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[Mortisfacio]

I would point out she is never seen using her powers again after the end in the Witcher 3 (it wasn’t some teleport when she got back or to Geralts place in BW) so hypothetically; fulfilling or breaking the prophecy can possibly negate her powers altogether, it was technically a curse after all…Similar to Duny.

It's possible. Hoping to hear clarification on it. If they want to keep the reasoning to be revealed for players as they experience the game, cool, but as long as it's addressed. We know she was a child of destiny, elder blood and was being fed herbs and mushrooms to enhance her abilities in blood of elves.

It's assumed a second, or mini, conjunction occurred at the end of W3. Would create a need for more witchers. Magic and improved alchemy could be theorized here to modify the older concoctions the male witchers took or one of the prior reasons for why Ciri would be the first girl to survive it - she's far from normal. Also in the trailer she shows to still have some type of sorceress abilities, whether those be very powerful or weakened, we don't know yet. Either way I think there's a lot of valid reasons as to why she could survive the trial of grasses. I'm more interested in the "Why even do it at all?" Part. Was her powers diminished from W3? They can't be entirely since she shows magical powers in the trailer beyond the scope of a normal witcher, like lightning, but if she's still OP as hell + mutated then... How does she not just easily kill all the monsters? There's a lot of gray area to cover.

 

[PeteBull]

Saw the same trailer but how its suppoed to be- in polish, and it makes much better impression, my english isnt best but never stopped me from enjoying games, but here it really made huge difference, at least for me personally since im a pole

 

[AtomicStarving]

I fucking hate this Ciri wtf is this design lol

 

[PeteBull]

I fucking hate this Ciri wtf is this design lol

Its modernised/westernised, aka gotta make sure no male gaze ;*(

 

[AtomicStarving]

Its modernised/westernised, aka gotta make sure no male gaze ;*(

 

[MagiusNecros]

I fucking hate this Ciri wtf is this design lol

Plot twist. You play as Dudu the whole game. Could you imagine.

 

[FunkMiller]

Ciri looks fine, just several years older now, and with obvious mutations. How she survived them, we’ll have to wait and see.

Yep. This is all performative nonsense, just because it’s Ciri, not Geralt. But easier to complain about an older character model than admit you don’t want to play as the girl (even though that 100% correct narratively).

 

[Axelon]

It was extremely obvious Ciri was going to be the main character from playing 3. For some reason people are all like "ugh another woke game cause you play as a girl and she doesn't look as young as she used to be" uh, nahhhh. Nothing to do with that at all. People are being blinded by their rage.

That said, I'm very excited for this! Played all 3 games and I absolutely love this series.

 

[Twinblade]

She is the Queen of Space and Time…she will be called what she wants.

Just not a witcher. Lol.

 

[rodrigolfp]

Ciri is not a witcher.

No one is until they become one. Ciri will be now.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Just not a witcher. Lol.

Look, does the Queen of Space and Time have to travel through space and time to choke a bitch?

 

[Windom Earle]

"a chin for a modern audience"

 

[NEbeast]

It looks like this cultural war will destroy the whole industry, even the best franchises.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/sRNqdPygJp

Ciri looks fine. Some of you loser need to go outside. You sound like fucking incels.

 

[rodrigolfp]

https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/s/sRNqdPygJp

Ciri looks fine. Some of you loser need to go outside. You sound like fucking incels.

They want porcelain dolls only.

 

[delishcaek]

I am just assuming but I believe that they're using a fanfic someone wrote on fandom to explain how Ciri is now a Witcher. Why do I belive this? She is wearing a Lynx Emblem, the Lynx School was formed by Cat School survivors. In the fanfic the Cat School developed an experimental formula for their trial of grasses that 1 in 10 woman could survive.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

I am just assuming but I believe that they're using a fanfic someone wrote on fandom to explain how Ciri is now a Witcher. Why do I belive this? She is wearing a Lynx Emblem, the Lynx School was formed by Cat School survivors. In the fanfic the Cat School developed an experimental formula for their trial of grasses that 1 in 10 woman could survive.

