Witcher 3 facts
While investigating facts about Witcher 3, I found out little known, but curios details like:
The Witcher 3 script is 450,000 words (roughly equal to 4 novels). It took 950 voice actors and 2.5 years to complete the voice recording
Pokémon Red and Blue cost approximately 76 million dollars to develop in 1996. The Witcher 3 cost 82 million and has a file size of 50GB compared to Pokémon's 500KB.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 13 of the best facts about Witcher 3 I managed to collect.
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Some video game scripts are longer then whole book series - Mass Effect trilogy has 1 200 000 words while whole Harry Potter series is made of 1 000 000 words. Also Witcher 3 script by itself has just as many words as Lord of the Rings trilogy (450 000).
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The Wild Hunt from the game, The Witcher 3, is based on a European folk myth of the same name. The Wild Hunt of Eastern Europe is said to be a supernatural group of huntsmen who bring destruction and herald war.
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Percival Suttenbach, a Polish Folk Metal band named after the character in Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher book series, who wrote and perfomed a good deal of the soundtrack to The Witcher 3
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Runestones in The Witcher 3 are named after Slavic Mythology gods
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Chort The Protector of Cows, an NPC introduced in Witcher 3 which would spawn and kill exploiting players force spawning and killing cows for leather.
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A Witcher 3 OST, Steel for Humans, was originally a slavic wedding song named Lazare by Percival.
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In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Ciri mentions travelling to the world of Cyberpunk 2077, which is the next game the developers have planned.
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Michael Cera was an extra in The Witcher 3
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The EU has co-funded Witcher 3: Blood and Wine
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A lecturer at my university voiced Geralt in The Witcher 3
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There was once was a hybrid people who greatly resembled the culture and people of Skellige from the Witcher 3. They were called the Norse-Gaels and they were ''Celtic Vikings'' from Gaelic Ireland and Scotland who exhibited Norse-Gaelic cultural Syncretism
