School of Gaijin, where you constantly grind?

Would you find the time to elaborate why you're feel such hatred towards Witcher 4 (or CDPR), yet praise Rebel Wolves? Knowing CDPR history of amazing games and experience in the industry I've a bit of trust in them. Surely C77 launch shoudn't happen, yet they admitted their mistakes, owned them, fixed it up, and released an amazing expansion, Phantom Liberty. RW - new studio without history, nobody knows if their stuff will be any good. Got only like 10 CDPR devs. Studio funded by NetEase, Dawn Walker published by Bandai Namco - means they don't have full creative and narrative control. Folk always mention that biggest punch for CDPR was Konrad's departure, and that he's best of RW weapon. Yet he's exactly the same person (game director) behind CyberPunk release, which was far from great.

@@driv3ver all the developers of those games left cdpr and now work with rebelwolves. Also never said I hated Witcher 4, don’t start this strawman shite. All the creators of the great games that came from cdpr have now left cdpr and again now work with RebelWolves. This is my reason for having no interest in the Witcher 4 but tons of interest in what rebelwolves are doing because Rebelwolves have Witcher 3 under their belt, do you need further explanation bud?

@@walnutwahluigi7221 "All the developers" yet it's just 10 out of ~240 that worked on W3. So no, RW simply don't have W3 under their belt, CDPR though - yes. And it's key developers that stayed on CDPR. If you exclude marketing, cinematics, programmers etc. Basically folk who don't make any narrative and artistic works on games, then CDPR have most of those since W3. Please read my whole comment though ;)

@@driv3ver indeed more specfically there's about 130/250 devs from TW3 alone still working at CDPR, this doesn't include devs from CP77 which is likely higher. I know that Patrick who wrote the peralez quest is now a lead. That quest was one of the most intriguing quests in cp imo TW4 is probably gonna be dope, my only worry will be performance day one. I don't trust youtubers so I'll probably wait a few days for player reception personally.

@ Performance is something I actually don't worry about. First, they need to sell to masses, so it got to run on medium hardware. Second if game is great it will stay great and one day I'll be able to play it anyway. Though it's CDPR and none of their big games launched good (W1, W2, W3 and C77 all were very rough at launch). All their games were also quite demanding for the time of release. Up until after Witcher 3 release they weren't that popular, so people don't recall, yet even W3 was quite bad at launch and they quickly made a lot of QoL updates. So for W4 I'll probably skip it till a year after release. Till then I'd assume all major fixes will be there and possibly an expansion so I can digest it at once. As once I'm in, I'm in deep and won't want to wait for expansion :)

You can, in Thronebreaker, still has decision making that IIRC makes for ~27 endings, yet it's a typical linear story driven game from CDPR. Has even Geralt there for a short moment.

It's been confirmed it'll be all of that and much more. Can't wait.

Shut up tourist! Geralt didn't even say that, it was Vesemir who said it. Geralt literally says at the end of blood and wine that he wants to relax.

Seems like you don't know the character. Geralt was ready to retire way back at the end of the books, he even gave his sword away. And the main reason for that was Ciri and Yen. So, it makes perfect sense for him to retire after reuniting with them. ["No Witcher ever died in his own bed" Geralt said that himself] - Geralt always wanted to die in his own bed. He says it because he doesn't believe it could happen, which doesn't mean he won't try to achieve it.

geralt's storyline is done

witcher 3 was very political

@@thisistori1 i mean about real world politics, not a "politics in game"

​@@grzegorzniewadziCDPR devs hint in their tweets - game won't be woke, they care about the series, all difficult decisions were heavily questioned and tackled with care. Take this route, to keep it interesting, not simply milking Geralt. People respone: - look, what a pathetic damage control, don't listen to that. Also people: random youtuber with rage-bait title and narrative, stating fallacy, saying bs like Mary Kenny will mess up W4. (She doesn't touch W4, works on future cyberpunk) - People: - OMG, preach! CDPR is done!

Yet that what's going on since first installment, as example - Geralt dies in the books. So yeah the very beginning of games saga starts with a huge retcon, not to mention other stuff in W1, W2 and W3 which simply were far from original book lore. What's even funnier, there's lack of integrity on the matters between games too. So, seems like they do now exactly what they did since always. CDPR has all the creative rights, actually what they write for games is frankly THE lore to the game universe. General narrative director is same dude since W1 Marcin Blacha (19 years in CDPR), his I'd say "assistant" is Tomasz Marchewka, another OG writer (~12 years in CDPR) since W2. With whole mass of OG devs behind them.

was witcher 3 too woke for you?

