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[LectureMaster]

Witcher 3 modders datamine a quest where Geralt would have teleported to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077: 'Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying.'

Sounds nova, preem even.

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(Image credit: CD Projekt)

As part of the insanely ambitious What Lies Unseen datamined development history of The Witcher 3, the project's creators made an amusing discovery: A script for an early version of the quest "Through Time and Space" where Geralt and Avallac'h teleport to Night City from Cyberpunk 2077.

Through Time and Space is one of my favorite quests in The Witcher 3: In order to reach the homeworld of the Wild Hunt, the Witcher and sage have to skip from world to world in a dimension-hopping chain of portals. They find themselves braving a desert planet that was once the bed of a sentient ocean, a toxic swamp, an underwater cave, and a world already ruined by the White Frost. It's this bracing, exciting, and surprising bit of high-concept sci-fi in The Witcher 3 that I just really dig.


The draft script for Through Time and Space is markedly different from the final one, with Geralt and Avallac'h finding their first portal in a Redanian garrison instead of Novigrad, and they get teleported to, among other places, the court of King Radovid but weeks in the past. The first jaunt, though, would send them to Night City, with Geralt and Avallac'h exchanging the following dialogue:

• Geralt: "What... What is this place? Is this the afterlife?"
• Avallac'h: "No. Just another of the realities the Spiral leads through... Technologically advanced, but broken. Dying."
• Geralt: "Disgusting. This stench, noise... How can you live here?!"
• Avallac'h: "You should know better. This world is inhabited by humans, not elves."

The What Lies Unseen team also stated that CD Projekt Red developers have talked publicly about wanting to implement a scene like this. It's unclear what district of the city the two would have found themselves in, or what it would have even looked like. At this stage of The Witcher 3's development (circa 2012), CDPR had not even put out that legendary/infamous first pre-rendered trailer announcing Cyberpunk 2077.

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Would've been insanely dope.

 

[Mr Moose]

Technologically advanced, but broken.

Yup, that's Cyberpunk.

 

[SweetTooth]

Yup, that's Cyberpunk.

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

 

[GymWolf]

Geralt would slap the shit out of the metal arm idiot if he was inside the game.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

 

[Spyxos]

Didn't Ciry also mention cyberpunk?

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

I am looking forward to many pointless button combinations for animations for the dev team to masturbate to instead of just having fun. RDR2 is borderline unplayable because of all the busywork associated with certain actions.

 

[SweetTooth]

I am looking forward to many pointless button combinations for animations for the dev team to masturbate to instead of just having fun. RDR2 is borderline unplayable because of all the busywork associated with certain actions.

Looking at RDR2 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you! or you have some sort of a new definition of FUN that no one understands.

 

[DanielG165]

RDR2 and 2077 are both excellent games with really fun worlds to explore and get lost in.

 

[SJRB]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

There's plenty of room for criticism regarding Cyberpunk 2077 but saying that it's "the most soulless game ever" is the dumbest fucking thing you could say about it.

 

[mitchman]

Didn't Ciry also mention cyberpunk?

Yeah. Flying vehicles and stuff.

 

[T-Cake]

I guess Ciri never made an appearance in Cyberpunk 2077 then? That would have been cool.

 

[Gonzito]

Man, why didn't they do this, I would've love having a quest with him showing up

 

[The Cockatrice]

Looking at RDR2 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you! or you have some sort of a new definition of FUN that no one understands.

No one plays RDR2 for the gameplay else its online crowd would be huge, but it's not, it's a massive failure compared to GTA5 online. RDR2 excels at its world, story, characters, it's one of the best games ever made, but the gameplay was some massive tedious shit. Both Cyberpunk and RDR2 have pluses and minues but at the same time both games are top games.

 

[Bulletbrain]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

Looking at RDR2 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you! or you have some sort of a new definition of FUN that no one understands.

So lemme get this straight. RDR2 is rated high so that means the game is high quality.

But CP77 is highly rated too but in this case it doesn't mean the game is high quality.

Surejan.gif

 

[Interfectum]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

 

[Zathalus]

Looking at RDR2 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you! or you have some sort of a new definition of FUN that no one understands.

Looking at Cyberpunk 2077 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you as well.

Funny how that works.

 

[OverHeat]

Its the most soulless and overrated game ever. R* will show them how an open world is done properly in GTA6

Did you only played the peasant version?

 

[SweetTooth]

Looking at Cyberpunk 2077 scores, seems like the world disagrees with you as well.

Funny how that works.

97 metacritic vs 86

Yeah, they are not the same at all

 

[Zathalus]

97 metacritic vs 86

Yeah, they are not the same at all

I never claimed they are the same. You are the one that stated "soulless and overrated". Scores disagree with you.