L: A lot of people had a negative knee-jerk reaction when you guys revealed that Cyberpunk 2077 was going to be both first-person and have players create their own character. These two things specifically I think caught a lot of people off guard. Touching first on the create-a-character stuff, I think coming off of The Witcher games fans fell so in love with Geralt that I think they were worried that the new protagonist in Cyberpunk 2077 wasn’t going to be as iconic because it’s not a set character like he was. What would you say to alleviate people’s fears and worries about this?
PM: Well, this is going to sound a little bit self-promote-y but I used to work at Obsidian and I worked on Alpha Protocol. With Alpha Protocol, you had a main character that was kind of similar to V (main character of Cyberpunk 2077) and I’m really hoping that we can do a similar thing where everyone who played Alpha Protocol and liked it said that their character felt very alive and very distinct. There was a lot of variety and by the end of the game, everybody had their own character.