Witcher 4 - Character Creation (Create Your Own Witcher)
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- Witcher 4 character creation is a possibility for the upcoming witcher game by CDPROJEKTRED. I discuss the possibility of making your own character in the witcher 4, what possible ideas there are, how ciri, eskel, geralt, yennefer, triss and other characters relate to this, the demand from fans and how it links in with the witcher 3's lore.
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The Witcher® 3: Wild Hunt is a story-driven, next-generation open world role-playing game, set in a visually stunning fantasy universe, full of meaningful choices and impactful consequences. You play as Geralt of Rivia, a monster hunter tasked with finding a child from an ancient prophecy.
Geralt of Rivia, is a witcher, or monster hunter for hire, a white-haired and cat-eyed legend in his own time. Trained from early childhood and mutated to gain superhuman skills, strength and reflexes, witchers like Geralt are a natural consequence of and counterbalance to the monster-infested world in which they live. As Geralt, you’ll embark on an epic journey in a war-ravaged world that will inevitably lead you to confront a foe darker than anything humanity has faced so far-the Wild Hunt.
Built exclusively for next-generation hardware, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt marks a new era in RPG visual quality. Raising the bar for the entire genre, with its deeply integrated 5.1 audio and jaw-dropping graphics powered by CD PROJEKT RED’s proprietary REDengine 3, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt promises an entirely new kind of experience.
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00:00 Introduction
01:03 Character Paths
04:27 Character Paths and Creation
05:43 Ciri
11:56 Positives
12:40 Negatives
15:47 Conclusion - Hry
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As long as it's not online
I hope it’s not
Wouldnt mind a co-op option
@@ziz18 agreed - an _optional_ online mode would be pretty cool! It would be awesome to go witcher-ing with my husband and friends, just as long as the solo campaign is offline.
Wtf do you even care about cd games or you just here to get the top comment
Cyberpunk 2077 isn't online so why would this be online
I just want it to be set 200-300 years before the other games, back when there were more witchers and a lot more monsters everywhere.
this is the way
100% To see kaer morhen in full glory and other school "strongholds",not just ruins of life past.
Yes, this makes most sense for a new game.
Correct
Delving into the appeal of revisiting the past, it's like flipping through a book whose ending we already know. Instead of eagerly anticipating what's next, we're retracing steps we've already taken. Imagine watching a movie or playing a game where we're constantly looking backward - it removes the excitement of the unknown. Take the character Witcher George, for instance. We've heard of him, and we know his fate; he's already met his end. So, exploring his past might seem less thrilling because the suspense of what lies ahead is gone. It's like solving a mystery only to find the answers on the first page. In essence, going back in time not only robs us of the excitement of the future but also strips away the mystery that keeps us engaged in the story.
The first option of choosing a Witcher who adopted you is my favourite. Feels the most tied into the lore
Your short 17 minute video is still way better than all three seasons of the witcher show
A low bar but a kind complement! Let's hope to get a proper treatment one day.
Both creating a character or not could fail and work because at the end of the day all depends on how good the world of the Witcher 4 really is going to be and the freedom they are going to give us in the game.
If they make it like they made the Witcher trilogy they will succeed but should they follow the disaster Netflix series path of self sabotaging and alienating the fanbase by disrespecting the source material and inserting personal socio political elements into the story then we all know where that will lead to.
You're 100% right. If they make a game as good as the Witcher 3 with some improvements that's all they need to do. They have the template, use it.
Whys everyone ignoring the fact that mass effect executed all this well including character import 😂
I like the create your own Witcher option personally, though just choosing the school that adopted you wouldn't be bad either. Either way it would be simple enough to have a epilogue where eventually your school falls and all written records that talk about the founder are destroyed and all Witchers vanish/die. You could have this all explained via cutscene to a young Geralt or Ciri with the specifics as a mix and match cutscene like the Expeditions (Conquistador and Vikings) games.
On the subject of Ciri founding her own Witcher school and Female Witcher's, I think it would make sense if she didn't approach it as simply another Witcher school but instead as something better. Whatever kind of school it is, it 100% would NOT use the same Witcher mutations as Ciri would know that the Trial of the Grasses is a major point of pain and grief for Geralt. Yennifer had her hunchback fixed through magic so there would definitely be a way to modernise Witcher Mutations through magic for both Boys and Girls, this would also work thematically with Ciri essentially taking the best parts from her parents.
