The RPG area has modified so much within the 10 years since The Witcher 3 launched, with current video games like Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 and Baldur’s Gate 3 seeing nice success with their improvements on the style. CD Projekt Red is nicely conscious of the legacy of each titles–and has stated that The Witcher 4 is extra more likely to comply with in Kingdom Come’s footsteps.
Talking to PC Gamer in a current interview, CD Projekt Red co-CEO Adam Badowski praised Kingdom Come’s systems-heavy fashion of RPG, saying its subsequent sport might go in that route. “I like Kingdom Come due to the realism and the sensation, the humorousness,” Badowski stated.
“The Kingdom Come form of simulation … there’s so many choices, you possibly can change the world, it is tremendous nice,” Badowski continued. “We might wish to comply with this development as nicely. So these are our subsequent steps for positive, and it is form of the same problem to what we have now in The Witcher 3 due to the open world and storytelling right here, freedom of decisions. However on the similar time, we wish to construct very fleshy, very well-motivated characters. So it is form of in contradiction now and again. That is a fantastic design problem.”
Badowski does not suppose Larian’s D&D blockbuster Baldur’s Gate 3 has as a lot in frequent with the CDPR fashion. “It is turn-based so it is a completely different form of sport, and the best way you work together with characters is completely completely different,” Badowski explains. “As a result of there’s freedom of alternative in Larian’s work, it pushes you to make use of completely different methods than ours. However I feel we observe one another, and there usually are not that many video games like that, so … we see how gamers react to these ways.”
CDPR co-CEO additionally expressed admiration for Baldur’s Gate 3, despite the fact that it is completely different from what the studio needs to do with The Witcher and Cyberpunk. “We undoubtedly usually are not going to make a sport like Larian did,” Nowakowski stated. “That is the form of sport they’ll make. However a number of stuff with how the characters can work together with the world and what it does was for positive some inspiration to us.”
CD Projekt Red simply launched a gorgeous-looking new tech demo for The Witcher 4 as a part of State of Unreal 2025, although the precise sport nonetheless appears to be some time off. Here is every little thing we find out about The Witcher 4 up to now.