What are your thoughts on Witcher 4 teaser-trailer?

[RepresentingWrath]

 

[SRB]

Yummy.

 

[Dieter]

mid

 

[Deleted member 41774]

No elf tiddies. Terrible trailer.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Yummy.

in yo tummy?

 

[whatswrongwithme22]

Makes me want to read stories like that, unfortunately the closest and basically the only good novel I found is The Divine Hunter, basically a well written fanfic about the game/novel.
There's just something about medieval horror that's pulls me.

 

[AnonUnlimited]

Makes my choices in Witcher 3 worthless.

 

[Tempokai]

I already see at least 3 retcons made in one trailer, and Ciri looks like a Karen you'd see in McDonalds calling a manager, so it's very hard pass. I'd rather buy Kingdom Come 2, where most of the Witcher 3 devs had gone to

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Makes my choices in Witcher 3 worthless.

Honestly, I didn't even think of it.

I'd rather buy Kingdom Come 2, where most of the Witcher 3 devs had gone to

They did?

 

[AnonUnlimited]

Honestly, I didn't even think of it.

I had Empress Ciri, not Witcher Ciri, which was the good ending. I didn’t slay monsters and fight the wild hunt so she would be nothing more than another monster slayer!

 

[Tempokai]

They did?

Yep, the bulk had been taken by Warhorse Studios by the leaks, but the creative director of Witcher 3 had made his own studio as far I remember after leaving the CDPR. It's no wonder that they changed from their proprietary engine to UE5, making Ciri stuck in the uncanny valley effect.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Yep, the bulk had been taken by Warhorse Studios by the leaks, but the creative director of Witcher 3 had made his own studio as far I remember after leaving the CDPR. It's no wonder that they changed from their proprietary engine to UE5, making Ciri stuck in the uncanny valley effect.

I know some of them made Hellish Quart, but I didn't know Vavra got himself such a good addition to the team. So this is why he was acting extra smug recently.

 

[N0xiety]

Ciralt ain't vibing with me tbh...

 

[LilRora]

I'm hoping it'll be a great continuation to the 3rd, but the trailer doesn't give me much hope. Even if I try to ignore the red flags with how Ciri looks and what the trailer focuses on (I don't want to touch those topics though I really don't like her appearance there), the whole thing felt weird and artificial, and the combat was really bad. This obviously doesn't represent the game itself, but there will likely be similarities.

Also, considering it's made in UE5, I fear it will have stupidly high hardware requirements.

 

[Corty]

Disappointing.

• They uglified Ciri
• They retconned the lore because they don't even understand their own source and previous games.

 

[cabbag3]

They could've gone for an expansion, but at least they let Geralt retire, that's for sure.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

They could've gone for an expansion, but at least they let Geralt retire, that's for sure.

With a golf club, right?

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

I still need to get out of the tutorial in Witcher 1. So in my expert opinion: it's mid.

 

[jrell]

This is what I was hoping to see, not the gigachad version they showed us.

 

[MatchaChocolate69]

I’d be lying if I said my chocolate senses, sharpened by this 2024, weren’t tingling.
As I was saying earlier to the cultured truck, the patterns have become almost instantly recognizable, and 9 times out of 10, they’re spot on. There’s definitely something uncanny here, though perhaps it’s just bias... unlike Intergalactic, for example, which is clearly aimed at a target audience that I’m not part of.

Aside from Ciri’s “uglification,” which can be justified in heavy quotation marks, and the girl-boss “I know better than you” vibes, the trailer lacks the impact that, for instance, Witcher 3’s trailer had.

It seems like "artists" in the industry these days can’t manage to be dark or gritty even if they wanted to, everything has to be sanitized and watered down. Maybe they’re afraid of offending anyone, but as a result, the viciousness that a dark medieval world like this one should have, especially in this IP, is sorely missing.

It reminds me of how, for example, in Veilguard, they removed spiders because they scared arachnophobes... which, to me, is absurd. It makes me worry that we won’t see anything truly good coming out of the West anytime soon. The public sentiment has shifted, but the studios are heavily infiltrated by talentless freaks who only got there thanks to privileged selection methods.

Anyway, for me, at this point, I’d say it’s a hard pass, especially since they haven’t even shown any gameplay. If they can’t even put together a convincing trailer, it definitely doesn’t raise any hopes for the game.