[Game] Let's choose another questline to be the main game

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You have been hired by CD Projekt Red as Story Developer for CYBERPUNK 2077. Much has been done for NIght City but they have decided to not do Johnny Silverhand in your head as the main quest. You are given the option of selecting and expanding on any of the existing content but NOT making up a new adventure whole cloth as the focus for the game.

What do you make the main quests and how? How do you modify it.

EXAMPLES:

1. The Murder of the Mayor

Rather than Johnny Silverhand and the heist, you are actually sent to investigate the murder of the mayor and become involved in the conspiracy to kill him, cover it up, and control the election afterward. The Peralzes thing is the central plot but is actually not something that affects the story on the ground. You can complete the game and side with multiple factions but it won't prevent you from doing more missions post-game.

Endings:

* Side with Mr. Blue Eyes
* Side with Mayor Holt and the SSI Company
* Side with the Peralzes
* Work with the media, Regina Jones, to expose it all

2. Brain Dance Snuff Ring

This is a much darker and seedier game than the one we got with a focus on missions like the serial killer in River's Quest, Evelyn Parker, Clouds, and those scummy Brain Dance editors. You are hired to investigate some dirty brandances and discover the enormous Snuff Film ring in Night City where serial killers and rapists are paid to do their business for larger and larger crowds. You basically have to dismantle the entire operation one bit at a time while realizing the whole things is composed of cops, politicians, and other people. All of the horrible rings and murders are interlinked by one enormous conspiracy.

It'll half Taken and half Man on Fire.

* Endings:

* Snuff Ring Dismantled: Its members dead and its victims saved.
* Corporate Braindance: You make a deal and sell all the information from it to corporations who make harmless but realistic alternatives for the hardcore porn market. It's just made from the real deal. You get paid for other people's misery.
* Walk Away: You take an enormous bribe of $250,000 Eddies and leave your friends like Judy and River to die.
* The Conspiracy Wins: A bad ending for not doing enough, the conspiracy escapes and goes on. Your character fails to achieve anything.
* Wrath of God: You team up with some fanatics to spike all the brain dance snuff and kill the entire customer base. Something akin to 20,000 people are killed.

3. Cyberpsycho Hunt

The player character is a former member of the NCPD who is fired from their job due to whatever reason and they are sent on a hunt to investigate the Cyberpsycho attacks around the city that have been increasing in frequency. You gradually discover it's all a corporate conspiracy of some kind to test their new weaponry. Each of the questlines results in you taking down a different Cyberpsycho just as they're about to be activated. Eventually you realize it's you against a megacorp. Can you stop it or even damage it?

* Go into Hiding: You publicize your findings and Arasaka gets several board members to commit suicide as well as others executed. You are now marked as their enemy.
* Purge: Arasaka handles it quietly with your help and the cyberpsycho program is shut down. You are paid a great deal to keep your mouth shut.
* Upgrade: You take the information about cyberpsychos research publicize it. Maelestrom, Voodoo Boys, and others upgrade as a result and the city becomes even more chrome.
* Militech: You storm the research facility, gain all the psycho research and have Militech to protect you. They start on their own program.
 
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4. JOHNNY SILVERHAND, DEAD AND LOVING IT

Basically, just utterly fuck with the seriousness of the main story. Johnny Silverhand is found dead in his mansion on a cocaine and doll fueled orgy and you are hired by his Fixer to investigate. However, that's because he's used a "Secure your Soul" program to upload into your brain so he can find out who killed him and handle his unfinished business. You'll be paid half his fortune if you succeed in solving it!

Instead of horrible looming death, it is a buddy comedy about dealing with all the various fuck ups Johnny has done and how every single person he knows hates him. Basically, the Kerry mission in tone and the date with Rogue.

The one "serious" quest is when you find out he's responsible for the nuclear bombing of Night City. You can then delete him there or find out that he was given a Militech nuke many times more powerful than the one they said it was. You then find out who WAS responsible and kill them 50 years late. Yes, it was actually Saburo Arasaka who nuked his own city. All to make trillions rebuilding it.

Endings:

* Romance with Alt Cunningham and go off into the net together
* Help Johnny Silverhand ascend to become a AI pop star with a new fandom/Get a new cyberbody and clone
* Let Johnny pass into oblivion as your friend after taking down Saboru, Goro, and Adam Smasher with him
* Help Yorinobu and Hanako kill Saburo Arasaka for the nuclear bombing
 
4. JOHNNY SILVERHAND, DEAD AND LOVING IT

Basically, just utterly fuck with the seriousness of the main story. Johnny Silverhand is found dead in his mansion on a cocaine and doll fueled orgy and you are hired by his Fixer to investigate. However, that's because he's used a "Secure your Soul" program to upload into your brain so he can find out who killed him and handle his unfinished business. You'll be paid half his fortune if you succeed in solving it!

Instead of horrible looming death, it is a buddy comedy about dealing with all the various fuck ups Johnny has done and how every single person he knows hates him. Basically, the Kerry mission in tone and the date with Rogue.

The one "serious" quest is when you find out he's responsible for the nuclear bombing of Night City. You can then delete him there or find out that he was given a Militech nuke many times more powerful than the one they said it was. You then find out who WAS responsible and kill them 50 years late. Yes, it was actually Saburo Arasaka who nuked his own city. All to make trillions rebuilding it.

Endings:

* Romance with Alt Cunningham and go off into the net together
* Help Johnny Silverhand ascend to become a AI pop star with a new fandom/Get a new cyberbody and clone
* Let Johnny pass into oblivion as your friend after taking down Saboru, Goro, and Adam Smasher with him
* Help Yorinobu and Hanako kill Saburo Arasaka for the nuclear bombing
While this is a bit too comedic for my taste and doesn't really fit the dark and depressing cyberpunk theme I like the fact that you don't feel rushed because Johnny is killing you. I hate how the main story makes you feel like you have to rush through the main story.
 
