This is all in-game.

Hannah: "The more I see, the less I know" Thus begins the path to true wisdom.

It's actually adorable how she thinks that all of those are cutscenes... both trailers she watched are all actual gameplay sequences. And yet she thought they were cinematics. Yes, the game looks that good. Better than most contemporary games.

Hannah: "I want to know inappropriate questions about the technical advancements to your body?" CD Projekt: "The answer is yes, all of it".

The fact the HannaH wasn't able to tell the difference between cut scenes and in game visuals, is a testament to how amazing Cyberpunk looks and plays. Even 3 years later, this is one of the finest looking games out there. In the words of Mr.Reeves, "breathtaking". Truly a masterpiece (now that it's working as intended hah).

"How much of this is what inside the game looks like" All of it. That whole trailer was all in game footage and graphics. "Do you guys make versions of you or totally different people." Personally I make a totally different character. Games for me are about escapism so it's generally more fun to come up with a chacter that I can play as rather than self inserting myself in there (though generally all my characters do at least have elements of me in them). There are people that make themselves, as well as people who just mess around and see how weird of a character they can manage to make, though I couldn't see what the statistical split is between the different approaches. I'd guess it's fairly even between self and other though with a side offshoot of the "how goofy can I make them" kind of people. "Innapropriate questions about the technical advancements to your body" So in the Cyberpunk world enhancements do extend below the belt shall we say. There are cybernetic enhancements in the lore called Mr. Studd and Midnight Lady which are exactly what you would think. It also extends further and often darker for how a hyper technological world handles issues of sex. For example the world features what are referred to as dolls which is where a sex worker gets implants which allow them to delve into the clients mind give them exactly what they want and then at the end the workers memories of all of that is erased so they they don't remember any of what they learned about the person or what they did. Which has it's obvious benefits but at the same time you can likely see the ways that could be abused which is a common theme of the games world and how it showcases technology. Technology in Cyberpunk is all about that blend of how much power and capability it brings to people but also in all the ways it can be abused and misused. It kind of reminds me of a line from a game I love called Red Dead Redemption 2 "We can have fire, and we can have the knowledge of fire, but with that comes the knowledge of everything". You can't pick and choose what aspects you get. Any kind of advancement naturally comes with the good and the bad and in Cyberpunk's case the advancement of technology is no different.

1) Girl.... You must start playing games. RPG games are just created for you. 2) Character creation... Well like a kid I liked to created my self but now I just creating the biggest scarred monsters ever.

Hanna: Could You be friends instead?! Me:... Is hacking into someones brain close enough?

3:57 everything 😄

I always make a completely different person, never myself.

"That's why we play games" - Yep *Thumbs up*

Game of Thrones books are similar: each chapter is written in a different character's prospective. So, when an interviewer asked George R.R. Martin who did he want to be in Game of Thrones' world, George said "I am already all of them."

In most games where the player is expected to make moral choices that effect the plot progression, on my first play through I usually try to make a version of myself, and then try to play through the game, making the choices on my own moral framework, and seeing the results that accomplishes. It's fun to explore how one's moral framework "works" in more extreme situations outside of the societal environment that has moved us in to the morality we currently hold. A second time going through the game, I'll often make a new character with their own morality and decision framework to optimize my "fun" while playing the game.

I've been playing cyberpunk all day. It's by far one of the best games I've ever played and I've barely even scratched the surface of what is possible in this game

When using other companies character creators I tend to just try and make something that looks cool. Having appeared in a game it is definitely neat to see your exact face (and then shoot it). I think most people initially try to make themselves though.

"A Scanner Darkly" was done with digital rotoscopy. I little different, they basically animate over each frame of a live action recording. More like painting than puppetry.

I make an idealized version of me, me at my best :) Everything you saw is how the game looks like when you play, with slightly better graphics in cutscenes, where you only control your dialogue options, but still the same models, just a little bit more detailed and it switches seamlessly in between those. There is no distinction. You could definitely be a voice actor/motion actor, you have both the voice, announciation and expressiveness required :)

I clicked this one super fast. Thanks for the shout out. ALL this is from the game, this is how playing looks like, as "too good to be true" as it looks it's all how playing it looks like. As for the characters, I sometimes create someone in my image and other times I create characters that are nothing like me (different gender, different skin colour, personality/physique completely different to mine, etc.). I know there's a lot of shooting in the gameplay trailer but you can actually finish the game without killing a single person. As for the choices in the game, they are so significant that depending on your early choices you may or may not have an access to numerous missions and it completely changes the final outcome.

The cello player is Tina Guo, amazing musician and I really recommend you to search for her work on KZfaq... Her videos are out of this world!