​@@thisistori1cyberpunk was woke and witcher 4 will be hated if it has become woke people had enough I don't expect anything from people who hate gamers

@@LostinCordolium witcher 3 was woke too

@@thisistori1yes its have even a non binary elf.

marcin blacha

​@@chaoxfhy2552worh adding - he's in CDPR since 19 years, and was already writer for Witcher 1. Among him other talents like Tomasz Marchewka, almost 12 years in CDPR, already a writer for Witcher 2.

no, i want ciri; geralt's story as a protagonist is over, already three games with him

Friend, if you'd check reports CDPR is bound by law to publish for investors, shareholders and government agencies then you'd know your world can be summarized as fallacy. CDPR is in it's best financial position ever, they sit on a huge cash pile. Big enough for +/- 2x CyberPunk 2077 scale releases even if they'd not get a single penny from now on. Not to mention that their games still sell like hot cakes. W3 sold over 50.000.000 copies, CP77 over 30.000.000 copies, Phantom Liberty over 8.000.000. I understand that W4 criticism comes from fans passion, yet please don't let it become toxic, that's not a good way. I'd suggest to let CDPR cook, and taste the dish by yourself. Yes, it may not resonate with you, yet there's a chance it will be better than expected :) Btw. It's impossible to make a decision, that such a broad audience as Witcher community would unanimously agree upon. If they'd continue with Geralt, there would be voices saying they don't have any creativity, milking Geralt again and again, not respecting his retirement from B&W, that it was supposed to be a trilogy to conclude Geralt story.

Friend, if you'd check reports, which CDPR is bound by law to publish for investors and government tax agencies, then you'd know your words can be summarized as fallacy. CDPR is in it's best financial position ever, they sit on a huge cash pile. Big enough for approx. 2x CyberPunk 2077 scale releases even if they'd not receive anything from now on. Not to mention that their games still sell like hot cakes. W3 sold over 50.000.000 copies, CP77 over 30.000.000 copies, Phantom Liberty over 8.000.000 copies. I understand that W4 criticism comes from fans passion, yet please don't let it become toxic, that's not a good way. I'd suggest to let CDPR cook, and taste the dish by yourself. Yes, it may not resonate with you, yet there's a chance it will be better than expected :) Btw. It's impossible to make a decision, that such a broad audience as Witcher community would unanimously agree upon. If they'd continue with Geralt, there would be voices saying they don't have any "balls" and creativity, milking Geralt again and again, not respecting his retirement from B&W, that it was supposed to be a trilogy to conclude Geralt story.

@@kakaasg sure if you say so, comments everywhere disagree.

@driv3ver Feel free to mark down your comment, let this release flop like it will, and then we can come back and talk about their health once their investors clear out.

Every studio changes developers every few years. It’d make sense if many have left and come back after a few years.

Witcher 3 - it's almost 10 years ago, for a game dev to stay in one studio that's almost eternity, it's kind of natural in any IT work to change work places, pursue different goals, create own studios etc. CDPR dev retention is actually very high for the business of AAA gamedev studios. Anyway it's not always a bad thing either, after W1 almost everybody left, yet W2 came out great. Without input of ~60% of W3 devs (that left the studio) and a lot of CP77 devs, they managed to patch up CP77 and release an amazing expansion, Phantom Liberty.

Yes, some of them left, IT sector is like that. CDPR is actually quite stable for studio of their size and character. Roughly half the devs from TW3 left, but a lot of them stayed + a ton of talent from earlier games and Cyberpunk. Some key figures have left the company as well, but they were replaced by OG TW3 devs.

Dan Houser and other devs left rockstar that mean GTA 6 will be bad?

W4 devs made Phantom Liberty and now the steam page for Cyberpunk has reached "overwhelmingly positive"

Engine change + cinematic + only looks like that in certain frames when her face is up close to camera, causing lens distortion.

I know she may look odd at specific frames, so yeah I can understand your point. Though the lighting was actually quite bad in the trailer part, where the worst frames are captured, and everybody can look bad in light that don't match them. Also it's cinematic, look how Geralt and Yen look in cinematics of W3 - completely different, first W3 game engine presented Geralt looks way worse too. They will still iterate her that's certain.

go to witchers 3 cinematic trailer and say the same

It’s not going to be woke, but people like you will say it is because you’ll be looking for anything to confirm your bias . Ciri will be a strong willed character like in W3, but you’ll say it’s woke this time.

@@graveyarddead753 No, i will not. It's just that i see the quality of games decrease by pushing a political agenda 99% of gamers just don't care about. I'm a witcher-fan for years, and i love her character.

@@Radical2105 That's good to hear. I agree, CD Projekt is one of a few companies I still trust. No signs they're pulling a Dragon Age, thankfully.

Same, very helpful interview. Probably the only studio that does that for their fans.