The Witcher 4 Thread

[Shillitron]

left: 24.9999999999999999999 years old
right: 25 years old

At least they got the wall lore accurate. Now about that "trial of the grasses" ...

[Bing_xiLim]

I think it needs to be said that judging pre-rendered cutscenes isn't reasonable, at least when it comes to quality of faces. Pre-rendered Geralt from the Witcher 3 trailers didn't look like his in-game model.
An even better example than Geralt would be Morrigan in Dragon Age Inquisition. In the pre-rendered trailers she looked fugly as all hell. Meanwhile her in-game model is arguably the best she's ever looked, even a decade older than in Origins and with the weird oily Inquisition skin texture.

► comparison

Pre-rendered trailer:

In-game:

I partially agree. But at this point, devs are able to create photorealistic, highly detailed character models that can very closely match pre-rendered cutscenes, save for lighting (raytracing, global illumination and all that shite). And if this game is anything like Cyberpunk, it will be insanely demanding and will run like **** on even the TOTL graphics card.
I can imagine devs being replicate the trailer look for Ciri in-game.

[UltraFan123]

This was back in July, when the world was still bending itself over the whims of the queers freaks and overrepresenting them everywhere, and yet these people continued to believe that they were "oppressed".

Perpetual victims, I swear. No wonder even the normies got sick of them.

[Rand]

Perpetual victims, I swear.

They should be.
They will be.
******* disgusting freaks need to go hide and stop making everyone else's life worse because they suck.

[1998]

I expect a perfectly average game, one that will require an RTX 6090 or some such equivalent just to be able to run it at 1080p high settings. It'll be profitable, but not as profitable as Cyberpunk 2077.

Not this time. This will be their Starfield.

how is 2077 not as trash as soyfield

Never played Starfield, but I was talking more about profitability. And 2077 sure sold tons more than Starfield. Even adjusted for budget.

[rusty_shackleford]

Not this time. This will be their Starfield.

how is 2077 not as trash as soyfield

Never played Starfield, but I was talking more about profitability. And 2077 sure sold tons more than Starfield. Even adjusted for budget.

Starfield actually did well sales-wise because people bought it based on Bethesda's reputation and got burned. And that's despite it being day 1 gamepass.

[Rand]

I scammed AMD for the Starfield code for free and I STILL feel ripped off.

[1998]

how is 2077 not as trash as soyfield

Never played Starfield, but I was talking more about profitability. And 2077 sure sold tons more than Starfield. Even adjusted for budget.

Starfield actually did exceptionally well sales-wise because people bought it based on Bethesda's reputation and got burned. And that's despite it being day 1 gamepass.

Oh thought it tanked. Well then, nevermind...

[rusty_shackleford]

Never played Starfield, but I was talking more about profitability. And 2077 sure sold tons more than Starfield. Even adjusted for budget.

Starfield actually did exceptionally well sales-wise because people bought it based on Bethesda's reputation and got burned. And that's despite it being day 1 gamepass.

Oh thought it tanked. Well then, nevermind...

Nothing pre-release suggested it would be anywhere near as bad as it was, mostly because Bethesda kept such a tight lid on it. IIRC, they either didn't send review copies out or only sent it to a few shills or somesuch.
Contrast to Veilguard which was being savaged pre-release, and also has had a very spotty track record for years now. Even tho Andromeme was technically not Bioware, the stigma still went to them.
FO76 being a spinoff title, one that was successfully turned around mind you, meant most people didn't factor that into their reputation.


The thing with reputation is it can only be spent once tho.

[1998]

Meet the game's director, their former Head of Animations .

Boring breakdown, but he makes sure to let everyone know how very, very excited everybody is about Ciri as a protagonist.

[Manny V]

Ciri was always a dogshit character, even in the books

muh 'magic special chosen one teenage girl child' that gives sass and thinks she's tough ****

go back to knitting or some ****, wench

[Greyborne]

Ciri now looks like one of the Morlocks from The Time Machine.

[The_Mask]

I'm starting to feel bad for women, because they've had no female heroes worth discussing in over 25 years.

Betcha the only female role models (some) women can find these days is unironically in church.

[Bing_xiLim]

I'm starting to feel bad for women, because they've had no female heroes worth discussing in over 25 years.

Betcha the only female role models (some) women can find these days is unironically in church.

They have no female heroes because they have proven time and time again that they are incapable of creating said "heroes". All they can create are wannabe-male, sub-human ****.

[wndrbr]

I'm starting to feel bad for women

simp

[RangerBoo]

I'm starting to feel bad for women, because they've had no female heroes worth discussing in over 25 years.

Betcha the only female role models (some) women can find these days is unironically in church.

Here is the problem that many writers and game devs don't understand. Women don't want to read stories about or play as an ugly, androgynous lesbian that hates men and munches carpet. Lets look at an example. Baldur's Gate 3, a game that has a pretty sizable female fanbase. What are the most popular mods for that game? Beauty mods that make female characters beautiful. Who is the most popular companion that women romance? Astarion. Fun fact, none of the female companions ranked in the top 3 of characters that female gamers romanced showing that most female gamers are straight and want straight romances. It seems to me that gaming for women is just as much as a power fantasy for them as it is for men. Women want to read stories about and play as the drop dead beautiful woman that gets the hunky man in the end and rides off into the sunset with him. However, feminism, which has completely taken over the Western entertainment industry, can't stand that. There has been a big push by feminists lately into pushing women into lesbianism. Just go to your local Barnes & Noble. Every fantasy story that isn't a romantasy has a main character that is an androgynous, hypersexual, lesbian. It has become a cliché at this point.

