I've never read the books, but... It was clear from game 3 that she was going to play an important role in the future. The entire plot of the main campaign in Witcher 3 was about HER powers. The Wild Hunt wanted her, not Geralt.

Plus also she's awesome anyway. What the fuck is wrong with people? Oh I can't enjoy my vibeo game with a wahmen as main character, it'll ruin my mood!

Honestly I'd rather be looking at a cute girl dashing around than an old man, even if I identify more with the latter. Video games are for exploring things. Fantasy worlds, dragons, wraiths... And the biggest problem with suspending disbelief is playing a character who isn't the same gender as the player? lmao.

Maybe I'm just not enough of a gamer. Only been two and a half decades or so since I first touched a computer and played games.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 2 points 31 minutes ago

They should do a Last Of Us prequel with Joel, but he dies in that one too due to time travel shenanigans.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You’re not going to play Witcher 4 because of woke Ciri, I’m not going to play because I don’t like the games. We are not the same

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

You're not going to play Witcher 4 because you don't like the games, I'm not going to play because my PC is aging and I feel new GPUs are so ridiculously overpriced, I don't want to replace my RTX 3060 ti anytime soon.

[–] BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world 1 points 20 minutes ago

I feel that. Still rocking a 1080. And I’ve got a series s for new releases.

[–] Raxiel@lemmy.world 23 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Reading is also woke

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

Well I have had dreams of reading books. They’re weird. Like, I know it’s a dream and the sentences don’t make any sense. But I keep reading it anyways.

[–] courval@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Thanks, I find the winky a much better option than the cold monotonous /s

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

hot take: i fucking hated the way ciri and every single other woman in witcher3 was written/portrayed...

they all felt like they were written by incels who have never met or conversed with an actual real woman. they were shallow game of thrones/fantasy tropes and felt like walking talking cliches. i literally cringed through every interaction...

[–] Kellamity@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 hour ago

And if I'm honest the books are similar. I like them, but all the women are super sexy super hot and they exist for Geralt to have sex with

[–] mildlyusedbrain@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I get this somewhat but including ciri? I feel like there was none of that with her character. What about her struck you as that?

[–] zebidiah@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 hour ago

she was basically wesley crusher, without the character growth.... she was a plot device, not a character.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 44 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

If a game is deemed "woke" by right-wing shitheads, that's like a seal of approval for me. Now, the game might still suck, but it's not because of being inclusive and diverse.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If it does "flop", they undoubtedly would chalk it up to it being inclusive and diverse though. Otherwise they just quickly move on to the next target.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago

Yup, with movies and games alike if it's "woke" and flops they always say that's why, when the truth is it just sucked.

[–] courval@lemmy.world 40 points 8 hours ago (10 children)

People are complaining of having to stare at a female's body while playing? They prefer looking at at male's butt? That's soooo gay!

[–] Hyphlosion@lemm.ee 4 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I’m a straight male who is very secure in my masculinity. But I’ve gotten shit from people when I use female characters in games. Never understood why that’s a problem.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 1 points 46 minutes ago

I usually play as a female character in games too. I prefer to look at pretty things.

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[–] F_OFF_Reddit@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago (4 children)

Oh boy the only issue I have is that I'm going to be unstoppable, Ciri is literally a broken main character nearing her full potential.

Bitch can fucking dimension travel, trained in sword and fight by other witchers and IIRC Yennefer trained her in some sort of sorcery arts as well so it'd be like having an OP mix of Geralt+Yennefer

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Yennefer trained her in some sort of sorcery arts

So I recently devoured the book series and can clarify, she was first trained as a Witcher, then as a sourceress by Yennefer, but after she was teleported into the middle of the desert and tried to use fire as a source of power out of desperation, she gave up all magical abilities as the fire was trying to consumer her. So shes a brilliant swordswoman, has partial Witcher mutation (some of the mutations come from the secret Witcher diet which she was fed at Ker Moren while being trained) and depending on when in the timeline the game takes place she would have incredible reflexes and some interdimensional travel capabilities.

There's also some really interesting opportunities for storytelling given how Ciri's background is just soaked in trauma. On that note, I am also curious if they intend to play down the salaciousness for this entry or not. In the books Ciri was definitely curious (and heavily implied to be bi) but remained a virgin, and by the end of the series she was still a minor by modern standards. I want to say she was 16 or so at the end of the last book.

I'm super excited to see where this game goes, because if its worthy of being released after the masterpiece that was The Witcher 3, it's going to be brilliant

[–] uid0gid0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Don't forget the carnivorous unicorns

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Hey, anybody remember when MGS 2 came out, and the mass of NA gamers were raging about having to play as Raiden, because he was a ... well in modern parlance, a beta cuck soyboy?

Kinda flew over all their heads that Raiden was basically a more realistic reflection of the NA target demo for MGS games, and oh he also goes through legitimate character development, gains maturity and confidence, oh well now, more lately, he's basically a badass fucking cyberninja.

... Passing the torch off to Ciri fucking entirely makes sense within the world and lore of the Witcher series... and I thought we liked having an attractive gal booty to ogle at in third person?

Or is that now gay?

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

Passing the torch off to Ciri fucking entirely makes sense within the world and lore of the Witcher serie

It's also literally what happens in the books. Ciri grows as a person and becomes a badass swordswoman while Geralt eventually swears off taking monster contracts and later actually stops killing monsters. He even goes to donate his sword before getting pulled into one last battle to protect his friends and chosen family

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 25 points 11 hours ago (11 children)

Unpopular opinion:

Witcher 4 won’t be as good as Witcher 3 cause the third one was very good.

So no matter who they chose, it’s probably gonna be underwhelming.

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[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Honestly I think W3 jumped the shark when it added a fifth faction for Gwent, and I know I'm not alone in this opinion.

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