Did they fire the original writing staff and hire some dudes from reddit to write this? Not that the base game had the best writing, but after an hour of playing the DLC there have been multiple instances of lines that seem to be terminally infected by the Gamer Mind Virus. Hearing V say "amazeballs" made me want to die.
Also, fuck having to save the president. Lame mission tbh.
I had fun with the gameplay of the base game, but it is boggling they have a cyberpunk game called Cyberpunk and there's almost no cyberpunk in any of the narrative.
a youtuber i watched occasionally put it pretty well, "some cyber, no punk"
I've heard it called "boomerpunk" before, where it's what aging cishet men think the cool cyberfuture looks like, without anything that makes them feel uncomfortable and where the political status quo is conspicuously the eternal post-Soviet 90s.
they have a shit imagination lol
shadowrun >>>>>>>> cyberpunk 2077The tabletop players that I knew that hated the "politically correct shit" (that was what it was called at the time) in Shadowrun, particularly the fact that the First Nations got some cool magic and drove off the colonials at last, and that ranted that magic was "stupid" and wanted "just the cyberpunk" in some special custom campaign they wanted me to run all universally became full blown turbo chuds and I'm sure they enjoy the nonpolitical CDPR treats today.
Just pour the giant pile of 6 sided dice into a pillowcase and start swinging.
i thought the punk in cpunk2077 was when johnny silverhand tried to raid arasaka (but failed of course)
The most leftist thing in the entire plot is shortsighted adventurism by the embodiment of a boomer's idea of an anarchist, and that's the most scathing condemnation I can make of the game utterly missing the point of the genre.
If you could forward this notification to whoever sold Bethesda on "NASApunk", I'd appreciate this
hire some dudes from reddit to write this
The original game introduces the Keanu Reaves cameo by having the player go le epic john wick right after a cutscene where he put a feeemale in her place.
This game was always written by redditors. At least amazeballs is so harmless it's almost cute.
What? Isn't Johnny's first appearance after V gets shot in the head and left for dead in the garbage dump?
Yeah that's when you get le epic John Wick in an hour long interlude. At least that's how I remember it it's been 3 years
It's so dumb playing a blank slate character with a main character in his head. Just have me play as the main character!
The story should have just been you are Johnny Silverhand, a famous rocker who gets radicalized by industrial society and its consequences, get dropped by your label and shit (explains starting the game not rich) and dive into the punk underworld of political terrorism, fixer crime, etc. Literally every aspect of "rpg" in this game sucks. None of the dialogue choices matter, none of the origin stories matter, it's dumb. Just be an open world action game with skill trees and a main character.
This is wholesome seal 100 keanu reaves big chungus epic bacon
I expect this line to be spoken verbatim at some point
I didn't even notice lol. Signifierpunk is just a great term
buttrock 'punk' starts playing as Game of thrones, Cyberpunk, The Witcher and The Office are merged into a reddit slob punkgolem
Me, precisely at the moment when Avenged Sevenfold does a cover for "Toss a Coin to your Witcher" in the PrestigeVerse epic crossover
I made it up as a darkest timeline way of merging the above mentioned IPs into an ultimate Reddity slop slurry.
It already kind of happened with "MultiVersus" which was just an obscene collection of IPs held under a megacorporation, including a cartoonified Arya Stark that (CW: death, gore, cannibalism, Gambo shit in general)
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serves le epic grimdark human flesh pie to recover health for the next character when she dies because that is le funny and not thematic whiplash.
They took the Enlightened Centrist "not all cops are bastards" and "improving society somewhat is naive and probably evil and hypocritical like Keanu Reeves' character, but if you want to Become A Legend Of Night City(tm) and have le sexy sex, we got you covered" cyberpunkerinos and made it more Enlightened Centrist?
I'm glad I stayed away.
I watched a video with the "lore designer" or whatever and I don't think you could find a more wet cardboard like liberal. The whole game boils down to liberal individualism. But my katana goes slash and I wear cool clothes so idk it evened out for me.
They did make Keanu's character say he was once a cop already tho. It made no sense lol
The whole game boils down to liberal individualism.
