{"id":18982,"date":"2022-12-06T00:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/uncategorized\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T00:11:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T00:11:21","slug":"after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/games\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest\/","title":{"rendered":"After 7 years, The Witcher 3 dev discusses why the game &#8211; and its most infamous quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest_638e88a841144-1000x600.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest_638e88a841144-1000x600.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-dev-discusses-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest_638e88a841144-400x240.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My hands-on time with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/witcher-3-guide\/\">Witcher 3<\/a> next-gen update serves as a reminder of just how well Geralt&#8217;s adventure holds up to this day. While the upgrade polishes the experience with improved graphics and a host of welcome features, I can&#8217;t help but think about just how engrossing the story and quests still are, even if I&#8217;m experiencing them all over again. The storytelling is what pulled me right in when I first stepped into the world seven years ago, and nothing&#8217;s changed in that respect. The hours I spend with the game swiftly pass as I soak in all the new options and quality of life additions through various quests. But time and again I keep thinking about just why it so successfully continues to hook me in all these years later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/after-7-years-the-witcher-3-devs-discuss-why-the-game-and-its-most-infamous-quest-still-hold-up\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My hands-on time with the Witcher 3 next-gen update serves as a reminder of just how well Geralt&#8217;s adventure holds up to this day. While the upgrade polishes the experience with improved graphics and a host of welcome features, I can&#8217;t help but think about just how engrossing the story and quests still are, even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18985,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18982\/revisions\/18985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.playretrogames.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}