I have about as high hopes for this movie as I do for the Watch_Dogs movie that supposedly wrapped filming in 2024. After being in development since 2015.

I’m still pretty encouraged by the fact that performance seems to be the only issue. It’s the only complaint I’ve heard about it so far. The game itself must be really good.

The final battle might be episode 7 (not 6) but yes, you could stop after 7 and think you’d watched the entire story. I’d say that’s a good plan.

I’m not sure either, he seems to be agreeing with your point (cyberpunk is a warning) but nothing in your post is about transhumanism. I don’t see any confusion in your post.

That reminds me… Steam has a workshop section for the Harebrained Scheme games and someone tried to reproduce the entire SNES game using the Dragonfall engine. It’s called SNES Reboot and I totally forgot I was gonna try playing it. Thanks for the reminder!

Totally agree. We need more shadowrun games in general, no matter where they’re set.

Do you know if GOG does similar “cyberpunk fest” sales?

I’ll always recommend The Ascent to anyone who hasn’t played it.
Also, Nobody Wants To Die is only $3.74 and it’s a cool little hard-boiled detective walking simulator (no combat).
Satellite Reign is only $3, that one’s a spiritual successor to the old Syndicate games (made by the original developer).

This takes place 50 years after Blade Runner 2049. I can’t imagine Harrison Ford would be in it… at least I hope not.

It’s comments like this that keep me posting! Thank you!

I totally agree. It’s more action/comedy than I expect from GitS but it’s also more accurate to the manga so I can’t really be mad about that.

Sorry, I wasn’t referring to cyberpunk anime. There’s a short-lived sub-genre of live action movies that are called Japanese Cyberpunk. It’s basically movies made by Sogo ishii and his friends. So Burst City, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, 964 Pinocchio, Electric Dragon 80.000 V. They’re all crazy movies. This video does a good job of explaining them.

Thank you! I definitely won’t be wasting my time with it then.

Netflix published information about the four new Night City names across social media and in collaboration with various content creators. Weak Kingsley is described as a veteran Edgerunner who “now lives in the shadow of his former glory.” D is a Snack Nation Netrunner looking for revenge as he “hunts the killer who wiped out his clan.”

Roman Carax is the youngest of the group and is described as a “cinephile in search of real stories in a city that abandoned cinema for braindances.” Finally, there’s Talia Yang, an individual with corpo and Maelstrom ties whose “heart belongs to chrome and violence.”

Ha, I’m actually the one who recommended it to them on their discord. I just didn’t want to post here until I heard their thoughts. I’m glad you listen to that podcast too!

This is an awesome list and I just want to add a couple more. The SNES and Genesis each had a Shadowrun game but they’re totally unrelated. I think the Genesis version is better. Same with Pirates of Dark Water (I loved this show). The SNES and Genesis versions are completely different and I prefer the Genesis game.

Other than that, I really like Elemental Master. It’s a vertical shoot 'em up but you play as a mage, always walking up. So it’s kinda like the NES game Gun.Smoke if that means anything to you.

This is exactly why I struggled with the show. Maybe it’s the Japanese way of storytelling or maybe it’s my own inability to follow the subtlety, but I didn’t like how the story was revealed to the viewer. In the very first episode they show the system is flawed (someone in shock or having a trauma response is ordered to be executed) but then the rest of the show just continues on anyway. So in the very first episode we’re shown that the crime coefficient can’t be trusted and yet we spend the rest of the show continuing to trust the crime coefficient.

I guess I didn’t get the sense that people were trying to fix a broken system; I got the sense that the main character had some initial doubts but didn’t do anything about them until the end of the season. In most episodes, the main cast are doing everything they can within that system and continuing to trust the system. It’s not like they were loose cannons solving crimes their own way, they were very much still following the system. Well, I guess the latent criminals were sometimes loose cannons but I though that was treated more as characterizations of them being “latent criminals” rather than a critique of the broken system.

Again, this might just be the Japanese way of going about it. If this were an American show, they’d probably start with a “true believer” who gradually learns to distrust more and more of the system as they get more of an inside view into how it works. Maybe the Japanese way is to immediately learn how things are broken but be forced to continue acting like nothing is wrong.

Anyway, I like your interpretation of the show and I agree it’s probably what the showrunners were going for. It’s just not what I got while watching the show. I felt like most episodes showed the system working as intended, not a broken system.

Now that you’ve got me thinking about it, I’d compare it to hard-boiled detective novels. In hard-boiled detective novels, the police force is also a broken system. They’re incompetent and can’t be trusted. As you said, the system is broke and will always be broke. So the hard-boiled detective works outside the bounds of the police force to get things done. I’d argue the hard-boiled detective isn’t trying to fix anything, but I wonder if that’s the difference between the American approach and the Japanese approach. One attempts to work within the system while the other will ignore the system to do it their own way.

Sorry for this long rambling comment but your comment got me thinking and I just kept running with it…

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I wouldn’t have called Contra or Bionic Commando cyberpunk (although they are kinda sci-fi) but I’ve never heard of those other games so I’ll definitely check them out, thanks!

And yeah, I’m setting a pretty low bar here. “Futuristic urban decay” is close enough to cyberpunk that I’d be at least interested in playing those games.

Sorry, I was referring more to coin-op stand-up arcade games, not arcade-inspired indie games. But yes, Huntdown is a fantastic game and I’m looking forward to the roguelike sequel Huntdown: Overtime!