…between its main story and Phantom Liberty with the numerous places that all of its side characters can end up, what do you think CDPR's cannon storyline is most likely to be with the start of Orion?
…between its main story and Phantom Liberty with the numerous places that all of its side characters can end up, what do you think CDPR's cannon storyline is most likely to be with the start of Orion?
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Assuming Orion *is* a sequel and that there *is* a canon ending and the protagonist *isn’t* V, my guess would be that they’ll largely avoid the issue and the only concrete thing they’ll carry forward is that it *wasn’t* the Devil ending and Arasaka is in decline as a result. I think everything else would be left vague.
I don’t actually think they need to pick one. All paths have the potential to converge on the crystal palace. Even the suicide ending
If V is referred to at all, it’ll be as the merc who took NC by storm and then disappeared. That covers all eventualities.
Well if they keep Yorinobo as head of Arasaka that could mean multiple endings are valid. All they have to do is give some vague details about V’s raid against Arasaka and that would give space to any ending. Say something about how they disappeared after and that’s that. Maybe name a drink after them in Afterlife.
As long as they don’t get super specific it’s not super complicated to make the sequel fit any ending. The issue would be stuff like is Rogue still alive? But if they replace her with someone else as head of Afterlife and say something about her leaving and not knowing what happened then that would leave space for player V stories to fit.
But being vague about these details will feel a bit lame. At the same time it would kind of suck to have a definitive ending that invalidates the others.
Wands into Sun (DFTR). Doubt its gonna take place right after where Sun leaves off (maybe other than a tutorial/prologue mission), but for me, it fits the best. Rogue’s alive to still be an interactable character, perhaps alongside all of the Aldecaldos. Arasaka was gonna go regardless of the outcome, since I doubt Devil’s their choice.
Beyond that, I do believe V will be the main character. I know its a position people disagree with, but with CDPR’s track record, alongside how open-ended the endings are in general, our dearest gonk is in a prime place to rise from NC legendom to international fame.
As much as I want V to live…
For the sake of sequel, I like the idea of Johnny living on in V’s body and V being an AI behind the Blackwall.
V being an AI the new MC can communicate with during at least a mission would be cool. A cameo or Easter Egg of Johnny writing new music trashing Arasaka and Corpo values.
I don’t really see how Kanon will fit into Orion at all, to be honest. There’s not a lot of thematic overlap.
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I kinda want it confused. Like if you hear it in conversation people arent sure.
“Some Solo in NC just torched Saka tower.”
“Wait, with the tank and the Nomad Clan?”
“No, I heard some fixer died helping them.”
“Wait, didn’t smasher die? I saw a media talking about him getting killed with a dildo?”
I love that V.
I imagine devs can actually give you an option to choose which ending you got, but most of the info will still be vague.
Like, for example, you chose “The Sun”, and now you might hear a line or two about how some merc tried to rob the Crystal Palace (with no info on whether the heist was successful or not). Or, if you chose “The Star”, some people might talk about the Aldecaldos and some merc traveling together, or something like that.
Like, Orion might still acknowledge your preferred ending but in a way that doesn’t make it too difficult for the devs to implement all those different options (we’re not gonna have 5 trillion different variations, no matter how much we want it).
And yeah, there **shouldn’t** be a canon ending, imo
I hope there is something akin to the haircut scene in the beginning of Witcher 3
In Witcher 3, at the beginning you have options to clarify the choices you made in previous games, which would then have effects on the game going forward. I suspect it will be similar, in some fashion.
I’d like a protagonist with a different goal (at least initially) than becoming a legend. V doesn’t really have anywhere else to go storywise regardless of them surviving or not. They’ve either achieved their goal already or failed.
I doubt Orion will be a direct sequel.
I hope they do it vaguely, like it’s become legend.
Different places will utter different scenarios, that all individually hint to different endings
“Did you hear about …. …. ….”
“I heard they left the city with some nomads to find peace”
Elsewhere
“You hear about …. ….. …. I think they escaped into the net”
“Nah man don’t you remember the explosions at xxxx they totally one man armied their way up saka tower, they even killed smasher!”
They’ll probably be vague with it. Either they won’t mention it at all or all the endings will be rumours. Like you might overheat two people talking about how they heard V took off with the Aldecaldos but the other night have heard they pulled off the crystal palace heist.
I think you shouldn’t get to choose an ending from Cyberpunk 2077 – if you have a save game with whatever ending/s you completed, then you can optionally use that as binding from V’s story, whether V is in new game or not. If you start Orion / Cyberpunk 2 fresh, you get whatever options there are there.