I should care what these clowns have to say why?

This is the problem, the games can't really be compared.

The money word in this interview is "cinematic." They are going for a different game experience. Fixed character, lots of cutscenes, though fantastic dialogue and branching along fairly linear limbs. I can enjoy Witcher 2 for what it is, and Skyrim for what it is, without wishing that one was the other.

Bethesda Game Studios better step it up and develop their own video game engine from scratch from the ground up with their own proprietary physics engine, software, and source code to run Fallout 4 (Maybe), The Elder Scrolls VI and any future video game in development that will be released and shipped in the future. It is the only way Bethesda Game Studios can now compete with CD Projekt RED CD Projekt RED developed their own proprietary video game engine from scratch from the ground up in less than 2 years and they call it REDengine3. Bethesda Game Studios has alot of catching up to do. I would not mind if Fallout 4 gets released in 2016 because releasing it this year or next year is way to early and I would be happy with The Elder Scrolls VI being released in 2018 or 2020. Because the more years Bethesda Game Studios has to develop Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls VI the better, bigger, and more polished those video games will be .

Very interesting. They certainly look like a studio to watch in the future.

I didn't really like Witcher 1 or 2, although I managed to finish 2. When I heard about 3 I couldn't have cared less, but now I'm excited about it.

I'm not sure how the Witcher 3 will really incorporate anything. I love the Witcher series, but it isn't an open world game. It's a linear rpg. One would think they'd be looking to games in their genre for pointers.

Loved every one of the 30 hours I spent in the Witcher 2 and I think they can pull this off. At the very least it will inspire bethesda to step up their games to whole new level because CdProjekt is on their heels.

CD Projekt Red are clowns? Ok. Come back when you have something more constructive to say, than demeaning another studio.

If Bethesda needs to learn anything to avoid, it's CDPR's "Look, we really do make mature games for mature gamers, guys!" try-hard feel.

It's also easy to blast someone else for "bad writing" when you're basing something entirely off a pre-existing novel series someone else wrote.

Well CD Projekt RED has a point the landscape world Bethesda Game Studios develops for The Elder Scrolls video games is nice but stuff like dungeons look the same and some cities and towns look the same as well it's boring and bland. But both CD Projekt RED and Bethesda Game Studios write amazing immersive quests.

And boom goes the dynamite.

The Witcher's based off of a series of novels?
...

Personally, I think it's pretty poor that those developers go around criticising other games just to make their own look good. Not just Skyrim, either.

True that, but i'm still psyched about Witcher 3 openworlding up the gates.


I'll bet this will be moved to CD.

Yeah, I think it belongs in CD too. Skyrim's not the only game they mention in the video.

Not to mention CDPR's definition of "mature" is having pointless six with as many women as you can, to collect trading cards......... yeah guys........ real mature there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witcher

Yep

Lol.. You are talking about Witcher 1.. That was not in Witcher 2..

Doesn't matter, its still part of the witcher series, and still made by the same people.

Newer games dont make past games magically disappear.

The developers at Bethesda do not seem to listen to anyone...I am very happy CDprojekt is calling them out on their lame storytelling and lack of memorable characters

If they didn't listen to anyone, then Miaq would have nothing to say.......

and all those problems with Oblivion, such as the level scaling, wouldn't have been fixed, and the DLC wouldn't contain features that people have been asking for, like dragon weapons, improved vampire/werewolf forms, perk reset, better dungeon puzzles, better boss fights, and other such things.

Everything in Skyrim from the map, to the level scaling, to even the carriages, is based on fan feedback from Oblivion, and the DLC is almost entirely built upon features people have asked for..... to say Bethesda doesn't listen flies in the face of everything in the game.

Funny because The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has better graphics than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, better quests, storytelling, etc, and the dungeons, cities, towns, villages all look different not the same, boring, and bland also The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is more challenging to play than The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is just very repetitive I have like about 300 hours total on The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim but after completing the main quest you mostly go kill a drauger in this dungeon then go to another dungeon and kill some bandits then you go outside in the wilderness kill some bears, mudcrabs, sabre cats, etc then do fetch quests for people like fetch this person 1 mammoth tusk fetch 10 gems for the next person, etc and regenerative health has no reason to exist in a RPG video game I mean we have health potions and healing spells but we also get regenerative health in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim? That's stupid. I have been playing video games for over 12+ years and they are just getting easier and dumber with every year that passes by. CD Projekt RED is gonna revolutionize the RPG video game industry and Bethesda Game Studios can learn lessons from them how to make true real open world RPG's.

We have been telling Bethesda to improve the quality of storytelling in TES

But they remained tone deaf

Now a major developer is calling them out in front of the entire world.

I can imagine why a franchise with such rich lore like TES cannot tell better stories

And don't get me started on their lame end game boss fights!

That was the many things that annoyed me too.

Yep this is true instead of developing their video games to be better they develop them to be easier to play.

If there is one place Skyrim can do better it is storytelling

The developers need to hear this stuff without any sugarcoating otherwise they will not improve

Todd Howard himself said in an interview shortly after Skyrim came out that he knows their stories need improvement, and both Dawnguard and Dragonborn show an improvement in writing, as does Serana.

they do know.

Does Dragonborn have the same repetitive boring looking dungeons and the same repetitive boring fetch quests? I still have not bought Dragonborn.