While this is a bit too comedic for my taste and doesn't really fit the dark and depressing cyberpunk theme I like the fact that you don't feel rushed because Johnny is killing you. I hate how the main story makes you feel like you have to rush through the main story.

Yeah my view is that it would actually be a contradiction to the rest of the dark and depressing Night City storyline. But yes, the funny thing is that you could do most of the story with Johnny Silverhand in your brain but not killing you. You could substitute say, "Clearing my name from killing Saburo" and getting Johnny out is more of a bonus.
 
hmmm short version...

I would have expanded on the origin stories and integrated them more into the story.

Jackie would have warned V that there was something wrong with the chip and then died. You should have been able to kill Dex and get out of the hotel which sort of puts you on the run.

The mayor would have been killed and V set up for the murder. Meeting River and Han at this point. Kerry in Jail with you for some other crazy reason. Rogue bails him out but knows who you are and gets you out too. Panam story comes into play. Takemura is trying to kill you over the heist. Judy and Evelyn story pretty much stays the same.

Peralezs contact you because they don't believe you are involved with the murder and there is something much bigger going on. You go through their story line as it is now along with the River quest line.

Sandra Dorsett would have contacted you earlier with her side quest. She finds out what arasaka is doing to people and about the soulkiller program. You tell her about the chip. She enlists Judy to help with the chip.

Rogue somehow knows about the chip and that Johnny is on it. She has heard about the program. She gets Kerry to help you and Panam take the envoy. Hellman tells you about the program but tells you millitech is using it for something more sinister. Takemura attacks you at the hotel and stray bullets hit Hellman killing him.

Panam gets you and Kerry out. Panam's questline(millitech) Kerry's questline(arasaka)

Sandra goes through her files and finds cop names on the list plus many affluential people on the list. Judy knows one of the people and thinks contacting the voodoo boys will get to that person. Some side quest for Judy during which you find out this is bigger than arasaka and millitech were definitely involved.

Peralez contact you and you find out they are being overwritten, you bring River in on the quest. You fill in River on what Sandra found. He starts looking into it and his nephew gets nabbed by the serial killer who we later find out has been influenced by millitech.

Fixer quests could have been clues to what was going on. Stealing shards and information for both companies. If your tech ability was high enough, you could start uncovering information on the corporations. Cyberpsycho hunts could have been the people where the program went wrong. Clouds getting hacked (Evelyn) because why not run test on "dolls" There even could have been investigations on this.

In the end, araska was using the soulkiller program for immortality and Militech was using it control people.

Endings: With the help of Judy and Sandra, you could unleash a virus to wipe out the program thrusting the city into the stone age. Trust Araska and get double crossed as they take over Millitech. Trust Millitech and get double crossed as they take over Arasaka. Join either corporation and take out the other and let V control the program. Use the chip and let Johnny control the systems. Allow Alt and Johnny to be in constant battle of control neither ever winning and the net stays in place, or just nuke the city.

Of course there would be more to this story but I am not going to write a whole game here. Basically, all romance options should have been introduced early and part of the main story from the time Jackie died. Corporation corruption should have been the main story imo because the whole survive Johnny in my head only to die no matter what doesn't make it worth playing again. I just was not playing my V in the current story and I had no connection to V or most of the characters in the story.
 
Looks like a ...CYBERPUNK 2020 campaign setting?
I'm good at it, just ignore my poor english.
To make a long story, you must have a strong and slow motive, which is happened at first mission and push the main charactor move.
2077 followed this rule, TW3 followed it too, so am I.
Since we need differen't charactor background, It will start at a super mission, and it must be shit.

The most super mission must be kick corp's ass, since Arasaka has been chosen by the 2077, I will chose Militech.
Main charactor need a name, let's just still call him V.

Militech is studing a super weapon, a special device which can help anyone became unidentify and invisible at net, even against Netwatch. It will come as no surprise that the major engineer want to sell it to Netwatch, and other power know the deal.
Mayor hired V to kidnap the major engineer, Arasaka need it either.
V made it, but shit always waiting. It's not a device, it's an AI. Engineer cheat everyone, and he use it to escape. V try to stop him, as the result, they can't keep silence. Militech get the device and the body of engineer, they may never knows why it can't work. And Netwatch, knows that thanks for V, there is no deal anymore.
While V come to his safe house, the breaking news shows that mayor suddenly get an accident. At the same time he realized something wrong, a sniper hit him.
The assassin has left by comfirm the death of V, but he wake up a few minutes later, the AI he carried helped him, cheet the sniper's thermal imaging and give him a fake death.

Then is the deal with AI, he have reason to touch the Blackwall secretly, and it's hard to find a person who have both ability and willing to help him, that's why he saved V. Without AI's power to unidentify V, V will be find immediately, and Militech would hunt him again. So V have a differen't ID and start working to touch Netwatch.

That would be a long story. And in the finally twist, which I can't decide right now, everything should change.
Maybe the AI is a spy of Militech who would control blackwalls, but he can't realized, and after realized that, he would ask V to destroy him.
Or, maybe the Blackwall has been corrupted, whatever V want, Blachwall can't protect human anymore, the only way to reduce the destruction is let the AI shutdown the Blackwall and spread itself to every terminal, which can keep everyone invisible at cyberspace, that means you can't connect eachother with net, but you are also safe, for now.

BTW, because of it's an improvisation, must be lot of mistake, never mind
 
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