I really, really hope we get a robust character customization past character creation.
Large part of the Cyberpunk aesthetic is the (not sure of the word) fungibility of bodyparts.
I want the ability to switch my look depending on where i am going or what i am thinking of doing there, from sleek all invisible cybernetics to chrome limbs that scream CYBORG to anyone within visual distance.
Enhancements designed for social situations, stealh gigs or just blowing up a small army.
Also i hope they keep cybernetic enhancements and character skills/level separate.
Sure make me better at using the enhancements through skills, but i should be able to get the best possible cybernetics the second i have the money (and rep/contacts) to get them.
Gating them behind hard to impossible to low level characters is fine though (need to steal them from army base or megacorp, or do some difficult runs for suits that have chewed and spat out dozens of other runners).
I really, really hope we get a robust character customization past character creation. Large part of the Cyberpunk aesthetic is the (not sure of the word) fungibility of bodyparts. I want the ability to switch my look depending on where i am going or what i am thinking of doing there, from sleek all invisible cybernetics to chrome limbs that scream CYBORG to anyone within visual distance.
Enhancements designed for social situations, stealh gigs or just blowing up a small army.
Also i hope they keep cybernetic enhancements and character skills/level separate.
Sure make me better at using the enhancements through skills, but i should be able to get the best possible cybernetics the second i have the money (and rep/contacts) to get them.
Gating them behind hard to impossible to low level characters is fine though (need to steal them from army base or megacorp, or do some difficult runs for suits that have chewed and spat out dozens of other runners).
The developers, AND mike pondsmith, reiterated this point repeatedly since the trailer was released
I think we might be good on this front
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See also these two images from the demo panel:
- many types of cyberware
- extensive character and character background creator
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if its in first person they NEED to let me lok down and see my feet
this is ESSENTIAL
Yeah, "feet". You're not fooling anyone, Surreality. We all saw the original reveal trailer.
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The interview guy mentioned tattoos but what I want to make sure is that this game has more than stupid ass face tattoos that every god damn game puts in as the only option.
I feel like tattoos fit the aesthetic here a lot and being able to have tattoos on my characters body would be ideal.
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edited June 2018
y'all are just parsing SC's post wrong, they don't mean feet the anatomical structure, they mean multiple feet of dick hanging down like an angry cyber-boa
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
The writing in that demo panel is horrendous and, I would hope, not representative of the game, right
It mostly just read like a slightly better Google translated document from its (presumably) original Polish. Something done quickly, perhaps inappropriately so, but only because it is no way intended as a consumer-facing document by which people should judge the contents of the game itself.
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I shouldn't be this hyped for a game that hasn't had a gameplay reveal, but here I am.
Maybe it's because I fkin loved Witcher 3's writing and universe and seeing a well-done cyberpunk AAA title where you can like, get down into the deeps of the world instead of just having it as a backdrop has me just vibrating.
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
I would like to clarify something. Snow Crash was like ten years after cyberpunk was already fairly well established. It was almost an homage/parody of the genre up to that point. It's not in the original cast, though it's now held up as a seminal work in the evolution of the genre.
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
I would like to clarify something. Snow Crash was like ten years after cyberpunk was already fairly well established. It was almost an homage/parody of the genre up to that point. It's not in the original cast, though it's now held up as a seminal work in the evolution of the genre.
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
I would like to clarify something. Snow Crash was like ten years after cyberpunk was already fairly well established. It was almost an homage/parody of the genre up to that point. It's not in the original cast, though it's now held up as a seminal work in the evolution of the genre.
I wonder if Snow Crash was something of an inspiration for Demolition Man's setting. I mean, one of cyberpunk's themes is opposition to control via marketing/capitalism/crass materialism, but both Snow Crash and Demolition Man have a more tongue-in-cheek take on it. Real brands operating in over-the-top-ways.
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
I would like to clarify something. Snow Crash was like ten years after cyberpunk was already fairly well established. It was almost an homage/parody of the genre up to that point. It's not in the original cast, though it's now held up as a seminal work in the evolution of the genre.
It also popularized a number of conventions we take for granted today.
Avatar as a term for the digital self for one. Granted it wasn’t the first use in that manner, but from what I read in the subject most credit Snow Crash with popularizing the term as it is used today.
Either way a good read none the less.
edit- Oh yeah, Snow Crash was also an inspiration for Google Earth.
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As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
The book, 'Snow Crash' opens up with an over the top pizza delivery scene where the protagonist ('literally named Hiro Protagonist') is driving a pizza delivery car going 120mph in order to deliver a pizza within a time limit. If he misses the delivery window, the pizza mob will have to give the customer $1,000,000 and Hiro Protagonist will also have to pay with his life.
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edited June 2018
And if anyone is still on the fence about reading Snow Crash, here is an excerpt (taken from TVtropes, 'cause no way I would be able to remember all this):
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world... Hiro used to feel this way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this was liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
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Yeah I saw that earlier... I mean..what? That's literally the whole point of the genre. To show where absolutely unchecked greed leads to.