That's the usual pushback I got when calling out copaganda, capitalist realism, or just outright plot rails fatalism where nothing matters but Becoming A Legend Of Night City(tm): "not everything has to be a sermon or have a message! Let people enjoy things!"
No message except the already accepted and unexamined message.
"not everything has to be a sermon or have a message! Let people enjoy things!"
It's Cyber PUNK. If anything is supposed to have a sermon or message it's this fucking genre.
This is what happens when the studio making the damn thing is all PiS voters.
Trigger took this IP and made something that absolutely fucking rocks in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. CDPR wrote absolute dogshit with it, twice. Trigger is a studio full of commies whereas CDPR are clearly fuckos.
CDPR has the exact kind of regressive reactionary Enlightened Centrist "nonpolitical" politics that Redditors have, so of course Redditors shoot thick hot ropes every time a CDPR game says caring about improving society somewhat is naive and stupid, actually, and to just go have le sexy sex and indulge in self-absorbed dudebro power fantasies (dae le Witcherino code and/or Become A Legend Of Night City(tm)) instead.
PiS voters
I'm not sure who these are exactly. Could you explain that before @Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net starts cackling?
They're like Le Pen in France but in Poland and considerably more mainstream.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice
Isn't his character's whole early backstory that he was a troop who deserted so hard he made deserting cool?
he literally committed based terrorism idk why they're trying to make him a cop
The funniest thing about gamers is all the "romances" in the game are just flirtatious dialogues that culminate in t3h s3xxxors. And then that's it lol. It's always someone the player character is working with, too. So romance to gamers is banging the chick at work once and then carrying on.
It isn't much of a surprise that "gamedads" as they've come to be called, the ones that did manage to get married and have children, are more often than not eventually divorced. That's the target demographic of Star Citizen, by the gamedads' own admission many times over.
watched the new ending they added on youtube and gotta say, it's honestly pretty funny:
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you do a job for the cyber cia and they remove the relic, you're in a coma for 2 years, lose everyone and you can't use cool implants anymore. you go back to night city and everyone has both literally and figuratively moved on. in the end you become a face in the crowd, a literal npc, and the cia-man phones you up and asks if you wanna join the feds to do some pencil pushing in the credits
i'll keep saying that raiding the tower with Johnny is the best ending
anyway the ukrainian localisation apparentely pokes fun at russians and praises ukraine which seems to be par for the course for
.edit: lmao "CD Projekt apologise for Cyberpunk 2077 Ukrainian script's potentially "offensive" references to Russians "
atleast stand by your shit, you polish fucks"Juxtaposed are the Ukrainian coat of arms and taraq tamga (the symbol of Crimean Tatars)." The suggestion is that in Cyberpunk 2077’s world, Crimea is part of Ukraine.
In the world of Cyberpunk, the USSR still exists. Good fact-checking, whoever wrote this.
I'm not gonna look up the ending just yet, so thanks for the spoiler tag.
i'll keep saying that raiding the tower with Johnny is the best ending
I did this but then
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I gave my body to Johnny and had to do the stupid quest giving that kid a guitar. I wanted to see behind the Blackwall or whatever, but no, time for the most boring quest possible. I've always meant to re do it and choose the other option, but just couldn't be bothered.
concerning your spoiler
if you excise johnny you get the "Sun" ending, you have all the money, you own Afterlife now and the game ends with you starting a heist on the space station casino. you do only have 6 months to live, and i think all your romances end because you're too focused on trying to fix the relic issue, but eh.
I felt like the "Let Johnny have the body" felt right. V already should have died, and she was going to die anyway. Johnny had become far less self-centered and could actually become a positive force in the world some day.
It's the only thing about the whole game that really stuck with me, well besides the crucification quest.
I already didn't like CDPR's cyberpunkerinos, but I'm still surprised, even startled, by just how bad the Enlightened Centrist
and 
is in your summary.BUT THERE'S NEON AND
SO LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS EXCEPT YOU CAN'T ENJOY CRITICISM 
Edgerunners was so good it gaslit people into thinking 2077 was a good game.
This franchise could have been so fucking good if it were in the hands of communists like Trigger's team
the original creator is a turbo-lib (cop is a class in the tabletop) and he advised for the game so it was doomed from the start, giving it to a bunch of poles certainly didnt help.
