Can I have my sex without lung cancer please? [possible spoiler for one romance scene]

[censorpunk]

Hello,

I make this post to criticize inclusion of smoking (by V) in romance scene with Judy. I do not smoke. I may role-play a killer but I will not role-play a smoker, because I see smokers as weak people who are fooled by advertisements, corpo lies. Weak people who cannot resist peer pressure. As I was having girl-on-girl action with Judy, I suddenly found myself smoking ?! Please don't force these kinds of things on player characters. I like it that you give the option to refuse alcohol and religion in dialogue options. I will regard this smoking thing as a blunder. Please do not repeat.

I had to skip sex with her. Sorry Judy, it is either cigar or me.

(I know you can purchase artificial lungs. Go ahead and smoke... That corpo will first sell you the cigar, and then the lungs.)

 

[warbaby2]

...ok Karen.

Sorry, I know that's probably a troll, but it really is funny what insignificant stuff some people find to criticize this game for, when, say, virtual smoking is hardly the WORST thing that is wrong with it, or is "forced on V"... it's like complaining about the color of the door handles on a burning car.

 

[MojoBreaker]

it's Johnny who is smoking

 

[MattkowA]

It's at times like this that I realize how difficult it must be to be a developer or basically anyone who releases anything publicly.

 

[warbaby2]

it's Johnny who is smoking

That, V even has the option to say "they don't smoke", but Johnny still will make them do it in certain situations...

Also: Heck, it's an 80'ies vision of the future, of course everybody would be smocking. I grew up back then, we smoked on trains, on planes, heck, even in hospitals and university lecture halls!

 

[InSanor]

The pollution in the city kills you faster than any amount of smoking. Or yiuu could die to bullets.. or malware. Besides, you can get new lungs fairly easy in cyberpunk.

 

[Whit3_Tig3R]

>sees smokers as weak people
>makes a paragraph crying about it in a game forum
>ergo must be super strong

Ey Pot you'd have better luck on resetera or bunkerchan with rest of the kettle

 

[Ghostredneck]

Hello,

I make this post to criticize inclusion of smoking (by V) in romance scene with Judy. I do not smoke. I may role-play a killer but I will not role-play a smoker, because I see smokers as weak people who are fooled by advertisements, corpo lies. Weak people who cannot resist peer pressure. As I was having girl-on-girl action with Judy, I suddenly found myself smoking ?! Please don't force these kinds of things on player characters. I like it that you give the option to refuse alcohol and religion in dialogue options. I will regard this smoking thing as a blunder. Please do not repeat.

I had to skip sex with her. Sorry Judy, it is either cigar or me.

(I know you can purchase artificial lungs. Go ahead and smoke... That corpo will first sell you the cigar, and then the lungs.)

WOW, Speechless..

 

[Agent-94]

If I only had weeks to live, smoking would be a non-issue. Even if not, then so what if V shares a cigar with Judy? That's part of what gives the scene its character.

 

[judikator.gg]

skipping sex with a girl cuz of 1 cigarette even tho it's only 2 weeks for you to live?

Shocking info for you, kid, but you won't get cancer or addicted due to 1 cigarette as your mom said...

 

[Attila_V86]

This topic.....

 

[judikator.gg]

and now imagine guys, how is it to be Johny Silverhand in the head of such an individuum...

 

[warbaby2]

This topic.....

Ah hell, it's fine, we might as well laugh around the dumpsterfire... I already got more enjoyment out of this forum then the game itself.

 

[Midnight_Nova]

Odd thing to complain about, but you do you I suppose.

 

[faverodefavero]

Watch Cowboy Beebop : )

 

[Miles_White]

I found it weird that you literally had the option to decline drinking many, many, many times in the game, but apparently are forced to smoke on at least two occasions.

I think my biggest beef with this game has become just how deceiving it was as an on-the-rails type game pretending to be an RPG. Player choice doesn't mean jack shit beyond how you sound, lol.

 

[warbaby2]

I found it weird that you literally had the option to decline drinking many, many, many times in the game, but apparently are forced to smoke on at least two occasions.

I think my biggest beef with this game has become just how deceiving it was as an on-the-rails type game pretending to be an RPG. Player choice doesn't mean jack shit beyond how you sound, lol.

The whole drinking thing probably had a reason behind it too, I recon... maybe you'd loose some conversation options when you're drunk or something... or maybe somthing more long term? Dunno.

 

[Whitesad]

Funniest thread I've seen in a while so thank you for that.

 

[censorpunk]

It ma

skipping sex with a girl cuz of 1 cigarette even tho it's only 2 weeks for you to live?

Shocking info for you, kid, but you won't get cancer or addicted due to 1 cigarette as your mom said...

That one cigarette may not kill V, but it kills immersion for players who roleplay a non-smoker. I did not even cough when she showed the damned thing in my mouth.

 

[InSanor]

I found it weird that you literally had the option to decline drinking many, many, many times in the game, but apparently are forced to smoke on at least two occasions.

I think my biggest beef with this game has become just how deceiving it was as an on-the-rails type game pretending to be an RPG. Player choice doesn't mean jack shit beyond how you sound, lol.

My biggest beef is that people have wide and variated opinions about what an videogame rpg is. I agree that the player choices were quite over marketed in this game, but how did people play rpg titles such as FF VII, or any FF in that regard. Or Skyrim.. Or Mass Effect. Or even the Witcher. Players did not have much to say in those games either. Only in their builds and/or in how to approach the missions. Some choices mattered sometimes, some didn't, but mostly you were on rails that was the main story, where you could sometimes decide whom is with you, or what colors your ending had in it. Sometimes not even that much.