LectureMaster
Gold Member
LMAO, didn't expect my man Gaiff to be this pissed on this matter. But yeah, Lambert would be so cool. I would love to see him finishing up contract, taking the money, and then starting to trash on the offeror.
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Witcher 4 director interview: Ciri will pass trial of grasses during game, the trailer is a pre-rendered in-game cutscene, and more
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Agent_Nobody
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Have you actually read the books? She already took part of the trials as a child. If they had Geralt out and about again, frankly be it’d be an insult to the send off in Blood and Wine. And frankly nobody gave a shit about Andrej Sapowski’s works till people prop up anti-woke shit before actually reading anything he actually wrote…Ciri was Bisexual before any game or TV show…Yeah the fact that they going to rewrite the lore and mythology of the Witcher universe so they can have their DEI lead is unreal. This is a perfect example of what pisses people off about DEI. I mean, aren't the trial of grasses restricted to children because their bodies need to grow into a Witcher body? CDPR is flat out spitting on the original author's creation by doing this. And it's all so they score diversity points for having their female lead character. Absolute joke these Western studios have become.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Might still happen. They might write a scenario where Ciri finds a way to create a new age of Witchers and starts her own Witcher school.I wanted a new generation of Witchers, with Ciri being their Vezimir
Shake Your Rump
Banned
Yes, thanks to unreal engine stuttering, there will be a lot of skipping.
I'll see myself out.
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Member
Lots of people care about the Witcher books, what are you on mate
. Why would they make 3 games and a TV series about books nobody cares about? I did not, nor am I asking for Geralt to be the lead so I don't get why you're making that assumption of me and what even does Ciri's sexuality have to do with any of this? Such a weird thing to bring up.
DrMano
Member
Up. if it was a 10/10 game i'll pick up the GOTY edition or whatever for sub $30
But what would they do? A big part of the books is that the Witchers have killed everything worth killing. They need a new confluence or some sort of massive upheaval to radically change the landscape, otherwise the organized countries can really police themselves. Or just move off the edge of the map, but of course the politics of the (known) world is half the fun.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
More important is the fact that her odds of dying would be 100%.
FunkMiller
Member
I got the Ciri becomes a Witcher ending for 3, so this sounds perfectly okay to me.
Agent_Nobody
Member
Lots of people care about the Witcher books, what are you on mate
More like; She was basically the main character for most of the book series. And this plays out all through the Witcher 3, as almost the whole theme… and you’re calling it a ‘rewrite’?Yeah the fact that they going to rewrite the lore and mythology of the Witcher universe so they can have their DEI lead is unreal. This is a perfect example of what pisses people off about DEI. I mean, aren't the trial of grasses restricted to children because their bodies need to grow into a Witcher body? CDPR is flat out spitting on the original author's creation by doing this. And it's all so they score diversity points for having their female lead character
She was always going to be the main character…she always was.
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
Conjunction of Spheres during Witcher 3 during some of the final bits allowed a flux of monsters to repopulate in the mythos so Witchers or monster hunters would be needed. And if we go the way of the books Ciri will end up traveling to another world entirely which then would have plenty for a Witcher to do Witcher things.
My hope with this game is you primarily do Witcher things and the story path is more of an adventure rather then political intrigue. The real meat of the game for me across the franchise has always been Witcher Contracts.
LectureMaster
Gold Member
I mean, why would CDPR be fixated on her passing the trial? She is already more powerful than most people in the world and she could do witcher work just fine without mutation.
ValiantInstance
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I.e. they'll invent some bs reason why she can suddenly pass it just so she can be the protagonist in a game with full witcher powers.
I don't know how anyone could play through the Ciri sections in W3 and conclude that a full game as her wouldn't be completely broken. They will have to break more lore and introduce power creep to make combat remotely competitive.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
Because without her being a witcher, the gameplay and character building becomes quite different. The whole part about preparing to slay monsters by buffing yourself with potions or decoctions goes out the window. No more mutagens, no more building a sign or melee builds using different mutagens, etc. That's why I said Ciri as a protagonist could still work, but they'd have to revamp the combat and character building parts. Things they were obviously too lazy to bother doing. I thought they would have made her something more akin to a spellsword using signs, basic magic, and her elder blood powers to fight, but no. The first female witcher in history it is.
Madflavor
Member
Just like they invented some bs reason why Geralt and Yennefer weren't dead after the way the books ended?
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She can be the main character just fine without being a Witcher.
Madflavor
Member
But it's called The Witcher. What are we talking about here?
Agent_Nobody
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How so? Geralt already considered her a Witcher at the end of the last game… not even including DLC.
If I bought Ciri a Witcher sword and she didn’t use it as a Witcher I would be a bad father…
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MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
They had an opportunity to do a Sorceress/Witcher hybrid but I think they are just going to do just Witcher stuffs. I think if you relied more on your magic and your limitations of not being a mutate it would open up new challenges. If anything I hope they let you keep the Blink dodge.
Raven117
Member
Yup. It was all but certain Ciri was next. Again, as always, it’s all in the execution and writing of the character
Agent_Nobody
Member
The literal point for the good ending for the Witcher 3 was letting go..and letting Ciri be the main.
