CD Projekt RED’s Michal Medej, the game’s Chief Designer took time to do an interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun on The Witcher and changes involved in the upcoming new Enhanced Edition.
The biggest problem for most of the English speaking players was the dialog. It was terse and often left out descriptive or character building content. Medej explains the assumption that lead to not having enough time to polish the English dialog as well as having to shorten it by nearly 30%. The Enhanced Edition will have a reworked English dialog that has been polished and has by redone with new voice overs.
Medej also talks about staying true to the spirit of Sapkowski’s books by including erotic encounters and the Polish culture. He also tips his hat to D&D co-creator, Gary Gygax.
I think we were the second cRPG web site that published news about his death, which proves he was really important for most people in the team. I’m completely sure that there wouldn’t be The Witcher without this guy, as even Sapkowski knows and played D&D. Even if you find many of The Witcher elements to be anti-Gygaxian, still we are just mere evolution of what he started.
via Rock, Paper, Shotgun
1 Comment to CD Project Red Interview on The Witcher Enhanced Edition
by: Rollett
On March 29, 2008 at 1:59 pm
This will be one AWSOME patch for those that own the game already
Kudo’s to this dev team i really hope they last to make something else 