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 months ago
9point6@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’d be surprised how many people’s heads that goes over
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Somehow also CDPR
Ledivin@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Isn’t that… like… almost the entirety of the purpose of the genre?
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 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.
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
helenslunch@feddit.nl 3 months ago
Video games are not the place for political statements. We play video games to escape reality.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 4 months ago
TLDR:
The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…
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
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.