I absolutely adore this idea. One because it just feels like Night City. A living, breathing, criminal's paradise in an open world.
I would love to see countless unique random encounters where I can help the criminals instead of the law. I loved how in Red Dead Redemption, I could opt to shoot the law enforcers instead of killing the escaped convicts.
Seeing this will really bring the city to life.
I would love to see countless unique random encounters where I can help the criminals instead of the law. I loved how in Red Dead Redemption, I could opt to shoot the law enforcers instead of killing the escaped convicts.
Seeing this will really bring the city to life.
And these actions will need consequences, obviously.
Unless of course it was done in stealth, that way no one shall know whodunit.
Except maybe killing them means they won't be able to offer you missions, jobs, merchant services, etc...
Like:
- go to jail whenever we hurt someone.
- create a legal system in the game to dole out the appropriate justice... or
- If we hurt someone and evade the cops, an APB goes out and we spend the rest of the game on the run.
Yeah, being able to kill anyone usually means we have the accountability of a game like Oblivion, where everyone forgets our crime in about five minutes so we can continue to play. Or worse yet, there's a morality system in place. I'm not saying we shouldn't be able to kill anyone we come across but it raises serious game design/writing quandries and it trivializes violence. How am I supposed to take a death seriously when I can mow down 20 pedestrians in my car on the way to the next mission...
As our intrepid band of punks attend Swag jacket Guys memorial service, a note is passed to them from Swaggy's lawyer...
"Hi guys. If you are reading this, then I am dead. But, I have a job for you..."
Well... it's cyberpunk.... life IS cheap, violence IS trivial...
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Well I'm against spawning. When I clear area I don't wanna see the same guys there when I return later. I can get behind random spawning if it happens slowly, meaning when if I kill 10 guys then 1or 2 spawn in some other area.
Two Worlds actually had rather brilliant system where the animals migrated from area to area. So you could have killed species to extinction but you couldn't have done it systematically clearing area after area. But what would be the upper limit for let's say cops before they stop spawning in Night City? Millions?
Hated this in Sleeping Dogs. Cars exploding, long firefights with rocket launchers and no sign of SWAT and no one ever mentioned the property damage and casulties you were causing...
I would like the video game to adapt the PnP game as closely as possible. If this is true in the PnP game, then the game should show similar themes as well.
But I do imagine there are consequences for misbehaving in CP2020 as well.
In the corporate zone, Corporate security, the regular cops, and C-SWAT all come to beat your ass...
In other areas of town, the cops show up, C-SWAT or Swat if you get unruly enough...
In the Combat zone, the cops don't show up, shoot a banger and his boys come after you though. but be careful who you are fucking with or every gun on the street turns towards you, because everyone in the zone is pretty much armed at all timess... So while they will pretty much ignore you if you get in a fight, if you start going after civilians, or they feel threatened, well buddy boy, all those civilians just pulled guns and are aiming at you.... the troublemaker... Some of them will even stop shooting up and raping each other just to join in the fun of shooting the outsider.
Same as in the wastelands and the nomad areas...
I think this topic could use some more discussion:
Time for the UCJC - The Uniform Civilian Justice Code
Time for the UCJC - The Uniform Civilian Justice Code