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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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> 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?

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

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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 2 was popular in my social circle in the USA. A lot of us went back to Witcher 1 afterwards to get a better idea of the story.

So I'd say Witcher 2 was when the series started to get popular. Witcher 3 was riding on 2's coattails. Now that the Netflix show is popular, Witcher1 does deserve a remake.

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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 speak for Czechia and here the Witcher II definitely made a splash.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Witcher 2 also runs perfectly fine on the Deck. You just need to switch to Proton-GE rather than default version.

There's also a native version, right?

The "native" linux version of Witcher 2 does emulations. Since it's bundled it's very out of date and technology has advanced since then. Witcher 2 had really bad graphics bugs on my Linux playthrough, none of which appeared on Windows.

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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?

> Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?

I would guess so, but the third one was even more popular. Maybe 3 is a bit like Skyrim.

I only played the third one. One of my friends was already a fan of the other 2 back then.

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

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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?

They were moderately popular games in the US for those that didn't constrain themselves to the AAA powerhouses (no judgement either way). I didn't play them at the time, but knew of their existence and that they were supposed to be good.

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

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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?

> Were the previous two installments popular outside of Poland?

Witcher 2 was the first time I heard of the franchise.

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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?

According to this site (can't vouch for how accurate their numbers are) The Witcher III sold ~12 million copies on Steam, The Witcher II sold ~6 million, and the original sold ~3 million. That's not counting sales on GOG and other stores, consoles, etc. And I personally got copies of the first and second game around the time the second game released.

https://vginsights.com/game/292030

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

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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 saw the tech demo for Witcher 1 and got the game subsequently afterwards. I lived in Canada at the time.
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