The game sucks but does it look like Cyberpunk to you? I mean it‘s definitely High Tech, Low Life and Cybernetics are also a thing in the game.
The game sucks but does it look like Cyberpunk to you? I mean it‘s definitely High Tech, Low Life and Cybernetics are also a thing in the game.
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You answered your question all by yourself…
It’s cyberpunk, which makes it even more unfortunate that the game blows.
Absolutely!
Why do people think the game blows? I picked it up on a great sale and enjoyed it pretty well. Some early jank colored my opinions, but I had fun, especially playing on the permadeath mode.
I think it was a bit limited in loop, but it was absolutely better than 2. The first one is just peak though.
nah, far from it. People confuse today’s technology, surveillance and fighting against the system themes with genuine cyberpunk, but the genre requires a specific blend of elements. I’m not going to find my Bladerunner or Blame! fix in something like Watch Dogs, even though I genuinely enjoy playing Watch Dogs 2.
Real cyberpunk demands transhumanism and body augmentation as fundamental components they’re not optional extras, they’re core requirements. Without that fusion of human and machine, that blurring of the line between flesh and technology, you’re just looking at a dystopian tech thriller, not cyberpunk
as much as the game sucks. yes.
Absolutely it is. It’s like, textbook cyberpunk.
It’s a shame they dropped the ball so badly on the game itself, though there are some storylines that are pretty peak cyberpunk storytelling, like the lady who >!scanned her mothers consciousness into a computer, digitally lobotomized it, and turned her into a home assistant like Alexa!<
Grudgingly. Yes.
Protocyberpunk.
It misses the ponderings on transhumanism, which is integral to cyberpunk.
(Edit: I only played WD1 and some parts of WD2. I haven’t looked at WDL.)
Yes. Just very poorly made cyberpunk
I don’t know. Watch dogs seemed kinda boring to me but there might like it
you know what? no, wd1 was more cyberpunk than legion.
“ooh but neon but drones but but fuuutuuure” no. this is just futuristic dystopia. this game has no message beyond “damn wouldn’t it be bad if the bad people took over the police?!”, it’s “high tech” is just a vague gesturing at cool things that are cool sometimes, and that’s not even talking about how the game just entirely forgot blume and what the previous titles were about.
wd1, for all it’s faults, at least had a thing to say. legion is not punk, it’s cyberslop.
I think i can safely say yes
I think it is. Loved this game esp the anonymous characters and building up my crew.
It is but maybe early stages of cyberpunk, which we don’t see often, how it started when the first megacorp took the reins and people started rebelling.