It could also be not just a Witcher School but also a potential new alternative to Aretuza after it's collapse; which could serve as justification for expanded Witcher Signs and potential Mage Builds.
Imagine a school composed of monster hunting battle mages, that would actually go kinda hard in my opinion
This is something I suggested in a similar discussion years ago, that they train a new breed of witchers that compensate for their weaker or lack of mutations with a deeper focus on magic for example.
Really when it comes down to it, the reason the mages went with mutations in the first place was because they didn’t WANT the witchers to be powerful enough to demand more from life, leaving them to do the only thing they were taught to do, killing monsters.
We’ve also seen a number of instances that prove how mages are far deadlier than witchers when they want to be, so a witcher with a proper education in magic could theoretically be far more powerful than any other witcher, even without the mutations.
I'm all for it as long as the characters are voiced (a la cyberpunk).
Voiced custom protagonist usually leads to shitty personality customization and limited responses. If they want to make a custom protagonist they would need to make them silent, if they go down the path of an established protagonist, uncustomizable except for basic aesthetic then yes, voiced is the only way to go
@@giuseppesagona7522 mass effect kind of worked with voiced protagonists, although limited to paragon/renegade paths only.
My thought for handling the different skills/equipment of all the schools would be, that the school of the Lynx wasn't created by one single witcher but by multiple from different schools. Like, if it plays at the height of witchers, there were witchers from all schools that were unhappy about the current "system" and just banded together to make their own, or if it plays after Witcher 3 then they are just some of the few remaining witchers that came together to keep them and Witchers at all alive. And then they would just be like an "allrounder" so you have your normal training and then specialize in what suits yourself best.
I have an idea I think is kinda neat. Witcher 4 takes places decades after Witcher 3. A 2nd conjunction of spheres has happened and now there’s more monsters than ever. In desperation all remaining Witchers, from every possible school have come together to form one single Witcher school. Teaching the techniques and lessons of each school and letting students specialize (this way players could pick which school they favor). After a lot of research the Trial of Grasses is rediscovered and now we’re looking at a 2nd age of Witchers, with new characters, new monsters, new adventures and a familiar face here and there.
There’s some problems with it but I think it’s an interesting idea.
Havin a character like in Skyrim opens more possibilities when it comes to side quests. Sometimes the dragonborn is a ruthless assassin, other times a master thief and so on. I mean a Witcher is always a witcher but it could open more possibilities other than "Kill Monster/Evil guy or let him life". Maybe we even play as a "bad" witcher in one sidequest
The secretiveness really fits to the lynx. It's really hard to find this animal in nature. So hard that in the past most people only knew about the existence lynx because it sometimes killed their animals. It was seen as a mysterious demon from the woods, there were scary legends about it and people didn't even know what it looks like and what it actually is. Kinda like the Lynx school for us now.
I can’t imagine not hearing Doug cockles Gerald’s voice.
The main issue with creating a completely custom protagonist like in cyberpunk is the they would only be able to do male customization options, or risk pissing a crazy amount of fans by retconning lore to allow for female witchers. The safest route imo is to make a completely new protagonist and let you choose which school, and remain unconnected to the Witcher trilogy
The school of the cat already exists and has ben established as a school that trained both male and female witchers. There is no need to have it be male-only or to retcon lore.
@@WillfulVisions where has it ever said that? In all sources I have found and seen, it states plainly that only male children were subjected to the Witcher mutations
@@Frenchindochina Check the Witcher wiki or any lore video on the school of the cat.
@@WillfulVisions my guy, are you taking fanfic sites as canon? If you are referring to Adela, she is from the Hexer tv series which is not part of CDPRs canon. Within CDPRs canon, only twice has anyone ever tried to make a female Witcher, the first time every female subject died without exception. The second time was done by the school of the manticore and the results were inconclusive, thanks to the Manticore Grandmaster’s interference
@@Frenchindochina the witcher wiki is not a fanfic site, and I have no idea who Adela is. One example of a female witcher seems to be a character known as Ważka (Dragonfly) from the Polish Witcher TTRPG, which many claim is at least as canon to the books as anything CDPR has made.
