CD Projekt has ‘no regrets’ about making Cyberpunk first-person, is ‘yet to see’ on the sequel

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CD Projekt Red has “no regrets” about making Cyberpunk 2077 a first-person game but isn’t ruling out making changes for its sequel, codenamed Project Orion.

That’s according to the game’s quest director Paweł Sasko, who discussed the studio’s decision to switch from The Witcher’s third-person perspective to a first-person one for Cyberpunk during an investor Q&A session on Thursday.

Sasko was asked whether the company has any regrets about the decision, and whether it might consider letting players toggle between first and third-person perspectives in the game’s sequel.

“That’s a great question, but there are no regrets on our part,” he said. “I was one of the people who started developing the first prototypes of this system for Cyberpunk using the Witcher technology. What we wanted to do was for Cyberpunk to have its own identity and to be noticeable as this different thing.

“These days it’s YouTube, Twitch and screenshots that sell games, and this is a way one can use to show that identity and individuality to players. A first-person perspective helped Cyberpunk develop this identity a lot.

“We put in a lot of work in preparing this body presence so that it would shine through this first-person perspective. You can see the outstretched hand or outstretched limbs when you’re sitting in a car seat for instance, but that wasn’t what your question was about was it?

“I wanted to say though that the first-person perspective is the main characteristic for Cyberpunk and its perception by the players too. It’s also noticeably different from The Witcher, and this helped us craft the product identity as such.”

Sasko also said the studio didn’t want to rest on its laurels like some other developers are seemingly content to do.

“This is