Smth cool that I think may be relevant: The monster in the Witcher 4 trailer was called a bauk, and supposedly used its opponent’s fears against them. It said to Ciri “Fate cannot be changed. You cannot change anything.” Maybe this idea of trying to stop Ithillines prophecy or mutate her blood is pivotal to the story…
The whole Mother of the Destroyer of Worlds also could mean that she must not be the giver of birth to said child. Shes considered daughter of Geralt and Yen, while not sharing their blood. Who knows how cryptic such prophecies are. Suddenly it comes down to a motherly relationship or something else.
I love how the studio doesn't give us every informations. We can tell that they really like to make this game and they have all my trust, their games were always great, there is no reason why it would change, can't wait for more.
I've been doing lots of theory crafting and the coin fits perfectly with The Witcher's themes of time, destiny, and lineage-especially considering Ciri’s Elder Blood and her central role in the series. "Days and nights pass": A poetic nod to the cyclical nature of time, an ever-present theme in The Witcher. This could relate to Ciri’s ability to travel across time and space, her unchanging fate, or the endurance of witcher traditions. "The blood remains the same": A direct reference to the Elder Blood, which flows through Ciri’s veins, marking her as unique and tied to prophecies. It also ties to the witchers' ongoing struggle to preserve their legacy despite the world changing around them. The Prophecy of Ithlinne: - The books have long referenced a child of the Elder Blood who will either save the world from the White Frost or bring about its destruction. If Ciri were to have a child, this could finally manifest the prophecy-putting her in a devastating moral conflict as both a mother and a hero. The Elder Blood Dilemma: - Ciri has struggled with her Elder Blood throughout the series, seeing it as both a blessing and a curse. What if her child-someone with even purer Elder Blood-becomes a force she cannot control? It would echo the central Witcher theme of fate versus free will. The quote could be directly referencing the endurance of Elder Blood through generations. While the world changes-new witcher schools, kingdoms, and threats emerge-the Elder Blood persists as a symbol of power and danger.
This interview makes me feel A LOT better about the game. I was REALLY worried about retcons and lore consistency but they SEEM like they’ve taken careful consideration in their decisions. I still am going to wait to see some reviews before I buy but I’m no where near as skeptical as I was!
Possibly theory ciri and geralt are hunting the last crone shows up in the middle of a fight almost deletes geralt and ciri swears vengeance undergoes the trial
I find the “it’s been a few years” thing fishy. You could say that with different intonations and mean completely different things. When I first saw the trailer and saw she was older and a Witcher, my brain was like “this could be 100 yrs in the future.”
If they had just copied dark soul’s combat I would literally replay it 12 more times. I find the combat to be so dull. Still W3 is my favorite game of all time
@@haoranqu46 If it had soulslike combat I would not have played it in the first place. Ah yes, time to roll for 45 seconds and then lightly jab once and then roll for another 30 seconds. BORING
Your thoughts on the potential blood oriented storyline and her wanting to stop the prophecy is one of the best narrative explanations I have heard yet. Have not been feeling very good about the approach to the game and Ciri so far. But that is actually an interesting avenue to explore.
@@WesNemo i`m sure the trials she undergoes will be related to the elder blood storyline somehow. My take is either her powers started to grow weaker in the aftermath of the white frost defeat and if the powers are gone completly so will her life and she undertook the trials to stop that from happening and retaining some potency of the powers its just not as easy to used, hence they can make the elder blood into some kind of burst mode type of power that is more like when all else fails press this button or in the aftermath her power starts to grow to much for her to handle , not just control but her body cant contain that much power and if this goes uncheck will lead to her death so she uses the trials as a mens to make her body stronger to contain that power or to alter her blood to lose her powers. I think first variant makes for better story thou. As things go for the prophecy ..... i was under the understanding the whole thing was related to the white frost...where she choses to save the worlds by defeating it and becoming the savior or chose to let it destroy everything so becoming the destroyer of worlds. I maybe missunderstood the whole thing.
she was never called a witcher. as someone who read and enjoy the books more than the game, she wasn't even trained as a witcher. Geralt and Yenifer do everything they can to keep her away from even knowing about the trials.
Just makes it all more disappointing given that we have to play as Ciri. Nothing against her character, just would have preferred a custom character. No desire to play as Ciri in the Witcher world. Still, if you're happy, more power to you, just jealous you all get what will likely be a good game.
