I figure that you will eventually get to body stealing. Hence why you're going in the Save your Soul program.
Personally i had not such a problem. After Dex shot V, he was dead to me, and every breath after that was a gift and borrowed time. And if that's so, the best way to spent this borrowed time is to help as many people as possible, like Arthur in RDR2. Chasing the glory, wealth and "leaving the mark" are just illusions of amatuer teenagers for me.
Except they are because it's the ending. You are not getting away with denying they're cured because it's in the game.
That's just silly. "I don't want the game to be over when the story is over."
Anyway, I'm done. Thanks for the conversation guys.
Well i basically got those calls right after I finished the next main mission arc.
The next problem with the missions are that they present you with a very high sense of urgency:
The parade is coming up soon
(parades usually have a set date and when you get the call, I am inclined to believe that in dont have time for 3 or 4 side gigs)
Keng Tao has submitted a flight plan and the AV will start soon. (nuff said)
Even the side missions tell you, come on V, we have to act right now or the opportunity is missed.
When I finished the last mission, I thought... Well. Time to finish all those side gigs. Nope. Hanala ist waomiting in that fancy restaurant and want to talk you you. (don't let her wait)
yeah and I tend to roleplay my roleplaying games, avoiding the old ludonarrative dissonance, because the immersion is where I get my value from this game and games like it. Not to mention playing blind with no idea how the timers work if things have times, what systems cdpr have set up in the background, i'm oblivious to all of that.
Nah, my V went with nomads. I never even considered Arasaka ending. Funny that V got no option to eat the pills, come to meet Hanako and then kill her and her bodugurds right there. If V is capable of solo raid Mikoshi, he could easily obliterate Hanako.
A lot of people seem to forget this right now. I think part of it too though is people aren't just mad that we can't continue playing after the ending, but we are "dying". They're mad that they didn't get the fairytale ending that they wanted, not saying they shouldn't be mad, but I feel like they aren't understanding that that's the point of the whole story.
The whole story is about how we aren't the saviour of the world, we're just another guy and we aren't in control of anything, things go terribly wrong for us all the time in this game. Why did we think everything was gonna work out for us when everyone and everything throughout the whole game was trying to convince us it wasn't gonna go as planned? Why are people mad that V is supposedly dying? People die everyday, so many characters around us in the game died unexpectedly and there's nothing you can do to change that. That's how life is in real life and especially in a dark-dystopian world like Cyberpunk.
But even in saying that, there's still hope at the end. Whether you go with Panam or sell your soul or Work for Blue Eyes, there's still hope that we can find a cure or find a way to live again. (If you go with Panam, Misty basically confirms that you're doing alright afterall).
The first one is part of an optional ending and it's set outside of the game world, second option turns you into computer software that is not controlled by the player (immortal indeed). Both are also based on speculation, not fact, the fact is that my character is sick without a cure
I'm not interested in paying for any content that allows me to find a cure for my character, something that should have been done in the base game
The difference is that Vhas a chance to safe his/her life.
Arthur does not. He is fucked no matter what he tries.
This makes the whole difference. Arthur's remaining time is about making amendments, helping people, getting filthy rich, etc.
V's remaining time is focused on fingind a cure for the biochip problem. In fact, the small caliber bullet dex pumped into your head would not even necessarily have killed you. Vic made that clear.
So. You are really saying that people are too dumb to see the higher meaning of going belly up?
Bold words.
and it's a joy to restart because you've got no idea how the story is going to turn out and you don't get paged by an intercranial haemorrhage every time you finish a quest. In cyberpunk the writing is on the wall, no future, like the game can't shut up about it.
Arthur can explictly survive his condition if he finds some place warm and rests for however many months to survive it. Instead, he pushes himself and dies.
You don't get a choice, though, because you're not directing Arthur.
You don't get a choice, though, because you're not directing Arthur.
And that's the sign of bad writing and game labeling. CD should remove open wordlness (as in original Mafia), remove RPG label and make clear that V is also fucked no matter what. That would be not half-bad criminal visual novel, instead we got terrible RPG with static scenery open world.
I mean if they understood it so clearly then why are they so mad about how it ended? To me and to many others it all makes perfect sense.
Except....for the fact they survive in two endings. Possibly three.
Show me where it says in the game that V is cured and I'll eat my words
This is the case in all open-world games, including cdpr's last title TW3
Pal. During that time, "moths" were terminal.
Even today if not treated they are terminal..
A warm and t dry place only gives you additional time but the bacteria will still dissolve your lungs.
Are we starting to ignore real life illnesses now?
Probably survives. Lack of definitive closure is another sign of bad writing.