Orion - continue V story or begin new one?

[ExSteam]

There are multiple endings and multiple variations to the endings. This would mean they would have to come up with multiple beginnings and variations to those beginnings. This would be a huge task just for the beginning of the game.

Example..Panam + V, Panam + Judy + V, Panam + River + V, Panam + V friend zone, Panam + V + any other relationship I may have missed.

One of the most common negative comments I have seen was even though there was a choice the outcome/response was generic. And having all these variations of a common story point would lead to more of that negative response by players.

I saw a video last year where someone added up all the choices given to V and something like only 5% if not less led to a different outcome and or impacted the main story.

 

[NomadWerewolf2078]

I’d say have V as a Fixer with the connection he has or maybe more fixers that we have yet to see. A small group of fixers working to make big changes in the city

 

[alittleLowkey]

There are multiple endings and multiple variations to the endings. This would mean they would have to come up with multiple beginnings and variations to those beginnings. This would be a huge task just for the beginning of the game.

Example..Panam + V, Panam + Judy + V, Panam + River + V, Panam + V friend zone, Panam + V + any other relationship I may have missed.

One of the most common negative comments I have seen was even though there was a choice the outcome/response was generic. And having all these variations of a common story point would lead to more of that negative response by players.

I saw a video last year where someone added up all the choices given to V and something like only 5% if not less led to a different outcome and or impacted the main story.

Honestly this might actually work in CP2077:s favor. As you said, nothing you did really mattered anyway. Your few major decision would need to be addressed anyway (Mikoshi, Arasaka etc.). So if CP2077 is treated as more of a prequel to a larger story they could tie whatever ending you chose with a larger story and treat that as basically your background (corpo, nomad, streed kid).

Right now there are what, five endings when you break it down?
Giving up your body
Picking six months to live
Being frozen
Suicide
Losing your cyberware

So giving up your body, frozen, suicide and six months to live could all be solved by having someone getting access to a copy of V.s engram and uploading that in a new body.

Survival ending could roughly be the same but having V able to use cyberware again. All of that could be solved with slightly different starting positions and then dialogue options.

People are using the arguments about options as if the game currently is great because of all the options and the effect they have?

 

[WILDCRUX]

Honestly this might actually work in CP2077:s favor. As you said, nothing you did really mattered anyway. Your few major decision would need to be addressed anyway (Mikoshi, Arasaka etc.). So if CP2077 is treated as more of a prequel to a larger story they could tie whatever ending you chose with a larger story and treat that as basically your background (corpo, nomad, streed kid).

Right now there are what, five endings when you break it down?
Giving up your body
Picking six months to live
Being frozen
Suicide
Losing your cyberware

So giving up your body, frozen, suicide and six months to live could all be solved by having someone getting access to a copy of V.s engram and uploading that in a new body.

Survival ending could roughly be the same but having V able to use cyberware again. All of that could be solved with slightly different starting positions and then dialogue options.

People are using the arguments about options as if the game currently is great because of all the options and the effect they have?

While reading this, I imagined being in Orion character's apartment, and out pops a pissed off V, and out of that V pops a pissed off Silverhand.

V or no V, I can see the next chapter in CP becoming another great story.

 

[JackiesBasketball]

Right now there are what, five endings when you break it down?
Being frozen

So giving up your body, frozen, suicide and six months to live could all be solved by having someone getting access to a copy of V.s engram and uploading that in a new body.

whoa wait what? One of the ending choices is being frozen? is this talking about The Devil ending and space clinic?

 

[LeKill3rFou]

whoa wait what? One of the ending choices is being frozen? is this talking about The Devil ending and space clinic?

I assume it is... Even if it's not really "frozen". V consciousness is sent into Mikoshi and I assume V's dying body is simply trashed

 

[JackiesBasketball]

I assume it is... Even if it's not really "frozen". V consciousness is sent into Mikoshi and I assume V's dying body is simply trashed

ok that's what i assumed he meant by frozen but just checking.
was worried i'd completely missed an ending

 

[cyberchoom03]

V is cool I would be happy either way

 

[alittleLowkey]

You are all correct, I said frozen as a bit of a joke about rich people who freeze their bodies. But I meant the devil ending

 

[JackiesBasketball]

You are all correct, I said frozen as a bit of a joke about rich people who freeze their bodies. But I meant the devil ending

No worries I figured. What an incredible game to create all of this discussion and debate. Really love this game.
cheers

 

[SnarknSass]

Hi All!

