• @RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world
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    153 days ago

    “You can’t just have Geralt for every single game.”

    I mean… Yes. You literally can.

    Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Metroid, Kirby… You can create infinite video games with the same main character over and over again. Its like an infinite money glitch if the character is popular and well liked.

    • @ysjet@lemmy.world
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      373 days ago

      The difference is that none of those characters had their stories wrapped up.

      Geralt’s story was wrapped up in Witcher 3. That was the whole point.

      • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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        243 days ago

        They need to release a fake “Witcher 4” that’s just an older Geralt moping around his vineyard bitching about how his knees hurt. All of his quests would be things like pestering his workers about how badass he used to be, going to town to return a watermelon to the fruit vendor because of a mushy spot he didn’t notice when he purchased it, shit like that.

        All the while, the townsfolk would slip idle chatter about crazy shit that Ciri’s doing off camera.

          • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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            11 day ago

            Honestly, as a stopgap that just releases out of nowhere for the sole purpose of building hype for the actual Witcher 4, kinda like how Bethesda did with their random vault dweller mobile game, I’d be all for it.

            Bonus points if it’s 16 bit.

      • @Fizz@lemmy.nz
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        143 days ago

        Witcher 4 starts off with Geralt waking up realising witcther 3 was all a dream and he has plenty of story left to monitize.

      • @PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Geralt could go on a Gwent tour… but what’s this? Upon entering this new land of Walachia, some bandits stole his Gwent deck while he was asleep in his camp. And he had the ultra rare nude Triss card in it, too! Open, The Witcher 4: a quest for cards and vengeance.

      • @Wahots@pawb.social
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        23 days ago

        What happened to him in the end? I remember her sacrificing herself to the winter, but all I remember is Geralt living and then the post game DLC. Maybe I got the really weird ending, haha

        • @Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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          93 days ago

          There were multiple endings depending on the choices you make throughout the game. Same for the two DLCs.

          The ‘good’ endings were in the base game she confronts the winter and succeeds, returns to Geralt as a father figure, and lives on as a witcher. Then in the Blood & Wine DLC, Geralt basically retires in his own vineyard.

    • MrScottyTay
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      32 days ago

      All of those games’ characters are essentially just mascots though (other than samus). So they’re not really an applicable comparison for continuing a character long term in a story focused world that tries to be somewhat grounded in terms of consequences and passage of time.