Just beat the game, loved it except the ending (like most people here). There's one thing though that really bothered me.
I don't understand why all of the fake advertising had to be so childish and hypersexual? "Watson's Whore", "Mix it Up", "Butts Up". These are ads that were plastered all over the city.
[SPOILER WARNING]
At the end when Mysty took me to the roof and gave me the heart to heart about Jackie I looked over the edge and as she was speaking there was an ad on a massive billboard with a girl spreading her legs apart... "Isn't it beautiful up here?" hahaha what?
This game seemed to take a lot of cues from GTAV and the worst one copied was the childish humor. I'm not saying that I didn't enjoy it in GTA, that series completely leans into the absurdity. I just don't understand what it does to propel Cyberpunk forward? It was really immersion breaking and felt out of context. On one hand you have this gorgeous city which from a distance is full of possibility and wonder... but then when you get down to the street level next to the brilliant neon are these dumb ads with no message aside from "look how zany the future is!"
Picture these advertisements in other films/stories in this genre like Bladerunner now picture these ads in idiocracy (no doubt a brilliant film though)...
Anyone else feel this way or am I just flat wrong?
I don't understand why all of the fake advertising had to be so childish and hypersexual? "Watson's Whore", "Mix it Up", "Butts Up". These are ads that were plastered all over the city.
[SPOILER WARNING]
At the end when Mysty took me to the roof and gave me the heart to heart about Jackie I looked over the edge and as she was speaking there was an ad on a massive billboard with a girl spreading her legs apart... "Isn't it beautiful up here?" hahaha what?
This game seemed to take a lot of cues from GTAV and the worst one copied was the childish humor. I'm not saying that I didn't enjoy it in GTA, that series completely leans into the absurdity. I just don't understand what it does to propel Cyberpunk forward? It was really immersion breaking and felt out of context. On one hand you have this gorgeous city which from a distance is full of possibility and wonder... but then when you get down to the street level next to the brilliant neon are these dumb ads with no message aside from "look how zany the future is!"
Picture these advertisements in other films/stories in this genre like Bladerunner now picture these ads in idiocracy (no doubt a brilliant film though)...
Anyone else feel this way or am I just flat wrong?