They can burn in hell. Be happy your favorite game is even doing well. Y'all got Genshin and ZZZ, what more do ya fucking need?
TGA 2024 predictions, reactions, nominees, etc.
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Here we go again!
I think the last attempt to cancel BG3 was last year's TGA. Spider-man and Zelda fans got super salty and tried to cancel BG3, but went nowhere.
This might hit harder, though. As there are considerable chinese users on steam
Sure, but apparently even more users loved Vincke's speech, and despite the review bombing, BG3 ended up with a net positive gain.
Remember, folks: Video games are serious business.
Looks like a failed plastic surgery. I may be short, but my face is more attractive than hers.
Fuck me, citation very much needed me old China.
You convincing me, or yourself? Whatever helps you sleep at night, because you ain't convincing me of shit.
While she is certainly not ugly by any normal standard, she is not as beautiful as a typical female movie lead. There is enough reason to say that they did not try to make her as good loocking as they could.
However, that was also true for Witcher 3. There, Geralts love interests were meant to be received as more beautiful as his tomboy adopted daughter.
And going to the source, Ciri is never described as particularly beautiful. In contrast to certain women who use magic to change their appeareance. So it is actaully all fine and in the tradition of the franchise.
Witcher 4's Ciri looks enough like Witcher 3's Ciri which imho is what matters most. And she is certainly not so ugly that is warrants particular mention or should be constued as a statement.
She has the scar and the white hair, but her face looks off compared to W3 Ciri (also different voice actor from the sound of it). But this is pretty standard for CD Project's prerendered trailers. Both Yennifer and Geralt looked off too in the intro cinematic of The Witcher 3 compared to the ingame models.
This is really just an announcement that Ciri is going to be the lead in The Witcher 4 - this game is atleast 6 years away and she's going to look significantly different when her ingame model is actually finished. I doubt CDPR has anything more than concept art for this game at the moment.
Not to legitimize the 'ugly on purpose' nitwits, since the Ciri in this trailer is obviously designed to be a tradtionally attractive looking woman.
Ciri looks fine, I just don't get how she's a witcher. Like I'm fine with playing as her as the main char, but adults can't become witchers. I dunno if they will use the elf blood to nonsense retcon her being able to turn into a witcher after becoming an adult or what have you but that's lame if so. The potion is lethal to adults, full stop, and even most male kids who drink it die.
You could make a game called Ciri Chronicles and have it contain the exact same content of the witcher 4 but just have Ciri not actually cheat into being a witcher after adulthood and it'd be a fine game while also respecting the lore.
You could make a game called Ciri Chronicles and have it contain the exact same content of the witcher 4 but just have Ciri not actually cheat into being a witcher after adulthood and it'd be a fine game while also respecting the lore.
New mo-cap actress as I understand it.
Isn't there an ending in Witcher 3 that involves Ciri becoming a Witcher? I swear someone told me that. Then again I have had some migraines today so maybe I've had three conversations just circle into one or something.
It's implied she follows in Geralt's footsteps in a symbolic sense but is not shown to actually drink the witcher potion and develop witcher eyes. Cause doing so is deadly and would kill her dead. Any non-mutated adult human would die if they drank it. Ciri hasn't undergone the trial, either.
That somehow happened off screen sometime between that ending and the trailer, presumably. I expect them to explain it in the game but it just doesn't make sense at all without some major retcons.
Still looking and healthy. There is not much "uglifying" there, and lets not legitamize the fuck wits that have a problem with her looks. They have that big of a problem? They can look elsewhere. They have plenty of options and I don't give a fuck the anti-woke bitches "want/think". Most games aren't for their ever changing petty "wants and needs" in mind.
Extremely.
I would suggest we all not engage at all with this bullshit about Ciri's looks. I know we like to get stupid on the internet, but dear God. It's just too much. I know internet and gamer arguing standards are low but it's gotten too stupid. Literally every remotely looking human woman will now be accused of being "ugly" and some evil plot by DEI trans Democrats to destroy traditional gender norms. The new unrealistic beauty standard is not to look like a phenomenally beautiful super-model human woman, but like a hentai-victimized cartoon Japanese junior high school girl with tremendous jugs and cat ears. So... do not engage.
As for her being a witcher, lemme 'splain...
So yes, one of the three main endings of the Witcher 3 is that Ciri is going to be a witcher. But in the witcher-verse, that term can describe a physical existent and a profession because witchers are mutated to be able to perform simple magic and consume alchemical potions that would harm normal people. This transformation had only worked on boys historically. By the time you get to the Witcher 3, no new boys were converted, witchers are slowly dying off. Ciri is tremendously unique in the powers she inherited which gives the game devs a lot of leeway.
I have always interpreted the three endings of Witcher 3 as being extremely tentative.
- Ending 1: "Witcher"
This just means that she is free- for now- from kings and queens and evil sorcerers and ghosts who want to use and abuse for their own megalomaniacal desires AND that she chooses to remain in the world with her friends and adopted family. That's why it's the happiest ending. But she's still extremely young, only starting to grow into her powers. The life of a witcher is appealing to her because it's independent and free compared to what she's known.
- Ending 2: "Empress"
She is cajoled into staying with her biological father, a powerful emperor who despite spending her truth trying to do horrible things to her, wants to bequeath her the throne. She sees it as a duty to user her powers for good. This is a bittersweet ending and many player like it because it's the "right" thing to do (I disagree), though it does have the nicest epilogue. Anyway, I always see this as extremely tentative. Ok she's learning to rule and take over- from an emperor on his way out, who pissed off the entire world including his own internal factions, and she is hot-tempered and young. It's so easy to imagine any number of scenarious where she would f*** off.
- Ending 3: "Death"
Most people interpret her not coming back at the end as her death but we never see a body and she can literally teleport between dimensions so I interpret that ending as that she just doesn't wanna come back to this world for a while.
tl;dr here is that none of the endings are definitive and it will be easier to explain how and why she is running around saving villagers from monsters after any of the above scenarios than it was to explain what's going on in the beginning of Witcher 3 after the kingdom-redefining cataclysms at the end of the Witcher 2's various configurations.
As for her powers and fighting styles- a couple lead devs were on SkillUp's podcast and they were talking about how she's using her power as a corrupted source to do some magic. They did talk about how/why she's drinking potions. All of this is just telegraphing that Ciri will not be going through the Trial of Grasses (the brutal mutation that witcher boys go through) but rather she is going to a new type of person in this world:
- The first female witcher
- The first witcher to use an alternative power source
- And, most interesting, the first witcher to choose to live this life.
I'm sorry- anyone who is whining about any of this right now is just so lame. The game's not coming out for a while.
You know- usually I see arguments about games when it comes to lore and art and appearance and since I don't know the details I just kind of shrug. But watching it play out with something I actually know intimately- it's pretty funny and sad. There's plenty to be excited about, literally nothing to reasonably angry about. This doesn't mean I know the game will be good, I have my concerns around gameplay, crunch, and launch state given the studio's history, but we just have to wait and see how that all plays out.
I mean you know I'm quick to jump on the bandwagon of being mad about ugly ladies. But I agree with you, I think Ciri looks fine, she is hardened by having been a Witcher for a while at this point probably. And i think she looks great.
Work on that, because it makes you sound ridiculous when you do it.
Damn straight.
Have fun being alone for the rest of your life then. Your choice.