Does Overwatch, the Blizzard game, count as cyberpunk, or does cyberpunk require a darker aesthetic?

I only know cyberpunk through CDPR’s Cyberpunk 2077 game, and I guess also through the Blade Runner movies. So, I don’t really know much about it from literature or tabletop games.

That said, Overwatch has a lot of the same themes, but with a brighter “Sunday morning cartoon/anime” aesthetic.

So yeah, thoughts?

  • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
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    1 year ago

    I would say no, none of the themes of cyberpunk are really there and aesthetic is also very far off

    • diamond_shield@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      There's the lijiang tower map that has some really cool aesthetics, I'd say kinda cyberpunkysh: *removed externally hosted image*

      • S13Ni@lemmy.studio
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        1 year ago

        I think it mostly looks futuristic, and not cyberpunk, what I consider cyberpunk look is more dirty, less utopistic and polished look. I tried to post image from Deus Ex Mankind Divided Golem City, but it didn't work for some reason.

        • diamond_shield@reddthat.com
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          1 year ago

          Just post an external URL to it like i did, similar to old reddit

          It's also more lightweight to the instances, I strictly only upload images I don't want to rot on here