I agree that if they have a character creation system that includes women, it should be an addition and not a retcon. As a woman, a retcon would feel like pandering. But given that Witchers are basically an endangered species in Geralt's time, having to broaden their recruitment makes sense to the lore.
If you had Ciri found a new school she could start training witchers without the trials at all, leaning into her sorcery training and not mutations, then you could make female Witchers and elf Witchers and my preference dwarven Witchers
Including women is fine by me... just... none of that degrading "Body Type A/B" nonsense though.
Male/Female
There's nothing else. Besides.. anyone deviating from that would be lynched in the Witcher universe. It's not exactly a progressive world.
YES! I absolutely am for what you're describing during the Ciri section. It's more or less what my idea is for the future of Witcher.
That being said, I still don't agree with your view that having your own character makes that big a difference. We still had Geralt make pretty big decisions so ANY game in the future has to dance around that same issue (and that's with a established character). It's sort of the nature of RPGs (or western ones at least).
A letho game, around him getting back at nilfgard with nilfgard areas as the focus of the game would be sick af
They'll probably never make a Letho game but I hope they at least make a dlc or smaller size game about him
My dream.. one day I hope. I really want a game covering the events of his life. The fall of the viper school, getting found by Geralt, hunting the hunt etc. You could play what he does in the witcher 2, that would be so cool.
I do not want to create my own witcher. I am a narrative person first, and frankly, I don't see how they could reach the same heights of storytelling with a player created character that they did in the witcher 3. Even cyberpunk didn't manage to get me there because the whole thing was first person, and I never saw my character react to anything. Geralt was fully voiced voiced and animated. I fell in love with his character because of that in a way that I never could with a player created character.
Exactly
It wont be as impacting with a random created character
Games with random created characters are never as connecting/immersive as games with their already made character
And yes Geralt is one of the reasons the Witcher 3 is so great
Well said, I completely agree.
@@AB-fr2ei most would completely disagree, self-inserting is one of the most immersive ways to play an rpg.
If you want to basically watch a good movie in-between your gameplay there are games for that like The Last of Us, Life is Strange, MGS4, etc. But most RPGs immerse you not by showing you the journey of a character in the world, but by letting you BE a character in the world and go on your own journey. You shouldn't need to see how your character reacts to a situation because you're there and reacting to it yourself.
I prefer playing a well done character as well. Like he said in the video it takes some things away. But I think the world is the most important part of immersion. I hope it's a set character but both styles can be fun
Definitely not online! But I’d like to see a character creation with either your mentor dies and you choose which school to specialise or some new threat and a few old faces and a mixed school with each specialist school
Looking forward to W4 whenever it does come out.
Hmm.. if what you're referring to is a sort if self-insert, then I'm not sure how I feel about it.
For 1. Self inserts are usually enjoyed by all genders, and of course, witchers are only male. I'm a woman so I wouldn't be able to take part if it WAS a self insert, but I also would be afraid of them retconning that bit of the lore. Which would be sad because it's a bit of the lore that I actually kind of like, as weird as that may sound. I would actually hate if they retconned that for the sake of convenience.
2. Even if it isn't a self insert, having a witcher game that doesn't follow geralt or another established character from the books and games would be a bit unfortunate. Not because you can't tell a good story that way, but because it would be missing so much.
3. Having ciri found a "school of the lynx", being a witcher school that either uses no mutations OR some form of lesser form of mutations for its' members that allows for females to undergo the process, I think it would be nice. An interesting concept. We know ciri is passionate about being a witcher from the witcheress ending, and we know eskel's feelings on the subject is undecided.
It could go a number of ways. But above all, I would not want any compromises in the form of fleshed out storytelling OR established/expressed lore.
Amazing take, would love gender inclusivity for all without having to compromise on the lore!
