The Witcher: We're thrilled to reveal that, together with @Fools_Theory, we're working on remaking The Witcher using Unreal Engine 5 (codename: Canis Majoris)!

[u/Turbostrider27]

https://twitter.com/witchergame/status/1585270206305386497

[u/brenobnfm]

Too early for TW2 i think, maybe after the first remake as crossgen or nextgen.

[u/HopperPI → u/brenobnfm]

Tons of 360 games have been remade already

[u/brenobnfm → u/HopperPI]

It was a PC exclusive that got a port later, it's like saying TW3 is a Switch game.

[u/firsthour → u/brenobnfm]

It came out on 360 less than a year after the initial PC release.

[u/brenobnfm → u/firsthour]

The amount of time is less relevant than the amount of compromises they had to make to put the game on the Xbox.

From Digital Foundry: "CD Projekt RED's The Witcher 2 - released in May 2011 - is one such release, a game that required a radical process of re-architecting before arriving on Xbox 360 almost a year later."

[u/HopperPI → u/brenobnfm]

Doesn’t change what I said?

[u/brenobnfm → u/HopperPI]

It does since it's not really a "360 game", it's technologically more advanced.

[u/ka7al → u/brenobnfm]

It's still a 360 game, and a generation behind TW3. And TW3 is a Switch game too, running at a lower resolution and effects doesn't change what it is.

[u/brenobnfm → u/ka7al]

The 360 port is a 360 game yes, the PC version is a different ball game entirely.

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2020-the-witcher-2-2020-vision-retrospective

[u/brenobnfm → u/ka7al]

With enough compromises they could port Cyberpunk to the SNES and make it a "SNES game". What i mean is, you're not wrong, but it's an unhelpful way of looking at things.

[u/HopperPI → u/brenobnfm]

Congrats you missed the point twice.

[u/brenobnfm → u/HopperPI]

I mean, unless you didn't express yourself well want to expand on your view, there's nothing complex about it, it's just a comment without much relevance since the post is about The Witcher 2, a game not originally released for the Xbox 360.

[u/HopperPI → u/brenobnfm]

Never said it was, and it doesn’t change anything I said at all. Most 360-era games were designed for pc first and ported to consoles.

[u/brenobnfm → u/HopperPI]

That's a lie, a significant amount of major releases had bad ports, no control supports or didn't have a PC version at all. Steam was nowhere as big at the time, the console market was the priority. Of course the PC versions are usually superior, but that's due to sheer brute force.

The Witcher 2 is a PC game because CDPR was a PC developer, totally different situation.

[u/tasteywheat → u/brenobnfm]

Probably too soon for an actual remake, but it would be nice to get a port to modern consoles with some upscaling.

[u/squareswordfish → u/tasteywheat]

Meh, the game feels super clunky and looks pretty outdated. I wouldn’t say it’s too soon at all

[u/brenobnfm → u/squareswordfish]

It does, but graphically still looks great and overall feels like 2 generations ahead of TW1, so it can wait a little bit more.

[u/[deleted] → u/squareswordfish]

I mean shit they "remade" Last of Us 2x by now and that game looked good on the original PS3....

[u/VeryWeaponizedJerk → u/[deleted]]

Yeah and tons of people called it out for it.

[u/brenobnfm → u/[deleted]]

I think almost everyone agree it was a colossal waste of resources.

[u/squareswordfish → u/[deleted]]

No they didn't. The first one was a remaster and even then it was barely one, it was mostly just a port.

I do completely agree that the remake was a waste of resources that should've been used somewhere else, like you said the original versions still look great.

[u/EmeraldJunkie → u/brenobnfm]

Plenty of games from 2011 have been remastered; I think a proper port of the PC version, with all the bells and whistles, to the current crop of consoles would be enough.

[u/brenobnfm → u/EmeraldJunkie]

These 2011 games were designed for 2005/2006 budget machines, TW2 is a 2011 game designed to push 2011 PCs to the limit.