Okay, man, I'm gonna be totally honest with you: Dave's on vacation and was drinking the whole episode. He cannot be asked to remember what he was babbling on about for two-and-a-half hours. Something about Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, his newest videogame, fast food sluts, and probably a lot of heavy breathing/uncouth belching. You know how we roll, here.
Ah, NCR started with 60 minutes episodes as well.
ReplyDeleteIt's a shame CDP went with a boring world, other people said that too. In 1980s Cyberpunk 2020 was cutting edge futurism. Cyberpunk 2070 released 3 decades later is a watered down and sanitized original, without any new innovative future predictions. I guess CDP decided against originality and innovation and pro following safeish path. It often comes with the growth of the gaming companies.
I'd love CDP to do an Eclipse Phase-esque futuristic game instead. Oh boy, don't I have awesome (in my mind) ideas for that. But that could be hit or miss, and there is also the cancel culture and mercurial game journalists to worry about.
It's pretty goofy that I actually never heard of the Cyberpunk 2020 RPG at all until word of this game came round. Being that I have been wasting the last 20+ years of my life doing this junk, it's amazing how many games I don't know a thing about.
ReplyDeleteCyberpunk 2077 just feels like a standard, boiler-plate setting to me. No twist or unique spice in it that makes it a unique take on the whole Cyberpunk stuff. Just bland, paint by numbers stuff. GTA with a modem taped to the back of your head.
Though, I am having fun playing the game, mind you. I have very little in the way of complaints as far as controls or gameplay, but I just feel that there are a ton of missed opportunities here, and that is a shame for all the work that went into the game.
I think I have heard of Eclipse-Phase once or twice, but I have never played it. I gave it a quick Google and it seems rather involved and political-ish, which means I would be lost and confused as soon as I opened the book. I would cry and await an adult to tell me everything was okay. Then I would run off and play D&D because it is easy and comfy.