WITCHER 4 - Goodbye Geralt, Hello... Ciri??? 

I connected with The Witcher because of Geralt and his story. So it’s hard for me to imagine Witcher 4 as a Fallout/Skyrim type game. I like the character led story. I hope they stick with it and tell someone else’s story.

Custom character creation would, in my opinion, kill a big part of what makes The Witcher games special.

I'd LOVE to go back and experience Kaer Morhen in a time when it was whole, and full of life and interesting characters. Dive deeper into the Trail of Grasses process, etc.

A game set in the past is way more interesting than a game after The Witcher 3 IMO. Even in Geralt's times, monsters are not really an existential threat anymore and human conflicts are way more important.

If CDPR wants to go in the direction of Ciri they need to make a spin off that follows her adventures. Honestly, I wish they had made a $30 expansion where you got to play as ciri jumping from one world to another trying to escape the wild hunt. Just in general it'd have been cool if we got a ciri post book escaping the wild hunt

My biggest concern is that a lot of the people who created TW3 at CDPR are no longer there... The Witcher games are a HIGH bar to live up to and I have serious doubts they can catch lightning in a bottle again and seeing how Cyberpunk 2077 played out. Also, society is far more insane now than it was during TW3's dev time- which will effect the game's narrative.

I think it'd be kinda interesting if you got to play as a new witcher -- like, get to go through The Trials of the Grasses and everything. Of course, time jumps (and perhaps significant ones) would be part of the story, too, but I think it could be incredible if done in the right way.

I would like them to make the story at the beginning. When witcher first appered. I would love to explore a world that is full of witchers and beasts to fight.

Completely agree with the Witcher 4 having a set character. I can see the appeal of building your own Witcher during the height of their power, but it limits story telling. I would prefer a prequel over future events. I feel like if the time period moves forward, it would be centered too much around human conflict. I’d like to see more monsters, and lore expanded on some topics we already know.

For me, Ciri is very compelling from a story-telling perspective, but far less compelling from a gameplay perspective. Whilst I enjoyed playing as her for short periods in Witcher 3, I suspect I would get bored of her OP abilities fairly quickly.

I'd much prefer a prequel, where Kaer Morhen is still full of witchers, maybe we get to see it sacked as young Vesemir. The snow makes me think that we'll see Kovir and Poviss in this installment which would be interesting, as there's no wars there and it'd be different from the first 3 which were all Temeria, Redania, Aedern, Kaedwen.

As much as I love Geralt and want to see Geralt again, Geralt's story ended with blood and wine where he can "settle down" with his waifu.

I’ve always been interested in the era of the Conjunction of Spheres. The beginning of this world. Having a bunch of first interactions between all the races, and the birth of the Witchers.

Really enjoyed this video;) Both the possibility of a prequel or sequel are exciting. Great take on theconnection between cat and lynx school. Completly, agree that a new game is exciting either way, also really enjoyed Thronebreaker

Yes. I found myself wanting more Ciri play in the Witcher 3. She's a blast to play. Honestly though, I'm in for the world. I'd love a "Create your own Witcher" game as well.

I've been looking out for your perspective on the news. I agree, exploring a completely new location(s) would be amazing. That would be really exciting, along with a new protagonist.

Dang. I forgot I was subscribed. Happy to see a new video.

Perhaps the main focus of the story could be restoring the reputation of the lynx/cat school, given the fact that the cat school has a reputation for being assassins, maybe our new protagonist could set out on a journey to change the path that the cat school is on and changing the path it transforms from school of the cat to the school of the lynx

Man It's only been 10 videos yet you're one of the few people in the witcher community who I respect the most next to people like xLetalis whose been making witcher videos since the beggining of time Keep at it man!

I feel given the multiple endings of W3, it’ll not likely be anyone we know already, unless it’s a prequel. I feel that we’ll be in a completely new location, with a new cast of characters that can allow CDPR to expand their Witcher mythos in the way they see fit.

I wanna finally see Kovir, god dammit. Also, don’t forget Ciri can travel through time as well as space, so being set in the past wouldn’t totally prevent a cameo from past characters.

