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"You can't just have Geralt for every single game" says his voice actor, and if you think The Witcher 4 making Ciri the protagonist is "woke," then "read the damn books" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Any person who unironically uses "woke" is a complete douche canoe and can go get fucked. Change my mind.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Wrong way round. The unironic woke is the BLM socially aware activist.

It's since around 2020 woke is mostly used as an insult by douche canoes.

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Witcher 4 devs adjusting to Unreal Engine after years of REDengine:

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 2 days ago (20 children)

How in the heck would Ciri not be the main character after the events of Witcher 3? Did anyone actually think she wouldn’t be?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm sorry, but I still can't help but laugh about the anti-woke Asterion flat-butt mod, and now in my head I just see all anti-woke gamers as jealous flat-butters.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (3 children)

They hate us cause they anus

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

If you need consume X media to be able to enjoy Y media, we have a problem there, pal :/

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[–] Grandwolf319 29 points 2 days ago (19 children)

Unpopular opinion:

Witcher 4 won’t be as good as Witcher 3 cause the third one was very good.

So no matter who they chose, it’s probably gonna be underwhelming.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I'm mad about Ciri being the main character, however the reason I'm mad is not because of her character or her being a woman. What I'm upset about is that I thought this game would take place in a completely different time period or region. Like maybe during the first witchers? Maybe in the future? But no, CDPR is just force extending existing characters and a story that clearly ended. Zzzzz

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago

Good to know the VA isn't a dickhead chud here. I'm not aware of him beyond this, but that's at least a small win in my book.

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