This is just another beauty of games and im glad I was introduced to games cause it gave me capacity for stories in general more so then books and boom then I find my self having patience and endurance for reading books. I gots to say it's great seeing you dive into gaming depths and the builds in more focus

love your enthusiasm. spending time with you is a treat.

Haha I cant help but smile when I watch your enthusiasm as you're absorbing stuff from the videos you're watching. Your energy is very infectious in a good way! Keep it up! Now to answer one of the questions you asked, which I havent seen anyone answer yet...In Scanner Darkly they did not use motion capture, instead they're using an older technique called Rotoscoping, where they film it with live actors, and then draw on top of the images to give it that cartoon/drawn look you see in the film.

"How much of this is what the game looks like?" ALL of it!

"Never Stop Away " is never too loud...it's too beautiful...every time ehh

Usually they tend to write in the title what kind of a trailer you're watching. If it's a cinematic trailer, then it's CGI animation, and it has nothing to do with what you actually see in the game. When it's called gameplay trailer (like the one you watched with the narration), then it's all gameplay footage. So in that trailer everything you saw is exactly how it appears in the game.

The game comes out in like 7-8 hours? it's december 10th for Europe since CD Project Red is in Europe.

"Do you play versions of you in the game or totally different people?" I sometime make a "me", sometimes I play a not "me". I'm still going through my first play through of Cyberpunk right now. When I was making my character it started as someone who looked like me (a straight, pasty white dude), but I wasn't feeling it. I jumped over to a female character creation to see what the options were like, LOVED the female voice way more than the guys and made a bad-ass lesbian, ex-corpo, katana and pistol-wielding, ninja-hacker. And I'm loving the character. As an aside, you randomly popped up in my feed and I have been binging your reactions. Loving them. AND you're CANADIAN! I'm going to have to check out your books. Urban Fantasy settings are my kind of thing.

This is true for The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077: They are amazing games in my opinion (although Cyberpunk still needs work) but the best aspect of these games by CDPR is by far the music. Which means a lot since i binged Cyberpunk for 11 hours on release day only.

its 4am i canNOT stop watching your videos

I've always found it odd how someone can be so enthusiastic about the things they're seeing from a particular medium, yet show absolutely no desire to engage with it themselves. Video games contain some of the best stories ever written with some of the best and most well-realized characters you'll ever see - the difference being that with video games, your own choices often have a major effect on both. Such is why I prefer video games over books or movies; I can have an impact. As a writer, you would benefit beyond belief from experiencing these stories & interactions yourself. True, if you've never really touched a complex video game before or haven't done so in many years, it can take a fair bit of time to acclimate and get used to the standard conventions of the industry. But given that gaming is the largest and most profitable entertainment medium on the planet by literal lightyears, there really isn't any reason not to at least dip your toes in the vast ocean of available titles. I've watched a large number of your videos and it always makes me smile as you stare wide-eyed and astounded at what you're seeing. Clearly there's some major interest on your part, so what is stopping you?

I would really like to see you put together a Cyberpunk cosplay, I think it would look amazing. I am so pumped for this game! been a fan of Pondsmith since the 80's!

"I wanna know... inappropriate technical questions about the advancements to your body." Yes. Yes you can. Well, lore wise. In universe you can get a Mr. Stud enhancement, or the female equivalent, but in game this isn't a thing you, as the player, can get, sadly.

Holy shit, your style & way of writing is exactly the same as mine, even where you associate music with a character & scene. When I first began writing my stories & novels, I wrote by what I thought the “world” sounded like, I.e. I let music drive my pencil. It feels great. Also I’ve done a half-finished series where every book (12 books) has a different protagonist with their own stories but in the end, they all live in the same universe & their own stories ultimately ties into the main arc of the entire series. There’s a beginning & an end, and every individual story tied into the ultimate end. And I re-use my characters a lot, so book 1 will have these characters and then book 6 shows these same characters again and so on and it just feels great honesty. The thing I do though is that in the entire series, there is one character that you can consider the main protagonist of the universe, as every protagonist of every book is tethered to this main protagonist who we meet first in books 1 - 2. Great video btw! I LOVE your enthusiasm to storytelling and learning! Also that mask edit at the end of your video was super dope

I've been binging your videos with my boyfriend and we both love your personality and positivity! Thank you

Just when I thought you couldn't be more amazing, you drop this....love it! I make a character I play as.

This game was released almost 3,5 years ago but it is by far the best looking game on max settings and it also delivers great story and gameplay.

The sound track is AMAZING!!!

