games @hexbear.net Parsani [love/loves, comrade/them] @hexbear.net 1 yr. ago

Cyberpunk DLC

Did they fire the original writing staff and hire some dudes from reddit to write this? Not that the base game had the best writing, but after an hour of playing the DLC there have been multiple instances of lines that seem to be terminally infected by the Gamer Mind Virus. Hearing V say "amazeballs" made me want to die.

Also, fuck having to save the president. Lame mission tbh.

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I had fun with the gameplay of the base game, but it is boggling they have a cyberpunk game called Cyberpunk and there's almost no cyberpunk in any of the narrative.
- a youtuber i watched occasionally put it pretty well, "some cyber, no punk"
  
  i thought the punk in cpunk2077 was when johnny silverhand tried to raid arasaka (but failed of course)
  
  I've heard it called "boomerpunk" before, where it's what aging cishet men think the cool cyberfuture looks like, without anything that makes them feel uncomfortable and where the political status quo is conspicuously the eternal post-Soviet 90s.
  
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  If you could forward this notification to whoever sold Bethesda on "NASApunk", I'd appreciate this
hire some dudes from reddit to write this

The original game introduces the Keanu Reaves cameo by having the player go le epic john wick right after a cutscene where he put a feeemale in her place.

This game was always written by redditors. At least amazeballs is so harmless it's almost cute.
- What? Isn't Johnny's first appearance after V gets shot in the head and left for dead in the garbage dump?
  
  Yeah that's when you get le epic John Wick in an hour long interlude. At least that's how I remember it it's been 3 years
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- This is wholesome seal 100 keanu reaves big chungus epic bacon
  
  I expect this line to be spoken verbatim at some point
  
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They took the Enlightened Centrist "not all cops are bastards" and "improving society somewhat is naive and probably evil and hypocritical like Keanu Reeves' character, but if you want to Become A Legend Of Night City(tm) and have le sexy sex, we got you covered" cyberpunkerinos and made it more Enlightened Centrist?

I'm glad I stayed away.
- I watched a video with the "lore designer" or whatever and I don't think you could find a more wet cardboard like liberal. The whole game boils down to liberal individualism. But my katana goes slash and I wear cool clothes so idk it evened out for me.
  
  They did make Keanu's character say he was once a cop already tho. It made no sense lol
  
  The whole game boils down to liberal individualism.
  
  That's the usual pushback I got when calling out copaganda, capitalist realism, or just outright plot rails fatalism where nothing matters but Becoming A Legend Of Night City(tm): "not everything has to be a sermon or have a message! Let people enjoy things!"
  
  No message except the already accepted and unexamined message.
  
  Isn't his character's whole early backstory that he was a troop who deserted so hard he made deserting cool?
- The funniest thing about gamers is all the "romances" in the game are just flirtatious dialogues that culminate in t3h s3xxxors. And then that's it lol. It's always someone the player character is working with, too. So romance to gamers is banging the chick at work once and then carrying on.
  
  It isn't much of a surprise that "gamedads" as they've come to be called, the ones that did manage to get married and have children, are more often than not eventually divorced. That's the target demographic of Star Citizen, by the gamedads' own admission many times over.
watched the new ending they added on youtube and gotta say, it's honestly pretty funny:

spoiler

you do a job for the cyber cia and they remove the relic, you're in a coma for 2 years, lose everyone and you can't use cool implants anymore. you go back to night city and everyone has both literally and figuratively moved on. in the end you become a face in the crowd, a literal npc, and the cia-man phones you up and asks if you wanna join the feds to do some pencil pushing in the credits

i'll keep saying that raiding the tower with Johnny is the best ending

anyway the ukrainian localisation apparentely pokes fun at russians and praises ukraine which seems to be par for the course for .

edit: lmao "CD Projekt apologise for Cyberpunk 2077 Ukrainian script's potentially "offensive" references to Russians " atleast stand by your shit, you polish fucks
- "Juxtaposed are the Ukrainian coat of arms and taraq tamga (the symbol of Crimean Tatars)." The suggestion is that in Cyberpunk 2077’s world, Crimea is part of Ukraine.
  
