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[Malcador]

6 hours ago, Lexx said:

lol people are malding so hard about Ciri in Witcher 4, I'm totally into it now and will for sure play it when it's releasing.

People upset about Ciri not being hot enough are the funniest.

[HoonDing]

Geralt retired and Ciri became God-Empress.

A Lambert game could work though.

[Wormerine]

41 minutes ago, HoonDing said:

A Lambert game could work though.

No kidding, that could actually be fun.

[BruceVC]

https://za.ign.com/the-witcher-4/204170/news/the-witcher-4-developer-cd-projekt-explains-why-it-went-with-ciri-over-continuing-with-geralt-as-pro

Here is a good interview from CDPR around why Ciri is the main character 

I am  still not happy with how Geralt is no longer the main character but I understand the whole " this is a new narrative " from CDPR 

I just think why change something that works and Geralt is so iconic? Anyway I wont be complaining about this decision anymore and I will comment further once I have played W4 and I can comment objectively on W4 

" It was always about her, starting from Saga when you read it in the books. She's an amazing, layered character. And of course, as a protagonist we said goodbye to Geralt previously. So this is a continuation. I guess for all of us it’s like she was meant to be. That was always her.”

" She's actually about to become the Witcher,” Kalemba explained. “She's about to actually form her own codex, but on her own terms. The way she actually deals with the monsters, the way she deals with quests, the adventures, it's her own unique way. And also I think that she gives more room to be able to tell different stories here and there. Of course, we want to give the opportunity for the player to explore more nuance because this is what we do. But she deserves that.”

" Both Mitręga and Kalemba acknowledged a potential backlash from some corners of the internet at Ciri’s role as protagonist in The Witcher 4, but both insisted Ciri was always going to be the game’s main character."

 

[Wormerine]

59 minutes ago, BruceVC said:

 I just think why change something that works and Geralt is so iconic?

Cause look to Disney to see that milking out dans favourite without a story to go with ot doesn’t go that well. 
 

Witcher3 wrapped up Geralt as a character. Sure, you could drag him back, but in the best case scenario they would undermine W3. I had three games with Geralt they ended with a high note and CDPR to move forward is a welcome sign to me. According to the interview on FPS podcast Geralt is still in the world, so we will see him, but CDPR is doing to expore a new character. It could be good it could be bad, we will see. Ciri should give them space to try something new.

edit. I am quite surprised that there are people who are surprised that Ciri is the protagonist - that should be the most obvious choice for those who played and finished Witcher3.  When someone asks „why Ciri” my counter question would be „have you ever played previous games?”

Edited December 18 by Wormerine

[uuuhhii]

18 minutes ago, Wormerine said:

Cause look to Disney to see that milking out dans favourite without a story to go with ot doesn’t go that well. 
 

Witcher3 wrapped up Geralt as a character. Sure, you could drag him back, but in the best case scenario they would undermine W3. I had three games with Geralt they ended with a high note and CDPR to move forward is a welcome sign to me. According to the interview on FPS podcast Geralt is still in the world, so we will see him, but CDPR is doing to expore a new character. It could be good it could be bad, we will see. Ciri should give them space to try something new.

edit. I am quite surprised that there are people who are surprised that Ciri is the protagonist - that should be the most obvious choice for those who played and finished Witcher3.  When someone asks „why Ciri” my counter question would be „have you ever played previous games?”

 

witcher 3 are 9 year old

most player wouldn't remember much more than gwent

[Mamoulian War]

3 hours ago, uuuhhii said:

 

witcher 3 are 9 year old

most player wouldn't remember much more than gwent

That is definitely not the case for Witcher 3. As the crazy big spike of sales happened when Netflix introduced the Witcher series. So a lot of the tens of millions of sales of W3 happened in the last three years. But yeah, the Gen Alpha with their 30 second TikTok conditioned attention span might have issue remembering that as well

[Humanoid]

My 30 second attention span means I never played Gwent after that first time in the prologue.

[Zoraptor]

The only thing definitely worse than having Ciri as protagonist would be bringing back Geralt as one.

(Really though, I take some issue with the dev comments. The CDPR Ciri certainly wasn't very layered or amazing as a character; and wouldn't even be an option in half (? 2/3? since I can't remember the exact end conditions) the endings they wrote themselves, ie not in the Empress/ Bad endings. It's like writing TW1 with options then when TW2 comes around insist that Geralt could only really romance Triss. If that's the case, write it that way from the outset and don't give the option)

[Gfted1]

 

[MrBrown]

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/moon-beast-productions-arpg-seed-funding-diablo-cool-fresh/

[Azdeus]

On 12/15/2024 at 4:56 PM, Malcador said:

People upset about Ciri not being hot enough are the funniest.

