#CYBERPUNK 2077 💻

[anothersphere]

I’m not stopping anybody from doing anything, you have my dialogue and if you choose, let your anger construct a smoking gun from it

[Tulpa]

The first book opens with geralt getting a bj from a nun while he reminisces about his adventures

[doolittle]

My partner likes these books but also likes Updike and now it’s coming into focus…

[Felix]

[u_u]

Excuse me, I thought this was Chat with a Cat-holic. May I leave now?

[geist]

this post is probably not the way to go about this

[Felix]

yeah I know I sort of started it but I’m really not comfortable with that

[iguferon]

im ethnically polish and czech so whats happening in eastern europe is really personal to me in a way that probably comes across as incendiary so yeah OK ill take it.

[Felix]

I get it, it’s just that both “we should expect no better of this developer because of where they are” and “the most notable thing about this country is that it’s full of Nazis” are too reductive for comfort – if you said either of those things about almost anywhere other than eastern Europe it would more than likely set people off for good reason, which is basically eastern Europe in a nutshell

[Tulpa]

What if I say this about America

[Felix]

I’m not allowed to agree because it would look smug

[iguferon]

i say those things about america all the time so i figured it was time for my slav brothers to get put in the ownzone. might as well blast everyone!!

[iguferon]

barkley 2 is the real cyberpunk 2077

[anothersphere]

Most authentic and edgiest thread on SB right now

[cylindrome]

it’s more like, if the voices behind this project were truly in good conscience, this stuff wouldn’t have been allowed to “slip through” regardless of whether it indicates any deeper attitudes in the game’s direction (god forbid), or if it’s just random crap thrown in by the team that no one had the responsibility to say no to.

either possibility reflects very poorly when you’re releasing something this high profile, something which is guaranteed to have cultural impact.

[anothersphere]

It’s one of the most anticipated titles and where subject matter bears some of the biggest cultural and social ripples, extra degrees of scrutiny it gets and the range of expectations people have - I’m along for some of that ride and expressed similar concerns, it’s not like anyone disagreeing with the prevailing condemnation is automatically doing PR for CDPR right?

I know that can be conflated with whatever tail people want to pin on things but calling extreme judgements and conclusions for what they are (sometimes large swathes of provocation and being snide with “insight” goes all directions), I’m not afraid to. Different folks and all that

[cylindrome]

i’m just illustrating why i don’t register these judgements as “extreme”. they’ve already clearly crossed many lines for many people and haven’t shown any willingness to make up for it. you are entitled to your opinions of course

[a_new_duck]

On top of everything else, it’s still pretty amazing that they just straight-up named their game “Cyberpunk,” a label for a whole widely fetishized genre/movement, that they’re hoping to becoming synonymous with. Brazen as hell.

[isfet]

i think what bums me out most is that while we all seem to have similar takes on why this all looks bad, we’re still probably a minority of people and this will sell well and games sites will praise it once it’s out.

[a_new_duck]

Reviews’ll do some lip service to what’s bad about it, but it’ll be praised as being visionary, there’ll be fawning admiration for its references to Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell. Every site will do walkthroughs and feature four-hour gameplay videos on their Cyberpunk-ad-laden websites.

The enthusiast press fucking sucks