Potions, bombs, Mutations, signs etc. would become useless because Ciri is too op. I REALLY hope she won't be the next protagonist...

Hi! I would love to see a deeper dive into the game assets, like things summonable using the console. Always wondered about the frozen soldier and volcanic griffin

If they do end up going down some sort of customisation route for our protagonist, make it like Mass Effect with MaleShep/FemShep, the strong base character is there, we're just able to change their physical appearance etc, yes there's paragon and renegade options which changes the character slightly, but not drastically.

Business idea: Let us play a game as Saskia -- sexy warrior-queen with shapeshifting dragon powers. Print money.

Geralt's story already had its end with Blood & Wine, and it's perfect as is. Having Geralt as a protagonist again, wouldn't make much sense it the next game is a sequel to the events in TW3. Similarly, Ciri's story is pretty much also complete by the third game unless she chooses to become a witcher, in which case her being an elder blood and therefore so op would not make for fun gameplay and would stray too far away from the actual witcher concept. In my opinion CDPR is better off exploring other characters in the witcher universe, perhaps even creating a brand new protagonist. I'm pretty excited with the prospect of a cat school protagonist since this school is famous for its witchers also taking contracts as assassins and all the moral implications that could have. Perhaps this game could focus more on the relationships on the various cat school witchers, having some be inclined to take up on assassination contracts therefore causing division between them, maybe even have a witcher be the actual antagonist. It could also focus more on intrigue and the posible story branching depending on wether you choose to be an assassin or not can be endless. Really excited with the future of the series.

GJ, now I really want to see the School of the Alascan tundra wolf ^^

Another great video! Thanks!

As far as I know W1 was actually supposed to be a "build your own witcher" game, but then CDPR changed their mind and chose Geralt as protagonist. It might be possible that W4 will now pick up this idea and let us choose a witcher school for example. I don't know how I feel about this since I'm kind of emotionally attached to many of the characters we know from the previous games (Eskel as new protagonist would be really nice), but I also see that this could be a great chance for a new start and some fresh game mechanics.

We should totally have a prequel, and we should totally follow a young Vesemir! We even have elements of his youth in The Witcher 3 already, it would be an excellent way to put all together Hell, they could even make a whole new triology on this that (as the "A new saga" could suggest) end with the found of Geralt, that would be amazing!

I agree, have good writing in this amazing universe and I’m happy

Great to see a new video from you! I’m looking forward to seeing a new Witcher game but right now I’m more excited to see the next gen update

From the screen CDPR posted. I wondered if the medallion has been uncovered from being buried in the snow. As if a younger protagonist uncovers this in the future. Maybe a child or grandchild of Ciri who wants to become a Witcher after the schools have been forgotten.

I would be glad to have more playtime with Ciri, the teleport fighting is really fun. Maybe it would be something where you could develop both characters and switch between them.

excellent analysis.

missed ya bud! was hoping you'd make a video abt the news ♡

I actually liked Ciri’s character quite a bit and they’ll definitely balance out the difficulty level so not sure why people are concerned about her being too op. The gameplay could be radically different and expanded upon with Ciri specifically given her space-time faculties. Geralt is definitely more entertaining than any other option, though. Honestly it just matters how well it gets executed. After their legendary failure with CP, CDPR probably wants to prove they still have something really golden. I’m still rooting for them

I'd love it if they went back in time to when Witchers were at their peak! I do agree that a 'build your own character' would not be my favourite.

Awesome video! Been waiting to hear your thoughts.

Completely off topic here, but I really, REALLY am proud of what you've accomplished. Never have I seen a RU-vidr like you reach a thousands of subs in the span of 7 months, and let alone continuing to grow till this day. I wish you the best of luck, ye kind sir 😊

Am i the only person that really hopes you cant make your own witcher? Im not with this trend that you can customize your own character tbh

I would love a kind of hybrid between choose your own character and a set story. What i mean is make the character have a set name, background etc but let the player decide what the character looks like

Missed the channel, glad to hear your thoughts

I agree with you. I hope we get a great new location.

