To say something positive about V3.0 (yes I said positive don't shoot me) the Meta characters mechanic works very well for me. With time I'm growing lazy, so anything that can speed game and make game mastering labors less burdensome is welcome.
Like the rest, I thought the artwork was, well, horrible. I'm sure there was some effort in creating the dolls and trying a new style of artwork, but it felt cheap and lacking. Cyberpunk deals with a lot of adult themes(drugs, sex, violence) and to have the art look like my baby sister had a go at it, really gave me a bias on anything that was good in it. Style over substance...
mods... mods... MOOOOOOOOODS! wisdom has made mention of the game that shall not be named. as is our custom, i demand he receive the requisite 4D10 lashes with the penetrater (from saints row) and then make an "anal circumference" check against the same.
i haven't heard of either of those games, which is the forbidden game? And whats wrong with it? Are the two questions that come to the forefront of my mind.
When D&D went through its editions, the worlds didn't change much. You still had orcs, elves, gods, dragons, etc. Yes there were some changes but they didn't drastically change the settings like V3 did.
Kind of an argument -for- V3, really, in a setting that is all about change and evolving the human being and culture. Our world changes, and fast recently, so to stay realistic, 2020 would have to change as well.
A friend of mine, and a student of history, ( he has a Master's in same), figured that the 2020 setting couldn't last longer than 30 years, maximum.
I just don't think it would evolve into what was present in V3. I don't know, V3 just didn't give me the feeling of "I'm glad I waited for this."
Questions is, what -did- we want from V3, back in the day? System weirdness like Deadlift values, drug addiction and cost rules and the Net cleaned up...but what else?
Good points. IT definitely would have been great if it include supplement materials into one source. Like the different flavors of the roles.First, it should have been like 2077, pushed really into the future, like 2100.
If I want to play "cyberpunk 2020"... I play 2020
V3 wast 10year after as I said, so it was just useless.
They could have take the setting, pushing it way further in the future, adding spatial corporations/colony, new kind of weapon, like energy weapon.
Implementing a nice and effective Netrunning system more than the awfull mess from 2020 that no one use, we already had Cybernetics, they could had added Genetics, you know enhancing stuff for your character but in a more natural way, with less humanity's cost, stuff like this.
Or just take 2020, and refine the rules, taking what's there and add stuff for Media, Corporate, Rockerboy, etc... because there aren't many.
Or even take Cyberpunk, but in Europe, 2020 was in Night City, US, 2030 could have been in XXXX City, somewhere in Europe, adding background and all, bringing new stuff, so it would have better fitted together, I don't know :/
Good points. IT definitely would have been great if it include supplement materials into one source. Like the different flavors of the roles.