I think you should do a mini-series of watching someone play this game, I think you and us as viewers would really enjoy that. This game is very story-heavy you're supposed to get really invested and emotional over the character you make and the people you'll interact with. And 2077 is one of the best type of story-driven games that actually give different outcomes based on the answers you give in the game. It's basically a "Choose your own adventure" novel, but with visuals and sound to go with it. You might be able to try making your own character in the game if they have a demo available.

Such a beautiful trailer and music! i luv this game 🤗

One thing to note is that almost all games use ingame cutscenes now adays to one extent or another. Which basically means they use the same engine that is creating the gameplay models and such to create the cutscene. So it looks identical to gameplay(And basically is still gameplay since its doing this on the fly in the game without pre-rendering, just story time for the game). Cinematic Cutscenes are the ones as someone else mentioned that are pre-rendered and don't use the ingame graphics engine.

These cyberpunk trailers were dreaming, but it was just a dream ...

You are the first person I've ever heard express that they'd like to just learn and take lessons if they were rich. I love that, because I'm much the same. I'd spend the rest of my days absorbing as much knowledge as possible taking all kinds of classes.

Interesting point about one book for every character as that is basically what the WH 40K Horus Heresy novels did. Downside is that there are now like 55 of them, with very varying quality...

I'm male, but usually play female characters, because I would rather see footage and hear a female voice if I am spending over 100hrs with them.

Been waiting for this game for 8 years. The hype is real, with the release tonight at midnight UTC

when I play games where you can customize yourself I usually try to loosely create myself. I think a lot of people do that. but at the same time a lot of people like you make "new" people and role play as that person and make choices based off that persons ideals (as in not their own, like if you're a nice person being mean and cruel or out going or anywhere in-between. We (or at least my friend group) play games so we can "live" alternate lives we wouldn't be able to or even WANT too outside of the game. Heck no I'm not going to be a Merc and run head first into gang's stronghold against cybernetically enhanced dudes but give me multiple "lives" so I can have fun doing it and you got me hooked.

Are we all just gonna ignore that sick mask wipe transition at the end? That was dope! Hahaha

A Scanner Darkly was not made with motion capture. It was made by filming it like a normal motion picture then every frame of the film were drawn over by artists to create its realistic looking style of animation.

You're a treat to watch! So funny as well 🤣 but to answer your question bout the character, Firstly yes I will make "myself" then make a character I created and wrote, then random characters i like from other things and see how they would look and maybe act in the game i create them in. So really both!

I allways make my picture of what the most badass coolest character would look like, so no way near what I look like ^^

I've been a Mike Pondsmith, the original Cyberpunk game writer and a contributor to this, fanboy since the early years. He commented when asked about how close the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG dystopian vision was close to the 2020 reality, he stated something to the effect that he "wrote it as a warning, not a prophecy". The idea of the Cyberpunk universe is to present a dark reflection on what our world of focussed greed, techno-fetish and exploitation will become if unleashed without constraint, the answer is deadly, dark and horrifying. Sadly since the mid-90's when I fell in love with the genre until now, we as a global society have steadily slipped down this exact path.

To answer your first question, in most of these kinds of games, I have a tendency to go with the default character. For instance, in the Mass Effect series, I went with the default character Shepard look. In a game that doesn’t have a default character, I create a character that looks as similar to me as possible. I don’t know if that’s typical of what other people do though. Anyway, I’m so pumped for Cyberpunk! Thanks for doing a reaction vid! ‎ Unrelated, have you read Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn Trilogy? I started reading it a while back and recently started getting back into it, and I’m loving it so far.

All the footage of the first trailer is all in game

Death Stranding do mocap too but more extreme, they got Norman Reedus to be the main character from the looks, voice to his body language. The Director told that Norman Reedus could be making everyday activities like opening up a soda can and he would told Norman to hold the thought, do it again but this time in front of the camera. Peeing? Do it again in front of the camera. At the end we ended up having the whole Norman Reedus as a playable character :v

The anxiety inducing instrument that you saw in music video is called a modular synthesizer, it's basicaly a bunch electronics that you can wire in different ways to create and modify sounds in interresting ways. It's is pretty popular among music nerds, it's jst not shown often. Excelent video btw !

OOOOOH I really think it'd be great if you watched stuff about the history of game development and did video on reacting to it!

The lady with the awesome cello is Tina Guo. She's amazing. Her specialty is heavy metal music, but she's classically trained so she has done work doing classical music and anything in between, including cover songs for movie soundtracks like Gladiator.

