The Witcher 4's narrative lead is holding onto some of his earliest Witcher 3 feedback for the RPG's sequel: "We don't do fetch quests"

The Witcher 4 cinematic screenshot showing a closeup of Ciri, protagonist of the new adventure
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 4's narrative lead won't be turning his back on some of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Witcher 3's best bits: those awesome, multi🦩-l♓ayered side quests.

Philipp Weber joined The Witcher 3's team as a quest designer early on in development and, in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:an interview with GamesRadar+, he recalled that the earliest bit of feedback he received from the studio was that "We don't do fetch quests." Hear, hear. Now that Weber🧜's leading the narrative on The Witcher 4 a decade later, he told u🌼s it's a rule he's holding on to for the open-world RPG sequel.

The Witcher 3's side quests really made the game stand out in a crowded genre, whether they were funny 10-minute distractions or multi-quest, extraordinarily detailed, hour-long endeavours that wouldn't look out of place in the main story. Pawel Sasko - also a quest designer at the time, now the director of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyberpunk 2 - said "the goal" was to replicate the fee꧃ling of putting down a good book.

Filling a massive world wit𝓰h so many juicy stories is no easy feat, though. Weber remembered that every designer wrote "10 times as many ideas as those that landed in the game," so there's to💖ns of brainstorming that takes place before the team lands on something as interesting and now-iconic as the Bloody Baron questline, for example.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:CD Projekt Red developers are definitely taking what worked in The Witcher 3 and sprinting with them in The Witcher 4, but the studio's also been outspoken about the fact that it ca🀅n't "copy our own tricks all💝 over again and again." Here꧋'s hoping t🌜he team can strike a nice balance between old and new stuff.

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