• Tristus@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    I didn’t played the game or read the books but I think if you are playing a game that is called Witcher and the Witcher himself is missing that is a big issue.

    Normally you would get a new game with a new title but big companies want to use the IP and think using a known title is always better than coming up with a new title.

    As I said I didn’t played Witcher 3 so dunno if it makes sense, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people are unhappy when their main character is missing in the game.

    • boonhet@lemm.ee
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      2 hours ago

      Yeah so others already explained it to you, but I’ll give you a quick summary.

      Witcher is kind of a job title, but to get in you pretty much join a cult that gives you mutagens that give you cool powers, but also make you infertile and I believe resistant to STDs (this is why Geralt fucks so much).

      Ciri trained with the witchers of the Wolf school. I don’t remember if she went through the mutations or not, but she has elder blood so she’s already more powerful than Geralt. She’s part of an end of the world prophecy. She’s also essentially Geralt’s adoptive daughter.

      By the end of Witcher 3, Geralt is getting kind of tired. There’s literally no other Witcher in the universe more deserving to be the next lead than the spacetime manipulating princess who doesn’t even want to inherit her real father’s continent spanning empire because she’d rather be a badass Witcher.

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        8 hours ago

        I slightly puffed out out the nose in amused manner lol. The Witcher. <_>

        It’s literally a job title in-universe. xD

    • zod000@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      I guess if they didn’t read the books, watch the show, or play the most popular and most recent game in the series, then it is fairly reasonable for them to be confused as they won’t know shit.