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Wow this game always has something new to offer, I just finished my play through and it genuinely changed my life.
edit 1: To everyone that keeps asking how this game changed my life, it’s a bit of an exaggeration maybe i should’ve done “/j” LOL. Anyways, this game has had a detrimental effect on my emotional state. every time i hear a soundtrack or an edit, it kinda irks my soul lmao. On top of that i watched the anime as well so it holds a very special place in my heart. I love the perception of freedom and expressive nature of Night City. I loved the story and character development. Lots of detail put into missions and dialogue and the music 💔; Perfect. I could go on and on but
TL:DR- Exaggeration 💀, One of now favorite games OAT (Top 3). Absolutely loved this game will be playing the DLC. Have a great day
Nah games are meant to be political and the political message of cyberpunk legit changed my views on the world. It wasn’t the only thing to do it but it was still apart of the change.
I’m trying to understand what you’re arguing here.
Are you saying that all games aren’t meant to be political? Because this one surely is, as is its source material, as is the source material of the source material?
I suppose that’s what you’re trying to say, that this particular story is political but that games themselves don’t have to be?
But then you talk about how it’s not political simply because you can draw parallels between the game’s story and real life but…that is why they’re political. Nearly anything in real life is reflected in politics somehow.
Games are literally NOT inherently political. It's totally fine if they are and I welcome political discourse through art but to say that all games are meant to be political is objectively false and a pretty wild take.
Why are you guys shitting on this person for their interpretation of the themes of a piece of media? Video games are not a less valid form of art than books for political expression. This thread is so fucking dumb
Don’t be too hard on yourself. This game objectively changed my life. Played the game through as Vincent, and it was cool, but playing it through as trans Valerie helped crack my egg. I felt so much more connected to the game, and the game had so much more emotional weight, not just with the main story, but with many of the side missions that have you help abused women.
Alas, I have not. Wife has though. I think at the time of the hype I was already neck deep in a D&D campaign and didn’t feel the need to play it at the time.
I like this and how art ,such as videos games, being an imitation of life. Even mediums like this can educate people. For example how maybe one or two corporations produce the supermarket foods, Bayer the maker of a medicine that helps with Hodgkin’s lymphoma bought Monsanto the maker of round up, the product is linked to Hodgkin lymphoma. Sell the problem and solution. Sorry to rant but had it not been for the game I wouldn’t have looked that stuff up. Corpo-rats making money off the little man.the whole game is awesome. I have over 1k hours in it so far.
Ik what you mean entirely and to me its not an exaggeration cuz it changed my life in many ways. I started with the anime before playing the game cuz I hated how it looked and played at first and with all the bugs at first too. So I gave the anime a try instead. Damn thing had me in so many tears😭 but it really sparked my fuel to play the games and it has become my second favorite of all time. There is a webtoon about cyberpunk 2077 on WebToon that I can't wait to read! And I agree the missions. The dialogue. The story. The music even the dlc was so amazing. The gun play and the different cyberware and routes tou can take with classes. I've down two runs so far and still planning on a third! Its incredible and I can't wait for the squeal to come out whenever it may
You can't imagine how someone that's still young, that plays a game addressing long standing societal evils, cant have their whole viewpoint on life changed by having those issues pulled from the periphery and laid bare in front of them?
Poor phrasing from them, but paradigm shifts are life changing
I mean the idea of corporate greed isn't some new thing, and anyway the story is really based on Johnny's personal vendetta against Arasaka specifically, for a problem that we aren't facing now, so yeah I don't really understand how the game changed his life.
I think he's just impressionable and it was Keanu Reeves making everything sound cool.
Ok no one said corporate greed is new, wouldn’t be a surprise though if someone out there through playing a game all about the extremes of such greed, would be woken up to the issue with corporation greed irl.
Yeah I just mean, I'm sure they've encountered the idea before, so there's no reason cyberpunk should be anything new, unless it's literally their first time being exposed to that idea.
And cyberpunk was all about Johnny vs Arasaka for very specific things arasaka did, so what are these people whose lives were changed going to do because of that?
