Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

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Deadwaste said:
that ending is specifically about how you will lose basically everything trying to get rid of this chip in your head killing you and that this is a bad choice for you to do.
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In a matter of sense.
But that ending is the only one which isn't ambiguous. Which was liked by a lot of people.
Apart of that, the message of "begin anew"; a new opportunity to live freely, walking away from your mercenary and near-death past, is probably the only "happy" ending you can get.

Arasaka's ending is the bad one. All for nothing.
Going with Rogue is somewhat bad? Probably 'cus she dies against Smasher, and can be double bad if you let Johnny take your body in Temperance ending.
Going with Panam is maybe the middle ending. Still ambiguous.

Secret ending is the best outcome. Or maybe i loved so much going bonkers against Arasaka alone. I always take Sun ending in that case.
And the suicide one, is just a cutscene. And the game doesn't consider a ending. Still sad though.
 
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⋖ cørdion ⋗ said:
Ask any troon if they'd wanna wake up tomorrow with a functional cunt and above-average tits but not in an unrealistic way and they'd say no. "It invalidates my journey and my struggles". They don't want a cure, they want to embrace the journey and put it off as long as they can. Imagine freezing your leg off just so you can get a moral boner about people opening the door for you. You wouldn't wanna give that up.
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Fuck these niggas man.
 
I’ve been reading Cyberpunk lore again and y’know things are becoming interesting in real life.

America imploding due to a series of economic gayops, endless wars, rise of advance technologies, severing ties with Europe, and a “paranoid sense of isolation” in the 90s and 2000s brought down American global power and the rise of Europe and Japan.

Today, America is embarking on the same path in a weird way. Tariffing all allies, severing close relations with its allies, the rise of advanced technology and a polarized society all combine into a fundamentally weakened state of affairs. China instead of Japan is rising from the east, and Europe is slowly becoming independent.

It’s weird how Pondsmith and R Talsorian got many things right nearly 40 years ago…
 
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Cyberpunk Meta said:
I’ve been reading Cyberpunk lore again and y’know things are becoming interesting in real life.

America imploding due to a series of economic gayops, endless wars, rise of advance technologies, severing ties with Europe, and a “paranoid sense of isolation” in the 90s and 2000s brought down American global power and the rise of Europe and Japan.

Today, America is embarking on the same pathetic in a weird way. Tariffing all allies, severing close relations with its allies, the rise of advanced technology and a polarized society all combine into a fundamentally weakened state of affairs. China instead of Japan is rising from the east, and Europe is slowly becoming independent.

It’s weird how Pondsmith and R Talsorian got many things right nearly 40 years ago…
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Man, is post-modernism at its finest.
Even Shadowrun have a similar plotline.
 
One thing that's always bothered me, but has anyone else noticed Placide favor his left side, like he's got some old injury that never healed right or some bad cyberwear? I swear there's something a bit awkward to his gait when he walks around Pacifica with you when you first meet him, especially when he walks up stairs, and then later on inside the hotel when he scans and chats with you he seems to slump down a bit over on the left, and he doesn't use his left arm all that much when you're with him.
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I'm not just imagining things here, am I?
 
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Snekposter said:
One thing that's always bothered me, but has anyone else noticed Placide favor his left side, like he's got some old injury that never healed right or some bad cyberwear? I swear there's something a bit awkward to his gait when he walks around Pacifica with you when you first meet him, especially when he walks up stairs, and then later on inside the hotel when he scans and chats with you he seems to slump down a bit over on the left, and he doesn't use his left arm all that much when you're with him.
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I like your post but have no memory of this character at all.
 
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Snekposter said:
One thing that's always bothered me, but has anyone else noticed Placide favor his left side, like he's got some old injury that never healed right or some bad cyberwear? I swear there's something a bit awkward to his gait when he walks around Pacifica with you when you first meet him, especially when he walks up stairs, and then later on inside the hotel when he scans and chats with you he seems to slump down a bit over on the left, and he doesn't use his left arm all that much when you're with him.
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I'm pretty sure the people responsible for Placide's interactions with V designed him that way and it's not an injury or cyberware.

If you look at concept arts the left side is fine and he uses a machete with his left hand.

For that scene it's possible he's just leaning on the left side to reach for a machete incase a quickhack is too slow.
 