It's hard trying not to get overly hyped about a game that's probably coming out 3 or 4 years from now. I wish they wouldn't release trailers so damn early😅🤷♂.....
Unfortunately they have to. This is a very effective way to attract more developers to come work on the project with you and potentially attract sponsors and investors which means more budget. It sucks but a lot of games wouldn't get made if they waited until the game was only a year away before announcing it.
I don't mind Cirilla becoming a Witcher. In fact I prefer she starts out without any of the OP Elder Blood powers she had in W3. It might have been even better to allow character creation with Ciri being a side character that is playable from time to time the way she was in W3. But either way, I am getting and playing Witcher 4 on day one.
Ciri would've been an excellent co-protagonist, as in the most important side character. Wouldn't even have minded playing as her for parts of the game, but as you said it would've been better if we could make our own Witcher. Ciri is a Witcher only by trade, not in physiology which is in my opinion ridiculous as she has the potential to be way more than a simple Witcher.
I kinda hope she can do world hopping at some stage either in W4 or a game after. The idea of have an open world Witcher map but instead of just different regions of that world you have other worlds you could visit. That could make for some very fun gameplay
After witnessing Ciri confront the White Frost and choose her destiny in The Witcher 3, how will her decisions ripple through the Continent in The Witcher 4-and could the White Frost's threat truly be over?
The questions about Sapkowski seem kinda clueless, he wanted to sue cdpr out of the blue, has said multiple times he doesn't care about the games and has also said he doesn't care about the characters lmao. Multiple interviews on youtube
They want to respect everything, including books, despite games already deviating from their canon since the begining? I guess Ciri will be jumping to parallel dimensions in Witcher 4.
I just finished the game and according to the lore I have no idea how they want to fit this story to that..... Except if they wanna pull a super wild card and change history with the Grandmaster from the Witcher 3. Nobody else could pull off the trial off grass/mutation and that will only be possible if Vesemir joins him at some point when Ciri is actually 5-7 years old. Even then her chances would be minimal, like 1-2%. And that is by the game lore, not books.... Games estabilished that adults cannot survive the trials. But this coins throw everything into the fire. IF the blood prevents alteration, than this whole trailer does not mean anything since she cannot become a witcher in any way. I still think she should be a battle mage, not a weaker witcher.
That's what was said about Cyberpunk, too. Regardless, TW 4 will have occurred in the same decade as BG 3. Will be no comparison between them. BG 3 is only surpassed by BG 2.
I was excited when the trailer came out. Now I'm really excited after hearing the interview. 2027 could be a great year if both Horizon 3 drops and Witcher 4. Ok... I'm gonna need a new rig for sure... and an 80 series card. Better start saving!
The Witcher 3 progression of power n upgerade is much better than Cyberpunk, i played Witcher 3 after completing Cyberpunk +dlc, cyberpunk had a better storyline but the progressive upgrading was messy, but with Witcher 3 I had fun making potions, armor, and crafting new swords because some of the quests needed specific upgrades for that, the werewolf being my 1st lesson, while in cyberpunk even with shity gears you can get things done and it shows the lack in the necessity for specific upgrades.
That's fair, but there's a lot of things Cyberpunk 2077 did better, like more player agency to approach missions, the variety of builds, the combat overal feel and what not - after 2.0 update of course.
The stock price dropped after the CGI trailer lol Not good. Still should be a good game, smaller audience and not the large hype cyberpunk will have. Could be a good thing people not ready to buy it on day one.
If they keep Ciri about as good looking as she was and same likable personality as in 3, be good to Garault, no modern political crap, lore/world rules stays as true as possible, and last the game as fun and engrossing as last one then they'll have my money.
Let me make it clear to those who want to try and diminish any excitement for the people who want and/or have positive feelings and thoughts: if you're going to be rude, go somewhere else. If your going to whine and cry about how woke the game will be or how ugly Ciri will be make your own damn game and don't waste a comment by saying that you won't buy and/or play it, because there's a 99% chance you'll do so anyways. And if anyone gets their feelings hurts because I spoke for or nonsense. Tough, I'm aware that I'm an idiot...
