CDProjekt RED drops hints on new project

[dagorkan]

What the fuck is with everyone complaining that the 'enhanced' patch is not free?

If you bought the game and you registered it, you download it for free. This is called support and it is some excellent support.

So to get the patch you have to give them your personal details so they can spam you for years, maybe even sell your info on to other companies? There's such a thing as respect you know.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

You don't have to give them your personal details. You give them your game's CD key to prove you bought it, and your email address.

Actually, now that I think about it, I'm not sure you have to give them any details at all - I think you can just download the enhancement patch exe, since it won't install anyway unless you have TW installed.

 

[Vaarna_Aarne]

Took longer than I thought. Sorta good for me, since I'm not feeling like upgrading my computer.

Doesn't really need such pompousness as this.

 

[ricolikesrice]

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dont see the big deal in TW. yep, not a bad game (good atmosphere, CnC, many good ideas) but why so much hype ?

not being able to customize my character (please do not confuse this with asking for being able to change gender, hairstyle of whatever other shit people like merilinda bitch about ...) was rather breaking the game for me.

when i was replaying fallout or VTMB i always took a different character to get an as much as possible different experience from the first time.
These characters could still always named "Siegmar Slaventöter" and be big with blonde hair and blue eyes :nazi: but they d have vastly different skills which actually gave those games their replay value.

See PS:T, you are the nameless one, so no pink-haired princess possible, but at least that character was customizable to your liking.

in TW there are (supposedly) tons of choices and consequences, but since i m always playing the same character with really little room of customization i just cant arse myself to play it again even with the super-duper-enhanced edition.
in opposite, drakensang has very little in terms of choices of consequences, but i still replayed it once just for the sake of playing a different party.

wish they d have gone with a no-name witcher who could have been specialized to talking, stealthing, etc. etc. so i could celebrate the game as much as my friendly neighbours do .... hope if there s a part 2 after the console edition.... they ll consider that.

 

[DraQ]

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in TW there are (supposedly) tons of choices and consequences, but since i m always playing the same character with really little room of customization i just cant arse myself to play it again even with the super-duper-enhanced edition.

You can allocate talents differently, that amounts to customization, I believe.

 

[notnats]

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in TW there are (supposedly) tons of choices and consequences, but since i m always playing the same character with really little room of customization i just cant arse myself to play it again even with the super-duper-enhanced edition.
in opposite, drakensang has very little in terms of choices of consequences, but i still replayed it once just for the sake of playing a different party.

Same here, plus every time I consider replaying it, I remember the dreadful combat, and suddenly all enthusiasm is gone.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Funny, I actually finished Kotor2 twice, while I didn't bother finishing TW at all.

Do you want a fucking medal?

 

[Gerrard]

I don't think this is the "new project" though. In the last interview they said they were working on several things, and some fragments of the new CG movies showed Geralt in a snowy forest. There's probably an expansion in the works too.

Besides, they said they were working on the console versions in May.
I want to see the loading times.

 

[Rhalle]

dont see the big deal in TW. yep, not a bad game (good atmosphere, CnC, many good ideas) but why so much hype ?

I didn't get Witcher at first, but I got it later.

What Witcher does best (and maybe the best of any computer game ever made, to be honest) is how it presents its story unapologetically as real.

It doesn't play with self-conscious and phony "grit" or "darkness"; by doing so it never betrays itself completely as a fantasy: it just is.

Also of importance: the game doesn't have an agenda or any major designs on the player: it doesn't hold our hand, and it doesn't cloy. (Unlike, say, a Bioware title whose raison d'etre will invariably be manipulating us and fucking with our emotions nearly every single second of the experience.)

All that matched with good dialogue (and lots of so-bad-its-good dialogue) makes for a great game-- despite all the other crap it has, like dirty trading cards featuring tits, and voice acting gems such as, "your mama sucks dwarf cock."

Witcher survives its ridiculous pretentions to maturity by being, on a much deeper level, actually and truly mature.

 

[Lesifoere]

I don't think this is the "new project" though. In the last interview they said they were working on several things, and some fragments of the new CG movies showed Geralt in a snowy forest. There's probably an expansion in the works too.

