"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books"
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I didn't played the game or read the books but I think if you are playing a game that is called Witcher and the Witcher himself is missing that is a big issue.
Normally you would get a new game with a new title but big companies want to use the IP and think using a known title is always better than coming up with a new title.
As I said I didn't played Witcher 3 so dunno if it makes sense, but I wouldn't be surprised if people are unhappy when their main character is missing in the game.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 20:22 last edited byYeah so others already explained it to you, but I'll give you a quick summary.
Witcher is kind of a job title, but to get in you pretty much join a cult that gives you mutagens that give you cool powers, but also make you infertile and I believe resistant to STDs (this is why Geralt fucks so much).
Ciri trained with the witchers of the Wolf school. I don't remember if she went through the mutations or not, but she has elder blood so she's already more powerful than Geralt. She's part of an end of the world prophecy. She's also essentially Geralt's adoptive daughter.
By the end of Witcher 3, Geralt is getting kind of tired. There's literally no other Witcher in the universe more deserving to be the next lead than the spacetime manipulating princess who doesn't even want to inherit her real father's continent spanning empire because she'd rather be a badass Witcher.
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I’m trying to remember the first game I played with a female lead and I think it was portal. And that woman didn’t speak. Strangely the next was transistor and she technically didn’t speak either.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 20:26 last edited byFemale protags are rare. They used to be epic loot, but it's getting better now.
I guess it's Portal for me too. Then Oblivion with a female character with that golden armor from shivering isles for shiny boobs. I was a horny teen and porn was getting boring lol
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What ISN’T woke to conservatives/republicans anymore?
Please don’t answer that, I know the answer, but come on. Pick up a book.
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My man Geralt looked like he was in dire need of a nap during the entire run of Witcher 3. Let him rest, people.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 21:19 last edited byNo rest for the wicked, and witchers be real wicked.
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The reactionary women-hating alt-right gamer-gate neo-nazi losers should just be ignored at this point.
wrote on 23 May 2025, 21:20 last edited by"at this point"
You've paid attention to them at some point?
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This post did not contain any content.wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:32 last edited by capuccino@lemmy.world
If you need consume X media to be able to enjoy Y media, we have a problem there, pal
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If you need consume X media to be able to enjoy Y media, we have a problem there, pal
wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:46 last edited byThat's not what he said??
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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...
wrote on 23 May 2025, 22:58 last edited byAnd this also explains why they've "grown" her into a plastic, lip-plumped, reality-TV-star banshee. The character model looks awful.
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He apparently worked on Oblivion (and Skyrim), so there's a chance. He took a chance on Starfield and failed, so hopefully he learns from that instead of doubling down.
wrote on 24 May 2025, 00:04 last edited byYeah, but I don't have a ton of faith in him, especially given that one whiny twitter thread he made.
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The second one might benefit from a remaster by the time 4 comes out, as some of the models are a bit too XBox360 era, with the strangely wide shoulders and oversized arm muscles of the time
wrote on 24 May 2025, 01:58 last edited byThat's fair. I was thinking more about the overall aesthetic, as it's a bit more stylised rather than leaning towards realism like in 1 and 3.
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Tomb Raider is not a woman protagonist game though, at least in the first game they wanted to have Indiana Jones but didn't got the rights to it. So the developers replaced the assets with a female.
In whole series there is not much that makes her a woman, more like an American gun-maniac guy that looks like a girl.
wrote on 24 May 2025, 02:02 last edited byThe first game didn't have much in the way of story. The focus was on the puzzles and adventuring. I don't think that makes her less of a woman character. In a video game, the assets are the only difference, anyway. Not that women can't be rough and adventurous and physical and like guns.
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Tomb Raider is not a woman protagonist game though, at least in the first game they wanted to have Indiana Jones but didn't got the rights to it. So the developers replaced the assets with a female.
In whole series there is not much that makes her a woman, more like an American gun-maniac guy that looks like a girl.
wrote on 24 May 2025, 08:11 last edited byThe protagonist is a woman.
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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!
That's what I don't understand, like, have people not played the Horizon games? They're awesome, they're fun as hell.
wrote on 4 Jun 2025, 00:47 last edited byhave people not played the Horizon games? They’re awesome, they’re fun as hell.
I have actually not. Thank you!
