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A good old ass kicking would put then in their place
When laws are ignored, yes.
"Don't worry so much about money. Worry about if people start deciding to kill reporters. That's a quote." -Samaael al'Hyedi.
The mere threat of his existence will keep the journos in line. After all, he gets away with every shooting he's ever perpetrated
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms” ― Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
This is one of the lessons I have grown to despise the most as I grow older. Violence is an essential tool. One that must be employed sparingly and with care, but it is one that simply cannot be forsaken.
Journalism is a foil to power structures. That is, opposition journalists are. Throughout the ages the journalist profession has been split into those supporting some certain power, and those on the fringes opposing it.
In the time of Thomas Paine, or even earlier the pamphleteers during the English Civil War, or even the people supporting Martin Luther against the pope, they were what we could call "journalists" actively opposing the power structures of their time.
What we tend to forget, however, is that during all those times, 95% of all journalists supported power.
We rarely hear about the people supporting the British Monarchy in the colonies, even though they outnumbered Thomas Paine and the anti-government journalists by huge amounts, especially in the 1750's/1760's. Same for all the people supporting the Pope against Luther.
Have their statues pulled down.
Maybe this is closer to reality than you think. Ever wonder how so many public figures can get away with ruining people's lives so openly without getting fedpost'd irl? Especially with so many mentally unstable people running around?
Maybe the aliens have provided them with protective technology that the greater public is not aware of.
Well that sucks. I would have tried to kill one at some point too. I've already discovered you can't kill cats.
Ordinarily, I don't care if I can only kill enemies in a game. Particularly since I don't think everything has to be a choose your own adventure role player. This game where everything is a gray area and you can generally kill anything? That shouldn't mean except protected classes. Cmon, even Outer Worlds let me kill anything I wanted.
I hear the plot's railroaded and linear. No surprise they have the Bethseda style unkillable... sjw holy prophets.
Damn, Bioware's ancient and linear Mass Effect 1 & 2 let you punch journalists for no reason. I feel old.
This is it, for me. If you're going to design a game where you're meant to be able to do what you please and kill whoever you please, there shouldn't be protected classes who are invulnerable for no reason. As though the game is saying that murdering a random bystander is okay but a journalist is a step too far.
It's bad enough that plot-necessary characters are often protected, but randoms who are too 'morally good' to be killed is just wrong.
What on earth made you think that? You're not playing some technobarbarian in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, you're a street-level gun for hire in a city that knows exactly what to do with cyberpsychos. Having protected NPCs is only a problem if - like Little Lamplight - those NPCs are so obnoxious that you'd ever find out they're invulnerable outside of limit testing.
If the city knows exactly what to do with cyberpsychos, then it should do that. Show me how I get absolutely fucked if I touch someone important, don't make them invulnerable, that's a bullshit cop-out.
Why should an overworked dev team prioritise developing systems the player will never see unless they're deliberately playing the game wrong, when the most likely reason to do so would be in service of the next Tropes Vs Journalists hit piece? V isn't a psycho any more than Geralt is a pacifist; failing to cater to these out-of-character playstyles isn't a noteworthy flaw.
It's an open world game, if the devs think punching random people is "playing the game wrong", they're making the wrong genre. In any open world game, the players will try to attack and run over absolutely everything.
Also they had eight years to come up with some kind of a consequence for killing important characters. They could just do something like EVE Online does with "cops" in high-security systems - it wouldn't make as much sense since this isn't an MMO but it would still be better than invulnerable characters and characters surrounded by invisible barrier so you can't even knock them over with a car. That's just shit.
In the original Fable you could kill some of the major characters and the story would change as a result.
I forgot about that, I loved that game. I've been meaning for years to replay that game as a total asshole just to see the outcome. Maybe it's time to do that soon.
tfw soyberpunk
The game is a terrible RPG. It IS a mediocre FPS though.
Seems like the story and writing are the main draws of this game. Which is a very bad design choice on their part because now I'm tempted to just watch someone else play through it.
The more I hear about this game, the more I realize it was a blessing in disguise that I couldn't secure a new GPU in time to play it.
Enemy of the people.
At least RDR2 let you murder the Feminist in San Denis
Gotta stick out for each other. It's telling how they have god mode enabled. Cyberpunk seems like an awful game. God mode media and cybertrannies.
You utter, worthless, faggots.
If you are a member of this sub, and there are journalists and celebrities in a game you made, I am hearby requiring you to implement a system to piss on them.
It is so ordered.
Is that Timmy Pool?
Can't see the baldness from here.
So brave!
Can you go on a GTA rampage in this game?
Only exposure I have to this game is thru jank videos.
Nah, it’s nothing like GTA. Police seemingly appear out of nowhere. You can be driving and accidentally mow through a couple people and have a bunch of police drones spawn and kill you in half a second.
Is Jank a YouTube streamer?
No, jank as in videos that exposes the janky nature of the game.
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