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[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Please please please let it be Lambert and Keira Metz squabbling all over the continent as they track something stupid.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Lambert: "Hurry up Keira, or we'll never get to town before the Nightwraiths come out!"

Keira: "Well maybe if we took the actual ROAD and not walked through this field I wouldn't have stepped in a massive cow pie!"

Lambert: "Uh, Keira? That's way too big to be made by a cow..."

roar of a nearby Chort

Keira and Lambert look at each other

in unison, "RUUUUUN!"

[–] teft 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You should go write for CDPR. I’m already invested in this storyline.

[–] filister 4 points 4 months ago
[–] Nuke_the_whales 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's clearly gonna be Ciri

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I'd hope a "faceless" character like V in Cyberpunk that you can customize to your liking. I always struggle with RPGs that have predefined characters, because they often kinda go against what in my mind would be a possible personification in that world, and that potential clash makes me struggle with immersing myself in it.

[–] Carighan 5 points 4 months ago

For me it's the exact opposite, I'd rather play a pre made story with a premade central character because otherwise it's this hollow "just spend some time" thing.

[–] JimmyMcGill 2 points 4 months ago

Yea, playing as a no name witcher, doing Witcher things would be cool af

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've said it many times before but Letho would be my pick. Very nuanced character, big protagonist energy, CDPR original content so they don't have to worry about lore as much. Also an even better character than Geralt if you want to really lean into the morally grey side of the Witcher universe.

[–] acosmichippo 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I thought they were pretty clearly setting up Ciri to take the mantle in W3.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I definitely see parts of it - at least narratively - but I think having Ciri as a full protagonist poses a lot of problems. Either you have to explain away her powers somehow - or you lean into it and end up with moving away from the Witcheriness. You'll have no Witcher senses, no potions, no signs and instead have a bunch of magic (not to mention teleportation and time travel).

[–] acosmichippo 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

yeah I don't really see either of those options as problematic. quite common to explain away powers in RPG sequels, and CDPR might very well want to go in a different gampleay direction than Witcher combat.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

That's fair. I think - behind a new customisable Witcher protagonist - Ciri is most likely simply because of name recognition and the value it carries into promoting the game.

My talk of Letho is only a personal pipe dream.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I killed him back in The Witcher 2 haha

One thing I loved about the original three games - through save importing you could have a line of unbroken continuity (with only a few strange abrupt departures from the narrative.. #TeamShani)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Letho is too cool to be killed, such a great character in my opinion. Plus he took care of Yen, you know, and he had his reasons - even if he got a bit naively manipulated. Loved the conversation with him at the end, sharing a drink.

The unbroken continuity is cool, though I think very few things carry over all the way from 1 to 3? I know there is the tattoo, probably something else too.

[–] yamanii 7 points 4 months ago

The opinions here are like people saying they don't want to play as Zero in Megaman X4 because it was clunky in X3. Chill out, they are not copy pasting it for a dedicated game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

After the release of cyberpunk, I don’t really wanna be hyped up by promises from CDPR. We’ll see in 7-10 years how the game’ll be

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Just don't buy/play on launch day, that goes for almost every AAA open world game.