Cyberpunk 2077 lets gamers select both a male or feminine model of protagonist V to play as, however developer CD Projekt Purple made them each equally legitimate from the very starting of improvement.
Talking on the Answered Podcast, CD Projekt Purple lead quest designer Błażej Augustynek revealed an fascinating tactic the developer used to make sure the character did not have one specific world view.
“Joke, after we have been engaged on Cyberpunk we made the acutely aware resolution that the search designers have been going to think about V as a feminine character, whereas the writers consider V as a male character,” Augustynek mentioned. “So we did not need to have any type of gaze, be it a feminine gaze or male gaze, and method to the world.”
Augustynek mentioned that, for him, V will at all times be a lady, and he would not consider the person model as the true one. However different workers inside CD Projekt Purple will probably consider the alternative. The subject has been hotly debated since Cyberpunk 2077 was launched, with gamers questioning which one is the canon character or who feels extra genuine on this planet. Nevertheless it seems, it is each.
CD Projekt Purple narrative director Philipp Weber mentioned it was a stark distinction from engaged on The Witcher video games too, as a lot of the studio, if not all, was very accustomed to longtime protagonist Geralt of Rivia.
“It was an actual acutely aware voice as a result of we have been used to Geralt,” he mentioned. “We have been at all times used to writing for Geralt, making quests for Geralt, so after we knew, ‘Okay, we’re making a brand new character, and that character will also be a lady,’ we simply made it a rule after we wrote our quest design paperwork to at all times write ‘she’. So we remind ourselves in our mind that this can be a totally different type of character, the place now we even have to think about greater than perhaps with Geralt.”
Cyberpunk 2077’s improvement is now all however full, with CD Projekt Purple releasing the ultimate main replace for it, Replace 2.1, earlier in December 2023. Followers anticipated the sport altering Replace 2.0, which arrived alongside the Phantom Liberty enlargement in September, to be the ultimate huge patch for Cyberpunk 2077 till CD Projekt Purple introduced a closing one would arrive alongside the brand new Final Version.
Replace 2.0 laid the inspiration for the brand new Cyberpunk 2077 expertise, utterly revamping the sport with options reminiscent of a brand new perk system and improved AI. It additionally introduced closure to an Elon Musk fan idea, a reference to the late racing legend Ken Block, and weird additions to the sport’s greatest thriller.
In our 9/10 overview of the enlargement, IGN mentioned: “Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty completes an immense turnaround for CD Projekt Purple’s future RPG kickstarted with the anime spin-off, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and its newest 2.0 Replace.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
