The Witcher Game Series

[Burd Turglar]

Haven't thought about this game in almost a decade, fuck off with your DLC.

 

[sodaboard]

We had a good thing you stupid son of a bitch! We had the Witcher trilogy! We had the end of Blood and Wine! we had everything we needed and it ran like clockwork. You could have just released the fourth game and make as much money as possible. But no! You just had to blow it up! You, and your pride and your ego! You just had to be the man! If you would have done your job, known your place, we all would be fine right now!

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>Will need Windows 11 to run

WHAT THE FUCK HAVE YOU DONE!? WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING!?

The original reqs.

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"will need win11" give it two two days and some russian autists will have it working on win7

 

[SandyCat]

Who the fuck doesn't have an SSD in this day and age?

The greater problem is with with gaming companies using newer hardware power as a excuse to avoid optimization. Before a SSD made games load faster, now load times are more or less going back to hard drive days because they no longer optimize load times. They instead rely largely on the SSD to do all the "optimizing" for them

Same shit with GPU's and CPU's. Hardware power is exponentially increasing while graphical advancements have been stagnating. EA's Battlefront 2 looks visually amazing and its recommended specs are only a GTX 1060 with 3GB of vram (and it can be ran on a hard drive) meanwhile the same card would chug on modern games that have far less visual fidelity.

At this point we're not paying for advancements in hardware power, we're paying for developer laziness.

 

[Jace on ice]

Seeing how the dev studio has been going lately I get the feeling the new DLC and the new future witcher game are going to be heavily entrenched with woke shit. The same studio that made Witcher 3 is only the same studio in name alone at this point, the factors and people that made the studio good during the development of Witcher 3 is gone

Almost everyone who worked on W3 left and formed a new studio. They're currently working on that Dawnwalker vampire game I believe.

I think I read somewhere the studio head was the game director for Blood and Wine.

 

[Gorilla Man]

I'm a Witcher fan, read all the books, played all the games
I will NOT get windows 11 to play this shit. Witcher 4 it's probably going to suck anyways.
I hope Poland gets invaded by the Russians for this betrayal

 

[generic sauce]

Meh this will probably work just fine with proton. May pirate

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

but I won't be buying this shitty DLC anyway, because "fuck them." Works both ways, after all.

same, i wonder if they can make a cyberpunk game that doesnt suck fucking cock.
im over the witcher, let that ip fucking rest

 

[sodaboard]

I hope Poland gets invaded by the Russians for this betrayal

don't worry, poland getting spitroasted is a european tradition

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

"will need win11" give it two two days and some russian autists will have it working on win7

Then some Brazilian autists will mod a 660 to play it on Windows 7 thanks to the Russian autists.

 

[Buzz Killington]

A single player game raising its system requirements this steeply 10 years after launch is completely unacceptable. There's no justifiable reason for a game that isn't a live service to do this. Give people a choice instead of saying "lol get fucked". Pirated copies of the latest non-win11 patch about to skyrocket in download counts.

 

[Problematic User Forever]

Wait, these aren't the system requirements for the "next gen" update from like 3 years ago?

 

[NIGGO KILLA]

Its the Witcher 3 so it should be a great Dlc!

R-right?

 

[Stasi]

Hardware power is exponentially increasing while graphical advancements have been stagnating

And the "advancement" we are getting look like shit. Its all lighting effects which look terrible, they are either eye-rapingly bright or just make surfaces look wet. "Look, look we've tanked your framerate by 50% to make this floor texture look like someone spilled oil on it! Isn't modern lighting tech amazing!" And fuck UE5, nanite and lumen while I'm at it.

We've gone nowhere in like 10 years graphics wise.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

Wait, these aren't the system requirements for the "next gen" update from like 3 years ago?

they are going to do some weird shit between red engine and unreal. there is no way in hell they are making this thing or the remake of one on that engine after ditching it

 

[The_Red_Man]

It's not going to pop up and say "lol u can't play because Windows 10", that's just them saying "we only guarantee this will work on 11, if you try to play on 10 and it doesn't work, we don't care".

 

[Soggy Floppa]

UE6 is almost out. They may jump to that.

Oh God... Usually nothing good comes out of an engine switch late in the development.

Epic outsourced fixing their shitty engine to CDPR in the first place for whatever reason, so UE6 is probably entirely made by CDPR. UE6 and they still haven't fixed 5 or arguably 4

 

[DeadwastePrime]

Requiring SSDs while the prices are completely raped is a bold move.

they werent fucked initially when making the game

 

[Pierre D'Olnique]

guess I'm never finishing Bloord & Wine, here's hoping GoG will come through and keep the game as is

 

[Mysterious Figure]

It's a shame CD Projekt Red wants to crank out 3 Witcher games in 6 years. I wish they would slow down and release Cyberpunk 2 beforehand.

 

[Haunted Dishwasher]

I think it has less to do with 'drumming up' interest for TW4 and more so that the well is running dry and they need infusion of money - I think they are hemorrhaging money at this point. Keep in mind they have two (TW4 and CP2) games currently in production and given how currently all game studios blast their money over-hiring and trying to make both 'the game that will appeal to everyone and sell trillion times over trust us bro'. Also, CP2 development has been moved from Poland to US which does not help the fact that their development costs took a hike for no fucking reason (or maybe that current CDPR is massively DEI-infested company). Neither of them will likely come out this year, maybe somewhere Q2-Q3 2027, so TW3 is a 'cheaper' way to grab bunch of outsource devs and shit out a mediocre DLC.

It's a shame CD Projekt Red wants to crank out 3 Witcher games in 6 years. I wish they would slow down and release Cyberpunk 2 beforehand.

CP2077 was a great base and I wish they expanded it more with content like Phantom Liberty, they spent so many years on creating a world that is barren with little to no interesting quests and they are happy to leave it to rot just so they can shit out CP2 on UE.