re: The Witcher 4 Reveal Trailer

I'm still holding out hope that Ciri is nothing more than a flavor character and the main protagonist is something out of Lambert's/Metz's school of the Lynx. Ciri as the protagonist is just a terrible fricking idea. Don't like.

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She was literally trained in the way of fighting like wolf school witchers. She was trained by all of the main crew Geralt Lambert Eskel and Vesemir each in their specialities of wolf school fighting. This is like very basic witcher lore and wouldnt be an acceptable retcon

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this is obviously an older Ciri which doesnt have any basis in the books. i wish people would stop with this slavish dedication to the book lore. ITs ok to do something a little different if it works.

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this is obviously an older Ciri which doesnt have any basis in the books. i wish people would stop with this slavish dedication to the book lore. ITs ok to do something a little different if it works.

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A little different is fine. On the other hand, taking a character who isn't a witcher and turning them into one (which means voluntarily going through a mutations process in which she has a roughly 25% chance of survival) while also ignoring their ability to literally warp through time and space isn't a little different; that's taking a named established character and turning them into something completely different just to take advantage of the fact that they are a named character.

They could completely surprise me and do something extremely interesting with her character and powers. But if CDPR turns Ciri into essentially just another witcher, fans of the series aren't going to be particularly happy, and for good reason. The best way I can explain it is that turning Ciri into a witcher at this point is only slightly less absurd than turning Yen into a witcher.

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No. It isnt. Especially if this is what it appears to be which is a direct continuation from the witcher 3, which in itself was a direct continuation of every single thing from allllll the books from the short stories to the 7 novels except it changed to ending to let the story continue. That means it carries that lore with it to argue otherwise is foolish. Wanna do something new? Thats fine and im cool with that. Go back 400 years and create your own witcher story out of whole cloth. Doubt they have the talent for that now though so they have no choice really but to ape off others work again

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1. they wouldnt have to go back 400 years. Strange comment.
2. Some of us dont need things to be carbon copies of each other to feel all safe and cozy. If they have the originator's blessing.
3. The games are not direct continuations of the books.
4. my original point was that ciri will likely play/fight a lot different than geralt in combat which could be fun. Now we are several posts in your weird arse flex on your awesome witcher knowledge.

anyway I'm out. continue to argue with yourself if you want.

shite like this is why people dont like you here.

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A little different is fine. On the other hand, taking a character who isn't a witcher and turning them into one (which means voluntarily going through a mutations process in which she has a roughly 25% chance of survival) while also ignoring their ability to literally warp through time and space isn't a little different; that's taking a named established character and turning them into something completely different just to take advantage of the fact that they are a named character.

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i was thinking along these lines when i was watching the trailer but I'd give CDPR a chance to show us what they have to say.

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The games are not direct continuations

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Dude are you high? They literally are. They’re littered with references and events that happened and things that play our hinge on them having happened. They literally just changed that geralt and yen die in the end and kept the exact same story going. The EXACT same story. You’ve admitted you haven’t read them so how would you even know anyway? There’s likely a ton of stuff you don’t even really understand well especially in Witcher 1 and 2 Witcher 3 is a bit better at onboarding that’s how much a continuation they are.

When you do this you’re tied to the lore of that source material. You look like a fool arguing otherwise it’s comical

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People don’t like you here

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I’ve actually been welcomed back almost completely since my post rehab. You’re just mad I made you look like you had no idea what you’re taking about because you don’t. Which is fine we all make mistakes I’m not mad and you shouldn’t take it personal

I actually like playing as women in games when the game devs use the woman protagonist in interesting ways either by doing story telling or gameplay in a way a man could not.

I also like playing games like stellar blade and bayonetta where it’s just a bomb arse game with hot arse chicks.

yeah I remember people calling it lynx when that one image first was put out announcing the game. Idk if they actually meant it to be that or not but as I’ve said I’m pretty certain it has been confirmed to be a lynx medallion. We also don’t know if it is necessarily ciris

This looks fantastic. All in.

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the only way the game will work playing a female is if we get to frick a buncha dudes like Gerald did the women in witcher 3.

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wtf