Games Inbox: What will the new The Witcher 3 DLC be about?

The Wednesday letters page is excited about Santa Monica Studio revealing a new game, as one reader ponders the future of Final Fantasy.

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Bridging the gap
I’m very interested in this idea that The Witcher 3 will be getting new DLC, nearly a decade since the last lot. It’s obvious it will be a story link between The Witcher 3 and The Witcher 4, but I wonder if it will also involve the death of Geralt. I doubt they’d make a new playable character just for DLC but killing off the old character to make way for the new would be a really neat idea, I think.

I know the voice actor is working on the new game, but it could easily be a flashback or as a ghost or something. That’s my guess anyway, but I hope whatever it is it’s something substantial and worthwhile, not just a glorified ad for the new game. The rumours mentioned a new map area, so that sounds very promising.

If this is successful, I really hope other games copy the same idea. Publishers don’t like single-player games because they don’t keep making money all the time, but this could change that. It could be like episodic content but from within an existing game.
Austin

Ancillary media
All the talk of God Of War/Santa Monica Studio at the State of Play on Thursday has got me really excited. I realise it’s going to be the most boring option that will be shown (the Metroidvania by a different developer) but the fact remains that Santa Monica Studio hasn’t announced a new game yet and Sony clearly has something special planned for this week.

I really hope it’s a new IP and I think there’s a good chance, as Sony are a lot better at giving them a chance than most other publishers. I think they understand better than most that games can be used for many other things, as you see from all their movies and TV shows. The Twisted Metal series has been dead for years now but somehow they made a really good series out of it.

Konami did the same with Castlevania, now I come to think of it, so making a popular game doesn’t have to be the one and only thing you do with an idea. We’re at the point now where something might not be popular as a game but could still be a hit as a show. They were going to make a Days Gone movie at one point, so Sony obviously gets it.
Klem

Science bit
I wouldn’t be surprised if a portion of the State of Play is dedicated to the PSSR update that is coming to PS5 Pro this year. If it can provide similar quality upscaling to FSR 4.0, without greatly increasing the burden on the CPU, it could suddenly make the PS5 Pro a more worthwhile proposition. The Switch 2 has shown what can be achieved with a good machine-learning upscaler and it’ll be the norm going forward for all new consoles.

On a related note, the new mobile chips from Intel seem really promising. The handheld PC space has stagnated a wee bit since most of the hardware is based around an aging AMD chipset. A bit of competition from Intel wouldn’t be a bad thing.
Magnumstache

GC: You may well be right about PSSR being in the State of Play.

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All that remains
There’s a lot of talk about physical vs. digital lately on GC.

After downloading all of my old Switch games (I sold my original Switch three years ago, by the way) from my Nintendo online account onto my new Switch 2 I’ve noticed that Horizon Chase Turbo is missing but the downloadable content is still on there. Any ideas on why this has happened GC?

I’m just glad it was an £18 game and not a £60 one, not that I ever buy non-physical full price games.
Adams6legend
PS: I have tried re-downloading it but it wants me to pay again.

GC: We’re not sure, have you tried contacting the publisher?

Feverish pricing
Just out of curiosity I wonder why you felt Mario Tennis Fever’s price was egregious enough to mark it out as a con.

The RRP price of £58.99 digital/£66.99 physical (it’s actually £55 from many places, like Amazon) puts it on with par with other first party Switch 2 games and a bit cheaper than new first party PlayStation 5/Xbox Series X/S games.

The review also said Fever was the most comprehensive entry and stacked with content. It sounds like you’ll get a decent amount of milage for the money.

I don’t care about Fever personally. But if a new Virtua Tennis released that content rich I’d happily pay £60.
Simundo

GC: £67 seemed like a lot of money to us, kudos if it doesn’t to you.

Two extremes
It’s really funny to think that the two most wished for games of the last decade – Shenmue 3 and a Final Fantasy 7 remake – both turned out to flops. Shenmue 3 was a complete disaster but while I’m sure Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth made some of its money back it was obviously not enough, given this permanent price decrease and going multiformat.

It’s a real shame because I think they did a great job with the remakes and I’m really looking forward to the third one. I think they’re much better games than Final Fantasy 16 but given that didn’t do great either I’m not sure what direction Square Enix is going to go next, if neither nostalgia or something completely different worked.

I know Square Enix talked to the team that made Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 so the hope is whatever they’re doing next is going to be like that, and turn-based, but I don’t know. I just can’t imagine making a massive budget turn-based role-player in this day and age.

If they do then I’ll be over the moon, but perhaps they’ll also make it more of a mid-budget game. I would be absolutely fine with that. I’d prefer it to be honest, if it means they can afford to get weird and experiment.
They clearly don’t know what woks at the moment, and I doubt anyone does, so trying a few idea out relatively cheaply seems like the perfect solution to me.
Minilla

Panic over
Please don’t worry about the future of the Like A Dragon series. Their main projects are Stranger Than Heaven and the new Virtua Fighter.

The numbered series has been released every four years for quite some time. Pirates last year or Yakuza Kiwami 3 this year are side projects with smaller budgets. Thank you.
Lucas

Original name
People have been saying all the Overwatch women look the same for years, so I guess this new one was just the straw that broke the camel’s back. I don’t really care about that, but I was shocked to find out that they’ve stopped calling the game Overwatch 2 and just knocked the ‘2’ off the name. What a disaster.

The rush to try and get a live service hit reminds me very much of movie companies all trying to make their own cinematic universe, despite the fact that only one of them has worked and there’s no guarantee any others will.

There is at least more than one successful live service game, so I suppose you’ve got that, but it’s still only a tiny percentage that are ever a major hit.

Just as importantly, even the successful ones often don’t seem to know what they’re doing. Just as the MCU has come off the hinges, Overwatch was doing live service stuff before the term even existed and now look at it. The game’s a laughing stock and I wouldn’t be surprised if they pulled the plug when this new update (and rename!) doesn’t work out.

At some point companies are going to have to accept that nothing lasts forever. We’ve already forgotten how close Fortnite came to disaster a couple of years, but it will definitely happen again.
Cankle

Inbox also-rans
I agree that the art style in Mewgenics is completely off-putting. I was really liking the sound of it, from reading your review, but seeing it in action, I’m just not interested.
Ivor

So what’s the betting for exactly how dumb the name for the next gen Xbox is going to be? Xbox Zero is my guess, but I can think of a lot worse (zero is for the number of customers, obviously).
Wotan

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