Because of the vital reception of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, it ought to come as no shock that developer CD Projekt RED is dealing with fairly a little bit of strain in doing even higher with the upcoming The Witcher 4. In an interview with GamesRadar, narrative director Philipp Weber has spoken concerning the pressures of attempting to surpass The Witcher 3, and the way the studio is shifting ahead with the subsequent sport within the franchise.
In accordance with Weber, “‘Witcher 3 was the most effective video games ever made, how are they going to prime it?’” he went on to say that he agrees with discourse surrounding the 2015 RPG, saying “I’m like ‘yeah, how are we going to do this?’”
Regardless of all the strain, nonetheless, he additionally acknowledged that the standard of a sport is subjective moderately than being a “mathematical” property that may be derived to guage whether or not or not a sport is nice. “I don’t see video video games as mathematical,” he mentioned.
“I feel the way in which we wish to do justice to the legacy of The Witcher 3 is to take the philosophy we had throughout The Witcher 3 – find out how to make a sport, find out how to actually care about these items, find out how to inform tales – and hold that philosophy,” Weber continued. “On the identical time, there are new questions we wish to reply, as a result of that is purported to really feel like a real sequel, not simply redoing what we did earlier than. And I feel it’s actually attempting to have that wholesome mixture of actually shifting ahead and likewise attempting out some new issues, however doing justice to what was there, not attempting to beat it.”
Additional illustrating his level concerning the subjectivity of liking video games, Weber additionally revealed that his favorite title within the franchise has been the unique The Witcher. He famous that, regardless of its dated visuals and gameplay, in addition to its general janky nature, he nonetheless loves it. “I do know many individuals have issues with that however I adore it,” he mentioned.
This has emboldened Weber to cease chasing the thought of attempting to surpass the earlier sport and as a substitute simply ensure that to make a title that gamers will take pleasure in. He mentioned that the studio desires to “simply be sure that some folks will actually love The Witcher 4, and hopefully these must be the those that love The Witcher 3, as a result of the philosophy we had – how we make video games, how we make quests, what The Witcher means to us – it’s the identical one.”
Earlier this month, Weber had additionally spoken about how CD Projekt RED is utilizing classes it had realized from the event of The Witcher 3 for The Witcher 4. These classes the studio is making use of for The Witcher 4 comes right down to how the sport will give gamers decisions, and the way penalties of those decisions will then come about. Try our protection for extra particulars.
The Witcher 4 is at the moment underneath improvement for PC, PS5 and Xbox Sequence X/S. CD Projekt RED has not but introduced a launch date.
