'Cyberpunk 2077' Sequel Associate Director Says Original Game "Didn't Push The Envelope Far Enough" With Its Social Commentary
The Associate Director for the upcoming 'Cyberpunk 2077' sequel thinks the original game did not go hard enough with its social commentary.
My thoughts exactly. Escapism is a foreign concept. These are the same people who get upset when you tell them everything doesn’t have to be political
Ideological Totalism is contrary to the nature of Escapism.
Something can not be both total and escapable.
Meanwhile, actual totalitarians:
Totalitarians don't have Bread & Circuses. Autocrats and Tyrants do. They're a bit different.
The homeless problem in LA has been made fun of since the 80's. Mel Brooks made the hilarious Life Stinks in the 80's.
On the other hand, the homeless were talked about in Victorian fiction all the time. It's one of the reasons why so many don't realize Sherlock Holmes was more modern. The homeless network he uses has been known for a while.
The world is broken because the relationships are broken, and no ideology in human history has dedicated itself more to breaking up all human relationships for the sake of ideological homogeneity and dialectical narrative fulfillment MORE than Leftism.
You tear apart family, you tear apart friends, you tear apart neighborhoods, you tear apart communities, and then you ask "why is the social fabric damaged?"
Then, in your loneliness, like a fucking disease, you seek to infect and parasitize a community that you haven't destroyed; so that you can tear it apart because you don't feel loved.
They are demons wearing skin-suits on top of skin-suits, demanding to be loved by a world filled with burning bodies of their victims.
Poetic, bro.
He has a point about our present society being even more bleak than cyberpunk dystopias, although he no doubt has no self-awareness as to how his own ideology has contributed to the problems he complains about. I'll even concede that cyberpunk as a genre is a lot more political than other genres of fantastical fiction.
But writers who write for "modern audiences" don't have anything close to the talent required to weave political themes into a setting and story where it blends into a convincing world with convincing characters and situations, they always have to break the fourth wall with their millennial snark rather than just allowing the audience to form their own interpretations.
Man CD Projekt Red really went down the shitter hard in the last few years. It's like SJW central over there these days.
Yeah it's crazy considering their roots as edgelord throwing gratuitous naked women into games. Similar to the decline of Mortal combat
People hyped up Witcher 3 as the greatest shit ever whose turds didn't stink.
That got them attention beyond attention from every single parasite and cancer in the industry. They were probably bombarded with applications from "interested employees" and investments weekly until the tentacles were deep enough in them.
Its a classic lesson in not talking about things in an ongoing war (even if its a culture war).
Well, I have little hopes for the next Witcher game or this game either.
I know one of the reason we have so many woke games right now is because their production was delayed thanks to lockdowns and now we get them later to die even faster because people hate this social commentary crap even more now.
They already went full dei. Nothing good ever comes from a studio that goes dei
I don't know, it's eventual bankruptcy and IPs auctioned off can be good (prays for one of the major studios to fall)
You want the rights to the Witcher to be bought by EA!?
No, I'm actually betting EA falls before CDPR.
....I just want BF Bad Company again...
If the IP is big enough.. people still buy the dei slop.
Degeneracy such as drug use everywhere, prostitution, infinity black and browns ( including a mini Wakanda Haitian no-go zone ), troons, etc.
They could only push the enveloppe further if the game could only be played by a brown dildo controler.
I assert that one of the only times a foreign person's take on america ever worked out for the best was when a Dutch man named Paul Verhoeven made some movies. And those movies he made featured what he thought was over the top american style violence.
Robocop, Total Recall (1990) and Starship Troopers
And his intentions with all of those were to call America Nazis, fascists, and every evil thing he could imagine in his little brain.
Worked out for the best in spite of him and made all of them classics.
Its like how japanese depicts american and european culture as badass in shows, anime and games. They make the best blonde cowgirls.
Verhoeven was a good director, but a terrible satirist.
For a cyberpunk dystopia story, the sort of commentary that this guy just penned right on this message board would fit perfectly. I'm fine if that's what he means by "social commentary".
But we know that's not what he means.
LGBTQAIDS could write a better cyberpunk dystopia story than the small-minded basic bitches at CDPR.
Cp77 sucks ass and barely got lucky with the anime. Cdprojekt wanted to get rid of the loli char.. which was the only memorable char. If the anime didnt make people have a renewed interest in cp77, there wouldnt be a sequel.
So cdprojekt makes 1 bad decision after another. Their next games are cooked.. just like bethesda's games. Cooked.
Clearly there weren't enough dildos and sex ads plastered over every single surface
Straight into the trash.
This is funny because they did have posters and ads featuring a trans person and they bitched until it was patched out.
When did they patch it out? I remember still seeing those ads when I played very late into the game's lifecycle (I think after the Anime came out.)
Turns out you're correct. They were calling for it to be removed and CDPR had to explain to them in a statement that it was intended for world building and demonstrating that "corporations were using people's bodies against them," whatever that means. After that, they backed off (because, ironically, they took it at face value.)
I'm not sure CDPR actually believed this statement before they had to spin the situation or if they simply had their hands full patching thousands of bugs at the time and didn't have the resources to make the art department whip out a suitable replacement so they just made up some bullshit.
In any case, their first reaction to this bit of INCLUSIVE imagery was to scream like a group of exposed nerves. I wonder if they frighten themselves when they pass by a mirror in the middle of the night.
Haven't bought nor played Cyberpunk 2077. And I'm looking forward to ignoring anything else CD Projekt RED puts out.