The futuristic, crime-ridden, punk rocking, shoot-em-up RPG Cyberpunk 2077 has revealed its second cast member right behind Keanu Reeves: Twitch streamer CohhCarnage. Cyberpunk 2077 is coming this Fall, and it’s adding a plethora of characters along with CohhCarnage, as he announced on stream that he will appear as a character the players can interact with.
“It’s not a big character but you get to interact with him, it’s very branching so you can do different lines with him and go different ways,” CohhCarnage said. “Most of the lines are me kinda screaming and it’s a cool perspective to do a character in. It’s not like I’m just talking to you because my dude has some issues.”
The idea to invite a streamer on as a character adds speculation as to how CD Projekt Red manages it’s cast even with the big reveal of Keanu Reeves at E3 2019 Xbox Conference.
CD Projekt Red is known to include hidden easter eggs in their titles, such as The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt where one can find a dead assassin in almost an entirely traditional Assassin’s Creed outfit. This speculation of them having an easter egg mindset has influenced them to get more creative and thus have gone to cameos, to hide these hidden treasures in places people where might not look.
“What’s really cool about my character is you can do lots of things,” CohhCarnage said on stream. “It’s way more of a cameo than I was expecting it to be.”
However a cameo this may be for CohhCarnage, in terms of an easter egg, one could justify that it’s a creative and new format for how video games handle cameos in the future. After all, Cyberpunk 2077 is set in a futuristic environment where it looks like streamers and other media influencers truly shape and rule the world. It would be no surprise that those who 'influence' you in the game to complete a quest might actually be influencers or streamers in real life.
Cyberpunk 2077 is set to release on PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, PlayStation 4, and Google Stadia on November 19th, 2020.
Source: CohhCarnage