Hi there,
The new trailer looks nice, but I am concerned about what this means for player choice. One of the endings for Witcher 3 was Ciri becoming the Empress of Nilfgaard.
Clearly that's being thrown out the window, but there is a lazy and an elegant way of handling it. The lazy way to handle it is to say that the Witcher Ciri ending is canon and "tough luck" to everyone who chose differently.
The elegant way to handle this is to have Cyberpunk 2077-like multi-prologue that leads to the same path. The elegant way would be to allow us to Import our Witcher 3 saves, as is custom for all previous Witcher games, and have a prologue where Empress Ciri gets overthrown and has to flee Nilfgaard, eventually becoming a Witcher.
There is nothing more devastating to a player-choice game than a "canon" ending. Please have respect for player choice to at least have an (optional) Nilfgaard coup / Ciri abdication opening for Witcher 4. If you do not plan to respect player choice, then there's no point making multiple endings.
Thank you.
PS:
Some may challenge this and say "Well what about the death ending". Well then you can not bother with Witcher 4 at all trololol.
On a more serious note, Dragon Age Awakening solved this years ago. If the Origins character is dead, you get to play a new character. If the origins character survived, you can continue playing as them. I doubt CDPR will bother making an alternative character though. It would require far more work than adding a Nilfgaard coup.
The new trailer looks nice, but I am concerned about what this means for player choice. One of the endings for Witcher 3 was Ciri becoming the Empress of Nilfgaard.
Clearly that's being thrown out the window, but there is a lazy and an elegant way of handling it. The lazy way to handle it is to say that the Witcher Ciri ending is canon and "tough luck" to everyone who chose differently.
The elegant way to handle this is to have Cyberpunk 2077-like multi-prologue that leads to the same path. The elegant way would be to allow us to Import our Witcher 3 saves, as is custom for all previous Witcher games, and have a prologue where Empress Ciri gets overthrown and has to flee Nilfgaard, eventually becoming a Witcher.
There is nothing more devastating to a player-choice game than a "canon" ending. Please have respect for player choice to at least have an (optional) Nilfgaard coup / Ciri abdication opening for Witcher 4. If you do not plan to respect player choice, then there's no point making multiple endings.
Thank you.
PS:
Some may challenge this and say "Well what about the death ending". Well then you can not bother with Witcher 4 at all trololol.
On a more serious note, Dragon Age Awakening solved this years ago. If the Origins character is dead, you get to play a new character. If the origins character survived, you can continue playing as them. I doubt CDPR will bother making an alternative character though. It would require far more work than adding a Nilfgaard coup.
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