I love the lore and characters because these personalities make the witcher, and it is ideal to have characters you know as a conduit to introduce new ones, if you have to, the game would be missing out a bit if they didn't have some known personalities around, I do very much like the ciri idea as long as it is done well :), I remember from somewhere the school of the cat at one point allowed elven women but that is very hazy and not sure if it has any truth as it was probably brushed over in a tabletop rulebook somewhere ages ago, but they still didn't undergo any form of mutations. Retconning is never good, I feel we would all dislike it. It's nice to see so many fans of the witcher having sweet takes :)
Self insert characters totally work as long as you're from the school of the cat (or a new school), since they've established in the lore that the school of the cat had female witchers. Before we knew anything about Witcher 4 I was hoping it would be a game about the school of the cat so we could create our own character.
Yes! As said in the video I do not want some retcon and if they really decide to go that route I want them to make a lore-friendly reason to add it to the lore, such as having mages develop slightly different mutations or using magic to enhance females' strength/suppress the incompatible side of certain hormones during the trial.
I think creating your own Witcher is awesome. If they allow a custom look, voiced, with interactions with other "main" companion established but your options on how you treat them can vary. Maybe it will allow more freedom on how your main story evolves. Taking place before the Witcher series can make sense but I'd prefer after it for a load of reasons. I loved Geralt's story 100% but his story is complete. Now it's time to forge our own path through the conflict. Lol.
I'm all for it. After proving they can do Geralt justice and make him iconic, any attempt at trying to continue with him or trying to match him with original character (topping is even less likely), the only reasonable thing to do is to let the player make their own witcher. And as a character creator addict, I say 'bring it on!' XD
I think its a FANTASTIC idea. The concept of creating your own witcher & playing as the character. I think it would really cool if geralt was maybe a mentor or a character u come across & get quests from. EPIC.
Love your videos man, great scripts
I love that you made your own school! I did that too, the school of the Siren. And since the trial of the grasses determines each schools powers I was researching a list of what alchemical ingredients they’d use from the sea for specific powers for their school, and even armor that would be useful but resistant to sea salted conditions.
I'll say it yet again, it's been confirmed by devs that Ciri did not die in that ending
I want it to be similar to Cyberpunk. That custumation system was perfect for the kind of role play game CD project does best.
I've been skeptical on The Witcher 4 for a long while now. What made the first three games so great was Geralt and the interactions he had with new and existing characters. That's at least for me, the very heart of the video games and really the franchise as a whole. Reading about these characters and then getting to see them in the video games and be all "Oh shit I know him!!!" Was always such a rush of joy. So to see one of the best things taken out and replaced by the whole make a blank slate of a character thing most RPGs do is a little concerning.
I feel the same. But CDPROJEKTRED have made really interesting original characters, like say Letho. That's why I really want a game following someone like that.
I think this create your own witcher thing would be great for a standalone game. Where different schools offer different armors, skills, tools and maybe even school specific quests. CDPR is working on 4 witcher related projects so perhaps 1 will be this.
However for this Lynx trilogy. I think it's better to have a set in stone premade character like Geralt. Just for continuation if nothing else.
Honestly , I’d prefer it’d be Geralt because in the games up until now he’s always reactionary, he always goes to move after someone has moved.
I want a game where GERALT is the moving force of the narrative.
But that's one of the most beautiful things in the witcher books and games. Geralt is not the main moving force, he's just a witcher. Also it's time to finally make him rest, we've had plenty of time with his character and using him once again would feel pointless. It would be like using Nathan drake for uncharted 5's protagonist
I’m really gonna miss playing as Geralt. I don’t have any doubts that it’ll be great, but Geralt is just one of those iconic protagonists that will be hard to let go of. It’s like playing God of War without Kratos. They gave Geralt a great sendoff and I understand why he won’t be the focus anymore but still.
Interesting idea: what if geralt and one of the sorceresses have a child since there is hints and lore regarding the solving fertility crisis on both sides
however we as the player dont know our heritige and part of our story is discovering it, where something happened to geralt and said sorsereces where ciri took us in to care for us
so the child could be boy or girl since that part of the lore isnt fully explored (also we could potentialy en inherit both witcher mutations and magical powers)
Since Witcher 1 was originally conceived as a player created Witcher in the universe of the books rather than an adaption/continuation of the books, I think that angle would be fascinating and a great evolution of the direction already taken with Cyberpunk. It would be nice if it leaned more into different Witcher schools playing different classes like in D&D.
Going back to their routes!
It would be great to play as a school of the cat Witcher in a future Witcher game.
