CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TLDR:

  The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…

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  • JoMiran@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kind of a given for the entire genre, isn’t it?

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’d be surprised how many people’s heads that goes over

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    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Somehow also CDPR

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• Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t that… like… almost the entirety of the purpose of the genre?

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  • WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Sorta. The whole point is more capitalism gone to the extreme, homelessness and poverty are just a consequence of that.

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• LordSinguloth@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They should focus on making a functioning playable game within 3 years of launching it before they focus on preaching at its players

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  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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    • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are just burying your head in the sand if you refuse to acknowledge the myriad of bugs and stability issues this game had at launch, even if you didn’t personally experience them.

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• LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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

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• helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Video games are not the place for political statements. We play video games to escape reality.

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