Witcher 4 - Character Creation (Create Your Own Witcher)

hello witches today I am talking about a subject I see on literally every video I make on The Witcher 4 or I should say Witcher Polaris but I think the Witcher 4 is the more popular name but anyway it's something I have talked about on this channel my other channel playthroughs basically anything I do involving The Witcher or just games in general and it's this idea of having a Witcher game that lets you choose which school you want to be in and essentially design your own Witcher it's a controversial idea and one I have conflicting feelings about so today I wanted to talk about this subject further and discuss some ideas I've been having recently reflecting on if it could be good or bad how this could be cool for the next Witcher game just positives negatives and as I said just how it can fit into something we all enjoy playing I want this video to be a kind of exploration of this concept because I imagine many fans like me are skeptical of this sort of Witcher game and perhaps if you hear some of the ideas I've been trying to come up with about this it could help you decide whether or not you're interested in a game like this at all or if it just gets you more excited if you are already pretty excited about this potentially happening so let's get into [Music] it this is an idea that I've been seriously considering since cyber Punk was released and it is based on the system that is actually in that game for the protagonist V in cyber punk you essentially all play the same protagonist similar to geralt with the same general overarching story that can branch and change in a similar way to The Witcher 3 except you can also choose which area or background you want to start from so where your character came from It's relatively inconsequential for your later decisions in the game but it is fun to think of your V coming from a certain area or having a certain background it reminds me of a mod I used to play on Skyrim called Live Another Life where you can just pick do you want to start as a bandit do you want to start as a member of this Guild or something and it doesn't actually mean anything for the game cuz it's still basically the same you just get to skip the first cut scene and you can kind of play in your head oh my character is from here even if it doesn't have that much of an impact and that sort of stuff is important in games but essentially the idea I've been thinking about is that you could just have this this but with a Witcher game so my idea goes as follows you will pick which Witcher will find you as a child of surprise then depending on which school you choose you'll be taken as a child of surprise to that witch's keep during the height of the witch's strength you're going to be trained in the ways of that school and your school will fall eventually leading to you going into Exile and eventually having to found the school of the links something like that I mean there could be other reasons you'd have to leave the school but I think it needs to relate to the school of the links cuz that's all we know about the next game this idea kind of relates to an idea that I proposed about 4 and 1 half years ago or so and this was when I was designing my sort of Witcher fan School the school the Les and I made a video in which I thought well The Witcher George is traditionally School the Griffin but I wanted to make my own Witcher George so I thought it'd be cool to have a Witcher from the school of the Griffin you know the school Falls and then he make well not Falls but he decides to leave the school of the Griffin and makes the school of the leson and it's a secretive school which is why you don't hear about it and I think this sort of idea could potentially work with the school of the links because we've never heard of the school of the links before I mean CD Proctor have done the sort of thing where they wreck on the past a bit and add the schools in and we just didn't hear about them before but it might be quite cool to have this school as a kind of more secretive school and that's why we didn't hear about it and it would be cool if it linked to the existing law in some way so essentially all our witches although they are relatively unique cuz they're from different schools they would be the same character except from that aspect they would end up leaving their school in some way and then they would found the school the links but your witcher's fighting style depends on which Witcher School originally found you so if you're a bear Witcher use heavy armor Griffin witch and medium armor that sort of thing and if you decided to have the game in this way the law could just be kind of vague so it could just be the school the links was founded by a Witcher from a different school and then the school the links developed in a certain way that became the same regardless of which Witcher started it so I'm saying that the school the links would still essentially be the same but just your character would be slightly different if that makes sense and then as the games go on if they have games set in the future where they discussed the school the links it would just be a Witcher founded it and then it developed to have this fighting style so it doesn't really matter and that's one way you could kind of fit in character creation and still keep the law a little bit coherent so this idea is a kind of make your own character idea because yes we would all have the same character just with different schools but as I said it does allow for that little bit of individuality and allows you to play the game in a different way depending on which starting school you had and have that kind of head Cannon for your own Witcher which could be quite interesting the next idea which I'm not a massive fan of is to go the sort of Bethesda route and basically I combine this idea with the previous idea so it is essentially the same character but we can design their appearance and pick their voice from a list of preset voices so still the same story in regard to founding the school as the previous idea but it becomes even more vague in The Witcher law so the founder in this case would have to be essentially unknown because we can't say it was this Witcher that founded it but you know we don't really know their previous school it would just have to be a Witcher founded it from this school because if we you can name the character pick their voice pick their appearance it becomes this thing where as the games go on unless they have some incredibly complicated system of picking choices and designing your old characters are importing them or something you just couldn't really have that you'd have to sort of ignore the character exists in a way or just they are The Witcher you know what I mean they're they're not like a particular person or something and of course just to pair this idea a little bit with the obvious idea you could literally have a Bethesda route so you have the basic main story and you completely design the character like you choose their name their face they are a completely unique character in the world and that's just your character and they have a general kind of title or something like that that's essentially the create your own Witcher story it's not even an