I want a school of Chimera where not only do they undergo the Witcher ritual but they also body modified themselves from monster parts of success hunts. (Kinda like cyberpunks cybernetic modifications.)
I like the idea. I don't play as Geralt, I play as myself, just in different worlds.
Yesssss! A new video! Regards from Mexico 🌺💀🌻 , Witcher George!
Not sure how a narrative story would work without establishing a core protagonist with cut scene dialogue and character interaction. I prefer to have a new witcher character.
I personally want:
- Start as a child doing normal child things like AC3
- Get taken by a witcher
- Spend time in kaer morhen or similar places
- survive the trail
- become a Witcher.
They could do it like Fallout 3, where you create the adult version of your character and it derives a younger version of your character that they can use for the tutorial/training section of the game.
To make myself as a witcher in a character creator. To then play a witcher game filled with choices that matter would be a dream come true.
A character creation can co-exist with a set character. Take Mass Effect for example, or Dragon Age 2. You can customize your character, they're fully voiced, and they have an actual story. It's like, if they allowed us to completely customize Geralt's appearance, gender, fighting style, etc. He'd still have his character arc and personality. Maybe, like Mass Effect and other Witcher games, you do get to make a bunch of choices and feel as though you are your own unique character, just not to the extent of Elder Scrolls...a hybrid if you will. I think that's perfectly doable.
me and my brothers when we played a game of D&D I made a character that was part of a fan made Witcher school (school of the fox) I used a warlock as the main class so I made school of the fox use metal staves that has a mechanism built in the weapon that twists making silver spikes come out both ends of the staff
I have a question regarding Witcher character creation. Would they allow for female character witcher creation? Only men are able to become witchers since I believe it is said that female hormones seem to cause the witcher mutagens to not take and men are physically stronger even then they barely survive. Idk
Yeah it would be another problem with a random created character
They could get around it by saying that witchers from the School of the Lynx are made using Ciri's blood as a catalyst, letting females survive the process.
yeah like @Nivokius just cause it didn't happen in the past doesn't mean it isn't possible, I think if they give a good reason as to why now it's possible I think it fine to include Female Witcher, it could be from Ciri's blood or a new Mutation method
@@bluuowl3325 female witchers wouldnt fit and wont be as cool as male witchers
@@AB-fr2ei Agreed. I guess that's why we need set male character, as if there is no option for women, loud minority is going to screech until there is.
Personally, I would want the game to occur shortly after the initial development of witchers as a class of being. Instead of directly choosing what School you join, have character creation be a developmental thing. You start by choosing why you are a witcher candidate (did your family sell you to mages for experimentation? were you kidnapped? If it's after the establishment of the Law of Surprise as a common practice, were you given over due to that Law? Etc.) What is your family.background (nobility, peasant, bandit, clergy, etc) Then you go through some roleplay-heavy training exercises and dialogue scenes and those choices influence what skills your proficiencies that are heightened after the Trials of the Grasses, resulting in your induction into a particular School (with a pop-up allowing you to change the School you end up in so you aren't type-cast as a particular 'class')
That's what I'd like to see but I know that's probably not everyone's cup of tea. I'm particularity fond of the Dragon Age Origins system for character starts in that way.
i actually agree with this, baldurs gate and dragon age origins made it where you can pick your race, standing, where you lived and stuff like that. i bet if the witcher 4 done it, they could possibly expand on it even more
It’d be neat to play as a character who witnessed the conjunction or like one of the first witchers
1. If the Lynx School is really going to be a new schol some years after W3, I could imagine one of the mages (Keira?) helping to pave a way for female witchers. Probably still with even lesser chance to succeed than already slim chances of young boys, but doable.
Depending of how CDPR would like to go about it, we could even have people react from time to time, how amazing it is that our gal survived the Trials. No pandering, no ret-conning, just experiments and piles of bodies - as usual with every witcher-related "progress".
2. Imagine, JUST IMAGINE being able to slowly carve our legend, like Geralt before us, when he's become a White Wolf. We could have a few combinations of factors, like the big quests and major decisions in the world, which would lead to eventually getting our own sobriquet. That way we could easily maintain the sens of identity, even if we give our characters custom names. No pre-destined "role" would be necessary with it.
