The World of Cyberpunk 2077 Explained

[@brendancaulfield970]

Just on the thought inspired by the title alone: Star Trek is a dystopian future too, for us. Within the lifespan of any fans alive today, we can expect the fallout of the Eugenics Wars, the economic disparity of the Sanctuary Districts next year, and then World War III, the post-atomic horror, and relatively squalid lives for the survivors. The first ray of hope is First Contact with the Vulcans in 40 years' time. I will be 78 if I survive (very unlikely). And then there are decades of restructuring and redefining society - which is certain to be a bumpy process.

[@avenuePad]

Exactly. Ultimately Star Trek is a hopeful future, but the path leading to that future is bleak.

[@Brukner841]

the real singularity we're about to go through will be almost instant, all bets are off after, the end of history.

[@MrRurounismc]

I wasn't expecting this from OrangeRiver, but I appreciate it!

[@OllamhDrab]

(Though I'll point out that back when the original Cyberpunk game came out , among other works in the genre, Central America actually looked like it'd be the next big Cold War flashpoint region. Between all the proxy stuff and revolutions and the whole Panama invasion thing, plus the drug war ramping up, it seemed plausible enough. )

[@scirrhia_kruden]

Cyberpunk 2077 has become my favorite post-apocalypse setting, because it shows the kind of apocalypse we're far more likely to suffer if we suffer one.

[@MysteriousSignal]

God I love Cyberpunk 2077 so much. I first played it on launch day, on a standard PS4. While the game ran like shit, there were constant bugs and crashes, I saw that there were good bones to the game. Once Phantom Liberty came out, I got it on PC and gave the game another shot. What an incredible game, holy shit. I mean, the level of detail is absolutely unreal compared to supposed "competitors" like Starfield. They have entire radio stations of music composed just for this game, not to mention Samurai actually having an entire, albeit small, album. But I digress. I could talk about everything I love in CP2077 all day, but there's a million other people to do that. What an incredible turnaround this series has had, and it is hopefully encouraging for what's next, if they learn from their initial mistakes.

[@ksiaa814]

Good that you can find something good about it but there's a lot of stuff that still unsolved on fixed for example instead of you swimming in water you walk on water like you're Jesus. The physics is still buggy prone to collision and mesh issues were clipping causes random acceleration of either you or other objects. The mechanics got a lot better the system overall is good but mostly talking about the physics. Like I enjoy how the integrated the perk tree.

[@jessehoffman2726]

Does this game do much better for desktop/Steam instead of console does anybody know? I didnt want to deal with the bugs and crashes with this as I had it gifted to me brand new but returned it just a year back before even opening it. I had enough of dealing with lost progress/crashes with FO4 via PS4. Pisses me off now just thinking about it😡@@ksiaa814

[@gr8tbigtreehugger]

Great video, many thanks!

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@colinleat8309]

Hey Taylor, very cool that you touched on Cyberpunk. I used to play the TT RPG in the early 90's. William Gibsons ,( my fellow Canuck 😉) novels are amazing! Especially Johnny Pneumonic and Mona Lisa Overdrive. I'd love to see you cover more. It's a rich and almost deeply self filling story. Cheers brother 🍻. 🖖😁🤘🇨🇦🕊️

[@Marcus51090]

I wouldn’t mind having a few enhancements. I’m not walking about like Borg drone, but I think maybe enhanced lungs and retinal implants

[@octavianulmeanu5570]

great video!

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@DarthMatusHolocron]

Good to see someone else jumping into the Cyberpunk lore game! There really are not enough of us. Welcome, choom!

[@nickohart3408]

Personally, I would love to get a couple limbs replaced mainly my arms, ( because they are currently permanently damaged ) my eyes, and possibly my lungs.

[@G0rgar]

I was very confused at first, I thought you were doing a collab with Street Fighter 6 pro Kizzie Kay. This collab ending up making a whole lot more sense.

[@KinzieK]

Lol imagine how I felt when I stuck to this name before starting to watch Kizzie years later. 😂

[@randyping6036]

"Remember when we told you 'No Future'? Well, here it is." -Blank Reg

[@RyuuKageDesu]

Depending on the line you draw, we have had augments for a long, long time. Some even think our use of technology (even basic tools) is part of our evolutionary process.

[@palmercolson7037]

The belief that Japan was going to take over was a real paranoid dream of the 1980s and 1990s. I remember the editors of a popular computer magazine taking time and space out of its regular pages to go over the grand conspiracy organized by Japan's MITI (Ministry of International Trade and Industry), a conspiracy taking over the everything in the U.S. Then suddenly Japan had its stock market crash and resulting lost decade and declining birthrate and rising competitors in China, South Korea, and Taiwan. That conspiracy belief dissolved. As others have said, the period also featured conflicts in El Salvador and Nicaragua. A future U.S. war in Central America was a logical conclusion.

[@edbop]

As an old millennial who bought the cyberpunk 2020 rule back at like age 13, I've been watching in horror as we seemingly gleefully leap into a consumer technology driven hell world for the profit of the corporations. They did a great job on the game, even Idris Elba isn't as irritating as he usually is.

[@Gfish17]

Cyberware doesn't make you any less of a person. You are not a shell. You have thoughts and feelings just like anything non-cyberware augmented person.

[@scirrhia_kruden]

But it CAN make you FEEL as though you are, and can worsen dissociative symptoms as you feel more detached from baseline humans and from your baseline self.