Ciri wouldn’t be school of the cat …

CDPR's version of The Witcher universe is so beautiful and well thought out, that I think the next stage will be wonderful. We will fall in love with whomever Witcher or Sorcerer we get to be :) .... and Netflix will be just a hiccup in the past >:(

Great video!

Welcome back!

I‘d be in for a prequel set when witchers were at their peak. Or, maybe, even earlier: when the first schools formed, with one of the first „real“ witchers (as in: someone must at some point have started the mutation thing, noticed that it‘s good for monster hunting and then started to apply it to young boys in a regulated manner to achieve comparable results - or death, for that matter). If so, why not introduce a semi-set character and take a page out of some other great rpg franchises‘ books. Let me play a customisable boy, taken by the witchers, undergoing mutation and training and then being thrown in some story - or, more simply put, give the character a origin story, maybe even a slightly different one according to customisation (think DA:O, but more like Story 1: Given to the Witchers as payment; Story 2: Taken by the Witchers; Story 3: Stray, homeless kid wanders around and just happens to knock on the Witchers‘ door or Story 4: Runaway who admires Witchers wants to be one and leaves in secret to find them - just a few ideas for origin stories, altering the youth storyline and the way people/other young witchers in training react to him, but with no real influence on the later adult life as Witchers are usually not impacted by stuff like that.

I think geralts story isn't over, but it's gotten to it's end. He's reached the end of his character arc. He proved his point. Witchers are as human as anyone else, people are the scariest monsters and he grew out of how toughened he was from years of seeing nothing but pain everywhere and grew to love well, the people he loved. He raised ciri the best he could and she did whatever she did in the climax of the story. He lived the part of his life we were meant to see. I think he's going to live on doing what he does best, being a witcher, he has many many years left, witchers don't die of old age, or not that we know of. I think that geralt HAS changed and he's not the same person from the main story of most of the games. I think moving on to ciri possibly creating or continuing witcher schools or bringing more people into the fold to become the next generation of monster slayers would be what I want to see out of another witcher game, after all, without the witchers who would keep the world safe from monsters and make coin doing it? maybe the new witchers could include sorcerers as well, maybe ciri or someone else can research how to make safer mutagen. If the game is about geralt it's just going to be more of the same, which the same is great, but I wan't it to grow and evolve, while still maintaining the same life. Ciri has so much more possibility in her story, she's young, has many relationships to make, people to meet and places to go, where geralt has seen and done it all.

I like create your own character type... that makes witcher game more awesome

There is also Letho which isn't from the School of the Wolf. Also has the perk of no set story after Witcher 3, but does have different endings to deal. But they can easily be explained.

Ciri is not a real Witcher, is too OP as a plot device with her time and space powers, and her story and character is intertwined with Geralt's and her arc is completed in Wild Hunt. Not to mention it would render player choices in Wild Hunt a moot point. Eskel should be the protagonist going forward. He is the only Witcher whose outcome in Wild Hunt cannot be effected by choices. He inherits Kaer Morhen and heads out on the Path for further adventures every time, and it would be more interesting playing as a traditional Witcher like him, much different from Geralt's Knight In Shining Armor type hero.

I find myself on the minority where I'd like Ciri to be the main character but this means that one of the many endings of the The Witcher 3 has to be an established cannon where Ciri becomes a Witcher. Remember that Witcher anniversary video where all of Geralt's friends gather for a feast? That must be the true cannon that CDPR inteded where Ciri, Lambert, Keira, the Baron, Roche, Olgierd, Anarietta, and Syanna lives. As for Ciri being too OP, I'm sure that CDPR can still come up with a pretty good story for that.

Ngl, I loved Ciris speedy movement and momentum based combat is amazing

glad I subbed man, your content and takes haven't disappointed. I have a feeling they'd have to go to the beginning if they're showing off the feline school. I'm sure Ciri could show up too considering her time travel abilities.

Why you people don't understand what "new saga" means

In Lady of the Lake, Ciri grabbed Bonhart's cat school medallion after killing him and put it on. The main character will most certainly be Ciri, either in the past or future. Personally I would prefer Ciri's story in the real world where the books leave off.

