The White Wolf Returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I find it most interesting how a linear rpg maker transitions into a sandbox game, none of the other companies has done it bioware stuck to mostly linear games with not huge sandbox maps ever, beth does sandbox, way bioware and cd did it makes it easier to tell a story and pace a story vs a sandbox where people can get distracted.

it wold be like bioware suddenly deciding to do skyrim, cd projekt has a great talent for making worlds i am really excited to see what they can do in a sandbox and really interested to see how they manage that sandbox.

I actually always felt like The Wither would benefit from being completely open-world. But there's no way they could have managed to do it with current gen hardware without sacrificing graphical quality significantly. And making your new game look worse than the last one is just something that developers don't do and shouldn't start doing.

 

[Krantos]

The Witcher 3 will let Geralt wander freely in an open world that challenges Skyrim in size.

SQUEEEEeeeee!

This is pretty much what I've been wanting. I said months ago that an Open World Witcher game could be the greatest RPG yet.

That said, there is a big difference between having a world as big as Skyrim and having a world as interesting to play in as Skyrim (see Two Worlds 2 and Kingdoms of Amalur). Still if anyone else can pull it off, I bet CDProjekt can.

Suddenly this is on my Radar in a big way.

 

[Lazy]

I'm glad the story is moving in a more personal direction. Politics are boring, fictional politics doubly so.

 

[kommando367]

Hell
The
Fuck
YES!!!!!!!!!!!

Now to patiently wait for the 360 port...

 

[Tar Palantir]

Open-world map means we'll be stuck in the same place for the entire game. I'm not sure about that, Skyrim looked all the same, snow, mountains and dungeons.....boooring. I'm curious to see how they'll handle it.

Also, less politics and more personal...not a big fan of that either.

 

[Frostbyte666]

Excellent Will be looking forward to this I do so hope I can screw over everyone else while reaching my personal goals this time instead of being used.

 

[devotedsniper]

Yes oh thank you!

I've been wanting a new one ever since finishing the second one, i don't know why but i love this series. It quickly overtook Dragon Age after the terrible number 2.

 

[omicron1]

Everyone keeps saying "We're mixing in Monster Hunter!" Guys, if you're gon' mix in Monster Hunter, kindly do it right: Enemies which are neither bullet sponges nor glass cannons, but which take skill to bring down. Deep crafting systems from monster parts - not just potions, either, Geralt. Oh, and an actual hunt now and then, not just an arena battle, would be nice.

Anyway, great news! But am I the only one who's disappointed that open worlds are still measured in tens of square miles (SimCity 4 managed 100, for crying out loud!), and not (say) hundreds of thousands? We have the tech to make maps the size of, y'know, Europe.
It doesn't have to be bland, either. Keep the questing compacted near townships, but with epic journeys (montage-style?) between cities - and things like hunting/foraging/minor wilderness quests surrounding the more focused main game.

/pipedream
Maybe for Elder Scrolls 6: We Can Use More Than 512mb Of Shared Memory Edition?

 

[In Search of Username]

Oh my godddddd

Oh my godddddddddddddddddd

So excited for this, I just replayed Witcher 2 recently as well. :'D

 

[Owlslayer]

This is pretty damn awesome news, i loved The Witcher 2. However, I'm a bit skeptical regarding the open-world style. Witcher 2 was great, i loved the story, but I'm afraid that when it goes open-world, it might get a bit... not sure what the word is. Less tightly-knit? I'm not sure. And I almost never finish open-world games. I just wonder off and do loads of random sidequests and such, and quite often, i just forget about the main plot. But I'm really hoping that won't happen with this one.

Also, i doubt i can run it on my PC, when it comes out. The screenshots looked really beautiful, and the second game was already quite the tough game to chew for my PC. But even if i can't run it, I'm still damn excited for it. So, in conclusion, I'm quite hyped.

 

[Groenteman]

Oh yes! An excuse to buy an oversized radeon 8000 card! 2013 will be good.

Especialy since that card will replace a 4890.

 

[AlotFirst]

To be honest, I think the whole "World will be bigger than Skyrim's"-thing hasn't got anything to do with the content in the game. I think that they plan to make settlements more spread out and they are going to make you walk (or more likely, ride) from location to location instead of loading you into a different location. And I don't actually mind this, as I rally like the idea of having a large world, that is relatively easy to traverse AND doesn't have an unnecessarily high content density.