I finished few days ago Cyberpunk and I'm wondering if Orion will be a continuation or brand new story. In my personal opinion I really would like to continue V story and meet friends and renew/continue our relations. I'm curious about your opinions and thoughts about this topic. In poll I allowed two selectable responses, because I personally vote for The Sun or The Star and can't decide which one would be better in general.

I think the best option would actually be to allow players to choose which ending they did when starting the new game. It think Mass Effect did something like this- it’s just a selector, much like V’s background is currently.

That would allow players to continue as V, but without shoehorning players into a specific choice.

 

[Bios1987]

V for Vendetta

 

[Spockprime]

I guess I missed this one when it was a hot topic last year.

I want a new character because (1) I don't like V, and (2) even if I did like V, any choice they make for a canon ending disenfranchises too much of the player base, especially those whose character shouldn't even be around any longer, because they "went out in a blaze of glory", as they foreshadowed to Dexter.

 

[Daman766]

I really enjoyed the voice actors performances for V (more female than male but both great) so hearing them again in the sequel would be great. However, I feel like the story for V is pretty much done. Night City is huge and I think they'd be restricting themselves slightly by not highlighting completely new characters, with new perspectives who have come from parts of the city we've never seen before.
It would give them the chance to reinvent the life paths.
Maybe break them down even more like what are the differences between a street kid from Westbrook or one from Heywood. A Corpo from Kang Tao or Biotechnica who can work their way up and grab the attention of Arasaka or Militech. (Those inter-corpo recruitments are brutal).
They could also add V as an easter egg, maybe we find a garbled message or a trace of them on the net about their adventures but it's so degraded that we can't make out what they look like.

 

[vilsku75]

If they decide to continue with V, as many have said, they should allow the ending chosen in Cyberpunk 2077 affect how the sequel begins, at least. While this would help flesh out V, I don't think he/she has the same personal gravitas as Geralt from the Witcher for example.

They can either continue with V and try to make a whole person out of him, or start from scratch keeping Night City as the main character, like Mike Pondmsith originally intended.

While I would normally keep Night City as the main character, the problem with this is that the story-building potential from the endings in Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty are wasted...

 

[grenadiermolo]

My guess is that they will let you import choices but most importantly I figured that V will come back as an engram.

Every ending has V undergo a procedure that let's them copy his/her mind even if they weren't aware of it.

In Arasaka ending they copied their mind while removing Johnny regardless if you joined Secure Yours Soul or not.

In Phantom Liberty's unique ending they copied V with Cynosure even if V remained alive.

In every other ending Alt copied V wether they left with her or not.

The key unification point of the sequel is that V's engram gets uploaded into a new body after a few years have passed and thus begins an entirely new journey with a new crew.

 

[Guest 4802528]

V story is done. Gimme a new character!

 

[Diamondshell]

Honestly v should have survival ending with the choice of fussing with the chip or getting rid of it at the end keeping the cyberware that we grounded for

 

[alittleLowkey]

If they decide to continue with V, as many have said, they should allow the ending chosen in Cyberpunk 2077 affect how the sequel begins, at least. While this would help flesh out V, I don't think he/she has the same personal gravitas as Geralt from the Witcher for example.

They can either continue with V and try to make a whole person out of him, or start from scratch keeping Night City as the main character, like Mike Pondmsith originally intended.

While I would normally keep Night City as the main character, the problem with this is that the story-building potential from the endings in Cyberpunk 2077 and Phantom Liberty are wasted...

I've talked about this before but V or no V there are still choices made in CP2077 that needs to be addressed in a sequel, so some form of porting over of data would be great. Otherwise CDPR have to chose a canon, if not ending, at least some canon aspects. Like is Yorinobu still around? Is he the head of Arasaka or did he get ousted for incompetence? Those questions will give canon information about V.s decisions. And sure you can tone this down, but the more you tone it down the less Arasaka matters and since Arasaka is a major player in Night city making it matter less implies Arasaka has lost influence.

And sure, you can dance around all of this, you can dance around whether or not Rogue is alive or not, and you can dance around if Delamain taxis still exist or not etc. But it will make it feel kind of hollow if every single choice you made as V is just danced around.

Better then either porting over you choices from the previous game or decide what is and what isn't canon.

 

[LuckyDuck2077]

I don't mind either, but I do want to see what a new character could bring to the table.
Like if we're back in Night City, I'd like a fresh new face to get used to existing factions if they are still around. Maybe more of a choice to align ourselves with whatever gangs, corpos or nomads we meet compared to how V is usually close with the Mox and the Aldecaldos.

Little note to add, nothing against the Mox & Aldecaldos. If they can come back, I'd love the ability to align with them again.