Building your own witcher would be AWESOME and so many more options to choose because you are somone with a blank slate.

I missed your videos. I love the quality and I really like to hear your opinion. I really don't mind who is going to be the protagonist. I just want, like many other fans want, a high quality game. Not only improve the graphics and mechanics, we want a good script, a good story that makes us feel like a Witcher in the middle of a chaotic world. Keep doing videos please. 💙

I bought ThroneBreaker, loved it ! I just wanna create my own character as far looks. They can have a predetermined story, preset abilities or whatever….just have a female and male voice for the character and we’re great.

Since its been confirmed to be the school of the Lynx, I'd appreciate a canonisation of the pen and paper role-playing game it came from, complete with its female witchers and lambert as a Vesemir equivalent. A Commander Shepherd style custom protagonist would certainly be a good way to endear people to a new protagonist when they can look however you'd like and your dialogue choices could form your character's actions and personality.

Hey man i know im late to the party but i just wanna say this video was well produced and narrated and you did a good job man. I too am excited for whats to come for the next Witcher game and hope they somehow add abit of Geralt easter egg in there

What about Geralt when he was a kid? Doing the Witcher trials of grasses, being taught by vesimir and leading up to the first game? That would be cool

Geralt is an interesting character in his own right and despite his "dissocial" behaviour likable enough to be invested in emotionally as a player/ reader. He is grumpy, but kind, brutal, but hones, lonersome but loyal. I think Witcher 3 ended is story in a nice way, leaving his actualy fate somewhat open ended, resp. in the hands of the player, who can basically decide what the "happily ever after" is in his story. Ciri is part of this story and I think making her the protagonist, would rob something from Geralt's and her story. For this reason, I think both are out of the equation, especially given the fact that the medallion shows something different. I think for a reason CDPR decided to use a witcher school, which is not prominent. It is I think a "clean slate". I also think that while some of the other characters in the saga certainly have their appeal for some, none of them are so universally liked as Geralt. For a major game in a new saga, I don't think any are solid choices for that reason. In any case they would certainly always be compared to Geralt and his saga and I doubt this would work out very well for the majority. This might work for a spin off game like thronebreaker, but not for a major saga. In my opinion the logical next step would be to make it an open character, totally new, probably designable like in other RPGs. This can still lead to an immersive story, e.g. like in Mass Effect, so I don't think this would be a problem. As for the setting: I think for the same reason, avoiding comparisons, a totally different setting is needed. This could either be a very different location - but not too different, if you want to catch all the Witcher fans - or a different time frame. Since the Geralt saga already is happening during at the end of the witchers' decline, my guess it, we will see a prequel or a setting after a rejuvination of the witchers to give more options. Or maybe the school of the lynx is capable to create witchers still? OR maybe they are just "wanna be witchers", which are just good figthers without the special abilties? Maybe you will have to find a way to make thos abilities accessible during the game? We will see. In any case, I doubt it will be a familiar characters or setting. That could only loose in comparison to the Geralt saga.

Can we seriously not just have a Ciri/Geralt Witcher 4? Honestly, the list of characters work... please, CDPR, for the love of everything holy, don't try to invent the wheel here. You have a game franchise that everyone know and love and adore exactly for what it is.

I love your videos man, your growing fast, soon enough you will become one of the biggest witcher channels, im sure of it!

Dude you’ve gotta do like live streams or full gameplay series I would watch every second of them.

Personally, I would love an entire trilogy with Ciri as the protagonist taking place after Geralt's story. She literally had to run away her entire life and has never had the chance to really discover herself and what she really wants. I think there is so much potential and I'm so interested in seeing it one day!

Ciri could be the founder of the new school, in another world many. Tho another world with no lore backing for the monsters and politics etc. can be a bit risky.

Wouldn't it be cool if you could customize how the mutations affect your new witcher in the game. Like a character creation but instead of appearance it changes based on what school you choose and how the mutations affect you.

I dont really know about the story or the setting which could probably feel a bit wierd if its set in the future but i do like the idea of the witcher you play running around finding lore and whatever about Geralt and the past games, with books and scriptures pointing out things he did.

