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The Witcher 4 Developer CD Projekt Explains Why It Went With Ciri Over Continuing With Geralt as Protagonist - IGN

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CD Projekt has explained why it went with Ciri as protagonist for The Witcher 4 instead of continuing with Geralt as the main character.

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Cause Geralt retired in the dlc duh!
- Man, Blood and Wine was such an amazing DLC
- Also, IIRC, at the time they said he was done as a character.
- Also in the main story. At least in the "canon" ending
The only answer they should have to provide is "because we wanted to and anyone who has a problem with that can go fuck themselves."
I like that they call out how layered she is. I really loved her in the books and I'm excited to see how they capture that in the game.
Short sections where you play as a teenage white girl = not politics Entire game playing as white woman = politics
Because they started building that up in The Witcher 3 nine years ago ?
Thought it was a good opportunity to switch to a custom protagonist. Oh well.
- That was my hope as well, especially after CP2077.
  
  IDK, honestly. one of my biggest takeaways from cp2077 is it felt like they wanted to do a more guided story in an open world and struggled with the custom character aspect. like how the origins were all basically meaningless after the first 10 minutes.
  
  the frustrating part of cyberpunk was feeling railroaded into a specific character with specific attitudes and ideas. really, they were just doing what they know and what they're good at creating a character driven narrative based on existing characters. I'm happy to see them go back to that because i think they're just better at it.
So will she be retroactively declared a witcher? Because she never was one.
- Wasn't her becoming a Witcher one of the W3 possible endings?
  
  It was? Huh, wasn't aware of that. She never came back in my playthroughs. :(
- The Trial of Grasses is kind of a defining moment in a witcher's life.
  
  Thats really my only beef at the moment with the choice, but I've been awake for over 48 hours so I'm not thinking too clearly at the moment.
  
  She's chugging potions and using Witcher spells like Igni, so she must have gone through the trial at some point. But that could actually be a plot point shown in flashbacks.
  
  I'm curious if her own teleporting powers are affected by the trial though. That electric thing she does in the trailer doesn't look like any of the known Witcher tricks.
Its okay, you can say it. Modern identity politics and existing market familiarity.

I mean, it would have been maybe more interesting to me to play as my own character in the Witcher universe, but Ciri is not the worst choice in the world, even if she was an extremely predictable pick for protagonist.

EDIT: "Come to Lemmy, we are way more chill and less hostile than Reddit." Lol, whoever told me this was obviously lying. It's exactly the same here, just with more Tankies.
- You know that incels have a smell, right?
  
  Sounds like a projection
- What do you mean by "modern identity politics"?
  
  They mean 'women protagonists bad!'
- It's so easy to pick out the bigots when you say "women can do things too" and they lose their mind and start ranting about "modern identity politics".
  
  Yes, I am the bigot that usually picks to play as a woman in video games ever since they had the option. How very bigoted of me.
- Isn't this a little like hating on Geralt in W3 because he was extremely predictable pick for a protagonist?
- Read, then post.
- I kinda see what you wanted to say in the second part of your message but I have to hardly disagree with the first part
- Edit: ...
  
  Thanks for visiting. Don't stay so long next time.

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