In regards to the campfires since it's going to be open world anyway they could easily incorporate the camp system from red dead redemption 2 where you can put up a camp fire, craft brew potions make oils and rest/skip time etc
It would be interesting to see something like this, the idea of having your own mini Witcher camp would be quite fun, it just depends how it's implemented and if it prevents you from using it in certain environments
That would be, in my opinion a good thing to add. I know that many people don't use nor like much the camp system of rdr2 but personally, i like to play RP and keep a survival aspect in the game if possible (like camping at nightfall in rdr, etc)
They could just make the campfire system an optional choice in the settings, they did a great job in that respect with the wild hunt next gen most the changes could be turned on or off such as the new camera angle and the new sign system
The alchemy system makes no sense in witcher 3. You can hoard all of the herbs and ingredients, but you use them rarely and have an unlimited number of potions and oils. It is completely unrealistic, but more importantly, it makes a player lazy, forgetting how important the environment is for a witcher. The system with meditation to refill or make a new potion should stay. Also, it should not be possible to apply oil or potion during combat, but no meditation should be needed. Just that Geralt should not be able to fight and do three other different things. It is distracting and breaks the immersion.
I’d rather they develop a better combat system than Witcher 3, since I know they won’t return to Witcher 1’s design (which I prefer). What I like about Witcher 1 is it more appropriately facilitates the role playing experience of being a Witcher through combat than the other games. It’s near 1:1 with how it is described in the books and felt incredibly immersive when placed against RPGs both of its era and even before and after. Thanks for your thoughts George.
Witcher 1 and 2 should be remade in the W3 engine and should be incorporated into W3 for an ultimate Geralt experience. Profits should be used to start a charity fund to fight illiteracy among Netflix script writers and to buy Lauren Hissrich a small island with no Internet, so she won't hurt another classic piece of fantasy literature again.
Mate it’s funny how much I disagree with that lol to each their own. For a fact I know they won’t reuse the original combat, they’re not trying to do Diablo again.
I need the romances to be GOOD like The Witcher 3. I love the huge amount of "romances" in Witcher 1, but most of them were cringe and un-sexy. I want the same amount of romance opportunities but with actual good writing and characterization, instead of dialogues that sounds like it came from a bad p**n. I need Geralt to be as charming and suave as he is in Witcher 3, where it was believable that women would be attracted to him easily. Witcher 1 Geralt was not charming at all and his pick up lines were cringey/creepy.
I feel the fireplace thing should be like this: To make *new* potions (as in, it's the first time you've made it) and upgrading those potions, a fireplace is required. Refilling them shouldn't. I'm expecting refilling potions to be back, so it won't require freshly brewed potions every time.
I think I said this on the last video, Witcher 3 style combat but with the different stances. Also just about the campfire stuff, I didn’t think it was that big of a hassle in W1 cause it’s nowhere near as vast and open as W3 was. I was grateful for the meditate anywhere in W3 cause it was this giant open world, but W1 isn’t so the campfire system was fine for me. I’ll be fine either way though, campfires or meditate anywhere. The big thing really is just the combat, cause W1 combat was not good. Outside of the few dedicated fanboys, I have not met a person in the general gaming population who liked the gameplay of W1. So even if it just was W3 gameplay put into W1 story, I think that would be way more appealing to a general population than W1 with a facelift and some qol changes. While people may not be super into W3 combat, it’s generally not hated, and certainly more enjoyable than what W1 had. That then does raise a question, who is the audience? Do they want the general gaming population (who probably played at least a little of W3) to buy the game, or is this for the specific Witcher super fans? Either way, W3 has a lot more fans than W1 does…
It is rather simple for me in terms of W1 Potions too complex, make it easier or W3 Combat too easy, make it harder maybe sth between W2 and W3 Dialogue, intrigue, plot - keep it! Expand locations which weren't developed in time for W1 premiere you have amazing game
Most important thing for me with the remake is, that it hopefully is a new game, not a replacement of my Witcher 1 on my PC. I want to be able to still play the old game from time to time, because I simply love its atmosphere.
