Kind of a given for the entire genre, isn’t it?
CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
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_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
9point6@lemmy.world 4 days ago
You’d be surprised how many people’s heads that goes over
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Somehow also CDPR
Ledivin@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Isn’t that… like… almost the entirety of the purpose of the genre?
WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Ya I always figured cyberpunk got big in the 80’s because it was a commentary of the hyper capitalist neoliberal policies of the era, which have only gotten stronger since then.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sorta. The whole point is more capitalism gone to the extreme, homelessness and poverty are just a consequence of that.
LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
They should focus on making a functioning playable game within 3 years of launching it before they focus on preaching at its players
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Odd, it was functioning just fine and entirely playable for me at launch. I put over 100 hours into my first play through without issue
ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I played at launch too. It wasn’t as bad as people were making it out to be, but I ran into a number of major bugs.
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Agreed. It was a buggy mess, but nothing made it unplayable (unless you were playing on xbox1/ps4). Additionally, the game is in a much better state now, CDPR put a lot of effort into polishing it up rather than leaving it a buggy mess
LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 4 days ago
so in 20 years when its released, we’ll have a lukewarm statement on homelessness being “not nice” in a videogame marketed by sexualized trans bodies. awesome, thanks bros
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 days ago
TLDR:
The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
The video game is fairly tame when it comes to themes like this, when compared to the source material and genre as a whole.
“Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration.” – Mike Pondsmith
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Honestly its aspirational at this point, there’s no way we’d get cybernetics IRL without them being directly remote controlable by police, companies or just rich people who pay a small fee to watch poor people hit themselves.