Black Flag I gave up on the story entirely, too many tailing / eavesdrop missions, and instead spent loads of time taking out the forts, being a pirate and upgrading the Jackdaw.
Just to mention, I really hate 'racing missions' and usually avoid them unless they are actually plot-related (the worst will always be the infamous one in GTA:Vice City where, to recruit a wheelman, you have to beat him in a race... and he gives you a piece of **** car instead of letting you use one of your own. The best way to beat it is to leave a motorcycle nearby, exit your car, and hop on the bike) However, I would recommend doing the races with the bartender. There's an actual story there, and there are choices to be made. (Unless you did do them and you were talking about the generic, non-story races that you can do, in which case I agree that you can skip them)
Problem is: - I don't trust the drive controls, it'll probably spin me out while the AI drives perfectly. - It'll be in the open world so won't actually be a race but race + navigation, using a map that is too zoomed in - The AI will already know the route perfectly.
I use the 3rd person view while driving, and it works immeasurably. The races are actually fairly easy. Like I said, I hate them usually in video games and I suck at them. But there's an interesting story there. Give it a whirl!
Finally got around to watching Edgerunners, I’m usually not much of an anime fan but this one was pretty good, and excellently jacked into CB:2077’s aesthetic/emotional interface. The music, colorful action, demented futurism, it all hit the concept right on the dome. As far as themes/concepts, cyber-psychosis got some deep treatment, much deeper than anything in the game. I’d heard about its warm reception and late contribution to late CB:2077 sales, but having watched it now, gives me a bit more appreciation for CDPR’s multimedia licensing strategy. Unlike the Witcher Netflix series, Edgerunners is a show that emerges entirely from the video game, it might as well be a commercial in addition to just a great cartoon.
yah I was surprised reading that Cyber-Psychos isn't that deep in the game but it basically becomes the whole thematic thing in Edgerunners, one of the first scenes is the guy going Cyber Psycho, David's buddy goes Cyber Psycho (that was way creepy) and then the final episode David is tadpancing on the edge. The emotional bounce between extremes for him with the flashbacks to his normal body is really well done. And Lucy on the moon ending is perfect. Heartbreaking but perfect. I would be okay if the same studio, Trigger, does more things in the Cyberpunk universe. (they made the Twins episode of Star Wars Visions where two twins hyperspace lightsaber battle hahhaa) but this story is very wrapped up. Maybe Lucy Moon cameo but her story seems definitive. Also everyone is dead!
It’s fascinating to me because cyber-psychosis was basically the predominant theme of CB:2077’s marketing, the original cinematic trailer depicted a Bladerunner-esque scene of a mantis-bladed-lady lady getting zeroed for cyber-psychotic infractions and even the game’s core story: Spoiler Alt’s transhumanists cyberization is basically in line with that theme. But I still think studio trigger wrote it better, maybe just because it’s a lot easier to make an anime series than a AAA game. CDPR went all-in for the “terminal illness” but maybe the complications of roping Keanu into it was too much, idk. Overall, I think CB:2077 was a bigger and more impressive production but Edgerunners was more elegant.
Replays are almost all I seem to do these days... (And yes, I'm back to finish my replay of C77... after I'm done with my replay of Deus Ex:Mankind Divided)
Both Human Revolution and Mankind Divided are great and still hold up well today. I’d highly recommend
Yep. Part of the era of companies breaking up stories into "episodic" content and then jumping ship when sales aren't as expected.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners winning Anime of the Year, pretty chrome Few months old but here's a few BTS videos about the show
Oh I actually did not know this but the big nasty guy David fights at the end of Edgerunners is Adam Smasher and is a big boss in the Game 2077. So as this article puts it, it turns the game into a revenge story Also apparently Rebecca's gun and David's jacket are items in the game as well. Canon!
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I've found what I feel is the 'ideal' ending, but I won't spoil them. (I will note that it took a long time before I found the 'ideal' ending for Fallout 4, because it's hidden behind 'failing' - you have to be kicked out of the Institute early enough to make the BoS and Railroad endings impossible, and you are given an otherwise inaccessible Minutemen ending, which if you do it right means that you don't actually have to take out any faction other than the Institute)