What would your opinion be if they did a assassin creed syndicate style? like you play as siblings or a sibling that is separated but they have a set personality?
I like character creations but not in the witcher, They should go with existing character that people know and love, not some generic new character that no one know or care about. The witcher is a good game because it have great narrative, and the protagonist is a big part of it, in this case Geralt, I know they're done with Geralt, but that it doesn't mean just come up with completely new character, im not a fan of that idea, better off of they pick a character that already exist, Like Ciri or Letho or Lambert or Eskel. They can do so much with those characters, It's such a generic approach to just make character creations and say Okay boys create you own witcher, no thanks.
It could be a mix of the two. You could have a character like V who already exists in the world, but their appearance could be fully customizable. If CDPR went this route, the character could benefit from being a bit more fleshed out than V was, with a set backstory and relationships.
I agree with you, i would prefer having a set character. But i would love character creation on a mmo witcher game
The style of the Mass Effect trilogy is what Id want in a witcher game where we make our own character
If i had to make Witcher 4. I'd say it should have the character style similar to Fear and Hunger, where you choose one of 4 characters, decide which preset backstory is true or not and then you do your own thing. Lets say you chosen Griffin school, You are a boy, who's trials focused on Stealing Eggs(You're sneakier and faster) or Learning entire book(Knowledge of monsters is bigger and get more XP), your first interaction with humans was Getting into fights(You'll be deadlier) or got along(Has better communication skills), and sort of like that. Even if you can change the name of your character, you'll still be called by your nickname on your school, such as "Fangs", "Wolf", "Bite", "Claw" or "Feather".
I'm more keen on haw you're witcher could be incredibly unique. Like you could have elder blood ore a very powerful curse placed on you by a witch which could even be the foundation of the story. The same condition could also grant you abilities different from your already existing abilities introducing a whole new gameplay mechanic of sorts.
I think you can have best of the both worlds. It could be similar to like a Bioware's games. Mass Effect for example, you do create a character, but you are essentially "Commander Shepard" no matter what you do. So in Witcher 4 you could have a set role in the world, people already could know you as "that witcher" through new trilogy.
Also in Dragon age, if you don't have a save game in Dragon age 2, but you play a 3rd one, the character from the second game still shows up in the story. He has a set default look, so similar thing could be used here, where you have a default look, or completely custom one in some capacity.
Yes, please. You create your own witcher. You choose your own school that will have specific skills and abilities. Take. My. Money.
IKR?! Epic af. I funnily thought of this idea years ago
I want one more with Geralt..just one more
I loved the Witcher series but since CDPR's OG devs and design director left, I'm not expecting much anymore.
I feel like the best approach to this would be to base the game around the school of the cat. And how potentially a group could've splintered from Stygga Castle due to a difference in ideology. Hear me out: One group wants to uphold the "Witcher Code" and maintain neutrality, while the other becomes the school of the Cat, which everyone knows. Thus forming the school of the Lynx, a type of cat.
Lore-wise, this would open up a lot.
Those who left the order believed they could improve the mutation process. They also "apparently" trained women to become Witchers. So thematically, this "could" make sense and allow for character creation of both genders. The lore explanation is that the school was indeed able to improve the mutation process, allowing for female Witchers.
This would also place the time period in the "heyday" of the Witchers, or at least at the beginning of their decline.
Agree! I want to make my own witcher ! :D
Ciri founding the school of the Lynx as Empress of Nilfgaard makes the most sense to me. That way, we have an established creator of the school, it would reason any gender could be a Witcher of that school, and if we get to create our own Witcher we could have a set name and the lore wouldn’t be too askew. Tie in a new Conjunction of Spheres and we have a reason for why Witchers are still needed. If I had to make a comparison it’d be like having a Hawke (Dragon Age 2) player character vs. a Warden (Dragon Age: Origins) player character. You can keep the lore more rigid and it’s easier to import said character & their choices into future games. I’d also respectfully counter the point about our shared connection to Geralt as well. In my mind, Geralt helps fellow non humans & outcasts as much as he can. He’d never aid the Flaming Rose in the Witcher 1. Helping Ivoreth in the Witcher 2 also fits his character in my versions of him. And these kind of choices have consequences. We aren’t ever going to have a perfect character everyone feels connected to in the same way when you have games with different choices.
