>not buying a 2 year old game on sale or from a keysite
plenty of games got an anime adaption for that purpose tho. heck bang dream exists just for that.
There's also the fact that the main character is obviously suffering from untreated PTSD and a whole host of emotional issues from watching everybody he loves and cares about die, one after another.
Also the constant bullying he faces from the Arasaka kids at his school even after his mother's death.
That doesn't make any sense because there are active debuffs you take from it in the tabletop, and likely would have had them in the game too if CDPR devs weren't hiring 70 iq programmers. I don't remember where i read it but cyberpsychosis was essentially Phantom Limb Syndrome turned up to 11. Your brain knows that your limb isn't actually there but it is still somehow receiving signals as if it's there and this leads to a dysphoria, dysmorphia, disassociation, mania and the final stage essentially being psychopathy. All the systems enforce this. Though i wouldn't be surprised if they retconned a bunch of shit in Cyberpunk Red.
I think Deus Ex handles the issue of complications with mechanical augmentations a bit better and is a bit more realistic. That could also be because in the Deus Ex HR/MD timeline the biomechanical implants are still in their infancy as society is divided on their ethics and such. Dunno it just feels like it could actually happen in the near future.
It definitely exists as a real condition in canon. Just because it's real, doesn't mean the corps don't use it as an excuse to merc people they don't like.
There is a full cyborg like Smasher that managed to retain his sanity through his faith in God as a Roman Catholic. He's an NPC that shows up in part one of the fourth corporate war module.
Mike Pondesmith himself actually did a very long explanation on Reddit into how cyberpsychosis is supposed to work. And then there's the infamous The Truth of Cyberpsychosis readable that's in 2077.
We're supposed to believe that in 55 years, a private school in California would ever tolerate someone bothering their token minority. In a believable storyline, not only would David be socially untouchable, the kid's mom would not worry about paying a dime in tuition.
David had the option to finish school, but he knowingly walked away to join the B-movie heist gang. He murdered the mother of one of his classmates.
How people thought that it was a spy mission I have no idea because in the trailer V recites the Oath of Office.
This is cyber punk America, not our America. The 80s aesthetic is intentional, and has remained in place across all editions of the game. Now one can make the argument that this dates the franchise, as the world has clearly moved in a different direction, but at least the newer media is staying true to the roots of the tabletop game.
David knew he would never truly be able to rise to the top in their society, and if he had stayed, he would have just become a guinea pig to Arasaka. He's was screwed, no matter his choices, which is a very Cyberpunk theme.
That's...actually a really good point. If anything it would probably look like "Equilibrium" except the clerics have to wear different pride flag colors every month or some shit like that. Instead of a vaguely Christian Government doing it, it would be some corporate Oligarchy.
You mean aside from the fact Night City is an Arasaka-backed independent and sovereign city-state following the moderately successful Unification War? That oath makes V an illegal covert operative.
They can't possibly fuck up Orion as bad as they did with Cyberpunk 2077...right...RIGHT?!
Will the sequel be the Cyberpunk game that they originally wanted to make?
Wait until they start hiring more ex-Bioware people.
I'm getting GTA Online vibes with that. Expect a fair bit of DRM.
Yeah, they're going to have to earn that trust back after 2077's botched launch and lies. If another medium has to save your video game, perhaps rethink your strategy.
For one thing, V on the Corpo track is a guinea pig to Arasaka until he isn't. For another, the events of the last episode have David fulfilling that guinea pig role anyway.
