CD Projekt RED: Cyberpunk 2077/Dark Fantasy RPG Tidbits

Polygamia's reporter Piotr Gnyp has been tweeting some tidbits of an interview with CD Projekt's Adam Kiciński, concerning Cyberpunk 2077 and their unannounced dark fantasy RPG (most likely The Witcher 3), which is apparently in a more advanced development phase than Cyberpunk.

Thankfully a forum poster on the official The Witcher forums has translated the tweets.

- Unnanounced dark fantasy title (Witcher 3?) is in more advanced stages than Cyberpunk 2077.

- Cyberpunk 2077 is the first in a series, both games are larger than The Witcher, both are multiplaform

- 2013 will be smaller stuff for CDP RED, no Witcher-caliber release

- Witcher for iPhone - too early to say anything, but not impossible

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- no Witcher for PS3 next year, they want TW on Playstation, but not current gen

- both TW3 and CP2077 will appear on next gen consoles

Link-http://en.thewitcher.com/forum/index…d-cp2077-news/

Teaser is out for Cyberpunk, and it's impressive! http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/g…7-debut-teaser

Dark City is coming back!

P.S. Smells of sulfur at about 2:14

Originally Posted by zloth
teaser is out for cyberpunk, and it's impressive! http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/g…7-debut-teaser

dark city is coming back!

P.s. Smells of sulfur at about 2:14

Omg! Omg! Omg! Omg!

Turn up da FIGGIN hype!

Originally Posted by JemyM
Omg! Omg! Omg! Omg!

Turn up da FIGGIN hype!

Now now just let him be he might attack you. He is excited about the game that's all.

Originally Posted by Zloth
Teaser is out for Cyberpunk, and it's impressive! http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/g…7-debut-teaser

Dark City is coming back!

P.S. Smells of sulfur at about 2:14

Should this be "Night City is coming back"? not that I know anything about the Cyberpunk setting, but that's what I read on the police-borg insignia.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Now now just let him be he might attack you. He is excited about the game that's all.

It's uncommon I hype for games. Very rare. This is one exception…

I can't wait. That is all. Must remain calm.

Looks like there was a secret message - http://i.imgur.com/uBiyq.png

Ok, got my attention.

The only drawback is the game wont be out till late 2016-2017.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
The only drawback is the game wont be out till late 2016-2017.

Where have you seen that? Afaik, it's currently expected to be released sometime in mid to late 2015.

Originally Posted by JDR13
Where have you seen that? Afaik, it's currently expected to be released sometime in late 2015.

Watch the trailer as it says when its as good as done. Add a few delays as they always delay there releases and voila. Guesswork that's all satisfied now.

It's still a long wait regardless.

Not an easy thing to predict - but big ambitious RPGs tend to be delayed, and I'd say a 6-12 month delay is to be expected.

Considering that we're talking about developers trying to actually evolve genres and not play it safe like 99% of the AAA companies - that's probably an optimistic expectation.

Originally Posted by Couchpotato
Watch the trailer as it says when its as good as done. Add a few delays as they always delay there releases and voila. Guesswork that's all satisfied now.

And that's supposed to mean it's getting released in 2017? Ok.

Unless it's a *lot* bigger than The Witcher 2, I think late 2015 is realistic. TW2 was announced in 2009 and released in May of 2011. I don't see Cyberpunk taking that much longer.

But then I have no idea when exactly they began development either.

I said late 2016-2017. Yeah lets just agree it will be done when its done. I'm not going to do a silly debate that's Darts job.(Sorry Dart I couldn't resit)

Originally Posted by JDR13
Where have you seen that? Afaik, it's currently expected to be released sometime in mid to late 2015.

The secret message in the video says 2016 with a "it's mean when it's done". They are still hiring people to make the game as well.

Originally Posted by azarhal
The secret message

Interesting… The message states that their other project is also a "fully open-world game".

So it would seem they're going open-world with The Witcher now as well.

I bet couch is right on the year estimation.
As CDPR is not Bethesda to release an unpolished game with 500+ bugs and then milk the mokey with expensive DLC in a buggy game without fixing those bugs.

CDPR respects all audience which includes nitpicks like me, plus their DLC is free. Since there is no reason to believe they'll release a half-done project, 2016-2017 is my guess too.

Originally Posted by JDR13
Interesting… The message states that their other project is also a "fully open-world game".

So it would seem they're going open-world with The Witcher now as well.

Or that they don't have the usual definition of "fully open-world game" as most people do. Did they use it for the Witcher 2?

The Cyberpunk 2077 game is made with the RedEngine too, maybe it's simpler to make it support open-world and use it for the next Witcher game than try to maintain two different code base for world loading in it.

Originally Posted by azarhal
Or that they don't have the usual definition of "fully open-world game" as most people do. Did they use it for the Witcher 2?

No, Witcher 2 wasn't marketed as open world.

Originally Posted by joxer
As CDPR is not Bethesda to release an unpolished game with 500+ bugs and then milk the mokey with expensive DLC in a buggy game without fixing those bugs.

I just hope CDProjekt learns how to optimize their games to make better use of multicore CPUs, hopefully the next game will not look and run like total crap for those of us who lack a super high end graphics card.

Originally Posted by CountChocula
I just hope CDProjekt learns how to optimize their games to make better use of multicore CPUs, hopefully the next game will not look and run like total crap for those of us who lack a super high end graphics card.

Why worry? By the time CyP2077 is released, you'll have a cheap card that'll do things at least twice better/faster/richer than nextgen consoles.