The Witcher Game Series

Normally I'd think the squealing about wokeness was just retards being retarded, but the way CDPR gradually replaced male V with female V in all the Cyberpunk promotional material was amusingly transparent. Like, they didn't evenly divide the avatars or anything, just straight up plonked a woman down in all the banners, ads and storefronts that once had a bloke front and center.

Their waffling about Ciri's journey not being complete - never mind the depth of material which was about said journey - is icing on the cake. A huge part of her story was not being defined by everyone else's role in the world, so already there's a significant mishandling of the source.
 
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Kharash said:
Seen a bunch of people defend this shit by saying Geralt's story is over so obviously it's Ciri's game now.
Don't they realize that Ciri's story was done with his? When I heard the news years ago that they were done with Geralt I just thought of all the freedom they had now, they could do anything with the setting, make a whole new cast of characters. Play as a Viper school witcher, have a Witcher school in Zerrikania or whatever else they wanted to do. The sky's the limit.
And they just do this, the absolute blandest shit they could with a hideous bogged Ciri on top of it.

Oh well, nothing of value was lost. We all know about CDPR's new ESG stance.
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Wild idea, let us make our own character, focus on a different witcher school, let us play as a kid that has to go through the trial of the grasses, write a story that doesn't involve Geralt or any of the old crew.

...please?
 
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Meanwhile a chinese game had a Witcher character pack released recently and sure enough, they've made Ciri prettier, gave her bigger boobs, and her voice is closer to the original.


Pretty dire when when the chinese coomerbait gacha battle royale seems more in tune with the franchise and its audience than the original devs :story:
The game is NARAKA: BLADEPOINT, never played it, just saw it pop up on Steam's front page.
 
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What a waste!
Ciri's mastery over time and space could have opened a whole new dimension hopping setting, but no, they turned her into chickGeralt an inferior imitation of old ground.
 
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Wow, so CDPR is dead. Witcher 3 and expansions was their peak, and I guess success and cash went to their head.
Ciri...boring fucking character who is now a Witcher?? People liked Gerald for their power fantasy, Ciri was a plot device at best.
Just start with a new series and new set of characters ffs...
Well the comments and ratings of the trailer don't fill me with hope either. Lots of people excited to be playing as Ciri...
 
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Lady Adjani said:
can't wait to see how they wrote this asspull into the story.
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Eh, in the books the Witchers were already doping her up as a child with various hormone-laden food and drink and Triss had to put her foot down to make them stop before irreversible damage was done. While none of them were going to put her through the full Trials, I don't think its mentioned anywhere explicitly as an impossibility, unlike with Space Marines. Its just that when shit's so fucked villages need three stockade rings to keep monsters out at night and peasants can only bring in the harvest while armed guards stand by in case of monster attack boys are infinitely more disposable than girls. Of course, there's also the Cat school, which started off as a mass rebellion against their instructors and so they'll take in anyone willing to risk it, and according to the tabletop RPG game has no issues training not just women but also half-breeds.

To give you an example of how bad things were, here's a section from The Last Wish:
‘So use other people’s experiences. The unicorn virgins, when they lost their jobs, immediately popped their cherry. Some, eager to make up for the years of sacrifice, became famous far and wide for their technique and zeal. The ratcatchers . . . Well, you’d better not copy them, because they, to a man, took to drink and went to the dogs. Well, now it looks as if the time’s come for witchers. You’re reading Roderick de Novembre? As far as I remember, there are mentions of witchers there, of the first ones who started work some three hundred years ago. In the days when the peasants used to go to reap the harvest in armed bands, when villages were surrounded by a triple stockade, when merchant caravans looked like the march of regular troops, and loaded catapults stood on the ramparts of the few towns night and day. Because it was us, human beings, who were the intruders here. This land was ruled by dragons, manticores, griffins and amphisboenas, vampires and werewolves, striga, kikimoras, chimerae and flying drakes. And this land had to be taken from them bit by bit, every valley, every mountain pass, every forest and every meadow. And we didn’t manage that without the invaluable help of witchers. But those times have gone, Geralt, irrevocably gone. The baron won’t allow a forktail to be killed because it’s the last draconid for a thousand miles and no longer gives rise to fear but rather to compassion and nostalgia for times passed. The troll under the bridge gets on with people. He’s not a monster used to frighten children. He’s a relic and a local attraction – and a useful one at that. And chimerae, manticores and amphisboenas? They dwell in virgin forests and inaccessible mountains—’
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In the "modern" era villagers fucking love trolls because they do a better job of keeping any nearby bridges fixed-up and bandit-free than the local lord will, and probably for cheaper too, but back when the Witchers were founded? Yeah, no, there's plenty of young men with nothing to lose and everything to gain when it comes to being subjected to abominable medical procedures, but women cannot be risked in the slightest for obvious reasons.

That done with, they'll probably just asspull "it wasn't muh full Trial" or "muh new mutagens". Keep in mind that we are potentially quite literally dealing with A Wizard Did It as the explanation, given that mages are vital when it comes to performing the final stage of the Trial of Grasses. Knowing CDPR, they'll probably go with the first one, especially since Yen was blowing god knows how much time and money on trying to undo her own infertility during the time the books took place, so her being able to do a version of the Trials that wouldn't fuck things up hormonally for Ciri is at least plausible.
 
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Ciri didn't die, and she did stop the white frost then? So why doesn't she just hadoken blast every monster she sees? She's the lady of time and space. She can kill you with her brain, teleport around like an X-men comic character and drop your ass off in a different dimmension. Why is she even killing the monsters? She could probably send them home?

Did she just stop using her powers? Stop even training them? Is the plot going to be that she became mentally retarded? What a waste. I'll just replay Witcher 2 and 3 thanks (1 filters me.)
 
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Deadwaste said:
amazing, you have all become anita sarkeesian and none of you realize it
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Complaining was never the issue, problem was she was a dumb bitch that wanted shit to be ugly and for devs to make $400 million dollar disasters that don't sell because only morons would advocate for making shit uglier
 
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TW1 is still my favorite of the series, so I'm pretty hesitant about today's CDPR remaking it. Not just the dumb DEI shit but also dumbing it down in general. A lot of the quests were very anti-hand holding, forcing the player to actually investigate shit themselves and come to their own conclusions, even allowing the wrong conclusions that would fuck up the quest or otherwise lead to a bad outcome.
 
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Maybe im dumb but why the fuck did she needed to take the trial of the grasses when she was already powerful and had mastery of powerful magic. Sure she could have become a witcher in name, but taking the trials i feel wasnt necessary. Even so i feel that the story ended for geralt and ciri in W3. Any subsequent game could have focused in the future where witchers dont exist or go back in time when the first witchers were made. Honestly they could have chosen any other point in the lore and it would have been more engaging to follow. That said i dont wanna be a complete doomer, but based on current trends and the shit design of current ciri, ill just keep an eye on it to see how it develops.
 
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Deadwaste said:
amazing, you have all become anita sarkeesian and none of you realize it
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amazing, the person that has 0 problems with le anita's influence when guzzling wokeshit is now pretending it's an insult

what you don't seem to realize is that the dishonest shitlib routine of "always downplay wokeshit, always seethe at people disliking wokeshit" is blasé
 
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