One of the things I still hold to the highest regard in Bioware’s pre-midlife crisis RPG Dragon Age: Origins was how it handled the origin of each of its playable characters. Depending on which origin story you choose, you can have 6 different openings with its own subplot and characters. It added a whole new element to the role-playing aspect and upped the replayability factor. It looks like Cyberpunk 277, the game everyone and their grandmothers are excited about, is also going to feature multiple origin stories.
In a talk VG247 had with Paweł Sasko, the lead quest designer on Cyberpunk 2077, it was explained that on top of creating a fully customizable character, players will be able to choose their origin stories as well, resulting in different starting locations and backstories.
In his words,
“The player in Cyberpunk 2077 can create a custom character that has one of three origin stories, that we call lifepaths: you can be Nomad, Corpo or Street Kid. Each of that Lifepaths has a different starting location and story background that are strongly connected with the origin story. Anything more I say can reveal too much from the story, so I will leave it like this.”
It remains to be seen if this is just something that is only used in the prologue or will it affect the entire playthrough. In both case, color us excited.