Witcher 4 main lead

[Third Rate]

It should have been Eskel or Lambert to be the main lead not Ciri.
Ciri is not a witcher and will never be.
Correct me if im wrong or not but arent adult cant under go any mutations? nor cant have a trial of the grasses? Because the failure rate for adults are 100%
Plus Ciri already got the elder blood, why does she still want the mutations?
Ciri didnt even use her teleport in the trailer.

Its fine that Geralt is not the main protagonist of this game since his already retired and will be the very first witcher to bite the dust due to old age and its fine to have Ciri as the main lead to this game but it is not FINE to have CIRI as a freaking witcher!!

[chickabumpbump]

Imagine complaining about this

[NeeLot]

Originally posted by Neolias:

Originally posted by chickabumpbump:

Imagine complaining about this

Imagine not complaining about this

Yeah imagine not complaining about Triss missing her scars in the games.

[Stormbleidd]

Anyone even remotely aware enough should of known years ago that Witcher 4 was coming, and that Ciri would be the lead. Its so obvious that was what was going to happen.

Geralt gifting her, her own Silver Sword was the ultimate giveaway and her saying "Lets try it out, then" is also another MAJOR giveaway. And yes, that the Ciri Witcher ending was the canon ending.

They ain't just gonna sideline a major character to a throne when they have only just introduced her to the games. Girl has major potential and is loved by the fan base. Unless weird people don't like playing as a female, which i am guessing will be "controversial" within the whole life cycle of this game.

Clown planet.

[Third Rate]

Originally posted by Stormbleidd:

Geralt gifting her, her own Silver Sword was the ultimate giveaway and her saying "Lets try it out, then" is also another MAJOR giveaway. And yes, that the Ciri Witcher ending was the canon ending.

Ciri became a witcher on name alone. Just because Geralt gifted her his silver sword that doesn't mean she magically became a mutated witcher.

As the trailer shows she clearly has a cat eyes and chug that witcher potion with a cleary sign of toxicity.

Ciri is already a power house because of her elder blood. So why make her a witcher?

[Sentient_Toaster]

An adult elf already survived the Trial in TW3, so it's clearly not always fatal in adults.

[Arier]

ESG complicit company, ciri is mandatory to get donations from blackrock, like it or like it. At this moment pass for me.

[Flannaz]

Originally posted by Third Rate:

Originally posted by Stormbleidd:

Geralt gifting her, her own Silver Sword was the ultimate giveaway and her saying "Lets try it out, then" is also another MAJOR giveaway. And yes, that the Ciri Witcher ending was the canon ending.

Ciri became a witcher on name alone. Just because Geralt gifted her his silver sword that doesn't mean she magically became a mutated witcher.

As the trailer shows she clearly has a cat eyes and chug that witcher potion with a cleary sign of toxicity.

Ciri is already a power house because of her elder blood. So why make her a witcher?

logically, the conjoining caused unforeseen effects stripping her of her power is a very easy route to take

[Crim]

I just wish we could have made our own witcher :( . I felt the Geralt story wrapped up nicely, there's really nothing else to tell. I wish CDPR had the guts to start a entire new arc based off a custom made character. I mean I will still play it, there's not many story driven rpgs left. Just disappointed.

[Pegolini]

Originally posted by Vlad Krapula:

Originally posted by CatraGirl:

It was sorcerers actually, which just reinforces my point. Yennefer already recreated the formula, there's no reason she couldn't adapt it/improve it. Just like IRL science isn't stuck how things were decades or centuries ago. It could easily be explained by one of the sorceresses making a breakthrough. Or Ciri's Elder Blood protecting her. Or whatever else CDPR come up with.
It's so weird to suddenly use this as a red line for lore breaking when the games already break the lore a lot. They literally brought Geralt and Yennefer back from the dead, we wouldn't even have games otherwise. But somehow Ciri becoming a Witcher is too unbelievable for you. Very telling.

