Wake up Samurai: the Cyberpunk 2077 thread

Reticently · December 8, 2020

Reticently · December 8, 2020

Anyway, this will be the place to shoot the shit about our experiences with the next big AAA game. I'm an old Cyberpunk 2020 table top player, so if you have any really general background questions be sure to ask.

Warning: I encourage people to hide their spoilers, but none of us are here to be the spoiler police.- READ AT YOUR OWN RISK!

RSG3 · December 8, 2020

As an old 2020 player is there anything you think we who haven't played should know before going in? Any lore or anything?

I'm hype as hell. I can't wait. Today is the first time I've felt the new game I can't have yet itch since High School.

Reticently · December 8, 2020

2 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

As an old 2020 player is there anything you think we who haven't played should know before going in? Any lore or anything?

I'm hype as hell. I can't wait. Today is the first time I've felt the new game I can't have yet itch since High School.

Rather than any one specific thing, I'd make sure you have a tempered expectation of the setting: it's high tech urban dystopia, but it's a high tech urban dystopia influenced strongly by how that might have looked to a science fiction author writing in the mid 1980's.

Many of the themes remain salient today- mega-corporations supplanting the government for example. But some of the unforeseeable political developments that happened in-between for the real world didn't occur in that setting. The Soviet Union is still a thing in the game world, for example.

Disciple0fAnrky · December 8, 2020

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RSG3 · December 8, 2020

1 hour ago, Reticently said:

Rather than any one specific thing, I'd make sure you have a tempered expectation of the setting: it's high tech urban dystopia, but it's a high tech urban dystopia influenced strongly by how that might have looked to a science fiction author writing in the mid 1980's.

Oh for sure. That is deffinitly half my hype. I love future retro.

1 hour ago, Reticently said:

Many of the themes remain salient today- mega-corporations supplanting the government for example. But some of the unforeseeable political developments that happened in-between for the real world didn't occur in that setting. The Soviet Union is still a thing in the game world, for example.

Yea I've done a bit of reading on the setting and the setting seems to diverge from our own heavily around the late 70s and 80s and just goes nuts from there. I'm really excited to see how CDPR interpreted the setting. Looks dope.