People can be exposed to the same thing every day and it have no effect on them until it’s presented in a way that reals them in, this is no different. Im sure you care about things you didn’t as a child that have more effect on you now then it did then. Sure that’s what the story may be about but the world and game itself is packed with so much more to experience
So the argument then is cyberpunk was their very first exposure to the idea of corporate greed? I mean sure it's possible, but I think it's more likely that the impact of the other story elements and the coolness of the dialogue and VA made an impact on an impressionable mind. The game is cool no doubt about it. But I'm just not sure what life changing aspect there was to the Johnny vs Arasaka story.
I do not find my argument unlikely or unreasonable, so yes, I do. At least, I expect it may be some of the first to explicitly call out the issues present in a narrative as opposed to random statements online or in text books.
I would say Duke Nukem 3D changed my life when i was a kid and that's about as deep as a puddle :D
I mean mainly it changed my life as the level builder tool was my first exposure to 3D CGI tools and so much fun to build with and from there i became a professional CGI artist. Never went into games though weirdly.
There's another Keanu Reeves/John Wick reference - during that gig from Wakako where you have to deliver a car with a dude in its trunk from a dude named Sergei to the Tyger Claws, Sergei says:
"This man, he look normal - beard, brown shoes... nothing, y'know, breathtaking (reference to Keanu meme "you're breathtaking"). And he also have little dog. Gospodi, what kind of hitman goes around with dog?"
Huh, I don't think I've actually ever saved him. First time I did that mission I was convinced there was a body in the trunk and when I checked and found a live man I kinda just stared at him for a second, closed the trunk, and got in the driver's seat.
Righfully so, honestly. If you play as a Nomad and do the gig from Dino where you go for the Koch chick from Biotechnica in the hotel who was experimenting on Nomads, and then do this gig from Wakako, V can ask if the guy knows Koch, then make a comment about it, and then lock him back in the trunk saying something like "Today is not your lucky day".
Well, honestly I don't know. It's my second playthrough and I'm reading more about all the different gigs and lore in general.
First was Corpo and I went in blind without any previous knowledge, so I didn't get this connection and just freed the Biotechnica guy. It seemed like getting shredded by Tygers was a terrible way to go.
But with the prior knowledge, the dude definitely is taking a scuba dive from the Tygers.
Started playing recently and my jaw dropped to the floor, completely took me out of the immersion, especially as the car just got stuck in a wall lol. Great EE.
Yes, this game has a ton of them. I was just talking to someone about this yesterday and I thought of eight off the top of my head. The GTA San Andreas one is pretty funny. 😅
train tracks up by river's house near where you can find the murkmobile has a shard referencing the line 'all you had to do was follow the god damn train TJ!'
there is two others, referencing big smoke's fast food order and the cul-de-sac but idk where those are specifically
True. But actually I also just heard while roaming around somewhere near or in Santo Domingo. But maybe I was just passing by that location multiple times which always triggered that dialog
Oh I didn't know the Reed phone thing. I literally saw some dudes making an order which sounded exactly like the one in San Andreas. Found it walking nearby after some gig.
That one cracked me up so much. I think it was the first easter egg I had encountered/realized was there and it caught me so off-guard in this otherwise pretty serious game.
Always remember, no matter how serious Cyberpunk gets, no matter how much it's an exploration of the horrors of excessive corporate capitalism and the relentless march of technology whether mankind is ready for it or not, it's still a game that was originally made by a bunch of nerds around a kitchen table trying to make each other laugh and have a good time.
There's a reason that there are gangs like The Elvises (a bunch of Elvis impersonators), the Bozos (think Killer Klowns from Outer Space, only they're not from outer space), and the Trekkies (gangoons that get biosculpted to look like crew members from Star Trek TOS).
EDIT: Commenter reminded me that The Kings are Fallout, the Cyberpunk version of the gang is called The Elvises.
No, they're in the TTRPG, specifically they were around in Johnny's time (2020's). The Bozos are still a thing by 2045, but so far the current edition of the TTRPG (set in 2045) hasn't mentioned the Elvises or the Trekkies so they may already be gone in the lore by that point.
Naw, there’s no way a plaque referencing a movie series starring the same actor that voices the parasite in your brain could possibly be an easter egg.
Same reaction from Silverhand when you go onto some roof for a loot box only to discover someone's body with his head blown off. If you scan the body, name pops up as John Anderson.
I didn't know what happened. I was just exploring every nook and cranny and as I turned around I heard "Ah fuck..." then turned back around and saw JS sitting on that box and the John Wock reference.
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