Almost always I make different characters. Usually I choose to play as female for my first 1-2 runs while I learn the game. After that, I choose a particular attitude of a person I know, either a friend, or myself, and play as if that character, with their behavior was in the world. If that person would have been angry, my response would be angry, if that person is easily frustrated, my character in game will get easily frustrated etc.

when there's character customization in-game I definitely try to recreate myself as a way to immerse myself even more :) and about distinguishing gameplay and cutscenes it can be hard to tell here since it's all mostly in a first-person perspective and there's little to no interface. to be clear - almost everything that you've seen is happening in-game but at some points, the control is taken from the player for a more cinematic impression. for example, that part where they're sliding from a skyscraper is clearly scripted, while all the shooting, fighting, and driving is gameplay.

The way you talk about writing and whatnot really makes it sound like you would be a fan of the Dragon Age series. The mechanics would be pretty intimidating for someone jumping in totally cold, but narratively it'd be a hit.

19:59 : So, get away, Another way to feel what you didn't want yourself to know...

100% is all in-game real time, CD Projekt RED have stated they don't want traditional cutscenes that you sit and watch, instead the events happen around you while you're playing

LOL - I'm guessing the "dirty joke" ran along the lines of "I wish your silver hand was in me" ??? Loving the reactions, and would love to read your novels. Are they available in New Zealand?

Considering you're more of a gamer now, you totally.. TOTALLY, need to give Cyberpunk 2077 a playthrough. OMG you wouldn't regret it. It's got great gameplay, great music/OST, great lore, and a phenomenal story. It's one of the most beautiful and well written pieces of entertainment that I've experienced in a long time.

to answer you question about the very first trailer you watched : the game is like a huge one-shot. The is literally no cutscenes, ni cinematic everything is in the game through the eyes of the main character (or Johnny, when you play though one of his flashbacks). 100% of the launch trailer is in-game, in engine

The way it usually goes in role playing games is you start by making a character a lot like yourself but more badass but then after a while you start making people wildly different.

so for you 6:00 question; I make a resident of their world so I can live vicariously through them. I role-play, I am someone else, somewhere else, and I'm in a world my character understands. Its why I play mostly female characters, since I'm not focusing on representing myself in-game, I have the freedom to create whoever, or whatever I want. its why a set male or female protagonist doesnt bother me, and why custom characters are so fun..... that said, writing from the future, the character customization in CP2077 is a bit mixed. Im not terribly thrilled with it, but its fine.

So, your question about how much of the gameplay trailer is in game, I played a lot of the game already and I could say at least 80% of it is in game. So it really is a gameplay trailer, unlike other game trailers that used rendered cutscenes as their trailers and said it's a gameplay trailer. However, I would also say that most of what they're showing here in the trailer is like... a playable cutscene if you will. It's scripted dialogue (and choices), setting and npcs, but you can still play and interact with other things in the environment. Sometimes you can even get away from that interaction entirely and derailing the plot, which I thought wasn't possible, but boy did they surprise me.

20:37 in regards to the cello, that is Tina Guo playing and she has a instagram presence as well. She has played in SOOOOO many good games, movies, and shows (including the Battlestar Galatica orchestra which is top notch in my opinion). She has a lot of electric cellos that look similar or just crazy off the wall.

My wife and I both are very excited for the character creation as well. 😂 Maybe we'll try to make a version of you and screenshot it.

Hey Hannah, if you wanted a follow up video to do: Run the Jewels released a track for the game called No Save Point and the music video is ALL Cyberpunk stuff 👍

Unfortunately they outright lied in the trailers. None of your choices end up mattering and almost all of the features they're talking about ended up in the game. They released trailers promising this stuff right up until the release of the game so they're probably going to get sued unless they can scramble to start implementing this stuff. We'll see. The sad part is, Keanu Reeves' involvement likely derailed the game. It's not his fault but some executive decided that they needed a big name actor involved and it forced the developers to scramble to re-write the story to make him a major part of the game.

I respect the people who have enough self confidence in themselves to make ridiculous clowns in the game..... I myself can’t help making myself in the game to immerse myself as deeply as I can.

When the game works properly it looks and plays like this. Haha.when playing games like this my first playthrough I make the character look like me. The other playthroughs I'll usually switch it up by making a badass looking character or a female character.

Fun fact: Keanu Reeves recorded more lines for Cyberpunk 2077 than his entire career!

she is so surprised as if she has never played games and has lived in a cave for the last 6 years ? Oh, shit !

