Cyberpunk 2077

Warsaw, 18 October 2012 – CD Projekt RED has officially announced the title of its in-development role-playing game. "Cyberpunk 2077" will be set in the world created by Mike Pondsmith, one of the fathers of the cyberpunk genre and the creator of the cult-classic pen-and-paper RPG, Cyberpunk.


"The Team has to love the material. The Team has to want to be faithful to the material. The Team has to have the skills to execute the material and see that vision through to the end. They have to be on fire with the desire to make an extraordinary game.


And that leads, at last, to why we hooked up with CD Projekt RED" – Mike Pondsmith commented, why he has chosen to work with the Polish game developer.


The cyberpunk atmosphere, well known from William Gibson's novels, the "Blade Runner" movie and the famous pen-and-paper game, "Cyberpunk 2020", will surround the player. The creators promise that "Cyberpunk 2077" will be true to the essence of the cyberpunk genre. Players will be thrown into the dark future of the year 2077 and into a world where advanced technologies have become both the salvation and the curse of humanity. A multi-thread, nonlinear story designed for mature players (a CD Projekt RED trademark) will take place in the sprawling metropolis of Night City and its surroundings. Players will have a chance to visit places well known from "Cyberpunk 2020", including a combat zone completely taken over by gangs, the legendary Afterlife joint and the nostalgic Forlorn Hope.


Freedom of action and diversity in gameplay will be delivered thanks to the sandbox nature of the game and mechanics inspired by the "Cyberpunk 2020" pen-and-paper system, fine tuned to meet the requirements of a modern RPG. Gameplay will pump adrenaline through players' veins and be consistent with the celebrated Cyberpunk spirit – rebellion, style, edge, uncertainty. And of course, a cyberpunk reality cannot be deprived of murderous steel – guns, rifles, implants, dozens of gadgets and other varied pieces of equipment needed to survive on the streets of Night City. The developers are focused on making the technology of 2077 credible and exciting.


For more info please visit the newly launched blog: cyberpunk.net and read some articles written by both the developers from CD Projekt RED and Mike Pondsmith himself.

That title is so horrible. It's like renaming Half-Life Science Fiction.

Really goes to show how important a title is. The name Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't give me the slightest big of interest in the game. Plus putting a year in the title never works. Reminds me of this:

Ugh, GAF is going all Nazi on the modding now. Locking megathreads, mods making their own threads then locking other peoples threads on the same subject even if they were made before theirs. Then they are doing this:

"And I'm going to be deleting/editing messages related to the recent change. This thread isn't for those. PM a mod."

This is the kind of modding crapola that put me off other sites.

gamingeek said:

Ugh, GAF is going all Nazi on the modding now. Locking megathreads, mods making their own threads then locking other peoples threads on the same subject even if they were made before theirs. Then they are doing this:

"And I'm going to be deleting/editing messages related to the recent change. This thread isn't for those. PM a mod."

This is the kind of modding crapola that put me off other sites.

So it's turned into GS?

edgecrusher said:

Yes, maybe it will be part gears of war, part devil may cry, and part Resident evil 5 with tons of flashy QTE's and bad camera angles.

Man after building a new PC and with the Wii U looming on top of the holidays,  I'm finding it hard to pick up some of the titles I wanna get. Granted, my backlog is immense, but still.  I's want Hitman 5 and Dishonored.

Time to start planting some gift hints...

You might have missed this, I found it a little strange

Gaijin Games publishing Runner 2 on Wii U


Because Aksys didn't want to

Question: It’s interesting to me that you guys are kind of half-publishing Runner 2 on your own and half-working with Aksys. Can you tell me a bit about that?



AN: Sure, it’s a little weird. The original Runner 2 plan was to release on PSN and XBLA, and Aksys were up for it. We asked if they wanted to be involved with the Wii U and Vita versions, and they said, “Not really…”



It’s just as simple as that, they just weren’t really into it, and that’s fine. So we decided to do it on our own!

^ Nintendo are cheap asses. It was an annoying omission on the GCN and Wii, but it's absolutely ridiculous on a next gen console.

Off-Topic: I can't believe how many people on Neogaf have a hard-on for Fidel Fucking Castro! Sorry but I'm banned from there (by request) and I saw Wesker posting in there.