Cyberpunk 2077 Review thread - Umm....
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Not CDPR's fault you didn't pay attention or use game mechanics. You're told Hellman's the guy who designed the biochip before meeting Takemura (if I remember right, it's either during the heist setup, or Vik's the guy who tells you), and you can scan Takemura at literally any point to learn his first name. V's eyeball is a real-time Google people/image search and you're griping about not using it.
Game's buggy therefore they can't have told a good story. Got it, you're just clutching for straws to problematize it just because it didn't tell you a story in the language you want it told.
"That people in the game aren't walking around treating the ads in question as abnormal, is proof of how totally not normalized those ads are in the game universe!"
You're aware the Copts are a heavily-persecuted group of Christians, predominantly from north Africa, who are persecuted for having gnostic-derived metaphysics and for leaning heavily into salvation through works as opposed to salvation through faith, right?
One might wonder if perhaps there are parallels to be drawn, there.
I forget where it was but there was an interview with Cavilli about playing the Witcher and having to dehydrate for multiple days to pull off the tub scene physique
And Geralt, lest we forget, is kind of meant to be a bit of a wispy haggard dude (exploits aside), not even a pinnacle of desire.
I saw that interview as well and he has said it in many places. Basically he dehydrates for 3 days before shooting and he is miserable.
It is not a good thing.
Also if you look up his video of him building his gaming pc or hell just look at interview videos, you will see that he is in shape but he is nowhere near as cut as he is in actual films. Because it is simply not healthy and not sustainable.
I think you've misunderstood my point. I'm not really concerned about writing, I think in that regard the game actually succeeds about as well as could reasonably be expected. In fact, the way they've done it, with your character never being referred to using gendered pronouns, is far more efficient in terms of voice acting. I'm not talking about games accurately representing the quote/unquote trans experience, and I don't really trust cis creators to be able to do that anyway.
What I'm talking about is literally bodies. Because a huge selling point of cyberpunk was this enormous level of control and customization over your character. This was actually emphasized a lot in the game's pre-release marketing, including the fact that you could play a gender variant character. But again, because the only real control you have over your character's body is their sexual characteristics, that promise is actually fairly shallow. It also kind of suggests, and I really hope this is unintentional, that the writers saw sexual characteristics as the most important things that define your character, which is really kind of the opposite of what trans inclusion is about.
I always find myself thinking back to Saints Row 2. That game is over 10 years old, and yet it gave you an incredible amount of control over the character you wanted to play. You could play a character who was skinny, or fat. You could play a character who was androgynous, not just one who was hyper masc or hyper femme. How hard would it really have been, with the budget and hype surrounding cyberpunk 2077, to give players that level of control, and it's not even just something that benefits trans people, it benefits everyone who wants to personalize their own character.
In a fictional world, I agree that it doesn't have to be the case. The fantasy that maybe you can be queer or trans and just be accepted and treated normally has a certain appeal, and I think there's a need for media like that. But it's not authentic to the world we live in, and if you're just going to keep writing a bunch of straight-acting queer characters and expecting to be showered with praise, there's going to come a point where people stop recognizing themselves.
Straight, cis people often don't realise how weird they are from the outside because they have no media offering them that perspective. There are so many things which a queer or trans person just has to get over or deal with in the course of growing up which a cishet person never does, and it almost always produces a different perspective. If you write queer characters as straight characters, then there's a risk they will just seem closeted, and being closeted isn't an endearing personality trait.
Firstly, it's selling a drink. Again, if it was selling something relevant to the image, like sexual services or cyber-dongs, maybe it would make sense. But I don't see what the connection to bodily freedom is.
Secondly, if the intention was to showcase bodily freedom, it doesn't do that. Kind of the opposite.
Like, it's weird that you can't see this, because you were just talking about how you don't find a character's gender or sexual identity important. That poster makes it important, it's not just evident but cartoonish absurd and exaggerated in a way that is clearly deliberate. In a world where people have actual freedom over their bodies, it wouldn't be important. Showing a feminine person with a penis wouldn't be absurd, or funny, or brave, or anything really, it would just be a normal feature of this society. It wouldn't be worthy of comment unless it was relevant, it certainly wouldn't be something you need to exaggerate.
In EYE: Divine Cybermancy, all the adverts for the various models of guns you can buy have sexy women on them and absolutely awful slogans because it's a joke about how stupid everyone in this universe is (and, let's be real, because the developers were baked). Best case scenario, what you're basically suggesting is that Cyberpunk 2077 is doing the same thing without realising it's a joke.
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I thought 3 was better. It let go of being the clownshoes version of GTA and finally developed its own identity.
I think it's the weakest of the 3(2,3,4) but it's also a ton of fun and I love going to back to it every few years along with the others(I normally just start with 2 and play up through 4). It just has a few flaws that knocks it down slightly from 2 and 4 in my eyes.
I'm not counting 1 or Gat out of Hell because 1 is really hard to get ahold of now and Gat out of hell doesn't really feel like a Saints Row game.
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As a game 3 is probably better, but I like it less. 2 is so extremely odd because it's still ostensibly trying to be serious, whereas 3 isn't trying and is just intentionally goofy, which isn't as endearing to me.
But yeah, the other reason I picked 2 in particular is because in 2 gender was a slider, and while that's not perfect it was still a really good way of letting you control your character's gender expression. No genitals required.
Especially at the last 10-15 minutes. Spitting out the ultimate truth and saying the things I and others suspected and fucking called it! I forgot the game was supposed to even have a multiplayer mode. As far as I'm concerned, the game is dead in the water. No matter how much they "fix" or improve. I've been moved on already to better games.
Cyberpunk 2077 Patch Coming "Soon", Promises to Fix Pretty Much Everything - The Escapist
CD Projekt Red has unveiled the list of fixes in path 1.2 for Cyberpunk 2077, and they're a real doozy, with more than 500 items.
www.escapistmagazine.com