I never asked for this.Originally Posted by Lukasz
I never asked for this.
The past of 2020 is somewhat divergent from our own. The War on Drugs went nuclear in 1993, the UK becomes a police state in 2003. The use of mass drivers, nuclear weapons, tailored bio-plagues and the like is common place by 2010 in corporate disputes, let alone national warfare, although by 2020 with most governments in the hands of the corps the only real war is a cold one between Europe (EU & Russia) and Turkey (backed by China). Of course, there's three corporate wars prior to that (one taking place entirely on the net) and a fourth one at the end of the decade (though whether they stick to the 2020 scenario or incorporate the 203x stuff I dunno).
The only real complete replacements tend to be ex-military to replace limb loss. Although there is a small commercial market - one of the neat things about the Cyberpunk setting was that the limbs were modular and you could switch components out as necessary. A surgeon for example might get a shoulder implant capable of supporting two arms, then a range of limbs and hands which incorporated medical tools and equipment for work as well as a couple of limbs for recreation that he could swap in and out as necessary.Hence I'd expect more external stuff, or implants, over complete replacements.
For the most part cybernetic implants are used sparingly precisely because of the risk of cyber-psychosis. For the majority it might be nothing more than a socket implant to allow them to connect to computers, smartguns and the like. Extensive modification is fairly rare outside of the military or specialised fields (those working in space for example might have vac-weave skin and eye implantation to allow them to work on the hull of a ship or space station without needing a protective suit).
A lot of the cybertech implants could be replicated by biological ones instead. Although the end results were the same you had different advantages and disadvantages inherent in either (mechanical implants for example, apart from the risk of cyberpsychosis, were vulnerable to EMP weapons while a biological implant wasn't, however biological implants could be affected by viruses, drugs and similar).There is verymuch room and scope in our biological systems too.
Not when one is capable of moving faster than a bullet :PAlso, "dodging bullets" is far from possible.
I'll have to say that interview was terrible. Nathan really should have gone to the drawing board first and worded his questions better, because they were either limp ("hey, the city of a game called Cyberpunk looks like a generic cyberpunk city") or looked like they were blatantly fishing for excuses to piss on CD Projekt ("why that woman?"). Generally a poor show from Nathan, and Kanik was correct in dodging questions like Tony Blair in this instance.
I don't think bad questions justify bad answers. He could have taken the opportunity, as I mentioned elsewhere, to explain and sell us on the team's vision. He didn't.
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That back story sounds a bit better. I keep forgetting this is about the "exceptions" of the technology, and not like GITS where it because the "norm" for everyone to be robots. :P
PS, moving faster than a bullet creates a lot of friction, to name just one of the hot topics of the problems. ;)
Well, the background is from 2020, one of the questions Nathan could have asked in the interview is how much they're sticking to it. The last release (Cyberpunk 203x) pulled something of a 'rocks fall, everyone dies' on the setting and pretty much wiped the entire backstory. It'll be interesting to see which one they run with; 203x is probably good from an 'introduce new players to the setting' perspective since it runs with the premise that all data is unreliable, 2020 on the other hand is the one everyone tends to remember and is somewhat more classic cyberpunk.
so I guess we should start a thread on The Witcher 3?
"Witcher 3 is going to be better"
I'm looking forward to Cyberpunk just as much. Hated the latest Deus Ex and I wasn't a big fan of the original either. CD Projekt strike me as the right team for this one.
Given the first two were tedious shite, that wouldn't be hard :P
I think is not good to use lingerie and underwear. We need to keep it simple and away from wrong thoughts
Last edited by WadeBurton; 23-04-2013 at 07:50 AM.
Yeah, why include women at all? Some men get the weirdest thoughts when they see one.
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It's a shame this discussion was resurrected for the sole purpose of out-of-context mockery. There was a lot of good, nuanced discussion from a wide variety of perspectives. If all you've got to say is "Pffft, prudes," I think you'd be better off not even mentioning the preceding furor. There's plenty to say about Cyberpunk and indeed this game that doesn't intersect with gender issues.
Last edited by gwathdring; 23-04-2013 at 07:22 PM.
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