Development Info Tomasz Bagiński spills the beans – The Witcher will return?

Elwro · Nov 12, 2007

Tags: CD Projekt; Witcher, The

In case you don't know, Bagiński is the guy behind the intro for The Witcher and some obscure Oscar-nominated <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ--qAaRaNg">stuff</A> no one really understands. The above mentioned individual was interviewed by a Polish TV station called <A HREF="http://www.tvncnbc.pl/">TVN CNBC Business</A> and, as <A HREF="http://www.gry-online.pl/S013.asp?ID=37850">gry-online.pl</A> reports, said for example the following:
 
 
<blockqoute>*Tomasz Bagiński - Prawdopodobnie będę też uczestniczył w kolejnych odsłonach gry Wiedźmin [...]
 
* Prowadzący - No właśnie, a zatem Wiedźmin, kolejna odsłona powstanie kiedy, za dwa lata najwcześniej czy może za rok?
 
* Tomasz Bagiński - Wcześniej, półtorej roku oni chyba planują. </blockqoute>
 
 
Translation:
 
 
<blockqoute>* Tomasz Bagiński - It's likely that I will be involved in further installments of The Witcher [...]
 
* Interviewer - All right, The Witcher. So, when will the next game be made? Two years earliest, but perhaps one?
 
* Tomasz Bagiński - Sooner, I think they're aiming at eighteen months.</blockqoute>
 
 
Discuss! Or rather, play the game and save often to avoid clipping bugs. (Damn!)
 
 
 
Thanks for letting us know, Mor!
 
Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.gry-online.pl">gry-online.pl</A>

AnalogKid · Nov 12, 2007

WTF!!!? After all the recent craptacular drama about takeovers, revolutions, being overrun and all, now there's a consipiracy afoot to turn this place into the Poilsh Codex!?

You think you're being clever and subtle, posting news in the open on the front page, but I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

BAN ALL POLES! BAN ALL POLES!

(P.S. Is it just a coincidence and Polish devs happen to have similar sensibilities, or is it just that a lot of Codex posters are Polish?)

TalesfromtheCrypt · Nov 12, 2007

Yay, one of my favourite codex members is news a poster now :D

18 months? Sounds damn short. I dunno, I just dont hope they gonna turn the Witcher in a rushed ea-style cash machine...

Elwro · Nov 12, 2007

@Analogkid or just anyone: Quit fooling around and tell me why my blockquotes don't work.

TalesfromtheCrypt · Nov 12, 2007

AnalogKid said:
(P.S. Is it just a coincidence and Polish devs happen to have similar sensibilities, or is it just that a lot of Codex posters are Polish?)

Poles are overrepresented in almost any internet community I know, and if it's something remotly connected to Fallout or post-apoc you can be damn sure that there's gonna be even more of them...

Ivy Mike · Nov 12, 2007

Too few women around after the curtain fell?

Starwars · Nov 12, 2007

Am I the only one who thought the Witcher intro was boring as hell? I read loads of praise over at other forums, and I just don't see it. I never want to sit through that + the tutorial again.

I'm generally not a fan of churning out sequels in a rapid pace, but 18 months sounds fairly reasonable. Hopefully it will give them enough time to really improve on some things. I don't care for game series' that change the gameplay around completely or anything like that, but I also want to feel like the devs have really tried to improve upon the original game.

Hopefully it will be better, or at the very least as good as the Witcher.

After that, I really hope they will do something else though. I'd hate to see the series 'cheapened' due to an assload of sequels in a short timespan.

Durwyn · Nov 12, 2007

Congrats Elwro... I'm rather cautious about their aim on sequel in eighteen months. It appears that they wanna make The Witcher their milky cow and to produce more than one sequel... I hope we will see some major improvments and new features, not only polished graphics and new storyline.

If you wanna see some pretty post-apo shit, come to poland and see what the mighty duck twins have done to our beautiful motherland... Good that now only one remains... some call him the head of our country... i call him a dickhead.

Elwro · Nov 12, 2007

I guess the intro was fun for me because I read the story. I agree it was a bit too long.

edit: My theory is that it's possible Bagiński doesn't know if what he'll be working on will be an expansion, or a true sequel.

