RE: "The Witcher 4" and beyond... 

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I hereby validate you owning a sword as a grown man!

I appreciate their ambition, I just really really hope the marketing team is kept in check and don’t over promise anything. The last thing we all need is another Cyberpunk 2077 launch

The video announcing their future projects seems to be a recruiting tactic. Telling the world that we are working on these great games please come work for us.

Get excited sure, but remember they lied to your faces and finessed you into buying a broken game. They apology was also half assed.

As a traditionalist myself, games like The Witcher series and the Elder Scrolls make me feel so warm.

The only thing that scares me about this news is that they are gonna dish out 3 games in around 6 years but they couldn’t finish cyberpunk in that same amount of time. I’m just hoping that they make the best games possible in the end

"I can prove it" *Completely ignores entire Witcher book collection on shelf behind him*

The reason a codename is used is for reference. The projects are in their infancy, most likely the titles don’t have names since the narrative team is still working this out, or that it might have a name subject to change. I reckon it also makes it easier to refer to the projects in house where internal emails are written, or consultants engaged. Also its great way for developers to see excitement for their game as its announced gives them drive seeing the collective reaction of their fans.

I hope people let the next Cyberpunk finish in the oven. (and the head companies especially)

Imagine Project Canis Majoris like a Kingdom Come Deliverance style RPG, where you can choose to play as a Nilgaardian soldier or a Redanian spy. A War-genre game set in medieval-like Witcherverse. Or maybe a RTS game?

CDPR could've completed almost all the features promised (except for the ones that people assumed will be in the game) if COVID wouldn't have happened. Game development is the one process where work from home just doesn't work. The same task that can be done in a few days in an office area could take weeks when working from home because it just doesn't have that efficiency needed for this kind of work.

I am worried a lot of the writting talent that wrote the Witcher games has left the company already and other talents have left as well. I really hope they dont mess it up

The flame in the flood is brilliant, you should play it! A fun survival game with decent challenges and a pet dog! Get to boat around in a flooded area going from island to island.

I agree completely with your point about having smaller games in between big projects. As long as they don't have AAA prices I'm fine with smaller experiences

Good take overall. Curious what all that will be like when it comes out.

Before they were working with Red Engine, which gave them a lot of hurdles & patch work. Unreal Engine 5 is much faster for development & efficient, I also read they'll build 5 & 6 using the building blocks from 4 that could help cut down time & work load so i think its possible they can meet their deadlines, but I'll manage my expectations, I have no anticipation for TW4 yet, more excited for the TW3 remaster right now.

Healthy skepticism: "We MAY get a sequel of unknown quality and stability in the next decade."

We're gonna start seeing these roadmaps more often with studios. It's kinda like how Marvel or Disney frame the next phase of their movies/tv shows. It's more for the investors and somewhat for the fans and recruiters.

I'm excited but cautious. I really hope the nail the landing, I love the witcher and I'm getting into cyberpunk, so more of this IPs would really cool.

Hope they can really make some amazing games. really do not think we need a new Witcher but I hope it is good.

This is at least not a game marketing, more so a transparent showing of what they're working on. Tho 3 video games back to back in a span of 6 years each is scary

This screams conveyor belt to me - the end of passionate artists coming together out of a desire to create and the beginning of corporate manufacture.

Okay so quick update, turns out “Canis Majoris” is code name for a remake of the first Witcher game!

I remember reading something about how a lot of the reasons they struggled with devloping Cyberpunk was because of their RED engine being out of date I think while having Unreal 5 they will be able to develop much faster and hopefully with less bugs

Love watching your videos!

Who should own a sword if not an adult man??? 😂

I think the best thing the Witcher has was how deep and well developed the main character Geralt, the secondary characters and even some filler characters were made. So making it a rpg where u create ur character doesn’t seem like it

I really think that they will learn from their mistakes. The same development issues happened on Witcher 3. Rushed develop and crunch culture was rampant all throughout that games prelaunch cycle. They really just were lucky that it came together so well. But now they’ve changed their process after the Cyberpunk disaster launch and so now I think they’ll take their time and make truly next gen game.

I just finished Blood and Wine and started a new W3EE run, one of the best open world & rpg games in decades

I don’t wanna hear any promises. Just make it, and then let us know a month before its completed, and then release it. No MTV/movie star bullshit. Just make a good game, and we’ll buy it.

I don’t know what is happening inside cdpr. But one thing I notice is, how they keep shooting themselves on the foot. Which if you look closely it will be about CDPR is being ready for a take over by another huge company.

I like how you can tell it’s getting close to Halloween by the singular little pumpkin in the background lol

I don't mind waiting for a new Witcher game. I have so many games in my backlog it's insane. Take your time CDPR.

