The official game trailer for The Witcher 4 has been released. Ciri is now the main character no Geralt.
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Can you even call it The Witcher then? Looks good for a spin-off, sure⌠But not The Witcher.
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Yes you can. Ciri is just as worthy of being The Witcher as Geralt is. The story has always been about her. Even in the books itâs evident that she is the main character along with Geralt (it varies between them who gets the most focus). Also, Geralt literally speaks at the end of the trailer. Whoâs to say he is not in the game?
Anyway Iâm over the damn moon. Best unexptected trailer Iâve seen in a long time. Day one and all that jazz. Time to replay the Geralt trilogy.
As a massive long time fan of the books and games Iâm 100% on board with Ciri being the protaganist. If you want Geralt the original games are not going anywhere. In fact, they are remaking the first game and I will bet itâs going to release before this game. Geralt had his happy ending in Blood & Wine, itâs time for Ciri to step into the spotlight where she belongs.
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Good points.
To be honest, I am not a big enough Witcher fan, I should have kept my mouth shut 
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Haha. No man. Your opinion is just as valid as mine.
Iâm just a massive fanboy so my opinion might be influenced by my bias towards it. I do honestly think Ciri is the perfect choice. I donât know if you played Blood and Wine expansion for W3 (you really should if you havenât) but if you do all the âright choicesâ (in my mind canon choices) with Ciri you get a great ending that puts her on the Witcher path which I think leads into Witcher IV ( just guessing here).
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Yeah I suppose it would be weird for Gerald to finally get his retirement and then just go back in. Iâm sure he will be in Witcher 4. As a mentor and knowledge base for Ciri(like Vesemir for Gerald) and companion on certain missions. Anyways I love Ciri and would be cool to have a full on story as Geralds successor.
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I totally forgot about Blood and Wine, and Iâm sure I didnât get the perfect ending.
While I havenât read the books, they will always get âofficialâ status from me over games and shows, so your views are most welcome.
I didnât actually end up playing Blood and Wine.
I finally played Heart of Stone and Blood and Wine 2 years ago. 6 years later lol. Both well worth it, one of the few DLCs I genuinely enjoyed.
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It was always going to be Ciri. She is the main character of the Witcher universe.
Looking forward to the game. I am sure Geralt will have a cameo here and there.
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Unreal! 
A cinematic teaser and a full ten+ minutes from the new game, running on Unreal 5.6 on a PS5 at 60fps with raytracing. This from todayâs State of Unreal event.
Check out âThe Witcher 4 Unreal Engine 5 Tech Demoâ built by CD PROJEKT RED in partnership with Epic Games, first shown during the State of Unreal at Unreal Fest Orlando.
This demo provides a glimpse at a number of 5.6âs powerful new open world features in actionâall running on PlayStation 5 at 60 fps with raytracingâincluding the new, faster way to load open worlds via the Fast Geometry Streaming Plugin.
We get a peek at the power of 5.6 for handling busy scenes full of high-fidelity characters and visual effects like Chaos Cloth and an early look at Nanite Foliage, which provides a fast and memory efficient way to achieve gorgeous foliage density and fidelity, slated for release in UE 5.7.
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Pretty amazing tech on show. Glad that Unreal is taking the optimisation issues seriously. Weâll see how much of it finally makes it into the game.
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