[dwc]

"The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey, that's just me." --William Gibson[1]

It's mentioned (and little more) in the article at the end, but it still seems odd to invoke Gibson's name and not talk about this more.

1. https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1005958197654351872

[igravious]

Insightful :) Sold!

(I realise Gibson's remark is meant to be dismissive.)

I'm not into gaming any more but I grew up on Gibson novels and the last game I played through and through was GTA Vice City. Ergo, I'd love this.

Oh, the tune from the trailer is Spoiler by Hyper, it's rather nice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G70S5fumHso It reminds me of Pursuit by Gesaffelstein for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRSijEW_cDM

[dismal2]

Is this really a criticisms though? I would buy that in a heartbeat, heh

[stevenwoo]

Deus Ex was there in 2000, no big, open spaces and vehicles like modern open world games but political intrigue over and beyond Neuromancer and the hacking and body modification were integral parts of gameplay, System Shock 2 had those hacking/body mod gameplay features as well in 1999 but in space, so there are some great ones out there if you don't mind older games and if they run on a system you have.

[mandelbulb]

It is an evaluation. He is not impressed so he doesn't look further into it.

Unfortunately, the over-hyped cyberpunk community is on a bandwagoning trip of dismissing all criticism as gating or ignorance, even elevating the remarks of a handful people on the internet as the main criticism against the game, e.g., cyberpunk on a day is not cyberpunk.

Personally, I find the direction the developers are taking refreshing, but that doesn't mean they haven't missed opportunities or made no mistakes.

The main argument of those happy with the trailer's cyberpunk style is that the later is not a mix of cyber with outrun or vaporwave, but as the term states cyber and punk. Hence it is not limited to the dusky, rainy scenes of Blade Runner.

They forget, however, that ironically cyberpunk is also more than the sum of its parts. Even if you wish to progress this very visually demanding genre into a new direction, we still have to able to experience the feeling of low life, high tech that is so essential to cyberpunk.

So to claim that you can't do cyberpunk on a day does indeed make no sense. But to imply it is of no concern how you present your day scenes and the color pallette doesn't matter, that is even worse.

[mjfl]

It's not a strong one. You could say that about any two games in the same genre - "Starcraft is just a re-skin of Warcraft". I would still buy Starcraft.

[DragonBourne]

He's not half wrong - too little cyberspace internals in the trailer. Makes me wonder how this will be resolved, given that the game is based on Cyberpunk 2020, a tabletop rpg game written well before the mobile and blockchain revolutions.

[frockington]

Before blockchain revolutions? I don't see how the blockchain would impact 2020/2077 in any way