TW1 has the potential to be the greatest remake ever and I'm more excited about it than about the TW4. Totally with you in the idea making the TW1 story in the style of the TW3. but I'm open to them including new things or trying to pair it to whatever we get in TW4. Just "next gen upgrade" of TW1 would be such a disappointment. The campfire situation I personally like but i don't think it's a big deal
Witcher 1 felt a lot more like an RPG than 3 because of Geralt not having his memory. I really hope they embrace that aspect. Let me be a jerk to Zoltan and Elves. The original did that pretty well but it could go further.
Hote take: Witcher 1 doesn’t need a remake. A remaster would be more than enough. Upgrade the mechanics that can be upgraded, improve the visuals, maybe re-arrange the soundtrack, change the UI, and call it a day and focus on new games.
Nah soundtrack is non-negotiable. That music is too perfect lol Reality being faced is the remake will be made to appeal to Witcher 3 fans as much as possible. It will probably be entertaining but those who were first introduced to Witcher games with the first and loved it like me will probably not be satisfied. Age old grumpy gamer dilemma. I will probably not enjoy the mechanics of the remake, I just hope the story is well conveyed as I enjoy it the most of the trilogy.
@@ronaldood4678 I agree, that’s why I’d go with just re-arranging the soundtrack, and include the option to have the original one. There’s no way they can re-create what they did with W1. Nowadays games feel like just products created to make profit. W1 is more like a passion project, or a love letter to Sapkowski’s novels. I think W1 is CDPR’s most important game, re-making it just feels wrong and like a cash grab, which it to a large degree probably is.
The remake has to drop the tedious way of doing things. I'm just over halfway through Witcher 1 and I haven't touched it in over a year. Crafting anything is such a chore. I feel like I'm trapped in a cul de sac. I love the Witcher 3 fighting. It feels fluid and real. The original feels like it came from a 1980's ZX Spectrum game. Timing mouse clicks is all that matters. I want to be able to say that I have finished Witcher 1 one day. Preferably before the remake arrives. 😊
The alchemy system in Witcher 1 is the best. It makes perfect sense from a lore perspective mixing different ingredients, secondary substances and bases. It is much more logical and immersive than Witcher 3. You are objectively wrong.
I don't think that simply making The Witcher 1 in the style of The Witcher 3 would be exactly the ideal route. The first game has a strong identity of its own and I think some diversity between the games should be maintained, although I'd definitely want the game ot be modernized, since many of its aspects aged like milk. Maybe it could be handled in a similar way to the Mafia remake - add a separate "classic" difficulty setting, which gives you an experience closer to the original, while keeping other quality of life improvements provided by the remake like an updated combat system and so on.
Meditiations - Don't really know why anyone would want this in a remake. Never missed it once I started witcher 3 after 1/2. Honestly, I feel like such a system has more drawbacks than merits, like how it cuts the momentum of the game and can hence break immersion rather than strengthen it. A cutscene before a contract fight is both more "immersive" and far less tedious. Stances - The witcher 3 has stances, they're called whirl and rend. It's obviously a much more fluid and elegant system and can be expanded upon in the remake.
I think everything should be kept the same with some additions: areas, especially the Vizima Outskirts felt gutted of content so I think adding more sidequests and areas to explore would be great. I did almost everything I could in the original game but felt I could have levelled up more. I also would like more dialogue and side lore with minor characters. In general, all the scenes should have more NPCs especially in the town quarters and the battle scenes to make it more immersive. All that with the improved graphics and you would have a true remaster.
Please keep the old potion crafting, it's not tedious. I love the Witcher 3 Enchanted Edition mod. Makes the game less casual, the Witcher 3 combat is quite fun! The group style was way too op
Having played the Witcher 1 recently without any nostalgia, you're 100% correct that people that think that the old gameplay style is somehow better than Witcher 3's gameplay style when it comes to combat have to be wrong. It's clunky, unnecessarily slow and extremely static because you choose your stance and stick to it depending on what enemy you face. I don't even like Witcher 3 that much, I think it has a lot of issues that plague many open world-esque games that I personally just can't deal with, but in terms of combat it's a lot better than the first game by a long stretch In other words, they should have the Witcher 3's combat as a base and expand on that, maybe add more stances that you can swap between on the fly to bring it closer to the idea of the first game
I know that many people will disagree with me, but I loved witcher 1 more than 2 or 3. I am really excited about witcher 1 remake. Leave the camp fire alone, lol🤣🤣🤣🤣
I stopped playing the Witcher because the combat is so tedious. I have just finished reading the books and bought the 3 games to continue the story. started playing the first game and the tedium killed it for me.