I think it would cool to do something like Dragon Age Origins where they create different origin missions depending on the witcher school you choose.
for me, it's more about the builds - the witcher games have some cool skills, but it feels like you're still kinda a jack of all trades - and i get that's kinda the point of witchers - but having different schools means we might get a bit more different possible playstyles, like a 'mostly uses bombs' witcher style that has extra bomb skills, maybe their gear allows for carrying more bombs and could get more bomb crafting potential.
Off topic, but you should do a who would win video on Ciri vs the unseen elder.
My guesses:
- Polaris (Witcher 4) will have a set character like the previous trilogy. It makes more sense on a narrative point also it will make it easier for them to have the same protagonist since they plan to make it a trilogy.
- Sirius (multiplayer Witcher game by molasses flood) will have character creation.
Frankly considering that Geralt’s and Ciri’s story is technically finished, it would make most sense if we’re playing as a custom character.
I rlly don’t think they’d have a problem doing the same thing they do V in cyberpunk which is one of my favorite games. I’d honestly prefer that over a set character because then nobody will have the same experience as me at all.
I think they will be doing a mass effect/cyberpunk
A witcher that would be known as a title or the town he came from, like the "Raven" or something like the "Witcher from Cintra"
And of course he'd have a kind of a set personality like V or Shepard
One idea that I think could work really well is that it is set back in time during the "golden age" of witchers. The School of the Lynx is a small, upstart guild made up of drop outs or "lesser" witchers from other schools that are forced to take on the contracts that no one wants. If you think about a time with lots of witcher schools then there would undoubtedly be some kind of economic competition for contracts in certain hub areas. The School of the Lynx, not well known at all and without any "famous" witchers to take on important contracts from rich people, would have to dig their way up from the bottom to try and make a better living.
I would love it. Main reason because elder scrolls games are my favourite and being able to create your own character and backstory as an rpg. But they would have to coincide the world with this. Cause the world and storylines need to work with your own witcher
The Witcher 4 Should be like Red Dead Redemption 2. The main Story with Geralt (Maybe a young Vessemir, or with one of the first Witchers, in a world still full of monsters) and the online mode, where you can create your own witcher, and where your character background really doesnt matter.
A game where you can create your own character, lacks of the same conection than the games where are an establish Main character.
When the Main character is almost the same for everyone, ussually doesnt work, like happen with V in Cyberpunk 2077, or in Howarts Legacy.
If the main character is the same for everyone, with a good backstory, like Geralt of Rivia or Arthur Morgan, the game is so much better. We as players really love that type of characters.
I really hate the new make your own character customisation. Having one good character is better.
Some ppl like themselves
it'll be awesome if its set in the timeline where alzur just created the witcher (before he wrecked maribor of course).
Fun fact: "Witcher" is a mistake in translation from Polish "Wiedźmin" which in English should be "Hexer" or something like that. MORE YOU KNOW
What about you have to leave in Order to do your Job ? You could have a starting school your Background and get promoted to a Witcher and have to Work ion from there on ?
I really want this; Geralt just never really grabbed me but the world of Witcher is the type of dark fantasy shit I love like Dragons Dogma and I would kill to have my own witcher in it.
I think if they went with a create your own witcher then they should do it like dragon age origins where like the tutorial is your backstory and there's different backstories dependant on race, gender, social status etc and then that unlocks a set amount of missions to do with your backstory but it isn't the main story.
If we end up being able to make our own Witcher guarantee everyone makes Geralt
imma make bomberman.
I think the reason why the idea of picking an initial school falls is because it would feel bad for the players. The part where we would leave the school couldn't be spoiled in a good way at the boot up of the game, so... Imagine you get into the character creation screen, you see options to pick your school and you get your hopes up like "Ohhh yeaa I can be from that school, nice!" and then the game pulls a 180 and makes you leave your chosen school for whatever reason.
It could work, if it would already be communicated in some way that you'd be playing as an outcast or rough Witcher, and I can imagine this choice to be a "Choose your origin" instead of "Choose your school" option, although I feel like it would be quite a gamble I guess, having the need to put a "negative shade" on a school you choose / feel closest to.
