The Witcher - History

Veteran Watcher Dark Savant spotted some interesting videos made by Ryslaw (=Ryszard Chojnowski) about the beginnings of The Witcher:

The Witcher History #1 - First Demo from 2002:


The Witcher History #2 - E3 2004:








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Great find Dark Savant - Thank You!

Yeah, very cool find. I wonder if he's still with CDPR. Or if he can also present some work in progress stuff for TW2.

He also has a nice unboxing of all witcher collector's editions if anyone is curious:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjviRaa4_ik

danutz_plusplus said:

Yeah, very cool find. I wonder if he's still with CDPR. Or if he can also present some work in progress stuff for TW2.

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It is in the description of video part 2

And a side not: I left the company in June 2004, so I do not work at CDP Red anymore, but I'm still cheering for them!

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Very interesting. Loved W1, W2 did not like at all. Enjoying the hell out of W3, but it's too early to make a judgement.

I agree this a great find! Super fun to see the early demos. I still find Witcher 1 to be very charming and very gritty and visually appealing compared to Witcher 2. That being said, I love W1 and W2 and W3 (10 hours in).

So major respect to CDPR for seeing through the Witcher projects. Gaming is much better for having these mature, unique RPGs to offset the lighter more whimsical BioWare/Bethesda offerings.