2014; Gamergate.

2024; Goonergate.

[LadyCrimson]

Can't tell if I'd be interested in that Exodus game or not. It looks kind of intriguing but per usual never enough gameplay being shown. Lots of 2 seconds of gameplay being constantly fast spliced around like an action movie trailer never "tells" me anything. Especially if it's supposed to be more of a story rpg? Need more of the "how skills/quests work" stuff.

The Borderlands 4 trailer mostly made me think it might be more interesting to play as one of the bandits/enemies than the "vault hunters." (the gameplay bits start just after the 1minute mark). Since I assume hubby will want it even if I'm "meh", we'll likely have to buy hubby some cheap new gpu, even if he's fine with 1080p gaming on his 4k monitor. I think he has a nvidia 1660 or something, which barely worked ok with BL3.

 

Edited December 19 by LadyCrimson

[Wormerine]

18 hours ago, Zoraptor said:

(Really though, I take some issue with the dev comments. The CDPR Ciri certainly wasn't very layered or amazing as a character;

No, but also not bad for “your princess is in another castle” character that she was. I think potential is more important, than what she was in W3. 

She can be a great new protagonist - but she might as well not be. It’s all about the execution, so it’s up to CDPR to deliver.

[marelooke]

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl patch 1.1 is out with an enormous amount of fixes, but, most importantly for me (aside from the bugfixes) major improvements to the spawning system

Edited December 19 by marelooke

[Mamoulian War]

After 20 years, and numerous cancelled attempts, Tales of Rebirth finally got english translation. Courtesy by Life Bottle Productions fan translation group.

[Gorth]

On 12/19/2024 at 4:51 AM, LadyCrimson said:

 

Not sure what to think of this... I had such high hopes for BL3, but I never managed more than leveling one of the characters to level 2. The writing and the characters were just rubbing me the wrong way completely. No, I did not expect a new Handsome Jack (best video game villain ever imho), but still... I loved BL2 to death and played the heck out of the Prequel with its own odd Australian flavour. BL1 was good enough for several coop playthroughs in my friend circle, but BL3? Just awful... so bloody awful (the writing).

[LadyCrimson]

@Gorth  I have this suspicion that BL4 may reduce the otp humor/jokes a bit. The trailer has me thinking they want to be taken a teensy (teensy) bit more seriously in that regard. Not sure why I feel that way but trailer gives me that vibe. I think at this point I wouldn't even mind if they did tone that down, it was getting a little out of hand. And yeah - BL3's plot and npc writing was terrible. Even for "what it is."

[uuuhhii]

 

owlcat game certainly have better graphic than before

[LadyCrimson]

(comedy, not news) dunkey has all the random game news for 2025, confirmed.
..."game news" channel "news" is pretty much like this, now, tho.
...oh, and swords are in. Haha.

 

 

Edited 21 hours ago by LadyCrimson

[Bartimaeus]

Only relevant to like the first third of that dunkey video, but watching that a couple of days ago helped me realize, for the umpteenth time, how broken and dystopian the whole online news/media/commentary landscape is. It's like a whole under society where tens of thousands of these "content creators" constantly churn out fake news about everything under the sun - and if one of them is doing it without also engaging in ragebait, then they're actually relatively harmless in comparison to some of the worst offenders. Probably none of us here watch any of that crap, but millions of people out there do. The internet was a mistake... guide me, o Lucifer, to some new road.

Edited 20 hours ago by Bartimaeus

[LadyCrimson]

@Bartimaeus I would guess the main reason for that (gaming news channels) is a "gaming news" channel can't really survive on a few videos made a month, waiting for actual news. Daily or every other day videos "required". Hence having to find a reason, any reason, to blabber about something in constant new uploads. Algorithm - all those hidden factors that are seemingly much more important than simply channel sub numbers now - and all that. Thus they have all become TMZ or whatever, styled reporting.

imo they should stop pleading for viewers to subscribe. I don't think that really does jack anymore - at least not without high numbers in all the other algorithm factors. YT "knows" most people sub and then never return to view the channel again.

Edited 20 hours ago by LadyCrimson