This studio can do whatever they put their mind to, they've shown it. They just need enough time, which is where it might get messed up

They promised us the moon in Cyberpunk Edgerunners too, look how that turned out

Another Luke Stephens video just dropped y’all 🙏🏽

I'd love to see them go back in time with the Witcher to before geralts story arc, when there were more witchers and monsters in the world. I think it makes sense for adding multi player

We also have to take into consideration that the big switch to Unreal Engine 5 might give them A LOT more room to develop certain aspects within their games, since UE5 does most of the heavy performance/optimization work for them instead of having to completely redo the engine over and over again like they did when they made Red Engine 2.0.

These brief project announcements are becomming really common because of the high demand for game devs. Recently it was announced Crysis 4, the new AC games, the new iron man game and many more in this way.

I bought a 980ti a month after Witcher 3 released, and was able to play it on ultra at 1440/60fps. So I would hope that the SeriesX/PS5 versions would be looking as good, if not better than, the base PC version. I don't know what to expect from the PC update though. It already got a 4k texture pack a few years ago, probably ray-traced shadows and/or reflections. Don't know what else though

Please do in depth critiques for Dark Souls and Bloodborne. Please. 🙏

Luke. I would be very happy if youd link your live channel in the channels section of this one. It would switching around just a lot easier.

Its a good time for them to release this info. With Cyberpunk finally being a succes and sales getting a boost together with the release of the Edgerunner anime. All these projects need funding of course.

Molasses Flood also did Spellbreak, a now dead magic based BR. It was pretty good for a BR.

I have a replica "the bride" sword from Kill Bill. Zero practical use but fun to swing around.

I’m a little worried with what they’re promising. It’s very ambitious. Making 3 Witcher games + a cyberpunk game + 2 more Witcher games within a year time span of when the first main Witcher game comes out. It’s all quite a lot. However with new studios opening up for them, I believe they can do it. Firstly I think they’re fine with Witcher. They know the formula, they know what to do. I’m not worried about the Witcher games. Also they explained that they’ll get the core foundations of the game for the first game and then have 3 years to build on the first game and then another 3 years to build on the second game. I think CD PR was so embarrassed with the release of cyberpunk that no matter how much pressure they fans put on, they won’t release any game until it’s finished. I love the Witcher and Cyberpunk and they know how to make a 10/10 Witcher game and they know the mistakes from the first cyberpunk and even then imo the story and setting was 10/10, just should have been way more polished and more features than what was at launch. I want to believe in CD PR. Im skeptical but people there have surely learnt their mistakes of promising too much and leaving fans disappointed so they wouldn’t claim all this and not be 100% sure they can achieve this

If V’s story is continued I really hope that the canon ending is the one where he goes with Panam because the nomads have crazy tech and give him the highest chance of survival

EA did the same mistake with Star Wars and what did they do, create the best single player Star Wars game in a long time

Let’s say these future projects are bad launches at least we know they’re gonna do their best to fix and add content and not give up

If I bought this on Xbox one could I play this on next gen or would I have to restart and buy it again

If CDPR had the time and the budget of lets say.. for example bethesda, rockstar, they would have GOTY in every game, but investors keep forcing them to release games, and that is one of the biggest issues with cyberpunk 2077.

Witcher 5 and 6 would be released within a six years timeframe after the launch of Witcher 4. I'd say that's a pretty feasible timeframe. If it's anything like most Yakuza game sequels, the next games would only need adding things and expanding instead of building things from the ground up. Also, for those that don't know, they also mentioned that the Witcher sequels and the Cyberpunk sequel would pretty much be handled by two entirely different teams. Witcher with the Polish team, and Cyberpunk with the US team. Imagine Mass Effect Andromeda which was not made by the main Bioware studio. The main difference with Andromeda's situation being that the CDPR US team would be working with Unreal Engine 5, not the mess that is their outdated in-house engine. Meaning I hope Bioware's Frostbite Engine problem wouldn't occur again.

A code name isn't always a pure cryptonym. We always give development prototypes code names, in part so that we can speak more freely about them outside the parameters of the involved NDAs.

A fully grown man with a sword, Shadiversity would be proud! It’s a beautiful piece

I am pretty sure that they don't plan on all the games to be released within 6 years of Polaris. They said that the two next installments in the trilogy will be released in 6 years. But not anything about next Cyberpunk and Hadar. Still ambitious though :)

What Secretlab chair do you have? Because i'm going to buy one of those.

The difference between hope and hype, one is from within.

I wish they would add 3rd person option to cyberpunk for free roam just walking running and jumping animations and when engaging in quests and combat to go automatically to first person

I doubt I’ll pre order any of these, but I mostly have my eyes on Project Orion and I just pray it goes well for them.

People are not pessimistic, it is the nature of the industry. Software is delayed all the time. Does not matter how big of a company you are or how much resources you have, shit always happens and delay always occur.

