Forum adverts like this one are shown to any user who is not logged in. Join us by filling out a tiny 3 field form and you will get your own, free, dakka user account which gives a good range of benefits to you: No adverts like this in the forums anymore. Times and dates in your local timezone. Full tracking of what you have read so you can skip to your first unread post, easily see what has changed since you last logged in, and easily see what is new at a glance. Email notifications for threads you want to watch closely. Being a part of the oldest wargaming community on the net. If you are already a member then feel free to login now.

So this is a meta question. Should they have continued the series by calling it "witcher 4" or should they have given it a new name? Because Ciri isn't a witcher.
I'm not against a game with ciri as the protag, but I remember what happened when it wasn't solid snake in metal gear solid 2, and its kind of like having a "tomb raider" game where laura croft is not the main character.
I know its not the sort of thing that changes whether the game is good or fun or not, but you also know what I mean?
Like it would be like playing a game called assassin's creed but you're playing as one of the knights templar instead of as an assassin. They didn't do this have they?
Like if this was a japanese game it would have made sense to call this "witcher gaiden: ciri's tale"

 Overread wrote:
Witcher as a brand is powerful and much more likely to turn sales. Plus they are being 100% up front that its Ciri as the focus right from the absolute very start of marketing.

Also we don't know that Ciri isn't a Witcher - she's certainly doing witchery stuff in the trailer - spells, drinks, two swords, hunting monsters of human and bestial variety and eyes are doing funky things (though I notice they half hide the full detail of her eyes).

She did get some training to fight and whatnot from Geralt and other witchers at their castle. And she has innate ability to cast spells that she learned to harness from Yennifer and... was it Tris I think? She didn't know how to do the witcher signs, but had full sorceress magic ability, it did get lost at one point but it might have come back? plus she had this strange power thing because of her bloodline. But she never underwent the witcher mutation in the books, and I didn't really know that it was one of the possible endings of witcher 3, and yeah I know the games are only based on the books and diverge a lot. I'm just sayin she's not a witcher. So the thing that made the least sense was her drinking a potion since its supposed to be too toxic for non witchers to drink, and after everything that idd happen in witcher 3 I wouldn't think anyone would be left to even do the witcher mutation process.