"We are thrilled to announce that The Witcher Remake is being worked on! That's right, the game that started it all is being rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5.
The game is currently in the early stages of development at the Polish studio Fool’s Theory, where veteran Witcher series staff are involved. We, as CD PROJEKT RED, are providing full creative supervision.
The Witcher Remake is what you might know by the codename “Canis Majoris”. It’s still early and we want to ensure that the game is created with the utmost care and attention to detail, therefore, while we’re excited to share the news with you, we want to ask you for patience as it will be a while until we start talking about this project in detail."
"There's too much missing which defines the nebulous 'something' that elevates an 'ok' performance to a brilliant one"
The Witcher Remake has been a long time coming, and a longer wait for it is ideal for a couple of reasons, but one of them is crucial.
Witcher games have always struggled with combat, and the remake could finally get it right.
They should tell Bethesda this for Elder Scrolls. It hasn’t changed since Morrowind except for less spells.
I'm sure some of the usual suspects will still grumble, but this is a game that actually merits a remake. The original Witcher is not available on console, and even the PC version feels pretty ancient at this point. Also the use of Unreal is encouraging, hopefully this will help them eliminate a lot of the bugs that seemed to be a product of their proprietary engine.
Lots of remakes these days but this is one that really makes sense considering it's been stuck on PC this whole time and was a *rough* diamond.
CDPR is barely involved with this remake. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out especially from an indie and support studio named Fool’s Theory with only 60 people that never developed a AAA game on their own
This is a day 1 for me. This Witcher game is by far the best one. It'll be amazing to play a remake .
Last of us released 2013 - Everyone and their mother out with the pitch forks saying how it's not needed.
Witcher 3 released 2015 - Remake being welcomed with open arms.