The Witcher Game Series

Jace on ice said:
The Witcher has one of the shittiest and most violent fantasy settings outside of Berserk. The idea that your life sucking in this world is a gendered issue is some massive postmodern feminists wank.
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Geralt's mom was a sorceress who wound up regretting having him and as a result handed him off to Vesemir to be trained as a witcher.

He actually meets her during the books after he winds up half-dead from a major injury and he basically goes "Yeah, thanks for patching up my wounds but you're still a cunt for throwing me to the Wolves", and proceeds to give her one hell of a cold shoulder after that.

And boy does she wind up feeling the well-deserved burn from him.
 
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Snekposter said:
Geralt's mom was a sorceress who wound up regretting having him and as a result handed him off to Vesemir to be trained as a witcher.

He actually meets her during the books after he winds up half-dead from a major injury and he basically goes "Yeah, thanks for patching up my wounds but you're still a cunt for throwing me to the Wolves", and proceeds to give her one hell of a cold shoulder after that.

And boy does she wind up feeling the well-deserved burn from him.
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Giving Geralt away was a sign of female empowerment. she didin`t let her kid stop her from achieving her dreams of becoming an all powerful sorceress and successful politician. Gearlt enjoys being a Witcher anyway so its all good!
 
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Gravityqueen4life said:
Giving Geralt away was a sign of female empowerment. she didin`t let her kid stoop her from aching her dreams of becoming an all powerful sorceress and successful politician. Gearlt enjoys being a Witcher anyway so its all good!
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Which is funny since being a sorceress she had many ways to do an abortion, but whoops, just a woman moment I guess.
 
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This is just what I wanted in my Witcher game: to listen to a princess, heir to one of the strongest empires in their world, who can also bend reality to her will, whine about the patriarchy and how oppressed she is. And that's not even getting into the whole Lodge of Sorceresses thing.
 
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Nu-Ciri is kinda fugly compared to old, but I don't care if it's an otherwise great game (not saying I think that's likely).

But wasn't the whole deal with Ciri vis a vis the Trials that her 1 in a billion genetic heritage -- which was the entire foundation of her super-specialness -- would be effectively wiped? It's been a while since I read the books, but I could swear this was directly addressed.

The only way I can make sense of the trailer is if they're pulling a capeshit and W4 is in an alternate reality (which the books implicitly allow tbf) where Ciri did the Trials/was never the super-special chosen one. It would explain why she isn't using her time-and-reality-shattering powers (and maybe the fugliness).

It's also a great way for a lazy, hack writing team to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to using the cannibalised chunks of an existing property to trojan in their own "can't stand alone" attempts at storytelling.
 
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Pocket Sulfur said:
Nu-Ciri is kinda fugly compared to old, but I don't care if it's an otherwise great game (not saying I think that's likely).

But wasn't the whole deal with Ciri vis a vis the Trials that her 1 in a billion genetic heritage -- which was the entire foundation of her super-specialness -- would be effectively wiped? It's been a while since I read the books, but I could swear this was directly addressed.

The only way I can make sense of the trailer is if they're pulling a capeshit and W4 is in an alternate reality (which the books implicitly allow tbf) where Ciri did the Trials/was never the super-special chosen one. It would explain why she isn't using her time-and-reality-shattering powers (and maybe the fugliness).

It's also a great way for a lazy, hack writing team to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to using the cannibalised chunks of an existing property to trojan in their own "can't stand alone" attempts at storytelling.
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My guess right now is when Ciri closed the portal and stopped the white frost she lost her power.

This is somewhat hinted at in game when Ciri comes to visit Geralt in Blood and Wine postgame she says she's been having a difficult time hunting monsters which she obviously wouldn't if she had her time space powers as other people have been pointing out.

I'm like 90% sure this is what they'll go with.
 
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Jace on ice said:
This too, the books actually sort of suck.
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The main issue with anything else aside from the games is that the actual main story of The Witcher fucking blows. The fantasy it appeals to is being a fantastical monster hunter and everything that entails.

episodic short stories are the best part of the franchise. Anything to do with some grand and epic main plot sucks.
 
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Friendly reminder, a studio is only as good as the developers that work within it. Most if not all of the devs that worked on The Witcher 3 are gone, and the magic that made it good left with them. People need to stop treating studios like they are unchanging entities, just look at how Bethesda, Bioware, and Blizzard turned out.
 
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Jace on ice said:
My guess right now is when Ciri closed the portal and stopped the white frost she lost her power.

This is somewhat hinted at in game when Ciri comes to visit Geralt in Blood and Wine postgame she says she's been having a difficult time hunting monsters which she obviously wouldn't if she had her time space powers as other people have been pointing out.

I'm like 90% sure this is what they'll go with.
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Makes sense. The whole plan in the first place was for her to sacrifice her own life until spending a bunch of time with Geralt makes her reconsider.

As to her being Empress, only if you take her to Vizima to visit Emhyr, and if Nilfgaard wins the war. If you don't take her to Emhyr or don't finish Reasons of State in favor of Vernon Roche (where both Dijkstra and Radovid are killed and thus Redania collapses) she sticks to the Path full-time.
 
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Snekposter said:
But wasn't the whole deal with Ciri vis a vis the Trials that her 1 in a billion genetic heritage -- which was the entire foundation of her super-specialness -- would be effectively wiped? It's been a while since I read the books, but I could swear this was directly addressed.
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They might do a thing where she underwent the trials to deliberately remove her Elder Blood. It hasn't been a fun time for her because of it. But that's such an immature, and weak thing for Ciri to do. Her entire story arc in Witcher 3 was her coming into her own power; accepting what she was and that she was capable of amazing things because of it. She wasn't just hiding behind Geralts skirt; and she didn't need him to hold her hand. Dumping the Elder Blood would be such a 180 on her entire character to she can mud wrestle drowners.
 
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Chunky Salsa said:
They might do a thing where she underwent the trials to deliberately remove her Elder Blood. It hasn't been a fun time for her because of it. But that's such an immature, and weak thing for Ciri to do. Her entire story arc in Witcher 3 was her coming into her own power; accepting what she was and that she was capable of amazing things because of it. She wasn't just hiding behind Geralts skirt; and she didn't need him to hold her hand. Dumping the Elder Blood would be such a 180 on her entire character to she can mud wrestle drowners.
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I never said what your quote does and clicking on it takes me to the post where I so tearfully mourn Nilfgaard's well-earned suffering following its loss and the death of Emhyr.
 
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I never said what your quote does and clicking on it takes me to the post where I so tearfully mourn Nilfgaard's well-earned suffering following its loss and the death of Emhyr.
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Fucking wild. I have no idea why it's done that when I was quoting:
Pocket Sulfur said:
But wasn't the whole deal with Ciri vis a vis the Trials that her 1 in a billion genetic heritage -- which was the entire foundation of her super-specialness -- would be effectively wiped? It's been a while since I read the books, but I could swear this was directly addressed.
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This guy.
I'd like to blame Jershs forum, but it's probably something I broke. Oh well.
 
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