I think its possible it could be from hundred of years in the past, when Witchers were much more common
i love the idea of making our own witcher and i am curious of how the times will look during the beginning of the witcher schools as close as it can be to the conjuction of the spheres. But nothing will matters if they fail with the writing.
Yennefer would do anything for Ciri, push any boundary, break any law. If Ciri wanted to find a way to make girl witchers, I think Yennefer would move mountains to help her; she's had experience of one part at least of the Trial of the Grasses, so she'd know where to start. I always thought she'd get bored growing grapes in Beauclair anyway. I don't think Beauclair has a native Witcher School, either, does it? Maybe the Duchess Anna Henrietta would be grateful enough to gift one of the many ruined old castles in her realm; she's just had a sharp lesson in the dangers of monsters, after all. It would be difficult to squeeze another School into the existing lore, but there's plenty of room in the future with the old Schools dying out. Maybe it's up and running just in time for a new Conjunction, and the protagonist is among the first wave of new young witchers sent out, fresh from rushed training, to combat them.
Imo it would obviously be founded by Eskel. He's talked about it in Witcher 3.
I could imagine him trying to get together remaining Witchers of various schools to make a new hybrid.
If it's how they have done it in Cyberpunk, where it's still a set character, their appearance, gender, and background would be customizable.
no, I can't get attached to a created character.
Exactly
Noooooo I want Geralt old retired Geralt comeing out of retirement for Ciri playing as both of them
I enjoy running the Witcher tabletop but made the mistake of letting people pick any class when I should have veto classes like black Smith n bard
I've always read there not being any girl Witchers as a matter of policy, not that the mutations would not take. Kind of like how drafts into military services apply only to males in most countries.
Now that I think about it, they gendered the sorcerer schools on The Continent; so, there is precedent to that line of thinking applying to the original Witchers.
I love the idea of Ciri becoming a governess over a new generation of Witcher boys.
I mean, if Bioware could pull it off fairly well in 2014, where character decisions from two previous games matter, I am certain CDPR could do so even better
(Dragon Age Inquisition, for people who didn't know what game I was talking about)
I could see a custom Witcher character if the Witcher 4 is a standalone game series outside of the original games. If the game is one then I can see a created character interacting with the world and possibly interacting with Ciri and others but not directly interfering with them in their lives within the world.
As for the save data extraction BioWare has been able to do that for decades with Mass Effect and Dragon Age. As any important decisions made are transferred to the next game.
However, if the game is not a standalone title then a premade character is better suited. That’s my two cents on the matter.
Personally I think BioWare’s Dragon Age and Mass Effect do lots of what you’re thinking to a point. Maybe they could take ideas from how they do it, with choices and effect and making your own character.
A game in which we make our own witcher would be fun, but a game where we confine playing as Geralt would be preferred
For me, no Geralt as protagonist, no The Witcher RPG game with a real implication of the player since we are attached to Geralt, his personality, his sense of humour, and all his relationships. For me The Witcher 3 is the best game of all time and if Geralt does not come back as a protagonist, I am not even sure I would play the next game. I know I am far from being the only one feeling that way and I know many people do not feel that way too but that's it. The truth is that without Geralt, The Witcher is not really The Witcher
I just want more Geralt
I won't mind a Witcher 4 with character customization but semi-set story like Cyberpunk with Ciri in a Vesimir kind of role and Geralt as a cameo. I also hope they FINALLY get the save importing right, in W1-2 we just carried over some supposedly legendary weapons that got obsolete in the first hours and barely anything story worthy, in W2-3 we got a few missions, no equipment and half the characters (making half your choices from the previous game almost pointless) so I really hope they nail the save importing this time between W3-4.
I won't mind a dual choice of character either cause was there an actual reason why Witcher schools had no girls? I thought it was just by chance /tradition in universe and Ciri broke this if you go with the Witcheress ending (I own only the first two books so I can't tell about those). I mean biologically, women can naturally stand more pain, so unless the problem goes down to the atom level then I don't see why we can't have female Witcher schools or mixed post Ciri (the original 2002 Witcher series already attempted this before the Witcher games)
I would love to create my own Witcher. For the same reason as you, cyberpunk proved CDPR could absolutely pull it off. I've got absolute confidence in them.