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The Witcher 3: Two Areas Are Over 52 Square Miles by Themselves; 3.5 Times Larger than Skyrim's Map

CD Projekt Red and Umbra Software held a presentation titled “Solving Visibility and Streaming in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt with Umbra 3“ at the Game Developers Conference, and it included a very interesting detail on the size of the game's map.

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Crazyglues4029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

-You beat me too it...

I was just about to say that, I mean this is crazy big... Wow..

It seems they have spent there time well, I hope this game turns out to be as good as it sounds.

Would really love to have a huge game to sink my teeth into on my PS4. -Something that will last a pretty long time- Like remember when it use to take you a few months to beat a game, not days... LoL
-(or hell these days, it only takes a few hours, to beat the entire campaign)

This though, looks like it will be a really good one.. Can't wait.

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ZodTheRipper4029d ago

They are certainly raising the bar for next gen RPGs ...this generation is going to be breathtakingly amazing =)

Prime1574029d ago

How big is too big?

I think it sounds awesome, but sometimes I think when a game is too big I get unmotivated in single player games, lol

raWfodog4029d ago

I still got Witcher 2 unopened at home, begging me to play. I need to hook up the 360 this weekend and get started on it so I can be ready for this game. It looks to be bestial.

Thehyph4029d ago

Why don't they compare it to Daggerfall instead of Skyrim?

It would be a good way to gauge open world games if they just said what small fraction of Daggerfall's world size they've reached.

Ashby_JC4029d ago

I nice deep RPG is must needed on these new consoles!!

I only played W2 for a short period of time. I liked it.

Im sure I will like this game.

CJDUNCAN4029d ago

To be fair @Zod, CDPR raised the bar on RPGs way before this. I didn't get a chance to play the first Witcher game, but the second one was a masterpiece.

Pro_TactX4029d ago

@stevehyphen

Daggerfall's world is 62 square miles. According to this article, two areas in Witcher 3 equal 52 square miles by themselves. It is reasonable to conclude that the entire world map will be larger than Daggerfall's.

SilentNegotiator4029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

Bigger doesn't necessarily mean better. If they don't do anything interesting with 3/4 of the map (and unless they give the game an extra couple years of dev time, they won't), who really cares?

Patrick_pk444029d ago

But will the whole map be detailed nicely? Skyrim had a lot of useless and non-used space.

aliengmr4029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

@Pro_TactX

Umm I'm pretty sure Daggerfall was quite a bit larger than 62 square miles. Like a lot larger.

Daggerfall was like 62,000 square miles.

Just Cause 2 was 400 sq. miles.

So regardless, Witcher 3 isn't even in the same ballpark.

The title is a bit misleading as this was not actually confirmed by CDPR.

DOMination-4029d ago

Yeah the daggerfall map was comparable in size to the uk in real life. Pretty big.

fenome4029d ago

Daggerfalls map was over 62,000 miles squared. Here's a map comparison, it's kind of old though so unfortunately it doesn't have newer titles like GTA V or skyrim on it..

http://i.imgur.com/uBWCz.jp...

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GribbleGrunger4029d ago

Twice as big as Skyrim would be mind blowing but 3.5 times bigger ... 3.5 TIMES BIGGER? That's insane.

Snookies124029d ago

Yeah, and that's not even the whole game. That's just two of the areas in it.

Abriael4029d ago

Gotta consider the fact that Skyrim really wasn't very big. It used a lot of visual tricks to make you FEEL like it was big, but like oblivion, that was mostly illusion.

GribbleGrunger4029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

Any news on:

How many main quests
How many side quests
How many errands
How many tasks

... and

How many caves (I love caves)

Abriael4029d ago

They only said 50 hours for the story and 100 for the whole if I'm not wrong.

Speaking of caves, they said at GDC that they created a special tech to have "holes" in the map in order to seamlessly put caves in it.

whitefang19884029d ago

I just hope the ps4 can handle it, my PC sure can't!

aliengmr4029d ago

Well, lets not jump the gun here. CDPR originally said it would be 20% larger than Skyrim.

Not saying they couldn't have made it larger, but from 20% to 350%? I don't know.

There's the fact that these "maps" were used to discuss something (somewhat) unrelated to the actual game itself but a small part of it. Meaning it could have been that they were using tech and assets that they are using in an exaggerated way to show off the system the talk was about.

I don't know. Point is, lets wait for CDPR to confirm a 350%+ increase in the map size. I'm skeptical at this point.

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joab7774029d ago

My thought exactly. And unlike Skyrim, it wont level with you making leveling and combat pointless (with absurd difficulty spikes that made no sense). Also, on top of this, it will have a great story. Yeah, Skyrim has amazing lore but the same 2 ppl voice acting 100's of npc's gets old.