VonVentrue · Nov 12, 2007

AnalogKid said:
WTF!!!? After all the recent craptacular drama about takeovers, revolutions, being overrun and all, now there's a consipiracy afoot to turn this place into the Polish Codex!?

Apparently, a section for polish-speaking members might soon become a reality/necessity...

As far as the topic is concerned, I find it surprising to find out that the sequel to the Witcher is already in the works... Hopefully, such a quick development process shall not have negative impact on the quality of the final product.
Besides, I have yet to purchase the original...

KazikluBey · Nov 12, 2007

Starwars said:
Am I the only one who thought the Witcher intro was boring as hell? I read loads of praise over at other forums, and I just don't see it. I never want to sit through that + the tutorial again.

You're not alone about liking the intro but the outro was much better I think.

Elhoim · Nov 12, 2007

Well, Fallout 2 was out pretty quickly. Perhaps they will use this game resources as a base, but tell a new story in a new setting.

Jasede · Nov 12, 2007

VonVentrue said:
AnalogKid said:

WTF!!!? After all the recent craptacular drama about takeovers, revolutions, being overrun and all, now there's a consipiracy afoot to turn this place into the Polish Codex!?

Click to expand...

Apparently, a section for polish-speaking members might soon become a reality...

Only over my cold, dead corpse. I mean, over my cold, twitching body. I mean... bloody hell. What I mean to say: only if we get a Furry Codex. And a German Codex. Don't make me prove a need for either.

>_>

Please no Polish Codex! It only serves to seperate and we can understand Kraszu well enough if we try hard.

Texas Red · Nov 12, 2007

It took MotB a year of development :shrugs:. But this is grand news! I was afraid that they would just start from the beginning and take another 4 years for a new game. TW expansion, possibly another for NWN 2(set in Chult, as hinted in MotB) will perhaps repeat this wonderful year. Plus there are other RPGs as well.

Win.

yarpen · Nov 12, 2007

All I can say is: do not believe everything you read.

Durwyn · Nov 12, 2007

Please no Polish Codex! It only serves to seperate and we can understand Kraszu well enough if we try hard.

Second that...
Fucking dumb idea, every polish kid learns english in primary school... Internet forums are meant to integrate people from diffrent countries to discuss on subjects that interests them. I will fight every national ghetto on Codex... this just doesn't make sense.

Globbi · Nov 12, 2007

Maybe it's just that Bagininski was thinking about when the works on the sequel would start?

And about the Polish codex thing:

Elwro in another thread said:
I have a plan :mystary:

:D

VonVentrue · Nov 12, 2007

yarpen said:
All I can say is: do not believe everything you read.

You are definitely capable of arousing confusion...

Second that...
Fucking dumb idea, every polish kid learns english in primary school... Internet forums are meant to integrate people from diffrent countries to discuss on subjects that interests them. I will fight every national ghetto on Codex... this just doesn't make sense.

You're acting as if someone even considered making this idea a reality... And yes, that would be a stupid thing to do, to say the least.

made · Nov 12, 2007

Elwro said:
obscure Oscar-nominated <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ--qAaRaNg">stuff</A> no one really understands.

That vid was pretty awesome.

Elwro · Nov 13, 2007

Check this one, then.

CrimsonAngel · Nov 13, 2007

yarpen

You Buzz kill..

made · Nov 13, 2007

Not sure I get the point of the second one. I assume the theme is the waste of human lives during war, and possibly media coverage thereof, but I bet I'm missing some subtle details.

kingcomrade · Nov 13, 2007

Elwro said:
I have a plan

Something about an ambush up the road...

Elwro · Nov 13, 2007

made said:
Not sure I get the point of the second one. I assume the theme is the waste of human lives during war, and possibly media coverage thereof, but I bet I'm missing some subtle details.

I'm not sure myself. I just love how the motions of the fat guy are coordinated with the film he runs.

dragonfk · Nov 13, 2007

made said:
Not sure I get the point of the second one. I assume the theme is the waste of human lives during war, and possibly media coverage thereof, but I bet I'm missing some subtle details.

For me its about meaningless dying for amusement of others.

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