She picked up the Cat/Lynx pendant and put it on in the books right near the end. That part is ‘in stone’ lore.

 

[cormack12]

I am just assuming but I believe that they're using a fanfic someone wrote on fandom to explain how Ciri is now a Witcher. Why do I belive this? She is wearing a Lynx Emblem, the Lynx School was formed by Cat School survivors. In the fanfic the Cat School developed an experimental formula for their trial of grasses that 1 in 10 woman could survive.

I think that fanfic was school of the sirens

 

[Twinblade]

Look, does the Queen of Space and Time have to travel through space and time to choke a bitch?

Hmmm.....

 

[Lokaum D+]

"a chin for a modern audience"

a lot of you guys need immediately help

 

[Rna6]

I seriously can't bear this woke/anti-woke fight anymore. Go fuck yourself, all of you, especially the anti-woke side.
You're the same guys that played a female character in World of Warcraft, now complaining about everything in gaming. What do you want ? A gigachad lead character in every game ? Get healed.

 

[Agent_Nobody]

Hmmm.....

 

[delishcaek]

She picked up the Cat/Lynx pendant and put it on in the books right near the end. That part is ‘in stone’ lore.

The Cat and Lynx are different schools. She picked up the Cat medallion, not a Lynx medallion and she had that cat medallion in TW3 already on her (later in the game, implying that what happened in the book happened off-screen to her in the game).

I think that fanfic was school of the sirens

No, it is literally in the link of my post

 

[LordBlodgett]

This was trailer of the show for me, and I'm pumped to play as Ciri. I also don't get all the "her face is messed up" takes. She looks like a more mature and grown-up Ciri from Witcher 3? I think she looks like a badass. They are definitely going to explain WHY she wanted to become a Witcher, because she is quite powerful in her own right without going through the trial to become a Witcher.

 

[moogman]

"a chin for a modern audience"

She looks pretty much the same, but 5090'd and a bit older.

 

[amigastar]

I like her look. The game aims more for an authentic look not a stylized one.

 

[ProtoByte]

"a chin for a modern audience"

You guys seriously have to stop knee jerking and calling everything the crimson chin.

This isn't MJ, Joana Dark, or even Wonder Woman in Suicide Squad. You will lose all of the arguments if you approach them in the exact same way.

 

[Donald mac Ronald]

Cd red said like 10 years ago Witcher 3 was the end of garelds story. And the game it self was quite clearly passing the torch.

I was hoping we would get a game as Lambert. Easily the best side character in the game.

 

[JayK47]

I knew Ciri looked familiar.

 

[MagiusNecros]

I was hoping we would get a game as Lambert. Easily the best side character in the game.

You spelled Eskel wrong. Lambert is lame as hell.

 

[Irobot82]

Shit, I'm down, this trailer was great, but CD's trailers usually are.

 

[TGO]

Oh please.
The only Witcher game that was greatly successful has you play as Ciri.

I love Ciri and I don't mind playing as her in 4 as the main character, but you don't honestly believe that The Witcher 3
A Sequel to a game series that released exclusively on PC & Xbox that at launch released for PS4/XB/PC was just because you could play as Ciri?
Or it could be...

 

[ProtoByte]

I love Ciri and I don't mind playing as her in 4 as the main character, but you don't honestly believe that The Witcher 3
A Sequel to a game series that released exclusively on PC & Xbox that at launch released for PS4/XB/PC was just because you could play as Ciri?
Or it could be...

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the most popular game in the series by far features her and pretty clearly telegraphs that she could be the lead if they made a new game.

 

[HyperSeg]

It's pretty simple. I started on the The Witcher series with the first PC game in 2007. To me, The Witcher is Geralt. I like Geralt. I don't give a fuck about the lore with Ciri and whatnot. I don't care about Ciri. I wouldn't care about a Tomb Raider game without Lara. I stopped listening to the band Ulver after they stopped making black metal. Not everyone will like major changes to something. This has nothing to do with all the shit that people care about with race and gender these days. This is basic logic, stop fixating on race and gender.

