Why do you like cyberpunk, /v/?
>>343455724
It fuels my nihilism and cynicism.
it's a great A E S T H E T I C
It's how I always imagined the future would be when I grew up.
Too bad, eh?
It's cool
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E61M4BBBglo
How can people even like cyberpunk?
There's been no relevant or fleshed out cyberpunk games or books in ages, the last half-decent cyberpunk movies we had were made in the 80's.
>>343455724
I don't, it's shit and a retarded faggot millennial meme just like lovecraftian.
All of the above answers, plus it's just comfy. Not like a comfy place to live, but a comfy universe and atmosphere to be immersed in. Something about that Japanese city at night with rain and lights everywhere trope is just really interesting to zone out and think about all of the other implications of a 'cyberpunk world', such as cyberization, transhumanism, AIs, governments and corporations, and general technology, which are where the actual interesting stuff comes in, apart from the aesthetic.
>>343456074
Move to Shanghai and live the dream.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el_wn6I5MQk
KIRA!
It's a romantic, melancholic, philosophical, grimy, neon, disturbing bundle of mentally stimulating joy that pushes all my buttons
>>343456867
MIKI!
>>343456310
it's retro yet it's themes are still just as relevant today, alot of rick and morty is based off of cyberpunk/ sci-fi horror from the 80s for example
>Sex robots
>i never asked for this
>Neon colors
>Grim
>It's a what if future
What is there not to like?
What are good cyberpunk games
>>343456867
>>343456960
So, Kira Miki is supposed to be Miku, right?
I want more 80's to early 90's cyberpunk with more punk and hacking/walking into cyberspace.
>>343456310
Cyberpunk 2077 senpai. It will show everyone how great cyberpunk really is, even to normies.
I was always fond of it, but nowadays it just makes me remember/miss my stay on Tokyo.
>>343457386
Deus Ex, Shadowrun for the SNES, Shin Megami Tensei 2.
>>343457442
No, that's obviously Hatsoonay Meekoo.
>>343457386
VA-11 Hall A
>>343455724
It's a self fulfilled prophecy and a romanticism of the environment I'm forced to inhabit.
>>343455724
Because she gets my dick hard.
Dam that visible belly button outline.
>>343457386
Visual Novels:
Snatcher
Policenauts
Va-11 Hall-a
RPG:
Deus Ex + Sequels
Transistor
FPS:
EYE Divine
>>343457442
sort of. In the news articles there is a "Hatsooney Meeku"
>>343457454
I fucking hate how they go wireless with the modern approach to cyberpunk.
>>343457386
Deus Ex, the first one, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Final Fantasy VII
>>343457624
>>343457767
Haha oh wow, that's actually pretty good.
>tfw want to play new Miku games but don't have any Sony consoles
Miku is love.
>>343457894
i originally bought a ps3 for project divano regrets
>>343457386
Snatcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rqEE4Cf_Y
>>343457386
>no one mentions Dragonfall
Shiggity Mcdiggity
>>343455724
Are there any cyberpunk games like in that pic? I feel like most cyberpunk games are just thinly veiled scifi, blue filters with nothing neon and muh government.
>>343456074
The fuck are you talking about?
You have a world wide-interconnected network where people share ideas and trivial things
You have animated bilboards
You have personal data devices that are jack of all trades
You have universal connectors
You have automation of military machines
We have advanced bio-augmetics for limbs and body parts
We have 3 dimensional printing
Real life IS cyberpunk. The only difference is we put a cleaner smaller look on it. We hid the pipes and shrunk the machines, but everything in cyberpunk is a reality now
>>343457386
Satellite Reign is my jam
>>343458413
Is good too
>>343458252
>have to download an emulator for 2 games
too bad it looks interesting
>>343458125
I mean, I really want to play the new games, but it's hard for me to justify spending so much money on a console that I will literally only use for Miku games. None of the other PS4 games entice me, and even if I do get one, I'm hesitant now since there's two more models on the way.
Modern consoles just feel like a PC-lite experience now, and I already have a computer I spend most of my waking moments using.
>>343458461
Where are the sex robots or my robot arm at then?
