115 - Cyberpunk 2077
Added 2023-11-29 07:00:05 +0000 UTCThe lads strap on their netrunner suits and sharpen their katanas as they venture beyond the Blackwall to tackle one of the most infamous triple-AAA releases of all time: CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. Topics include the decade-long development cycle, the breathtaking Keanu Reeves, and what it means to find authenticity in a world that’s constantly trying to make you flatline.
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Media Referenced in this Episode:
- Cyberpunk 2077 by CD Projekt Red Available on Steam // PS5 // XBOX
- “GOG: Preserving Gaming’s Past & Future” by NoClip
- “The Story of CD Projekt” by NoClip
TWOAPW theme by Brendan Dalton: Patreon // brendan-dalton.com // brendandalton.bandcamp.com
Commercial: “A Message from the Night City Tourism Board” ft. Donovan Eyre as “Norman Normalhand”
Comments
At 1hr 45 min or so I'd like to point out there is one reason to have a non-lethal weapon. Regina Jones wants the cyber psychos taken alive so finishing a fight with a non lethal weapon is preferred
Steve Denson
2025-01-18 08:06:52 +0000 UTCfucking destroyed by the professor bros. reference out of nowhere
zetsubunn
2024-08-14 22:29:49 +0000 UTCOne thing that I really appreciate about The Witcher is being that wedge what drove a little more adultness into RPG romances. High art? Not at all. But you go back to things like Baldies Gate 2 and you will see some incredibly problematic, weird, and oddly chaste relationships. Meanwhile, we finally get something like Baldies Gate 3 where- yeah. Love exists. But there is also casual sex. People speaking about sex without being oblique or ashamed. It's a more open and frank acknowledgement about a fundamental piece of human relationships that was strangely absent from games all about people and their relationships to one another.
Noblesse Oblahaj
2024-03-16 13:46:29 +0000 UTCHAUNTOLOGY! Also, I'm in the Tick, Tick, Boom / Cyberpunk 2077 Ven Diagram with you!
Sam Milne
2024-02-05 04:37:01 +0000 UTCThanks. I was looking at the soundtrack. I think it's a clip from rebel path! Thank you! Awesome podcast! Really enjoy it!
Matt Colston
2023-12-12 09:52:35 +0000 UTCit's from the opening cinematic to the game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eR0OmmsUBJE
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-12-12 09:44:28 +0000 UTCWhat song did y'all use for the intro?
Matt Colston
2023-12-10 07:02:50 +0000 UTCIt must have taken an incredible act of restraint to not play the trailer music for the full runtime of this episode in the background
Jon
2023-12-06 05:56:55 +0000 UTCtoday's update added the NCART Metro! replete with monks of course :)
harper
2023-12-05 15:08:47 +0000 UTCThe “recorded experiences you can buy” thing is an old cyberpunk trope (the plot of Strange Days hinges on a missing recorded memory) but “experiencing the feelings of someone undergoing a crucifixion” is pretty directly from Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep (the source material for Bladerunner) where regularly experiencing that suffering is the basis of a major world religion
John Leavitt
2023-12-03 00:04:55 +0000 UTCThere's a Solarpunk game! Protodroid DELTA, it's like Mega Man X in 3D.
Dergon
2023-12-01 20:15:57 +0000 UTCOh! Wanted to mention that the plot point of old rich people wanting to "live forever" by cloning themselves digitally was used in Tad Williams' (one of my fave authors) 90s cyberpunk series Otherland. Very Snow Crash with the virtual reality stuff.
Dergon
2023-12-01 20:14:42 +0000 UTCOkay I’m going to use this episode to determine if I should play the game
John Leavitt
2023-12-01 01:41:33 +0000 UTCTo answer one of the questions at the end about what visions of the future exist in fiction, I think the answer to that right now is similar to what you're getting at; in some smaller communities, the idea of Solarpunk has started to take hold as the alternate vision of the future as compared to Climate Apocalypse. It tends to blend Afrofuturism, indigenous cultures, and generally realistic (though occasionally fantastical) techs. It's a really small genre right now (mostly existing in short stories and concept arts), but some people have argued that things like the depiction of Wakanda in the Black Panther films could arguably be some of the few mainstream examples of it. It's not a genre I know a *lot* about but it's one I want to learn more about and embrace as a vision of the future and think people should look into! Rant over lol
Eliza Jay Writes
2023-12-01 00:34:03 +0000 UTCFemale V is the superior V
Nathan Woods
2023-11-30 23:27:35 +0000 UTCI spent so many hours on my first playthrough just full psychomode and wandered the streets looking for gangsters to maim with monowire. Just going full on Zorro, whipping and stabbing hoards of cops.
James Cézanne-Taipale
2023-11-30 09:14:09 +0000 UTC10 good Dutchmen? I'm looking forward to the 12 angry Dutchmen episode
By Tove!
2023-11-30 08:52:19 +0000 UTCI'd never thought of Leon as a rogue AI but now you mention it
gulbruth
2023-11-29 22:58:15 +0000 UTCAlso wanted to mention, as you can read about in Jason Schreier's Bloomberg article, the original game was really developed in less than 4 yrs. Lots of shitty management too, in addition to the crunch. Really glad they managed to turn it around, here's hoping 2 is great from the get-go and not released at the expense of people's well being.
Dergon
2023-11-29 20:37:27 +0000 UTCmore and more are saying this
The Worst of all Possible Worlds
2023-11-29 19:58:59 +0000 UTCDamn what a fantastic ad read that guy sounds hot
Radio Free Tote Bag
2023-11-29 19:48:14 +0000 UTCthe fish... Koi...
Genevieve R
2023-11-29 18:27:43 +0000 UTCEnjoyed the brief overview of CDPR. I freaking adore Witcher 1, and have been really interested in the company + their work since. I followed Cyberpunk starting with it's announcement eons ago at the joint GOG/CDPR conference (back when they still did those). Haven't actually played it as I'm more of a fantasy person. May need to give 2077 a try after all.
skullfenestrated
2023-11-29 17:30:01 +0000 UTCHoly Fucking Shit, Brian KILLED that opening 😳 👏
Dergon
2023-11-29 15:23:48 +0000 UTC_3 hours_ let's fucking GO
Clark Schaefer
2023-11-29 08:49:16 +0000 UTC
