TLDR:
The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…
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
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.
Isn’t that part of most cyberpunk lore? That they have to hack those attachments or get them at shady backyard shops, because they would originally be under control of the big company that controls everything and also provides security?
I’m not much into cyberpunk though, so my impression might be off.
They should focus on making a functioning playable game within 3 years of launching it before they focus on preaching at its players
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
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.
Even today, years later, it has some major bugs.
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.
Video games are not the place for political statements. We play video games to escape reality.
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