Octopus Overlords

Fitzy wrote: ↑Mon Jun 11, 2018 7:50 am Was there a hint of release date? Or still looking at 2077?

You’ll play as a character named V, who CDP describes in a press release as “a hired gun on the rise in Night City, the most violent and dangerous metropolis of the corporate-ruled future.” You’ll be able to choose V’s gender, appearance, class, and historical background. Any of those things can influence the “shape of the game,” CDP wrote.

Much like Geralt from The Witcher, V will still very much be their own person, rather than a blank slate for the player. “For us, having someone who’s voiced and a named character allows us to build more interesting relationships,” the game’s associate design director Kyle Rowley told GameSpot. “So V in a sense does have her own kind of personality, but you shape it as a player.”

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:33 pm First he says you pick the gender then he says her. Also is it V or 5?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:33 pm First he says you pick the gender then he says her. Also is it V or 5?

Daehawk wrote: ↑Tue Jun 12, 2018 5:33 pm Also is it V or 5?

“A lot of [the other offers] were like ‘okay, we’re going to take this and we’re going to reskin it to whatever we’re currently doing, and we’re going to call it Cyberpunk.’ We’d walk out of the deal and go ‘yeah, I dunno, that didn’t feel good.’”

But that wasn’t the case for CDPR. “The CDPR guys approached us and they were fans. So they knew the property and the loved it, and they honestly probably knew more about it than I know about it.”

Pondsmith called CDPR’s enthusiasm and experience with the source material “the tipping point” in making a Cyberpunk game, and that it was incredibly important to get “people who know the material and cared.”

Pondsmith also went so far as to joke around saying that if we didn’t have a company of his own to run, he would apply for a job there. “As a studio runs,” Pondsmith explained “it’s one of the best running studios I’ve come across, and I’ve worked in a bunch and known a bunch.”

Cyberpunk as a concept is the antithesis to utopian science fiction, so I was never expecting a city with gleaming white buildings and a happy, well-adjusted populace, but I was hoping for something that explores the issues of an unequal future society in a way that felt fresh.

There was nothing whatsoever in the demo’s future that I hadn’t seen before. Gangs that kidnap and kill people to harvest and sell their augments. Mercenaries who’ll kill whomever for the credits. Crime syndicates with a stranglehold on the city. A black-market gang whose embrace of cybernetic augments takes them further and further away from “human.” The hard-boiled female protagonist who joins in, seemingly uncritically, with a cycle of violence and machismo. Naked, almost-dead women. Brothels, black markets, dodgy backdoor cybernetics doctors.

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The Witcher 3—one of my top three games of all time—is expert at employing and subverting fantasy-genre tropes to say interesting things about its world and characters. Its world, too, is rife with corruption and hypocrisy, but it feels so unpredictable and full of possibility. E3 demos usually emphasise action over everything else, and are forced to cram a lot of material into a short period of time, but an hour of Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t show me anything about Night City that surprised me.

AWS260 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 7:00 pm A somewhat skeptical take from Keza MacDonald of Kotaku:

Cyberpunk as a concept is the antithesis to utopian science fiction, so I was never expecting a city with gleaming white buildings and a happy, well-adjusted populace, but I was hoping for something that explores the issues of an unequal future society in a way that felt fresh.

There was nothing whatsoever in the demo’s future that I hadn’t seen before. Gangs that kidnap and kill people to harvest and sell their augments. Mercenaries who’ll kill whomever for the credits. Crime syndicates with a stranglehold on the city. A black-market gang whose embrace of cybernetic augments takes them further and further away from “human.” The hard-boiled female protagonist who joins in, seemingly uncritically, with a cycle of violence and machismo. Naked, almost-dead women. Brothels, black markets, dodgy backdoor cybernetics doctors.

***

The Witcher 3—one of my top three games of all time—is expert at employing and subverting fantasy-genre tropes to say interesting things about its world and characters. Its world, too, is rife with corruption and hypocrisy, but it feels so unpredictable and full of possibility. E3 demos usually emphasise action over everything else, and are forced to cram a lot of material into a short period of time, but an hour of Cyberpunk 2077 didn’t show me anything about Night City that surprised me.

I haven't seen the demo, but the trailer made me a bit skeptical as well. No focus on character or story at all, only mood. I couldn't help but notice that the taxi driver shown is South Asian and the convenience store clerk is East Asian -- stereotypical roles from the current era that just seem creatively lazy in Cyberpunk's future setting.

Still, it's CD Projekt, so I remain hopeful.

killbot737 wrote: ↑Wed Jun 20, 2018 10:19 pm Is this the game they're working from? Because it was 10000% Gibson cyberpunk. NTTAWWT.


Not sure that "the dark future" is an appropriate tag, but whatevs. Also whatevs was not a "word" when this game was created.

The header also reads: png;base64. If this is the case, and it is an image, there’s base64 image decoders online. So if one fanatic can copy the code, then it’s possible we’ll have a definitive answer to what CD Project RED are teasing.

Some players have been watching for the duration and claim that the code is showing in a loop, so it definitely has a beginning and an end. Interestingly, it’s also being streamed live on IGN’s YouTube channel, so it’s likely the gaming outlet has some exclusive deal with them.

Blackhawk wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:54 am I'd much rather be part of solving a mystery then just waiting to see another ad.

naednek wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 11:16 pm dare I ask what the release date is?

Vorret wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:24 am The word around reddit is somewhere in 2020 so still a long way out, then again they usually release well polished, complete games so they can take their sweet time !!

Vorret wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:25 am but seriously when you get down to street level , wow, all those people I'll need a new computer

Vorret wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 9:25 am but seriously when you get down to street level , wow, all those people I'll need a new computer