[Spoiler Alerts] Canon Story

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Given that I loved the plot of Cyberpunk 2077 and I did not weigh at all a final with a more bitter taste, indeed, I found it moving and poetic, i LOVED it. But now I would like to know from CD Project itself, what is the canonical story that CD Project has chosen
V man or woman?
nomad, street boy or corporate?
Which ending? The Star, The Sun, Temperance or the Devil?
Does the body keep it V or does it go to Johnny Silverhand?
I would genuinely want to know when CD Project wrote the plot as it was canonically conceived
 
For me, leaving with the Nomads is the brightest future because its hopeful. All the others feel...resigned. All of the endings are all spirals into the darkness. This is apt for Cyberpunk, of course. I mean, Johnny's initial happy ending was dying in a nuclear blast (and even that didn't go like he wanted).

Do we need a canonical story? Are we expected to continue this tale after it ends? Other than Araska's troubles- which could be temporary- and a mound of dead bodies, things aren't any different in Night City than they were before V entered the scene.
 
For all of me, whether it's male / female, lifepaths or endings.

It's up to the player to choose and decide their story.
 
For all of me, whether it's male / female, lifepaths or endings.

It's up to the player to choose and decide their story.

This is how to answer that the water is wet. Obviously the guys from CD Project have worked hard to create branches to give players choice. However, when you write a story you first write a linear story and then any branches to be given to the player (this is precisely the method by which to write) and I wanted to know from someone from CD Project (out of curiosity) what it was.
In fact, when a sequel is created, it is usually opted that things in the previous episode went according to the canonical line.
 
I doubt we'll get an official answer anytime soon but if I had to guess what the canon ending would be I'd lean towards doing the Casino heist for the blue eyed man. I don't think gender or lifepath matter at all, especially since in Act 2 you aren't really a nomad, streetkid, or corpo, you're just Merc V trying to save themselves. I think the Casino heist makes the most sense because you truly become a legend in Night city and it kinda gives hope that you can save yourself IMHO. You make a powerful friend with the blue eyed man who may have the resources to help fix your body. I wouldn't be surprised to see a DLC centered around the blue eyed man getting you to do his dirty work while baiting you with the carrot of saving your body.
 
Im sure we dont find it out in the close future. This might happen only if CD Project choose to continue V's story. After so problematic release and all scandals now developers hardly dare to declare canonic story and endings. Its will inevitably cause another resonance from angry fans, whose game experience value will be zeroed.
 
I doubt we'll get an official answer anytime soon but if I had to guess what the canon ending would be I'd lean towards doing the Casino heist for the blue eyed man. I don't think gender or lifepath matter at all, especially since in Act 2 you aren't really a nomad, streetkid, or corpo, you're just Merc V trying to save themselves. I think the Casino heist makes the most sense because you truly become a legend in Night city and it kinda gives hope that you can save yourself IMHO. You make a powerful friend with the blue eyed man who may have the resources to help fix your body. I wouldn't be surprised to see a DLC centered around the blue eyed man getting you to do his dirty work while baiting you with the carrot of saving your body.
All endings could possibly lead to Casino : devil V can go there to investigate as an Arasaka special agent, star V can go there to follow up whatever trail he found in Arizona.
 
Im sure we dont find it out in the close future. This might happen only if CD Project choose to continue V's story. After so problematic release and all scandals now developers hardly dare to declare canonic story and endings. Its will inevitably cause another resonance from angry fans, whose game experience value will be zeroed.
The game experience value is already zeroed by the endings, everything that you do in order to survive is suggested to be pointless in the end and the replay value right now is pretty abysmal with such unrewarding endings hanging over everything you do.
I don’t think there will be only one single canon ending as I imagine they can merge most endings into one expansion much as they did for the three different life path prologues.
You’re probably right tho, announcing paid expansions would just anger people if they were to do it so soon.
 
All endings could possibly lead to Casino : devil V can go there to investigate as an Arasaka special agent, star V can go there to follow up whatever trail he found in Arizona.

Only the blue eyed man way would make sense, at least in my mind obviously, of giving you hope of saving your body in the future. Arasaka doesn't care about you anymore in their ending. You fulfilled your purpose of bringing back the biochip so they can resurrect Saburo and in your broken mental/physical state you aren't of any use to them as a special agent. Plus doesn't Arasaka have something to do with the casino? Like the security or an ownership stake in it or something. I don't remember. They wouldn't want you to steal from it, or need you to investigate it. Plus they've already proved they're incapable of saving you completely. The nomad ending is kinda hopeful but they don't have the tech, resources and clout to actually save your body either.