In the lore her body wouldnt withstand the trials... But this is what all these movie producers, and game developers do now. Say fug the lore we gonna go and ruin this frachise. This game is DOA
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Smth cool that I think may be relevant:
The monster in the Witcher 4 trailer was called a bauk, and supposedly used its opponent’s fears against them. It said to Ciri “Fate cannot be changed. You cannot change anything.” Maybe this idea of trying to stop Ithillines prophecy or mutate her blood is pivotal to the story…
Tbh i found those 2 lines a bit stupid cause its just a repeat,
The whole Mother of the Destroyer of Worlds also could mean that she must not be the giver of birth to said child.
Shes considered daughter of Geralt and Yen, while not sharing their blood. Who knows how cryptic such prophecies are. Suddenly it comes down to a motherly relationship or something else.
Damn, i need to play Witcher 3 once again.
YUP
to late man already started.
I love how the studio doesn't give us every informations. We can tell that they really like to make this game and they have all my trust, their games were always great, there is no reason why it would change, can't wait for more.
game of the decade incoming
Just like last time
could the best ever tbh
I think you forgot that gta 6 comes out in 2025.
@@w.a.t.e.rmelon 2026 but yeah, they could recreate this "Our Battle Will Be Legendary" meme
Meh
I've been doing lots of theory crafting and the coin fits perfectly with The Witcher's themes of time, destiny, and lineage-especially considering Ciri’s Elder Blood and her central role in the series.
"Days and nights pass": A poetic nod to the cyclical nature of time, an ever-present theme in The Witcher. This could relate to Ciri’s ability to travel across time and space, her unchanging fate, or the endurance of witcher traditions.
"The blood remains the same": A direct reference to the Elder Blood, which flows through Ciri’s veins, marking her as unique and tied to prophecies. It also ties to the witchers' ongoing struggle to preserve their legacy despite the world changing around them.
The Prophecy of Ithlinne:
- The books have long referenced a child of the Elder Blood who will either save the world from the White Frost or bring about its destruction.
If Ciri were to have a child, this could finally manifest the prophecy-putting her in a devastating moral conflict as both a mother and a hero.
The Elder Blood Dilemma:
- Ciri has struggled with her Elder Blood throughout the series, seeing it as both a blessing and a curse.
What if her child-someone with even purer Elder Blood-becomes a force she cannot control? It would echo the central Witcher theme of fate versus free will.
The quote could be directly referencing the endurance of Elder Blood through generations. While the world changes-new witcher schools, kingdoms, and threats emerge-the Elder Blood persists as a symbol of power and danger.
Well said duder!
This interview makes me feel A LOT better about the game. I was REALLY worried about retcons and lore consistency but they SEEM like they’ve taken careful consideration in their decisions. I still am going to wait to see some reviews before I buy but I’m no where near as skeptical as I was!
Possibly theory ciri and geralt are hunting the last crone shows up in the middle of a fight almost deletes geralt and ciri swears vengeance undergoes the trial
I find the “it’s been a few years” thing fishy. You could say that with different intonations and mean completely different things. When I first saw the trailer and saw she was older and a Witcher, my brain was like “this could be 100 yrs in the future.”
I just want the combat to be a lot better. It’s the only reason I don’t replay 3 much anymore.
How is the combat not good other than block parry
If they had just copied dark soul’s combat I would literally replay it 12 more times. I find the combat to be so dull. Still W3 is my favorite game of all time
@@haoranqu46 If it hat Soulslike combat it would be the greatest game ever by far.
@@haoranqu46 If it had soulslike combat I would not have played it in the first place. Ah yes, time to roll for 45 seconds and then lightly jab once and then roll for another 30 seconds. BORING
Your thoughts on the potential blood oriented storyline and her wanting to stop the prophecy is one of the best narrative explanations I have heard yet.
Have not been feeling very good about the approach to the game and Ciri so far. But that is actually an interesting avenue to explore.
Right!? I'm deff interested in hearing other theories
@@WesNemo i`m sure the trials she undergoes will be related to the elder blood storyline somehow. My take is either her powers started to grow weaker in the aftermath of the white frost defeat and if the powers are gone completly so will her life and she undertook the trials to stop that from happening and retaining some potency of the powers its just not as easy to used, hence they can make the elder blood into some kind of burst mode type of power that is more like when all else fails press this button or in the aftermath her power starts to grow to much for her to handle , not just control but her body cant contain that much power and if this goes uncheck will lead to her death so she uses the trials as a mens to make her body stronger to contain that power or to alter her blood to lose her powers.
I think first variant makes for better story thou.
