Originally Posted by mrfuji3
Originally Posted by kanisatha
I still stand by my assessment. I recall even seeing articles from way back where someone from Larian said something to the effect that not being able to pause in exploration and the party movement mechanic (at least those two things) were because of engine limitations (I tried re-finding those articles but couldn't).
Ah, well if that's the case then yeah, their engine sucks!

Originally Posted by kanisatha
Even CDPR has now declared they're going to make three separate new Witcher games (the first game in the new trilogy plus two other standalone games), two as SP games and the third as a MP game, having explicitly abandoned their previous plan to create one big SP+MP game.
Oh, nice! I had only heard of CDPR planning to make The Witcher Remake. Is that one of the "two other standalone games" you mentioned, or is that in addition to those plus the Cyberpunk stuff they're doing? Although in either case, Witcher Remake + 3(2?) other Witcher games + CP2077 expansion + Cyberpunk Project Orion seems like way too many projects to be working on at once...

(A quick google says CDPR is planning on making future titles in UE5, but if discussion of Witcher games/CDPR is too off-topic here, I guess reply to the... P:WotR thread? That seems to be the catch-all thread for non-BG3 games.)
No, not including any remakes. They have actually announced plans for FIVE brand new Witcher games. Three of them are a new trilogy set in the Witcher franchise but completely new and unrelated to the story of Geralt which is done. And so obviously the trilogy starts with its first game, codenamed Polaris, which is what is currently being worked on. Then, they have two more separate standalone games being made using the Witcher franchise. However, those two games have been farmed out to other studios. Codename Sirius is being made by The Molasses Flood, which I understand is a separate studio owned by CDPR. This is the MP game. Then there is codename Canis Majoris, to be made by a third party that has not been revealed.

Additionally also revealed are: Project Phantom Liberty, an expansion to CP2077; Project Orion, the next new Cyberpunk game; and Project Hadar, a game using a completely new IP that CDPR is creating.