Those polish drunks released 1 great game seven years ago, I have no expectations from their projects

I got a Geralt action figure the blue uniform with the hood and I seen the swords at a store called entertainment in Colorado I love the chair

To clarified stuff :Witcher 4(codename Polaris) , witcher 5 and Witcher 6 are the ones associated with that 6 year period starting with the release Polaris . All the other games announced are NOT related to that 6 years period. Each one of them can come before , middle or after that 6 year period, we don't know the timeline of those titles. And W3 NG is free for all users (PC and next-gen consoles) so thats why they have very short marketing cycle for this title.

Surely this time they do have a clear plan. I mean it sounds ambitious but so far as we've seen post cp77 launch they are changing a lot of things up.. Im hoping for the best + we need to understand that since they're now working in UE5 they don't need to develop and engine simultaniously with the game resulting in a much much faster workflow.

got no hope for CDPR after their ESG video and what their main goal of game development will be. It is literally the social credit score in China but for western companies.

Just remember, we knew about code name Cyberpunk for 7 years and it was the biggest disaster in all of gaming. The future is bright but only if the Suits don’t get involved with making the games.

All we want is a new game like Witcher 3. They plan to give us everything but that.

I own a really nice and sharp Katana as a wall piece in my extra room where I game and hangout . Owning a sword is all good . I’m almost 30 lol. Told my wife it’s “Art”

I’m hoping one of the projects is a remake of the first Witcher.

It’s not an accident that CDPR released this roadmap for the company right after hitting peak player numbers on steam for cyberpunk 2077. They’re trying to capitalize on the current good will for the game and ride that wave while leaving the bad taste in our mouths behind us.

I have a working theory that Hadar will be a Sci-Fi space opera epic because they’ve already done fantasy knights and magic plus Cyberpunk being named after its own genre

Bros never heard of an Iron unless his talking Swords. Your shirts wild bro.

I’m also a grown adult who owns and buys swords! To be fair, I’m a stuntman and I make movies, so owning and renting out my armory is part of my job. But still!

An adult man with a sword, indeed. Not to mention the crapton of toys, dolls and dollhouses in the background :D

Say what you want about cyberpunk, but I know damn well development didn't start in 2017 with only 3 years to release. Despite bugs, the game is still a masterpiece when it comes to visuals, world design and some of the technical implementation.

I'm a huge Witcher fan and the lack of news on the next-gen release just pisses me off man. At least say you are behind schedule, instead they just stay silent in hopes we forget!

Flame of the flood is really good! I got the physical copy

The second and third Witcher game announcements sound to me like they're branching out genre-wise...like maybe one will be an arpg kind of like that Darksiders spinoff game

A make your own witcher will be wild if they do it but feels weird how they'll do it, considering the already written lore

i just hope their ambitions doesnt make them fail again...

I think we're getting a trilogy with geralt and a spin off with ciri or vesimire as the main character you play as

When in front of a camera and millions of people you should come with Ironed T shirt 😂 😅

witcher 3 remaster will be available this december ! gameplay trailer should be up next month !

I'm pretty sure those are the witcher book over there on the bottom shelf.

How can you call yourself a Witcher fan and not have 2 swords?!

I’m honestly more excited for the original IP than anything else. I’m definitely interested in more Witcher and Cyberpunk but I’m more interested in seeing what they do with their own fully original universe and story.

I love your ironed shirt. 100% effort.

Didn’t they say that after Polaris they want to release the next 2 witcher games within 6 years, not all the announced games? Also, the game made by the external developer (the one not named) was supposed to be appealing for a broader audience no? Sounds kinda concerning but we’ll see.

I hope the change of engine can make thise projects work

i am really worried about this. the first thing that immediately comes to mind is: edgerunners gives 2077 huge sales boost, CDPR find themselves flush with cash the likes of which they've not seen in a long time, management immediately loses their shit and upscales everything. im hopeful that they put at least a little more forethought into it but i am concerned this'll be a "win the lottery, buy 5 lambos, go broke because you can't sustain your new lifestyle" scenario

Honestly abandoning the Red Engine for Unreal 5 will be a huge step up in terms of stability and make development much smoother.

Why more pepole didn't watch it = they are still waiting for cp2077 to get fixed into the promised state with all the features, others simply lost interest in cdpr since they downgraded themselves into average greedy developer that refry the potatoes when got burned.

Luke I 100% agree with you on the topic of the next gen version of The Witcher 3.

Things have been all quiet on the starfield front

Let's just hope to see them live up to their words. Not go EA on us all.

I would love to see more smaller games of big franchises that come out every 2 years or so. I rather play every 2 years a ~50h game than every 10 years a ~200h game where after 50h of playing I'm bored of the same gameplay loop.

It’s pretty clear in the video that one of those Witcher games done by a smaller studio will be a mobile game

They better not mess up the Witcher series. That would be suicide.

The work that has already been done on 2077 should definitely justify one or more games set in the same Night City, just with all new characters and stories.