Fantasy Netflix's The Witcher - General Discussion Thread

[Marvolo]

So explain every review that comes out for a television "season" before the reviewer has watched the entire series. Because rarely is there ever a "re-review". Deadlines and workloads don't allow for it.

There are 63 reviews on this page. How many of them came before May 2015, when the first season finale of the Flash aired?

The Flash

Now tell me how it's "abnormal".

Its simple. We have terrible journalistic standards and dumb studio practices.

Studios treat reviews as marketing, are overly concerned about spoilers, and critics want to be fast with their reviews which is how we've ended up with garbage kneejerk twitter reviews, and partial season screeners. It needs to end, but social media and FOMO is keeping that **** profitable. Unfortunately.

 

[TheVileOne]

Do it lol it's so satisfying when you beat it. Gotta do it as a New Game+ though, I can't imagine how impossible it is otherwise.

Yeah I have no plans on doing Death March without my level 100 Geralt and all my gear, money and poions.

 

[TheVileOne]

Even if it were from the video game. . . so what? Is a good impactful line somehow no longer, because of which medium it happened to be written for? Or did they take the view that "Anything from video games is intrinsically trash"?

The lesser evil line actually came from the books first. It's in The Last Wish: Here's Geralt's original monologue taken from the book that was adapted in both the game and the Netflix series:

"Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”

 

[Sithborg]

I’m confident Witcher 4 will be the game of a generation when it comes out. CD Projekt Red’s reputation won’t survive Witcher 4 failing after Cyberpunk so they will be going all out. Hopefully the show is still going at that point (might not be realistic) so that it can benefit from that.

lol

It didn't survive Cyberpunk. The preorders for Witcher 4 is going to be abysmal compared to what they should have been.

 

[Marvolo]

The potion use in this show is ****. I dont even know why they included it. There should be different potions with different obvious physical effects and benefits. Increased strength , increased reflexes, increased perception speed, better hearing, fast healing, caustic blood etc. could all be shown in visually unique ways with accompanying unique physical alterations. The single potion in this show just makes their eyes dilate and gives them purple spider veins and they do the same physical stuff that we've seen them do without the potion.

lol

It didn't survive Cyberpunk. The preorders for Witcher 4 is going to be abysmal compared to what they should have been.

Gamers are notoriously awful at boycotts, have little restraint, and very short memories. If Witcher 4 is 3 - 5 years away gamers are going to be rabid for it when the trailer drops.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

TW4 is the only way CDPR saves their soul but considering TW3 ended perfectly as a finale to the series, it's hard to imagine a sequel to it.

 

[TheVileOne]

What kinda hurts Cyberpunk 2077 to me is that it's FPS. No offense, but I prefer third person perspective, especially for RPGs. So when I heard the game was going to be FPS it did send up some red flags to me.

That said, even Deus Ex series did cyberpunk FPS RPG style fairly decently. Like the templates were there and have been done well before. I don't get how CDPR could screw things up this much.

 

[Iceman]

lol

It didn't survive Cyberpunk. The preorders for Witcher 4 is going to be abysmal compared to what they should have been.

I meant survive as in literally - the company would have no future if their other mainline game that has got them all their reputation killed off all faith in them. Given their long turnaround to get games out they could be in existential trouble if a Cyberpunk level disaster happened to W4. Depending how many key staff have already left there is still the possibility that they can make a good Witcher 4 especially if it’s not cross gen this time, and they totally need it. Preorders might not be anywhere near what they would have been but people will eventually come back if the game is received like Witcher 3.

 

[TheVileOne]

I'd still like to know what their plan is for Witcher 4. I kind of feel like Geralt's story is pretty much over. It will have to be a new character or set of characters.

 

[BlackFox]

Yeah I just hope W4 can avoid the Mass Effect Andromeda problem of not knowing where to take the series, sometimes it can be difficult to go back to something so big and so popular and try and recreate that magic again.

CDPR know the world inside out at least so thats a start but it depends on so many variables with games, different staff working on it to the originals etc etc. Hopefully the Cyberpunk thing was a good learning curve for them that can help them moving forward.

Would love to see a Witcher game where we could create our own Witcher from scratch but that can sort of harm any storytelling with a silent/generic protagonist, would take a game based on Ciri alone or go in a different direction playing as someone like Iorveth as an elf, lots of possibilities I guess. It will be interesting to see what direction they do eventually go in, cant wait to go back to the world thats for sure, the hype for it will be insane though.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Part of me wonders if W4, won't be W4, but maybe a remake on 1/2. I think they see risk with making a Ciri based game after what happened with Cyberpunk. They don't have a lot of goodwill, and might think they need Geralt.

 

[Predator jp]

i played Mass Effect Andromeda on gamepass this year and i really enjoyed it. not as much as i did with the original trilogy but i liked Andromeda.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Andromeda was a good idea in theory that they botched in execution.

I'd honestly be ok with a ground up remake of W1 and a remaster of 2.

 

[BlackFox]

Part of me wonders if W4, won't be W4, but maybe a remake on 1/2. I think they see risk with making a Ciri based game after what happened with Cyberpunk. They don't have a lot of goodwill, and might think they need Geralt.

