Marcin and Tomasz - two people that would be incredible to spend an hour talking ideas with. No idea how this video hasn't got millions of views as of yet. Witcher, Witcher 2, Witcher 3, Blood & Wine, Hearts of Stone, Cyberpunk, Phantom Liberty....Some of the best written stories I've ever seen across films, games and books. The emotion that players felt from the stories and characters is rare to find. Thank you and your team for everything you've created and I cannot wait for a Cyberpunk sequel, especially with Unreal Engine to allow more technical flexibility. I'd love to know from you guys - What choices did you make in your Cyberpunk runs? For me, I've explored all endings but Panam>King of Cups>The Star ending always felt the best. King of Wands>The Sun for a glory ending. Second - how did you get into Story writing at such a high level in the gaming industry? I've always been interested in this so would love to hear your journeys. Looking forward to more of these!

Yes, these small movements that Marcin Blacha talks about 6:03 were often used in Cyberpunk 2077. It was a masterpiece of direction that we can see. Example: When we are talking to Takemura about Ghosts and the Past at the top of the construction site, there is a moment when Johnny and the cat sitting on the wall jump down, and V at the same moment says: "The bakaneko got sick of us, looks like." This is a great scene because "bakaneko" in this case refers to both Johnny and Cat. This scene is a masterpiece. And there are many more such scenes and details.

And the work day has become a little more bearable. Thanks!

As a aspiring indie dev, this podcast is amazing, I am a sponge for Dev info, and tricks. Please keep doing them!

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So this are the guys that made me fallen in love with cdpr (from witcher 1 you had amazing stories), story is greatest pillar of the game imo. I just hope and pray to gods that ESG corporate imperium doesn't destroy that.

28:10 - Character complexity was a great question, seems to boil down to illuminating new parts of the character that pull you back and forth in terms of your opinion of them as these quests progress. I think Joshua was a great example, but I wonder if this is common with a sidekick or even if you can experiment with the range. Is it a good practice to have someone completely lovable then you find out something about them and they are dead to you? Feels like a sidekick should be a mirror or the other side of the protagonist that either guides or helps the prot come to a realization. Jackie's complexity is shown with the Ofrenda but the range is less since he's always relatively likeable and even more so knowing what he went through as a kid as a lot of characters in 2077 are a victim of circumstance. Does less of a range add more nuiance? Is having someone that is completely lovable and then one thing changes your opinion on them substantially make things too black and white or make it unfulfilling? Would love to hear more about that in the future. Excellent discussion! P.S - Does Sebastian have a Batou tattoo? thats sick af lol

Guys the Witcher for me will remain massive and captivating and not even close to other open world games like red dead redemption. For me I think The Witcher remain one of the best games 😊

55:05 part of the reason I wanna learn more about psychology :D understanding the processes that actually drive people also 55:27 is SUCH a valuable insight; to create a spy character you HAVE to have a deep understanding of what that actually is and how it changes/affects people, how real recruitment processes go, cabin fever, second guessings etc, and finally creating a character who has to live through what you know, and what it does to people 56:05 so glad he talked about tinker tailor soldier spy :D

I'm so glad you talked about Damien. Blood and Wine came out at a hard transitional period in my life and it became my source of comfort. I really fixated on Damien (and Milton and Palmerin), had a huge crush on him actually. But the way he talks to her, that one scene where he forgets himself and gives her that open mouthed look, the way he is always at her side and command, how they talk to each other on the balcony, and then Dandelion's remark in his character entry. The expressions he makes, the emotion on his face during Night of Long Fangs. The way he earnestly smiles when Annarietta and Syanna embrace that you can only see when you enter free camera. It is all there. I always knew that he loved her, and it's so tragic, that he pines for her but knows he cannot act on it or even hint it. I must have played that expansion over ten times, and I could never bring myself to get the ending where Annarietta dies, because I couldn't do that to Damien. Seeing him mourn and then reading his character entry broke my heart. I even made a mod where I swapped Dandelion to Damien so that Damien could embrace her as she mourns over Syanna's coffin. Damien is important to me, he's not a character to me, he's like a real person. The only thing I did not like about him or his writing was how quickly he turns on Geralt and disregards all logic and their previous blossoming friendship in the prison ending.

Great talk! Will you make episodes with technical people? I am wondering what challenges programmers have faced, which unique systems they made, and how CDPR games differs from others, what were the challenges of creating open worlds with lots of complexity in quests, how did you achieve such high animation quality in 2015 in terms of programming? Also, I'd love to know the reason behind Roach's famous bugs xD

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It's was so interesting to listen your conversation! Call next ep Pawel Sasko please. I guess most of us want to see him.

