Cyberpunk 2077

Apparently the game is getting a spin-off anime by Studio Trigger for Netflix.

Well Hot Damn, CD Projeckt Red knows whats up.

Now I'm definitely getting the game as a christmas present.

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Damn now that’s advertising.

They even got the good staff onboard like Hiroyuki Imaishi who directed Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, & Promare directing.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill) is doing the OST for the anime.

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Full anime description:

CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner—a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk. Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series). The series will premiere in 2022. More details to come!

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Trailers and gameplay I have found so far. I am really excited to hear that Cyberpunk 2077 is getting an anime from Studio Trigger out of all things. Cyberpunk really needs more attention as a genre.

Edited by Wispy on Jun 25th 2020 at 10:32:03 AM

The anime news makes sense remember Blade Runner 2099.

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You can even Customize your Pubes.

Wow.

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....Uhhh, okie I guess. I mean I wouldn't use it but huh.

I will pick the most extra pubes available.

i. hear. a. sound.

But just remember the last game to announce it was getting an anime... before the game came out. That was Mighty Number 9.

Studio Trigger is making this, even if Cyberpunk 2077 turns out badly (I hope not) I doubt it will be bad.

Plus, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has a definite due date of 2022. I don't think MN9 had that.

Wasn't it FFXV?

Just... I don't know. There's so much ado about the celebrities involved in the game and it reminds me of Death Stranding. Like, after last E3, didn't they rewrite the game's script to give Keanu a bigger role after the reaction to him? That's not a comforting sign.

Bah, I'm probably getting old. I think I can say that I'm passing on it completely, but I hope everyone who is excited about it enjoys it!

Have they shown clips of the character creation anywhere?

I think I'm actually more excited about a) the anime and b) the new edition of the tabletop rpg than I am about the game at this point

"...in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."

Supercut of all the new gameplay available from the reveal today:

Some details I've gleaned about the backstory choices for V and their corresponding prologue chapters (might be wrong on some of it):

• Corpo: Not much known about this one yet. It seems like you might be a Rags to Riches type of guy who got out of the ghetto and broke into the corportate world, only to find yourself a lackey. It seems like in this backstory Jackie is your old friend from the hood who you reconnect with to pull a job.
• Street Kid: You start as a small-time thief who just got hooked up with some tech to hack the locks on cars. You try it out on a fancy sports car, but Jackie shows up and tries to jack the car for himself, only for the cops to roll in and arrest you both. You and Jackie don't seem to know each other in this backstory.
• Nomad: You start way out in the boonies, seemingly on the run from your own gang (the first thing you do is tear their patch off your jacket) and looking to start over in Night City. You make your way through the badlands towards the city, looking for Jackie for some reason. The Arc Villain is a corrupt small-town sheriff who hates your guts.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Jun 25th 2020 at 5:58:20 AM

Skill Up has a video where he talks about his experience with (a small part of) the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeNA4SKoftY

Based on what he said the three origins seem very different, at least at first.

Ooooh I love those differing origin tutorials.

"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."

Damn, this game is looking good! I just need some pizza, soda and play till 3 AM and it would be like playing SP 2020 back when I was in college!

All night at the computer, cuz people ain't that great. I keep to myself so I won't be on The First 48

You know...I remember there was a whole kerfuffle about trans people and Cyberpunk, and CDPR said they'd include options for trans folks in the game...

But this latest update, apparently they're tying your pronouns to your voice? (And also there are no gender neutral pronouns, pick from the binary y'all). Its just...so, so disappointing to see CDPR make the same mistakes over and over and over again.

I'm really hyped for that anime now though. Between Cyberpunk: Edgerunners and Blade Runner: Black Lotus, I'm feeling very much pampered when it comes to Cyberpunk anime!

Edited by AzurePaladin on Jun 26th 2020 at 4:39:48 AM

The awful things he says and does are burned into our cultural consciousness like a CRT display left on the same picture too long. -Fighteer

I choose to believe my character is a Edgerunner who has ALREADY escaped the hood by becoming a corporate assassin.

He's coming back for "one last job."

Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.

The Corpo beginning sounds pretty interesting.

Updated Background summaries from the above video - thanks for the link, dude!

• Street Kid: As I extrapolated previously, you start off as a small-time hood jacking a sports car. Specifically, you're doing it to clear the debts of a bartender friend of yours, who owes money to an out-of-town "fixer." Jackie tries to jack you, but you both get busted by the cops, only for the owner of the car to drop the charges in the most condescending and rude way possible. Afterwards comes a cinematic montage of you and Jackie bonding, having formed an Odd Friendship after that rough first encounter.
• Nomad: As I suspected, you're on the run from your own nomad clan for unspecified reasons, doing a job to smuggle some unspecified package into Night City. Jackie is your contact who's supposed to help you make the drop, but you get ambushed by border control and Arasaka goons and a shootout ensues. You survive, followed by a montage similar to the one in the Street Kid background.
• Corpo: You start off as a low-level corporate drone tasked by your boss with getting dirt on his boss. You're caught, forced to take the fall, and lose everything. As I suspected, Jackie is an old friend of yours from your youth in the slums, who helps you get back on your feet. They don't mention it, but I assume another montage comes in at the end.

Apparently all three backgrounds converge into the same storyline after the prologue (the job for Dexter DeShawn that spirals out of control, inciting the main plot). I'm guessing that the main changes will come in the form of dialogue and probably a series of B-Plot side-missions dealing with your "personal nemesis": the loan shark for Street Kids, your old clan for Nomads, and your old boss for Corpos.

Edited by Dirtyblue929 on Jun 27th 2020 at 1:26:29 AM

Leaning towards Street Kid or Corpo for my first go through, personally. Fish Out of Water in a new and strange land or an Icarus falling from grace only to rise from the ashes sound interesting to me.

I do hope that the male V can get FWB with Jackie as we've seen of the female V.

Edited by InkDagger on Jun 27th 2020 at 10:17:45 AM