The Witcher 1 Remake Manifesto
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- What does the witcher 1 remake need to succeed? Should the story be changed? The Interface reworked? The Combat altered? Find out in my Witcher Remake Manifesto. A remake not a remaster.
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I remember first time playing Witcher 3, every story (wild hunt and the dlcs) ending and I was starting to prolong my journey as a player because I wanted it to last…this even if the game is really long.. I didn’t wanted it to end ever
As always, I rely on your wonderful knowledge of the Witcher games and believe your thoughts on the remake will be shared by most of us.
Thank you! I'm glad to hear you agree, let's all hope they get this right
I hope they modernize the movement a bit. The most frustrating part of the game is how much you have to run around when doing quests. Also, the swamp areas especially are very frustrating because of how weird the paths are. Sometimes you can't tell whether you can cross in some places or not and because every corner of the map looks the same, navigation can be very annoying.
The funny thing is all the things you’ve outlined as faults with Witcher 1 are why I find it my favourite, the combat, the alchemy at inns and campfires, the story’s structure (voice acting was good in Polish but I’m biased). I hope for the best but I’m worried the essence of what made the first game special will be lost. We’ll see.
Same! Like sure the combat could be better but honestly, I don't see difference between witcher 1 combat and witcher 3 combat. Or like ubisoft-style combat. They're all just pushing buttons while the animations roll, there isn't much room for maneuvering.
Also I like the campfires and the inns! I like that the inn is always like your base of operation, your stuff is there, games are there, questgivers are there, you can rest there... And the fireplaces! It forces you to plan ahead, to make sure you have enough potions and you've rested and distributed your skill points.
One of the problems of witcher 3 is that it can be very monotonous. Just going from checkmark to checkmark, never having to worry about anything. Interface and minimap makes sure you can never get lost or run out of things... It just needs more of a challenge, more stakes, so that world would feel more real.
In witcher 1, it's easier to role-play as a witcher. You have to do all the rituals, you have to plan ahead, you have to gather knowledge about your foes. In witcher 3, I never cracked bestiary open, because I never felt the need to.
I could go on and on why witcher1 is actually better than witcher 3, I just have huge love for the game 😄 I love both of course but there's something special about W1 ❤️🔥
@@atinity6749 I like the thought you put into what you said. The rhythm of W1 combat is important too, it feels pulled from the books as does a lot from W1. That was what made it feel meaningful. The story may feel grand in 3 and I still believe hearts of stone is CDPR’s best narrative achievement but W1 perfectly captured the books. I have always approached Witcher as a book reader well before their English release so that is where my bias originated. The books always put importance on little things so when W1 did so as well it made the game feel harmonious. It’s hard to describe.
You'll still have the first game. I can't get into it, I imagine I'm the target audience for this one.
@@tindekappa9047 I understand what you mean but the danger is always that a remake can end up replacing the original. It could very well turn out this remake is stellar but it would be tragic if the hard work and genuinely groundbreaking design of the original team ultimately became a footnote to this new remake.
If it was Witcher 1 with the engine and gameplay of 3 it would be fine with me.
Please god no, witcher 3 combat is too simple rather have a mix of W1 & W2 gameplay
I didn’t play Witcher 3 until the remaster. I fell in love with it. So I hope they just remake 1 like 3. Then I guess they’ll work on remaking Witcher 2. Great video.
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Gwent would be be cool to add in the remake. We need another cool mini game like it. Still add the dice game back in too.
I agree with the length story. Definitely make it longer for sure. I feel like the witcher 2 was too short. I wouldn't mind them remaking that 1 either.
Talking about combat stuff, I agree souls like definitely wouldn’t fit Witcher (I’m a huge souls like fan, bloodborne is my favourite game ever, but it’s obviously not the best system for every 3rd person action adventure rpg), but what I think is an amazing step up from the W3 style gameplay is Ghost of Tsushima. Very good game with what I found to be similar to your standard style rpg combat (which is what W3 is) but just a few changes and stuff that add good extra flavour. I’ve always thought the stances in W1 combined with W3 combat could be something great, which is kinda like GoT gameplay. Anyways yeah, way excited for the remake and the potential to improve it there
Something similar to GoT and Nioh 2 would be amazing. I’d love more utility for signs, like some attacks can be dodged but if you quen counter it staggers more or something.
