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The Witcher 4 devs want their new RPG to be a good entry point, even if you didn't play The Witcher 3 (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] [email protected] -5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

After the clusterfuck of Cyberpunk? CDPR is now Bethesda 10 years ago. I have no expectations for this game.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They botched a release, worked their arses off and fixed their mistake, and released a well received dlc after focusing on that. The fucking horror.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cyberpunk 2077 is now a really fucking good game. Seriously. Play it nowadays. It's very much a NMS story.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That speaks a lot about the dev Commitments but the lore is simply not at the same standard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What did you expect? Witcher is based on a book series and CP77 is based on a TTRPG.

The books have a lot more lore already written than you can expect of a TTRPG.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes.. But there are people who professionally do this. Worldbuilders. They are clearly material dependent. Witcher 4 will probably meet the high expectations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yes… But there are people who professionally do this. Worldbuilders. They are clearly material dependent.

Of course they are. World builders can only spend so long on one given project, and have to tie their work in with prior material, then on a sequel they get a chance to explain events in the time gap as well as expand on more bits.

Look at the Elder Scrolls series. A lot of the lore in Skyrim was written nearly 20 years before the release of that game. And Oblivion massively expanded on things introduced in Daggerfall

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Witcher 3 had a bad release as well