>The Witcher 4 is rumored to have a total budget approaching $800 million, making it one of the most expensive video games ever produced.What are your honest expectations for The Witcher 4?
>>738246605>Ciri>no Geralt100% wokeflopslop incoming
>>738246605>feminist protagbiggest flop ever incoming. Geralt was and is the heart and soul of The Witcher.
>>738246605>$800 millionhow many copies would they need to sell to actually make a profit on this?
>Most annoying part of tw3 is now the whole game>made by post-cyberblunder CDPR>but muh investmentsLMAO
>>738246605beautiful wives for cirigerald dies in the openingall male characters are evil
>>738246605You either die a hero or become the villainCDPR should have died a hero. Now they're on the path to villainhood
>>738246605Those are westoid costs, cdpr managed to produce 3 games for a fraction of that number and they were good, this will be a pozzed piece of shit about some fantasy suffrage movement and bbq+ rights. Poland is lost to kikes.
>TW3 comes out>Everyone loves Ciri>Everyone wants a Ciri game>a few years pass>*Election tourists take over 4chan*>"Eww a woman in my video game? Fuck off with this woke shit! Bring back Gerald!"
>>738246605>800 millionMarathon cost Sony 4 Billion, but no one's talking about that.
>>738246605>What are your honest expectationsMonsters aren't the real evil, MEN are
*whistles for magic UE5*
>Everyone wants a Ciri gameOn bluesky maybe
>it's not an eskel gamesad
>>738246605I have absolutely no expectations for CDPR games post Witcher 3.They will actually have to prove themselves again, I got no real interest in any of their games until then.
>could have used a char creator instead of premade shit>could have used established witchers that players can actually identify withNOPE, NEEDS MORE ANNOYING DYKES!
I fucking hate ciri I wanted to play as a male to fuck triss and hot girls again
>>738246605>out of touch political takes now that the everything has shifted>a nerfed ciri that is just geralt plus a teleporting dash>a worse witcher 3>for nexus mods to ban every mod that attempts to make ciri pretty again
>>738246605Video game development takes many years, and that one had especially. TW4 was planned during the hight of wokeness. That will show, and it will be shit because of it.
>>738246605Tbh I'm going to be contrarian and say that it will be a good game. After Cyberpunk CDPR realized they have to step it up and not screw up again. Phantom Liberty was supposedly good (idk I never played it) but Witcher is their baby. If 4 flops their entire plan for another trilogy dies, so they have to get it right. And because everyone was burned by Cyberpunk being such a glitchy buggy mess they know this time they can't count on locked-in pre-orders to buoy their revenue.
There's no reason for game to take more than 3.5 years in development. It feels like pre-production alone took as long here.
>>738249176>Phantom Liberty was supposedly good99% waves of mooks and various lying cunts
>>738246605>What are your honest expectations for The Witcher 4?megawoke, stutterfest and poor ROI
>>738249278The waves of mooks is really unavoidable. In any large open world game that will always be the majority of combat. As for the lying cunts I thought that was what everyone liked about it since it was supposedly a story revolving around glowies and their constant deceptions so it's fitting.
>>738246605>roastie witcher + roastie god of warthe future is so brightwokebros... we can't stop winning
>>738246715>no GeraltGeralt's story is done. He's chilling in Toussaint
why the FUCK are they going UE5 when they have REDengine, which still looks great as seen on Cyberpunk 2077 and the DX12 update to Witcher 3
>>738249241They had to modify UE5, this is the only reason I'm interested in this game. To see if they can fix that shitty engine. I can bet it will get delayed at least once.
>>738249723>and the DX12 update to Witcher 3DX12 update to TW3 proved that all the competent people they had left.My Ryzen 3600 couldn't run Novigrad at 60 fps in the "remaster", despite running at like 90 fps in original.
>>738249723They hired commiefornian sois who only can into UE slop or they claim they do on their bangladesh CVs at least. CDPR are about as polish as Long Island by now
>>738249723>>738249921Cyberpunk 2 is being developed in Muttistan
>>738248957>nexus modsThat point is a (you) problem
>>738250282i dont use nexus mods?
