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 thought the punk in cpunk2077 was when johnny silverhand tried to raid arasaka (but failed of course)
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.
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
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
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
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.
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™ 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™: “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.
Isn’t his character’s whole early backstory that he was a troop who deserted so hard he made deserting cool?
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.