I want for them to steer away from the level scaling system of W3 and CP2077 and back to how it was in W1 and W2 (note, I'm not talking about the skill poit systems). It feels extremely silly and immersion-breaking that you have hard time defeating a drowner just because it's level 25 and you're level 10. The ridiculous stat scaling of items (like level 1 sword doing 20 damage, level 10 doing 100, and level 100 being close to 1000) just feels so unnecessary, as does making enemies 10 levels above you artificially even more difficult than they would otherwise be, when the previous games simply gave you more skill points that you can use to make yourself stronger, and weapons and armor were meanigfully better, but not exponentially. So overall, reduce the artificial dependency of the strength of your playable character on the level it is at, and remove the levels from monsters altogether. I see no reason why a drowner in one place should be considerably harder to kill than in another. Better weapons and armor could still be locked behind levels (though that wouldn't necessarily even need to be the case), but they should progress like they do in W2, having more sensible differences in stats, like a starting sword having ~10 base damage and a very late game one 30 or 40.
As for CDPR having not managed to make as great games as W3, I don't think that's true. CP2077 was a total mess in technical terms at the start, that's true, but when it comes to pure gameplay aspects, I think it's not really W3's inferior. Mechanically it's more refined, in particular managing to do away with CDPR's traditional achilles heel, which is janky controls. When it comes to other gameplay mechanics, I think the games are about equal. In my opinion W3's world, atmosphere and story are much better though, the witcher world is just such a fascinating setting that's really hard to beat.
When I first played the Witcher 3 it was to long for me. I paused somewhere and came back after half a year and then fell in love with it.
The Witcher 3 is quite long especially before you come to Novigrad.
Then Witcher 1 is not long, what makes it feel long is the old way it is. No fast travel, no fast running or Roach and a lot of unnecessary walking around much. A modernized version would have plenty room for more and can be a lot longer.
I hope that they don't make it to open world. I like that you have areas that are restricted to you, but you should be able to walk back to some area and not completely locked in
I hope they clear up the no one asking where yennefer and ciri is, like triss i kind of understand with yennefer but other characters doesnt make sense,that for me is one of the biggest issues in the game. Maybe even connecting a bit more on events of the books would be nice aswell. Expanding thr story and side quests the world space aswell would be pretty nice
Witcher 1 remake is something that excites me quite a bit!
Totally agreed with you regarding the asks about having better combat, more armors/weapons, lore alignment and overall side quests!
I'd love to see more "open world" elements... I don't know if it can be more "alive" because open worlds are boring if there is nothing going on in them! Maybe more "guest NPCs"?
Btw... What is your opinion on a BG3 kind of game? Using Throne breaker aesthetics, but better battle/RPG elements (basically leveraging The Witcher TTRPG by R. Talsorian)?
They should really fix the navigation in the game (in the Witcher 3) where walking and running is so clunky and on Roach is even worse. Not being able to climb over things or jump in combat also sucks, being stuck on benches really ruins the combat immersion. Hopefully they don’t nerd potions and decoctions, they are too fun.
that's why they abandoned their engine and chose a mainstream one
@@tindekappa9047 I think navigation has little to do with the engine itself, as many other games that doesn’t use unreal engine 5 can nail it with its own engine. Ghost of Tsushima for one navigates like magic.
@@Tim02222 It has everything to do with it. Look, Ghost nailed it's engine, Witcher 3 didn't, Cyberpunk used a similar engine and well... I admire them for recognizing this was their shortcoming.