I cant wait for this.

on_line_forever4029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

this is good news

but we sure want fast travel , really really game play , combat system and rich world with something deserve to look for in this big world

Rickgrimes954029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Article says there are 3 areas in total, remembered reading it awhile ago an I found it again. So that's another 25 square miles in the game I'm too tired to do the math but if two maps alone are 3.5x bigger then skyrim then I would guess if you included the 3rd area in total it's probably around 5x-5.5x bigger then skyrim an that my friends is amazing

Magicite4029d ago

anything bigger than skyrim is...HUGE!

Flipgeneral4029d ago

GOTY in any year it releases

Anon19744029d ago (Edited 4029d ago )

Looking forward to seeing more about this game, and that size is truly impressive.

Offtopic: Maybe this is just me being an old gamer, but does that picture remind anyone else of Sinistar? When I saw this article I initially went, "Cool! Sinistar!" before realizing that's not what it was. :)

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/S-XEI...

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creeping judas4029d ago

That's huge!!! Wasnt Witcher 2 less of an open world game? I can't seem to recall?

Abriael4029d ago

It was. It had some pretty open areas, but was definitely not open world. According to CDP 3 is 35x the world of 2 in size.

Lilrizky4029d ago

I don't see this game doing anything wrong. So far everything on it has been positive.

Can't wait.

whitefang19884029d ago

I know I keep thinking the same thing, I just don't know how it looks so good compared to the competition. I just hope beyond hope it doesn't get a major downgrade for consoles, can't wait to play it though

mezati994029d ago

3.5 times bigger with no loading times....I AM THROWING MONEY AT THE SCREEN BUT NOTHING HAPPENS!!!!

gamertk4214029d ago

Save your money for the in-game escorts.

Kennytaur4029d ago

But is there content, or will the vast space just be filler? I wonder how detailed it'll be.

Lilrizky4029d ago

By going off how the previous Witchers were and from what the developers and journalists are saying it's going to be pretty filled with things to do

on_line_forever4029d ago

the content must be moderate not so much

for example : i don't want to search every single foot steps and at the end find something not useful

just make it ( moderate ) with ( valuable ) content

this will not make the player bored when he play it .

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Embark on a legendary dark fantasy adventure, mix tech and monsters for thrilling hunts, build a community of woodland worshippers, compete in two-wheeled races and more with August’s PlayStation Plus Game Catalog lineup!

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Wild Hearts, Cult of the Lamb, Ride 5 and more titles are playable from August 20 for PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium members*.

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Einhander1972243d ago (Edited 243d ago )

This is a great month for me, I have almost bought Wild Hearts a ton of times and same for Cult of the Lamb.

Some really good variety here, and some serious playtime on offer here with all the RPG's. Good luck finishing all these games in a month heh.

Time Splitters is fantastic on the classic side, and glad to see they keep supporting PSVR2 with games

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TheEroica243d ago (Edited 243d ago )

Really grateful I had the good sense to drop pay to play multi-player. It's a rip off.

Einhander1972243d ago

At least when you buy the basic PS+ tier you actually get new games often including AAA games.

This month PS+ got the Star Wars Skywalker Saga, Five Nights at Freddy's:: Security Breach, and Ender Lilies

Xbox hasn't gotten any new games for their basic tier since July and before that it was in August 2023. And if that wasn't bad enough the games they got were just recycled from game pass.

TheEroica242d ago

14 people downvoted and enjoy paying for something millions of pc gamers get for free. Lol.

seanpitt23243d ago (Edited 243d ago )

They could have included the dlc for the Witcher 3 game of the year addition geez..

How many times do they want to keep putting WD2 on

Einhander1972243d ago

PS+ 17 games this month unlike game pass which only offered 7 almost half of them I got years ago on PS+,.and the rest are indies from companies I haven't even heard of.

And the Sony Pictures movie collection will probably get updated with new movies and shows from Crunchy Roll too.

Not bad for a subscription that costs significantly less game pass even before they raised the prices.

crazyCoconuts243d ago

Still not as good as it was a year ago. I think they're walking back on the quality of games just like XBGP is. It's a good thing though...ppl gotta start buying games again.

darthv72243d ago

For me, the redeeming titles are the Time Splitters ones. Sadly i do not subscribe to premium, only extra.

VersusDMC243d ago

Well you can still buy them. PS2 titles range from 5 (the clone wars) to 20 (tomb raider legend). So it may be a good price.

Becuzisaid243d ago

I'd bet these are in the expensive side. People have been wanting some kind of timesplitters remaster for a long time now.

pwnmaster3000243d ago

I thought it was a pretty good month, then I saw time splitter. It made it so much better. I always wanted to play this game but never did

Deeeeznuuuts243d ago

Not the best month for me other than timesplitters!! Can't wait to replay them again, be nice if they have trophies too but no danger of they don't, can't wait!

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