our biggest takeaways article<\/a>. We also sat down with some of CD Projekt Red\u2019s talented developers, learning more about their creative process and how they approached this ambitious project. One topic that consistently surfaced was\u00a0the team’s\u00a0signature shades-of-gray storytelling and how it enhances\u00a0the experience.<\/p>\nDuring our four-hour demo, we wrestled with who to trust, never feeling completely confident in our decisions or what the consequences would be. If you played CD Projekt Red\u2019s Witcher series, you know this feeling all too well, but with each passing project, the developers only seem to be getting better at keeping you on your toes and making you second-guess\u00a0your actions. To learn how much care and thought goes into these interactions, we asked lead quest designer Pawe\u0142 Sasko for more insight into the complicated process.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a very complex thing,\u201d Sasko says, laughing. \u201cIt\u2019s very easy when you design things to just fall into one [extreme] or another, and this is how our production style comes into play.\u201d According to Sasko, every quest gets created with the writer, quest designer, and cinematic designer working together and challenging each other to show different sides to the character. \u201cWe\u2019re always keeping each other in check\u2026 to figure out the correct way to present elements or the character when you look at it from their perspective,\u201d he says. \u201cWe always look at it from a perspective of balance.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sasko says it comes down to feedback from both designers and testers. If they feel strongly against a character, the designers come together to think of ways to better showcase the character\u2019s point of view and give more context\u00a0for their actions. Sasko worked on the famous Bloody Baron quest from The Witcher 3, where you find out the\u00a0man who offered his hospitality to Ciri also has an abusive past. \u201cOne of our objectives was to find a parallel between Geralt as a father and Baron as a father, but also\u00a0throw enough bad things in there so the player will like him and dislike him at the same time,\u201d Sasko says. \u201cThis is what we are almost constantly playing with in Cyberpunk 2077, having it be like in real life where people say one thing and then do another.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
CD Projekt Red goes to great lengths to pull this off in its games, using body language and dialogue to throw you in different directions. Just like in real life, you can never really know someone\u2019s true intentions or what they\u2019re thinking. Cyberpunk 2077 offers a world of danger, where it feels like everyone is out for themselves, just waiting to pull one over on you. As customized protagonist\u00a0V, you must try to navigate these shady people to the best of your abilities, and deal with the repercussions. \u201cIt might be that a character is speaking in a very convincing manner, but through the animations, through their poses, and through the setup of the scene, we are showing that the character is not like that,\u201d Sakso says.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n
A character in our demo named Evelyn is a good example of this. Evelyn is shrouded in mystery when you meet her; she’s\u00a0a confident, charming young woman who contracted Dex, the fixer you get one of your first big jobs from. All your interactions with her prove she has some connection to Night City\u2019s high circles, but every time you ask her questions, it feels like you\u2019re only getting half the story. At one point, she offers to just cut Dex out of the deal so only you two split the riches. It\u2019s suspicious, but then again, you don\u2019t know Dex that well.\u00a0Still, are you ready to cross a legendary fixer who could make your life hell?\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you’re meeting Evelyn in Lizzie\u2019s [Bar], she’s doing very specific things in the specific moments and there are things she is not certain about that she\u2019s discussing,\u201d Sasko says. \u201cThe way she’s moving in that scene, that’s specifically designed to present that character in the best possible way, and to give the player lots of different interpretations and hypotheses.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sasko says the team then throws in more potential clues to give players a certain perspective or vision of the character. Then in the\u00a0next meeting with the character, the\u00a0team tries\u00a0to twist this a bit by adding more elements to the picture that test or confirm the player’s\u00a0hypothesis. It\u2019s a tricky balance between conveying a sense of who that character is as a person, but also reflecting the complexity of people and their capacity to omit,\u00a0forget, or alter details. After all, memory is a tricky thing, and people\u2019s versions of events sometimes change as they relay them. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The audio and dialogue also play a huge role in uncovering new information and giving you different ways to interpret characters. \u201cWhen you talk to the characters and ask more questions, they can actually throw things in that are contradictory or will give you some more clues to what they really think to make you question things,\u201d Sasko says. \u201cIt\u2019s just really fun because that makes the player be conscious and look at the characters. Of course, we cannot be all over the place with that, because if you go completely random, then it won’t work. It has to be designed very specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n
People are complicated, multi-dimensional beings, and CD Projekt Red certainly likes to display that in its games. In Cyberpunk 2077,\u00a0there are\u00a0no correct answers \u2013\u00a0just a bunch of choices and seeing where they lead. Either way, we can\u2019t wait to see more of the\u00a0intriguing people and conundrums V will face. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n
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