• Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

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

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      3 months ago

      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!”

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          3 months ago

          they can easily tweak the mechanics to suit a whole game. And it’s a Witcher RPG, the combat will be heavily customizable anyway.

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          3 months ago

          That would be a very predictable and boring choice. I truly hope it is someone else, like Lambert, Eskel, Letho or Vesimir.

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            3 months ago

            I’m hoping for an original character. Original story. Don’t shit on established lore. But don’t cling to it like a zealot to a holy book. CDPR has proven they can tell an original story with original characters while respecting established lore.

            We know from that one picture we’ve seen it’s not gonna be an established school. Perhaps an offshoot of the Cat. Or maybe an entirely different school. That medallion was a Lynx.

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      3 months ago

      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.

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        3 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.

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    3 months ago

    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.

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        3 months ago

        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).

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          3 months ago

          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.

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            3 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.

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      3 months ago

      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)

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        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.

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    3 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.

  • generaldenmark@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    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

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      3 months ago

      I hope not, but that’s the problem with releasing a game every 10 years, is that it can never live up to the hype