Summary
Many gamers are looking forward toThe Witcher 4, and one of the lead developers at CD Projekt Red recently expressed confidence about the upcoming RPG. Fans finally got their first official look atThe Witcher 4during The Game Awards 2024, where an impressively rendered CGI trailer confirmed that Ciri will take Geralt’s place as the main protagonist for a new fantasy adventure. Not much else has been revealed about the game’s story, though theWitcher 4trailer retained the same grim tone gamers have come to expect from the series.
So far,The Witcher 4doesn’t have an official release date, and CDPR has claimed that the game won’t be ready until at least 2027. This has left fans with plenty of time to speculate on howCiri’s jump from Geralt’s adopted daughter and apprenticeto a full-fledged monster slayer in her own right will shapeThe Witcher 4’s plot and gameplay, and there is understandably a lot of pressure on CD Projekt Red to maintain the high level of quality found in previousWitcherentries.
In a recent interview with PC Gamer (viaGamesRadar),The Witcher 4lead writer Marcin Blacha said that he is feeling “pretty confident” about the game thanks to the goodwill that CD Projekt Red has built with fans of the series. While neither he nor CDPR inventedThe Witcherand its characters (that honor belongs to theoriginalWitchernovel series writer Andrzej Sapkowski), Blacha says that the games have helped bring the franchise into the mainstream, and nowThe Witcher 4will be able to build on that success.
Blacha went on to explain how working on theWitcherseries has “shaped him” in a way that fuels his confidence inThe Witcher 4. He helped develop all three of theprevious mainlineWitchergames, which have all gone on to become well-regarded among RPG fans. 2015’sThe Witcher 3: Wild Hunt,in particular, has won countless awards and is considered by many to be one of the greatest video games ever made.
This leaves a lot of pressure forThe Witcher 4to meet or even surpass the heights of its predecessor, and CDPR will likely want to take as much time crafting it as possible to avoid a repeat ofCyberpunk 2077’s disastrous initial launchback in 2022.The Witcher 4will also mark a major turning point in the franchise, thanks to its new protagonist and the many technical improvements it will likely have over past installments when it finally does launch.
