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The Witcher preview: "Most RPGs are like going to McDonald's"

"Most role-playing games are like going to McDonald's," Michat Madjei says as GameSpy takes a look at his long-in-development The Witcher. Madjel is the chief designer of CDProjekt out of Poland and GameSpy is at GenCon 2007 discussing what makes The Witcher more than just your ordinary RPG. "No matter which city you are in, the hamburgers are going to taste the same. So you don't really have meaningful choices."

According to Madjei, players not seeing the outcome of choices right away will combat the tired practice of saving and reloading so that the optimal path through a game is selected. He spoke about it as he walked through an example from the game. "We think that roleplaying games are better when players get to shape the game. We are giving players ambiguous choices, and they won't see the results of their actions until later." He said. In the game, the player is "the Witcher," a more-than-human figure who is a monster-killer for hire.

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MK_Red6522d ago

The Witcher is a really interesting game but sadly, its stupid publisher is killing it with lack of hype. They're doing nothing to promote this RPG.

Dr Pepper6522d ago

@ MK_Red

I guess your right because I really haven't heard anything about this game. The screens look good though and it sounds pretty interesting.

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CD Projekt Talks Gwent & Hints At Its Comeback In The Witcher 4

CD Projekt Red developers have shared their thoughts on Gwent, hinting at the card game making its comeback in The Witcher 4.

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The Witcher 4 Dev Is Working Closely With Epic Games To Bring Structural Improvements To UE5

The Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red is working closely with Epic Games in order to bring structural improvements to Unreal Engine 5.

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cloganart346d ago (Edited 346d ago )

As a dev, I can tell you that with 5, Epic made quite a leap. It perhaps may have done *too much* of a fidelity leap that most of its target hardware (Both PC and Consoles) struggles to hit 60FPS with all the new cutting edge features they added.

It may have had some issues with this generation to find a good home, but by PS6 the engine will have matured and found a good matching partner 🙏

rlow1345d ago

Now that Sweet Baby is involved in this game. I’m really concerned it’s going to turn into a woke agenda poster child. I hope not but after what happened to the tv show, I won’t be holding my breath on this one.

Demetrius345d ago (Edited 345d ago )

Folks are so mf afraid to tell the sweet baby inc weirdos NO we don't want your involvement lol

jznrpg345d ago

Hard to say. Maybe they are welcoming them?
I know I wouldn’t hire anyone from the outside to give me advice on how to do my job but we don’t know that they feel scared and they could be positive toward them. People have different beliefs and ideals and that’s ok there is 7 billion people you are going to have ideals that run the gamut.
If it was me I’d tell them to F off because I wouldn’t want to pay people to advise what I’m doing regardless of who it is unless I sought them out myself and that could be the case here who knows.

raWfodog345d ago

Give Bethesda some tips on how to work with new, better game engines.

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The Witcher Trilogy bundle just hit its lowest-ever price thanks to Steam Summer Sale

The Witcher Trilogy bundle is currently listed with an 89% discount on Steam, and you can save over $60 thanks to this Summer Sale discount.

anast359d ago

It's been cheaper on GoG and you can own the game DRM free.