If CDPR decide to continue/ expand same saga and characters with Ciri as character. It will be a disaster. Our viewpoint to see every relation in the game will shift drastically and that will set many people off from this detailed rpg. Mass effect 4, last of us etc etc many games did same thing and it majorly upset the audience. They should either do a new character with minor references or Geralt in a new saga.

I’d love Geralt again though. I’d have no problem with Ciri but Geralt as you said is perfect and why mess with perfection?

Great time to start the channel! I personally think ciri being the protagonist is almost a natural secession to what most of the Witcher fans see. Also, if you didn’t try your hardest to get the ending where Ciri is a Witcher then you didn’t play it right.

Ever since lambert mentioned his time with some assassins from the school of the cat ive become obsessed with trying to know more about it. I would love to see how the schools differ especially since geralt remarks that cat school witchers have less of a moral look on things and will do as they please

I want a game about Ciri's adventures! 😭 The book is amazing!

I do NOT want a Vesemir game or any customizable Witcher. I think it’s criminal that Ciri is only in the third game and I think a new series with her would be as good (not better) than the original games.

We will create our Witcher...I think..

i remember after blood and wine came out there was a rumor that the next witcher game would feature a witcher that the player custom desinges like in cyberpunk. with a new story unrelated to gerald and the other characters we know

I can see a more open-ended character direction, with your own witcher initiate that you can name, customize, choose your own school, and complete the trials, also being a possibility.

Imho add a mystery protagonist which the player can play and customise its character. Having memories related to the witcher school. Or Erlend of Larvik story is most interesting plus it can carry through several games as his whereabouts in geralts time were unknown.

We all knew it but i hoped that we whould play with Ciri. Love it!

My belief is that they will adapt a lot of the fanon with the new saga bring set hundreds of years later when a new continent fully populated with monsters is discovered and the witchers see kind of a revival with new techniques and armaments such as guns.

i would like a character creator, being a witcher and getting witcher jobs meanwhile learning about the witcher geralt and meeting ciri

i would like to see the focus of this Lynx School be more so the remnants of the Cat School rebuilding under new leadership and being a lot less murdery.they have a very terrible reputation even among the other schools and seeing that school become something more would be really nice to see

I just imagined a mission where the protagonist fails to kill a monster and needs some help from a seasoned witcher, and right there, hears the steps of the white wolf coming to rescue. Silly I know but it would be nice to show our beloved Geralt in some way in the new game.

Good video, with some great points. I would absolutely agree they need a set character for the new series. If they had one that wasn't set I think it would hurt the game and some of the aspects we loved in The Witcher trilogy with Geralt.

I think the weapons and armor given to you in the next gen update are a hint that we will indeed be going way back to the past. i think thats great!

I saw someone say it would be cool to see eskal start his own Witcher school and you play as one of his young witchers

I have read it on a fan page, and that said, the lynx school was founded by Lambert (maybe Eskel, I can't remember) and it's after the battle of kaer morhen.

I'd like to see a Witcher origin game set just after the conjunction. It would be based around finding out how to make potions and oils, with options for getting them wrong. Finding out about teh Trials of the Grasses, types of monsters and all sorts.

a story about the last witcher would be interesting too

Well well well U r back... :)

Nice vid

Damn how many years it gonna take for this to come out🤔

can u make lore videos about the new characters cdpr developed for the gwent or witcher universe ? ☺️

I think that the second series about the witchers might be touching the subject of the second "conjunction of the spheres" which was talked about in the Witcher 3 start-intro and perhaps the world might once again need more witchers to fight/kill them off, also not so long ago CDPR mage GWENT Rogue Mage which talked about the making of first witchers, so perhaps we can create our own witcher which we can play through the upcoming games (something like Mass Effect Trilogy)

I would like to meaby play as one of the first witchers and meaby see some of the events that helped shape the witcher code

Maybe its cool if there will be another conjunction of sphere and set the world for a new era of witchers where schools are reopenned and you as players be one of the product of new witcher schools and may have the option to choose your school. Choosing your school gives us the variety of playability for NG+ and more IMO