Cyberpunk 2077 Devs Wish to Make the Sequel Extra Authentically American

The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 is in improvement on the CD Projekt Pink studios in Boston and Vancouver. The primary cause for creating the Boston studio was to let CDPR develop Cyberpunk and The Witcher concurrently. Nevertheless, the builders say it would additionally assist make the sport extra authentically American.

How is CD Projekt making the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel extra genuine?

“I believe Cyberpunk is clearly a uniquely American story,” mentioned appearing government producer Dan Hernberg. It’s obtained numerous like, punk power, and [the tabletop game] was written by an American, so it simply appears proper to do it in America.” He and different builders mentioned this and extra in a current episode of the AnsweRED Podcast, as GameSpot reported.

In fact, Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CDPR’s fundamental studio in Wrocław, Poland. Sadly, the European builders neglected just a few subtler cultural markers, which CDPR desires to repair within the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel.

Affiliate sport director Paweł Sasko gave the instance of Cyberpunk 2077’s “manhole debacle.” Whereas many gamers won’t have seen, Evening Metropolis’s manhole covers are unusually European for a metropolis in California. Different examples embrace streetlights, the place of rubbish bins, the colour of road indicators, and the design of curbs. “It doesn’t break immersion,” mentioned Sasko, “nevertheless it’s simply that little factor the place you’re like, ‘Properly, perhaps this wasn’t made by individuals who dwell right here or individuals who totally perceive all of American tradition.’”

It’s not simply manholes and road indicators, with Sasko additionally discussing issues like films and music. “I additionally suppose that being in America, it permits us to have these cultural touchpoints with the bigger American, you recognize, sort of affect with Hollywood,” he mentioned. “Clearly, Cyberpunk 2077 passed off in LA, and so there’s simply sort of all these cultural touchpoints and issues that we are able to sort of work together with, whether or not that’s from music or story or simply totally different elements of America which can be fascinating to discover.”