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I feel like with Witcher 3, CDPR has already proven they can pull off “narrative adventure with open world.” I’m sure the remake will be fine. And if not, I can still replay the original.
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I'm excited to see what the do with UE5. W1 was essentially a very comprehensive Neverwinter Nights 1 mod and the Aurora engine was clunky to deal wit hat best, so the game being given a more modern treatment should be good fun.
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chaosapiant posted:I feel like with Witcher 3, CDPR has already proven they can pull off “narrative adventure with open world.” I’m sure the remake will be fine. And if not, I can still replay the original. They’re not making the game, though. Sounds like they’re only helping out.
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Nov 29, 2022 18:01
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chaosapiant posted:I feel like with Witcher 3, CDPR has already proven they can pull off “narrative adventure with open world.” I’m sure the remake will be fine. And if not, I can still replay the original. Exactly. Anyone in here play the original unenhanced back in 2007? I had just gotten over Mass Effect 1 and was looking for something else to scratch that itch. I had just gotten a decent computer so dipped in the computer game pool which felt a lot weirder. And I come across Witcher 1. Which is weird, and jank, and I can't stop playing it. My impression at the time, having no idea this was based on anything, was man these are all really developed characters, oh man we got a crew at the beginning welp never seeing them again apparently and I was thinking they were gonna be party members. Wow this is some high fantasy monsters and but it feels like a real scummy dark ages type of setting. There was nothing like it and I've been a fan ever since. If you played Witcher 1 upon release and played each game as it came out - Witcher 3 feels like the most amazing game to ever come out in comparison.
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Shard posted:Exactly. Anyone in here play the original unenhanced back in 2007? I had just gotten over Mass Effect 1 and was looking for something else to scratch that itch. I had just gotten a decent computer so dipped in the computer game pool which felt a lot weirder. This is extremely accurate to how I experienced the world. I knew going in it was based on “some Polish books,” but hadn’t read any of them. But Witcher 1 has atmosphere in spades. The graphics are also quite good for a title in 2007. Not Mass Effect good, but better than Oblivion or Neverwinter Nights 2. I remember being disappointed with Dragon Age Origins when it came out, because it was advertised as “dark fantasy,” but felt exactly like a generic Forgotten Realms at the time. Then Witcher 2 came out and, imo, surpassed W1 in every way, and Witcher 3 did it again. I’m extremely excited to play a version of Witcher 1 with all the wisdom CDPR has made since the first game. I still regularly play W1 and it’s still a fantastic game.
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Nov 29, 2022 20:27
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chaosapiant posted:I feel like with Witcher 3, CDPR has already proven they can pull off “narrative adventure with open world.” I’m sure the remake will be fine. And if not, I can still replay the original. seems to be missing their subsequent attempt at telling a narrative with an open world
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Nov 29, 2022 20:32
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WoodrowSkillson posted:seems to be missing their subsequent attempt at telling a narrative with an open world Cyberpunk? I didn't include it because it's Witcher chat, but for the sake of argument, I believe Cyberpunk is a fantastic game and has been since it launched
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Caveat: I've played 3 twice, and I started 2 but never got past the intro area, never tried 1. Announcing this as an open world reimagining makes me think that they're effectively rebuilding 1 from the ground up to align with what W3 audiences would expect. I have no nostalgia for the original, having never played it, but if the level of jank is anywhere near what this thread would lead me to believe (not to mention just the general UI/UX/Gameplay improvements since 2007), a simple remake/remaster would probably land with a thud.
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I like open world games but I do really enjoy the semi open semi linear games as well for maintaining forward momentum. Witcher 2 is really good for that, or Fable 1 if I'm going back a few years.
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W1 has a million issues, but most of those are fixable with some tuning, modern amenities, better quality control, and a bigger budget for art. Like fundamentally, besides the combat, it's a (very) good game. It's just brought down by a ton of big and small annoyances and uneven production values. I really don't think a remake needed to be open world. But it's a different question whether CDPR could afford to release a AAA RPG in 202X without that label.
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Arc Hammer posted:I like open world games but I do really enjoy the semi open semi linear games as well for maintaining forward momentum. Witcher 2 is really good for that, or Fable 1 if I'm going back a few years. Yes, I've burned out on too many OW games because the onus on pacing is on me, and I suck at managing that.
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W2 was marketed as open world, if memory serves, so I wonder if this remake is just W2-style?
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Rinkles posted:W1 has a million issues, but most of those are fixable with some tuning, modern amenities, better quality control, and a bigger budget for art. Like fundamentally, besides the combat, it's a (very) good game. It's just brought down by a ton of big and small annoyances and uneven production values. This was my main point. The purpose of a W1 reimagining isn't to get previous W1 players to buy and enjoy it - it's to see if they can market it to the wider audience that latched onto W3.
