Obviously I wanna play it but I feel like I can't abide CD Projekt Red's awful practices. Do I pirate it? Suck it up bc no ethical consumption under capitalism?
Obviously I wanna play it but I feel like I can't abide CD Projekt Red's awful practices. Do I pirate it? Suck it up bc no ethical consumption under capitalism?
Gameplay will probably be fun but I don't expect ANY of the "punk" element of the genre. Every single trailer is glorifying bourgeois property and wealth. It's going to glorify the setting instead of criticise it and the economic systems that lead to this kind of exaggerated dystopia.
It's basically going to be GTA77. Underdog works his way up to great riches and success within the confines of a cyber setting. I do not AT ALL expect criticism of the system or any political attempt to dismantle it and build something better through underground struggle/resistance as the "punk" aspect of the genre is supposed to suggest.
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Yeah, even the Witcher 3 was able to talk about racial scapegoating, authoritarian politics, prejudice etc because it explicitly casts you as an outsider whose race is mostly feared or loathed.
But when you're just picking a character and a background before hopping into a big supposedly dystopian playground? I can absolutely see it as just being evil corporations are evil, gotta get what's mine since everything is awful anyway.
I hope I'm wrong obviously, but I doubt it.
I'm hopeful that Keanu - who seems fairly good-hearted - wouldn't sign on for a generic story that's just aiming to be GTA77, so there's that. We'll see?
If it does just turn out to be a "rise to the top" story I will be very disappointed. It should be more than that and it absolutely should be heavily criticising society without any fear of complaints about bias. Both-sides and neutrality are not topics of the cyberpunk setting.
My ultimate concern is that it's just going to be yet another game that makes a playground out of dystopia. "Let's make the dystopian hellworld fun". The dystopian hellworld should be absolutely horrifying at even the most face value and shallow of interpretations.
The set up for the main story is basically a sci fi fountain of youth which could be interesting, but it is definitely framed as some rags to riches story. If you play as a corpo you literally watch your bank account get emptied in the intro.
This is literally the only story liberals can write. Even Harry Potter is one.