 

[TGO]

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the most popular game in the series by far features her and pretty clearly telegraphs that she could be the lead if they made a new game.

Completely agree, in fact from my observation over the past decade so did everyone else and was fine with it.
Now obviously we do have some bitching now about it, which is a cause and effect.
You keep poking an animal it's gonna start to growl at anything remotely close to what pissed it off.
but mostly I think it's because it's not the Ciri they know.
Myself? While I do feel this version of her seems a bit off, I'm gonna wait and see before judgment.
The game is still on my radar until I see a definitive red flag.

 

[zkorejo]

Ciri is not a witcher.

Devs confirmed she goes through the trial of the grasses after Witcher 3 and we will probably experience that journey in 4.

 

[MagiusNecros]

That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying that the most popular game in the series by far features her and pretty clearly telegraphs that she could be the lead if they made a new game.

Nothing wrong with Ciri being the new lead. It's how they are going about it that at the moment feels wrong. More context is required. We will get more context but right now it's more then fair to be skeptical with the change in voice, minor appearance changes, lack of using the Witcher sword gifted to Ciri by Geralt, and a distinct lack of eloquent dervish swordplay that Ciri has been shown to have in Witcher 3. Alongside not being able to teleport short distances.

It seems apparent to me that passing the Trial of Grasses as lore breaking as it might be would be more in line with what Ciri would want if it renders the Elder Blood obsolete as it makes Ciri an open target to manipulate. And Ciri largely wants to live her own life. So all that power as great as it is is viewed more as a curse then a gift.

Dunno how they would go about it. Probably would be a retread of how they handled the Elf guy in W3 where he needed Sorceress assistance to be stabilized. And it doesn't seem likely that any of the current Sorceresses would ever consider participating on that front and risk killing Ciri.

This would make Ciri a great foil to Jacques de Alderberg in retrospect. One embraced their gift and the other looked at it as a curse.

 

[taylor34]

They're within their right to do a Ciri game, they should just know that:

it isn't going to sell as well probably
a good part of the fun in the witcher 3 was his mixups with the ladies and his dry humor, without that I think it's going to be a hard sell.

Witcher 3 was one of my favorite games ever. Witcher 4 with Geralt? Oh hell yeah. With Ciri? Eh, not really that interested. I'm sure it will be fun but it's not going to hit the same.

It's like saying you're going to make an Indiana Jones game but Indiana Jones has retired, so you're playing as his daughter instead...kind of misses the point.

 

[hussar16]

Cd red said like 10 years ago Witcher 3 was the end of garelds story. And the game it self was quite clearly passing the torch.

I was hoping we would get a game as Lambert. Easily the best side character in the game.

Literally any other witcher is more intresting to play as then ciri. I'd love a letho game. Honestly witcher 4 would have ben awesome if they let us choose like 3 characters to play as.ciri lambert letho. I know it would be harder to do and more voice overs but better then forcing one

 

[JayK47]

OMG, The Witcher came out 2007. The Witcher 2 in 2011. And The Witcher 3 in 2015. It has been nine long years since the last game and 17 since the first. That is insane.

 

[hussar16]

You spelled Eskel wrong. Lambert is lame as hell.

I think lambert has a very dry sense of humor exactly like Geralt did. He's very comparable and would make a fine witcher to play as .ciri is too emotional.i don't think she fits at all a witcher.eskel is a bit of a loose cannon I feel like bit probably would be the most fun to play as he would do some wild things

 

[Hero_Select]

Seeing some of the replies here- some of you are just as bad as the ones on Resetera just in the complete opposite direction.

 

[Rickyiez]

I hope CDP makes people not liking Ciri eat dirt.

There’s no reason to assume that CDP couldn’t flesh her out more and wrote her well in her own title.

