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‘We tried and it didn’t work out’: CDPR co-founder says it shouldn’t stray from AAA open-world RPGs

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨simple@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/we-tried-and-it-didnt-work-out-cdpr-co-founder-says-it-shouldnt-stray-from-aaa-open-world-rpgs/

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  • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, The Witcher 1 and 2 weren’t open world, and those turned out pretty well, especially 2. There’s something to be said about what a game from them might gain by doing more in a smaller world.

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    • Rusty@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I tried playing Witcher 2 when it came out, but couldn’t. It’s so immersion breaking when some parts of the map are blocked by some gates or invisible walls. When Witcher 3 came out I was hesitant at first remembering my bad experience with 2, but I loved it so much.

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      • ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How did you feel about Baldur’s Gate 3? Because the structure of the maps in the first two Witcher games are what most of the genre is like.

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  • simple@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The co-founder is definitely referring to the Gwent standalone game. I played it when open beta came out but it steadily went downhill from there until they eventually stopped working on it in 2023.

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    • Jyrdano@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I liked that game. Then they decided to completely rework it. IMO for the worse. It went downhill from there.

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      • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah I’m still not sure where they were going with reducing it to two lanes instead of 3.

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    • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It was still a really good game by the time they stopped working on it, and one of the least greedy CCG I’ve ever seen. Hearthstone was already starting to lose players, and they had a shot at being a replacement, even if the mechanics of the game were rather different.

      And then Marvel Rivals came out and the CCG landscape was just overpopulated.

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      • simple@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think you mean Marvel Snap, but yes. Even the biggest pvp card games are struggling to retain players.

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    • Deflated0ne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      By the time I wanted to play that it was gone.

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      • RollForInitiative@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        They also created a standalone, story based Gwent card game that is pretty good, just in case you didn’t know: Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales

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    • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      i wanted gwent on my phone, not on my PC.

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  • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Funny because I stray away from anything that associates itself with AAA

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    • etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Because you moved on to AAAA?

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      • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Once you go Ubi, you can’t go back to a life without climbing towers.

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      • Yeller_king@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I’m holding out for AAAAA.

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      • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well, the world should have moved on to IPv6 a long time ago.

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    • UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’re missing out on some great experiences that indies simply can’t produce in that case

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      • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Any such experiences in the last few years? I think the last AAA games I’ve played where RDR2 and Spider Man.

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  • Emil_Zatopek1982@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    CDPR’s open worlds are cardboard props to the stories.

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    • markovs_gun@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m just curious what you think is a good open world then

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    • BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The cyberpunk one was great, becaise it was so beautiful that merely driving in it was enjoyable

      TW3’s open world was boring and terrible in every way

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      • Wahots@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The DLC had good open worlds, but the main game just felt too dreary and brown.

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They are in almost all open world games.

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      • Leg@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yeah, I see open world games as fancier tabletop games in most cases. Which isn’t a bad thing by any means.

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