  In the world of Cyberpunk, the USSR still exists. Good fact-checking, whoever wrote this.
- I'm not gonna look up the ending just yet, so thanks for the spoiler tag.
  
  i'll keep saying that raiding the tower with Johnny is the best ending
  
  I did this but then
  
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  I gave my body to Johnny and had to do the stupid quest giving that kid a guitar. I wanted to see behind the Blackwall or whatever, but no, time for the most boring quest possible. I've always meant to re do it and choose the other option, but just couldn't be bothered.
  
  concerning your spoiler
  
  if you excise johnny you get the "Sun" ending, you have all the money, you own Afterlife now and the game ends with you starting a heist on the space station casino. you do only have 6 months to live, and i think all your romances end because you're too focused on trying to fix the relic issue, but eh.
- I already didn't like CDPR's cyberpunkerinos, but I'm still surprised, even startled, by just how bad the Enlightened Centrist and is in your summary.
  
  BUT THERE'S NEON AND SO LET PEOPLE ENJOY THINGS EXCEPT YOU CAN'T ENJOY CRITICISM
- Does the Polish version not do that?
The anime was good, at least.
- Edgerunners was so good it gaslit people into thinking 2077 was a good game.
  
  This franchise could have been so fucking good if it were in the hands of communists like Trigger's team
  
  It has been so fucking frustrating to watch.
- Yeah I enjoyed it but I'm not a big anime fan
I refunded after about half an hour. Game still buggy as shit jankfest that just feels bad to play. Performance sucks along with muddy blurred visuals with constant artifacts in motion.

So much marketing around this and its the same exact crap i played at release.

Hey at least they fixed the cops i guess.
Is there something more cyberpunk than being a cop? What a pile of dogshit.
Hearing V say “amazeballs” made me want to die.

I get that "amazeballs" might come off as cringy, but doesn't CPunk77 take place in the far future? I feel like memey words like that would be normal in the English Lexicon of that time. I mean, words like Yeet, S-mp, Rizz, Based and other zoomer words (hell even the word "Zoomer" itself) started off as memes but because they're so widely used they're becoming part of the dictionary.
- Seeing as it's basically a word from like 2005, that would be like using slang from 1951 today
  
  That's pretty fuckin swell
  
  Oh. Nevermind then.
  
  I've seen some pretty old slang get used in the present.
  
  It's too small to read in this image, but this political cartoon that was contemporary with Jefferson had "cool" in a nearly contemporary understanding of use.
- Considering how utterly terrible the ideological presentation and plot rails are for the game, especially for its expansion, I'd take a hundred "amazeballs" over even more programming to tell how nothing can really change or improve so may as well join the feds and be a cool insider with delicious boots.
I stand firm in my conviction that I was completely justified never thinking about this game again after finishing the main story.
You're surprised that this game has poor writing?

https://hexbear.net/post/60918
- Love that we got the old posts back
I keep feeling more and more vindicated for not bothering with this
- Me too.
CP77 always rubbed me the wrong way. It's a take on cyberpunk from back when American capitalists were worried about Japan's growing high tech industrial base, and carries a lot of the same implicit biases and racism. The bad guy corporation is Japanese, for instance. On top of that, they completely forgot what the PUNK part means. There's missions where you team up with cops to put down, by force, people with malfunctioning cybernetics. Knocking them out or killing them has the exact same effect. The game does not at any point critique this. Just pure co-opting of the aesthetic without a shred of regard for the philosophy or subtext.
With how much hype there has been for this, I will never take anyone who says “It’s good now, they fixed it” seriously.

It happens with every game now I’m sure the PR teams at every major publisher use this as a crutch.
fuck someone here told me it was good and I got them for my bro

we'll watch edgerunners
if someone says sitch one more fucking time, im gonna have a sitch in my pants

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