemies and other beasts even in great numbers? Silver sword technique and meteorite is probably a pretty lost art too and mages and sorcerers are pretty few as well.
(Critical weakness to fire and dimeritium probably doesn't help.)
Though I suppose these mythical beasts aren't all that great in numbers either and it's mostly lesser monsters though I guess undead are a problem whether it's a lesser vampire or a dozen ghouls or skeletons.
(And other wildlife or plant life for that matter, kill it with fire I suppose.)
TW3 already broaches the idea of various supernatural entities being pushed towards extinction through the expansion of the human population and the loss of their original habitat. Flash forward a few hundred years on from the end of TW3 and they'd presumably be in the midst of their own industrial revolution. Large swathes of forest would be gone and humans would probably be primarily equipped with gunpowder weapons. Would they really need Witchers by that point?
would be great to see what the witchers have become hundreds of years into the future..
Extinct, presumably. Once Geralt and his contemporaries die off, that's it one would think. Professional monster hunting would either cease to exist as a profession (being left to soldiers/guards under the employ of local government), or would be undertaken by non-mutants.
Well that's the joy of setting something in a future time, you can tell whatever story you want.. maybe there's only a handful of century-old witchers left, and some event occurs that soldiers and private military forces can not combat, necessitating the creation of new witchers...maybe even a witcher army, one of which would be the character you play... The entire over arching story can be about bringing the witchers back, rebuilding the schools and such, in a time that's mostly forgotten them and are thought to only be the stuff of stories.
I mean if we can create modern day stories with demons and zombies and vampires that modern man and modern weapons can not combat, why would such a concept that would necessitate the reimergeance of specialised, magically enhanced monster slayers in a less advanced world than ours, seem so strange?
Leave that shit to Bethesda, I am fed up with creating characters that dont have any proper place in the world and are simply the new arisen, or avatar, or dragonborn or any other shite.
I want to play as a real character with his own special traits and place in the story and world, like Geralt or Ciri.
+1
CD Project are great at what they are doing. If they are going to do something different, then do not do it within the main The Witcher franchise
TW3 already broaches the idea of various supernatural entities being pushed towards extinction through the expansion of the human population and the loss of their original habitat. Flash forward a few hundred years on from the end of TW3 and they'd presumably be in the midst of their own industrial revolution. Large swathes of forest would be gone and humans would probably be primarily equipped with gunpowder weapons. Would they really need Witchers by that point?
That's why i don't think it would work in the future. A big part of the Witcher was the fact that times were changing, that witchers are almost extinct and hated to a degree. The whole who's the real monster thing.
I think the whole backdrop is what makes Geralt an interesting character and the Witcher games special. Without it it would be a typical fantasy RPG, which usually have quite bland stories and setting tbh. (a great evil is coming and you are the the chosen one blah blah blah).
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