Uno Venova
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After the 10th time he said it, I am sure it is.
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The Witcher devs to make a Cyberpunk 2020 game
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Sir Garbageman
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Day Zero, full price pre-order etc etc
OdysseusVA
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kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Ha. Naming your RPG after a genre. It's like making a movie with cowboys and indians and calling it "Western". That's not how originality works...
Neuromancer
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Other than just to be contrary (which I get, I do it all the time) I don't understand why people are making fun of the 'mature' line. What's wrong with 'mature'? I think it's safe to say that The Witcher games are 'mature' at least compared to other video games.
Funky Papa
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I won't be baited.
Too obvious, too obvious!
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Neuromancer
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7/10 not a bad effort.
IblisGinjo
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???It's the name of the PnP role-playing game. It makes perfect sense to call it that and with Mike Pondsmith, I'm excited.
I'm really confused by your posts -- perhaps it's some sort of sarcastic metahumor. Just in case you are being serious, however, the video game is named after a pen and paper game called Cyberpunk, as far as I'm aware. It's named after a specific game, not because that's the genre in general.
I expect it to be mature in the same sense that the Witcher games are - sex, violence and moral ambiguity featuring prominently. Which is a perfect fit for the gritty, dystopian setting of the tabletop game.
Eh, playing up the "mature!1" card like that is kinda silly. If the game is truly mature for mature people, it'll show without PR bulletpoints mentioning it. Not that it's a big deal, though.
OdysseusVA
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GAF's expectations or CDPR's?
Next two titles have already been confirmed to be multiplatform... I sound like a broken record today.
shinobi602
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Day -20.
Yeah, but having a game be 'mature' is a selling point and differentiator. Plus, they have history of it with the Witcher so their using it to position themselves and their product.
Glass Rebel
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Not that this is the thread for sales talk but... they were planned before the release of Witcher 2 so his question is justified.
Cyberpunk 2020 came out in 1990. It's pretty obvious that they'll make some changes to the source material, it would be very retro-futuristic having a game set in 2020 where cellular phones do nothing but... phone calls.
edit: oh seems I was trolled. Oh well... my point still stands.
Wiktor
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OdysseusVA
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NeoGAF is not going to make it to E3
NaturalHigh
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If it doesn't, prepare for Bioware post Dragon Age 2 all over again.
TW2 apparently cost only 12m USD to make. Making profit off good games is probably a lot easier in Poland (at least compared to the recent Kingdom of Amalur debacle).
You're just asking for visit from Militech's death squad
*sifting through the wreckage of kruis' apartment*
'Hey, we got us a live one! Poor bastard looks like a jigsaw puzzle with half the pieces missing. Dunno if there's enough of 'im left for the Trauma Team boys to paste back together. Wonder who he pissed off...'
Calavera520
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Nice! I have nothing but respect for CDPR folks. I'm a huge fan of both TW 1 & 2.
Great news, but that gif is retarded. enough. I'm tired of seeing it.
Yea, this too. There is no mention of any platforms yet (of course PC is a given). So, if it comes out in 2014 then I guess we can expect it to be on PS4 and XB3. That said, they may also put it on PS360 as well.
Why the high chance it is coming out on consoles? Also, why would they announce a game now if they're not going to release it for 2.5+ years (an entire development cycle)? Have they not started it?
I'm taking the piss mostly because I feel like it does not need to be an advertisement slogan due to the game itself. People who have been paying attention to CD Projekt since The Witcher will know what to expect, and at the end of the day they are the audience who will play the game aside from the few PnP & cyberpunk geeks such as myself. You can't do perform the something within the genre without delving in to a storyline that contains murder, mystery, and a heck of a lot of grit. It's a practical given - they don't need to tell us.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
My criticism is CDP using the P&P RPG Cyberpunk as source material for the game. I'd have been far more enthusiastic if they'd picked a fresh SF concept based on critically acclaimed book, source material with a good story and a fascinating world. This "Cyberpunk" P&P RPG certainly isn't. (It doesn't help that cyberpunk as a bonafide SF genre died at least 15 years ago because it had become just a load of cliches. Let it fucking die instead of trying to breathe life in the old, repulsive corps.)
To me this feels just as wrong as using board games as the source material for a big action movie.