I mean for DLC/gameplay purposes sure the blue eyed man could still approach you after any of the endings so the casino ending isn't forced on you, but for potential canon I think the casino mission makes the most sense as their 'main' story.
 
I guess we will find out in the upcoming expansion/dlc
I guess we won't.

I really don't believe they will add post credit content.

If they do it, I will off course eat my wirds but I absolutely doubt it.

If they something in that direction, I bet they will find ways to incorporate most of the endings with a small 2 minute montage on what happened. :cool:
 
Well this game is not gonna get a sequel in next +-10 years (because witcher 4 is already in production) so i guess that sequel to this game (if we ever see one) will not include V at all. Like with GTA the new game = completely new story
I think that one of the expansions will fix the endings that are pretty much bad for me (too short, to many plot holes that are left empty etc) and i guess that we won't see a canonical one. I guess that most likely we will see 3 main endings(arasaka,nomad,streetkid) merged into one new storyline. Just like with the prologue, we had 3 completely different V's but after a short 15 minute mission u end up in the same place.
But if we never see a post story expansions then we won't know what ending is canonical. in that case my guess is nomad one because it feels the most fulfilling and also is the longest one. Game like this don't require a canon ending because as i said we will never see a direct sequel. So i guess that it all depends on how u want to create your own V and how u want him to end.
We can also look into misty's tarot cards, nomad ending is the only one where she says that V will have a happy life. But we have to notice that happy doesn't mean long. So it may mean that V will be happy for 6 months being a couple with judy/panam and then he will simply pass out close to his/her new family(aldecaldos).
 
Well this game is not gonna get a sequel in next +-10 years (because witcher 4 is already in production) so i guess that sequel to this game (if we ever see one) will not include V at all. Like with GTA the new game = completely new story
I think that one of the expansions will fix the endings that are pretty much bad for me (too short, to many plot holes that are left empty etc) and i guess that we won't see a canonical one. I guess that most likely we will see 3 main endings(arasaka,nomad,streetkid) merged into one new storyline. Just like with the prologue, we had 3 completely different V's but after a short 15 minute mission u end up in the same place.
But if we never see a post story expansions then we won't know what ending is canonical. in that case my guess is nomad one because it feels the most fulfilling and also is the longest one. Game like this don't require a canon ending because as i said we will never see a direct sequel. So i guess that it all depends on how u want to create your own V and how u want him to end.
We can also look into misty's tarot cards, nomad ending is the only one where she says that V will have a happy life. But we have to notice that happy doesn't mean long. So it may mean that V will be happy for 6 months being a couple with judy/panam and then he will simply pass out close to his/her new family(aldecaldos).

you are missing the point of the request. I asked for my simple and legitimate curiosity. Knowing how the plot was canonically conceived doesn't have to have double ends or implications for sequels and expansions. And anyway, even in a sequel set in 50 years later there could be references to a V (or an AI called V) that in the past ... etc. etc.
Knowing the canon helps to give consistency to the narrative universe exactly as the plot of the paper setting was when we moved from Cyberpunk 2012 to Cyberpunk 2020
 
I can't see them voicing an opinion on a canon unless there's a sequel. If there's post game expansion it'll have to lasso most of endings back together(excluding suicide)
Given how poor the endings are they'll probably end up coming up with some garbage like the whole game was in V's head in the after moment of being shot in the head.
 
Only the blue eyed man way would make sense, at least in my mind obviously, of giving you hope of saving your body in the future. Arasaka doesn't care about you anymore in their ending. You fulfilled your purpose of bringing back the biochip so they can resurrect Saburo and in your broken mental/physical state you aren't of any use to them as a special agent. Plus doesn't Arasaka have something to do with the casino? Like the security or an ownership stake in it or something. I don't remember. They wouldn't want you to steal from it, or need you to investigate it. Plus they've already proved they're incapable of saving you completely. The nomad ending is kinda hopeful but they don't have the tech, resources and clout to actually save your body either.

I mean for DLC/gameplay purposes sure the blue eyed man could still approach you after any of the endings so the casino ending isn't forced on you, but for potential canon I think the casino mission makes the most sense as their 'main' story.

If you accept Arasaka's offer they put you in Mikoshi. You have proven yourself a very valuable asset, so if a crisis arise, their next logical step is to grow a clone of you with your pre-chip DNA (or even hire/stole tech from biotechnica), put your engram in it and say, "Ok now you work for us". Then, your mission could not be to do a heist in orbit, but to investigate what this unkown group wants there, and why, because obviously if you are not the king/queen of the afterlife, blue eyes guy will hire somebody else to do this job (Rogue maybe but ....she is kinda not in the mood when it comes to radically alter the balance of power)

I guess we won't.