Pondsmiths entire premise for "cyberpunk" is that everything is fucked so there's no point in improving society somewhat. Truly a match made in hell.
Yeah but even from the "everything's fucked" perspective you can write more critically. It's barely critical at all.
Yeah, his idea is that you can only save yourself, which neatly slots into liberal individualism, and the game sure delivered.
The issue as I see it is that the game is just... Not really that critical of society. It's not that awful looking, there's far more COOOOL CYBERPUNKKKKK than there is horrible-awful-society.
The problem here is that with a director's lens in the anime, (and being a bunch of commies) they could put all the focus and eye of the audience on the hellish things. The director keeps you focused on how awful this society is and NOT on the cool parts. The game on the other hand has none of this intent, the developers never force you the player to be focused on what a hell this is really, at all, and they let you uncritically work with cops without even the slightest indication that the cops of this society are bad other than news reels.
The directorial difference between one and the other makes the same content appear incredibly differently. If cdpr recognised this at any point and put more focus upon seeing the hell that this place is then the result would end up closer to what Trigger achieved.
Havent watched the anime, but that does sound a lot more appealing for sure.
The combination of turbo-libbery and anti-communist poles relegated all the "critical" looks into society into the sidecontent that you can do. Like there's a gig where you kill a bunch of strikebreakers, you would never know this if you didnt read some of the environmental storytelling notes. Then there's another gig where you're supposed to kidnap the strikebreaker in-chief from his pinkerton office building. The game naturally shits on you if you just murder everyone in there, so not even the sidecontent is allowed to be critical all the time.
It's a damn shame, honestly.
The anime is basically what happens when you get some communists to not make something to agitate, but instead to make something that is 100% indulging the
that lives inside every leftist. They do a very good job from that angle. There is no hope, there is no adventure, there is only a train and it has only one destination and it can't change tracks.I recommend it.
I refunded after about half an hour. Game still buggy as shit jankfest that just feels bad to play. Performance sucks along with muddy blurred visuals with constant artifacts in motion.
So much marketing around this and its the same exact crap i played at release.
Hey at least they fixed the cops i guess.
Is there something more cyberpunk than being a cop? What a pile of dogshit.
Hearing V say “amazeballs” made me want to die.
I get that "amazeballs" might come off as cringy, but doesn't CPunk77 take place in the far future? I feel like memey words like that would be normal in the English Lexicon of that time. I mean, words like Yeet, S-mp, Rizz, Based and other zoomer words (hell even the word "Zoomer" itself) started off as memes but because they're so widely used they're becoming part of the dictionary.
Seeing as it's basically a word from like 2005, that would be like using slang from 1951 today
this cool cat is achin’ for a breakin’, see. giving me a big tickle somethin' fierce.
I've seen some pretty old slang get used in the present.
It's too small to read in this image, but this political cartoon that was contemporary with Jefferson had "cool" in a nearly contemporary understanding of use.
Show
Considering how utterly terrible the ideological presentation and plot rails are for the game, especially for its expansion, I'd take a hundred "amazeballs" over even more programming to tell
how nothing can really change or improve so may as well join the feds and be a cool insider with delicious boots.
I stand firm in my conviction that I was completely justified never thinking about this game again after finishing the main story.
You're surprised that this game has poor writing?
https://hexbear.net/post/60918
I keep feeling more and more vindicated for not bothering with this
CP77 always rubbed me the wrong way. It's a take on cyberpunk from back when American capitalists were worried about Japan's growing high tech industrial base, and carries a lot of the same implicit biases and racism. The bad guy corporation is Japanese, for instance. On top of that, they completely forgot what the PUNK part means. There's missions where you team up with cops to put down, by force, people with malfunctioning cybernetics. Knocking them out or killing them has the exact same effect. The game does not at any point critique this. Just pure co-opting of the aesthetic without a shred of regard for the philosophy or subtext.
With how much hype there has been for this, I will never take anyone who says “It’s good now, they fixed it” seriously.
It happens with every game now I’m sure the PR teams at every major publisher use this as a crutch.
fuck someone here told me it was good and I got them for my bro
we'll watch edgerunners
