CD Projekt Red CEO: Cyberpunk 2077 will be "More Ambitious on Every Single Front"

[Mikeybb]

So is the girl in the trailer the protagonist or is it the guy standing behind her with the gun?

I suspect she may be the protagonist, or at least one of them.

If I remember the trailer correctly, after the frozen scene of what looks like a cyber psychosis episode, you cut to the exact same woman armed and armoured on the way to another call out.
What I think it implies is that she is remembering her own encounter with the C-Swat (the dedicated squad for dealing with heavily augmented individuals having psychotic episodes) that led to her recruitment.

The more cyberware you have installed, the lower your empathy gets.
In some cases this can lead to a breakdown, a cyberpsychosis episode.
That results in the C-Swat team being dispatched to drop your crazy robo-butt with anti materiel rifles and emp grenades.

After they take you in, you are chained to a chair and have your augmentations shut down one by one.
Then they do a full interface with your brain and rebuild your personality into one that serves society far more appropriately.
What do you do with a person who's jacked up to the nines on cyberware and has the requisite skills to use it?
You see where I'm going.
Set a thief to catch a thief, as they say.

There's still too much unknown about the final game, but the situation they show us is one that is part of the cyberpunk setting and shows us the bleakness under the pretty, shiny chrome.

 

[ObserverStatus]

Still no release date? Well, hopefully it's soon. I don't think R. Talsorian Games is ever going to finish Mekton Zero without the money from this project.

 

[karkashan]

The setting is the only reason I'm vaguely interested in a game by this dev again after my less-than-liking-it experience with the first Witcher.

praisegrima

 

[infohippie]

So is the girl in the trailer the protagonist or is it the guy standing behind her with the gun?

I think both. At the end of the trailer both of them sit in the same vehicle with the same equipment. Which suggest that she joined his team after he stoped her when she went insane for a moment.

Or they're a team infiltrating the police either as a getaway or part of a job.

 

[Ihateregistering1]

I'm basically interested in any game being made by the people who did 'Witcher 3' but have any gameplay movies or screenshots been released?

I'm mostly curious how the game is going to play. Is it going to be an FPS/RPG like Fallout, or will it be a 3rd person 'Witcher with guns' type game?

 

[Mister K]

I'm basically interested in any game being made by the people who did 'Witcher 3' but have any gameplay movies or screenshots been released?

I'm mostly curious how the game is going to play. Is it going to be an FPS/RPG like Fallout, or will it be a 3rd person 'Witcher with guns' type game?

The only actual info released so far is the teaser from 2013.

 

[TP Potato]

Definitely looking forward to this. CD Projekt RED is one of the few developers whose games I pre-order; not really to secure a copy but because I'm honestly hyped.

 

[Nergui]

I suspect a 2017 release for the "60 years the future" marketing tagline.

 

[Amir Kondori]

The Chinese Room (yes, the dev) already cleared it up that with "more ambitious", CD Projekt Red means more misogynistic than the The Witcher series.

Or in other words: The Chinese Room wants your attention. And they want to make sure that you know what you support if you buy stuff made by them.

To be precise: They said that on twitter in response to a tweet from CDPR about Cyberpunk 2077 being more ambitious, as far as my source goes. I try to never, ever touch twitter again.

Oh I'm done with the Chinese Room as a developer after that ill informed poke. If you actually play the game you seen not sex positivity, which many so called feminists seem to abhor, but many strong female characters, some of whom are stronger than the player character. You also play for periods of the game as a powerful female named Ciri.

I really, really believe the people who had tried to criticize this game have never played it and judging a book by its cover.

 

[infohippie]

I am psyched about Cyber 2077, to an extent. (Multiplayer tagged on doesn't really set my pants on fire. Opposite really.)

But what I would really love to see, would be for CD project to either extend the witcher world, or create another, to one that has similar medieval fantasy setting, but with Chinese-Korean-Japanese mythology setting, like the current witcher world is mash of Europe. No shortage of folklore monsters to drawn on, or regional warfare events with very brutal outcomes, even before the age of industry. You think Vlad the impaler/Radovid was bad? Let me tell about fun guy named Xiang Yu, who decided that perfect execution method for +200 000 POW's was to bury them alive.

I would really love this. We have a huge number of games set in a fantasy Europe analogue, but very little, especially RPGs, set in a fantasy Asia. From south Asian countries like India to east Asian ones like China and Japan there's a tremendous amount of fascinating historical and mythological lore to draw from. It would be a very different experience to the usual fantasy settings that we see over and over again.

 

[Amir Kondori]

The setting is the only reason I'm vaguely interested in a game by this dev again after my less-than-liking-it experience with the first Witcher.

praisegrima

The first Witcher is SIGNIFICANTLY different The Witcher 3. I highly recommend trying the Witcher 3 if the only thing holding you back is that you didn't like the first one. I didn't like the first game either.

 

[Strazdas]

Well if theres one developer i trust to actually deliver on their promise it is CDPR. Im a bit dissapointed we still got only one teaser trailer but i guess thats how it has to be.

The Chinese Room (yes, the dev) already cleared it up that with "more ambitious", CD Projekt Red means more misogynistic than the The Witcher series.

