Look at the words I'm replying to, he said the 80s I was replying to work of the 80s. It's known Mike took inspiration of those but even then clearly took his own bend to them.
Here is from the man himself:
"Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration," says Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith
For what I have studied roots of tabletop game, it explores some of darker possibilities of (then future) with sometimes humors twists, but it's pretty consistent with literature and looks like relevant cyberpunk work, I really didn't knew about back in the day.
Didacgomez quotes give very clear picture how things can end up going. Also themes covered in these forums many times
it does have noir tho, just not in the typical girl walks into the PI Type noir,
I do wonder how much you know about
Noir and its background.
Here is something from Dashiell Hammett, also referenced in game. "Around 1917, Hammett was sent to Montana, where he infiltrated the ranks of striking copper miners. He and other Pinkertons were apparently offered $5, 000, a bloody fortune at the time, to help kill
Frank Little, the Wobbly (Industrial Workers of the World) leader organizing the miners. Little was lynched from a Butte train trestle without Hammett's help."
Dashiell Hammett's legacy lies not only in his writing, but in his living -- rough, wild and on the edge (sfgate.com)
except in Del's quest, there's options to save everyone invovled, save just the original, or do something "new" by hybridization which on Stark contrast you have V gets the body but only has 6 months(Star, Sun and backing out of Devil) , Johnny gets the body and gets to live anew(Temperance) or ultimately no one goes on with the body (Devil if you sign and self harm).
You are contradicting yourself. You also wrote:
so yeah I'd actually say 3 endings V isn't alive. it's heavily implied that the construct presenting itself as Alt is going to pull a borg (assimilate into our collective)
They could have just.... not used characters from 2020. The TT game isn't popular at all, nobody would care. All the characters like Rogue, Kerry and Johnny feel SO forced and out of place. Like, why even make it 2077 when 90% of the characters in the game are from 2020?
Should have been references at most.
Johnny and Rogue story line is part of themes covered in game and I really don't see how that could have worked out without Rogue. Kerry is very good character,
far more life like than some people might expect.
It's okay not to like the game or endings, but disputing supposed original vision of creator based on, I don't know what, is something I find difficult to understand when creator of original was onboard designing CP 2077.
I don't know, there's this game called Ascent, it has the visuals and few words for "cyberpunk" background. I haven't played it and not going to, but there's always someone making that kind of game in various settings. I'm very glad that CP 2077 does something different.