The Witcher 3 will have a 20 per cent bigger world than Skyrim's. Bethesda also uses procedural quest creation to fill its huge worlds with things for you to do. Skyrim play-times are regularly in the 100s of hours, but the emphasis - as Badowski pointed out - is on side-quests and exploration. And if you want, you can extend that to over 100 hours by tackling side-quests. The Witcher 3 will have a whopping 50-hour main story. 'Sorry,' he chuckled, 'but we are pretty confident we will make it.' And really it's not the same way Bethesda has. 'We have different tricks for how to fulfil - how to make the living world. We know how to make hand-crafted quests and we have tonnes of ideas for quests. 'What does it mean, generic? It's a different type of gameplay experience. 'He was harsh too much,' reflected Adam Badowski, managing director of CD Projekt Red, when I spoke to him last week. It could be an open world RPG like Skyrim but with a strong story as well. His point was that The Witcher 3 could improve on that. He said he couldn't name five characters from the game by memory, and he played the game a lot. Game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz raised eyebrows when he said Skyrim's story and quests were often 'generic'. And to listen to CD Projekt Red, you'd believe the Polish studio could better it. That's the game, the series, the success that The Witcher 3 has in its sights.

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