Or in other words: The Chinese Room wants your attention. And they want to make sure that you know what you support if you buy stuff made by them.

To be precise: They said that on twitter in response to a tweet from CDPR about Cyberpunk 2077 being more ambitious, as far as my source goes. I try to never, ever touch twitter again.

Who? Oh, right, a small time indie developer that developed nothing but boring walking simulators. Calling out CDPR. Now i had a good laugh.

 

[Ftaghn To You Too]

The Chinese Room (yes, the dev) already cleared it up that with "more ambitious", CD Projekt Red means more misogynistic than the The Witcher series.

Or in other words: The Chinese Room wants your attention. And they want to make sure that you know what you support if you buy stuff made by them.

To be precise: They said that on twitter in response to a tweet from CDPR about Cyberpunk 2077 being more ambitious, as far as my source goes. I try to never, ever touch twitter again.

That's rather obnoxious of them. And pretty unprofessional coming from an official Twitter. If it was someone in the company saying it, that's one thing, everyone is allowed an opinion, etc, but that Twitter is a company mouthpiece. They should be careful.

The setting is the only reason I'm vaguely interested in a game by this dev again after my less-than-liking-it experience with the first Witcher.

praisegrima

The Witcher has changed radically between each game, though less between two and three than between one and two. The Witcher 1 frustrated me for hours before it clicked, so I know some of your pain. As Amir Kondori said, trying The Witcher 3 would give you a much better idea of what the franchise and the company is like now. It's made for people that haven't played the last two to be able to jump right in, so I heartily recommend you give it a shot.

 

[karkashan]

The Witcher has changed radically between each game, though less between two and three than between one and two. The Witcher 1 frustrated me for hours before it clicked, so I know some of your pain. As Amir Kondori said, trying The Witcher 3 would give you a much better idea of what the franchise and the company is like now. It's made for people that haven't played the last two to be able to jump right in, so I heartily recommend you give it a shot.

I also heavily disliked the second one as well, so I doubt I'll ever bother with 3.

praisegrima

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Let's hope they are not hyping themselves too much. Remember the lessons of Carmack.

I really love the Cyberpunk genre. Tough to find lasting games though.

 

[blackrave]

So is the girl in the trailer the protagonist or is it the guy standing behind her with the gun?

I suspect she may be the protagonist, or at least one of them.

If I remember the trailer correctly, after the frozen scene of what looks like a cyber psychosis episode, you cut to the exact same woman armed and armoured on the way to another call out.
What I think it implies is that she is remembering her own encounter with the C-Swat (the dedicated squad for dealing with heavily augmented individuals having psychotic episodes) that led to her recruitment.

The more cyberware you have installed, the lower your empathy gets.
In some cases this can lead to a breakdown, a cyberpsychosis episode.
That results in the C-Swat team being dispatched to drop your crazy robo-butt with anti materiel rifles and emp grenades.

After they take you in, you are chained to a chair and have your augmentations shut down one by one.
Then they do a full interface with your brain and rebuild your personality into one that serves society far more appropriately.
What do you do with a person who's jacked up to the nines on cyberware and has the requisite skills to use it?
You see where I'm going.
Set a thief to catch a thief, as they say.

There's still too much unknown about the final game, but the situation they show us is one that is part of the cyberpunk setting and shows us the bleakness under the pretty, shiny chrome.

OR
That may part of investigation based on someone else's memories
Or they both were doing some sort of VR training (for extra dick points guy may have been taking role of a cybercrazy girl and gave her his opponents likeness)
I think it's called "braindancing" in CP setting.

 

[Mikeybb]

*snipped for space chummer*

OR
That may part of investigation based on someone else's memories
Or they both were doing some sort of VR training (for extra dick points guy may have been taking role of a cybercrazy girl and gave her his opponents likeness)
I think it's called "braindancing" in CP setting.

That sounds familiar.

You could well be right.
There's far too little information but my above snipped ramble was my take on it.
One thing for sure.
It's going to be an interesting setting to see in game form.
There's a lot of scope for them to play with.

 

[4Aces]

Full line: The company's next game, Cyberpunk, will show the benefit of those extra resources, "more ambitious on every single front, in the development and on the marketing side."

One possible translation: We will spend a little more on development (ports galore), and a hellava lot more on marketing, like EA.

 

[pookie101]

im really keen for this game and yeah ive been waiting since 1990 for it.
ive watched the trailer quite a few times and i will say they capture the feel of cybperpunk, the have all the nods to the tabletop game like network new 54, the look of night city, cyberpsychosis, and the c-swat response.

also helps that they have mike pondsmith the creator of cyberpunk working with them as well.

as for the trailer being sexist, to me it shows how dangerous augmentations are in the game, you have a typical clubber loosing the plot and able to stand up to police automatic gunfire and shows her development from cyberpsycho to being recruited. but i also get how it could appear sexist with her being shown in next to nothing with a gun to her head

 

[The Purple Grape]

Hope it is good. Should be judging how the Witcher games got better, maybe not brilliant int he end, but better as they went on.


Shadowrun is a better universe imo