Witcher 4 Speculation - What to Expect
 

Gamewatcher write what to expect from a possible Witcher 4.

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Good article but I would hope you could finally create your own character at least. As for playing as Ciri it would be impossible unless in cannon she became a Witcher.

In my play-through she always became the Empress as she deserved.
That's were I disagree as I actually liked how it was a semi-open world instead of fully open. Seems every game has to be the latter nowadays, or journalist complain.

i always believed W3 was the last one?

Last one with Geralt. They said they at least wanted a serious break the witcher but never ruled out coming back to the universe itself.

Open world like the witcher 2 would be even better.

It was the last game for the Witcher Geralt. They said they might go back one day, but the new game would be different. So at this time it's nothing but a pipe dream.

CDPR right now is working on Cyberpunk 2077, and another unannounced RPG.

They ended on such a high note, that coming back with $ made sequel could end up in Andromeda.
Not likely seeing it anyways in at least 5-6 years, I'd rather hope they pick up Conan liscence and do something similar.

The number one thing I'd like to see improvement on is with gear. I'd actually prefer less of it, but what you do manage to find or acquire have real impact. The game starts out fun with a bazillion areas to investigate. But after just a few hours you find yourself tossing yet another trinket on the pile of useless junk. W3 would have been a lot more fun to explore if whatever it is you found had real meaningful impact. So fewer items and perhaps fewer places to explore, but much more meaning and impact to what is there. That would be my vote.

This is pure guesswork. Personally I'd like to see them move the timeline forward a few hundred years.

Here we go again:

There would be no "fantasy", no monster, no witches, no mages. At the time of Geralt it was already considered a dying world in terms of magic hence the witchers becoming a rarity.
I don't know if the world as a pure "medieval" setting has any appeal per se.

I expect an excellent game, and I further expect that, this time, I shan't be waiting on a sale to pick up the new product!

Absolutely. The loot system in TW3 is pretty bad, and I felt it was easily the weakest part of the game. I don't think there needs to be fewer places to explore, just take the time to insert more hand-placed loot into the world, and don't use so much random generation especially with weapons.

As far as a protagonist for the next game, I really hope it's not Ciri. Give us character customization as Morrandir suggests, or at least give us several characters to choose from. This is assuming it's not Geralt.

No, it's fantasy setting. They can do whatever they want with it, including introducing a rebirth of magic (and so forth) based in a post-medieval realm.

If they did a W4 I would want it to be more story oriented with fewer unrelated side quests and more focused on the main plot. Also shaving a few hours off - think doubling the main story in length but dump a lot of the unrelated side stuff.

Do they have full creative freedom? How's the situation with licencing from Sapkowski?

I think TW3 was almost perfect in the way they designed the quests. Most of the sidequests were worthwhile, but at the same time they were completely optional. Nothing forced the player to spend 100 hours doing additional quests.

Personally, I thought it had the best sidequests of perhaps any crpg I've played.

An unannounced RPG called The Witcherette. ;)

Its true that the side quests were very good and more than a few were far better than the main story but i prefer a game that emphasis the main story and quite frankly I thought the main story could have used a bit more depth and focus.

I don't see any newly "dug up" information here.

Aren't they the guys making Cyberpunk? If so, it will be a LONG time before a Witcher 4, considering Cyberpunk to this day doesn't even have a release date, and they seem to focus on one project at a time.

What the…

Yeah, all completely worthless speculation from a random guy.

Yes but they also have a second RPG in the works for a 2020-22 release.

Part of what made The Witcher 3 great was the abundance of very interesting quests in addition to the main quests, and the abundance of interesting characters. I would be very interested in a game by the same developers within that same world but without necessarily all of the same characters, as long as it would be an RPG.

Exactly! If I can’t name my character Bubba Mcwitchface then it isn’t worth playing.

It's called role playing. Whenever someone uses the incorrect in-game name, just yell "I'M WUBBA MCBITCHFACE!" at your screen. Problem solved.

A product for players looking for an attitude.

That "definition" is false.
Products for players looking for an attitude are Steve Vai's albums.

Pure speculation but beats reading about another generic RPGmaker or stuck-in-development, years-long KS, so thanks for posting.

It would be nice if W4 let us explore other parts of the World. Bit tired of hearing about Nilfgaard et al. most of the Northern Kingdoms. Let's see how Kovir and Povis are doing, being rich from trade and progressive and all. Actually exploring Nilfgaard would be great - but only up to the point that exploration of its many conquered sub-kingdoms showed us relatively autonomous, unique locales. If it's all black and gold and culturally monotonous throughout, it'll be boring.

Let's see Zangvebar, Ofir, Hann, Barsa, etc…where Here There Still Be Monsters and Magic aplenty.

Let's get to make our own Witcher prodigee, a newly-fledged graduate of some still-thriving/surviving far-off School where Witchers are needed. That's the core of the gameplay.

It was quite clear to me that they would not end with Witcher 3, even if they said it was the last.. I don't even think its the last with Geralt, but I bet the next one will have obvious inspiration from Cyberpunk, where you create your own character.