The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is "The Next Step for RPGs"

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s grand idea is to marry true open-ended role-playing with the confident, subversive storyline and writing that the series excels at. “I think this is the next step for RPGs – the combination of a strong storyline and open-world gameplay,” says Meteusz. “Previously Skyrim has shown that Bethesda are masters – they can create a full-of-life, unique world with a huge amount of events and small story quests, and as I’ve mentioned before in other interviews I admire this game very, very much - the only thing missing was a strong storyline.”

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Unlike Skyrim, The Witcher 3 won’t do enemy scaling. It’s an open world more like that of Dark Souls, where if you wander into tempting new areas you’re likely to get your arse handed to you by whatever awful creatures live there. But there’s no artificial gating; you can hop on a horse and ride from the huge Norse-inspired city of Novigrad to the Slavic No-Man’s Land. In the island archipelago of Skellige, you can swim or take a boat between the islands

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