There is also this big push to have women be more like men. One of the reasons why people like to play as women in video games was because of how different their playstyle was to men and how differently the world reacted to them being a woman. For instance, in New Vegas the Legion would treat you like **** and you had an option to have sex with Benny and murder him in his sleep. In D&D if you played as a woman who goes to places like the Underdark the female Drow will be a little more respectful and tolerate of you than they would with a male character. It made the world more fun and interesting but we can't have that anymore. Now men and women have to be treated the same and no different from each other and I think that does more harm to women as it sets an unrealistic expectation to how they will be treated in real life.

[UltraFan123]

Like clockwork.

Ignore your preexisting loyal audience to chase some imaginary audience that has been proven countless times that doesn't exist, surely it will work this time! lol

[Zothique]

People who didn't see it coming a long time ago that Ciri was going to become a main character are mongos. You even play as her in Witcher III in select parts.

That said, no one imagined it would be PCOS Ciri that you would be controlling...

[RangerBoo]

Like clockwork.

Ignore your preexisting loyal audience to chase some imaginary audience that has been proven countless times that doesn't exist, surely it will work this time! lol

How many times are they going to be doing this? How many times are they going to keep doing this until they realize that their former loyal customer base of heterosexual men outnumber feminists, queers and ********? The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over again and expecting different results. The only explanation I can come up with is that these people are insane true believers of DEI and won't stop until corporate forces their asses out.

[1998]

Like clockwork.

Ignore your preexisting loyal audience to chase some imaginary audience that has been proven countless times that doesn't exist, surely it will work this time! lol

From the same interview:

“I think ‘The Witcher’ as a title refers to both Geralt and Ciri and always has,” explains Cian Maher, franchise and lore designer at CDPR. “I think she's arguably more important to the plot than Geralt himself is.”

And some of the usual IGN retardedness:

The big reveal that Ciri will be the protagonist of The Witcher 4 was one of the biggest and best surprises at The Game Awards 2024, but that's just the start

[The_Mask]

I'm starting to feel bad for women

simp

2-faced nihilistic dumbfuck

[Red7]

Not this time. This will be their Starfield.

how is 2077 not as trash as soyfield

Never played Starfield, but I was talking more about profitability. And 2077 sure sold tons more than Starfield. Even adjusted for budget.

thats unfortunate.
i recall studio project kuk stock crashing "bigly" after release perhaps it wasnt as bad as it should be.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Like clockwork.

Ignore your preexisting loyal audience to chase some imaginary audience that has been proven countless times that doesn't exist, surely it will work this time! lol

Pure retardation. It amazes how game studios will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a game but fail at most basic business fundamentals of target demographics.

[J1M]

It isn't a failure of stupidity, it is one of arrogance.

The existing audience is taken for granted. A fair assumption given sales of something like Diablo IV or The Force Awakens... if you only have one product left to sell.

In actuality, the existing audience is ********, because it is only able to detect **** by stepping on it personally. No amount of seeing it or being told to look out by someone else can prevent a purchase.

[Bing_xiLim]

Like clockwork.

Ignore your preexisting loyal audience to chase some imaginary audience that has been proven countless times that doesn't exist, surely it will work this time! lol

Pure retardation. It amazes how game studios will spend hundreds of millions of dollars in a game but fail at most basic business fundamentals of target demographics.

Libtards are everywhere online man. I was on a collector's forum and even there, you have troglodytes who talk about the incel/"chuds" as if they're rabid dogs, instead of people who still have a functioning brain and can do basic pattern recognition.

Maybe this is the audience they're chasing? Either way, didn't most of The Witcher 3 dev team leave CDPR? I would like to think this game will flop but considering how gaymers forgot how **** Cyberpunk 2077 was at launch and have "forgiven" them, I think the goodwill CDPR still has will prevent the game from bombing.

[Zothique]

“I think ‘The Witcher’ as a title refers to both Geralt and Ciri and always has,” explains Cian Maher, franchise and lore designer at CDPR. “I think she's arguably more important to the plot than Geralt himself is.”

It would be called "The Witchers" then (even though technically Ciri isn't one).

**** these people.

[Shillitron]

This thread is making me really excited for Witcher 5. Can't wait til it comes out.

[Valter]

Reminder that you (yes, you, citizen!) should play Witcher 1... Or wait for the remake.

[Statesman]

The very first trailer for The Witcher 3 is just as different as the game itself, so take a look for yourself.

So MAYBE Ciri will look different in the game, maybe better.

Although I'd expect the final in-game model to be an improvement over this (at least likeness-wise), it is important to show fan discontent. Previous trailers did not share engines with their respective games (the Witcher 4 Cinematic Trailer was made in UE5) and Platige made their "realistic" Geralt using the in-game model as a base, thus if you take Ciri's new voice actress into account:



It is very likely that CDPR originally planned to use that (probably less-detailed version of the) facescan as their in-game model...a common practice for major AAA studios these days due to mocap laziness. At least they have enough time between the fan reaction and the expected release date (2026) to modify Ciri's appearance.

Reminder that you (yes, you, citizen!) should play Witcher 1... Or wait for the remake.

Even coming from a villain, I wonder if those lines will actually end up (unedited) in the remake.

[rusty_shackleford]

somewhat convinced part of the reason women look so ugly in games now is because they facescan women and that's what women look like without 5lbs of makeup