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The Witcher 1 Remake

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We are thrilled to announce that The Witcher Remake is being worked on...that's right, the game that started it all is being rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5...the game is currently in the early stages of development at the Polish studio Fool's Theory, where veteran Witcher series staff are involved...we, as CD Projekt RED, are providing full creative supervision...

https://www.thewitcher.com/en/news/46225/the-witcher-remake-is-in-development
 
Armenius said:
Don't know about that developer. They have been a "project support" studio since being founded. They have "co-developed" one game called Seven: The Days Long Gone with IMGN.PRO. That game seems to have been well-received, at least
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they also provided developmental support on games like Divinity: Original Sin II, Baldur's Gate III, and Outriders
 
Blade-Runner said:
Looking forward to The Witcher 2 and 3 remakes.

On a serious note, I will buy and play this.
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There's already an updated version of Witcher 3 in the works with graphic upgrades like RT. I wouldn't mind a remaster of Witcher 2.

I actually liked the original Witcher. Would definitely play a remake.
 
w35t said:
TW2 still looks pretty damn good. First one however is in dire need of a remake, excited for this!
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Aurora Engine was already a decade old by the time the first game came out. It still managed to run and look good for the time. The gameplay was a little janky, though, so I'm interested in seeing how it's reworked. I hope the core systems are kept in place. It placed more of an emphasis on potion and other support than the sequels did, even on normal difficulty, which requires more strategy.
 
Armenius said:
Aurora Engine was already a decade old by the time the first game came out. It still managed to run and look good for the time. The gameplay was a little janky, though, so I'm interested in seeing how it's reworked. I hope the core systems are kept in place. It placed more of an emphasis on potion and other support than the sequels did, even on normal difficulty, which requires more strategy.
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I tried to play it after 2 and just couldn’t. Janky doesn’t even begin to describe it.
 
I always thought 2 had clunkier controls than 1. TW2 also barely kept me interested in the story as compared to the writing of TW1. I guess this means Geralt's story is probably done and the next witcher sequel will follow the School of Cat witchers.
 
The first Witcher is one of those games I started playing and bailed on 3-4 times. The gameplay was pretty horrendous and the initial tutorial throws a pile of oddball mechanics at you in the first 10 minutes. It's overwhelming and most of that stuff you never use. Some of the dodges flat out just don't work. Combat mostly came down to a rhythm mini-game and toggling between steel and silver swords. They tried to make everything use every key on your keyboard, but you can streamline things and make it a lot easier on yourself if you tinker around. I forced myself to keep going and I found the story to be better than the 2nd game. If they can keep the story and world the same but make the combat akin to the 3rd game, that sounds great to me.
 
I made the mistake of playing the 3rd one first.
I played the 2nd one for about an hour, and a combination of combat and controls caused me to uninstall it.
The first one was just horrible to me, but I also didn't like the first 2 Assassin Creed's or the first Sniper Elite, so don't judge me.
 
Except for the combat I loved the first game. While the second game improved on the combat, the story was a pale shadow of the story in the first game and did not interest me much.

I'd love to see the first one remade with better combat as that was my only major gripe with it. At least as long as they leave the core of the game alone and don't change it. Better combat: great. Updated graphics: great. Mess with the story or side stories: go to hell and don't bother messing with the game.
 
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No, just no. Enough with the remakes already. Entertainment media is creatively bankrupt at this point, all they do is remakes and reboots, and re-creations, "for a modern audience"

I'm not going to pay for a single remake from this point on.
 
I'll definitely play this but I'm not a fan of developers constantly going back and updating their old games...it's like when George Lucas went back and constantly tweaked the OT Star Wars movies by adding/subtracting things and updating the visuals/audio...let movies and games live in the moment they were released...not everything requires a remaster or remake to make it more appealing in the present day

janky visuals and gameplay are aspects that add to the nostalgia of the time it was released
 
I couldn't disagree more. I'm loving all of the remakes, we're still getting plenty of new games as well. This game in particular needs it more than the rest. By the time most of us were Witcher fans this game was already too dated. It is however total bs when they alter the content for "modern audiences", when that's the case I'll happily skip.
 
I'll play it. I hope it plays more like Witcher 3 than 2. 2 was very rough around the edges. I never tried number 1 because I heard how janky it was. If this is made more fluid I would certainly be interested in playing it to finish the trilogy.

M76 said:
No, just no. Enough with the remakes already. Entertainment media is creatively bankrupt at this point, all they do is remakes and reboots, and re-creations, "for a modern audience"

I'm not going to pay for a single remake from this point on.
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I disagree. As long as the remakes are good I will play them. I never played the original Resident Evil games, or FF7 so playing them with modern technology was great as I would not have went back to Playstation era games to play them. I know some of these were not 100% true to the originals but I still enjoyed them. I am looking forward to The Last of Us remake, Silent Hill 2 remake and RE4 remake. All games I never played before.
 
