What do I want to see in a Cyberpunk game?
> Style over Substance: Let me play dress up with my character. Leather Jackets, mirrorshades, zebra print, neon hair, electoos, piercings... Force me to choose between aesthetics and performance or pay a premium for both. Punish me for choosing performance with snide comments from the flash set and not meeting dress code for the best clubs. Even guns should be in and out of fashion.
> Now with 1990s technology: Give us wireless hacking!!! And dump the dungeoncrawl in neon netrunning too. More GITS and less Neuromancer. Brain hacking please. Augmented reality should allow netrunners to hack and move at the same time. Heck most hacking should be in the universe equivalent of unleashing automated brute force routines. With the option of old fashioned password cracking for those that prefer subtlety.
> Keeping it real. See FANV; Chumbata's gotta eat, sleep, drink, pay the bills. If you don't your fancy eyes might get repossessed. Can you imagine the team they'll send after you? Consequences: Intoxication, malnutrition, addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, enemies, warrants, summary judgments, hit teams.
> Druuuuugs. nuff said.
> Guuuuns. Remember that scene from the first Matrix where they load the miles of gun racks? Yeah, like that.
> Corporate Extractions. The iconic Cyberpunk black bag job.
> Micro-nationalism: See _Snow Crash_. In fact just go read it. And _Diamond Age_.
> Don't pull your punches. Why do people line up to like how the megacorps want it, when and where they want it? Show us the mean streets and the blood and feces smeared alleys. If you're not in the gated burbs singing the corporate anthem then you're in Beirut, Sarajevo, Detroit, and Mogadishu all rolled into one, on acid, with bling.
> Style over Substance: Let me play dress up with my character. Leather Jackets, mirrorshades, zebra print, neon hair, electoos, piercings... Force me to choose between aesthetics and performance or pay a premium for both. Punish me for choosing performance with snide comments from the flash set and not meeting dress code for the best clubs. Even guns should be in and out of fashion.
> Now with 1990s technology: Give us wireless hacking!!! And dump the dungeoncrawl in neon netrunning too. More GITS and less Neuromancer. Brain hacking please. Augmented reality should allow netrunners to hack and move at the same time. Heck most hacking should be in the universe equivalent of unleashing automated brute force routines. With the option of old fashioned password cracking for those that prefer subtlety.
> Keeping it real. See FANV; Chumbata's gotta eat, sleep, drink, pay the bills. If you don't your fancy eyes might get repossessed. Can you imagine the team they'll send after you? Consequences: Intoxication, malnutrition, addiction, sexually transmitted diseases, enemies, warrants, summary judgments, hit teams.
> Druuuuugs. nuff said.
> Guuuuns. Remember that scene from the first Matrix where they load the miles of gun racks? Yeah, like that.
> Corporate Extractions. The iconic Cyberpunk black bag job.
> Micro-nationalism: See _Snow Crash_. In fact just go read it. And _Diamond Age_.
> Don't pull your punches. Why do people line up to like how the megacorps want it, when and where they want it? Show us the mean streets and the blood and feces smeared alleys. If you're not in the gated burbs singing the corporate anthem then you're in Beirut, Sarajevo, Detroit, and Mogadishu all rolled into one, on acid, with bling.