cars, faceless people going by, doing the things that they're doing,

there's something kind a hypnotic about it,

that's when I get inspired

To carry what these streets are like, what the city is like

the mysteries, the stories,

the thousands thousands of people that you pass,

that are going by as shadows. In this wet, cold, dangerous environment

I wanted to grab that

I wanted to take it to the future

And where I took it, was Cyberpunk

What I loved was the fact that it was a combination of dystopian society,

a lot of technology,

with this really great overlayer of almost film-noir

In a cyberpunk world, I realized real soon,

was a world where people had the technology

but didn't fundamentally change the fact

that there was a lot of treacherous, nasty behaviour,

large weapons

and a lot of sort of serious danger all about

The important part in Cyberpunk is just that

It's not the technology, it's the feel

It's getting that dark, gritty rain wet street feeling,

but at the same time

getting that rock'n roll lost and desperate, dangerous quality

Cyberpunk is about that interface between people and technology

But not in that transhumanous way, where

it's all about the technology changing or improving them

It's about how people use things

There's a great Gibson saying that street finds its uses for things

and that's what cyberpunk is about

Cyberpunk isn't about saving humanity,

it's about saving yourself

We've approached doing it as a videogame numerous times before

We have fought to find somebody

who was enough of a fan of the world and the game

to not want to go change it around

or to stick a label of cyberpunk on it

and then do something totally different

And so when CD Projekt RED approached us,

what we realized really rapidly was:

these guys are fans, these guys know the material,

they're quoting things back to me I forgot, they got it

And that's an important thing

You have to be able to understand why this world exists

They're dragging my butt all the way over to Poland several times a year

We're excited because there is a really strong element of cross-pollination

There is a really strong element of cooperative building going on and ...

that's really great

Cyberpunk 2020 was about early Cyberpunk,

It was a world in which people didn't know a lot about,

what the tropes were, the feel for it

The great part about 2077 is that it's a mature form of that

We're basically able to progress a larger ark

in which you're going to see the outcomes of things

that we started to talk about in the 4th corporate war

and we're going to be able to let players, who played the previous game

to see how those progressed, see where they go to

and how they'll shape them

We're looking at the same mucking, nasty Night City that you were in before,

just a lot bigger and probably a lot more dangerous

and with a lot of players you don' t know about yet

2077 is about the Cyberpunk you thought you knew, scaled up

bigger, badder, stranger

It's the visual component

that the frozen pictures we would put in a the books can't give you

It's the sound, it's the feel, it's the movement

Seventy Seven is going to be about being there

We've gone through a long long journey all of us

and those of you who have been fans

and waiting for us to get the right game together,

the right time, the right team

And we were going to wait long enough to make sure it happen the right way

Cyberpunk 2077 is going to be the right way and I can't wait to play it

and I'm hoping you guys will want to play it

as much as I want to play it,

cause it's going to be a hell of a ride