Why i felt like i was playing a zelda ocarina of time game while playing this one 😂 still 8/10, 8 because the combat is buggy and the walk is way to far and way to slow
I would also just love to see the Witcher 3 with the Witcher 1s story ! The fireplace concept is cool but I agree it would get annoying , maybe for the first time you make the potions you need the fireplace but after that you can just make them anywhere like in TW3
The systems of Witcher 3 are definitely a lot more enjoyable than what was in Witcher 1. Not just for me. The mechanics of the Witcher 3 are much more approachable to most players.
Witcher 1 is for me the most atmospheric of the 3, and i'd rather they don't remake it at all... The worst they could do is just make witcher 1 in witcher 3...
I like the idea of a Larian style "long rest" and "short rest". For small healing and single potions/potions you already know do a 'short rest' out in the world and you get a limited number through the day. For a new research for potions/other crafting/full heal and renew of abilities/personal quest progression with NPC's etc. have a 'long rest' at a camp or inn. Obviously this concept won't translate exactly because of the nature of the Witcher games compared to say DOS2/BG3, but the concept could be modified to work really well while allowing maximum choice and options for players.
So here's my thoughts on it all: Firstly I agree that the best approach to combat would be to have a new combat system that incorporates the best of all three games. The multiple stances of TW1, the difficulty and brutality of TW2, and the smoothness and comfortability of TW3, I imagine this would be something similar to the combat system in game's like Ghost of Tsushima, Jedi Survivor, or the new God of Wars. As for compatibility with TW2 I think the best solution here is to do a Next Gen update version of that game just like with TW3, available on all platforms. Not only would this be first time players could play TW2 on playstation and even import saves to TW3 but this would allow them to better prepare for any choices the player will make in TW1 Remake and make sure they're accounted for. Finally addressing things like imported items like the Raven Armor can be accounted for too. Just have the Raven Armor function as one of the best armors for the early game of TW2 and 3, until about halfway through Flotsam (or Velen for TW3), but also have those armor's be craftable. This way if you're starting a fresh save you can still use them but now you have to work for them but if you import them from TW1 you don't have to work for them because you already did.
I thought everyone could agree that basically just the witcher 1 story in the witcher 3 engine is what we wanted.The combat system in w3 is perfectly fine to use as base for the remakes imo. Just improve the interaction with npcs and maybe either re voice it all or something. because it can sound too clunky for a current times game
I’m not sure if I’m alone in this but I feel like many people tend to oversee that the quest structure of the W1 is also a bit clunky. I replayed the W1 about a year ago and idk. When I played it as a kid (in like 2013, because the W1 wasn’t even my first witcher game) I didn’t mind it but returning to it now it really felt like more than half of the main story was pretty much fetch quests, go there, talk to that person and get an item from him, he won’t give it to you for free so you go fetch for him something else, on location you kill few monsters, get the item and repeat (A Posh Reception comes to mind epecially). I think it would also be nice to change this a little bit because I feel like many people who have only played the W3 would be really disappointed with the remake if the quests stayed the same. Also the after reading the books you can’t unsee how the story is all over the place and in context of the witcher world doesn’t make much sense. CDPR tried to implement so many things from the books into the game but I feel like it didn’t work that well and I don’t even know where to start with that. The wild hunt, Alvin basically being Ciri, Lady of the Lake and the fisher king, Adda I guess made kind of sense, fighting the white frost (just like in W3 where it also makes no sense), I understand the motivation Jacques had (and yeah I think that his “true identity” was pretty cool) but didn’t like the execution and many more. You can tell it was their first game. The campfires idk din’t find them to be that tedious so I guess I don’t mind either if they stay or get removed. But the combat system is an absolute shitfest. The only thing I find good about it are the stances otherwise it’s trash in my oppinion. rember coming to W1 for the firts time after playing the 2nd game and being like “what the fuck is this? It’s shit” so yeah… maybe keep the stances but scrap everything else. Damn maybe it looks like I didn’t like the game but I really do I think it had an absolutely unique atmosphere which I hope they’ll recreate in the remake, it’s just looking at the game now it feels very outdated in almost every aspect. Wish them luck cause I’m even more excited for the remake than the W4
I am playing mortal shell and I believe combat system perfectly fits to witcher. "Hardening" can be converted to quen...etc PS: The game would turn into a soulslike game if they implemented this combat system and Firecamping would become must.