>>738246605>female MCPass
>>738246605Going with Ciri instead of custom Witcher killed this game outrightIt won't sell good enough for this budgetDrama will be massiveDawnwalker will clear it easily and there will be no end to comparisons to this game everywhere, despite Dawnwalker not being particularly good anywayI won't play either of those games
>>738247280Pajeet tier self-awareness
>>738247280>Everyone loves CiriCiri was hated long before first game was even made and Witcher became famous worldwide. Ciri Saga being garbage due to her with short stories being the good ones is an old take
I wanted to create my own witcher, honestly.
imagine the fucking pricetag they are gonna slap on thisnot only released in this economic hellscape, but also probably released after GTA which is promised to set a new pricetag standard for AAA gamesholy shit lol
>>738251113I'll definitely buy that game. Definitely not for 70 bucks, but some day during a sale.
>>738251516>>738251113Looks good in most aspects, but the time limit shit is discouraging.
>>738251578At least it's not a ticking clock kind of deal.
>>738249598Then invent an original male witcher instead ffsNo one wants to play a Witcher 3 sequel as an even more feminist version of Ciri.
>>738249723Cheaper to hire people that already know UE instead of training them to use REDEngine is a big factor I would imagine
I can appreciate the 2nd and 3rd games and what they improved but I prefer the first and I know they will never ever go back to that.
>>738246605Doing well in the first month, then sales going downhill once the words gets around. They can still pull in numbers off of hype alone.>>738251113Thinking of preordering it, looks like a low budget witcher game which im fine with witcher 1 and 2 were amazing
>>738249598Ciri's story is over too
>>738252386>Retcons the storyNothing personel.
>>738252610I come out as non-buynary
>>738252660But that's what going to happen.I don't even think it will be worth pirating.Maybe as a performance benchmark, but that's about it.
>>738246605That's a big gamble for a female led game. They're going to have to announce Geralt is playable at some point or they're fucked. Like a reverse MGS2
as someone who has actually read the books, the games already mangled the story a bit, but the fact they are making ciri LE CHOSEN ONE and then just draaaaagging her story on and on is fucking exhausting. like bruh we had a whole book series that is about saving her can we fucking move on to literally anything else. btw for gameoids who dont know - in the books ciri was not the chosen one. she was meant to BIRTH the chosen one.
>>738251578"People" that hate time mechanics are turbo autistic.
>>738253598are you gay lad?
>>738246605>What are your honest expectations for The Witcher 4?I don't believe that Ciri can carry the game on her own unlike Geralt.
>>738246605Sounds like bullshit tbqh. Why would a game cost that much?
>>738251113>>738251578Ironically I think it's the opposite. The game looks like jank, but the time limit and the day/night differences could make it interesting. I hope they lean into it hard, and add a lot of exclusory choices to encourage replays, rather than going soft out of fear of letting people miss out on content.
>>738253559>btw for gameoids who dont know - in the books ciri was not the chosen one. she was meant to BIRTH the chosen one.I mean that could still happen, we know nothing of the plot of the new game
>>738253924Because it costs a lot of money running a AAA studio with many employees working on a multiyear project.
>>738251113Dawnwalker looks good. Hopefully Witcher 4 will be too.
>>738254117uh...did you play the end of witcher 3? she fulfills the games version of the ithlinne prophecy. so, thats already done, theres no need for another chosen one. they also changed that, in the books the white frost was like a geological thing. like an ice age.
>>738254218But 800 million? That's 800 employees paid 100k a year for a decade straight. Seems excessive for any game.
>>738254045I think time limit like this is a great idea too. It will increase replay value, since you won't be able to do everything within a single playthrough. If they succeed it could be fun trying to tackle different quests and those lieutenants in different ways, either to just see how stuff changes, or to optimize achieving your goal. Even those basic open world activities won't feel as boring as in Witcher 3, since you will have to pick and choose what to do according to your strategy.It sounds like a softer, more natural approach to what Witcher 2 did, which had a hard separation between Roche and Iorweth paths
>>738246605I hope that Geralt dies even more pathetic dead than he did in the books.
>>738247280>>Everyone wants a Ciri gameno
>>738246605I don't think you can give Slavs or Californians that much money and expect them not to steal most of it and do nothing.
>>738246715it won't flop, just on the name alone. It will however pay the DEI cunty-faggot tax of 50% drop in sales over a straight white male protag.
