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Fogel said:

The gameplay was rough and janky as hell in the original, even by witcher standards. I'll def get it on sale though

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Ill second this. Ive tried to get through it multiple times and.. I just cant. The combat and movement in Witcher 1 is just god fucking awful. Hell, I think its bad in Witcher 3 but its at least tolerable. If they open up, even if its the same tiny areas, a bit and let you move around... and add good movement and at least witcher 3 combat experience.. I'll pick it up. Just to be able to play it to completion for once instead of just saying fuck it and reading the story.

I'll wait for the Unreal 5 version to play it again. I'm a graphics whore.

Rajaah said:

So the "new Witcher game" in development (that people thought would be a Witcher 4) turned out to be this Witcher 1 remake?

I'm okay with this. I liked Witcher 2 and 3 a lot. Wanted an excuse to do W1 at some point but not in its current state.

I also want to see more Unreal 5 games in general. I'm sure they'll fix the gameplay while they're at it too.

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i didn't follow super closely but i think its both witcher 1 remake AND a new witcher trilogy, the former is 2023 while the latter is probably a few years out. Both unreal engine 5.

spronk said:

i didn't follow super closely but i think its both witcher 1 remake AND a new witcher trilogy, the former is 2023 while the latter is probably a few years out. Both unreal engine 5.

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They've openly said that they are developing a witcher project and a new entry into the witcher series. So you're correct.

For some reason Im thinking the new entry is based around Ciri? But Ive also seen stuff that leads me to believes that its a brand new Witcher from a different clan. So Idk its premise, just that we'll have a new witcher game, "eventually."

Blitz said:

I thought the same, then I stuck with it and everything else far outweighs the combat. The combat becomes "fine" to "solid" at times. The story, and questing, environments, maturity of the monster design is just top-notch. Legitimately, might be the best game I've ever played. I was late to the party, just played it last year.

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The baron quest line did it for me. Sold me on the rest of the whole game. Shock, awe, sadness, the whole gambit of emotions from a quest you get in the first hour or two of the game. To know you inspired all those different emotions and more throughout the entire game would make me, if I was one of the many, many, developers on the project, really proud.

Seananigans said:

This the first, or Witcher 3? I have 3 in my backlog, won’t play 1 until remaster

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Witcher 3. I refuse to play Witcher 1, just too archaic.

Pick one of the combat overhauls, whichever one looks interesting to you. Then pick fast travel. Any other mod is up to you, but I highly suggest the first two.

I love Witcher 3, but the amount of people that didnt finish the game was some huge figure (60-70% iirc.) compared to those that buy it. I left the game a handful of times myself before I just sat down and played it all the way through with mods. The one mod that listed out all the rewards that POI's have probably saved me the most amount of time (behind fast travel) so I wasnt spending thirty minutes traveling to, killing whatever, and traveling back, all for some basic ass crafting materials. Theres just a lot of shit thats distracting in Witcher 3, and anything you can do to limit those distractions by choice is a good thing imo.