It boggles my mind too.
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EverythingsOverrated
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Until CDPR proves otherwise, I'm not worried about their writing or characterization of Ciri in this game.
People are acting like the same team behind the new Dragon Age is making this game.
People are acting like the same team behind the new Dragon Age is making this game.
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Hopefully there’s a “give Geralt a rim job” mini game.
Hawk The Slayer
Member
Yeah I usually hate woke shit and I'll trash them in whatever way I can but so far being open for this one as I don't really see anything bad about it at the moment.
LectureMaster
Gold Member
I would be really surprised if they botched the lore in source material just for keeping the combat framework from W3.
If anything, I think cyberpunk really shows CDPR is willing to spice up gameplay and variety of their game. I absolutely would embrace a spell sword Ciri, a deluxe version of For spoken, LMAO.
This is a new saga for a new trilogy, their really should just bring something more fresh.
PeteBull
Member
Its smart and camouflaged way of saying bullshot trailer, cdpr is famous for that, man, till we see actual gameplay, playing on proper high end pc, expect all kinds of downgrades vs previous trailers. And i say it as witcher series fanatic.What the hell does "pre-rendered in-game" even mean?
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
Generally means the game engine was used to render everything.What the hell does "pre-rendered in-game" even mean?
But pre-rendered means you are likely “rendering” a slow motion version at low FPS which is then sped up to real time speed.
(It’s basically total bullshit lol)
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Arioco
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Shouldn't it be "in-engine" instead of "in-game"? The wording seems to be a bit weird. It's easier to say "Yes, this is not real-time, folks, it's off-line rendering". xD
Mortisfacio
Member
No. You're comparing Ciri, a child of destiny, elder blood, travels space and time, sorceress, etc. to some orphan girls who died.
It's incredibly dishonest.
LectureMaster
Gold Member
Google translate is the culprit for the wording. I guess what the director wanted to express was that the trailer used all in-game asset. It also has a tiny line of statement in the trailer saying it was running on an unannounced nvidia GPU, which I would assume to be rtx5090
TheShocker
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I for one am in on Ciri being the main character. I felt like that was the natural progression of W3 during my playthrough and ending choices. She's obviously passed or will pass the Trials of the Green Grass, so there is that. Of all the things to be mad about in the current gaming climate, I don't feel this is one of those games.
Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
No, it isn’t. Elder Blood doesn’t grant her any form or poison resistance or immunity. It’s not something you can use to just hand wave human/elven biology away.
Those poisonous potions would fuck up her organs just the same.
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IllegalLemon
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It's running in engine. The vast majority of the trailer may be prerendered footage that cdpr ran on an upcoming enthusiast grade Nvidia gpu, so that they could probably flex they were the first to do it, while sucking Jensen's balls, but the gameplay bit was running in engine. But this will 100% not be how the game looks on release (whenever that is). We've seen UE5 and its somehow worse stutter struggle shenanigans, don't know how Cdpr will get around that issue, we'll see.
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Zathalus
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The Witcher games already diverged enormously from the books on quite a few things, so this is just one more thing.
But since the grasses were created by crazy mages doing crazy experiments, it is not impossible that a new crazy mage decided to alter them further. That’s kind of what Azar Javed from Witcher 1 was doing, creating mutated soldiers.
But since the grasses were created by crazy mages doing crazy experiments, it is not impossible that a new crazy mage decided to alter them further. That’s kind of what Azar Javed from Witcher 1 was doing, creating mutated soldiers.
balls of snow
Member
Lol Lambert or Letho are cardboard C listers compared to Geralt. Inferior versions of the real thing.
Bernardougf
Member
As I said in the other thread.. modern writers dont give a FUCK about lore if its in the way of their ideas and agendas.
And the people who likes to search for receipts... time to have some fun exposing some defending this decision... because complaining about lore breaking is something almost every gamer/nerd do at some point in their lifes.
And the people who likes to search for receipts... time to have some fun exposing some defending this decision... because complaining about lore breaking is something almost every gamer/nerd do at some point in their lifes.
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Lokaum D+
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so some ordinary humans ( kids ) males can endure the trials, but for some reason a fucking special girl ( adult woman ) wouldn't just cause she has a vagina ? thats some bigotry trials.
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Lokaum D+
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yeah, but she is one if not the most important person in the books and even in Witcher 3,but i think 99.9% of the ince.... members in this Forum didnt ever opened a book to read, ppl played Witcher 3 and hold as is the only source material ever made on this franchise.
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GymWolf
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Lmao do you read any book connected to videogames?
A lot of people didn't read the book and give 2 fucks about cirilla compared to geralt, deal with it instead of trying badly veiled insults for people who don't think the same as you.
It's not a matter of having a female protagonist, horizon 1 was my past gotg and i have multiple past goty with female protagonists ffs, you people need to refresh your book of retarded narratives buddy, this shit never worked before and it sure as hell doesn't work now.
Fucking hilarious.
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Gaiff
SBI’s Resident Gaslighter
She's special because she can travel through space and time, not because she can resist poison or toxins.