I’m so happy to see how the production of Cyberpunk 2077 is giving Mike the worldwide mainstream praise he deserves for his work.

Seeing R. Talsorian come back is like seeing a smithing shop come back to life. The forge gets relit, that hammers begin to clang, and the dust lifts away. I can see in my mind the entire Pondsmith clan singing and banging away in time on all these projects and it blows me away.

I am happy its first person. The detailed world is more important than just a huge open space. Glade its FPV.

Love how the interviewer doesn't interrupt him

BIGGEST RESPECT FOR MAKING IT REAL (2077)

Makes me really happy to know Mike Pondsmith himself is able to advise on 2077 given all his experience. Cant wait to see his vision for this world realised.

So glad 2077 is in first person ! Incredibly excited for the game.

I could listen to Mike read the fine print on my car insurance policy and enjoy it. He's got one hell of a voice

2:14 Otacon's calling

Very smart man. Now i am 100% sure about the game

Mike seems so genuine and down to earth. His voice is also really awesome. I hope he plays some sort of narrator role during the intro, describing the city and the corruption within. His creative genius and positive energy combined with CDPR’s fantastic game developing and creative direction will surely be an unstoppable combo. Can’t wait to play the game!

Mike has one of the manliest voice out there. He could easily make it into voice acting gig.

Mike is life

I’m simply amazed how deep he’s thinking about technology, future and humanity. All of that has some philosophical depth and looks like the game will have that. This guy talks like he really cares for the game world and that everything there needs to have a meaning and a reason. Typically if done by some EA types, it just would be like lets make a world that looks like some futuristic stuff and that’s it. But here the world is buit for a reason.

He’s got charm, intelligence creativity.. he isn’t afraid to be a nerd and that’s awesome:)

Cyberpunk 2077 start of the legend and its not out yet. : )

Cant wiat to play RED and I cant wait for 2077 to release.

Love everything you do mike. 1:00:10. Really powerful.

Legend in the making.

Hell yeah, Mike! You and Cody are killing it!

The more mike talks the more I want to reread and read newer and older cyberpunk, mecha, and sci fi concept everything. this is awesome!

"It's not about saving the world. It's about saving yourself." that sounds way too real.. maybe that's precisely why I like it =)

I have never played the PnP, but I absolutely adore the motif of cyberpunk. And man, Mike seems like a really really really cool guy!

Loving the progress of 2077 but my real love is with CP, FNFF and paper, pencil die and WON'T be putting them away soon :D Cheers Choomba!

I think that 1st person, in this case, allows for game designers to convey details on a micro plane, not only on macro. Narrative can play out with more subtlety, together with the world and its characters, because the camera is so close to the action. NPCs can gesticulate in a particular way that would only make sense if it was directed towards you, not your character, and the level can deliver pinpointed interactible information, safely relying on micro details, in the same way. One could argue that other RPGs, like _Elder Scrolls_ and _Fallout,_ let you freely alternate between perspectives, at any time, so why did they decided to lock it in 1st person? Here's the problem: Those "details" could contain important information to the overall game flow, and said level of detail is only workable through the proximity of the 1st person camera - in third person they wouldn't be noticeable. So you either maintain those details in all their relevance, potentially alienating the player who's, by any chance, playing in 3rd person right at that part where the information is delivered to the 1st person camera, or you shallow the overall experience by sacrificing those details, making sure the road has no bumps and information can be conveyed fluently for any perspective the player may be playing in - even if he's not close to the action (unless you expect the game to force a switch to 1st person whenever it's needed, which i find kinda clunky). They chose the third option: Sacrifice 3rd person so there's no need to sacrifice detailing. If there is no 3rd person camera, every player is susceptible to the same approach; to the same frame of interaction and communication with the game world, and both macro and micro information can be delivered with consistency.

You should've zoomed a little more. I truly wanted to see the micro particles of their skin...

I've been going to PAX Prime for over a decade and this is still one of the best if not the best panel I've ever attended. Pondsmith is such a great gaming legend.

You know, I've never played Cyberpunk 2020, have played very little PnP RPGs, it was only last year that I started GMing (Mutant Year Zero)... but Cyberpunk 2077 is the game I've been waiting for half of my life knowing it and for my whole life without knowing it, and I can't wait for Cyberpunk RED to see a release in Spanish (see, it's a big deal, sometimes you just have to hand the book to your players, to have them choose talents, cybernetics... and the language barrier bogs things down). It was 15 years ago that I got into Cyberpunk big time. At that time I discovered GITS SAC, and it's a very special thing to me and that's why I love hearing Maximum Mike Pondsmith nerd out about it, because it's that good and sometimes very unfair comparisons come with the movie. And from watching GITS SAC... my brain was scattershot trying to find cyberpunk things, I don't even know the order I consumed those things (not even episodes of the series, as I caught it airing on TV late at night when I came back from partying a bit drowsy and then there's me consuming them faster than emule could find all of them in order). I got Neuromancer, discovered Wisdom000's datafortress, cyberpunkreview... But yeah, I suppose I've been waiting for it my whole life. As a kid I marvelled at the Fifth Element, I felt chills while watching Total Recall or Robocop (yeah, we all had parents like those that let you watch it), first time that I associated the label with cyberpunk, though was when I first watched The Matrix, only around 2001 when I watched it on my cousin's PS2. During mid to late August I visited Seattle, partly because of my love of grunge and Nirvana, partly for how exotic things like Shadowrun made it look, that eclectic mix of futuristic architecture and native american and asian influence. I also discovered it was a great place to nerd out with things like the MoPOP (more so if you'd nerdgasm at the sight of, uh, I don't know, Deckard's spinner hanging over your head, the briefcase from Total Recall, that kinda thing). I can't lie, I was secretly hoping I'd bump into Mike while there. Too bad I didn't.

