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The Witcher 3's No Fetch Quest Policy Will Return For The Witcher 4

By 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Jack Coleman

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The RPG genre has come a long way in the decades since Akalabeth was released for the Apple II, espe♏cially in the areas of narrative and quest design.

However, the oft-dreaded fetch quest remains a cruꦑtch for many contemporary RPGs. It's easy to understand why: fetch quests are essentially filler content. They boost play time without requiring the resource investment necessary for creating a compelling quest, namely quest design, writing, excessive voice acting and so on.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 3 was one of the first RPGs to buck this trend in 2015, as the game operated under a "no fetch quest" policy in its quest design. The goal of this design philosophy was to make each quest memorable and unique. Even if Geralt was sent to fetch something in The Witcher 3, there would be some kind of plot twist or moral quandary waiting for him as the quesꦜt played out.

Quest design is one of t🐻he most praised aspects of The Witcher 3, and CD Projekt Red has not forgotten this.

A Witcher Does Not Fetch

A closeup of Ciri in a cave in The Witcher 4

In , narrative director Philipp Weber explained the lessons the team has learned from The Witcher 3 and which ones they'll be applying to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Witcher 4.

"We also know the things that The Witcher 3 was good at," W🀅eber explained. "We can't break that. The stuff we want from a Witcher game, that people want from a Witcher game, we can't break that. We have to do that."

"A lot of the narrative lessons from The Witcher 3, we use them exactly the same way," he continued. "A lot of the rules on how to do quests that we wrote down, for, as an example, new team members on The Witcher 4. Those are the rules from The Witcher 3. Sometimes we have new things for new 🅷features, but the core stuff, it'🍨s that same philosophy we wanted."

As you may have gleaned, this includes the core philosophy of "no fetchꦉ quests" that The Witcher 3 is famous for.

There's no set release date for The Witcher 4, but CDPR r🦹ecently debuted an Unreal Engine 5 tech demo of the game. It's unlikely The Witcher 4 will♛ release before 2027, but that's speculation on my part.