warthriller said:
-A multiplayer duel mode where players can 1v1/2v2/3v3/4v4 each other. (although with signs, this would probably be hard to incorporate. Perhaps players would all be generic soldiers that do not have signs.)
I'd go along with that
IF and only IF, the single player campaign does not suffer because of it. When the Arena mode was first announced I actually thought it was multiplayer. You could draw inspiration from Red Dead Redemption which is also a single player game with a rich and detailed narrative, but it still has a fun and entertaining multiplayer aspect. The Witcher 3 could have anything from 1v1 duels to 4v4 groups as you suggest. Why stop there? Add 4-player Co-Op "horde" mode (I think modern games use that terms for: survive as long as you can with your pals). Four witcher against hordes of enemies coming towards you. Start with drowners/nekkers and moves on up through the beastiary. The current arena mode is actually already sort of like a single player horde mode.
Needless to say all of this needs a ranking system and support for friends across platforms. If multiplayer is added you HAVE to make dice poker available to play vs. your friends.
warthriller said:
-Combat in which nontargeted enemies can still take physical sword damage.
I'm not sure I understand this suggestion. This is already available in The Witcher 2. If you hit an opponent, someone standing next to him sometimes take roughtly half damage.
warthriller said:
-The ability to kick enemies that get to close, this will move them a small distance and deal low damage.
Aard.
warthriller said:
-A well-developed sneak system.
I'm not sure how I'd feel about that. On one hand, sneaking up on monsters in their own lairs or sneaking past a vastly powerful monster in the wilds sound appealing, but sneaking around trying to steal stuff or because you wanna eavesdrop on a political conversation doesn't sound very witchery, depsite Geralt doing plenty of it.
warthriller said:
I wouldn't mind seeing an original mini-game. A well thought out one. I like the one from Knights of the Old Republic (can't remember the name) and I liked Caravan from Fallout: New Vegas too. The AI wasn't very good at it though so it just became easy money. If you add a mini-game with playing cards, you can also have players buy or loot special/additional cards from around the world. Perhaps a side-quest to get some of the best cards. It'd add an extra passtime to the game. If something like this and multiplayer was added, that'd be sweet.
warthriller said:
-The ability to purchase property.
Geralt, home owner. He doesn't seem like a stay-at-home person to me. Besides that'd be boring. If The Witcher 2 is any indication, Geralt won't stay in one place for long and he'll often travel across even the largest of the northern kingdoms. That being said, I suppose you could get around it by re-introducing the teleportation portals. Geralts home would of course need a storage option aswell as a crafting option. I'd much prefer to just have him roam the wilderness and seek out the services of local craftsmen though.
warthriller said:
That's a touchy subject for many people. I'm undecided really. Not having fast travel has only annoyed me very few times in the game, not enough for me to put it on my wishlist.
warthriller said:
- Grand Master Siegfried returning
- Yaevinn returning if you did Scoia'tael path in TW1.
- Return of other TW1 characters like Kalstein,Thaler, Ada and Vincent Meis
It'd have to be pretty minor stuff since a lot of those people could be dead if you import your saved game. If TW3 is the conclusion for the moment, then I do hope that each character gets their time to shine before the end, but it'd have to be short if they want to include most of the important characters from the previous game.
warthriller said:
I don't really see that happening if I'm honest. If we do find ourselves in Nilfgaard and get to meet the Emperor, I'm sure we'll get to do fetch quests for him, but I doubt we could actually betray everyone we met for the last two games and end up aiding the Black Ones more than we absolutely have to.
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