The Witcher The Witcher IV - The Ciri Saga Begins

[Nikanuur]

Does anyone know how's Sapkowski doing lately, what's he got to say about it all this time?

 

[Frozen]

What short stories?

 

[Frozen]

what's he got to say about it all this time?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

[Tyranicon]

What short stories?

This apparently: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_from_the_world_of_The_Witcher

I don't know how much I would trust the fan wiki, it seems pretty questionable.

 

[Ryzer]

Does anyone know how's Sapkowski doing lately, what's he got to say about it all this time?

Last thing I've heard about him is that he thought that the Netflix series was great.

 

[Frozen]

What short stories?

This apparently: https://witcher.fandom.com/wiki/Tales_from_the_world_of_The_Witcher

I don't know how much I would trust the fan wiki, it seems pretty questionable.

Is this canon? Did they pay Sapkowski?

 

[Storyfag]

The books are very subversive and the big spooky cataclysm is global freezing. The last few books have snippets from da future where people from da future comment that 'whoa it used to be real warm in the past apparently'

Yeah, I remember. The cataclysmic "death of the world as we know it" from book 3 or so ended up a period of minor cooling. So much for prophecies

I think that is nicely explained by Ciri succeeding in TW3.

 

[Atlantico]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

 

[I eat frozen vegetables]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

>be unique
>release very successful games
>DEI company barges in
>everything become bland and gay
Gee, if only people had good pattern recognition and could cut the problem out.

 

[Raghar]

Does anyone know how's Sapkowski doing lately, what's he got to say about it all this time?

He was grandad like when I was talking with him over nearly 2 decades ago. I expect he'd take money and shuts his mouth.

 

[Thalstarion]

Last thing I've heard about him is that he thought that the Netflix series was great.

Yeah, I'm not surprised.

It seems many creatives are either easily compromised/bribed or only managed to accidentally create something with nuance that never extends into the real world.

George R.R Martin, for example, is capable of writing characters that are morally grey and acknowledge that war and politics is messy, complex and not often as simple as 'good guys versus bad guys'.

As soon as the topic comes to the real world, however, he and his ilk whine endlessly about anyone who dares to think differently to him.

The way Henry Cavill was treated by Netflix should have been more than enough to make the book's author do a double take but...

 

[Zeriel]

That's why Deus Ex always feels like a timeless game: they steered clear of politics

Back then anti-government shit was bipartisan... or even, broadly, left-wing. Now the FBI and CIA is their saviors and heroes.

It's funny because I remember growing up around a population of like 50% hippies, and they were always talking about the conspiracies that ended up in Deus Ex before Deus Ex existed, like chemtrails.

 

[GrainWetski]

Do we know where Witcher 4 will take place? Is it going to be the shitty depressive Velen swamp again?

California.

 

[Sweeper]

Is it in your genetics or are all of you groomed from birth to be like this?

It's been 3000 years of this shit.
It's all in the genes.

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

>KCD exists
>We're still talking about Twitcher
Just fucking let it die.

 

[Storyfag]

It would be pretty funny if Ciri fucked up and accidentally caused another conjunction of spheres with her dimension jumping bullshit.
Like she hops into some nightmare dimension, wakes up discount Cthulhu and he follows her home.

TW3 basically HAS a second Conjunction happening. It is a side effect of the ritual to stop the White Frost. We see it on the Island of Undvik, but it is trivially easy to say that the effects were much more widespread.

So I looked it up. In the game you don't see much of it at all and it seems like a huge nothingburger, but according to the wiki, the fanfiction short stories added a bunch of shit including:

It was during the Second Conjunction when the majority of Aen Seidhe left the Continent and the World permanently.

Fuck yeah, the elves are gone, glorious

It's not exactly from these short stories. The main novels establish that at some point after Geralt's death the elves did manage to open the Ard Gaeth and left the world. Again, the Second Conjunction as seen in TW3 is a great way to explain that.

 

[TheTravelingDemon]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

If you meant DEI, what is exactly DEI about Witcher 4? (I don't count having a woman as the protagonist woke, look at Tomb Raider, Samus, etc). The trailer starts off with a nude female. Most woke gaming companies would never touch that with a 10ft poll seeing as they're afraid of women's bodies. Ciri looks fine to me; she seems to just be older is all. And I'd go and watch the original Witcher 3 trailer and look at Gerelt. He looks much different in the trailer compared to the game.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

This is something that puzzles me too. How could the minds at CDPR be so bad at discerning what made Witcher 3 successful. The disconnect between audience and top decision makers is unreal. Really amazing when you realize how multi-millionaires are practically walking blind with the millions of dollars of investor money in their hands.

 

[Ryzer]

I can't wait for the RTX (tm) (C) comparisons on a 2000$+ rig.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

If you meant DEI, what is exactly DEI about Witcher 4? (I don't count having a woman as the protagonist woke, look at Tomb Raider, Samus, etc). The trailer starts off with a nude female. Most woke gaming companies would never touch that with a 10ft poll seeing as they're afraid of women's bodies. Ciri looks fine to me; she seems to just be older is all. And I'd go and watch the original Witcher 3 trailer and look at Gerelt. He looks much different in the trailer compared to the game.

