Ok let's see.
1. I disagree. Some things are clearly evil and there should be no doubt about it, like racism. Radovid therefore is evil. If you don't want an evil Radovid, don't make him a racist, you can't make a racist look good. Evil is perfectly easy to define.
2. I disagree. I stated in another comment how I don't like the way things are in this game because I can't choose a path easy. Made a thread so I can decide which ending to choose, which still wasn't what I'd like. It's pretty annoying.
3. Maybe, but I really didn't care about politics, more about how politics will affect the characters I like, Geralt, Ciri etc. That was why I gave much thought about who'd win, not because I care about the future of the Empire.
4. I agree, that's how it starts. Less and less they're like "take that and be happy even that is there".
Hear me out CDPR. Don't make the same mistake others made. This is not about "porn", porn can be opened in another window in seconds. I'll give an example that has nowhere near your graphics or scenes, but it makes a game unique.
Baldur's Gate 2. The romance in that game makes the game so much better. It's something to look forward to, gives depth, I am not good with words so I can't explain it that good. It gives colour and warmth. There are no sex scenes, there are no sound effects of sexual nature. There are no naked bodies, all you see are pixels and an avatar and hear the voice.
Yet compare that with Pillars of eternity, a game that was supposed to be like BG2 but the developers decided to leave out "lesser things" like romance. The game is dull compared to BG2, colourless. The world feels smaller, rpg element so much weaker, the world is less "realistic", more hack and slash than anything, uninteresting characters...
Great games became great because of ALL of their content, it's the whole package. Witcher is great also because of the variety of romantic options and adult content, there is no reason you take that off the game to make it a hack and slash, there is no reason to reduce it to a minimum, you should develop it and make it so good others would want to copy you. Set a standard, make it yours.
It's like taking something out of Witcher 3 in Witcher 4, like saying no option to choose over Yeneffer or Triss. In Witcher 4 you have 1 option, and that is an uninteresting colourless character. Hey, it's Witcher 4, a Witcher game still right? Better graphics too, wow...NO! It's a downgrade, and that's how it starts and then we have to wait for another small company with ambition that will create a masterpiece without discounts in depth.
Then there is the success of Witcher 3, and the now rich devs be like "pfft, who cares, just make more money and let another generation of developers and another company take over, time to enjoy our retirement".
Don't take things away, add things. Develop things. Set a standard. Don't be like other companies like Obsidian that took great things away from BG2 and made a "successor" that is plain. Granted, maybe they didn't have the means, small company, and maybe you didn't either, but now you do.
And not only in future Witcher games, but Cyberpunk 2077.
1. I disagree. Some things are clearly evil and there should be no doubt about it, like racism. Radovid therefore is evil. If you don't want an evil Radovid, don't make him a racist, you can't make a racist look good. Evil is perfectly easy to define.
2. I disagree. I stated in another comment how I don't like the way things are in this game because I can't choose a path easy. Made a thread so I can decide which ending to choose, which still wasn't what I'd like. It's pretty annoying.
3. Maybe, but I really didn't care about politics, more about how politics will affect the characters I like, Geralt, Ciri etc. That was why I gave much thought about who'd win, not because I care about the future of the Empire.
4. I agree, that's how it starts. Less and less they're like "take that and be happy even that is there".
Hear me out CDPR. Don't make the same mistake others made. This is not about "porn", porn can be opened in another window in seconds. I'll give an example that has nowhere near your graphics or scenes, but it makes a game unique.
Baldur's Gate 2. The romance in that game makes the game so much better. It's something to look forward to, gives depth, I am not good with words so I can't explain it that good. It gives colour and warmth. There are no sex scenes, there are no sound effects of sexual nature. There are no naked bodies, all you see are pixels and an avatar and hear the voice.
Yet compare that with Pillars of eternity, a game that was supposed to be like BG2 but the developers decided to leave out "lesser things" like romance. The game is dull compared to BG2, colourless. The world feels smaller, rpg element so much weaker, the world is less "realistic", more hack and slash than anything, uninteresting characters...
Great games became great because of ALL of their content, it's the whole package. Witcher is great also because of the variety of romantic options and adult content, there is no reason you take that off the game to make it a hack and slash, there is no reason to reduce it to a minimum, you should develop it and make it so good others would want to copy you. Set a standard, make it yours.
It's like taking something out of Witcher 3 in Witcher 4, like saying no option to choose over Yeneffer or Triss. In Witcher 4 you have 1 option, and that is an uninteresting colourless character. Hey, it's Witcher 4, a Witcher game still right? Better graphics too, wow...NO! It's a downgrade, and that's how it starts and then we have to wait for another small company with ambition that will create a masterpiece without discounts in depth.
Then there is the success of Witcher 3, and the now rich devs be like "pfft, who cares, just make more money and let another generation of developers and another company take over, time to enjoy our retirement".
Don't take things away, add things. Develop things. Set a standard. Don't be like other companies like Obsidian that took great things away from BG2 and made a "successor" that is plain. Granted, maybe they didn't have the means, small company, and maybe you didn't either, but now you do.
And not only in future Witcher games, but Cyberpunk 2077.
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