It reminds me of the ancient PA front page post making fun of the guy who basically wrote a review saying "it's great the xbox finally got a traditional JPRG but man it has all these traditional JRPG features that I don't like."
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edited June 2018
If you subvert the Cyberpunk genre you get, like, Star Trek or something.
edit- Predictions of future tweets.
"As predicted RDR2 does nothing to subvert the genre. It is full of cowboys, horses, gun fights, and uses the wild west as a backdrop etc etc etc"
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Large part of the Cyberpunk aesthetic is the (not sure of the word) fungibility of bodyparts.
I want the ability to switch my look depending on where i am going or what i am thinking of doing there, from sleek all invisible cybernetics to chrome limbs that scream CYBORG to anyone within visual distance.
Enhancements designed for social situations, stealh gigs or just blowing up a small army.
Also i hope they keep cybernetic enhancements and character skills/level separate.
Sure make me better at using the enhancements through skills, but i should be able to get the best possible cybernetics the second i have the money (and rep/contacts) to get them.
Gating them behind hard to impossible to low level characters is fine though (need to steal them from army base or megacorp, or do some difficult runs for suits that have chewed and spat out dozens of other runners).
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Wikipedia gives me 2
The Ravengers (1995)
Holo Men (1996)
Yeah, "feet". You're not fooling anyone, Surreality. We all saw the original reveal trailer.
I think we might be good on this front
Edit:
See also these two images from the demo panel:
- many types of cyberware
- extensive character and character background creator
cyberfeet
I feel like tattoos fit the aesthetic here a lot and being able to have tattoos on my characters body would be ideal.
Your character is going to have very prominent cyberfeet.
The Dalegs are superior!!
thicc.. feet
also i hope there are lots of shiny surfaces and mirrors so i can spend time admiring myself
smart mirrors too smart for their own good
As someone who has never played the original PnP.... Why does everyone eventually mention pizza delivery in relation to this?
you know what they say about prominent cyberfeet
It's a reference to the main character of the book Snow Crash being a pizza delivery driver (THE DELIVERATOR) in the beginning of the book. Good, weird book if you've never read it. Arguably one of the founding novels of cyberpunk.
It mostly just read like a slightly better Google translated document from its (presumably) original Polish. Something done quickly, perhaps inappropriately so, but only because it is no way intended as a consumer-facing document by which people should judge the contents of the game itself.
Maybe it's because I fkin loved Witcher 3's writing and universe and seeing a well-done cyberpunk AAA title where you can like, get down into the deeps of the world instead of just having it as a backdrop has me just vibrating.
I would like to clarify something. Snow Crash was like ten years after cyberpunk was already fairly well established. It was almost an homage/parody of the genre up to that point. It's not in the original cast, though it's now held up as a seminal work in the evolution of the genre.
I read the sprawl trilogy. Thanks for the info!
I wonder if Snow Crash was something of an inspiration for Demolition Man's setting. I mean, one of cyberpunk's themes is opposition to control via marketing/capitalism/crass materialism, but both Snow Crash and Demolition Man have a more tongue-in-cheek take on it. Real brands operating in over-the-top-ways.
EDIT: Then again, maybe these ideas aren't so weird - https://www.pavingforpizza.com/
It also popularized a number of conventions we take for granted today.
Avatar as a term for the digital self for one. Granted it wasn’t the first use in that manner, but from what I read in the subject most credit Snow Crash with popularizing the term as it is used today.
Either way a good read none the less.
edit- Oh yeah, Snow Crash was also an inspiration for Google Earth.
The book, 'Snow Crash' opens up with an over the top pizza delivery scene where the protagonist ('literally named Hiro Protagonist') is driving a pizza delivery car going 120mph in order to deliver a pizza within a time limit. If he misses the delivery window, the pizza mob will have to give the customer $1,000,000 and Hiro Protagonist will also have to pay with his life.
HUD is upgrades! So seeing bullets, identifying enemies- that's all upgrades
quests are VERY variable, you can "change your mind" multiple times during even the same quest, and street cred/xp can change the outcomes too
Giant cybertits that obscure them. Wait, shit.
Yes. They’re expensive and probably illegal.
https://www.gameinformer.com/preview/2018/06/12/impressions-and-details-from-50-minutes-of-gameplay
Only because of those damn feet transplant lobbyists!
It reminds me of the ancient PA front page post making fun of the guy who basically wrote a review saying "it's great the xbox finally got a traditional JPRG but man it has all these traditional JRPG features that I don't like."
edit- Predictions of future tweets.
"As predicted RDR2 does nothing to subvert the genre. It is full of cowboys, horses, gun fights, and uses the wild west as a backdrop etc etc etc"
edit 2- @3clipse found it for ya!