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Cyberpunk 2077, the Seizure Inducing Videogame, Released December 10
TychoCelchuuu
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https://youtu.be/qIcTM8WXFjkCyberpunk 2077 is a first-person RPG by CD Project RED, developers of the Witcher series. It is based on the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop RPG created by Mike Pondsmith, who was a consultant for the video game.
Keanu Reeves is in the video game, playing Johnny Silverdick Mnemonic or some character from the RPG. Lady Gaga is also rumored to have a role. You can beat the game without killing anyone, either in real life or in the game. Potentially you can kill the Pope although this is me reading between the lines.
You play as V, and your overaching goal is to steal a computer program that contains the key to immortality. You can drive a car around.
https://youtu.be/vjF9GgrY9c0Reviews
Links
- Giphy?
- Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction
- It sucks that Cyberpunk 2077’s edgelord marketing worked so well
- Rock Paper Shotgun: "Trans representaiton in Cyberpunk 2077 matters, but not because it's cyberpunk"
- Some cool twitter threads on cyberpunk more generally: one and two
- Dildos are everywhere in Cyberpunk 2077
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It’s that band Willie Nelson covered, right?
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I... already knew that.
but that's okay, there's probably lots of people in a thread about cyberpunk who remember the 80s...
I'M NOT OLD!
sob
excuse me I loved the 80s, except for reagan, I'm glad that bastard is dead
Here's a link to gamespot's stream but I'm sure it'll be all over the place. Pretty sure this is going to be the PAX West Presentation of the gameplay stuff the press saw at E3.
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/watch-cyberpunk-2077s-gameplay-livestream-here/1100-6469488/
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Some male gamers have the same bruised sensibilities as straight white voters and the terribly concerned Christians... they used to be the only demographic anyone cared about, now that's not the case, and they hate feeling like they're not as important anymore.
Simple as that.
Also, and not to bring up old shit, but some of those hot takes from RPS seemed a bit too hot-haded.
Also ROACH!
EDIT: Also, this makes me really miss Hollie from Playstation Access.
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I haven't watched the footage yet but the correct, mechanics accurate, way to do this in 2020 was to be good at Akido and endlessly body flip dudes into eachother to prompt KO/stun rolls.
Just as an aside into how crazy RPG mechanics can wind up being expressed.
Also Mike Pondsmith shows up near the end to talk about the Animals and the Voodoo Boys.
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Which means I should look into getting a new processor and motherboard by spring.
Like that's the story version of putting a trailer full of nothing but watching someone do inventory management. You can't tell if that style of shit comes to fruition or exists meaningfully till the full game is in your hands.
Welcome to the genre called Cyberpuuuuuuuunk 🤘
Nah, there are plenty of cyberpunk stories that don't need to be based on cynicism on the human level.
Like every trailer continues to circle back to "this is cool, it's a shame all this money went to writing that would have being hot shit thirty years ago, when the game first came out"
I mean, this wasn't true even in super early books like Snow Crash and also it should not be true in modern versions provided you're actually trying to be punk rather than just "cool profit margins!"
Like I don't know if I can be more clear but:
1) the 2020 RPG is literally almost 30 years old today. Which is why it has shit like the ability to put hot tech like fax machines in your cyberarm. Also it has a huge number of issues that blame bodily autonomy on the people needing it and not the corporations.
2) We should expect better from writters than "stuff which was genre savvy as a 16 year old game master for 2020 in the 1990's"
I'm curious now, what is that you think separates cyberpunk from other sci-fi genres? Like, what is cyberpunk to you?
Focus on near future, augmentation as a metaphor for bodily autonomy, corporate control and fighting it.
None of which actually requires accepting a default tone of lives being worth tiny baby money.
Like if your punk setting is all about establishing that Yes, the Status Quo really is that life is cheap and worthless then uh, it's not punk? It's just boot licking profit margins?
EDIT: Like, if the genre at its base is about how tech is both inevitable and harmful in corporate hands then uh, any status quo version of it which follows the corporate mandate that freelancers are cheap lives to expend is just saying that the corporate hands are correct to treat people like that.
Which isn't punk.
At all.
I don't really see the supposed flexibility reflected in the screenshots they have put out.
Sure it's nice if pronoun is separated from body type, but those are still two pretty generic body types to pick from. Saints Row 2 did this better 11 years ago.
I feel like if every single bit of news about a game needs "but we need more info!" then we should probably be less generically salivating for every droppings worth of gameplay.
Haven't went out of my way to find much of anything.
Which isn't to say I don't want that, I'd love if every game let me have as many choices as Saints Row, but I think expecting that is setting yourself up for disappointment
Path of Exile has spent 2 years working on their riggings and models for the new characters (Supposedly male/female for all classes) and have several people dedicated to doing just that. I think having the fully customizable character creator everyone wants is still a few years off, at least to the point where it characters and clothing look decent even with extreme character creation parameters.
It's not a matter of that, it's simply a matter of resources and what the company is willing to put into what. Big companies like Square have limits, it's not just an indie thing.
Is character creation the most important part of a first-person-only game, or some other things? What will make the effort produce the most value, I guess.
Witcher 3 showed me that they have a lot of potential, as that's still one of the best open world RPGs I have played. Trying to accomplish the same thing in a different setting, with even more choices and a completely open MC is a feat I look forward to see the results of.