The Witcher 4 dev says “it’s very clear” that Ciri is the right choice of protagonist, but that players shouldn’t “make opinions” until the game is out
The Witcher 4 dev says “it’s very clear” that Ciri is the right choice of protagonist, but that players shouldn’t “make opinions” until the game is out
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Just write it good. That’s all that should matter.
The only way you could not think Ciri is the logical character for Witcher 4 is by reading none of the books, not playing Witcher 3, and generally have zero clue about anything to do with the Witcher.
dont know what the big fuzz is about, from playing witcher 3 the cannon ending seemed very clear ciri would be perfect to take over for witcher 4, but seems like it sparked an outrage or something?
I’m so stoked about playing Ciri. I can’t wait!!!
Did they say Ciri was the most likely main character years and years ago?
It’s gonna be interesting to watch her journey regardless after 3. If the writing is good it’ll be a cool direction but people do need to wait till the games are out to judge if they deliver.
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I hope the dodging is better, I never really liked the teleport dodge that Ciri has in Witcher 3, always felt like I got hit mid dodge.
Stop catering to incels. Tell them to shut up or fuck off. Giving them an inch allows them to control everything.
Never read any of the books, but played all the games. It’s so obvious in the narrative that Ciri should be the inheritor that I’m mostly convinced the backlash against it is a few douches at some shitty game journals/sites/magazines and a couple of 15 year old trolls that know how to bot.
>that players shouldn’t “make opinions” until the game is out
Lol, good luck with that
Every 3 days there is a new article about Witcher 4, and the game is not coming out in at least 3 years.
You know, I don’t mind if you don’t want to play ciri because you dislike playing girls out of discomfort, but when you directly imply that no one should want to play as ciri it’s a bit of an overreaction, and especially those “fans” who are defensively verbal about “the vampire game will kill Witcher 4.” It’s abundantly clear you aren’t excited for that game more than you are excited to see this game fail.
Citi looks like she’ll be a good main character and her newer model in the recent showcases look a lot better. I just hope the story is good at this point and it’s not buggy like cyberpunk was at launch. This is feeling like they’re trying to deflect a lot of criticism onto the female main protagonist in advance because the game is gonna be rough at launch like other studios do. Then they’ll pull the old “you only hate our game cause it’s got a girl as the main character” card when it’s mostly criticism of the story and state of the game.
The main issue is not about playing here, but. Here being a mutated Witcher, it does not feel right. And yeah I know some just don’t like the idea of playing Ciri and that’s all, but that’s a completly other discussion.
I’m still a little sad we won’t get to create our own Witcher characters. Ciri is a logical follow-up to Geralt’s story though.
Why shouldn’t we make opinions? Her best ending had her being a queen and there was an emphasis on how rulers have the potential to make lives better than any witcher.
Thats why I was so shocked, I also wanted to see a new witcher and how they are doing since they are going extinct.
My only disappointment was that I was hoping for a custom character because I really like Character creation and the one in Cyberpunk was really good and it be good to get that in a 3rd person game. But if it going to be an actual Witcher Character then yeah Ciri makes the most sense
Honestly, I was a bit bummed when she was announced to be the MC purely because, after CP2077, I was holding out hope we’d get to make our own Witcher, potentially choosing which school we aligned with.
Outside of that, CDPR knows what they’re doing with writing and Ciri is such a great character in the books and games. If they write it well, no one will care.
I’ll withhold judgement, but still confused on how they’ll handle her being entirely OP compared to the known universe. Just seems like it’ll make for a weird level scaling in the game.
Sorry I like Geralt.
I still think a customizable Witcher would’ve been cool. Not like we’re sticking to the books
Ciri is the obvious choice, but I would not mind Geralt as a protagonist again. I thought I was fine with how the books ended, and I felt odd about bringing back Geralt as a protagonist in the first Witcher game, but the games showed that Geralt can be still part of the story.
My problem is her power seems to be missing. I am not interested in Ciri as just another Witcher.
I’ll wait til the game is out to determine if I like it or not. If they’re taking pointers from KCD2 I’m hoping it evolves the RPG elements from W3.
CDPR has delivered multiple times. I ain’t really worried.
It makes sense considering Ciri does wotcher stuff for the love of the game, and that Geralt can finally retire in his villa and maybe occasionally get teleported towards a nearby lake.
Bro is out of touch with reality. People had opinions on Witcher 4 before Witcher 3 even came out
Playing for Ciri and interacting with her was the least favorite part of TW3 for me.
BTW, Ciri as a witcher is compeltely non canon, because:
1. She was much more powerful than any witcher could ever be
2. Women weren’t able to pass trials canonically. And it makes no sense for her, because abilities she could get after trials are nothing compared to what she naturally capable of.
IMO, this is some lazy take from these devs.
They did not mean it in the way you have posted here. People are already going Zombie, stop contributing to it. Now watch Grifters association feast on this to oblivion.
No Geralt no buy. Simple as that
>players shouldn’t “make opinions” until the game is out
Then they should not allow pre-orders.
Obviously its because Geralt gets beaten to death with a golf club at the end of the opening section.
But he’s also giving an opinion before the game is out. Telling gamers how they should feel never bodes well.
Maybe you shouldn’t have released a trailer where she has the fucking cat eyes then.
Well, if you don’t want players to make opinion, why show them the game before it’s out?
True choice was custom character creation with class selection(warrior, sorceres, witcher) Ciri was easy choice. Nice try at gaslighting tho.
You can expect from CD Projekt Red that the game will come out super buggy but in like 2-5 years it will be playable.
Ciri is a logical progression
My only question for CDPR would be… Did they learn from the shitshow that was Cyberpunk 2077 on launch? Or should we expect another U5 disastrous game on release that will need 2 years to make it an actually complete and functional product?
The don’t make opinions until the game is out rhetoric doesn’t really stick when you have the game available for pre-order
Why am I supposed to essentially chance nearly a day’s worth of money on maybe enjoying something before it’s even out
Can’t wait for the nude mods
She’s never been a Witcher, so it’s invalid from the start.
The arrogance of these fuckers, lol by following the novels, it’s clear Ciri would never take the trials and mutilate herself, makes zero sense (even less so Geralt and Yen would allow such mutilation). But alas, the fanfic writers saying they know better than the author. Fan fictions are ridiculed for a reason, this Witcher trilogy got close to cross the line a couple of times, but the overall quality was rock solid, the Witcher 2 story is almost at the same level of the novels, kudos for that.
But Witcher 4 is about to cross that line, a shame, this game only exists out of pure greed, to keep milking the IP, keep CD Projekt afloat. Remember the early leaks and rumors about a Witcher game where you control an “avatar”, the players create a character from zero and they can choose the Witcher school and so on… seems obvious Cd Projekt couldn’t flesh that out, so let’s take the easy road and use Ciri instead, here it comes Geralt again, Yen, Jaskier, etc… zero creativity, but a lot of arrogance.
I mean, duh. She was the *playable deuteragonist* of the last game.
It’s like being mad that Luigi got a game. Like…have you been paying attention at all?
I think a lot of these idiots never played any of the games and they’re just latching on in bad faith. It’s the same lying idiots pitching a fit about Rage Against The Machine for “going political.”
Are we trying to manufacture outrage here? Who TF is mad about Ciri?
That’s like players saying you shouldn’t show off the game until it’s out.
I haven’t seen anyone complain, but I’ve countless posts about the complainers. Overblown.