When you are already rich beyond generation and think your product is too big to fail .. its time to put all your ideas and bias out no matter what the source material is or what the "logical" thing to do would be. He is doing what he wants... I honestly dont think sales are the top priority here or he really thinks this will sell exactly what a Geralt Game would.
This is what I wrote about, there are always people who like or don't like the decisions made by the developers. The final choice is always up to the players, they are the ones who vote with their wallets whether they want to play it or not. And it's too late and useless to discuss anything, all the decisions have already been made and they are making the game the way they think is right, they can only hope that the players will like the final result and buy the game, if they don't buy it, well, it's their own fault.
False.
I think just like Interstellar, witcher 4 is a product that wont by any means BOMB ... but ... meeting sales expectations? Well.. this remains to be seen.
Correct, you can see from her eyes and her appearance that she's done the Trial of Grasses.
Just like someone here said, I can see someone only playing W3 so they want more Geralt. Personally, I’m fine with a new protagonist whether it’s Ciri or another completely different Witcher.
I don't know the sales for each book but the later Witcher books have Geralt almost as a side character...in favor of a lot of Ciri. She features extensively. No idea of those books sold poorly, though he did stop writing them for like 2 decades until the games re-awoke interest in the IP, or at least brought it to the larger english speaking audience.
>Are you retarded?
I'll be curious if she is anywhere near as sex hungry as Geralt. Are we gonna get a chance to go down on Yenn and Triss or just blow Dandelion? Seems unlikely to me but who knows? Maybe the Trial burned out her sex drive as a way of sidestepping the issue.
I wouldn't be surprised if they watered down the sex scenes or nixxed them entirely. Which would be a shame. I'm interested in seeing how they handle that.
I doubt it. She has had a traumatizing sexual past. She did have a love interest at the end but the game kinda erased that.
Nothing makes sense from me this time of the morning.
Then you understand in a lot of ways Ciri (the enigma) is the centre of the story not Geralt. How they treat the gameplay powers etc I'll wait and see, but if your concerns were actually what the internet was on about a rational discussion could be had.
I do but there are valid concerns from people who aren’t that well versed in the book and some concerns that are ridiculous like that fat ciri thread.
You do know the games are set after the books, right? Why are you suddenly looking at the books? The first 3 games change things from the books.
Play Witcher 3 again and pay attention this time. Geralt’s story is done and we’ve known that since like 2015/2016.
The exact quote was included for you to read yourself before making a point about the situation and you still take it literally as if I’m making up a fake quote. Take your pills.
Moron.
It sure seems like far too much of a sensitive topic for you to discuss it like an adult.
Your lack of anything resembling critical thought and perspective dumbs me down.
Yet here you are flinging insults at someone who didn’t attack you. The irony is palpable.
Even ignoring the obvious lore blunder, Ciri is just not interesting and CDPR is still coping over this.
What's more most people only finished 1 game with Geralt in it. Witcher 1 remains a PC-only title and it's quite old. Witcher 2 released only on one console and wasn't remastered. Not to mention the breaks between games were very long, definitely enough time not to feel fatigued from playing as the same character.
The Witcher 4 dev CD Projekt Red talks Ciri fan reaction, playable Geralt coyness, and if the game will honour your previous choices
Eurogamer's full interview with CD Projekt Red after the first reveal trailer for The Witcher 4, including talk of Ciri's gameplay, launch platforms and more.www.eurogamer.net
Does he 'approve' of Ciri being a fully fledged witcher? I ask as it's a bit of a discussion point with fans at the moment, about whether she is or she isn't officially a witcher, whether she goes through the Trial of the Grasses [CDPR has confirmed that she does, in the time before The Witcher 4]. Has he explicitly said, say, 'yes, that's absolutely fine'?
Weber: I mean, I can actually give you a very good answer, because it's the answer that Andrzej Sapkowski usually gives: the answer is in the books. And in the books, Andrzej Sapkowski called Ciri a witcher multiple times, and Geralt called Ciri a witcher in the books too. So I think that basically says what Andrzej Sapkowski thinks about the topic.
Sticking with Ciri for a bit, there's been I think what you might call some 'pushback' from some people already on her being the main protagonist, for a range of reasons, right? Some of them because maybe they didn't enjoy the gameplay of the Ciri sections of The Witcher 3 as much as the other parts. Or they believe that she's not a real witcher, even though like you say it's in the books; or they want to make their own character; or they don't like her appearance in the trailer. What do you make of that response so far? Do you feel like that was inevitable?
Weber: I think there's many very valid worries and responses, because I think a lot of them come out of passion, and I think a lot of those questions are also questions that we asked ourselves. So we really, again, say that we are beholden to the lore, the canon of the books by Andrzej Sapkowski, the three previous Witcher games, and we'd want to take that seriously, and we really want to respect that. So all the answers we basically want to give in The Witcher 4 are in line with this attitude.We're not suddenly making up stuff just because we want to. We really want to take these things seriously.
So I can really understand if some people, you know, might have wished to play another game with Geralt - like I can say myself, I could make games about Geralt until the day I die, and I would probably die happy. But I think for me, and I think for all of us [at CDPR], it's also just really exciting to see all the opportunities that Ciri brings us, both with her character, and also by just virtue of who she is, what we can do with her in terms of the gameplay as well. So I think the best answer for us, for those people that really are worried right now, is basically to show them, when we are ready, that we really do this well and with care. And I think - I hope - we can then convince them with the game itself. Because I think actions speak louder than words.
Kalemba: Yeah, well said. And on top of that, just please remember that we are also not only developers, but we are also gamers, right? And, you know, we've started with the second protagonist already in The Wild Hunt. And so there was already a tease. So we really [are] all about making sure such calls are very educated calls. And we really believe, as Philip already said, that we also have so much of a great story to tell with Ciri, and she deserves that.
I like their transparency.
