The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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LtLost 17 DIC 2024 a las 18:49
Change in Appearance: Geralt vs Ciri
Many say Geralt looked different between games and between cinematic trailers. This is true, but each time he got more handsome. All other characters got more handsome or beautiful as the technology to make games and art progressed. Why only Ciri buck the trend? Some might say realism, but this is a game, this is art, we tend to love art that glorifies the good, true, and beautiful. The decision to make Ciri less good looking is clearly an artistic decision, and if applied to the main protagonist, one that will also likely permeate throughout the rest of the game.
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NovaMew 17 DIC 2024 a las 20:56 
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shes hot to me. What are you on about?
Dork_Stalker_310 17 DIC 2024 a las 22:13 
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Imagine looking at trailer Ciri and thinking that she isn't attractive.
Also, "Killing Monsters" and intro cinematic Geralt looked like ass.
opus132 18 DIC 2024 a las 0:01 
She definitely looks worn out.

But the main problem really is that she looks like Geralt. The Witcher brand has been associated with him so long that it feels like they figured the game wouldn't be successful unless it was still him in some way even though it's a different character now.

A Ciri spin off with her using her magic instead of being a Witcher would have made much more sense, but it wouldn't be "on brand".
Flinsberg 24 DIC 2024 a las 9:05 
Bruh, we don't even know what Ciri looks like in-game, what are we talking about here? With Geralt you had a point of reference, with her you don't have any yet.

You never judge a game by its cinematic. That's like Rule 1 of gaming.
Flinsberg 24 DIC 2024 a las 9:25 
Publicado originalmente por Dork_Stalker_310:
Also, "Killing Monsters" and intro cinematic Geralt looked like ass.
Woah woah, easy now. I feel personally attacked rn xD

This isn't an unpopular opinion competition, let's all relax now.
Última edición por Flinsberg; 24 DIC 2024 a las 9:27
Azar 24 DIC 2024 a las 9:47 
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say this was a first attempt to try and make her look more grizzled and mature. If so, then they way over-engineered it and need to go back to the drawing board. Her look which most fans know and love was already established in the Witcher 3. They can't deviate too far from it.
Dork_Stalker_310 24 DIC 2024 a las 10:00 
Publicado originalmente por Flinsberg:
Publicado originalmente por Dork_Stalker_310:
Also, "Killing Monsters" and intro cinematic Geralt looked like ass.
Woah woah, easy now. I feel personally attacked rn xD

This isn't an unpopular opinion competition, let's all relax now.
No, I will stand my ground and refuse to bend the knee. In "Killing Monsters", he looks way different to how he looks not only in the game, but even in some other cinematic trailers, like "The Night to Remember" - and that was most likely by design, because he is a scary mutant monster-hunter guy, but they still gave him a hell of a glow up in a game proper.
Flinsberg 24 DIC 2024 a las 10:16 
Publicado originalmente por Dork_Stalker_310:
No, I will stand my ground and refuse to bend the knee.
1 - Way too dramatic, tone it down a bit. We're talking about a video game trailer xD

2 - To each their own, I guess. Never met a single person who thought the cinematic was bad until now. There's truly first time for everything, huh.
LtLost 24 DIC 2024 a las 19:22 
Publicado originalmente por Flinsberg:
Bruh, we don't even know what Ciri looks like in-game, what are we talking about here? With Geralt you had a point of reference, with her you don't have any yet.

You never judge a game by its cinematic. That's like Rule 1 of gaming.

The entire point of cinematics are to market the game by telling the audience what the game is about. The entire point is to judge the upcoming game by it. Sure, often the marketing fibs the details (Cyberpunk), but the general art direction tends to be more or less consistent with the actual game.

Ciri was debeautified in the cinematic... as well as debuffed... as well as her character lore substantially rewritten... this is not Ciri, and if CDPR is doing this in their marketing, one can only assume a similar direction is taking place in the game development, and indeed the interviews point to as much.

My point about previous cinematics is that better technology was used to make better looking Geralts and better characters in general. Witcher 4 cinematic used better technology to make worse looking Ciri, and the change in voice actor is painfully not as feminine as it used to be.
Ultima 25 DIC 2024 a las 0:28 
Publicado originalmente por Azar:
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say this was a first attempt to try and make her look more grizzled and mature. If so, then they way over-engineered it and need to go back to the drawing board. Her look which most fans know and love was already established in the Witcher 3. They can't deviate too far from it.

This.

It's not unreasonable to assume that Ciri doesn't look like Ciri to people familiar with the TW3. Let's remove the question of whether she's attractive; she looks like a different person. Her facial and skull structure at many angles is just completely different than TW3 Ciri's model. When they go this route, it gives off uncanny valley energy because Ciri isn't a new character. We can only hope that the in-game model will resemble Ciri as we've grown to know her over many TW3 playthroughs.
Última edición por Ultima; 25 DIC 2024 a las 0:31
opus132 25 DIC 2024 a las 2:07 
I think it's less about her looks and more that it just feels like this is still a Geralt game.

If she looks like him, fights like him, has the same personality has him, it might as well be him.

I mean i guess we'll have to wait and see but that's the vibe i'm getting here.
Dork_Stalker_310 25 DIC 2024 a las 2:19 
Publicado originalmente por Flinsberg:
1 - Way too dramatic, tone it down a bit. We're talking about a video game trailer xD
I'm just joking, probably doesn't get conveyed through text that well. Of course it's just a video game trailer.
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2 - To each their own, I guess. Never met a single person who thought the cinematic was bad until now. There's truly first time for everything, huh.
No, the trailer is absolutely great, it's the best Witcher 3 trailer and one of the best trailers ever.
I'm saying Geralt's character model there looked different to how he looked in other trailers and in the game. They made him prettier in the final release than he was in that trailer, in which he looked worse - which probably was a purposeful design choice.

Hell, there are even mods that make him more similar to that trailer in game:
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/8138
Última edición por Dork_Stalker_310; 25 DIC 2024 a las 2:34
siamese250 25 DIC 2024 a las 3:11 
Maybe she had to get facial reconstruction magic
Observer 25 DIC 2024 a las 3:25 
Publicado originalmente por opus132:
I think it's less about her looks and more that it just feels like this is still a Geralt game.

If she looks like him, fights like him, has the same personality has him, it might as well be him.

I mean i guess we'll have to wait and see but that's the vibe i'm getting here.
The apple never falls far from the tree
Flinsberg 25 DIC 2024 a las 7:26 
Publicado originalmente por Dork_Stalker_310:
https://www.nexusmods.com/witcher3/mods/8138
Yeah, I guess we just have a different taste, because I think he looks badass af.

He almost looks like he's completely given up on trying to be a good guy. He's got that "I have no soul left and now only care about the coin" look. Anti-hero vibes.
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