Good. His story is complete. He should be involved at least tangentially in the world if we’re in a similar timeframe but otherwise it needs to focus on a new protagonist.
Weiters refusing to let completed character stories actually be finished in sequels is annoying. It’s a crutch indicative of poor writing. It happens in Hollywood all the time, and we get subpar sequels because of it. Games need to avoid that death spiral, they’re not as beholden to actor name recognition the same way Hollywood is. Voice actors often have a lot more range because they’re masters of manipulating their voice and the character model can look like whatever it needs to.
Lemme guess, the main character’s name rhymes with “Ciri”? Just promise it won’t be anything like the fuckin’ series’ S02+?
Another game with a female lead incoming. As if there aren’t enough of those already.
Look, female leads are fine as long as the game is good. But it doesn’t get any bonus points anymore. Its no longer original. Metroid did it and it was cool. It was bonus points on top of an already good game. Same with Tomb Raider. But these days its like over 50% of all new games have a female protagonist. Its not special anymore like it used to be.
So, female leads in video games are fine when used and perceived as a novelty? Special and cool like they used to be? You can tolerate them if the game is good? Jesus man, I don’t know what to tell you…
This is not what I meant at all, but leave it to Lemmy to make Redditors look intelligent, I guess. This place has really gone downhill quick.
I could see Ciri as the protagonist, it also wouldn’t surprise me if they take a note from Cyberpunk 2077 and allow players to create their own character.
With any luck there will be some sort of character creation that is fully voiced. Maybe even allowed to choose an elf or dwarf, AFAIK there’s no mention that it’s a human exclusive genetic manipulation.
But I’d be happy with a straight male/female choice like Mass Effect or Cyberpunk or AC Valhalla where they are customisable but still voiced.
Or give me one character but make them compelling. Difficult thing will be they will always be compared to Geraldo
If the character was to be a witcher then canonically it must be a boy. Also I don’t remember if it’s stated outright but I think it needs to be a human boy. Witchers were created by humans, for humans so that’s who the mutagens were designed for and still only about 3 out of 10 boys would survive the trials. So I don’t think an elf or a dwarf would.
Fair enough, I couldn’t find any reference one way or the other except for presumption of the humans by humans part.
Though Ciri does show a way to be a female Witcher trainee with no signs but her own powers. Maybe you could choose a Lodge sorceress, an elven rogue style, a dwarven warrior or Witcher so they have their own weapons and skills etc.
I’m just spitballing here but as long as the game is well crafted and has Marcin Przybyłowicz do the music I am sold!
Ciri did the witcher trainings but didn’t undergo the mutations so she wouldn’t be able to use elixirs and wouldn’t have the usual witcher benefits. Also, the mutations would kill her because she’s a girl, so they can’t implement that. And her fate after The Witcher 3 depends on a playthrough so it might prove difficult to continue, unless they just make one of the endings the official one.
As fun as it would be to play any class in the world of the Witcher, I think the protagonist should be a witcher to fully focus on witcher builds etc. for the game to stand out from other fantasy RPGs. Perhaps they could introduce different witcher schools to choose/develop. But since the game will include Geralt, I sense he’ll be our trainer and hence it will the school of the wolf. Let’s wait and see.
. Maybe even allowed to choose an elf or dwarf
I wonder if you could choose to be a woman or an ethnic minority without the fanbase going berzerk.
I think there must be lore friendly ways to introduce diversity to a character creation system. Zerrikania has matriarchs and dark skin for example
I’m sure the majority of the people going insane are doing so because of concerns about the deeeeeep lore of the Witcher, and are not the same people that complain about any frame that contains a non white person, or an person of indeterminate gender. /S.
I’m sure people in fictional places can also travel and migrate.