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'Do it fast, do it dirty': The Witcher 4's narrative director discusses the studio's philosophy and what made The Witcher 3 so great
Back when he was a quest designer on The Witcher 3 before he got promoted to narrative director for The Witcher 4. The ...
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'We Don't Do Fetch Quests': The Witcher 4 Narrative Director Comments on the Game's Quest Design
The Witcher 4's narrative director, Philipp Weber, has explained the philosophy driving the game's quest design, rooted in ...
The Witcher 4 is coming together with the same "scrappy energy" CDPR used to get The Witcher 3 over the line: "Get it done. Do it dirty"
"The way we want to do justice to [The Witcher 3's] legacy is to take the philosophy we had during The Witcher 3 – how to ...
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Witcher 4 Dev Wants Studio To Harness The "Scrappy Energy" That Made Witcher 3 So Successful
Narrative director Philipp Weber told GamesRadar that when the team was making The Witcher 3, there was "good creative chaos" ...
The Witcher 4's narrative lead is holding onto some of his earliest Witcher 3 feedback for the RPG's sequel: "We don't do fetch quests"
The Witcher 4's narrative lead won't be turning his back on some of The Witcher 3's best bits: those awesome, multi-layered ...
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Years before becoming The Witcher 4's narrative director, Philipp Weber's first job at CDPR was spending days throwing quest ideas into a GDoc for The Witcher 3
Philipp Weber's first "professional" job was as a quest designer on The Witcher 3, the game that made CDPR a household name globally, after a background of modding the older Witcher games for fun.
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The Witcher 4 Narrative Director Reflected Back To CDPR Scrappy Era
The Witcher 4 narrative director reflects on the time when CD Projekt Red took a chance on him during their scrappy years.
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'We are beholden to the lore': CD Projekt says there are 'valid worries' about Ciri as a witcher, but 'the answers we want to give in The Witcher 4 are in line with this attitude'
Narrative director Philipp Weber says CD Projekt is taking pains to ensure Ciri fits within the boundaries established in The Witcher books and games. When you purchase through links on our site ...
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CD Projekt Red says Ciri ‘deserves’ a great story in The Witcher 4 and Andrzej Sapkowski (sort of) approves
Ciri is the star of The Witcher 4, and CD Projekt Red’s game director Sebastian Kalemba and narrative director Philipp Weber say she deserves a ‘great’ story in the RPG. Kalemba and Weber ...
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The Witcher 4 dev CD Projekt Red talks Ciri fan reaction, playable Geralt coyness, and if the game will honour your previous choices
It makes for a nice setup for our chat this week with The Witcher 4's game director, Sebastian Kalemba, and narrative director, Philipp Weber - albeit one with some quite tight restrictions on ...
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The Witcher 4 Will Include Important Choices Players Made From The Witcher 3
CD Projekt Red’s game director, Sebastian Kalemba, and narrative director, Philipp Weber, spoke with Eurogamer. While they could not discuss the details quite yet, they shed some light on a few ...
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"Even people in the studio had problems" with Cyberpunk 2077's most uncomfortable quest, but CDPR stood by it because "we don't do heavy things for the sake of edginess"
Cyberpunk doesn't pull any punches in what's an incredibly graphic cutscene, but senior quest designer Philipp Weber thinks that it says something important about the nature of what CD Projekt Red ...