Commissar SFLUFAN Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 CD Projekt Red Announces a Remake of The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5 - IGN WWW.IGN.COM CD Projekt Red has announced that it will remake The Witcher in Unreal Engine 5, alongside developer Fool's Theory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 The first game? Unexpected, but welcome! Hopefully it's using Witcher 3 mechanics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreePi Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Cool. It took me like three tries to get into the first Witcher game because of how janky it was. I eventually got through and enjoyed it tremendously, but the jank has certainly kept me from playing it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 6 minutes ago, ThreePi said: Cool. It took me like three tries to get into the first Witcher game because of how janky it was. I eventually got through and enjoyed it tremendously, but the jank has certainly kept me from playing it again. I got about 2/3rds through the game, was enjoying it, then CDPR put out a patch that fixed the super long load times... which made all pre-patch save game data incompatible ( ), and I was so annoyed that I never went back to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Well, I would hope they remake it in UE5 (or anything really) since the engine the first Witcher game used was the Neverwinter Nights engine. And yeah I too tried to get into the game but it felt just a bit dated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 This is where I will jump in. Tried watching plot summaries on Youtube before booting up 2, but I even gave up on that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 Ok cool what’s the update on the W3 current gen version thoooooo 1 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 I am down with this type of remake. Loved the first game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moa Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 In retrospect this should have been obvious when they announced multiple Witcher projects. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 I own this because CDPR gave it to me like 3 different times, but never played it; I've only played 2 and 3. So I'll definitely give the remake a shot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 1 hour ago, ThreePi said: Cool. It took me like three tries to get into the first Witcher game because of how janky it was. I eventually got through and enjoyed it tremendously, but the jank has certainly kept me from playing it again. Same here. I've tried several times to playthrough the first game and was never able to. I always hoped they would remake this game at some point. This is DEFINITELY a remake I could get behind. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodger Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 I'll check it out, might as well update 2 now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 10 minutes ago, Moa said: In retrospect this should have been obvious when they announced multiple Witcher projects. I was thinking one of the Witcher projects to be similar in size to Thronebreaker. I am surprised by a remake of the first game due to the sheer size of the project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 THIS is a game that could actually use a remake 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted October 26, 2022 Share Posted October 26, 2022 The Salamandra ride once more! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Considering how different The Witcher 3 plays from the original Witcher, I would definitely be interested in experiencing the story again with updated gameplay. The original was fun but yeah playing the Rock-Paper-Scissors with the different sword techniques just kinda got old after a while. I bet they'll retcon that original story too, since most Witcher 3 fans will be wondering where Ciri is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 I beat the original many years ago, and I'm extremely excited for this. I don't blame anyone for not playing it, it wasn't a fantastic experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Will they be keeping the titty playing cards for the women you shag? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzzzle Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Hell yeah, brother. This is a remake I can get behind. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwinIon Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 I also bounced off the original when it came out. I have to assume they're updating the gameplay while swapping engines. The CDPR roadmap had three Witcher items on it: Sirius (by Molasses Flood), The new Witcher Trilogy (by CDPR), and Canis Majoris (by a third party). I would guess that this remake will be the first of those that we'll see, and that makes me wonder if it will be a hint of what is to come. With at least the Witcher trilogy and the remake being made in UE5, it would make a lot of sense to share both game assets and engine tweaks. If they're updating gameplay, they could try and remake Witcher 3, or they could use what they're working on for the new trilogy, which I have to assume will be in a similar vein. Whatever comes of it, as long as it plays better, I'll give it a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 19 hours ago, TwinIon said: I also bounced off the original when it came out. I have to assume they're updating the gameplay while swapping engines. The CDPR roadmap had three Witcher items on it: Sirius (by Molasses Flood), The new Witcher Trilogy (by CDPR), and Canis Majoris (by a third party). I would guess that this remake will be the first of those that we'll see, and that makes me wonder if it will be a hint of what is to come. With at least the Witcher trilogy and the remake being made in UE5, it would make a lot of sense to share both game assets and engine tweaks. If they're updating gameplay, they could try and remake Witcher 3, or they could use what they're working on for the new trilogy, which I have to assume will be in a similar vein. Whatever comes of it, as long as it plays better, I'll give it a go. This is apparently Canis Majoris, I heard on some podcast... Lord Cog on Defining Duke, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 29, 2022 Author Share Posted November 29, 2022 CDPR confirms that the Remake will be open world. The Witcher Remake will feature an open world, CD Projekt says WWW.POLYGON.COM Geralt may have a bigger world to explore this time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 This is definitely getting a full remake treatment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Yes, I'll take it! I can't get enough Good open world games! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 29, 2022 Author Share Posted November 29, 2022 This GamesRadar writer is REALLY happy at this development: The Witcher Remake going open world can solve the original's most glaring issues | GamesRadar+ WWW.GAMESRADAR.COM And no, I'm not talking about the romance cards Quote My abiding memory of The Witcher is of the Swamp. In my mind, it's a section that squats goblin-like over a game that it almost ruins entirely by its presence. So now that CD Projekt Red has confirmed that The Witcher Remake will be fully open world, one of the original game's biggest stumbling blocks could be gone for good. The move to an open world is likely to mark the single biggest difference between CDPR's 2007 debut and its upcoming remake. In the original game, the story was divided up into chapters, each more or less occupying its own setting. Sometimes, parts of those chapters could merge into each other, but for much of the game you could return to anywhere you'd been before, or go anywhere new without progressing the story. Unfortunately, that story could, at times, be very difficult to progress. Each chapter required several elements to come into some semblance of alignment before it could be completed – the chapter-based structure belies the non-linear nature of the game. In the early stages of the game, Geralt is simply trying to gain access to the city of Vizima, but to do that he has to pull together several narrative strands involving a missing child, a cursed village, and an angry mob. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greatoneshere Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Remakes are a confusing breed. Obviously there will (hopefully) be quality of life updates and adjustments, streamlining of controls and options so the game plays better and smoother, updated graphics options, etc. But when you begin to fundamentally change the game, that becomes a sliding scale. People loved the RE2 remake, but many complained about the cuts the RE3 remake received (I didn't care). Many of us don't care because we played the original and look forward to a new experience in the same game, but for new players they'll never touch the original. Purists often complain when a game, with a remake, changes itself so much that it plays like a different game, so keeping the original version easily available and accessible becomes paramount. My worry becomes a lot of the original versions of games may get lost permanently in time with the remake essentially "replacing" the original. I'm not too worried about it here in this case, but if The Witcher will be remade with an open world (sounds awesome), that becomes, in some ways, a fundamentally different game than the original was. For the better? Sure. But like with the Silent Hill 2 remake, some of the jank is the point. A polished Silent Hill 2 remake is kind of not the point of why the original was so good. Sometimes you simply can't recreate the lightning in a bottle magic that made the original game worthy of a remake in the first place, so remaking a game by doing more than simply "updating" the basics can become a dicey proposition. Zero Punctuation gets into this. I don't know, just some thoughts I'm throwing out there: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 As long as the original game can boot in a future OS/EMU then I'm not worried about the loss of the original. In the case of this remake, taking the witcher open world has proven successful, a 3 shows. That said, I do wonder at the amount of extra content they will need to add to ensure that the world is not empty compare to 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 Remakes will always be contentious. Personally I always prefer a remake that takes chances and mixes things up. Like @Mr.Vic20 said, the original is available to be played. 15 minutes ago, Mr.Vic20 said: As long as the original game can boot in a future OS/EMU then I'm not worried about the loss of the original. In the case of this remake, taking the witcher open world has proven successful, a 3 shows. That said, I do wonder at the amount of extra content they will need to add to ensure that the world is not empty compare to 3. The first game is pretty small. I wouldn’t mind a smallish open world that is very dense with layers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I suspect they will bring Gwent into the fold and make a bunch of extra content because as much as you are probably correct that a seemless but small open world would be best, they will be weighing that against the fact that A LOT of the potential audiance didn't play the first two Witchers and only jumped in at three. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 I'm interested in how they're going to structure the story this time around. The first game was chapter-based and each chapter had its own self-contained mini-story in addition to the overarching one. Also... the first game picks up after the last book in the series, after Spoiler Geralt is essentially impaled in the town square, which kills him in the book. The game retcons the ending and has Ciri zap him away to a different dimension where she heals him, which is what puts the Wild Hunt on his and Ciri's trail. None of this is explained until the third game, so I can't help but wonder if they'll lay out the bread crumbs a bit more clearly in the remake. (which would ruin the overarching mystery, but I mean, most of us know the story by now). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 Is there an analog of a series that was as niche and sort of unknown / unapproachable as the first two Witcher games that turned into a phenomenon? I remember not only thinking I wouldn't be able to get into the Witcher 3 because I hadn't played the first two, but I initially thought it was like an expansion of vanilla Witcher 3 lol (cuz of "The Wild Hunt" subtitle). It's cool they are going to the effort to tell the full story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Paperclyp said: Is there an analog of a series that was as niche and sort of unknown / unapproachable as the first two Witcher games that turned into a phenomenon? I remember not only thinking I wouldn't be able to get into the Witcher 3 because I hadn't played the first two, but I initially thought it was like an expansion of vanilla Witcher 3 lol (cuz of "The Wild Hunt" subtitle). It's cool they are going to the effort to tell the full story. The GTA series the FarCry series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paperclyp Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 48 minutes ago, Brian said: The GTA series the FarCry series Good picks but the early ones were fairly popular games in their own right (pretty sure Far Cry 2 at least sold several million). And just being console games by relatively well known devs they had some widespread awareness. Perhaps I'm biased because I personally was quite familiar with both series before they took off crazy. To me the Witcher was an unknown entity, and when the 3rd one was clearly going to be a thing it was difficult to even experience the other ones (at least 1, I don't know much about 2). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XxEvil AshxX Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Paperclyp said: Good picks but the early ones were fairly popular games in their own right (pretty sure Far Cry 2 at least sold several million). And just being console games by relatively well known devs they had some widespread awareness. Perhaps I'm biased because I personally was quite familiar with both series before they took off crazy. To me the Witcher was an unknown entity, and when the 3rd one was clearly going to be a thing it was difficult to even experience the other ones (at least 1, I don't know much about 2). The first Witcher was more of a cult classic kinda thing... but I remember The Witcher 2 being a big deal when it came out. Not only was the PC version technically pretty impressive but the fact that they were able to port it to the 360 was no small feat either. I actually remember there was supposed to be a 360 port of the first Witcher game (i think it was titled White Wolf or something like that) but they scrapped it because of the control scheme. I think they were trying to do a straight port and it just wasn't working. EDIT: Actually it was cancelled for a different reason.... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted November 30, 2022 Share Posted November 30, 2022 3 hours ago, Paperclyp said: Is there an analog of a series that was as niche and sort of unknown / unapproachable as the first two Witcher games that turned into a phenomenon? I remember not only thinking I wouldn't be able to get into the Witcher 3 because I hadn't played the first two, but I initially thought it was like an expansion of vanilla Witcher 3 lol (cuz of "The Wild Hunt" subtitle). It's cool they are going to the effort to tell the full story. Witcher 2 wasn't Witcher 3 popular, but it did very, very well. The first is the one most didn't play. I love the second game. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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