established character within the lore it's just this is a Witcher character so I will do another video in the future discussing more ideas if I come up with any but this is the last idea I want to discuss for this video and I'm discussing this idea because quite recently I mentioned this in a video and I've developed it a bit since then and people seem to quite like this idea which I was quite surprised about to be honest but a lot of people seem to sort of give me feedback on this and say they liked it so I thought I'm going to include it in this video develop it a bit and see what people think so this is an idea that due to the vague nature of The Witcher 3's endings it is possible in all of them that Siri lives so if she's the empress obviously she lives if she's a Witcher obviously she lives and the ending where she might kind of die it's not entirely obvious whether she lives or dies or just doesn't want to go back and see Geral so you could AR that she did live so in all these instances she can carry on so obviously we're working from the idea that at the end of The Witcher 3 she lives and from here she could found the school the links and this actually makes a little bit more sense than you might think and it's due to essentially her connection with the cat Medallion she has a lighter fighting style than most of the wolf witches as a girl cuz in the law we know all the wolf witches are boys and they generally seem to have a heavier style she has a light style and she works to her advantages which is really cool about her character but obviously she also has a connection to the wolf school so she has a connection to a cat and a wolf and it's a very I think symbolism is an important thing and I would say looking at a lynx I did a big video about Lynx recently and I would say that lynxes or Lynx they uh they are kind of like a cat and a wolf sort of mixed and if you look at Siri she has this liest style she has a cat Medallion she has all this connection with the wolf school if she's going to go out on her own and make her own school I feel like a lynx is a pretty good animal for her to pick and it would be an interesting development for her character cuz we see her going from training as a as a Witcher to living as a Witcher not having the mutations and then trying to create her own Witcher School which could be an interesting thing for us to see I'm not saying we play a Siri I'm just saying that she could be a central character in a kind of Mentor role a little bit like vamir or something like that so from here our character would just be a member of this school on their own journey of course that would mean the founder of the school isn't a proper Witcher as I said a Siri and I hope to God they don't do this if they ever went for this idea that she just does not undergo the witch mutations she doesn't need to the whole point is that she's kind of a Witcher just by her life as opposed to by actually being a Witcher and you may wonder how do we become a Witcher if she isn't and I was thinking perhaps she employs the help of escal as he seemed to be sort of still Four Witches as opposed to someone like lamber and then they could work together to try and establish this school and they could try and recreate the mutations they could get help from some other Mages such as Tris or yennefer or some other Mages that could be available and then they would work together to create a brand new crop of witches so in the law girls cannot become witches and I wanted to add this little point because this is a bit of contention between a lot of fans and I think that perhaps as this would be a new school with new law that they could develop you could find a way to allow for this or perhaps girls still can't be a part of this and the law is left alone to me it sort of depends on how it's implemented because I think the reason has to be that it serves the story for example if they went back and said actually there were loads of girl witches in the school of the wolf and all the other schools and they were always there we just never talked about them that would feel kind of annoying and it would be like a big RC and you you know it's like a part of the law and it's it's sort of like where do you stop when you keep doing that they already did it with adding all the other schools and that was interesting and they did that in a good way but I think that with this particular issue it would be better if they sort of decided to add it as opposed to sort of reccon it is what I would say so as I said if they add it they could for example have Siri and yennefer or Tris or some other Mage they develop mutations that allow for say a very select group of girls that are able to pass it if they are just strong enough or they have a Certain Magical ability within them or something and they can take the mutations a lot better something like that I mean maybe they have to be sourcers or they have to have some kind of connection and they're able to enhance their strength to be able to take the kind of mutations it could be an interesting way to handle it so as I'm saying if you could fit it into the law in a less invasive way I think this could be quite interesting if handled carefully but as I said it really depends on the execution of how they do this but I wanted to get back a little bit to why they would even want to develop a new school because you need a reason I don't know why Syrian escal would just decide to make more witches and I had a little bit of an idea for this because well witches are a Dying Breed and what do witches need well they need to fight monsters that's why they're needed so let's just say another conjunction happens there's no rule on what causes a conjunction or doesn't and it could just happen there's nothing against the law that says another conjunction couldn't occur you have a bit of foreshadowing of this with the Unseen Elder's cave and he talks about how one day the gate will reopen and you think well how would that happen you would assume a conjunction and maybe the gate will reopen and maybe he won't be able to get back back and more Vampires will come through and then he'll be very angry potentially cuz he can't get back and you never know what that could lead to more monsters could come through in this conjunction it could be a whole new thing where all the major cities are getting attacked let's say Siri's the empress in one of them she thinks right we need monster Killers we need monster Killers to deal with this new monster problem let's make some more witchers I'm going to contact esll let's get this school working if she's just a normal Witcher could be the same thing if she was in a different world at the end of The Witcher 3 where she might be dead that ending she could come back and be like I want help with this let's make a new school it could be anything like that and I think that would be a pretty interesting story and the way this idea could be related to character creation is that we yet again could just decide our own voice from a preset list design a character's face possibly gender if that was implemented in a law friendly and story driven way name that sort of thing and it could work within this idea of Siri being the leader and then we have to sort of become our own Witcher within this