As things go for the prophecy ..... i was under the understanding the whole thing was related to the white frost...where she choses to save the worlds by defeating it and becoming the savior or chose to let it destroy everything so becoming the destroyer of worlds. I maybe missunderstood the whole thing.
she was never called a witcher. as someone who read and enjoy the books more than the game, she wasn't even trained as a witcher. Geralt and Yenifer do everything they can to keep her away from even knowing about the trials.
Yes. I don't remember this anywhere. I feel like I'm in some alternate dimension.
Few years!? More like 100 hundred.
The simplest explanation is usually the correct one.
Good point
The real question though… which gwent deck will you use?
great question, even harder answer.
Northen Realms ofc
toss a coin to your witcher...
O valley of plenty.
Friend of humanity!
Just makes it all more disappointing given that we have to play as Ciri. Nothing against her character, just would have preferred a custom character. No desire to play as Ciri in the Witcher world. Still, if you're happy, more power to you, just jealous you all get what will likely be a good game.
It's hard trying not to get overly hyped about a game that's probably coming out 3 or 4 years from now. I wish they wouldn't release trailers so damn early😅🤷♂.....
Unfortunately they have to. This is a very effective way to attract more developers to come work on the project with you and potentially attract sponsors and investors which means more budget.
It sucks but a lot of games wouldn't get made if they waited until the game was only a year away before announcing it.
The more infos come out the more I trust them for this game!
Agreed!
I don't mind Cirilla becoming a Witcher. In fact I prefer she starts out without any of the OP Elder Blood powers she had in W3. It might have been even better to allow character creation with Ciri being a side character that is playable from time to time the way she was in W3. But either way, I am getting and playing Witcher 4 on day one.
I liked that the Witcher didn't have character creation
I'm with you, just because the books say one thing doesn't mean we can't just change everything to conform more with current political life.
Ciri would've been an excellent co-protagonist, as in the most important side character. Wouldn't even have minded playing as her for parts of the game, but as you said it would've been better if we could make our own Witcher. Ciri is a Witcher only by trade, not in physiology which is in my opinion ridiculous as she has the potential to be way more than a simple Witcher.
I kinda hope she can do world hopping at some stage either in W4 or a game after. The idea of have an open world Witcher map but instead of just different regions of that world you have other worlds you could visit. That could make for some very fun gameplay
After witnessing Ciri confront the White Frost and choose her destiny in The Witcher 3, how will her decisions ripple through the Continent in The Witcher 4-and could the White Frost's threat truly be over?
The questions about Sapkowski seem kinda clueless, he wanted to sue cdpr out of the blue, has said multiple times he doesn't care about the games and has also said he doesn't care about the characters lmao. Multiple interviews on youtube
Why would he not care about his own franchise??!
He visited them recently, i saw a picture on X
CDPR doesn't need to spoil anything right now.. they can explain the story in the game.. let them cook.. the wait is a suffering..
They want to respect everything, including books, despite games already deviating from their canon since the begining? I guess Ciri will be jumping to parallel dimensions in Witcher 4.
Why did CD project red even mention it if it’s 3 years out?
All I wanna know is what’s the release date and will it be on ps5?
i believe geralt would take kind of a vesmir role
im gonna cry i cant wait aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
SAMEEE
I miss Geralt already.... Hope this is a good one
Do we already have a release date?
No, probably years will go by
Late 2026 or mid 2027 is the likeliest
2028
I just finished the game and according to the lore I have no idea how they want to fit this story to that..... Except if they wanna pull a super wild card and change history with the Grandmaster from the Witcher 3. Nobody else could pull off the trial off grass/mutation and that will only be possible if Vesemir joins him at some point when Ciri is actually 5-7 years old. Even then her chances would be minimal, like 1-2%. And that is by the game lore, not books.... Games estabilished that adults cannot survive the trials. But this coins throw everything into the fire. IF the blood prevents alteration, than this whole trailer does not mean anything since she cannot become a witcher in any way. I still think she should be a battle mage, not a weaker witcher.
i dont care I just want nude armor mods
The amount of fame Witcher 4 is getting without it being released yet is insane. It's gonna be not only Game Of The Year, but Game Of The Decade
That's what was said about Cyberpunk, too. Regardless, TW 4 will have occurred in the same decade as BG 3. Will be no comparison between them. BG 3 is only surpassed by BG 2.
