Some superficial aesthetics would've been neat, yeah. From my understanding, you're meant to acquire cyborg-ish enhancements as you progress through the game, so I guess they made that into a feature. Doesn't stop everything you make in the character creator from looking ugly as sin. Those skin shaders aren't doing the game any favors.
Like IDK, give you a starting budget for you to pick augmentations then let you earn cash for new augs/bodies, and have a near endgame where you can earn enough to have your own garage/clinic swapping your brain between bodies?
I wish they'd gone the Neuromancer route. Remember the ROM construct of Dixie Flatline's personality? He simply sat in Case's head, talking and giving him sass, but never tried any hostile takeover. Hell, the Commodore 64 game of the book went that route: you could pull off the Sense/Net job and nick his construct again and implant it in your head. Given the limitations of the C64 he never did more than warn the player when a database they were breaking into had an AI, but hell if I didn't geek out the first time I saw him give the "there's an AI in there, I hope you don't have a morbid fear of death" line from the book. I imagine every old Cyberpunk RPG player would have nerdgasmed if they'd just had Johnny Silverhand as a mental co-pilot like Xana in Dark Messiah of Might and Magic.
And in the CP2020 world seeing someone with a full body borg conversion usually meant absolutely everyone was either on their toes, reaching for their guns, or ringing up the Psycho squad because the full borgs usually had personality issues and the hardware to take it out on the terrain around them.
There's also the talk of him having some form of autism and needing specific voice and acting directors. Not sure if true or rumor, but it has been known in some form for a time, even back in his Matrix days
Pretty sure in the old games you could completely lose your marbles and become a soulless murder bot if you install too many cybernetics, and lose control of your character. I remember that was a thing I read about it in the lore.
40+60+9. That's a delightful amount of patching that needs to happen for folks who bought the game on disc and have cable internets. That's 1/2 their bandwidth eaten up in patches. Comcast, Spectrum, and Time Warner are gonna laugh all the way to the bank on the overage charges and parents are gonna SCREAM their child cost hundreds over a video game.
To risk another Autistic rating. How grimdark it is really depends on the writer. Some writers make the average human living in an imperial world to be horrifying to the point of being counter productive, while others make it comparable to modern life in western countries.
Why do women have to ruin everything?
Now that you say it, I demand that CP2077 let me customize Keanu Reeves. Otherwise clearly transphobic and problematic.
I could see them being able to rationalize it by having the backstory of selling their bodies parts for money and replacing it with a cheap robot replacement or just scrap parts. You could start out with different quality of parts depending on your backstory with the really good military/experimental grade parts locked behind story progression (different factions reward different kinds of parts) or costing a lot on the black market. You could lock a bunch of stuff behind completion of certain side quests, off the top of my head:
In the RPG, every character had Humanity points: the more you had, the more "human" you were. Go down enough, you started turning into a stone cold psycho. Every bit of cyberware you put in had a humanity cost, ranging from negligible (1 point for a watch that shows time and date on your skin) to butt-clenching (armoured face plates, telescoping antennae with sensors) and everything in between. Full body conversions gave such big hits to Humanity that they practically guaranteed anyone with one would be a cold fish at the least and "just waiting to snap and go on a rampage" at the most. And then there are the borgs who don't look like Hajime Sorayama's sexy robot ladies, but have the "undercover" option, where you can't tell them from real people even with thermal optics, but with the same options for firepower as the shiny chrome lot.
what are spirals
in the right hands, applied to the right shape, it's a form of tesselation.
