When interviewing Mike Ponsmith, he is often referenced with quote "It's not about saving the word - but saving yourself." when referring to Cyberpunk story, but in other interviews he's stated “Cyberpunks don't save the world; they save themselves. If saving the world comes out of that, then that's great.”
This in fact is also prevalent theme on other cyberpunk themed stories like Ghost In the Shell where there's no clear good or bad guys. Things just happen and world changing events are taking place in front of the audience, and these people who we follow have to adapt to the changing world. There is a few key events in cyberpunk movies like Bladerunner that take effect only because key character does something to advance their own desires, when something unexpected happens as a side effect. Sometimes things just happen anyway and the main protagonist is just a passenger who can't alter the changing story.
I wonder if this was potentially considered when creating the original Cyberpunk 2077 story, and the self serving actions of V are in fact causing some chain event that would eventually lead into some sort of world changing event. Even if V's actions personally don't lead to these event's there's some indication of something sinister looming in the horizon.
Now everything following this is a major spoiler so if you haven't played through the story or skipped some side missions, you may not have heard this:
This in fact is also prevalent theme on other cyberpunk themed stories like Ghost In the Shell where there's no clear good or bad guys. Things just happen and world changing events are taking place in front of the audience, and these people who we follow have to adapt to the changing world. There is a few key events in cyberpunk movies like Bladerunner that take effect only because key character does something to advance their own desires, when something unexpected happens as a side effect. Sometimes things just happen anyway and the main protagonist is just a passenger who can't alter the changing story.
I wonder if this was potentially considered when creating the original Cyberpunk 2077 story, and the self serving actions of V are in fact causing some chain event that would eventually lead into some sort of world changing event. Even if V's actions personally don't lead to these event's there's some indication of something sinister looming in the horizon.
Now everything following this is a major spoiler so if you haven't played through the story or skipped some side missions, you may not have heard this:
Now what would there need to be saved, or what bigger conflict we may take part on? We already know this:
- There's some shadowy organization running the Night City who has potentially corrupted all the politicians, or at least those who fight it's agenda
- Corporations have been waging war with each other for 50 years
- Gangs are used by corporations to do their dirty business
- Something is causing people have Cyberpsychosis
- Some rumors in Maximum Mike (Mike Pondsmith) radio broadcast talking about factories operating by themselves in Korea and how this whole operation has been hidden in secret, some assumption is that there's some AI that is running things on background
- The AI known as Alt Cunningham gained access to Mikoshi and assimilated the souls inside into herself and throughout the game you get to know it was her goal to gain access there
- In one of the endings there is talks of new corporation war about to start up, so things are potentially heating up after a brief peace
So following V's actions in the end of the game, and assuming that there is some effect which will impact the more larger conflict in the world, I'd be fair to assume that disrupting Arasaka and gaining access to Mikoshi is in the center of all of this. Considering that V already did "save" himself in the end of the game, I doubt the expansions will focus much more in just V trying to save his skin. Of course in the end of all of the expansions we might finally get some way to V save for himself, but I doubt it's going to be enduring narrative that'll expand multiple expansions.
Considering in one of the endings, V was talking with Mr Blue Eyes (who was also responsible on controlling politicians) and was sent into a mission, it's very likely that mind control isn't going away any time soon and the sinister forces are soon to show themselves.
This is Johnny's opinion after done with the Peralez mission about who's behind this whole operation:
I wonder if there's going to be some apocalyptic event taking place where most of the population are going to be "switched on" and basically becoming remote controlled zombies, where V and other non-slaved people fight this entity.
Certainly if you look Witcher 3 expansions there was a bunch of new characters introduced as antagonists. I think one thing for sure is the Casino is going to be coming either by DLC or Expansion and I'd imagine there's some significance in that area. Perhaps it's going to serve as a hub for new quests like Afterlife, where stakes are bigger and you're going to be taking down some more influential people. We've barely heard from other companies than Arasaka and Militech, even though there must be numerous other corporations providing military gear. Will we be gaining access to lets say Kiroshi Optics cyberware manufacturing facility to disrupt the production of new prototype of cyberwear?
What new enemies are we going to face? If it was indeed some larger scale war, we could see more futuristic weaponry, tanks bipedal mecs, flying aircraft carriers similar to what we see in Avengers?
If it's AI take over we might see some androids which bleed while liquid as they're killed, who could be ultra accurate killers who are really hard to take down just by going guns blazing.
What type of new enemies might we see? Where would the story take us?
- There's some shadowy organization running the Night City who has potentially corrupted all the politicians, or at least those who fight it's agenda
- Corporations have been waging war with each other for 50 years
- Gangs are used by corporations to do their dirty business
- Something is causing people have Cyberpsychosis
- Some rumors in Maximum Mike (Mike Pondsmith) radio broadcast talking about factories operating by themselves in Korea and how this whole operation has been hidden in secret, some assumption is that there's some AI that is running things on background
- The AI known as Alt Cunningham gained access to Mikoshi and assimilated the souls inside into herself and throughout the game you get to know it was her goal to gain access there
- In one of the endings there is talks of new corporation war about to start up, so things are potentially heating up after a brief peace
So following V's actions in the end of the game, and assuming that there is some effect which will impact the more larger conflict in the world, I'd be fair to assume that disrupting Arasaka and gaining access to Mikoshi is in the center of all of this. Considering that V already did "save" himself in the end of the game, I doubt the expansions will focus much more in just V trying to save his skin. Of course in the end of all of the expansions we might finally get some way to V save for himself, but I doubt it's going to be enduring narrative that'll expand multiple expansions.
Considering in one of the endings, V was talking with Mr Blue Eyes (who was also responsible on controlling politicians) and was sent into a mission, it's very likely that mind control isn't going away any time soon and the sinister forces are soon to show themselves.
This is Johnny's opinion after done with the Peralez mission about who's behind this whole operation:
I wonder if there's going to be some apocalyptic event taking place where most of the population are going to be "switched on" and basically becoming remote controlled zombies, where V and other non-slaved people fight this entity.
Certainly if you look Witcher 3 expansions there was a bunch of new characters introduced as antagonists. I think one thing for sure is the Casino is going to be coming either by DLC or Expansion and I'd imagine there's some significance in that area. Perhaps it's going to serve as a hub for new quests like Afterlife, where stakes are bigger and you're going to be taking down some more influential people. We've barely heard from other companies than Arasaka and Militech, even though there must be numerous other corporations providing military gear. Will we be gaining access to lets say Kiroshi Optics cyberware manufacturing facility to disrupt the production of new prototype of cyberwear?
What new enemies are we going to face? If it was indeed some larger scale war, we could see more futuristic weaponry, tanks bipedal mecs, flying aircraft carriers similar to what we see in Avengers?
If it's AI take over we might see some androids which bleed while liquid as they're killed, who could be ultra accurate killers who are really hard to take down just by going guns blazing.
What type of new enemies might we see? Where would the story take us?
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