so glad i wrote this game off years ago. I'm not honestly a big fan of cyperpunk in a lot of ways. like it theoretically has a lot of stuff I would find interesting, but I don't. i also can't stand how g*mers almost romanized cyperpunk aesthetics and all that shit, that is also super fucked up to me. but i genuinely couldn't get into the witcher 3, tried maybe four times and i just couldn't care about the story at all. it's was a pretty game, and i like high fantasy shit, but idk i didn't like gerald and i didn't get hooked. i also get overwhelmed when a game drops you in a open world and there is like a billion secrets and collectibles (those herbs growing especially.) i first try to play naturally and discover everything myself but then after awhile i feel like im missing out on good upgrades and browse a gamefaqs and then i get annoyed cause now i know i missed a bunch of shit and then i just stop playing. i, for whatever reason, never had this issue in fallout and elder scrolls games though so i truly don't know what is wrong with me. im just glad i wasn't excited for this shit.
A lot of the love for cyberpunk I think comes the idea of escaping the system. Cyberpunk mirrors our current dystopia but the hero in cyberpunk is always someone who has escaped that system. So when you're stuck in a bullshit in a bullshit capitalist country is a really cool way to imagine you can just be outside of it, every one knows the system will be there but they don't have to be part of it.
Honestly I think a lot of cyberpunk fans are ready for leftest conversion, they already know the system is corrupt as fuck and they think the only way to live is to escape it.
While the genre existed before William Gibson, and a lot of its authors are leftists, it's always disappointed me that Gibson himself, the most well-known cyberpunk author, ended up just being an unremarkable shitlib. How can you write books that are basically critiques of capitalist alienation and commodification and then not be anti-capitalist?
spoiler i think the game does a good job at showing how fucked up everything is.
theres a key side quest that you have to save a sex worker who had a chip that gives the customer whatever their subconscious is wanting... when her chip got fried they dumped her off to a perverted sex doctor who tossed her off to “scavengers” who steal organs/cyber parts to sell on market. its bleak af even for an edgy gamer. oh also they have snuff films that you experience in first person as if you were the person doing whatever heinous thing. they sell these to sickos of course but its still horrifically repulsive.__:::
so glad i wrote this game off years ago. I'm not honestly a big fan of cyperpunk in a lot of ways. like it theoretically has a lot of stuff I would find interesting, but I don't. i also can't stand how g*mers almost romanized cyperpunk aesthetics and all that shit, that is also super fucked up to me. but i genuinely couldn't get into the witcher 3, tried maybe four times and i just couldn't care about the story at all. it's was a pretty game, and i like high fantasy shit, but idk i didn't like gerald and i didn't get hooked. i also get overwhelmed when a game drops you in a open world and there is like a billion secrets and collectibles (those herbs growing especially.) i first try to play naturally and discover everything myself but then after awhile i feel like im missing out on good upgrades and browse a gamefaqs and then i get annoyed cause now i know i missed a bunch of shit and then i just stop playing. i, for whatever reason, never had this issue in fallout and elder scrolls games though so i truly don't know what is wrong with me. im just glad i wasn't excited for this shit.
A lot of the love for cyberpunk I think comes the idea of escaping the system. Cyberpunk mirrors our current dystopia but the hero in cyberpunk is always someone who has escaped that system. So when you're stuck in a bullshit in a bullshit capitalist country is a really cool way to imagine you can just be outside of it, every one knows the system will be there but they don't have to be part of it.
Honestly I think a lot of cyberpunk fans are ready for leftest conversion, they already know the system is corrupt as fuck and they think the only way to live is to escape it.
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awww let me have my hope
While the genre existed before William Gibson, and a lot of its authors are leftists, it's always disappointed me that Gibson himself, the most well-known cyberpunk author, ended up just being an unremarkable shitlib. How can you write books that are basically critiques of capitalist alienation and commodification and then not be anti-capitalist?
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spoiler i think the game does a good job at showing how fucked up everything is.
theres a key side quest that you have to save a sex worker who had a chip that gives the customer whatever their subconscious is wanting... when her chip got fried they dumped her off to a perverted sex doctor who tossed her off to “scavengers” who steal organs/cyber parts to sell on market. its bleak af even for an edgy gamer. oh also they have snuff films that you experience in first person as if you were the person doing whatever heinous thing. they sell these to sickos of course but its still horrifically repulsive.__:::
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doesn't it?
i dont know why it’s not working for me :/
you got the
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thing when you click the triangle with the exclamation mark in it right?
i think i used the wrong command when i was doing it and im just an idiot lmao. ima figure it out eventually
i appreciate it. i think i left the spoiler spoiler part out like a dingus
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