CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners
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The first episode was so gooooood! Trigger branching out from saving anime to save failed games.
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I’ve powered through about half of it in a night, it has been so good to me. The soundtrack, the stylized action sequences, the trippy portrayal of cyberpsychosis, it is just…firing on all cylinders and sooooo much better than I expected.
The one downside is that it makes me want a pure cyberpunk MU* so bad that it makes me PHYSICALLY ANGRY AAAAAHHHH
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Rage for a good game, that should have been.
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Oof, yeah. Y’know, aside from the shitty state of the PS4 release I had and the general feel that the game was about six or seven years behind the curve in terms of mechanics and features, I really enjoyed the story (although that was like 90% wanting to marry and DEVOTE MY ENTIRE LIFE to Panam, lol). It’s a shame!
At least CDPR is making it up to us at least a little by producing this beaut.
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@Wizz said in CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners:
I’ve powered through about half of it in a night, it has been so good to me. The soundtrack, the stylized action sequences, the trippy portrayal of cyberpsychosis, it is just…firing on all cylinders and sooooo much better than I expected.
The one downside is that it makes me want a pure cyberpunk MU* so bad that it makes me PHYSICALLY ANGRY AAAAAHHHH
I had the skeleton of CP Red Chargen built for an Evennia game but was just so utterly depressed by how netrunning was handled that I abandoned the effort.
I think I had gotten as far as the ability to build everything but a gear inventory, with a fully integrated +dice system. I should scour the interwebz and see if someone’s written reasonable houserules for netrunning.
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For whatever it’s worth, the patches that have come out recently (1.5 and up) have made it an… actually decent game? It’s actually playable now, on PC at least. Can’t comment on the console versions but I’ve heard good things.
@Reason I get the hesitation, but in a time when your SF options in MU* Ares/Evennia-land are essentially Firefly or Pern, I really think a proper hard SF game could do well. Or at least I would hope so.
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@sixregrets said in [CHROME THE FUCK UP!
@Reason I get the hesitation, but in a time when your SF options in MU* Ares/Evennia-land are essentially Firefly or Pern, I really think a proper hard SF game could do well. Or at least I would hope so.
Possible! It’s a genre with a lot of recommend, and a lot of the dynamics of CP Red are unique, compelling, and refreshing – there’s a subtle post-apocalyptic feel that’s a departure from our classic 1980s cyberpunk genre.
It was just hard to motivate myself to work on building the game after staring at the netrunning rules – they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.
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@Reason said in CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners:
they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.
From what I recall from reading about the Red period, the net was basically obliterated. So it makes sense that netrunning would take a back seat.
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@Pavel said in CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners:
@Reason said in CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners:
they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.
From what I recall from reading about the Red period, the net was basically obliterated. So it makes sense that netrunning would take a back seat.
Sure. My take away was just that it was less that netrunning takes a back seat (which is fine) and more that the way the replacement net is handled is mechanically ugly and thematically silly.
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Just finished EDGERUNNERS and now I will be locked in the fetal position on my carpet and sobbing for three days, thanks ;________;
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@Wizz I watched it three times now.
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I’m only four episodes in because I’m watching it a bit at a time with my partner (which slows my progress down, but eh), and holy hell I am impressed that they’re maintaining the level of consistency with the animation and music and punchiness and it just oozes neon-soaked crass beauty and ultraviolence and this is like watching a modern take on one of those old 80s OVAs I used to pick up at Blockbuster when I was way too young to actually supposed to be renting them, and, and, and…
I am vibing so hard on this show, to the point of run-on sentences.
Edit: Aw, it kinda wobbled a bit at the end for me, but I still had a blast for the overall package.
