I've just realised that fr means for real and not just strange fr fr noises. But anyway, Edgerunners is pretty good. But it has its issues, which are really the problem of cyberpunk as a genre. More aestethics than substance. It will give you a powerful escapist fantasy, but with an nihilist perspective. There is nothing you can do, corporations will always win, so why not join a gang and live fast and die young.
Yeah you're right that that's the core problem of the genre. But I think you're misinterpreting the theme a little bit. Yeah it's nihilistic in that the setting is so totalizing and soul-crushing that there's no real way to change it, but overall the series is about still resisting that regime to the bitter end, even in the face of hopelessness, and finding real meaning and human connections on the way.
I've just realised that fr means for real and not just strange fr fr noises. But anyway, Edgerunners is pretty good. But it has its issues, which are really the problem of cyberpunk as a genre. More aestethics than substance. It will give you a powerful escapist fantasy, but with an nihilist perspective. There is nothing you can do, corporations will always win, so why not join a gang and live fast and die young.
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Yeah you're right that that's the core problem of the genre. But I think you're misinterpreting the theme a little bit. Yeah it's nihilistic in that the setting is so totalizing and soul-crushing that there's no real way to change it, but overall the series is about still resisting that regime to the bitter end, even in the face of hopelessness, and finding real meaning and human connections on the way.
idk at least they gave it a go
someones gotta win against corpos eventually