I can't see any motivation for her to become one when she already has this much power and anything related to her powers is gonna be a retcon. The stories for these characters were supposed to end with w3. If we are gonna start retconning everything then the lore doesn't matter at all

One of her possible arcs (and presumably the canon one) was about Ciri wanting to become a Witcher and leaving the whole Elder Blood ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ behind. We literally gave her a silver sword in the "Witcher" ending. Imagine missing one of the most important plot points of TW3 and how it makes a lot of sense that she would follow in the footsteps of her father and Vesemir (the game literally starts with a flashback of training Ciri to become a Witcher). And during the 3rd act we are shown that she doesn't want to be involved in politics but rather help people like her father does.

Also stop with the retconning complaints. You guys only bring this ♥♥♥♥ up if it benefits you, never when it doesn't. Like how about Triss scars (TW3 would probably have been too woke if Triss wasn't a gorgeous barbie doll), how about the downgraded White Frost, all the Wild Hunt retcons, the Last Wish retcon to make a Triss romance possible, Alvin somehow being of the Elder Blood, the whole ♥♥♥♥ with Roche and Iorveth . And the list could go on and on and on.

I'm more than hyped for TW4 even if there is a lot of fair skepticism like game balancing and their Cyperpunk release. But literally nothing is wrong about Ciri becoming to protagonist. There was more than enough buildup and I'm glad they went with writing a story about her.

[Third Rate]

Originally posted by Sentient_Toaster:

Jesus, read the damn books. She may not have had the mutations before, but she was trained as a Witcher by Geralt. So no, she isn't a Witcher just in name. She is a fully trained Witcher.

Im aware that Ciri was trained by the witchers and have the knowledge of the witcher but she doesnt have the mutations of the witchers.
for f*cksakes shes already capable of killing warewolves and Basilisk without the help of the wichers mutations. So why did they made her one?
Because geralt said so?

[VDRSK]

what' s with this "she'll never be a witcher no matter how many times they call her one" thing going on, it's rather weird, she is a witcher because they say she is one, kind of getting "miles morales isn't spiderman no matter how many times they call him one" vibes

CDPR has said she is a witcher and she has undergone the trials, that is it, it is done, she is a witcher, that is pretty much the end of the argument.

[amcjkelly]

Originally posted by chickabumpbump:

Imagine complaining about this

I think the lore was pretty clear that only kids can become one ... right? So, utterly retarded to change that ... just because... we want too. Nope. Won't be buying it. Looks awful.

[VDRSK]

Originally posted by Vlad Krapula:

Because it's completely fine for ppl to think ciri going through the mutations is extremely weird and contrived no matter what the devs do.

of course you can think that, my point is she is a Witcher because that is what CDPR is calling her, no body else has a say in that, so yelling she isn't a witcher... is not only NOT going to change her being a witcher... it's sort of childish.

[Sir_0v3rk1ll]

Originally posted by Third Rate:

It should have been Eskel or Lambert to be the main lead not Ciri.
Ciri is not a witcher and will never be.
Correct me if im wrong or not but arent adult cant under go any mutations? nor cant have a trial of the grasses? Because the failure rate for adults are 100%
Plus Ciri already got the elder blood, why does she still want the mutations?
Ciri didnt even use her teleport in the trailer.

Its fine that Geralt is not the main protagonist of this game since his already retired and will be the very first witcher to bite the dust due to old age and its fine to have Ciri as the main lead to this game but it is not FINE to have CIRI as a freaking witcher!!

I agree 100%. they don't respect the lore. Ciri was more powerful than any witcher since she has elder blood. She can manipulate time for god sakes. That's why she felt OP in witcher 3 compared to gerald. But, they have to push their agenda and check their boxes to get paid by the DEI and ESG's. I hope it was enough because I am not spending full price on this. I will get it dirt cheap, if anything.

[VDRSK]

Originally posted by Vlad Krapula:

I don't think its really childish to discuss issues you have with a game you like. Like they chose her for a reason. We had a gigachad geralt for 3 games and ppl will always expect same kind of energy from the same franchise. Suddenly swapping to a woman and retconning lore was bound to have this kind of reaction with the fans of the previous games

As i said, speculating on her being a witcher and how she became one is great (positive or negative), i love that, but stating and restating "she is not a witcher" is neither productive nor inspires speculation.