Yeah, I saw that one. Geralt shirtless, with a slightly different hairstyle (?), so definitely new content of some kind, either expansion or sequel.

Also, agreed with everything Rhalle said. I was at first predisposed to not liking TW. I thought Geralt was some kind of Drizzt-esque superhero bore (he's more like, oh, Elric of Melnibone or Corwin of Amber), and the tits on the cards made me facepalm. Playing through the game properly was a pleasant surprise.

 

[Jaime Lannister]

What the fuck is with everyone complaining that the 'enhanced' patch is not free?

If you bought the game and you registered it, you download it for free. This is called support and it is some excellent support.

So to get the patch you have to give them your personal details so they can spam you for years, maybe even sell your info on to other companies? There's such a thing as respect you know.

You give companies your real email when you register? Dumbass. Make a spam email account.

 

[deranged]

What the fuck is with everyone complaining that the 'enhanced' patch is not free?

If you bought the game and you registered it, you download it for free. This is called support and it is some excellent support.

So to get the patch you have to give them your personal details so they can spam you for years, maybe even sell your info on to other companies? There's such a thing as respect you know.

Come on... The patch was on rapidshare from day one, if that is really your problem...
I should also tell you that I registered my game with an e-mail address I am using to register in forums and other public sites, and I had a maximum of 5-6 mails from them within a years time. I wouldn't call this spam, would you?

 

[Rhett Butler]

The Witcher <s>Patch For Money</s> Enhanced Edition 2009:
Perfect reaches even bigger perfection!
Just because selling one patch wasn't enough.

I patched my game and it didn't cost me anything. Sure it's gay that they have had this much hype over a patch to the point where they even gave the patched game a subtitle (really, really gay), but you can hardly accuse them of selling a patch when they aren't actually charging for it. Maybe because the game ships with the patch now? So bloody what?

 

[inwoker]

I like how people overreact at paid patch.

 

[Deleted member 7219]

Fuck off you retarded pieces of cow shit.

CD Projekt didn't charge one penny for the patch, to anyone who actually legally owned the game.

Fuck off.

 

[Rhett Butler]

I like how people overreact at paid patch.

I'm not Polish so I don't even really like The Witcher. It was a mediocre game that I may even call good, but never with any conviction. The paid patch thing is nonsense though, who pays? I haven't followed TW news much so I don't know if they are charging more for the patched game than the release version, but I doubt it somehow.

 

[Fat Dragon]

You know today I remembered that no RPG had any new world since Arcanum. Arcanum was the last damn rpg to have an original game world (and well thought out). It was 7 years ago.

Mass Effect and Jade Empire. Dragon Age and Alpha Protocol are on their way too. Still a low number of them, sadly.

 

[Admiral Rimjob POOBUM]

I like how people overreact at paid patch.

I'm not Polish so I don't even really like The Witcher. It was a mediocre game that I may even call good, but never with any conviction. The paid patch thing is nonsense though, who pays? I haven't followed TW news much so I don't know if they are charging more for the patched game than the release version, but I doubt it somehow.

It's possible, but only because the Enhanced Edition includes other collectible shit aside from the patched game. If you don't want the extra stuff - which is, uh, mostly free to download as well, apart from a map or something - you can buy the regular edition and just download the EE stuff.
skyway just inhabits a little super-logic fantasy world of his own, where the EE is a paid patch because of non sequitur non sequitur Witcher not being a very good game and this somehow being relevant non sequitur.

 

[deranged]

I like how people overreact at paid patch.

I'm not Polish so I don't even really like The Witcher.

Your line of reasoning is killing me...

 

[MetalCraze]

You know today I remembered that no RPG had any new world since Arcanum. Arcanum was the last damn rpg to have an original game world (and well thought out). It was 7 years ago.

Mass Effect and Jade Empire. Dragon Age and Alpha Protocol are on their way too. Still a low number of them, sadly.

Let's see. ME which can be hardly called an RPG has a world with... omg space travel through jumpgates and aliens and the world is being invaded by evil robots. You need a talent to create this stuff.
JE is based on chinese mythology mixed with terrible stereotypes about Asia - then again it can be counted as an original world with some remarks.
DA has a generic fantasy world with generic dwarves, generic dragons and shit that you can find in any fantasy book.
Bioware worlds aren't good examples because they are all rip-offs from the most overused and cliche'ed worlds ever.
Alpha Protocol? It is a basic modern day world.

skyway just inhabits a little super-logic fantasy world of his own, where the EE is a paid patch because of non sequitur non sequitur Witcher not being a very good game and this somehow being relevant non sequitur.

