The developers from the Polish CD Projekt RED want in the codenamed Cyberpunk sequel Orion better capture the near, dystopian future of America. Apparently, in the first part they didn't go deep enough.
Cyberpunk 2077, which takes place in the fictional California metropolis of Night City, it is supposed to embody the final phase of capitalist America. People's lives are controlled by corporations, like everything else, and people have no choice but to resort to crime or other communities to stay at least one step ahead in this dystopian future. This is the vision that the Polish CD Projekt RED wanted to convey, but now they want to go even further.
Studio in their podcast AnsweRED, where they invite various developers from all over the world. He was one of the guests in the latest episode Paweł Sasko, one of the lead designers of the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel, which is being developed in a new studio in Boston. Saxony talked about that although Cyberpunk 2077 was supposed to depict a dystopian American futureso since the release of the game in 2020, he traveled to America more often and had the unrelenting feeling that they simply did not go into depth enough in some topics.
“I SEE THAT WE DID NOT PUSH THE SAW ENOUGH IN SOME PLACES, FOR EXAMPLE. LIKE THE HOMELESS CRISIS, WHEN I LOOK AT IT, I TELL MYSELF WE WERE NOT FAR ENOUGH IN '77. WE THOUGHT WE WERE DYTOPIAN, BUT WE NEVER GOT TO THE CORE OF THE PROBLEM.''