Well. Vs goal to become a legend changed to "holy fuck I want to live" the moment dex shot V in the head....
Have you not payed attention during act 2?
Have you not payed attention during act 2?
We go back to the same problem, the game would just ends up as "pick the ending that makes you feel better". So you either have a better C&C and reach the endings organically, without actively choosing, or the endings should revolve around the same overarching theme.
so you want absolutely real negativit. Hmmm, ok...
But it's too late, already, that's the point. V made a fatal mistake, literally. Now V is more mature, wants to amend the mistake, go back, but can't. This mirrors Johnny 1:1. That's exactly the point.
Smasher was a gramps and Saburo a great-great-great- gramps. Not sure about Blackhand, as he was cut. Are they not legends?
Well. Atm, it does not matter how much you do in the game. You will die. Period.
Player agency is zero.
Btw. The inherent problem is not that V dies - its the justification and execution of it.
It took me 10 minutes of research and I found in-universe solutions for V's problem that are Commercially available.
The plot-cancer is just a cringy and reused plot-device.
You have agency in how you deal with your death. For yourself and for the people close to you.
it’s not like this game was advertised with “choice that matters” or “shape your story”.
You prefer Bioware style where you are a special guy and become a renowned hero with the best looking girl/boy, it's ok.
I like when other games try different things.
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And I've already answered to that. Choices that matter doesn't mean happy endings.
Absolutely not true.
I personally (Willenbrock) have agency in how I deal with V's death.
V makes the decision on what to do with V's life before V gets the plot-cancer.
Sorry but my Troll’o’metter just went ot the chart, been nice talking about edgy goth-emo stuff and such tho.
brw writing deppartment of CDPR wants to know your location.
Stlsy I wont be continuing this particular conv, so EOT from me
And that had a lot of sense if the main story would be about V. But I'd like to remind you that V died at the end of Act 1. Like it or not, but we (players) are playing for a resurrected body shared by two deadmen brains.
Ironically, people are complaining about a lack of choice in multiple quests. However, when they have been given a choice, they would like not to choose.
Apparently they would, because it´s choices and you could choose how things go. But in this game you don´t have choices. You only can pick 1 out of 2-3 answers, that in the end lead to the same.
If the consequence is always the same you only have the illusion of choice.
You have to rewrite the entire game, then. Which is another thing I don't disagree with.
It's a shame cdpr didn't try different things with their endings
Except Johnny can very well amend his mistakes in the game. He gets to live again, takes his revenge on Arasaka, kills Adam Smasher, meets Alt and his old friends again, and if you have a good relationship with him he even gets to make new ones.
I get it, you like the current ending. Nothing wrong with it, no one here wants to remove the option to have a bleak ending for V in which they end up dying. But reducing the game's themes to "struggling is useless, death is inevitable whatever you do" is not only reductive, it's just plain wrong for the genre. In cyberpunk people live and die, regardless of whether they "deserve" it or not. NC is still dangerous, the badlands are still dangerous. Having the possibility of finding a cure doesn't magically turn V's life into a walk in the park.