I agree about wanting The Witcher 1 story in The Witcher 3. Most of us new nothing about The Witcher until part 3. Theres a reason its the most successful game of the series. They can simply just slightly tweak the combat system but more or less keep at the same. I'm very excited for this remake 😁.
I actually genuinely enjoyed everything about w1 I played the whole game super high but besides that it was very in depth and fleshed out I was honestly impressed coming from the Witcher 3 as my first gane
I actually liked back I Witcher 2 you had to make potions. Not just make one a d done. It made the game more trivial, but hey that's just me. I never played Witcher 1
I think the camp fire system should just be modernized, most modern RPGs and adventure games let you have a camp kit. That way it allows you to set up camp when ever and almost wherever you need
For me i don't need to do extra steps and rather have making potion should be like witcher 3 the combat make it easy but combat have many variations and for fall damage dont mess it up
Honestly, as long as they don't have the same combat system as the original, I am good. That combat was horrendous, that's the only reason why I never played the game 😅
Sad to say save import is unfortunately not available to us PlayStation players as the Witcher 2 never came to PlayStation. Sad as I’d love to be able to play all of them in order with my choices imported
the worst part about meditate in witcher 1 it was some events in quest are night and some day so you need to go over and over again to camp fires to make the time past quickly
@@RenegadeJames in this case I used the term "Netflixify" not just as a direct reference to the Netflix show but to express my concerne about certain changes. (I am from Eastern Eu and we use Netflix as a negative term in some context, sorry for the misunderstanding.) For example, a sudden urge by any of the developers to change already established characters or story or lore towards any directions. The reason behind this is that staff at CDPR has changed a lot during the last couple of years. Also, the devs mentioned in an interview that they want to remake the game for a modern audience and that statement is very broad and also concerning.
@@Bigby-von-Wolfburg They won't Netfllxify it for multiple reasons. No one in Netflix is involve. And secondary, they know the fans will be incredibly mad. And this is a remake, not a continuation. There's precedent for this game.
Personally I want a Netflix remake of the game where triss is played by Lizzo , Michelle Yeoh plays Yennefer and there’s absolutely no structure to the plot or character development. IGN 10/10
Bruh...its gonna be witcher 1 skin on witcher 3...they're not gonna go back to those old ass archaic game mechanics...its gonna be witcher 3s engine...its gameplay mechanics its graphics just retelling an updated witcher 1 story...if anything they'll try to improve on anything they think they can from the witcher 3s mechanics but that's it...if anyone actually thought the witcher one remake was gonna retain any of it's original gameplay mechanics...boy....you crazy...witcher one isnt a good game...so they're taking witcher 3 and putting a witcher one story and setting skin over it...they don't even have to bother making a lot of character models from scratch...dandelion zoltan triss lambert eskel vesemir shani...already good to go straight from witcher 3...think of the witcher one remake as an even larger expansion than blood and wine retelling the story of witcher one...I'll be damn surprised if that's not what it is
The story requires changes, it imitates the books so much at times it feels more like plagiarism than a continuation. It is not until The Witcher 2 AoK they really came into their own in storytelling. And considering how few story points from 2 got continued in 3, I would not count on the save import being maintained.
The only thing the game needs is better Combat, better graphics, better voice acting and better level design And maybe a horse And imo for the combat to be good and faithful to the witcher universe it needs to be complex but flashy, easy to use hard to master We don’t need a witcher 3.2 we need an actual representation of the witcher world and what the path is like, the witcher 3 is one of the most amazing games Ever made but the soul of the witcher series isn’t all there in my opinion