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What other changes are people hoping for in the remake? Personally, I hope that they refine some of the writing. I feel like the writers didn't really hit their stride until Witcher 2 and there were a lot things that felt, well, fanfic-y. There were too many hamfisted callbacks to the books and the main plot being "bad guy builds an army of evil mutants" was way too "comic book villain" for a series that is usually much better than that. I hope they're able to maintain the broad strokes of the plot while bringing it more in line with the quality of later installments.
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chaosapiant posted:This is extremely accurate to how I experienced the world. I knew going in it was based on “some Polish books,” but hadn’t read any of them. But Witcher 1 has atmosphere in spades. The graphics are also quite good for a title in 2007. Not Mass Effect good, but better than Oblivion or Neverwinter Nights 2. I remember being disappointed with Dragon Age Origins when it came out, because it was advertised as “dark fantasy,” but felt exactly like a generic Forgotten Realms at the time. My experience was knowing that the game was based on Aurora engine so immediately making comparisons to NWN, thinking that the prologue was great, going into the Outskirts for Act 1 and thinking 'oh no this is pretty generic Bioware crap', then getting into Vizima for the first time and being blown away. Aside from the design of the city as a gameplay area which I think was a world apart from anything anyone else had tried before, it was fantastic to realise that I didn't actually have a primary quest that I could beeline and instead Geralt had 3-4 different lines of investigation I could chase up. And then many hours down the line those seemingly totally different investigations start to wrap together. So much better than 'find the 4 macguffins'.
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Witcher 1 I preordered and loved it to death when it came out, but also it was so buggy and performed so poorly and was so crash heavy I wasn't able to beat it at the time. I still love that game, even with all it's extremely rough edges. Playing Witcher 3 and seeing all the callbacks to 1 and 2 felt really special. When Thaler showed up in 3 I was so god drat happy. The way Kaer Mohren had the same layout as 1 and had Leo's grave and a note from Berengar and the hole from the fight in W1 was just awesome. I get why they are going for extensive changes, and I wish they weren't, but I will always have that original game.
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Jimmy Noskill posted:What other changes are people hoping for in the remake? Bigger inventory. I don't need to stash 15 swords in my backpack, but the inventory in W1 is so tiny and it fills up so quickly  Also check this out https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/1597622184964689922?s=20&t=HOlMfazwvmX_opn8H9T1hA I got Wolf School 
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cheesetriangles posted:the hole from the fight in W1 was just awesome. I get why they are going for extensive changes, and I wish they weren't, but I will always have that original game. Neat thing - the prologue dream in W3 takes place before the attack, so the hole isn't there.
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macabresca posted:Also check this out I got Griffin school, which goes well with my dad bod
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macabresca posted:Bigger inventory. I don't need to stash 15 swords in my backpack, but the inventory in W1 is so tiny and it fills up so quickly Wolf school baby let's go
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Wolf houuuussee
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I think most people gonna end up with wolf school , because we cant help but chose the solutions Geralt would , like no killing dragons and other obvious stuff .
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I got viper, am I a bad person? 
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El Jeffe posted:I got viper, am I a bad person? Probably, but not because of that.
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Manticore up in here baybee. No idea how I should take that.
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El Jeffe posted:I got viper, am I a bad person? Unless you're a cat you should be fine. Viper was caught in a lovely situation and had to make a sadistic choice to survive.
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Rinkles posted:They’re not making the game, though. Sounds like they’re only helping out. Fool's Theory, the studio making it, made Seven: Days Long Gone, which I loved (even if the title is awful). It was open world and handled really well for a smaller studio.
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El Jeffe posted:I got viper, am I a bad person? What's up, viper bro.
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Hell yeah Wolf School aroooo
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXiCvmhRD1Y I prefer Ventura school.
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So, is there some kind of writeup on the different Witcher schools since it seems to have the "new" Lynx school that apparently will be the focus of the next game?
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Sylphosaurus posted:So, is there some kind of writeup on the different Witcher schools since it seems to have the "new" Lynx school that apparently will be the focus of the next game? https://the-witcher-fanon.fandom.com/wiki/School_of_the_Lynx what a prick.
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Huh, that page says they were the first Witchers on a new continent. Setting a game on a different landmass would be a good way to make a clean break from Geralt and all his bullshit.
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It's Fanfiction
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Would've made a lot more sense and still been interesting if the games had done the "there's only one witcher school but everyone gets a different animal medallion" approach.
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Ahh, missed that it was a fan fiction wiki. Still, I would prefer if the new game took place either hundreds of years or hundreds of miles away from the core trilogy.
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Just let me be a woman witcher please gently caress the lore.
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Fortaleza posted:Would've made a lot more sense and still been interesting if the games had done the "there's only one witcher school but everyone gets a different animal medallion" approach. like if the sorting hat ate 70% of the kids
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cheesetriangles posted:Just let me be a woman witcher please gently caress the lore. but you get to play as ciri already?
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