CD PROJEKT Takes On Pokémon GO With The Witcher: Monster Slayer

I'm tempted to, because I love the developer, but I probably won't.

I'm just not out and about often enough to make this worth it.

These sorts of things just water down the brand. Not like The Witcher hasn’t gone down this sorta mobile/trash route before though.

This is more exciting that the sorry excuse for a direct we just got! I guess this about sums this year xD

Thanks, but no thanks.

Looks cool, I've been a loyal PoGo Trainer since day 1, lvl 39 (not some bandwagon fadboy or pay to win junkie), so this looks pretty good to add to my adventures, plus The Witcher series is great!

Gotta kill em all

Every Pokemon Go clone (Harry Potter, Jurassic Park, The Walking Dead, etc) has failed, and I expect this to be no different.

@westman98 JP and HP were not great, ill agree, but TWD is fun.

I guess...We all have phones don't we?

"There's a storm. Dammit"

Wow, what a great year to release a game that you play outside. 10/10

Maybe I'll check it out next summer

Since it is going to be freemium crap, no thanks.
Charge me $20 and get rid of all the in app purchases and I would do it right away.

Wow this is a phone site or game site i dont know.

Yeah...good luck doing it for a franchise where you apparently absolutely have to play the first two to get the most out of the third, most popular and talked about one of the series, that some gamers haven't even done due to the first two never touching Nintendo consoles for some reason. Definitely as accessable as Pokémon. Will be a breakout hit.

Some people are really upset about this. What's the big deal?

I'll definitely download it and see what it's like. But I can't see how I'd be able to play two go-for-a-walk AR games. Carry two phones? Go for twice as many walks? So it would have to be better than Pokémon Go to replace it.

As long as they do not delay Cyberpunk 2077 again, they can release as many Mobile nonsense as they want.

@EmmatheBest - I've played Witcher 3 without having touched the first two.

Of course you miss a little history of the characters (and the odd reference made in dialogue to past events) but it's not a deal breaker, reviews cover enough of what Witchers are, and you can pretty much pick up the relationships as you go.

I really wouldn't let that be the reason you don't play it.

@Mii_duck Interesting! Yeah, I was just going off what my one friend told me the other day.

@EmmatheBest Agreed. Give it a shot. People don't just love it for the continuity. People love W3 for the side quests that actually feel like quests on the side; ones that actually impact the world and flesh it out.

@westman98 Jurassic Park Alive is still pretty active, and has regular updates. How you regard it as "failed" is beyond me.

Is now really the time to have people randomly wandering around outside to play a phone game? Bad timing.

It's not like before where you would go to work, walk to a place to eat. Hang out at a coffee house, etc. I can't see this being that fun just being able to play on a dedicated walk.

I've been regularly playing Minecraft Earth. It's still in early access, so it really isn't that big, and it was fairly barebones and filled with bugs when they launched it. But it's shaping up to be a really great game when it fully releases.

@Purgatorium That's the biggest thing for me. I didn't really give HP enough time before giving up on it if I'm honest, largely because it felt like I would have to give up on PoGo to do that, which I had already invested loads of time in and which connected to Let's Go (with the promise of future integration in games). That's a high bar for any game to clear.

Another AR GPS based game? with this pandemic?

You're walking in the woods. There's no one around, and your phone is dead. Out of the corner of your eye you spot him:

Gaunter O'Dimm

I doubt it’ll be better than PoGo... so I’ll stick with that. It keeps improving

@EmmatheBest I used to NEVER play the sequel of a game without playing all of the games before it first, especially for story-based games. In the long run, it's usually not worth it, IMHO, because you'll either get burned out or just never get around to playing the newer game because you spent so much time on the old ones. Watching a Youtube "movie" version of the past games is what I recommend.

I love it when Nintendo gaming websites make articles about mobile games by companies that have very little connections with Nintendo (other than the fact they released ports of, like, 2 games to their console).

NL when GameFreak announces a new Pokemon RPG: "WTF GameFreak this is garbage! It fixed nothing! It improved nothing! They'll just cater to Go players! Nothing but more cash grabs and Go casuals! Rawwwwrr!"

NL when CDPR announces Go clone themed like Witcher:
"Looks legit, I'll have to try it!"

@status-204 : Hear, hear!

I mean something like this was tried with Harry Potter and everyone I know who plays POGO on the daily played that for a week.

Lol, good luck with that.

What is gameplay? Throwing ball at monster never interested me so I never had GO. Hope for some combat or something at least.

I really love Cd project .....but not THAT much