My Life As A Gamer: Razorfist's Review of "Cyberpunk 2077"

The Excellence of Elocution reviews Cyberpunk 2077. If you've been jonesing for a Razorfist Rant, today's a good day.

He's not alone in his take. This disappointment is common for everyone that's played the game and went in with the expectations that CD Projekt Red established and then completely mismanaged just as badly as they botched the game's development. I hope that Maximum Mike got a dump truck full of gold for the rights, because this game makes the brand he spent decades building up look like some Clown College crap and that's going to blow-back on the tabletop tie-in Cyberpunk Red. (Aside: Red is, on its own, getting a similar reception; stick to CP2020.)

The key thing to note here is that Razorfist is right about cyberpunk being rooted in its place in time. The same criticism of CP2077 (and CP Red) also applies to all editions of Shadowrun past its 2nd Edition. Both of these games are very much artifacts of the era, and the further you go from that time and all of the underlying premises that the time assumed the weaker it becomes without adopting another gimmick.

It is no surprise that the only major work of the genre past 1990 that still endures is Ghost in the Shell, and by that I'm talking the film and TV adaptations. No amount of "Muh Transhumanisms!" compensates for that failure.

We are living in that shit future now, without the cool tech we were hoping would be there--were sold on being there--to compensate for the terrible Quality of Life. (No, I won't hear any gainsaying on this; I was sold cool cybernetic limbs that seamlessly integrated into your body, and all I've got is a glorified pegleg.)

That said, the two games' best editions--CP2020 and SR1e/2e--are still freely available, digitally if not in print; check your local used bookstores and game shops. They're still lots of fun, and being old you have an easy time gatekeeping fakes and posers away from your games.

Which brings me to a new application of a dank meme, popularized by Tracy Hickman and some Critical Roll cunt working for WOTC that got offended at it. Eat a dick, poser bitch.

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