I wonder if 4060 8gb would be enough to run it
Maybe the red riders will hunt ciri again for her power
5:25 So in other words, any who's screaming *WOKE* for Ciri being a Witcher is *dumb ASF.* Sounds about right ✅
few years? come on man... but oh well, let them deliver us a finished game, then
"Blood remains the same" means she still has her powers, period. Your theories are far fletched.
I was excited when the trailer came out. Now I'm really excited after hearing the interview. 2027 could be a great year if both Horizon 3 drops and Witcher 4. Ok... I'm gonna need a new rig for sure... and an 80 series card. Better start saving!
Can we choice to be a sorcerer I don’t want to be locked in the Witcher
Damn, more I watch these videos the more hyped I get, I can't wait🔥 I hope that chain also will be some type of tool or something in game
Is Witcher 3 still available on PS5?
Sure is!
@@WesNemo Garelt of Rivia yessss!
The Witcher 3 progression of power n upgerade is much better than Cyberpunk, i played Witcher 3 after completing Cyberpunk +dlc, cyberpunk had a better storyline but the progressive upgrading was messy, but with Witcher 3 I had fun making potions, armor, and crafting new swords because some of the quests needed specific upgrades for that, the werewolf being my 1st lesson, while in cyberpunk even with shity gears you can get things done and it shows the lack in the necessity for specific upgrades.
That's fair, but there's a lot of things Cyberpunk 2077 did better, like more player agency to approach missions, the variety of builds, the combat overal feel and what not - after 2.0 update of course.
Witcher 3 was already 100% about Ciri ://
The stock price dropped after the CGI trailer lol
Not good.
Still should be a good game, smaller audience and not the large hype cyberpunk will have. Could be a good thing people not ready to buy it on day one.
Hey how many sides of the coin are there man😂
new side every week lets goooo
The only thing depressing about the witcher 4 is the long wait time to play it.
Definitely been more than just a few years lol witchers can live hundreds of years
Dude i will play the shit out of this game.
Excited for this one
Im still not thrillednwith Ciri being the protagonist. I think, letting us create our own Witcher would've been amazing
I think she just want to be a traditional witcher and not use her powers more
If they keep Ciri about as good looking as she was and same likable personality as in 3, be good to Garault, no modern political crap, lore/world rules stays as true as possible, and last the game as fun and engrossing as last one then they'll have my money.
Imagine playing witcher 3 and thinking it’s not political xd
@@patrykgrochulski9141
oh here we go.
"tHeReS pOlItIcS iN eVeRyThInG"
imagine playing TW3 and not knowing his name is Geralt not Garault
LnceI be like
Why does she look like that?
Let me make it clear to those who want to try and diminish any excitement for the people who want and/or have positive feelings and thoughts: if you're going to be rude, go somewhere else. If your going to whine and cry about how woke the game will be or how ugly Ciri will be make your own damn game and don't waste a comment by saying that you won't buy and/or play it, because there's a 99% chance you'll do so anyways. And if anyone gets their feelings hurts because I spoke for or nonsense. Tough, I'm aware that I'm an idiot...
What if ciri is v's mom.
🚮
Not playing as Ciri
I trust CDPR. Can't wait for this game!
Please don't support this crap. CDPR doesn't deserve it. Neither does TW 4.
shes only a witcher in name in the fact she dose the same thing as what they do dosnt mean she would survive the trial ffs
Woker IV
Nerd
LnceI moment
@@presidentjoebiden46thpresi93 It does not do anything good to call people incells over fictional characters.
It's a shame this will get less sales than veilguard
ur sure bout that bud
You're nuts.
Lol, sure.
I think it'll outsell veilguard by a lot!
@@WhopGod as sure as yall were that Veilguard was gonna be a hit 🤣🤣🤣
It's gonna fail, be worse than crap.
Toss the coin to a better Studio.
This Studio didnt make TW3..
In the lore her body wouldnt withstand the trials... But this is what all these movie producers, and game developers do now. Say fug the lore we gonna go and ruin this frachise. This game is DOA
You dont like the game. ok. Than why the hell do you feel the need to come to vids that actual have some excitment for it, and sling dirt?
Yeah! Is called the (Witcher) not the witches. I’m doing with CD PR. Won’t play won’t buy because of the characters choice.
Ya do know Witcher 1 to 3 basically also say "fug the lore" in many ways, right?
Bro every hour I open TH-cam to see if there are fresh news lol, and everyday we get more! 🩵