I'm so hyped for cyberpunk 2077

Mike Pondsmith got the whole cigar of troubles. The whole.....cigar....to his recovery.

Completely happy with it, FPS was the best choice.

I appreciate mike pondsmith

It's so enjoyable listening to him talk

Man this dude is so damn cool. I'm making it a goal of mine to meet him and shake his hand.

Def gonna add this to my watch later so I can watch this at work.

Brilliant, plus that ending point about following the money 😉

Always happy to watch/hear these lenghty videos regarding Cyberpunk 2020/2077 while I'm doing my dailys in WoW. :D

I'm really interested watching this, since I know Johnny is preparing a Cyberpunk campaign for the Eurogamer Channel, so this kind of stands out as some pretty solid campaign prep for a GM.

Thank you guys so much for creating this channel and providing content like this for the masses. I can't get enough of listening to Michael, his vision and delivery of it are absolutely incredible. Please continue to give us more content like this!

Really insightful.

I'm so hyped for a cyberpunk 2077 pen and paper game, i think this has the potential of changing the whole pen and paper landscape by introducing millions of newcomers to a world that can be accessed by playing pen and paper, this game will be huge for people who did not grow up reading alot of books and are interested in pen and paper but don't have a friend group to play with. When they have already played in this huge and expansive world of Cyberpunk 2077, you have given them a familiar environment additionaly to a huge visual library of references on what to imagine, with all that information i think people are way more likely to engage in a pen and paper game.

Maximum Mike is a goddamn prophet.

At the end when he talked about how he has a buddy who hires mercenaries for corporations was lowkey scary. Like nobody bothers to think about with these corps are really upto.

THANK YOU FOR DOING CYBERPUNK

I am totally NOT JEALOUS, NOT BLOWN AWAY, that Walter Jon WIlliams was a player in Mike's MEKTON group. Not at all!! (Yeah, totally jealous and blown away. :P)

21:30 alternate timeline confirmed madqueen was right

Super stuff, was. Hoping for a longer chat with pondsmith..

I would piss myself laughing if the Gilligans were in 2077 but i guess copyright will keep them out.

That Booyah was clean!

Holy shit, he even referenced Ghost In The Shell: SAC, April can't come fast enough.

The mans a god

So been listening to Snow Crash on tape and my fuzzy memory messed it up. It's Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong, and it is more Hong Kong then Hong Kong. Good talk none the less.

That voice is amazing.

I just found out that i know a lot of things on politics business and what not, got a interdisciplinary experience and international and i shld definitely try to write and get into this career of creative insurgent like you... (Seems many dnt know what is happening in last 20 years around them and u even got assange or harari or others telling stuff and many still dnt understand.. I think it. Great to do something that people dnt understand... Just become a poet like you) i d love to work and learn from you and yor team maybe will find a way to meet other creatives

Mike is like homer the 'blind' poet? All poets are blind as the see with an inner eye

49:45 when he says that São Paulo-Brazil is the city that resembles the game CyberPunk 2077

At 30:30, you missed a great chance to make a cookng WITH chiodini joke..

These camera angles are making me claustrophobic...

great video, bad audio :(

I'd love to see my mans with a sleeve or sock or something,,them shitz would be so dope.

Booyah...

I love, respect and appreciate Mike's view of His game (hope they don't 'F' over my mans shit yo...not CDPR but those side MF's). I like the new perspective and application to the game, but I don't feel these new dudes appreciate his view...I appreciate his old school perspective of His game.

We already known! Don't mess with me or my gang! #Cyberware4Lyfe

does anyone know about the rubies (or garnets, or any red gem) that is in both of their ears?

Kill the cameraman but goddamn is this a good panel.

so about synth skin its a cosmetic thing that lets you change your skin color, make it light up or shiny or chrome or something right? so.... can you use it to hide from APBs? or infiltrate corpo or gang headquarters? can it make you invisible? or blend in like camouflage? it may be a small detail for most but its VERY important to me. it speaks to the versatility of the mods and how creative you can be with how you use them. I really need this answered...

You guys really need to get a stand or stabilizer or something

38:00

This channel is Mike Pondsmith? or just Cyberpunk 2077 or both ? help.

What books did he mention in the beginning?

@lif3withplaystation Check this out

POLSKA!!!!!!!!

Note of advice, lower the volume during applause, jaysus.

Proposal: Put Mike in the damn game. A fixer, ripperdoc, whatever, just DO IT.

im not really in to that rock or punk stuff , other thin that the game look fun

The whitest sounding black guy

Snow Crash is an excellent book. Highly recommended.