[MM360]

Dan Pearson from Gameindustry.biz has recently talked to Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt RED studio about the importance of staying independent, our approach to mature themes and more. Click here for the full interview.

[RSIK4]

Nice Article....thnx for sharing!!!!!!!

[Agent Blue]

I'm happy to report you get ninja'd time after time after time!

[Sirnaq]

Best part for fans of akira and gits:

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Q: The Witcher series maintains an excellent balance of established tropes and fresh ideas, setting up expectations and confounding them. Will we see a similar approach to 2077?

Adam Badowski: We always wanted to avoid simple good and evil scenarios. The war between good and evil isn't interesting for us. We love controversial stuff, anti-heroes, Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns, for example. So we have controversial roles and post-modern influences in the storyline.

We have a lot of work ahead of us in that regard because the established plots for Cyberpunk - the wars between corporations, fighting against advanced AI, wars over energy sources, have already all been covered quite thoroughly. There's also the Cyberpunk 2020 game from the '90s. Those scenarios are very familiar. In our opinion, though, nobody has shown Cyberpunk in the way that many people imagined it, we would like to extract those feelings they were getting when watching Ghost in the Shell, Hardware or the motorcycle scenes in Akira.

At the same time we want to refresh this universe which means we have to have a new creative approach to things. We believe that the Witcher taught us that we can handle it.

[Jills Toy]

Nice article and refreshing to hear a company not influenced by publishers pushing to get an unfinished/bugged product or poorly designed/written sequel out. Dare I say DA2?

[Kodaemon]

Sirnaq said:

Best part for fans of akira and gits: ›››

GitS and Akira are the usual go-to's for cyberpunk, I'm more interested by the mention of Hardware.

[remdyx]

CDP Red is a brilliant developers, where working brilliant people.

[cmdr_silverbolt]

The one thing that attracted me to CDPR was their idea of making games for a mature audience. The word mature is so grossly misunderstood, but CDPR got it right, and I've been a fan since then. This vision was clearly reflected in the previous two games, and I hope to see that be the case with future games.

Regarding GOG, it's such a boon to gamers. I hate spending money, but even I get tempted to buy from GOG.

[Gilrond]

MM360 said:

<p>Dan Pearson from Gameindustry.biz has recently talked to Adam Badowski, head of CD Projekt RED studio about the importance of staying independent, our approach to mature themes and more.

Thanks. That's the first hinted confirmation there (about the Steambox) that CDPR are interested in working on Linux ports of their games.

[Aditya_the_warrior_within]

this was a good interview. Thanks!

[LanceAce]

A good read but I am kind of disappointed by looking at his answer about PC. He didn't said anything against PC but the fact is so many devs out there established themselves on PC and then moved to console focused development therefore I can just hope this will not be the case with CDPR.

"PC was the lead platform for Witcher 2 because it was the most powerful, but that might change in the future."

The statement gives me a feeling that PC is no longer the lead platform for The Witcher 3. I also disagree with his hint that consoles will outperform PC, maybe momentarily but not forever as PC is an ever evolving platform.

I trust CDPR with all my heart therefore I hope they make the right decision.

[Costin Moroianu]

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I also disagree with his hint that consoles will outperform PC, maybe momentarily

Maybe? How about never. A relatively high end PC worth about 2000 dollars in total will beat the shit out of the next gen consoles.

[Sirnaq]

Costin Moroianu said:

Maybe? How about never. A relatively high end PC worth about 2000 dollars in total will beat the shit out of the next gen consoles. ›››

[AnthonyF1227]

Sirnaq said:

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[nocny]

(Google Translator)

This anti-console discussion is ridiculous. Reserve, I do not have the console.

We all weep that consoles suck and PC will be great. But when the game comes, you will cry that your computer can not cope. Count only those computers PCs that have gamers, rather than those which are currently being sold.

[Costin Moroianu]

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We all weep that consoles suck and PC will be great. But when the game comes, you will cry that your computer can not cope.

Horseshit. Those that complains are those with weaker PCs not those with rigs like mine. I've already dealt with my PC not being able to handle Crysis 3 on it's very high settings and I'm fine with that notion since finally we get a game that is designed to melt PCs. Of course however you can run it low end systems with low video settings because that's the beauty of PC gaming.

I don't much care what happens to consoles as long as I get an amazing looking game on my PC that has a wide number of video options available.

[cmdr_silverbolt]

Costin Moroianu said:

... not those with rigs like mine. ›››

I get the impression that people like this are in the minority. Even when someone is not held back by money, they get hindered by a lack of technical know-how (which video card, which power supply). Consoles, meanwhile, are plug and play, and cost relatively less.

[KnightofPhoenix]

cmdr_flashheart said:

I get the impression that people like this are in the minority. Even when someone is not held back by money, they get hindered by a lack of technical know-how (which video card, which power supply). Consoles, meanwhile, are plug and play, and cost relatively less. ›››

Yea, consoles are very convenient and you never have to worry about a game not working or hardware not being compatible.

That and they are cheaper. So yea, what they lack in power, consoles offer in convenience.

[Kodaemon]

To say consoles are cheaper is to ignore the price of games.

[Aver]

Kodaemon said:

To say consoles are cheaper is to ignore the price of games. ›››

Not all of them and if you have console you can buy used games. With PC you can't do this because most of the games nowadays is connected with Steam/Origin/Uplay etc.