 

[FunkMiller]

They're within their right to do a Ciri game, they should just know that:

it isn't going to sell as well probably
a good part of the fun in the witcher 3 was his mixups with the ladies and his dry humor, without that I think it's going to be a hard sell.

If they do Ciri getting into mix ups with the ladies, it'll do fucking fine.

 

[V1LÆM]

I hope CDP makes people not liking Ciri eat dirt.

There’s no reason to assume that CDP couldn’t flesh her out more and wrote her well in her own title.

Most people don’t even care or are excited she is the main character.

It’s not like she is some new unknown character. She’s one of the main characters in books and arguably she IS the main character alongside Geralt. Without her there is no Witcher story as it largely revolves around her.

She is a well liked character even in Witcher 3. Haters are just the ones with the loudest voices.

Geralt’s story is over after his own trilogy and it’s time to do something different. It’s been obvious for many years now that the most likely direction they’d go is Ciri as main character.

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

I spent nearly 300 hours with TW3, got the plat trophy, needless to say I'm hyped. Ciri is a great character but I'm sure our old friend Geralt will have some presence too. Only thing I want from CDPR is for them to take their time with it, don't have another Cyberpunk situation, make it undeniably GOTY without any fuckery.

 

[V1LÆM]

They're within their right to do a Ciri game, they should just know that:

it isn't going to sell as well probably
a good part of the fun in the witcher 3 was his mixups with the ladies and his dry humor, without that I think it's going to be a hard sell.

Witcher 3 was one of my favorite games ever. Witcher 4 with Geralt? Oh hell yeah. With Ciri? Eh, not really that interested. I'm sure it will be fun but it's not going to hit the same.

It's like saying you're going to make an Indiana Jones game but Indiana Jones has retired, so you're playing as his daughter instead...kind of misses the point.

It’s one of your favourite games ever but you didn’t pick up that it was a conclusion to Geralt’s story?

 

[hussar16]

I hope CDP makes people not liking Ciri eat dirt.

There’s no reason to assume that CDP couldn’t flesh her out more and wrote her well in her own title.

From the trailer i have gathered she is already an imbecile. Geralt gets killed by a crowd mob like this while in this trailer ciri brings attention to herself by yelling challenging the crowd etc not only is she trying to be a Geralt ripoff she is also a complete idiot .everything about this feels like a ripoff and shoving ciri to be a witcher because she is a girl.ciri is to strong to be a witcher and also going threw trails to destroy her body to be a mutant makes no sense when she can kill these monsters without it. I'm just waiting for the triss witcher collab where girl power witchers take over

 

[captainnapalm]

It’s one of your favourite games ever but you didn’t pick up that it was a conclusion to Geralt’s story?

They're going to have to retcon things to make Ciri into a traditional Witcher, so they could easily have retconned that. Doesn't even need a retcon. Something happens and he has to come out of retirement. Problem solved.

I'm genuinely surprised how happy people are to ditch Geralt. Maybe it's just because I never thought they would actually do it after the success of W3. For me, it's so clear he is far better suited to the role of a Witcher than Ciri. With Geralt, the lone gunslinger archetype just works. With Ciri, at best you're trying to shoehorn her into that role. It's never going to work as well. It's like making a Clint Eastwood western and replacing him with a woman.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

You spelled Eskel wrong. Lambert is lame as hell.

I’d be down for Vesemir prequel

 

[hussar16]

Most people don’t even care or are excited she is the main character.

It’s not like she is some new unknown character. She’s one of the main characters in books and arguably she IS the main character alongside Geralt. Without her there is no Witcher story as it largely revolves around her.

She is a well liked character even in Witcher 3. Haters are just the ones with the loudest voices.

Geralt’s story is over after his own trilogy and it’s time to do something different. It’s been obvious for many years now that the most likely direction they’d go is Ciri as main character.

Geralt story is over so you have ciri play mini Geralt? Look at the trailer. just a Geralt ripoff inspired by other trailers. She even does imbecile things like going against a peasant mob who killed Geralt before. This game is going to be frustrating to enjoy