CD Projekt RED Announces Remake Original The Witcher In Unreal Engine 5

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LocoDiceGR

2022-10-26 20:58

Awesome!

#6065425

XenthorX

2022-10-26 21:22

One of the lead dev. that developed the quest system for Witcher 2/3 released a plugin for Unreal Engine to do quest and dialogue management. https://github.com/MothCocoon/FlowGraph

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Serotonin

2022-10-26 22:18

Will repost this message in 3 years when game is still in development.

#6065449

Kool64

2022-10-26 22:35

they need to keep the clunky control scheme for PC or it won't be the same

#6065519

Martin5000

2022-10-27 03:52

to much gimpworks for it to be any good. the hole engine needs stripping away from the nvidia ties. it makes games stutter, there is no future for this engine.

#6065551

Nopa

2022-10-27 07:45

Now we need TES 3: Morrowind, TES 4: Oblivion, Gothic 1, Gothic 2 Remasters in UE5/Unity/CryEngine and the nostalgia will be completed.

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Ivrogne

2022-10-27 07:56

Grimbarian:

I never played the first one cos I don't like turn based combat, wonder if that would be changed...

Fun fact : it was never a turn based combat to begin with.

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Grimbarian

2022-10-27 09:22

Cave Waverider:

It's actually timing-based.

Abd0:

The first game's combat was not turn based.....you just needed to time your mouse clicks to perform strike combos

Ivrogne:

Fun fact : it was never a turn based combat to begin with.

Pfft, whatever it was called, it was still shit to me 🙂

#6065607

AlmondMan

2022-10-27 11:33

First game is probably the #1 for me in the series. Might not be as slick as 3 or as pretty as 2 (which I always found to be a bit of a slog to play), but it was certainly special back when it came out. Sure, it was wonky and broken and so on, but it was new and different from everything that came before it. I don't really fancy a remake.

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AlmondMan

2022-10-27 11:34

TimmyP:

The first Witcher sucks. Maybe if they remake it so we can go look at all that cool scenery behind all the invisible walls that be something.

Hope not. Nonsensical whitespace < focused story space.

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ShadowDuke

2022-10-27 15:33

Grimbarian:

I never played the first one cos I don't like turn based combat, wonder if that would be changed...

Turn based combat, lol... 😀 i liked it. But i also liked Gothic1 combat.

#6065695

RealNC

2022-10-27 16:52

WhiteLightning:

It's gonna take a while, a.k.a. 5 years

So by the time it comes out, UE5 will be old news and there's gonna be UE6 :P

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H83

2022-10-27 21:34

Grimbarian:

I never played the first one cos I don't like turn based combat, wonder if that would be changed...

Like others have said, it`s not turn based combat but timing based combat. At first i also hated the combat but i gave it a second shot and after i got used to it, i started to like it because it was different from other games and made sense on a RPG.

fantaskarsef:

Honestly, don't care too much about it, having played the original Witcher game already.

I feel the same.

TimmyP:

The first Witcher sucks. Maybe if they remake it so we can go look at all that cool scenery behind all the invisible walls that be something.

AlmondMan:

First game is probably the #1 for me in the series. Might not be as slick as 3 or as pretty as 2 (which I always found to be a bit of a slog to play), but it was certainly special back when it came out. Sure, it was wonky and broken and so on, but it was new and different from everything that came before it. I don't really fancy a remake.

I`m with Almond on this one, for me the first Witcher is the best of the series because it had a different feel from other RPGs. The sequels sacrificed that difference and started copying ideas from other games, losing the game`s identity.

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coc

2022-10-27 22:26

first first Witcher in general is an amazing game. underrated and also game-play somehow clunky. still a gem for me. great news.. i would enjoy a Witcher remake.

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Horus-Anhur

2022-10-27 22:29

I tried to play it many years ago. But gave up on it because of the very clunky gameplay. So I'm eager to be able to play the story, but with a new coat of paint and new game mechanics.

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skacikpl

2022-10-27 23:57

SerotoNiN:

Will repost this message in 3 years when game is still in development.

I would assume it to be out in 3 years period. I don't think they want to repeat of Cyberpunk scenario of announcing a game several years before it even begins proper production. The fact that it was announced and connected from investor oriented codename to a proper project means to me that at the very least it's in middle/late preproduction and begins proper production. From that point onward, sure it may take 2-3 years (although just remaking Witcher 1 as closely as possible would mean _mostly_ working off existing blueprint for story, characters and locations which means bulk of work is only related to creating assets and assembling that into a game). Honestly, it would likely be sooner than most people think, especially since it's outsourced and core of the game is technically already written and designed and only slight "modernizations" are needed in some aspects.

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Dragam1337

2022-10-28 00:08

skacikpl:

I would assume it to be out in 3 years period. I don't think they want to repeat of Cyberpunk scenario of announcing a game several years before it even begins proper production. The fact that it was announced and connected from investor oriented codename to a proper project means to me that at the very least it's in middle/late preproduction and begins proper production. From that point onward, sure it may take 2-3 years (although just remaking Witcher 1 as closely as possible would mean _mostly_ working off existing blueprint for story, characters and locations which means bulk of work is only related to creating assets and assembling that into a game). Honestly, it would likely be sooner than most people think, especially since it's outsourced and core of the game is technically already written and designed and only slight "modernizations" are needed in some aspects.

Also depends on whether or not they will stick with the original gameplay mechanics, or rework them entirely, to resemble witcher 3 (which i personally hope).

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skacikpl

2022-10-28 07:03

Dragam1337:

Also depends on whether or not they will stick with the original gameplay mechanics, or rework them entirely, to resemble witcher 3 (which i personally hope).

I don't doubt they will, while Witcher 3 combat and core loop was very basic due to everything extra that was planned being cut - it was serviceable and served its purpose even if it didn't go step ahead out of the mold. I fully expect it to be modeled after W3, dice poker to be replaced with gwent and sex cards to be removed entirely. I assume they'll expand locations to be something more than W1 narrow lanes with invisible walls but at the same time i don't expect them to do an open world. Likely it'll just be a smaller scale W3 hub based design where you'll have 3-7 different medium sized to bigger hubs that are only connected via loading screens.

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S.T.A.R.A.C.

2022-10-28 19:36

This remake will be developed by another studio, not CDPR!

#6066161

Solfaur

2022-10-28 20:05

Big fan of the original, played it over 5+ times back in the day. I didn't mind the more unique combat mechanic, the world, story and atmosphere were fantastic. The only thing I regret is that I was not able to get my hands on the very limited collector's edition, unlike with the sequels. 🙄 As for the remake, I bet it's so early in development that we'll forget it's even in the making. Sure I'm looking forward to it, but I think CDPR is spreading itself too thin (even though I realize it's outsourced) with that huge list of projects. We'll see how things turn out, but I have my reservations, sadly.