Rick The Stick said:
If thats the thing that made you rage quit, probably not since it's still there.
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It wasn't the only thing but I got really annoyed that they made a female model and found a professional voice actor who trooned out and already had a higher pitched voice. I genuinely felt jumpscared when the garage opened and the trans flag bumper sticker on the truck. It really fit with the games theme of opening doors and getting betrayed. I was genuinely tricked by the character because they "pass", though I don't know if that is the right world when the character model is explicitly female and the tranny voice actor has years of experience and infinite attempts at sounding like a butch woman.
I would actually be fine with a weird trans character in a game of this setting if they were portrayed as a weird freak like everyone else. I really like the "Fingers" character because he was a horrible bisexual villain. But the token tranny has to have no obvious modifications, be conventionally attractive, and be cool and liked by the rest of the cast.
 
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TORtlEMUStRaNSUS said:
It wasn't the only thing but I got really annoyed that they made a female model and found a professional voice actor who trooned out and already had a higher pitched voice. I genuinely felt jumpscared when the garage opened and the trans flag bumper sticker on the truck. It really fit with the games theme of opening doors and getting betrayed. I was genuinely tricked by the character because they "pass", though I don't know if that is the right world when the character model is explicitly female and the tranny voice actor has years of experience and infinite attempts at sounding like a butch woman.
I would actually be fine with a weird trans character in a game of this setting if they were portrayed as a weird freak like everyone else. I really like the "Fingers" character because he was a horrible bisexual villain. But the token tranny has to have no obvious modifications, be conventionally attractive, and be cool and liked by the rest of the cast.
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If what killed it was the completely skippable tranny and you were fine with the other degeneracy so far, I'd stick with it. And whatever it's worth coming from a shill, play Phantom Liberty, it's better than the main game and has much less filler.
 
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Tried starting another playthrough recently myself (this time a combat hacker since last times I had done a walking tank Solo and a squirrel-on-crack Mantis blade ninja) and decided to skip straight into the Phantom Liberty expansion.

Right off the bat Keanu Reeves' voice jars me out of my immersion, the porno editor Latina chica tells me her hooker girlfriend has gruesomely offed herself, and then the tranny dials me and asks if I want to do street races for "her".

The combat was fun but everything about the story is an ugly, fucktarded time capsule of the global zeitgeist of the past several years, and frankly I'm a little disappointed Mike Pondsmith hasn't disavowed it and said that at best it happened in broad strokes.
 
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Cyberpunk Meta said:
It’s weird how Pondsmith and R Talsorian got many things right nearly 40 years ago…
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Anything remotely right is purely random. They, like most media of the 80s(bladerunner, diehard, back to the future 2 as examples) where 100% into the "Japan is going to replace the US as the economic/military leader of the world" trope.

Understandable why it was so prevalent then(makes you think why you dont see the same with China especially when China has shown genuine military ambition...), Cyberpunk in particular but that ended up being as wrong as can be as Japan imploded economically at the end of the 80s.
 
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74164978231 said:
Anything remotely right is purely random. They, like most media of the 80s(bladerunner, diehard, back to the future 2 as examples) where 100% into the "Japan is going to replace the US as the economic/military leader of the world" trope.

Understandable why it was so prevalent then(makes you think why you dont see the same with China especially when China has shown genuine military ambition...), Cyberpunk in particular but that ended up being as wrong as can be as Japan imploded economically at the end of the 80s.
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I’ll make a counter argument: some newer cyberpunk works like Deus Ex do focus on the rise of China trope and the decline of America themes. Indeed for the 1980s, Japan was the big Asian power. Today it remains firmly China. China’s got so much influence that it’s rare to find a modern FPS game or even a cyberpunk video game in general with a Chinese villain. Maybe with the exception of Deus Ex Human Revolution from 2011 but that’s it.

Chinese firms like Tencent operate like ESG rackets. They’ll intervene if anti-CCP material is present in a video game. But Chinese propaganda will vilify Japan so if CDPR or any other developer wants to produce a new cyberpunk video game, making Japanese antagonists is more or less socially acceptable to Chinese investors. Honestly I’m shocked many gamers don’t point out how Beijing has infiltrated the largest entertainment industry over the last decade and used its economy to censor any anti China material in games.
 
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