I haven't played since the game came out, but after I install 28+ gigs worth of updates I will make a version of you, screenshot it and send it to you.

i always want to make a 'me' because im curious where i might end up in that place

13:26 in that room the digital artists already have a basic 3D space of the scene they are going to play and whoever is doing the motion capture has their 3D character in that scene too so when a scene is done they can just go back to the booth and watch the scene in the game engine.

love your hair :D

I normally create a version of me, or that kinda looks like me, in every RPG that allows character creation. :D Is more fun for me than seeing a random character. Btw, love your hair :D

A Scanner Darkly used rotoscoping that is easy to describe as animating by tracing over the film frames. A movie that comes to mind for me using that technique is Ralph Bakshi's "The lord of the rings" movie from 1978.

Thats actually how the game looks 😂 CD Project Red always to nice games, like Witcher 3, etc... And I always make Woman in games... With Red hair ._.

I can really recommend you to watch the Fanfilm "Cyberpunk Phoenix Programm" it's made by the same people that made "Star Wars Darth Maul Apprentice". Really high quality for a Fanfilm.

As far as character creation goes, i did make characters that looked like me and acted as i would way back when i began playing roleplay games. That does get boring rather quickly however. Now before i create a character i think about who they are, where they come from and how they would look.

She name dropped Jonny Mneumonic.. i love her

You need to become a gamer. If you've ever been immersed or emotionally involved in a movie or a TV show as a third-party observer to a point where you get angry when someone does something cruel, cry when a likeable character you've barely known for an hour dies, or jump with joy when the pathetic, pitiful, and unlikely hero finally finds true love... just imagine what one single video game will do in 100 hours of playing it as a first-party participant. Gamers experience things other people can only dream of.

I make myself and base story/gameplay choices on what I would do in that situation.

@05:42 I enjoy such games for the escapism, and I don't particularly like myself. I don't think that I have ever made a character to resemble myself. But you do you, no shame in figuring out for yourself what you like.

I feel like everyone hearts Keanu, I certainly know my Mum does (in not as weird a way as that probably sounds lol)

wanted to address your question at 6:10 regarding character creation! So, lots of games allow you to create your own character and customize their appearance. Every game's character creation system is a little different. The truth is, all in-game character creation menus are limited as to what they can do. As a general rule of thumb, it's very difficult to create a character in a game that has significant resemblance to you in real life. It's not impossible, it's just difficult. Some people do take the challenge; I've also seen people create celebrity lookalikes. For example, if you look up "Dragon Age Inquisition Danaerys", you'll see that a lot of people have made characters in that game with striking resemblance to Danaerys from Game of Thrones. The reason why she in particular is popular for that game is because of the unique features and limitations offered by that game's character creation menu in particular that lend more toward that kind of facial structure. I personally just make characters that I think look cool/good-looking without worrying too much if they resemble me in real life. A lot of people do something in between, making a cool-looking characters with some features that somewhat resemble them for real, but that still definitely don't look totally alike. It's really whatever you feel like doing, playing video games that offer that feature is fun because it's like playing make-believe.

Generally the first time i play a game i try to play as myself and do the choices i would do if it was me in real life, but after that first time i go crazy with how my character "behave"

well actually you can create your character in the game , not buying the game without the need to play - cyberpunk 2077 is based on the tabletop role-playing game cyberpunk 2020 - download a book, it lies in free access in the Internet and make it your character ( if you want) but I personally don't see the point in creating of myself, probably because I play games with dark and depressive worlds where everything is doomed to suffering and constant struggle for survival, cyberpunk such worlds is - he is fierce and grim , why make yourself and condemn yourself to misery ?

There are people who make themselves as they are, in these games, and people who make themselves as they wish they were. Sometimes that last one is an entirely different creature.

this is based on the classic rpg cyberpunk , its newest book just came out and is called cyberpunk red, written by mike pondsmith

That's what I like about this game....EVERYTHING is in-game

5:57 personally, in the games like these, that allow character creation, I prefer to create a character that's completely different from myself. Because me IRL is boring and makes boring decisions, I'd rather roleplay as a drunken brawler that emits chaotic energy and shits into people's beds or an evil psycho that shreds people left and right and has no sense of morals. It's more exciting and fun to roleplay as someone else, IMO.

I play on PC, this is spot on. Super fun.

to answer your question regarding character creation, it's been proven time and again that the vast majority of players will make a character that looks as close to themselves as is possible with the customisation options available, however this trend is seen most commonly in games with only a single character per play through/per account option, when you look at games where you're not locked into a single character and can make multiple characters, after playing the game through the first time with their 'clone' character they will usually go back and create a totally new and unique character that is nothing like themselves sometimes drastically so, it just depends on the type of game and the level of customisation available by the developers of the game for character creation.

Dnt know how i havent noticed how INCREDIBLY pretty this woman is....dont want to be THAT person but ive watched a couple of her vids and am entertained by her banter and pov but GEEZ...almost a baby Angelina in Gia