Technology worse than 2020 books?
Going to start a separate thread spined off from the oversexualization thread since it has nothing to do with it. Doing some copy and paste.
Going to start a separate thread spined off from the oversexualization thread since it has nothing to do with it. Doing some copy and paste.
EDIT.
Here: http://www.nowgamer.com/ps4/ps4-pre...ique_mix_of_nextgen_hightech_and_lowlife.html
"The biggest battle we are having is we have to regress the technology enough to where we wouldn’t find a natural process of technological development," says Pondsmith, "where you are walking around with jet packs and flying cars and winged helmets. Lucky for us, we had a Corporate War that damn near destroyed most of the planet."
Not only that, but a flood of lethal computer viruses has meant people can no longer communicate over the net. In many ways, the tech of 2077 is less advanced than that of 2020, and this is a key to maintaining the cyberpunk feel according to Monnier.
"To keep the feeling of cyberpunk, you kinda have to keep things broken just enough. You have to keep the technology curve down to where it’s still people, interacting on a personal level."
Rant on/
No cyberspace? That sucks, I mean...really, really, sucks. Well, so much with keeping with the books. This is obviously to force players to stay in the real world and do real world things. *sigh* If you look at the list of "what will be your first character type" at least half said netrunner. I suspect there will be a lot of disappointed fans of the cyberpunk books.
I really do not want to have to physically sneak in offices/places to hack into systems. That goes against that type of character, I also do not want to replace the net with some Alternative reality junk to again, force us to stay in the real world. I want the net at a home network like in the books. Grrr!
/Rant off
Sorry for the rant, but that just killed a big chunck of my enthusiasm for this game.
Again, that is very disappointing. I thought we would at least have 2020 level technology. Now we won't even have that? What the hell? Lots of disappointing things here.
I know, i was a lil disapointed too
But on another hand, it would probably be the hell of a job to create a descent "real" cyberspace wich would require a third sandbox just for it, also it's their first Cyberpunk game (and they said they're interested into turning it into a licence), i bet we'll have a real cyberspace, if not in this one, maybe in a game or two, once they'll masters the "core" of the game and will be able to expand it, even as a GM on the pnp, it's pretty hard to make a descent real world and a descent cyberspace at the same time without a lot of preparation, so i can imagine the difficulty into turning it to a video game.
I think Maelcom is reading a lot into a very vague statement. It's possible they will have a fully realised 2077 Night City Netspace for hackers, only not perhaps the craziness that veteran 2020 players might recall.
They can't do everything - some things are going to have to go. I, too, hope for Netspace. After the CP2020 canon DataCrash in 2025, though, the Net as you know it in 2020 has taken a major, major hit. It's still being rebuilt in 2077.
Now, this might just be the excuse as to why you can't hop over to a mainframe in Tokyo and start hacking, where Night City is your forced playground. But maybe it will mean a more localized hack. If that's the case, oh, well. Netrunners have to do all sorts of things to overcome obstacles - in the very paranoid future, it's quite possible external access is much harder than in 2020.
Case once rode into orbit to get inside a datafortress - you gonna say you're better than him?
Also, off topic.
Ahhh....
Don't have too much sex in cyberspace - you'll get viruses. Yeah.