I really don't believe they will add post credit content.

If they do it, I will off course eat my wirds but I absolutely doubt it.

If they something in that direction, I bet they will find ways to incorporate most of the endings with a small 2 minute montage on what happened. :cool:

They will have to roll out expansions at one point.
 
Given that I loved the plot of Cyberpunk 2077 and I did not weigh at all a final with a more bitter taste, indeed, I found it moving and poetic, i LOVED it. But now I would like to know from CD Project itself, what is the canonical story that CD Project has chosen
V man or woman?
nomad, street boy or corporate?
Which ending? The Star, The Sun, Temperance or the Devil?
Does the body keep it V or does it go to Johnny Silverhand?
I would genuinely want to know when CD Project wrote the plot as it was canonically conceived

I heard people said that female V seems to fit the story much better than male V, like the story was written for V being female in the first place. Stuff like Judy in the star ending, etc.. I wouldn't know as I only started playing female V.

Plus it makes some of the jokes in the side stories make more sense, such as the GLaDOS delamain cab part as Portal had a female protagonist.

Unless they fix the scripts and stuff to be more gender neutral, I am inclined to think that this game is written for a female V, who romanced Judy and picked star ending.
 
From the dialogue alone I'd say that streetkid/nomad is more canon than corpo - played my first V as a female corpo and those lifepath-dialogue-options didn't match the rest of the dialogue in my opinion. Also not knowing much about the city heavily points to nomad being canon, corpo and especially streetkid should know quite a lot of things.

As for canon gender I have no idea so far, but I plan to play a male V next, streetkid or nomad. I can only say that I like the male V's love interest options more than the ones for female V (sorry Judy!).

I personally liked The Sun and Temperance endings most, they made the most sense to me and for my playstyle. But I have to agree that The Star ending probably was written as the canon one. Also felt incredibly long compared to the others.
 
From the dialogue alone I'd say that streetkid/nomad is more canon than corpo - played my first V as a female corpo and those lifepath-dialogue-options didn't match the rest of the dialogue in my opinion. Also not knowing much about the city heavily points to nomad being canon, corpo and especially streetkid should know quite a lot of things.

As for canon gender I have no idea so far, but I plan to play a male V next, streetkid or nomad. I can only say that I like the male V's love interest options more than the ones for female V (sorry Judy!).

I personally liked The Sun and Temperance endings most, they made the most sense to me and for my playstyle. But I have to agree that The Star ending probably was written as the canon one. Also felt incredibly long compared to the others.

It didn't feel incredibly long, it IS incredibly long!

You basically went over to the rooftop, called Panam, and she picked you up. By the time you got there it was around 5pm (I think). You spend the next two hours chatting up with all the Aldecados, getting the jacket, then test driving the tank once more. Then you spend the whole night there, and the following day you go attack the dig site. 2 full game days.

Sun/Temperance ending have you go to Afterlife as Johnny and Rogue calls in her AV attack craft, and you go with her and the other african sounding dude. It takes place the same night you made your decision. 6 hours AT MOST of game time.

Devil ending, you drove to Northwood and it's already about 3pm. Event is over by the end of day. So about 12 hours of game time, not including the month you spend on the space station wondering where your mind went.
 
It didn't feel incredibly long, it IS incredibly long!

You basically went over to the rooftop, called Panam, and she picked you up. By the time you got there it was around 5pm (I think). You spend the next two hours chatting up with all the Aldecados, getting the jacket, then test driving the tank once more. Then you spend the whole night there, and the following day you go attack the dig site. 2 full game days.

Sun/Temperance ending have you go to Afterlife as Johnny and Rogue calls in her AV attack craft, and you go with her and the other african sounding dude. It takes place the same night you made your decision. 6 hours AT MOST of game time.

Devil ending, you drove to Northwood and it's already about 3pm. Event is over by the end of day. So about 12 hours of game time, not including the month you spend on the space station wondering where your mind went.

Haha, yeah, the "chatting with the Aldecados" and Cassidy's little shooting contest honestly felt completely off. V: "Well, I'm dying like right now, but sure, I can delay that for one more day for you guys, no problem!" They probably did that so that you can bond with Saul a bit more? Idk!

I think Johnny had a little tequila-flavored beauty-sleep in The sun ending as well, don't remember exactly how long though. Maybe he just passed out for 1-2 hours before Weyland woke him up.
 
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