Next Witcher game

I think CDPR could set a game in the past with no connection to the main characters and let it be a true RPG. I would love to play a custom made character but the lore of the world doesn't seem to allow for females so sad times for me. I think the issue would be does the average player of the witcher games have enough investment in the world to care about something like that? Besides monsters and people being like magics are bad mkay I dont know if there's enough to build a story without pulling out familiar faces.

Though I could be very wrong as Ive only played the first two games and never read the books (sue me) so my grasp on the lore isnt that great.

I think if they make another witcher game it will either be with Ciri as the main character or more likely a completly new character. I would hope they would go full option (maybe an elf option for example and possibly a sorceress or something.

It wouldn't be the same if we weren't Geralt. It would be like Hitman without 47.

It's not that bad. Sure, women are expected to marry soon and pop out six or seven children before they die, but there are lot of examples of women who would make an interesting RPG protagonist. In Northern Kingdoms, a common woman becoming a mercenary isn't that much out of place (some of them, like Pretty Kitty of Free Company, are actually revered as war heroes. And White Rayla even started as sort-of heroic character in books). In Nilfgaard, they are even allowed to officially join the military. Noble women aren't necessarily delicate princesses (queen Mewe was a front-line leader of her guerrilla troops; Renfri led her own band of experienced killers; Falka led a rebellion against Redania). And there are of course sorceresses.

Although if the protagonist was supposed to be a witcher, there would be a problem. It's noted that the procedure was made only for boys. Ciri knows how to fight like a Witcher, but didn't and couldn't go through trials.

That being said, a non-witcher protagonist in a world of monsters could be interesting. And as for a lore, while Sapkowski isn't as descriptive as GRRM, there's a lot to pick from. Race tensions, religion, local wars between nobles, peasant rebellions, mage's intrigues, crime, horror, romance...

2) Create a character with gender choice and a voiced protagonist, and I also prefer same-sex relationships.

3) New story with a new hero and a new setting. I'm not interested in the final fates of Gerlat and company.

There is definitely stuff in the books suggesting that the same mutations could just be debilitating if tried on a woman.

I actually think they could make a female Witcher work. Maybe someone founded a new Witcher school for mysterious reasons and has been tinkering with the mutations.

That would be interesting, for sure.  I've read enough complaints about how CDPR "ignored/changed the lore" from the books to know that they've done it and without significant/meaningful blowback either.  

Would prefer choice between male/female for a customisable Witcher (or even just a choice between predefined male and female like AC:Odyssey), though.

That's why I think making the female protagonist a sorceress would still respect the lore, although quite stereotypical obviously : male warrior, female magician

Either a new witcher (I'm fine with no female option, not going to demand breaking the lore for SJW crybabies).
...or two different beginnings, one a witcher, one a sorceress. Both eventually join the fight against a new threat. Either just the prologue or the entire first act would have to be different, similar to W2's second act.

I don't think CDPR would do a branching narrative again. Too expensive, but I'd love that. Maybe the one not picked could become a companion.

As much as I love Ciri, she is ridiculously powerful. Making her the protagonist equals an auto win button and that's boring.

No one here was "demanding" anything, nor crying about it.  Idle musings on what someone "might" like in a game that doesn't exist doesn't come close to demanding.

I'm also "fine" with no female option, but would question the reason for the games existence if it didn't do something that meaningfully added to the existing games.  Having a female PC be a sorceress is one option, I guess, but if you're worried about Ciri being OP, the games have also established the sorceresses as being pretty insanely powerful.  Glass cannons...maybe.  But you still have to live long enough to get close to her.

Game-ification would likely require retooling magic entirely, which forms the bulk of the complaints I'd seen book readers/lovers level at the games.  Signs were apparently way more powerful than they "should be", and used with far more frequency.  The sorceresses would go the other way, unless the female PC in this hypothetical game is going to be allowed to portal all over the place at will, raining fire over large swathes of land and other massively OP acts.

Ciri. Based on the "she becomes a Witcheress" ending from The Witcher 3.