It's a hyper-alienated end-stage capitalist world, you morons. Also
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The good ending can only be achieved if you choose to accept help from the close knit community of outcasts
Capitalists not entirely missing the point of media challenge.
It's a hyper-alienated end-stage capitalist world, you morons. Also
The good ending can only be achieved if you choose to accept help from the close knit community of outcasts
Capitalists not entirely missing the point of media challenge.
counterpoint: if the game were true to the typical experience in such a world i.e. living in the pod and eating the bug bars until you die at 43 from incredible stress and terminal saturation with forever chemicals it wouldn't be much fun, would it? That's not to say that you should be able to make tons of friends and have everything hunky-dory, but I think diverging somewhat from perfect authenticity to explore characters isn't a bad idea.
Disclaimer: I have never played the game :gigachad-hd:
Cyberpunk protagonists are almost always people who are outsiders in the system, usually criminals of some degree, whose outsider status affords them at least some degree of agency that the typical plugged in normal person doesn't have. The cost, though, is usually very high.