In my little super-logic fantasy world you don't hype and sell game with several bug-fixes like it is a second coming. Because let's be honest - 1.4 patch added nothing new except graphical updates (and sound updates for some versions). The main part of the game - gameplay - still remained a boring twitch fest with lots of mmorpg quests.
If CDP thinks that in order to reach perfection you just need to update graphix... well..

I like how people overreact at paid patch.

I'm not Polish so I don't even really like The Witcher.

Your line of reasoning is killing me...

I have yet to see a single polish guy over here who didn't like The Witcher..

 

[Fat Dragon]

You know today I remembered that no RPG had any new world since Arcanum. Arcanum was the last damn rpg to have an original game world (and well thought out). It was 7 years ago.

Mass Effect and Jade Empire. Dragon Age and Alpha Protocol are on their way too. Still a low number of them, sadly.

Let's see. ME which can be hardly called an RPG...

This little discussion here was never about how good a game was though. Whether you like ME or not is irrelevant.

has a world with... omg space travel through jumpgates and aliens and the world is being invaded by evil robots. You need a talent to create this stuff.

Just like Troika needed a lot of talent to throw a few sci-fi elements into a generic high-fantasy world, right?

JE is based on chinese mythology mixed with terrible stereotypes about Asia - then again it can be counted as an original world with some remarks.

A Chinese mythology inspired setting has never been done in an RPG as far as I know, so I consider it to be pretty original for an RPG setting.

DA has a generic fantasy world with generic dwarves, generic dragons and shit that you can find in any fantasy book.

So? Arcanum was exactly this, only with some lite steampunk elements thrown in. Arcanum's type of world isn't as original as many think. Even a few Final Fantasy games have that type of setting.

Alpha Protocol? It is a basic modern day world.

A setting that is rarely ever done in an RPG.

Anyways, the originality of settings was never my point. I was just pointing out that you were completely wrong when you stated that Arcanum was the last unique world for an RPG in 7 years.

 

[1eyedking]

Does Polish ancestry count?

 

[Forest Dweller]

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dont see the big deal in TW. yep, not a bad game (good atmosphere, CnC, many good ideas) but why so much hype ?

not being able to customize my character (please do not confuse this with asking for being able to change gender, hairstyle of whatever other shit people like merilinda bitch about ...) was rather breaking the game for me.

when i was replaying fallout or VTMB i always took a different character to get an as much as possible different experience from the first time.
These characters could still always named "Siegmar Slaventöter" and be big with blonde hair and blue eyes :nazi: but they d have vastly different skills which actually gave those games their replay value.

See PS:T, you are the nameless one, so no pink-haired princess possible, but at least that character was customizable to your liking.

in TW there are (supposedly) tons of choices and consequences, but since i m always playing the same character with really little room of customization i just cant arse myself to play it again even with the super-duper-enhanced edition.
in opposite, drakensang has very little in terms of choices of consequences, but i still replayed it once just for the sake of playing a different party.

wish they d have gone with a no-name witcher who could have been specialized to talking, stealthing, etc. etc. so i could celebrate the game as much as my friendly neighbours do .... hope if there s a part 2 after the console edition.... they ll consider that.

No game that has the main character voiced can have him be a clean slate.

Oh and guys, the new project is almost definitely The Witcher 2 (or some other such name). This should be obvious after the ending cinematic for the first game.

 

[Forest Dweller]

So? Arcanum was exactly this, only with some lite steampunk elements thrown in. Arcanum's type of world isn't as original as many think. Even a few Final Fantasy games have that type of setting.

That's what it reminded me of, actually. Mind you, Troika did a better job of making the world consistent and believable.

 

[Forest Dweller]

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Oh and guys, the new project is almost definitely The Witcher 2 (or some other such name). This should be obvious after the ending cinematic for the first game.

Well okay, looks like I was wrong. It's the console port. But TW2 is definitely in the works.