>>738247280Feelings on Ciri have always been mixed, and a disproportionate amount of pro-Ciri opinions are of the "SEXOOOO" variety. The amount of people excited to play a Ciri game was never high, and even less so for a game where she's done with her "magic girl who is the key to everything" arc, not to mention significantly older and uglier.
>>738247000>NowBro you're 15 years late.
honestly, the thing that will break or make the deal for me is her walking animationeither she walks like a female and i will buy it on saleor shes given a male animation and a male skeleton which i would have to look at and be annoyed by for 300 hours
>>738254045>the time limit and the day/night differences could make it interesting. I hope they lean into it hard, and add a lot of exclusory choicesThats good in shooter/slasher where you don't have a character you build/lvl up. In an RPG, not so much.
>>738246715I don't think it's going to be super woke by today's standards. They're definitely going to have a gay couple quest or something similar but mainly I just expect Ciri to be written like a male character.
>>738247280Ciri was fine as being a minor Mary Sue. If they wanted to sell mega millions they should have just made a make your own witcher game, where youre trying to rebuild it. > b-b-but the books are mostly about ciri. The games take place after the books anyway. They can do whatever they want.
>>738252386>oh no no no he got the bad ending
>>738254451Oh he will get penetrated from behind by a random peasant alright
>>738255063Yeah, it will probably be woke-lite: preachy occasionally and wemen good man bad here and there, but not suffocatingly so.Still, I'm not buying from woke studios, no matter what.
>>738254045Im confused why theyre switching to unreal. Theres a lot of tech mumbo jumbo to cope about it, when really it's probably a special deal with epic
>>738255279Playing as a sexually promiscuous bi women is pretty woke
>>738251113this is probably gonna feel more like witcher 4 than the actual witcher 4 is going to.
>>738255063>>738255279That's the problem, though. They likely know that woke tolerance is gone for most people, but they also know that they'll lose points with mainstream journos if they don't push their agenda at all. The smart thing for them to do would be to ignore the latter completely, but I don't think they have the courage, and it will cost them hundreds of millions in potential revenue.
>>738255393probably the same reason so many studios are doing it - easy workflow. easy to find people who have worked with it because its so popular.a purpose-built engine will always be better but basically any programmer still working today fucking SUCKS and its easier to just let UE5 handle everything with checkbox toggles.
>>738246605>What are your honest expectations for The Witcher 4?It will be good but i don't really like Ciri as a character. She is ok as a plot device but i don't see her as a main character material.
>>738255767Or they'll just do it like in cyberpunk with the tranny bartender. Even before seeing the truck with the flag "she" set off some alarm bells in my head. Kind of weird how they managed that. It wasn't in your face and "she" turns out to be a unhinged lad consumed by revenge but hey, they got that extreme minority representation in there.
>>738246605there's a lot of things I'm not thrilled about with the direction they're going with in TW4, but just going off the fact that they're retconning a bunch of shit already when we don't even know a whole lot of details yet, is enough for me to have zero hopes for the game.
>>738255393Because of tooling. It's easier to scale a game company when you have people who are already trained on various existing tools, then spending time on training them on your archaic setup. It imposes its own set of tradeoffs, but the suit people in charge don't give a fuck about them.
>>738255393Having every game switch to unreal is kind of distressing. I get that it makes it easier to hire new dev's (jeets), but it also leads to a huge stagnation in engine development and the aesthetics of games in general.
>>738256074Apart from being forced to drive the Tranny Truck, I agree that her being trans was handled fine. She is hands down one of the most unlikable characters I've ever encountered in fiction, but not because she used to have a dick.But that was over half a decade ago in a genre where transsexuality is expected by any reasonable person, and CDPR still caught a social media black eye for "transphobia" over the soft-drink-girl-with-a-boner poster, so who knows what their mental state is now. If they decide to push current year shit too hard (or even at all), it'll be a huge gamble with no financial upside.
>>738256587plus unreal objectively looks like fucking shit. you can pull a nice screenshot, you can do that for a lot of games, its once things start moving it becomes clear how bad things are.
>>738246605>muh female protagonist >muh ugly ciriDon't care. It'll be fine. Not amazing on the level of W3 and it's DLCs mostly because I think that was a flash in the pan from the studio being the right size and motivated in the right way. I think they're too big to produce something truly great now.But it will get 1-3 good DLCs and end up remembered fondly
>>738246605"rumored" no sourcehmm journos being bored again
