So I was on tik tok the other day and I saw a tik toker saying cyberpunk 2077 takes place in same universe as it source material cyberpunk rpg. I always thought 2077 was adapted the original rpg game that what I always heard from cd project red and original creator. I know the anime take place in 2077 few comics and a novel. Can someone clarify this is 2077 a adaptation or inside same universe as cyberpunk rpg
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Uh.. both?
Yes
It’s farther in the future than the tabletop game has reached. Cyberpunk Red takes place in the 2040’s I think? I believe TSR mentioned wanting to put out a 2077 sourcebook for Red, though.
Same universe, but does not follow the TT system. The TT takes place decades prior to the video game, and V does not fit into the character classes. V is not a Solo, Fixer, Netrunner, Rockerboy, Techie, etc. He is an imagination of every class. He’s a jack of all trades. CDPR did this because they didn’t want players to be limited in their approach, and to be fair, each class has tons of potential, that each one could be their own game.
Yes, 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk TTRPGs and is set in the same world, but is not an “adaptation”, per se; it’s set in a different time period and tells an original story, though it features characters and locations players of the tabletop game will be familiar with.
It’s a sequel
Red takes places in 2040 and 2077 takes place in… well, 2077. It’s further in the future than any previous entry to the series so I’m assuming it’s canon, however there are some inconsistencies such as Johnny’s memories of the AHQ bombing being different than how they happened in lore (Johnny being the one to plant the nuke instead of Morgan Blackhand, Johnny living longer than ten seconds before getting one-shot by Smasher, and Morgan Blackhand’s presence missing from the entire incident)
It’s actually in The Elder Scrolls universe super far in the future.
Both, it’s adapting the world and rules of Cyberpunk TTRPG into video game, and still taking in same universe. They aren’t mutually exclusive. The Cyberpunk TTRPG edition CDPR adapted is Cyberpunk 2020.
Its an adaptation set in the same universe. But the game follows its own rules to fit better as a game and some things were rewritten to fit the story better
It’s a 1:1 adaption of the pen and paper version! 😂
Yes.
In the RPG book appears the same history of alt and Jhonny
Also appears Morgan blackhand and Adam smasher as inspiration for characters.
IS the same but few years later.
The current ttrpg is cyberpunk red which is set before 2077.
However the style of the video game will bleed over into the art and style of the tabletop game I imagine.
It takes place in the same universe as the TTRPG, 57 years later. The TTRPG is Cyberpunk 2020. Characters like Johnny, Rogue, Adam Smasher, etc. are all at the height of their notoriety as adventurers (“edgerunners”) in the TTRPG, but they’re past their prime in the video game.
yes
You can find the TTRPG book in the game’s files. They are in the same world, but at different points in time.
Always thought cyberpunk 2077 took everything considered to be in a “cyberpunk genre” and made it into a game
It’s an adaptation of the tabletop RPG series of the same name. So if you are into the lore as a fan of the tabletop games it’s basically essential you play 2077 in the likelihood they release a Tabletop edition that is a sequel to 2077, just like how Cyberpunk RED is a prequel that takes place prior to 2077 and is closely tied to a lot of 2077’s lore.
It’s the same universe, Night City is still the setting and characters such as Johnny Silverhand, Alt and Adam Smasher, for example, are present in 2077 along with the Corpos and such. The video game along with Edgerunners continues the lore only through different formats to the tabletop.
Of course with it being a one player video game there are obvious deviations in game play, you can invest in tech points yet V will see more combat than the traditional Techie role, this might be confusing to players discovering and comparing ’77 with the TT where V is basically a Solo dabbling in the skill sets of other CP roles to being something of a hybrid character or virtually a one man/woman team.
Again it is an adaptation in the sense that it derives from the TT but it is canon in what can be viewed as the most recent chapter in the stories of Night City told in various forms.
A little bit of both.
The tabletop games only go as far as 2045 IIRC. 2077 takes a huge jump into the future, having some cooler high tech stuff that isn’t as prevalent as in the tabletop.
Likewise it also seems to make its own minor adjustments to the lore for the sake of its narrative, but it’s hard to tell if these are definitive retcons or the result of in-universe propaganda/unreliable narration.
Yes.
What does this question even mean? It’s an adaptation of the TTRPG and so they take place in the same universe.
The TTRPG is of course, a TTRPG just like D&D. You create your own campaigns and tell your stories. There are no specific stories for CDPR to adapt. There are only some background info about the game’s world and stuff like that (for example stories about Morgan Blackhand and stuff like that, some of these events are mentioned in Cyberpunk 2077). So I don’t know what do you mean by “adapting” the TTRPG.
If by “adaptation” you mean adapting the TTRPG’s mechanics, then no. CDPR didn’t use those systems for their game.
Yea
I’m not familiar with the TTRPG version of cyberpunk so take what I say with a grain of salt but from what i can tell with a quick scroll of the comments it’s the same universe but not the same “rules”. In other words, we, as V, are playing by the 2077 rules while Johnny was playing by the TTRPG rules
It takes place in the same universe years after Cyberpunk Red which takes place around the year of 2045 and according to the agreement between cyberpunk’s creators and CDPR, they(CDPR) can make games and events around 2077 and beyond while anything before that timeframe is the creators of cyberpunk and all events are canon to both the ttrpg and the game
Honestly if Cyberpunk got the baldurs gate treatment it would slap so fucking hard.
It is currently meant to take place in the same universe as the TTRPG. Mike Pondsmith even aided CDPR during development. He also lent his voice as Maximum Mike on Morrow Rock.