As long as Geralt looks like and is voiced by Cavill, I dont think anyone will be able to complain....

 

[TheVileOne]

Even if they outsource to another developer, they are going to have to remake W1&2 at some point.

I mean look at Demon's Souls. Eventually a next-gen remake got done for PS5. CDPR is leaving too much money on the table for not having versions of W2 and the first game that everyone can play.

Especially with the Netflix show, you need to capitalize on the franchise now while it's hot.

I think with W2, they don't even have to do a full remake, but just make it playable and remastered for the current-gen consoles. W1 would probably require a lot more tinkering considering how dates it looks now.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Even if they outsource to another developer, they are going to have to remake W1&2 at some point.

I mean look at Demon's Souls. Eventually a next-gen remake got done for PS5. CDPR is leaving too much money on the table for not having versions of W2 and the first game that everyone can play.

Especially with the Netflix show, you need to capitalize on the franchise now while it's hot.

I think with W2, they don't even have to do a full remake, but just make it playable and remastered for the current-gen consoles. W1 would probably require a lot more tinkering considering how dates it looks now.

I was surprised how good W2 looked when I played on PC, that game was built with some decent future proofing in mind, remastering it probably would be pretty easy. With Witcher 1 it would probably be best to throw nearly everything out and rebuild it from scratch.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

I was surprised how good W2 looked when I played on PC, that game was built with some decent future proofing in mind, remastering it probably would be pretty easy. With Witcher 1 it would probably be best to thrown nearly everything out and rebuild it from scratch.

W2 with the combat and leveling system of W3 would be awesome. I lost my save file after the first act and haven't picked it up since cause the combat is a pain getting used to with how much I loved 3's.

I've NEVER played W1 but saw someone run it through a new gen engine and it looked pretty damn good lol

 

[DarthSkywalker]

As long as Geralt looks like and is voiced by Cavill, I dont think anyone will be able to complain....

Why would they ruin the perfect video game character like that?

Also I just started episode 4 finally, and good lord Triss looks so weird with the hair.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Even if they outsource to another developer, they are going to have to remake W1&2 at some point.

I mean look at Demon's Souls. Eventually a next-gen remake got done for PS5. CDPR is leaving too much money on the table for not having versions of W2 and the first game that everyone can play.

Especially with the Netflix show, you need to capitalize on the franchise now while it's hot.

I think with W2, they don't even have to do a full remake, but just make it playable and remastered for the current-gen consoles. W1 would probably require a lot more tinkering considering how dates it looks now.

The thing is, they tried that before and it went poorly. They outsourced the first game for a console version and it went so poorly, it died. I guess they could get someone better these days, but the first game would need a lot of work.

I agree the second game would just need a bit of glow up. It still looks and plays great imo. It just need a step up in graphics and some decent quality of life choices. I'd be one of those that would like it to be possible to play both main paths in one play through. So much good stuff you miss going one way or the other.

 

[lespaul59]

Wasn't Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch outsourced? I have zero clue if making a Switch version of a game is anything like making a console version of a PC game. I actually own Witcher 1 and have it installed on one of my laptops but I have never played it. I got it on sale for $2 a couple of years ago.

The Witcher 2 and 3 were the first two games I bought for my X Box. When I started playing the Witcher 3 I would start playing at like 11pm and quit around 8am.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I'm on episode 6... I swear the first episode was awesome this season, but since then it has just gotten worse and worse to the point of being somehow worse then season 1. So much boring crap that doesn't involve the happenings at Kaer Morhen or Geralt. Even Yen is a complete bore this season. Ugh.

 

[TheVileOne]

Wasn't Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch outsourced? I have zero clue if making a Switch version of a game is anything like making a console version of a PC game. I actually own Witcher 1 and have it installed on one of my laptops but I have never played it. I got it on sale for $2 a couple of years ago.

The Witcher 2 and 3 were the first two games I bought for my X Box. When I started playing the Witcher 3 I would start playing at like 11pm and quit around 8am.

Yes it was. Saber Interactive handled the conversion.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

Wasn't Witcher 3 for Nintendo Switch outsourced? I have zero clue if making a Switch version of a game is anything like making a console version of a PC game. I actually own Witcher 1 and have it installed on one of my laptops but I have never played it. I got it on sale for $2 a couple of years ago.

The Witcher 2 and 3 were the first two games I bought for my X Box. When I started playing the Witcher 3 I would start playing at like 11pm and quit around 8am.

The thing about the third game is it's "done". When they tried to do it with the first game, they were trying to rework it so it was better then the Frankenstein experiment it originally was.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Just finished season 2 and really enjoyed it after a slow first 2 episodes. Keen to see the wild hunt in season 3.

I'd still like to know what their plan is for Witcher 4. I kind of feel like Geralt's story is pretty much over. It will have to be a new character or set of characters.

Such as?

 

[Iceman]

W2 with the combat and leveling system of W3 would be awesome. I lost my save file after the first act and haven't picked it up since cause the combat is a pain getting used to with how much I loved 3's.

I've NEVER played W1 but saw someone run it through a new gen engine and it looked pretty damn good lol

I’d take a W3 level upgrade of W2 for sure. Also would give an excuse for a full new playthrough.