Cyberpunk 2077

Sounds like the game's gonna be packed. I only kinda wish there was a companion system too, but I suppose CDPR doesn't really do Bioware or Fallout-style party RP Gs.

I think I’ll go with corpo.

Always liked starting with corporate in these types of settings. Always felt it’s more fun or interesting.

The corpo and street kid backstories interest me quite a lot.

Personally I think getting a taste of the world outside Night City is drawing me to a Nomad run, at least initially. Though the Corpo sounds like its rife for story telling opportunity.

Regarding pronouns, I always thought that V was just going to be referred to as "V" all they way through. For one, that'd save on recording for each voice style.

Also, seeing how you can seemingly chop and change loads about your character, I think they've made a fair amount of progress. Maybe not quite enough but they are pushing forwards, keeping the Cyberpunk feel, the dystopic and exploitative attitude towards EVERYTHING being marketable and also trying to get a decent amount of representation going there.

We won't be able to effectively judge to see if that's consistent of course until we get our hands on the game.

Also, Skill Up seems... genuinely in awe of the game. Watching it, i can see melee looks a bit off, but gunplay seems pretty darn good. And if it keeps that fidelity all the way through the game then DAMN. Deus Ex needs to up its game. BETHESDA need to up their game.

Everyone needs to up their game.

I have faith their narrative and treatment will do it all justice. CDPR have grown since the whole "Sex trading cards" of Witcher 1, giving some good representation and allegorical ties in W2 and W3. Theydo gritty but they do gritty with purpose, not just GOT nastiness for shock value.

Not gonna lie, all these past news, especially the lack of reaction to stealing or the wall running removal have been quite the letdown for me.

How shameless and ironic. Tencent is making their own Cyberpunk game.

Very much looks like a Chinese/Korean MMO. I would've been excited, but knowing Tencent and the Chinese mindset towards gaming, Yong Yea's assumption that it's going to be a grindy P 2 W hellhole is probably correct.

Plus, China/Tencent doing cyberpunk, a genre that's all about social commentary? I trust them to handle the genre about as far as I can throw a ten-ton weight.

When actual big, powerful corporations make cyberpunk games, is that irony, in the right sense of the word?

"Power up your character and become a TRUE CYBERPUNK by taking part in activities like subscribing to our mailing list and helping public employees install face recognition software in your neighborhood's surveillance cameras!"

Cyber Rick 2077... fits a bit too well, don't it?

Might be of interest, Dark Horse is publishing a prequel comic, Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team

Pretty sure this isn't the Trauma Team I was supposed to think of.

Well they both have surgeons that have to defuse the occasional bomb...

There was Trauma Team and REO Meatwagon. With REO Meatwagon being the cheap one that may not get your character out.

Trauma Team will get you out of a jam - if shooting their way out counts as a rescue.

I wonder if REO Meatwagon will be in the game - given that they were less Gunship Rescue and more Keystone cops.

I wonder if Trauma Team is gonna be a mechanic in the game.

Call a bunch of combat medics if you need help out of a jam.

Did you catch the Witcher shout-out in the Street Kid introductory quest? The car you're supposed to steal is called Aerondight, after the unique sword from the games.

I did NOT see that one! LOVE IT!

Bet you we'll find some alcohol in the game named after Witcher potions too...

Yeah, I won't be surprised if I find White Gull Vodka or something like that.

It'd be funny if Trauma Team acts like WASTED for Grand Theft Auto.

So which one of the Life Paths will YOU pick for your first playthrough?

https://medium.com/@kazuliski/cyberpunk-2077-life-path-street-kid-nomad-corporate-kazuliski-2df3f1d3a5b

I for one think I will take the Street Kid. I'm not playing no Corporate dirtbag And while Nomad sounds interesting too, Street Kid sounds a wee bit more exciting.

Edited by Forenperser on Aug 9th 2020 at 8:43:28 PM

I wish to be a corporate assassin!

I'm leaning toward Nomad and then Corpo. Nomad has a stranger coming to a new world/fish out of water feel to it which I kinda like the feeling for. I'm kinda curious what they'll do with the whole wastelands areas and this Javert that's apparently after you. Being new to the city, a survivor of the wastes, and coming to fuck everyone's shit up feels good.

I like the idea of the Corpo who lives the high life, falls from grace as a scape goat, and then will burn the city as they rise from the ashes. It also still has that 'fish out of water' flavor if just also looking at the same world from a new angle. There's also the nice character shift of being forced to confront the system that they were complicit in and that's already a hook for character growth.

Streetkid... I'm not a huge fan of. It doesn't quite feel like it has the same identity in my mind as the others. It feels like you're already 'there' compared to the other two and I don't quite see as much of a character or developmental hook as the other two.

Just my personal tastes though.

And i hear that Johnny won't be all that trusting of a Corpo V, so that should be fun as well.