So... besides a great/fun fighting system and lot's of exploration, choices, character's interactions, good music, etc. etc., I would love to see something ADULT like this in the game
Beside all of this, remain the Cyberpunk lol.
It's not like 1984, yes it's a disopian future, but a "real" one, the 1984 vision is interesting, but honnestly it's too much of a "closed" world, even if the masses are sheep, i doubt they would be happily-enslaved and say thank you.
Cyberpunk just reflect, to an "over-the-top" point, the stupidity of the capitalist system we lives on (adding to it, a lot of reflexion on technologies around us, and the use we do of them), it talk about law, society, criminality, love, hate, well the everyday life.
1984 and Brave New World, are interesting books, but i wouldn't call them "Cyberpunk", in those books, the society is too much closed, but actualy, the point of our system is to make you believe you're free, free to vote for the winners, free to buy a tv, free to go on facebook, free to do whatever you want... but at the same time, FB sells private informations to private groups, they produce cheap Tv series to earn a lot of money without spending that much, etc...
The "unbelievable" thing IMO in 1984 and B.N.W are how everything is under control, you know, it's the same today, with you web IP, your GPS smartphone, etc...
But they gives you the feeling no one is watching you
(witch is anyway the case, unless you're a terorist or something like this, they can't put a damn cop behind each civilian), wereas in those books, it's so much closed, i wonder how people agreed with it at the first place.
Because, yes, masses are sheep, but when you try too much to push them, they always reminds you who is in charge
(look at the Grece right now, just add some cybernetics in the game, and you got a good cyberpunk setting)
1984 is more a "political" book, if you see what i mean, with an interesting vision but not that much close (excepted for some idea) of our world..
Cyberpunk as a genre is more "urban", you know , it's just survival and being smarter than the guy in front of you, it's closer to our real world.
Sure, you'll have a lot of political view, like in the book "Island on the net", written in 1988, durring the cold war, and somewhere you read "Sticky" doing a almost two pages long speech about how fucked up is our society right now by the capitalist system, who make you use "social words" to call people, but beyond that "curtain" it's just misery and poverty, like we say our world is open to everyone, but people who can't write or read are doomed to stay in the "underground", no one will ever hire them, so that push them toward criminality, etc... (just an example lol), and i was just like "woaw, the guy nailed something", you know, that's the kind of subtle difference i like with cyberpunk, story like the one in 1984 are too much "big evil guy who control everything and everyone know it and lick their boots", it's the same in cyberpunk thought, but it's less "big", there is no "omnipotent power", there are a lot, sometimes corporations makes war to other ones, etc... it's a chaotic world wereas 1984 is a totaly controled society.
Plus, Cyberpunk's heroes are often a bunch of loser, seriously, like in Neuromancer, Case is a depressed guy, who spend his time doing dirty crime and doing drugs, then he gets a "work", but he's totaly sad that he can't do drugs anymore because they cleaned his system and gived him a new liver, in fact i don't even think he really knows what he's doing here for the most part of the books, he just get a job, hacking what people tells him to hack and knows there is a lot of money waiting for him at the end... but it's not that much easy
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Well, to make it short, take 1984, add a lot of cybernetics, give drugs to everyone, and send a bus filled with drunken punks with polymere guns there and you'll have a good start of a cyberpunk world lol
Cyberpunk, honnestly is more of a "book" genre than a movie one, often movies are half-assed, or just sucks hard
like, try to read the original Johnny Mnemonic, and look at the movie.
In the book, Johnny is an asshole, who only care about himself and money, who don't hesitate, and don't even have any remorse to give heroin to a dolphin, so he can hack systems instead of Johnny.
In the movie,it's show almost nothing of it, and the fact that they're going to make a serie out of it is prettty scary (but who knows.)
My biggest fear actualy is that CP77 wouldn't be "mature" enought, due to censorship.
Because the violence and human degradation level in the cyberpunk world is something we're not used to see honestly, it's not just gore or "Evil big corporato-political guy"
It's homeless kids playing with toxic waste, drugs, terrorism, police brutality, body parts traffic, conspiracy, every-age prostitution, sick kinks, cyberspace use and abuse, urban riot, violence, murder, black market, suicide, mass murder, nihilism, and a lot of other sick stuff, the list would be loooooong.
Sure there will be a lot of political stuff, but the world in itself (if done according to the roots) will talk more than a long speech, trust me.
Now, if you want to get a hand on some cool Cyberpunk books, i can council those ones, pretty cool to get your first step into the genre.
"Hardwired" by Walter Jon Williams
(I don't know for your language thought, but this book is pretty easy to read, unlike Gibson who can be pretty confusing at time, mostly if your book is traduced, but the story is indeed great.)
The
"Sprawl Trilogy" by William Gibson
(It's simple, no Gibson = no cyberpunk, so it's a really important first step into the genre if you wanna have a better view of the cyberpunk world)
Damn, we should make a topic about Cyberpunks books (if there isn't already one).