Finally watching these AnsweRED podcasts! These are really interesting, thank you for sharing them with us :D

It's really cool to see the faces of some of the people that constructed the pieces of entertainment that provided me so much joy. I can't wait for more episodes!

I found some really nice tips for narrative designers here. Thanks. :)

Amazing first episode and I'm looking forward to more. Guests from outside the studio could be cool. E.g. the community podcast crew (Madqueen, Triple S League, Last Known Meal, and The Neon Arcade). Some of them are game devs themselves.

Oh, and one more thing. Have you considered making some of these LIVE, and/or taking in some "outside guests"? You know, like devs from other companies or bespectacled, struggling artists/youtube creators working in the IT sector from Slovakia, who may provide the "customer's POV". You know, no one specific.

Thank you for sharing these very valuable insights into the details of your studios process and the ideas that help make these interactive experiences leap from the screen into the hearts and minds of people around the world. This is a great idea and will surely proved even more high level industry looks into the considerations and details that go into what eventually culminates as well curated and developed video games. I loved every minute of this and am excited to extract inspiration and value from the future episodes of this awesome podcast.

Incredible work as always❤

Good podcast.. for long time I was waiting for it

Dear Cd Projekt Writers, Dear Sirs Sebastian, Pawel, Tomasz, Marcin, and dear Chat is it possible to make an contest (Writing Witcher or Cyberpunk inspired stories) (not only in English but also if it is possible in other languages) I wrote Witcher story in Polish ) ! Even sent it year ago to Sebastian Kalemba, Tomasz and Marcin) I suppose there is in the Witcher and Cyberpunk Community plenty of talented writers in many languages! I believe that writing contest would be great idea! Thank You, Peace and Love to Everyone!

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So does anyone have a fix for people not being able to call opon their cars I've already collected my old one and I literally can't call on any of my cars and nothing I do seems to fix this

Love to see this kind of content and look forward to more! Also those chairs go hard.

Please make a massive deep Open World and story again. That’s what The Witcher 3 did best and it was the foundation of a truly unforgettable game and I’ll never forget that world ever. Exploration and mystery in it while also not being simple at all and finding new mysteries every few hours traveling around was so well crafted. Get the same Lead Open world developer to work for it. Please 😭🙏🏻

Please we want Gerald's character. And also something very important, we want a special edition of the game for you. Separately, it is a popular card game

So, what are the top 10 books of the team ;-)

Keep The White wolf 🐺 in the storyline of the 4th generation of the game. Can wait for another Witcher😊

Have they or will they ever discuss what multiplayer would have been like in Cyberpunk?

I read creating a CAPIBARA Stories... oh Capivara...

Please, make Ciri main character of the next The Witcher🤞

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with the lighthouse you mean linear? i for one have no problem with linear.

When the new Witcher wil be released guys, many people are waiting a release date😊

Can you guys add a sandevistan named “The World” as a JoJo referance pls?

Invite Spafowski

Can we get one more Cyberpunk update and get rid of the mustard and ketchup colors on everything.. that is a nasty ass color combo.

Nóż cholera dajcie polskie napisy

hi everyone! how to use the boosts metabolism skill in battle?

PLEASE FIX CYBERPUNKS LOD‘s. 2000€ GPU and the LOD‘s are really really really bad. At least give us the option to customize them, since yall rendered the .ini tweaks useless.

I hope to GOD they don’t bring in consultants for their stories on all their new games….Sweet Baby Inc and you know there are other companies. DEI needs to DIE… I refuse to support liberal/woke BS…These companies are writing stories to an audience that doesn’t even play video games.

Made in Poland. Total failure of Ultimate Edition on PS5. We wanted it all on the disc and not download it from the PS store. You are unteachable.

Please make linear game cbp was waste

I really really wish you guys would have finished the game on last gen so I could finish and enjoy the great game you have made

please return the Dash with double w instead of ctrl please , really ruin whole experience of the cyberpunk2077

I like the whole entire new cyberpunk update but you cut so much but I wish you didn’t cut the cybernetic implants where we could actually have a metal or more metal leg or that kind of stuff I know you guys are not gonna message back at all but please give us actual cybernetic implants instead of these cheap knock off cybernetic and plants where our arms don’t look like there still human we want arms that look like they’re metal or stuff like that PlayStation user and PC people can actually just do that so it seems a little unfair in the end just please give us cybernetic arms PlayStation Xbox and many other users just please

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