The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered Announced, Songs of the Past Gets First Look

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

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Songs of the Past is now available to wishlist ahead of its 2027 release. It will take players to the brand new realm of Letten — an idyllic land of rural tradition that hides a dark secret just below the surface.
Remastered — a free upgrade for existing The Witcher 3 owners on qualifying platforms — brings a slew of upgrades and enhancements to visuals, performance, gameplay, and more when it launches on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
The Witcher 3 is coming to two brand new platforms. A native version of Remastered will be released on Nintendo Switch 2, and through a new partnership between CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard Entertainment, Battle.net — both on September 29.
All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.

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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Always nice to see a company be pro-consumer, pro-gamer in these times of corporate greed that see gamers as nothing more than psychological manipulable profit.

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- dudeface@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They are trying to build hype for Witcher 4, it’s calculated not charity
  
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- caseofthematts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Especially given how easily many seem to have wilfully forgotten the horrendous Cyberpunk launch, they could’ve easily pulled a Nintendo with this stuff.
  
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  - arudesalad@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s what I was thinking watching the trailer. The switch 2 remaster of breath of the wild cost £8 extra and it didn’t include the dlc
    
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absquatulate@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Another next-gen witcher 3 update? Not to look a gift horse in the mouth but the last one was both underperforming and kind of underwhelming. Why not do a witcher 1 next gen? That game desperately neets a graphical and/or combat update.

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- wcSyndrome@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  cdprojekt.com/…/the-original-witcher-game-is-bein…
  
  Announced almost 4 years ago
  
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- slimerancher@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They have also made the first two expansions free. So if you have a base game you get the upgrade and both expansions.
  
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- Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Aye. The last one was okay-ish (for a free thing) even though it sucked.
  
  But do w1 or w2. W1 preferred, as this one aged the worst.
  
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psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

All owners of The Witcher 3 can now play to two acclaimed expansions — Hearts of Stone and Blood and Wine — at no additional cost.

Ohh wow, that’s nice. I didn’t get it first time because the final boss of the base game sour my whole love of it, gotta give it another go some time.

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- Carl@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  HoS is a phenomenal piece of DLC that you’re supposed to play alongside the main story. It has a truly fantastic villain. BaW is a nice capstone for Geralt’s story, which takes place after the events of the main story.
  
  I tend to fall into the “DLC is bad” camp, but both W3 expansions are perfect examples of how DLC can be good. I tend to dislike DLC because it tends to break (at least) one of the following criteria:
  The base game is already complete, and doesn’t require the DLC for a full experience.
  The DLC meshes neatly within the base game without feeling bolted onto the side.
  The DLC adds genuinely interesting content to the game.
  All three critera are what I would typically complain about with DLC, and Witcher 3’s DLC passes all three litmus tests. So any complaints I would have about them would essentially boil down to personal preference rather than objective reasons.
  
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Agreed, and also about the DLC rankings. Blood and Wine is alright but it’s wildly overrated. It’s a nice post-game vacation and it has some fun stuff in it, but it’s ideal to play like a year after finishing base game + HoS, in my opinion.
    
    Hearts of Stone is the best Witcher content CDPR has produced yet.
    
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Aielman15@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I got the base game for free on GoG after playing it once on Gamepass a few years back, now I get the two expansions + remastered as well lol

Child me would be amazed at how easy it is to play AAA games without spending a dime nowadays. I grew up with a dozen or so games and that was it because my father didn’t want to spend more money on videogames lol

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Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Damn, my ‘platform’ is too weak to play the unenhanced version, of you pile enhancements on it I’ll have to wait a decade or more (given the ongoing RAMaggedon).

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