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CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by superdisk »

4pkjai wrote: post #6

I don't know why, this makes me a bit sad. You can sort of feel a game engine when you're playing a game. The GTA trilogy lost a lot when they did their remastering project with a different engine. Although I'm sure it can be done well. StarCraft remastered was done really well, but I believe they built on top of their existing engine.

The GTA trilogy remasters actually run on the original game engine under the hood, the only thing they changed was the renderer (Unreal Engine instead of RenderWare).

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by JohnJamesRambo »

agilob wrote: post #44

Has CDPR run out of ideas, but still had a bag of promises to make? They promised CP77 extensions and multiplayer, The Witcher 3 in 4k, now remaking Witcher 1? I'm kindof disappointed with this news and not hearing updates about previous "updates".

On the other hand Geralt waves his sword above his head like an idiot in Witcher 1. I hate remakes but if I had to have one this would be one.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/rkdbnv/started_play...

But yeah I want new stories more.

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by yamtaddle »

Tade0 wrote: post #21

> Now we know that it's a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland. I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this. I'm Polish so I genuinely don't know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?

Witcher 1 made a big splash among fans of PC RPGs and action RPGs. Didn't hurt that it landed in the middle of a relative doldrums for those genres—they got much healthier again a bit after that.

2 and 3 switched to a more console-friendly style of play and had good success there, though, so I expect they did more to spread the word than 1 did.

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by importantbrian »

Tade0 wrote: post #21

> Now we know that it's a ground-up remake of the game that introduced Geralt of Rivia to Witcher fans outside of Poland. I was always of the impression that it was Witcher III that achieved this. I'm Polish so I genuinely don't know. Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?

I can only really speak to my experience, but I don't really remember Witcher 1 being a thing. Witcher 2 was pretty big and then Witcher 3 was pretty massive.

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by Night_Thastus »

4pkjai wrote: post #6

I don't know why, this makes me a bit sad. You can sort of feel a game engine when you're playing a game. The GTA trilogy lost a lot when they did their remastering project with a different engine. Although I'm sure it can be done well. StarCraft remastered was done really well, but I believe they built on top of their existing engine.

Wasn't GTA the one where the "re-make" was done using a hot garbage mobile port of the games? That would be why if so.

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by tester756 »

agilob wrote: post #44

Has CDPR run out of ideas, but still had a bag of promises to make? They promised CP77 extensions and multiplayer, The Witcher 3 in 4k, now remaking Witcher 1? I'm kindof disappointed with this news and not hearing updates about previous "updates".

If you're interested in their strategy check out this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EJmgTQ0O8k

Re: CD Projekt is remaking the first Witcher game in Unreal Engine 5

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Post by yamtaddle »

verst wrote: post #14
dragontamer wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who played a few hours of the 1st Witcher Game... Good. No one seems to care about Witcher 1's engine, because it was hot garbage. Any engine (even an off-the-shelf one like Unreal5) will be grossly superior to the trash that the original game was. This remake can have slow, barely workable controls and pretty bad graphics and still be far better than the original game. They really just need the Witcher 1…

I played the Witcher 1 when it came out and thought it was a brilliant game. I haven't tried going back to it ever. It felt quite polished to me then. I'm curious what people feel isn't approachable for today's audiences. Is is merely that we are used to different visuals now? What are these engine issues in Witcher 1 you speak of? As a player I did not notice them back in the day.

I loved the game and beat it twice (maybe 3 times? not sure) but the engine performs like dogshit for the level of graphical quality it delivers.
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