It is not like a sequel-prequel is necessarily that much less bankrupt than a remake or that many FPS-insert other genre isn't just some copy with a mini twist if any.

Remake can make sense when there is a vast technological change that make playing the original not that easy, like a lot of the silent movie remade with sound must have made a lot of sense back in the days, remaking demon Souls and calling it Dark Souls for new platform-technology can make sense, or remaking System Shock and calling it Bioschok or Cyberpunk or remaking Sim City again and again like Cities Skyline has computer become stronger.

Sometime the new tech does not had enough to make the exercise interesting or the people doing it does not find enough new to say. But quality of execution is hyper important (often more than the big ideas) and a team with a super clear creative mission that focus only on it can lead to superbe result, like when The Coens re-did True Grit or Scorses Infernal Affairs. Same can happen in game remake like Cities Skyline, Civilization, Diablo or Sim City 2 or when Unreal Tournament redid the Unreal bot-multiplayer match of the first game.
 
LukeTbk said:
It is not like a sequel-prequel is necessarily that much less bankrupt than a remake or that many FPS-insert other genre isn't just some copy with a mini twist if any.

Remake can make sense when there is a vast technological change that make playing the original not that easy, like a lot of the silent movie remade with sound must have made a lot of sense back in the days, remaking demon Souls and calling it Dark Souls for new platform-technology can make sense, or remaking System Shock and calling it Bioschok or Cyberpunk or remaking Sim City again and again like Cities Skyline has computer become stronger.

Sometime the new tech does not had enough to make the exercise interesting or the people doing it does not find enough new to say. But quality of execution is hyper important (often more than the big ideas) and a team with a super clear creative mission that focus only on it can lead to superbe result, like when The Coens re-did True Grit or Scorses Infernal Affairs. Same can happen in game remake like Cities Skyline, Civilization, Diablo or Sim City 2 or when Unreal Tournament redid the Unreal bot-multiplayer match of the first game.
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Exactly. Remaking a game from the 90s to early 2000s makes sense as there is a massive technological leap. Going back and playing a game from that era is not something most of us want to do.
 
Flogger23m said:
I'll play it. I hope it plays more like Witcher 3 than 2. 2 was very rough around the edges. I never tried number 1 because I heard how janky it was. If this is made more fluid I would certainly be interested in playing it to finish the trilogy.



I disagree. As long as the remakes are good I will play them. I never played the original Resident Evil games, or FF7 so playing them with modern technology was great as I would not have went back to Playstation era games to play them. I know some of these were not 100% true to the originals but I still enjoyed them. I am looking forward to The Last of Us remake, Silent Hill 2 remake and RE4 remake. All games I never played before.
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The FF7 remake isn't even the same game as the original. The mechanics and character design is completely different.
It's nothing like the GBA FF6 remake which actually resembled the original product at all.
 
Flogger23m said:
I disagree. As long as the remakes are good I will play them. I never played the original Resident Evil games, or FF7 so playing them with modern technology was great as I would not have went back to Playstation era games to play them. I know some of these were not 100% true to the originals but I still enjoyed them. I am looking forward to The Last of Us remake, Silent Hill 2 remake and RE4 remake. All games I never played before.
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I'd rather play brand new games, not re-visit old ones. A remake takes almost the same resources as making a new AAA game, the only thing you save is writing. Well, not even that if you "update it for modern audiences".

Flogger23m said:
Exactly. Remaking a game from the 90s to early 2000s makes sense as there is a massive technological leap. Going back and playing a game from that era is not something most of us want to do.
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The Witcher is not from the 90s or early 2000s, so your own rule doesn't apply.
 
M76 said:
The Witcher is not from the 90s or early 2000s, so your own rule doesn't apply.
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Which is old enough for the genre-studio to not be accessible to the typical console gamers I think, it does not apply has much as some even older title, but with DosBox it will often mean more in term of modern players expectation than technical limit , which could apply for Baldur Gates or the Witcher.

They probably saw a certain amount of people when the Netflix series released that wanted to try the game and saw an obvious resistance-friction for the first 2 entry that motivated that remake. The difference of popularity of that franchise is quite giant now versus then, that probably that for a good enough mass of people it will be a brand new game.
 
M76 said:
I'd rather play brand new games, not re-visit old ones. A remake takes almost the same resources as making a new AAA game, the only thing you save is writing. Well, not even that if you "update it for modern audiences".


The Witcher is not from the 90s or early 2000s, so your own rule doesn't apply.
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I've played a lot of PC games over the past 30 years, and most of them are played through and done. A few have made a lasting impact and warrant revisiting. Then there are the games I didn't get to when they were released, that were outstanding, but the tech doesn't hold up.