I like how people are complaining about every game being made in the same engine like they have any idea wtf an engine is. It's like saying that a Pagani is just a Mercedes because it has a Mercedes engine. Look at Cyberpunk, they had to work on an engine and develop a game at the same time, it clearly failed miserably, the witcher 3's engine even had a tone of quirks, people forgot about them because they weren't game breaking.
Cannot tell you how aggressively I agree with the statement you made in this video, "I'd rather they not release the video game, than release it not finished." Of course, I am paraphrasing. Delay it 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, or even 20 years if you have to.
I have to deliberately allocate time for myself to play video games, so to see it go to waste playing something sub-par, is extremeley vexing. I'd much rather just not play the game at all if that is the case.
Why not video on witcher george channel?
Soon!!
I thought the witcher 3 should've been a longer game too, for example if you choose triss or yeniffer in the romance it feels like it's missing alot, like they could add more quests with whomever you choose and so fourth.
Sounds like you want a Witcher 3 2
Dude this is the greatest news, W1 was so much freakin fun. 2 and 3 were so disappointing
I wish the game had random and/or procedurally generated Witcher contracts. So every few days there’s always new contracts in the villages. Even if it just “go hunt down random monster in the woods nearby”, so when all the main story and side quests are done there still random little things to do.
Who's gonna spend 100 hours completing everything then take a Bethesda style quest '' kill 5 drowned'' for 100 gold. If anything they should have a new game +, maybe like the third game where you keep getting skill points
I think that would make it way more generic. The contracts were good because you felt as if a human did it instead of some random generated AI.
Fk no
I don't blame cdpr at all for cyberpunk being a mess on release, I blame corporate push and the community. The game saw delay after delay and I can understand why people were getting frustrated over that, but in the end cdpr had to give in and release what they had which was as we all know so very far from being finished. I still have not played it. I did preorder it, but haven't had the time due to studies and problems with transporting my pc. And honestly I am glad.
I have heard that it wasn't quite up to par with the witcher 3 in the story either, but hey this is the first proper big "game" they made since the witcher 3. It is also the first time they've had to do it all from scratch. Characters, story, world, all of it. With the Witcher some of the ground work had already been done. Obviously they needed to write their story accordingly for it be faithful and all that, but with the passion for the witcher on the team they managed wonderfully. What I'm getting at is that they can't have every product be one success after the other. There's gonna be slips. We shouldn't have blind faith in them, because then we end up with another cyberpunk. On the other hand we also shouldn't cast them aside and forget about them. They did after all make The Witcher trilogy and in doing so proved themselves to be very capable writers and game designers.
Whenever i play the og witcher i just play it on easy for the story the gameplay is really dated so im glad its getting remade
The pacing of Witcher1 was atrocious early on in the game. Having to RUN everywhere is a beginners map outside of the City of Vizima. It was a fking bore years after now. I hope they can expand the City and add a ton of Sidequests.
The whole point was to do so. The webbed path traveled parallels the web of intrigue connected with each person and quest. All quest paths connected and interacted as little or as much as you wanted them to.
I want them to finish the expansions and story dlc that were planned but canceled
I want a bigger world!
If I had to guess, the remake will be similar to what FromSoftware did with Demon's Souls; another developer remade the game but they oversaw the process. Their remake was almost a 1:1 of the original but modernizing it and bringing it forth to current gen. So even though CDPR isn't making it in studio, I think it can still be good, I wouldn't worry too much. Combat needs an overhaul for sure and the way quests are handled in general. Cyberpunk is still a good game even though it came out broken and hopefully they learn from that and will not release games before they're ready. All in all, I think it'll be good and I'm excited for it!
"If I had to guess, the remake will be similar to what FromSoftware did with Demon's Souls" i dont think so ,wither 1 needs way more changes to modernize it and bring it forth to current gen
@@asura7915 I think they did that… my point being; making it truly a next gen game, graphics and performance wise. Everything else that it needs goes without saying. Demons souls remake was truly next Gen in almost every aspect, outdoing elden ring in many ways.
