Single-player / story mode

[OptoNick]

Single-player / story mode

Kotaku published a very interesting article about Gwent story mode yesterday, with commentaries by Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz

Main features:

- Several campaigns with different protagonists, each 10+ hours long with optional quests and areas to explore
- Genre: strategy-RPG with Gwent combat; The Banner Saga and Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes among inspirations
- World map is 2D, top-down view, drawn with cel-shading

 

[volsung]

When I read about a story mode I immediately thought of Puzzle Quest.

 

[Toyen]

I am so hopeful for Iorveth and Saskia campaign!

And when you finish it, you get their hero card for the scoiatael deck as a reward : ) !!!!

 

[wrangman]

This sounds too good to be true. But, we're talking about a CDPR game here! Expect it to be even better than you think!

 

[GSandSDS]

I would like to see Saskia and Iorveth (especially Saskia) being part or the story too. And hopefully a story less depressing than in the Saskia comic. The E3 footage showed Saskia's father as a card. Don't know if it is supposed for multi-player only, but maybe he will be part of the story-mode too.

 

[Cs__sz__r]

They're definitely putting some content in that I did not expect. Looking forward to it.

 

[SortaHip]

It makes me really happy to see a developer putting a lot of focus on a single player aspect to this kind of game as well! If the campaigns are as long as what has been rumored and told, I will be beyond impressed!

 

[GSandSDS]

By the way: Is there any footage of the solo story-mode from the E3?

 

[Krull32]

I am so hopeful for Iorveth and Saskia campaign!

I think the chances for that are not bad this time .

 

[KingHochmeister]

If they put in the backstories of the factions, like the Wild Hunt during the time between the books and Witcher 3, the Scoia'tael after Witcher 2, second northern/nilfgaardian war that culminates in a gwent version of the battle of Brenna, then consider me sold.

 

[Pug.]

Looks like the original voice actors will be making a return as well. That's always good news.

http://www.vg247.com/2016/06/24/the-witcher-3-cast-will-return-for-gwent-standalone-game/

 

[GSandSDS]

Besides Saskia/Saesenthessis I REALLY would like to see being part of the story mode... there was an interesting card shown on the E3: the legendary card "The Operator". As far as I remember he belongs to the reptilian-looking "Vran". So do the Vran become part of the monster deck? Do they have a place in the story mode? The never had a real appearance in the three Witcher games (besides of the Operator who does not look like a Vran). It would be nice to welcome a Vran in "the party" for the first time.

 

[Mythic_Pilot]

We need to have Vernon Roche as a protagonist for the northern realms campaign

 

[GSandSDS]

I wonder if the choices made in TW 1-3 will have any impact in the Gwent story-campaigns. This could be especially significant with characters who could die depending on the choices that were made (Dijkstra, Siegfried, Letho, Ciri, Iorveth, Saskia, ...). Of course the game could try to avoid all these characters, it could do the same thing that TW3 already did (asking questions about decisions made in the past), or it could just ignore the decisions made in the game and assume that certain character are just alive or met a certain fate... or it could let all stories happen in the past. The last option would make sense with characters that definitely die during the story of the main games (like King Foltest, Eredim, ...). However with certain other characters (Saskia, Iorveth, ...) whose fate were let unclear in the main games this could lead to certain gamers being discontent because they still don't know what happened to their (favorite) characters in the end or just because they want to see them safe.

 

[Akuumo]

We don't know if Gwent's story campaigns happen after the events of the games

 

[Mythic_Pilot]

I hope they make it that you get blueprints/diagrams in campaign for cards so you can craft them before other people in multiplayer .. people who buy campaigns should never be behind those who opt to jump into multiplayer first

 

[KingBlackToof]

I'm going by the Hearthstone Crafting system, which I imagine this will be very similar to.

You can see ALL cards in the game and can craft any of them whenever you want providing you have the resources available.
This is useful to allow you to look through the cards and theorycraft yourself a deck and then aim for those cards with crafting if you want to.

And no one will be any further behind or ahead than anyone else.
It just depends on if you gain currency for card packs in Single-Player or not and whether a person decides to purchase 100 packs at launch.

 

[RezoInverse]

I just need to se Saskia and Cynthia again, now!!

 

[GSandSDS]

Saskia:
- Powerful, Righteous, mercyfull, idealistic (a rare combination in The Witcher world)
- Secret: dragon (and dragons = awesome)
- Big outsider bonus (dragons untruly seen as on of the most terrible and evil monsters)
- She likes Geralt

Cynthia:
- Powerful
- Mysterious (well, she is a spy after all and can shroud herself in a cocoon of lies)
- She also likes Geralt

Iorveth:
- Rebel in an unjust and dark world
- Torn between righteousness and an addiction to extremism and hate against humans (well, Scoia'tel)
- A little outsider bonus (elf)
- He also likes... err... respects Geralt


Yes, there are several interesting characters that (in my opinion) deserve more "screen time". My favorite is still Saskia (because of the combination). Could even imagine a whole game/storyline with her as the protagonist. But that's just my point of view.

 

[texasgoldrush]

How about a Shani campaign?

Where she seeks ingredients for medicine but in dangerous places.

That would be outside the box.