Same as it's DEI policy to include women at managerial positions for no other reason than that they have one hole more than the rest of the executives, so it is a DEI policy to swap the male lead character of a successful franchise with a female, and directly put investor money at risk, just to pad an irrelevant statistic of how many female leads you have across your IPs.

 

[Tyranicon]

It's not exactly from these short stories. The main novels establish that at some point after Geralt's death the elves did manage to open the Ard Gaeth and left the world. Again, the Second Conjunction as seen in TW3 is a great way to explain that.

There's a continuity error somewhere then, since Geralt was still alive during the second conjunction when the wiki says the elves left. But canon appears to be iffy at best, especially when there's so many authors in the mix, or maybe the fan wiki is just straight up wrong.

 

[TheTravelingDemon]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

If you meant DEI, what is exactly DEI about Witcher 4? (I don't count having a woman as the protagonist woke, look at Tomb Raider, Samus, etc). The trailer starts off with a nude female. Most woke gaming companies would never touch that with a 10ft poll seeing as they're afraid of women's bodies. Ciri looks fine to me; she seems to just be older is all. And I'd go and watch the original Witcher 3 trailer and look at Gerelt. He looks much different in the trailer compared to the game.

Same as it's DEI policy to include women at managerial positions for no other reason than that they have one hole more than the rest of the executives, so it is a DEI policy to swap the male lead character of a successful franchise with a female, and directly put investor money at risk, just to pad an irrelevant statistic of how many female leads you have across your IPs.

I don't think switching the protagonist of the Witcher series as the most obviously choice as the next protag (Ciri, who so happens to be female) is comparable to discrimination in job positions.

 

[AwesomeButton]

The only interesting thing about the Witcher games was that they were not Western RPGs

With TW4 being a DIE product, there is nothing interesting about them. There's nothing different about them. They're just more modernish schlock

If you meant DEI, what is exactly DEI about Witcher 4? (I don't count having a woman as the protagonist woke, look at Tomb Raider, Samus, etc). The trailer starts off with a nude female. Most woke gaming companies would never touch that with a 10ft poll seeing as they're afraid of women's bodies. Ciri looks fine to me; she seems to just be older is all. And I'd go and watch the original Witcher 3 trailer and look at Gerelt. He looks much different in the trailer compared to the game.

Same as it's DEI policy to include women at managerial positions for no other reason than that they have one hole more than the rest of the executives, so it is a DEI policy to swap the male lead character of a successful franchise with a female, and directly put investor money at risk, just to pad an irrelevant statistic of how many female leads you have across your IPs.

I don't think switching the protagonist of the Witcher series as the most obviously choice as the next protag (Ciri, who so happens to be female) is comparable to discrimination in job positions.

Let's hand over power to nutjobs with an agenda one more time, maybe this one will be different.

 

[RepHope]

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-witcher-4-12-vital-trailer-details-revealed-by-cd-projekt-red

8. The Magic​

There are many, many differences between Geralt and Ciri, but when it comes to combat the key thing that separates the two witchers is magic. While Geralt is able to cast some very basic spells, known as “signs”, Ciri is able to command the power of sorcery. We saw a little of her power in action during the segments of The Witcher 3 in which we play as Ciri, as she was able to teleport around enemies to avoid damage. But this trailer showcases an even greater aptitude for magic than we’ve seen from Ciri before.

“Ciri is not only mutated, she's a source, a powerful source. So she's a special being,” Kalemba reveals. “The mutated source means that's kind of connecting two worlds, the witcher world and the sorcerer world.”

During the trailer we see Ciri draw energy from the cave’s water and turn it into an electrified blast. “She's able to drain the source, the stream that is next to her, and catalyze it in a powerful spell, in this case, the bolt.”

Ah so they’re giving her the Source powers back (this is separate from Elder Blood stuff). That explains the magic, Sources draw magic power from the elements so Ciri was converting water into magic for that lightning spell.

Also they mention the game takes place in the “far North” so I guess we will be in Kovir and Poviss.

Does anyone know how's Sapkowski doing lately, what's he got to say about it all this time?

He doesn’t care. He raised a stink a while back, suing CDPR for a new deal so he could get more money from the games. He’s been vocal that as far as he’s concerned, the only canon are his books and Geralt’s story ended with him getting stabbed by a pitchfork and dropped off on Avalon with Yen.

 

[Green]

Tbf the situation is especially out of control now because all these shows and games were greenlit when most people were still mindfucked by rainbow people. Now it's apparent social media is a bubble and not even americans give a shit anymore, much less Europe which is turning more right by the election, so unless they doubledown it's gonna go back to a not-so-retarded status quo in a couple years.

 

[AwesomeButton]

Also they mention the game takes place in the “far North” so I guess we will be in Kovir and Poviss.

Kamambala also said so in his interview. There is further the vaguely "northern" accent in which the villagers speak in the trailer.

connecting two worlds, the witcher world and the sorcerer world.

And this guy just added the Reddit world to the known connections!