Your point on CDPR's track record was...muddled. You said: They have a spotty track record. Why....well you personally didn't care for the type of game they made for 2 of them and the other was messy when it released (but you haven't checked up on that since then). I have always personally liked your content, but....that wasn't great. Note: CP2077 has come a LOOOOOOOONG way.
Personally, I don't a Witcher 3.2. I do agree the game NEEDS to be long and feels like a lived in adventure. And the story for Witcher 1 is already great enough, and in some ways, even better than Witcher 3. I do want a Novigrad, or even BETTER city for Vizima.
Disagree about the meditation. Honestly Witcher 3 feels like a walk in the park, even on Death March, because of how easy it is to restore your health. Ended the fight? Just meditate. Even on hard you get your potions restored just by meditating which makes it pretty easy provided you're not challenging much higher level foes. Frankly the only reason Death March is still such a pain for me is simply the loading times. If they were faster like in other games in which you die a lot and can simply choose "continue" and it takes about 5/6 seconds to respawn, Death March would pretty much be piece of cake once you get used to it
I think meditating only in fireplaces would bring a better sense of harshness to the trade of being a Witcher.
It is the only way to get geralt back one more time, either a prequel or a remake. If not perfectly executed he would feel forced or underwhelming in a sequel with another protagonist. This is the ideal move by cdpr. Now to wait
I know it's impossible, but I wish there was a way to consolidate the Witcher 3's endings to get another Geralt story. Maybe by the time they've remade the first two games, they'll get clever and surprise us. Or did they end it properly in the Witcher 3? Any thoughts?
They have to keep the fireplace flint meditation!! Dont dumb it down, don't make it the Witcher 3!
If they shorten and dumb it down, there will be consequences. I don't think that it would go down well. Catering for people with the attention span of a dead mongoose isn't the way forward.
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The dialogue is not weird. It's the English translation that is badly made. I think the remake could be based on the system that Gothic 1/2 have established, with a semi-open world, and areas blocked by deadlier enemies. And, for god's sake, keep the music from the original game.
That’s what she said
Witcher 3 too long? I didn't want it to end.
Thank you WG
Thank god I did not play Witcher 1 and 2, only 3 so now I can play the game like a new one
I did the same for red dead redemption 1 did not play yet hoping there will be remake or at least remaster
They planned on making a rdr1 remake but they cancelled it but tbh rdr isn’t that old and the gameplay is pretty fun not as dated as witcher 1, so i don’t see any point in missing out on rdr 1.
Always a shame when I see comments like this. All the games are good and stand on their own. Witcher 3 is a wonderful game but 1 will always be my favourite, and it wasn’t even my first. 2 was. All of them should be given a fair chance.
What I would say is although I love the Witcher 1 I can understand why you would avoid it. But what I will say is the Witcher 2 is definitely worth playing and really hasn't aged too badly!
@@ronaldood4678 Witcher 3 was the first game I play and introduce me to this universe witch later on I feel in love with.. I see how the witcher 1 and 2 game play for someone like me who is standard was witcher 3 could not stand going lower to play at that level (1,2) ,and at the same time (when I finish the game) there was a lot of talk about remaster the game that why I did not play ..I am different from you who start at witcher 2
@@aishwaryjain7698 With Rockstar you never now..there is still hope I will be waiting,
They need to bring back W2 combat but obviously more tweaked and refined but that freedom that w2 offers on movement is glorious i hate that in w3 you are locked into combat mode until the enemy dies or you flee
After the awful experience with the Witcher 3 Next Gen update (the game totally broke on my PC, all I get is stuttering and jittering; there won't be any new playthroughs of my favorite game after that) I do no longer look forward to the Witcher 1 remake. There is only ONE thing I want from it: Let it be a seperate, new game, so I can __not__ buy it and stay with the Witcher 1 I know and love.
That combat made the game unplayable. I couldn't finish W1, cuz of that God awful combat
Yeah i rly agree with u. Hope theyll keep the excelent athmosphere as well