A developer on Cyberpunk 2077 made earnest remarks about some of the sci-fi RPG's shortcomings, including the shortage of homeless characters on its streets.
  • heavy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    9 days ago

    I mean, I’m pretty sure cyberpunk settings usually center around the dystopic future brought about by late stage capitalism.

  • trslim@pawb.socialEnglish
    171·
    9 days ago

    I really enjoyed Cyberpunk, but I dont think it did enough to make me hate corporations. I wanted to see them activily being terrible, but you mostly just hear about how bad they are and idk, they just weren’t portrayed as villianously as I think the game wanted them to be. Adam Smasher was the only enemy that I like really wanted to get my hands on, and even that was because of Edgerunners.

    I did start to notice things during gameplay, like how there arent any animals, save for a few cats, no birds, nothing like that.

    Now when I finally to the dive into the tabletop lore, that was when I found all the henious shit that I wanted to. Multiple corporate wars, purposly getting people addicted to cyberware, overthrowing governments (hey Ive seen this one!) And all sort of just vile disgusting actions that make you want to be Johnny Silverhand. Actually made me sad we didnt blow up Arasaka HQ again. Or Millitech for that matter, theyre actually kind of worse imo.

    • hswolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      8 days ago

      I got the big sad on Judy’s diving quest, she goes on about how tha one corpo inundated the whole place for profits.

      Or even the El’Captain quest where you need to go steal a medical truck because the corpos where poisoning his whole neighborhood real bad for years.

      I can find more examples of these “small” atrocities, I think they are meant to infuriate you over time, problem by problem, and not display a big single thing you’ll hate forever

    • khaleer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      82·
      9 days ago

      You didn’t found reasons to hate corps in cp77, because this game was made by corp and released with biggest gamedev corporation flip flop the cp77 devs could do.

    • waitmarks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 days ago

      All that stuff you talked about in the tabletop lore is literally talked about in the game. It’s not hitting you in the face in the main quest line, but if you play the side quests you find tons of fucked up shit that the corps are doing.

    • leftzero@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      I dont think it did enough to make me hate corporations

      Counterpoint: Biotechnica. Those bastards are almost as bad as scavs. Some of them are worse.

      Also, maybe it looks normal for Americans, but what Militech are doing in the badlands definitely ain’t right. (Phantom Liberty kind of ruins it by treating Militech’s puppet president like one of the good guys, though. Night City ain’t part of the NUSA, and it doesn’t want to be!)

      And, besides all the relic stuff, Saburo was also seriously considering nuking Night City (properly, not like Silverhand’s half assed job), so there’s that, too.

  • ZephrC@lemm.eeEnglish
    122·
    9 days ago

    Of course, by “call out” they mean sort of vaguely point out that they exist without actually saying anything meaningful, and that will still somehow be too political for the “gamers”.

  • pacoboyd@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    8 days ago

    I don’t want to hear one damn thing about thier next game until the day of release. Over hyping was what got them into trouble last time.

  • jonathanvmv8f@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    On a completely unrelated note, I had a first glance at the thumbnail of this article and I was convinced the photo was taken in real life until I noticed the ‘cybernetic seam’ on the subject’s face. I almost couldn’t recognise this as an in-game screenshot and I already consider myself adept in recognising such images.