story we can still be the sort of main character but maybe slightly secondary to it so then we don't have this massive impact on the law and we can sort of watch Siri and escal and these other characters do things of course we would have to have some kind of role but I suppose in later games we would just be referred to as The Witcher or something like that but of course as with most the ideas this idea could work with a set character and doesn't require character creation at all but I thought it worth mentioning due to it directly tying to the game The Witcher 3 which is why a lot of people play The Witcher anyway the positives to this are that we finally get to make our own Witcher we get to decide which combat style we want to pursue we could get to decide our own character's face how they fit into the world and really we could feel a personal connection to the world of The Witcher as if we're in the game or something we made as in the game it's enjoyable to make your own character and feel as if something you made is in the world that you enjoy it could also be interesting to establish ourselves in the witch's law even as a kind of vague character so that in future games we can sort of imagine that it was our version of the character that did that a little bit how like in Skyrim you sort of imagine what your character in Oblivion did or something like that it's it's an interesting thing to consider in regard to a Witcher [Music] game the biggest drawback for me is that it makes the law less rigid it means that our character would essentially always be relatively inconsequential we couldn't truly impact the world unless it was the last Witcher game or something because future games would either have to forget our character's face name and background or it would have to create some sort of system where we could import our characters which I just can't imagine them being able to do that for a sustained period And even if it was something like we are just the champion of the link school or something like that it would still make our decisions a little bit pointless in the previous games which I don't really like that kind of thing where we're sort of not allowing for the possibility for decisions to have impacts we're basically saying this game you're just going to be the champion blah blah blah this is what's going to happen I I kind of like the idea that the games can can potentially impact each other as they go on like how it should have done more with The Witcher 2 and 3 it did a bit but it would be nice if they could actually Implement that in a better way and if we make our own character I just can't see that being something they can do further I think having a set character in regard to The Witcher is more engaging for me I care about geralt's background for example I care about his relationships I like talking to other fans about him if it was just my own character we lose that shared connection instead of one character we all feel connected to we have a nameless protagonist to isn't really in the law that we all have our own sort of stories about in our own way just our sort of head Cannon law that our character was the one that did it and we don't have this kind of shared experience of oh geralt did it you know we we can't really say that we just have a kind of protagonist it's like for example in Skyrim when we talk about the dragon born who do you think of do you think of your character do you think of the iron armor wearing dragon born in the trailer do you have any idea what his personality is like who does he love who does he care about what are his relation ships is there anything you really know about their character unless you really like read some books or look into the lore or something like that and of course the beauty of a lot of those games is that none of that really matters we just make up our own story entirely in an existing world and know that the dragon born killed aldwin that that's kind of all we really we know a few other things obviously but that's kind of the main thing and that's great in everything but in The Witcher I love the politics I love the relationships and I love the characters in The Witcher story it's not Skyrim it is The Witcher I like watching watching geralt and playing as geralt and interacting with stuff and feeling like I'm playing out geralt's story and I get to sort of decide little bits of it but it is geralt's story I like seeing him interact with other characters I like seeing him talk to characters like vamir escoll lamber and letho I'd love a game with a character like that that I can be like oh I really like that character I like them because they do this and I like them because this is what their style is this is their history it's cool making your own but it is we have a lot of games that allow for that and I think one of the great things about the witchet is that we do kind get told this is the character and now you can sort of make a few decisions about what they're going to do and I I really like that so essentially my fear is that if we do have a make your own character game for The Witcher and that is the sort of staple thing going forward we could lose that part of The Witcher games which is something I enjoy making your own character would undoubtedly be interesting but I feel I would prefer an engaging set protagonist now does this mean I don't want to make my Witcher or I don't want to ever see it happen no it doesn't mean that but just personally for the Witcher I like having an engaging protagonist with a set history personality relationships someone that I can look at and be like yep that's that character I really like that character however some of the ideas I have proposed today allow for both to a degree so with whatever The Witcher 4 or Witcher Polaris or even other future Witcher games ultimately offer us I'll be positive and open to it unless there's something incredibly troubling in them which just makes me not want to play it I doubt that's going to happen but you never know but anyway guys I hope you've all enjoyed today's video I would really like to hear what you guys think about this I know this is something where people think why don't you want to make your own Witcher game I think I've sort of explained it but I'm open to it if they decide to go that route I'm not so against it I'm just saying why I would prefer to have your own character and I'd love to hear what you guys think if you agree with that if you can see my point but you have your own perspective it's it's interesting to see so do let me know really do appreciate that guys it's very very kind of you to let me know that sort of thing please support the sort of content by liking subscribe turn on the notifications all that stuff check out my other channels I do other videos and stuff and it might be nice to see what you guys think I'm getting a bit busier recently with stuff so I'm not sure how consistent I can be on all three channels I will try my best to do stuff here and there but yeah I hope you're all doing well and I'll see you on the next video thank you for watching and have an awesome rest of the week [Music]

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Length: 17min 35sec (1055 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 22 2024