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Nearly Half of CD Projekt Now Working on The Witcher 4
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I'm hoping the initial backlash from cyberpunk actually registered with them. Other than that I'm also worried about what kind of story and characters they'll use considering the way the last dlc for witcher 3 ended. Not sure I'll be into Ciri based gameplay. That was my least favorite part of Witcher 3, and I don't really want them to retcon the end of blood and wine either to continue with Geralt.
They need to go back in time to when all the witcher schools were still going and you can choose which school you're a part of at the beginning, make your own witcher instead of one playable character.
That sounds really bad on paper, tbh. The cool parts about the player character all stem from how it's a defined person with an existing personality and place in the world. If it becomes Skyrim: Witcher Edition, we'd probably also inherit the shallow~inexistent storytelling of that.
What if it becomes Baldurs Gate 3: Witcher Edition? BG3 also has a player created character without an existing personality and the storytelling is certainly not shallow in that game.
Yeah but one of the biggest pitfalls is seeing another company catch lightning in a bottle, then thinking that this can be freely recreated. Just that BG3 could do a user-created character with a good story does not at all imply that any other company can do it. Nevermind will. Or even that Larian can do it again.
While I do kinda agree with you, I think CDPR is a lot better at writing interesting quests and characters than Bethesda. Still not as good as larien but I don't think it would be todd Howard bad.
I could see them doing interesting things with Ciri's magic, but there is a good chance they use a different witcher. Or maybe significantly earlier than the existing witcher games? Young Geralt or maybe Vesimir?
I'd love that. Sure they'd have to really re-do her combat style since it was only a brief intermission before, but it feels natural to progress to her eventually. And honestly, it's high time Geralt takes a bow after 3 games as big as they are, and as awesome as those were. Exit before they eventually ruin him. 😅
I agree. After the ending, I was happy my boy could get some rest too lol
Could easily pick up with Lambert and Keira
"Lambert, Lambert, what a prick."
Not bad.