[@Gfish17]

@@scirrhia_kruden I want to detach from my baseline self and Baseline humanity. However we feel it doesn't change reality. You are still a human being regardless of cyberware. The flesh is weak.

[@dmonee6196]

“Can” is doing a LOT of heavy lifting, here.

[@jezlawrence720]

Cyberpsychosis is entirely reasonable - it's not always violent, it can be depression, self loathing, hopelessness... All driven by the meat you gave up, and what you traded it for not being worth it in the end. The itching where the body interfaces, the lifelong immunosuppressants dependency, the fact you look down and your hand is metal and you know deep down it didn't have to go that way but you needed that edge... Couple that with the very very real virtual world, the living engrams, braindances & virtues, ai... Everyone has that nagging feeling that maybe you ARE just a shell. Oh boy yeah, I can believe it.😂

[@dreamingflurry2729]

Dystopian it may be, but in that world regular people live for ages and look young! I mean in the game (Cyberpunk 2077) we get to meet Rogue who is 80-100 years old and still looks like she's 30 or so! So yeah, I'd love to live in that universe and get some "chrome" installed :)

[@justinb8394]

AMAZING CONTENT

[@OrangeRiver]

Thank you!

[@DJspidey100]

Preem work, choomba.

[@SnarkNSass]

Uh! I wanna do a Collab with Tyler too! Hmm 🤔 let's see... How to work Muppets and Star Trek together? I'm on it Tyler 😉👍🏻✌🏻🖖🏻🫶🏻

[@mason0450]

A lot of the history is simular to that from Ghost in the Shell, at least the tv show.

[@bubbadumps3747]

MOOORREEEE

[@BlueEclipse2305]

This sounds very similar to the world of Dreamfall Chapters

[@sugartbube]

great looking game

[@AbigatorM]

3:00 *looks at anime culture* you sure?

[@theenchiladakid1866]

CDPR really missed a trick not adding a subscription fee for your AI powered heart. Also The USA did "try" to invade south america many times.

[@jezlawrence720]

Lol a dystopia we're "racing towards". Oh my sweet summer child.

[@pathevermore3683]

to be fair, we are not there yet. i cannot get a hold of cyber eyes yet.

[@jezlawrence720]

@@pathevermore3683 you don't need cyberware for it to already be a disassociative dystopia. And you most certainly can get the early versions of neural ware, limb replacement, exosuit augmentation, hearing augmentation, tracking chips... It's just that most of it isn't elective surgery or true neural interfacing yet.

[@capnsteele3365]

@@pathevermore3683 we wont ever reach there. it will besomething different. not cyberpunk

[@jamieoconnor1916]

Hi 👋 Tyler thanks for another fantastic informative piece respect I love this game CYBERPUNK is a masterpiece ❤️ 😊 as someone who has physical disability I find it fascinating the great work much respect Tyler 😊

[@uncledubpowermetal]

Before I even get I to the video, I'm gonna be THAT guy lol Cyberpunk (the game) is heavily based on William Gibsons Neuromancer. Now that I've stated the obvious 😂

[@beepboop204]

i had no idea how many goofs decided to virtue signal about "zomg GTA is groossssssssssssss id never play a game where you kill cops! UNLIKE CYBERPUNK" id love to ask Andrew Tate "but wut if they are womenz cops????" and Elon Musk "but wut if the cops point out the fact that you have monetized racist accounts so corporate ads appear next to abhorrent content"????

[@nerag7459]

Yet again these guys are the oiginal snowflakes. Its just a game? Why get so upset about a game?

[@Blynat]

D'vana Panama Tendi Palmer

[@beaver6d9]

I was very curious about this game... Until it came out. I know it's been patched up and tweaked into a better experience, but I have a hard time giving them money at all at this point. It just feels like a delayed reward for doing the bad thing in the first place. Gaming has become ridiculously anti-consumer over the years and shutting my wallet is all I can do to have an influence against bad practices. If I ever play this, I'll make sure to buy a used copy!

[@OrangeRiver]

Lmao, most of the bugs have been fixed for years. It runs fine these days

[@SolarWraith]

Our future is going to be far worse than anything depicted in Cyberpunk. We will own nothing, and we will be "happy."

[@Philusteen]

Oh stop, silly Q child, lol

[@SolarWraith]

@@Philusteen Q? Try the World Economic Forum. smh

[@Philusteen]

@@SolarWraith that is not a goal of the WEF, you moron - it's a social media snippet from a specific paper. Think about expensive things that people pay into and share (mostly rich people right now), like planes or even timeshares, and imagine expanding that. That's all. If you're living your life by social media snippets then you're an idiotic part of the problem.

[@OrangeRiver]

@SolarWraith is kind of right though. If you pay even the least bit of attention to what's going on right now, home ownership is a pipe dream for most people.

[@Philusteen]

@@OrangeRiver that feels like a conflation of today's problem: skyrocketing home prices - with the point of the paper, which was more about expanding market collaboration between regular consumers. If you look closely at today's housing issues in the US, it's true that corporate interests are responsible for buying a large share of housing, but it's not a majority - a huge part of it cones from 'mon and pop shops," aka I dividual upper-mid to upper-class individual investors or small companies looking to get into the rental business. None of which is the point of that WEF paper which - again - is not a driving force for the group. It's really being taken seriously out of context. Letting the wealth gap widen is the actual opposite point.

[@TonyP9279]

So which part of this is supposed to be fiction, I couldn't tell?