I'd love to see the original Wasteland recreated in the Unity engine. TES: Arena and Daggerfall, MechWarrior 2, X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter, Terra Nova: Strike Force Centauri. I'd buy remakes if they were done right.
 
jfreund said:
Dude, OG Deus Ex on UE5 or an updated Dawn Engine.
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I would play that, I never played the original.

M76 said:
I'd rather play brand new games, not re-visit old ones. A remake takes almost the same resources as making a new AAA game, the only thing you save is writing. Well, not even that if you "update it for modern audiences".
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Most of these new remakes are new to me. And sometimes the older feel (like FF7 Remake) are better than a lot of the games as they're more focused. Playing something with older style linear gameplay is more interesting to me than massive open worlds.

M76 said:
The Witcher is not from the 90s or early 2000s, so your own rule doesn't apply.
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By the time the remake comes out it will be close to 20 years old. Doesn't matter when a remake comes out though, but generally it makes sense to wait a long enough for there to be a big technological leap. The Dead Space remake doesn't interest me much because I played the first one and didn't particularly enjoy it much. But if I had never played the original I would probably be interested in playing it. I wouldn't mind playing the remake, but with so many other new games (including remakes like RE4 and The Last of Us) it would fall far behind in my must play list.
 
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The Dead Space remake doesn't interest me much because I played the first one and didn't particularly enjoy it much.
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But that's exactly it. There are only three types of remakes

  1. Remake of a game I loved and played to death - This is always dubious, because it a scare what part of the game they ruin. So even if the remake is a huge technological leap, it usually disappoints somehow. ex.: Mafia Definitive Edition
  2. Remake of a game I played but didn't particularly enjoy at the time - I've tried games like this and it turns out I still don't enjoy them all that much, despite the changes and updates. ex: Resident Evil remakes
  3. Remake of a game that I never played, but it is still a game that would be of interest to me. - The chances of this are astronomical. And frankly I can't even point to a released example.
 
M76 said:
But that's exactly it. There are only three types of remakes

  1. Remake of a game I loved and played to death - This is always dubious, because it a scare what part of the game they ruin. So even if the remake is a huge technological leap, it usually disappoints somehow. ex.: Mafia Definitive Edition
  2. Remake of a game I played but didn't particularly enjoy at the time - I've tried games like this and it turns out I still don't enjoy them all that much, despite the changes and updates. ex: Resident Evil remakes
  3. Remake of a game that I never played, but it is still a game that would be of interest to me. - The chances of this are astronomical. And frankly I can't even point to a released example.
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I don't think I've ever played the original version of a AAA remake game. Dead Space is the first thing I can think of, and that will fall under number 2 for me. Which is why I probably won't play it anytime soon.
 
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Just learned Henry Cavill is being replaced by a Hemsworth brother in the Netflix series.

Bad time to be a Witcher fan.
 
w35t said:
Just learned Henry Cavill is being replaced by a Hemsworth brother in the Netflix series.

Bad time to be a Witcher fan.
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Loved the game and the books. When I read that, I was glad I never watched the TV series. I can't stand when they change main actors during a TV series.
 
in a recent chat with Eurogamer, Geralt's voice actor in all three Witcher games, Doug Cockle, said that neither CD Projekt nor Fool's Theory (the studio behind the remake) have gotten in touch with him about re-recording the first game's dialogue for the remake..."I know as much as you do about this at the moment," said Cockle, "I don't know if they're going to bring me back in to do re-recording of the dialogue, I don't know if they're going to use dialogue from Witcher 1 as it exists. I don't know"...

https://www.eurogamer.net/doug-cock...recording-voice-overs-in-the-witcher-1-remake
 
polonyc2 said:
in a recent chat with Eurogamer, Geralt's voice actor in all three Witcher games, Doug Cockle, said that neither CD Projekt nor Fool's Theory (the studio behind the remake) have gotten in touch with him about re-recording the first game's dialogue for the remake..."I know as much as you do about this at the moment," said Cockle, "I don't know if they're going to bring me back in to do re-recording of the dialogue, I don't know if they're going to use dialogue from Witcher 1 as it exists. I don't know"...

https://www.eurogamer.net/doug-cock...recording-voice-overs-in-the-witcher-1-remake
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I just read that in Geralt's voice.
 
polonyc2 said:
in a recent chat with Eurogamer, Geralt's voice actor in all three Witcher games, Doug Cockle, said that neither CD Projekt nor Fool's Theory (the studio behind the remake) have gotten in touch with him about re-recording the first game's dialogue for the remake..."I know as much as you do about this at the moment," said Cockle, "I don't know if they're going to bring me back in to do re-recording of the dialogue, I don't know if they're going to use dialogue from Witcher 1 as it exists. I don't know"...

https://www.eurogamer.net/doug-cock...recording-voice-overs-in-the-witcher-1-remake
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I hope they use what they have. Maybe bring him in if they expand it.
 
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