Multiplat Official Witcher 4 Discussion (2027)

[Bornstarch]

I wish they added some gameplay footage

 

[Madmick]

I don't like the new voice actress.

 

[deadshot138]

No Geralt, no Witcher. That said, I'll probably still play it

 

[Slobodan]

It's cool.

I wonder how it's going to work with the choices at the end of Witcher 3.

It looks like Ciri becoming a Witcher is the canon ending unless you can also go with the Empress ending and she decided to abdicate and become a Witcher anyway.

 

[The Dark Knight]

I don't like the new voice actress.

Well I mean they couldn't use the younger actress.. The voice needed to match the age right?

 

[Madmick]

Well I mean they couldn't use the younger actress.. The voice needed to match the age right?

Certainly, I just don't care for this voice. Sounds like she has a different accent, even. I also don't think women's voices change that much from Ciri's already adult age in The Witcher 3 to what she appears to be here.

 

[NoSmilez]

Nice. Ciri is still hot and Polish folks are still white. I am in if Ciri gets to collect dong cards with the himbos that she beds.

 

[Bob Gray]

Ciri as the main protagonist brings a whole new level of meh to the franchise.

 

[Snubnoze707]

Love it, and I'll likely sink countless hours into it. Always enjoyed playing as Ciri in Witcher 3. Didn't even notice the voice.

I gotta build a new rig for all these games.

 

[Bob Gray]

Love it, and I'll likely sink countless hours into it. Always enjoyed playing as Ciri in Witcher 3. Didn't even notice the voice.

I gotta build a new rig for all these games.

Ciri was the thing I liked the least about W3. I dunno. Just not a compelling character to me. I was hoping they were gonna do a KOTOR and set the next Witcher game in the past when Witchers were plentiful and you build a character from scratch, choose a school, etc.

Im sure it'll be a good game and Im sure I'll play it. Just not interested in Ciri as a character.

 

[Snubnoze707]

Ciri was the thing I liked the least about W3. I dunno. Just not a compelling character to me. I was hoping they were gonna do a KOTOR and set the next Witcher game in the past when Witchers were plentiful and you build a character from scratch, choose a school, etc.

Im sure it'll be a good game and Im sure I'll play it. Just not interested in Ciri as a character.

Pro tip: Use a mod to give her a fatter ass. Maybe it will make her more interesting.

 

[GtehMVP]

So Ciri is the protag? Is that confirmed? I like her character, but I don't want to play entire game around her. I was hoping we'd get to create our own Witcher. I hope she's leading the school we can join, with the option to join others. I'd like to be able to find Geralt as the Gwent Boss, taking it easy.

 

[Takes Two To Tango]

Great trailer, but only lacks gameplay footage. Which would have been nice.

 

[A_bomb47]

Looks fucking fantastic. I would say day one but it's wait and see after how Cyberpunk launched.

 

[Slobodan]

Great trailer, but only lacks gameplay footage. Which would have been nice.

That's because anything out today would only be able to run it at 30fps at best. I'm only half joking. Expect it to be demanding as fuck.

 

[Sycho Sid]

The real question is: Will the gameplay still be meh?

 

[A_bomb47]

The real question is: Will the gameplay still be meh?

Hopefully the combat will be improved a lot from the older games. This needs brutal souls like combat in my opinion.

 

[ssBaldy]

She is more into girls tho, we may get some lesbomancy

Nice. Ciri is still hot and Polish folks are still white. I am in if Ciri gets to collect dong cards with the himbos that she beds.

 

[GearSolidMetal]

I don't like the new voice actress.

I believe the OG voice actress was in her mid-to-late 40s when she recorded her lines for Witcher3 11 to 12 years ago, so its very possible she can't do the exact voice anymore.

That said, they could have found a voice actress who could emulate the the original actress. Shouldn't have been very hard.

Instead... it looks like they're going with the 'girl boss' route with Ciri's voice and character, if that trailer is any indication.

"There are no gods here. Only monsters."
Ciri says this while surrounded by men.

Was hoping they'd be a bit more subtle.
Hopefully there'll be equal representation amongst male/female enemies we have to kill, both human and monster.


I bet traditional Witcher fans are pissed that Ciri is drinking potions. According to the established Witcher lore, only Witchers who have gone through the 'trial of the grasses' are able to consume potions and get temporary positive effects, although in large amounts they become toxic, and for normal humans they're completely poisonous. An almost guaranteed death sentence.

Short explanation for 'Trial of the Grasses' from the Nightmare Of The Wolf movie now on Netflix (I recommend watching the movie in full).


A more detailed explanation -


Ciri is a regular human and her power in Witcher3 and the books is magical. She didn't display any of the magical powers in that trailer although they would have been far more effective against that monster (namely teleportation).

I believe the a few sorceress of 'The Lodge' mentioned Ciri was only an adolescent in terms of the development of her power, and she was already more powerful than any of them, and far more powerful than any witcher...including Geralt.

So apparently she, as an adult woman voluntarily went through the 'trial of the grasses' (which is basically the worst torture imaginable) and apparently removed her magical power and replace them with traditional Witcher power (a giant demotion) and is able to drink potions.
And the reason why Witcher schools in the lore refused female students is because around one out of every four male students survives the trials, and girls wouldn't stand a chance.

It would be of no surprise to me if CDPR wants to change that, because of sexism.

So it seems like CDPR is just doing the very simplistic strategy of removing Geralt & putting in Ciri... with the same old traditional Witcher powers and what looks to be the exact same style and color of armor as Geralt's at the beginning of Witcher3 and the trailers.

Was hoping they would have been smarter about this.


By the way, for those who have played Witcher3 but not the Blood&Wine expansion if Ciri becomes a witcher at the end of the main game and you don't romance Yennefer or Triss, at the end of the expansion there's an appearance of Ciri... who looks like she's been an active Witcher between the events of the main game and end of the expansion.



No mention of needing any witcher trials to become an active Witcher. No potions, and magic seems to be doing its thing to accept contracts, kill monsters, and accepting money.


I've been under no illusions that a sequel to Witcher3 would be anywhere as good as what I consider to be the best game of the last 15 years.
So I was 'meh' before this trailer and I'm 'meh' about it now.

Maybe I'm jumping to conclusions, but this is just my first impressions based just off the trailer, and that's where the arrows are pointing to.

 

[ssBaldy]

So I watched the trailer.
Ciri looks good except for a couple of frames where mimics are a bit overplayed and they distort the face, and frames with ultra-wide field of view. But then again everyone is ugly on ultrawide.

"There is no gods here, only monsters" is a nice reference to "Killing monsters" trailer of Witcher 3.

And Ciri was a girlboss in the books, just well-written. Her whole story was about how she did not become what was expected of her, time after time, and defied the gender stereotypes and society's expectations.
Sapkowski's quite the feminist, but gets away with it because he is a skilled writer and does not force it, unlike Netflix writers and their half assed series.
And I am usually among the first to complain about girlbosses.

If they explain how she underwent the trial of the grasses while being a woman without doing something dumb like marvel did with "use black girl magic" , it's gonna be alright.