CD Projekt RED doesn't know how to surpass The Witcher 3 with The Witcher 4
, by Thibaut
It has to be said that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the best RPGs of all time. With over 60 million units sold, the third entry catapulted CD Projekt RED into the stardom.
So, ten years on, the Polish studio is still wondering how to top Geralt's latest epic. During an interview with GamesRadar, Philipp Weber, who is the studio's narrative director, raised the subject and shared his questioning.
"'Witcher 3 was one of the best games ever made, how are they going to top it?'" In fact, it's a concern he shares - "I'm like 'yeah, how are we going to do that?'"
Rather than trying to do better with The Witcher 4, Weber says he wants to maintain a development philosophy similar to that of the third game. He also wants to pay homage to the third game, rather than trying to forget it with the sequel.
"I think the way we want to do justice to the legacy of The Witcher 3 is to take the philosophy we had during The Witcher 3 - how to make a game, how to really care about these things, how to tell stories - and keep that philosophy. At the same time, there are new questions we want to answer, because this is supposed to feel like a true sequel, not just redoing what we did before. And I think it's really trying to have that healthy mix of really moving forward and also trying out some new things, but doing justice to what was there, not trying to beat it."
"I know many people have problems with that but I love it. just make sure that some people will really love The Witcher 4, and hopefully those should be the people that love The Witcher 3, because the philosophy we had - how we make games, how we make quests, what The Witcher means to us - it's the same one."
Source: gamesradar.com