Why do you need to find a way to justify his actions? Why can't he just be a raging asshole? Some people are just like that, with zero justification.
I actually don't understand why CDPR did that. IIRC, in the tabletop RPG, the first group "Alpha" with Johny only had tasks to save Alt and erase Soulkiller. The second group "Beta" with Militec mercenaries dealt with the bomb (and industrial espionage). Why did writers change Johnny to worse? Could it be the relic malfunction or straight-up memory corruption or alteration?
While I short of understand where you are coming from based on how the game leaves out some important facts about the event in question......
it was never Johnny's intent or the intent of the Militech mission they where on for the devastation to be anywhere near as bad as it was. Johnny's was on the mission for his own reasons and dropping the nuke for Militech was just his way into the tower. No one on that mission was out to mass murder half a million people. Hope that helps you understand it a little better.
The follow is lore spoilers.
In the world of cyberpunk2077:
Killing people, thieving, heavy drugs, destroying half of the city with a nuclear bomb - is nice, welcomed and encouraged.
But don't even dare to show up naked on the street or mirror, because the consequences for humanity are way worse - such behavior is totally not allowed in any kind.
Killing people, thieving, heavy drugs, destroying half of the city with a nuclear bomb - is nice, welcomed and encouraged.
But don't even dare to show up naked on the street or mirror, because the consequences for humanity are way worse - such behavior is totally not allowed in any kind.
huh...yes ? i try not to run anyone who is not a gang banger dealer mf. i caled ambulance in gta v.....and the first thing i did was download the emergency mod that actually revived the peds, the script was in the game but broken.
there should be a way to choose format JC:/
I mean look at 2020 irl
You have people, and named, supported groups of people, advocating for violence for political change.
That's literally the definition of terrorism.
Not surprising that politics of leaked into games.
You have people, and named, supported groups of people, advocating for violence for political change.
That's literally the definition of terrorism.
Not surprising that politics of leaked into games.
As always, you definitely love or hate silverhand.
I personally hate him, I also understand that the bomb wasn't meant to go off where it did. But it did. Outside of that, I couldn't care less about his character. Annoying, druken, asshole that has the mind as shallow as a puddle.
I personally hate him, I also understand that the bomb wasn't meant to go off where it did. But it did. Outside of that, I couldn't care less about his character. Annoying, druken, asshole that has the mind as shallow as a puddle.
I did. And I still think that he's a terrorist, who killed thousands of innocent people. "Oh no! They killed my gf, so I'll destroy half of the city!"
Stupid, childish, selfish, annoying mf.
As he said himself once (don't remember when exactly), in some random conversation - he thinks it was worth it, with all the sacrifices.
Fck that as..hole.
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And that's where you get things wrong.
The GAME isn't trying to get you to sympathize with a terrorist.
The terrorist is.
Johnny is trying to get you to sympathize with him.
The GAME leaves it open to you to permanently kill him and completely dismiss him at every step.
It is. Same way TLOU2 was trying to make me sympathize Abby.
Writers trying to manipulate you through this bs. And I hate it.
Fck that bi...ch too.
It is not.
But the fact remains he is not a terrorist at least no in this instance anyway. A drunken drug snorting ass and tough to like for sure. However, it was war not some random act of terrorism and not the first time the two corps involved had been the cause of mass civilian casualties. I mean there was a city where those two corps, Arasaka and Militech, unleashed bio/chemical weapons that killed every single living thing in a mega-city. In Cyberpunk 2077 Johnny is just the strawman for that event in Night City even though it was a Militech Operation.
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The word "war" is not really suitable.
Just some drunk as..hole blew a bunch of innocents, and got what he deserved. What a rebel! A true figher!
You've been manipulated by the writers.
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Yes it is. It was during the Fourth Corporate War. So it is quite suitable.
Maybe so. But I'll remind you that in our own universe there is a country that deployed not one but two nuclear weapons in hopes of ending a war. In both universes those wars came to an end.
Not at all, I am just more well versed in the lore of the universe this game takes place in then you. That is the actually historical lore for the cyberpunk universe. Feel free to look it up yourself or read my post up above where I shared it earlier in this thread.
That sounded like it was a good thing. Like, "hey, the war ended!"
And how does that justify Johnny's actions?
Nobody didnt give him any orders, he was not a soldier. It was he's revenge. And he didnt give a fck about those who died in the process. ( and still doesnt)
Like I said - stupid, childish, selfish mf.
That nuke was going off in that tower regardless of whether he was there or not. It wasn't his idea or his plan. As I stated in a previous post, the game leaves out some crucial context and information about the event in question. I don't know the reasoning behind this but it is what it is. He wasn't there for revenge he was trying to free Alt and he used the Militech mission as a way into the tower. He was hired by Militech so yes he was given orders and to the extent that it allowed him to complete his goal of freeing Alt he followed them.
But, you have all relevant information now, and if you still see him that same way that is totally fine. Sorry, in hindsight, if it came across as trying to force you to change your mind. I just wanted to have all the information and context the game left out.
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