Developing triple-A games is an expensive business.
For example, the graphically impressive The Callisto Protocolreportedly cost $162 million to develop.
For longer and more complex RPGs meanwhile the effort and resources required can not only be intensive but lengthy.
In a recent roundtable interview, aCD Projekt Reddeveloper addresses these issues.
Famed for its expansive role-playing games, CDPR is the Polish studio behind The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.
“Then you look at Cyberpunk”, Sasko contrasted.
“No cuts, no black screens, you’re in ‘V’ all the time.
It got so incredibly more expensive to generate branches.
Adding branches to Witcher 3 was so easy in comparison to Cyberpunk.
This article really sparked that discussion.”
Those interested can listen to the full 80-minute conversationhere.
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