I just finished Cyberpunk for the first time a couple days ago and the whole time I was waiting for him to come back. Like they make him seem so badass like someone who can make the NCPD do whatever he wants just cause he's that high up the ladder. They also hinted at some history with him and Jackie so that could've been a story point.
But when I finished the game I realized he just never shows up again. From what I saw he doesn't even appear in any side missions. Like maybe CD was planning on him being a big villain or something and they just cancelled it but idk I just think he would've been a cool antagonist
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Yes, total missed opportunity for sure.
Originally each life path was supposed to have it’s own unique quest line, but iirc all those quests got cut / re written and folded into street gigs and other side quests. Also the entire time skip with Jackie was supposed to be part of the actual game and not just a cutscene. So he could have been a part of both.
I remember the first time we saw this guy in one of the trailers, I thought for sure he was going to be at least a minor antagonist and be somehow tied into Gaunter O’Dimm from the Witcher games. He and Ciri would be the two people I’d expect cameos from at least.
Having gone through many other fictions of games and comics, etc. I think having named one and done characters expand the world. Like the Streetkid fixer, Kirk Sawyer, had a side mission, and he’s just kind of there. I think stories like that are better left to the player’s imagination.
the sad thing is that all the stuff CDPR promised when they announced the game and then never delivered are likely things the devs fully intended to implement, but at some point they had to start being realistic and start cutting out stuff or else the game probably wouldn’t have been released yet…
Also some good old corporate greed, the game screamed “unfinished product” back in 2020, it wouldn’t even need a 3 years long “redemption arc” if it was delayed by at least another year
More of a “We’ll see him again” but he doesn’t give off an antagonist vibe. I figured later on he’d have some off the books job he needed V for.
The Corpo that told Stints to get rid of you and Jackie is the same dude that walked in the restroom on Corpo V puking their guts out. Little details, chooms.
I didn’t get that impression. Stints lets you go because he relates more to you as a Streetkid than the Corpo telling him to let you drown.
I would have preferred a quest regarding him than Kirk. The ramifications of it could have transpired on V and River’s relationship.
You thought the guy who disobeyed direct orders from a ‘Saka exec and let you and Jackie live was gonna be a major antagonist? Dude was just doing his job 😂
I was hoping we’d run into him during River’s storyline or we’d have to deal with him during one of Regina’s MANY gigs.
Who the hell is stints?
Remind me, who is this?
No. Just another bastard cop.
Oh but he is…
In another world.
Well, he was…….
For a hot second 😁
It’s the whole Tom Bombadil thing. You throw this character in there that has amazing power, and then he leaves. So then you question how many this world has. How many Stints are there?
I’ve never done the street kid start so honestly I’ve never seen him before outside of trailers lmfao. He doesn’t show up in the nomad one for sure and I think he doesn’t in the corpo one (haven’t done the corpo one since launch though so don’t quote me lmfao)