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The Living World of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt

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In this 2016 GDC Europe session, CD Projekt Red's Matthew Steinke explains how he developed a deep role-playing experience that would provide players with gameplay that spans the vast open world of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt.

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20 Comments

@allluckyseven 7 years ago

Trailer ends at 4:21

@luuketaylor 7 years ago

So this is the guy who's responsible for my favorite trading system to date! It's one of the intangible things I try to tell everyone about when talking about all the little things that add up to make TW3 incredible. Everyone buys and sells for different prices, and there are so many factors affecting it, your quest outcomes included!

@kevinjvegda 7 years ago

Really informative talk. Gives newer game designers just enough information about game balancing and designing their own games' economies to go their own way.

@blackunoichi 7 years ago

31:40 I love how it makes sense that cow corpses would attract a giant criter.. given that in the story they actually use animal corpses to bait them =P
Great insiders view! =D

@mattolstein2999 7 years ago

Fantastic presentation for a fantastic game. Thanks for uploading this!

@schnarchHD 7 years ago

Very nice presentation, thank you :)

@ty_teynium 7 years ago (edited)

I love this game, and seeing the work behind it's mechanics make me appreciate it even more. Hope Cyberpunk provides the same effect.

@Drecon84 7 years ago

While I dislike how scripted this talk was, the content more than mode up for it. Great talk.

@Leonidas_1982 6 years ago

HUGE game !

@4thot 7 years ago

Praise Geraldo del Riveiaro

@niklashognabba5295 5 years ago

What song is that in at the start?

@Krealot 7 years ago (edited)

I have said it before thousands of time and I will say it again. CD projekt RED is the best company in the industry to date. And Witcher 3, in my highly personal opinion, is the best game that ever was. And getting information like this only helps me understand more about them and how they work, so big + on that :D
PS: Blood and Wine is the best DLC/Expansion that has ever been created.

@Berssange55 7 years ago

Praise Geraldo

@bt5270 7 years ago

Some good info but seemed a little self indulgent at times.

@ty_teynium 7 years ago

Even in video games Cows are sacred.

@leonzawodowiec5151 7 years ago

6:25-6:35 I do

@helloofthebeach 7 years ago (edited)

I found it funny that he criticized Skyrim's scaling dungeon levels for making it feel like you're never really getting stronger and said the solution was to just not do that. It's a totally fair criticism but you can't really say "so we just had static enemy levels" and call it an innovation. We've been doing that since Dragon Quest.