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Cyberpunk 2077 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

frajaq

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Maaaaan the only thing I regret by now is being kinda hyped at the possibiltiy of playing some kind of cyber cop authority by how the first teaser of the game presented itself. The masked guy with 4 eyes looked like some kind of possible protagonist

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Zer0wing

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Conforming to "muh rebel attitude" instead of choosing your own path, smh.
Let's be honest - the Blade Runners trope of a main protagonist being a cop contrasting to degenerate society among gothic-style skyscrapers is getting TOO old and doesn't represent cyberpunk fully and doesn't represent Cyberpunk 2020 at all.
 

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I'm really surprised by the professional and well-read interivewers when it comes to CP2077. Also, this Pondsmith guy is on a different level entirely with how serious he treats his setting.

Contrast with "hurr durr we had to have elves and dwarves and something like Genasi, but everyone is race-blind because migrations, so it's basically just a cosmetic choice"

I guess that's where all the SJW hate is rooted. Even if they haven't read this, they sense the realism of the setting and from there "fear leads to anger".
 

Keppo

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why the majority of characters in this game are black :negative:

Probably depending on discrict. Second demo take place in Pacifica, and it seems that the gangs there are mostly blacks, and its one of the reason why the yourno got butthurt. First demo was in Watson, at the start of the game or something.
  • City Center: Night City's biggest pride, this is the heart of corporations, the cluster of neon, and the quintessence of luxury.
  • Watson: A unique mix of Asian cultures, it is a fallen corporate giant now populated by immigrants, hiding various bazaars and markets in a tangle of narrow alleyways.
  • Westbrook: Featuring tourist-oriented Japantown, it is a place for the wealthy who like to work hard and play hard.
  • Heywood: Living in one of the neighborhoods of the predominantly Latino area means you successfully managed to climb the social ladder -- it's a massive suburban housing district, with an underlying gang problem.
  • Pacifica: On the other end of the spectrum, this is the most dangerous part of town, abandoned and overrun by gang activity. Separated from the rest of the city, it's a place of immense poverty.
  • Santo Domingo: All of Night City is powered from here, with its countless power plants and industrial factories, stuck in an endless cycle of modernization.
 
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hivemind

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Is night city meant to be something real(chicago, L.A, etc.) that became a cyberpunk megapolis ?
 

HarveyBirdman

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Replace Lain with Johnny Silverhand, and voila! You've successfully synthesized something new from the disparate old.
 

HarveyBirdman

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Man, the net running bit is kinda fun sounding with it being very dangerous and whatever.
It's Lain. Pretty neat.

I disliked it for being a walking simulator, but something along the lines of Observer's memory sequences would actually be really neat for passing through the black wall.
Didn't play it, but if it's something in-your-face trippy, I kinda hope not.

I'm imagining a meta-internet virtual reality. A place where, on the surface, people use it for entertainment purposes. Visual splendor, maybe some physical feedback implants... you know, classic Brave New World soma type stuff. But then beneath it, sophisticated hackers, governments, corporations, and criminals use this virtual reality to broker information, launder money, make illegal and/or covert transactions, etc.

Picture this: You enter this meta-net, and if you stay shallow, you can easily enjoy it and extricate yourself, but the rewards are similarly skin-deep. But if you stay too long, turn down the wrong alley, pick up the wrong item, speak to the wrong NPC, accidentally (or maybe even purposefully) speak a certain password in dialogue, or whatever else, your consciousness gets trapped -- but you don't realize it's trapped.

You get trapped, and go through the normal procedure of backing out into base reality. And there you are running around, thinking you're in base reality, but subtle clues start filling you in that you never left the meta-net. Rather than pulling yourself out, you went in deeper, and need to figure out how to escape or risk your body starving to death.

The rewards for going in balls deep could be great though; you might find highly restricted and valuable information, make powerful contacts in the real world, intercept a transaction and take it for yourself, etc.
 

Mr. Hiver

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Could be but he is one of the important NPCs, thats why im asking. I havent seen any talk about that character in the media articles, yet they point him out alongside other important individual NPCs here.
 

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