>>343458461
But do we have neon signs absolutely everywhere and perpetual rainy nights?
Didn't think so
>>343458605
Oculus Rift
Robot arms are a real thing today.
>>343458252
>posts sega cd screenshot
>links to the pc98 soundtrack
wew lad. Just finished this last night actually. Hell of a ride.
Best song coming through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mflsR8RkV9I
>>343458573
Took me like 3 minutes. Just download Fusion, the bios, and the rom. Romnation has all three
>>343456310
It's maybe the lack of cyberpunk games that make people like it so much. Like some sort of thirst.
Everybody loved steampunk before it became mainstream and we all got sick and tired of it.
>>343458605
>robot arm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZNFkMW9uFg
post cyberpunk-music that isn't 80s synthwave bullshit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU_A5p04VXc
>>343458573
>Can't work a emulator in the year of lord Trump.
>>343458461
I'd say we're close. The point of cyberpunk is that all of this advanced technology that we are just now creating and researching is old and boring and commonplace now. Your average low-income citizen has access augmented bodyparts and such.
And the Earth's ecosystem is so fucked that we use machines in order to make the environment habitable. Although that one is actually becoming a scary reality... We will fund space travel not out of curiosity and the thirst for more knowledge and resources, but out of necessity of our survival.
tfw no fun action packed dress em up arena style cyberpunk game
just imagine monster hunter but faster more augments and body mods to keep things interesting
>>343456652
I agree. I love the rainy night in a darkly lit city aesthetic. I often go for a walk around town at night if I'm bored or just want to think. Rain makes it even more calming
>>343455724
the tech
>>343458679
>VR meme = Sex robot
Yeah nah son, when they exist i'll consider this the cyberpunk time
>>343457386
Hard reset
>>343458815
This is exactly why its good cyberpunk stays small, once something gets too popular it becomes tired and worn out. Look at fads like zombies and steampunk. Both were more effective and novel when they weren't saturated with content, most of it being awful (Bioshock Infinite, most things made about zombies in the last 10 years, etc.)
Molly is cute. CUTE!
I like Neon and rainy nights desu
>>343458461
its close but not here yet, give it 20 more years
You will live long enough to see cyberpunk become a reality, /v/.
>>343459332
all we really need is neural interfacing and whammo we have the white polished exterior cyberpunk instead of the 80s grunge metal cyberpunk
>>343459136
At least post the non frog version.
>>343457386
Beneath a Steel Sky is free on GOG.
>>343457386
NEOTOKYO
>>343455724
It's chill
It's nightmarish
It's aesthetic
It's nightly
It's sad
It's digital
It's dystopian
It's dirty
It's melancholic
It's dark
It's believable
Dunno anon
>>343457624
>good premise
>great music
>dev is retarded and ruins everything with memes
>barely any meaningful gameplay
Shame.
>>343460069
>Visual Novel
>Gameplay
I do agree with the memes part, but eh the game is still pretty good
>>343457767
>not including the Technomancer
>>343460174
Yes, gameplay. Where's that promised bartender "action"?Visual novels suck ass.
>>343455724
It's like the wild west but with technology
I also love wild west
https://youtu.be/nMShhlrs0-k
I feel like I'm the only one who gives a shit.
>>343460406
I've heard nothing but bad things about this game. But then again I heard the same whenever EYE released, and I bought it on release and played the fuck out of itand then shilled it for a bit on /v/Have you played it, and how is it?
>>343460069
Really, people playing VA-11 Hall-A expecting gameplay are retarded.
It's a visual novel. A VN. You read things as 95% of the game. Like Layton or Wright.
>>343460580
did someone say cyber west?
>>343460494
The whole X Y -action thing is a reference to Metal Gear. It's Tactical Espionage Action, but it's not really an action game, it's more of a stealth game. Although it does have it's fair share of action.
>>343458461
We need to let capitalism and corporations to get really out of control before we dwelve into actual Cyberpunk territory. But we have the opposite force of enviromental concern and the concept of sustainable development to put capitalism in check right now. So we're still not there yet, we are a "light cyberpunk", or an "embryo cyberpunk".
>>343461283
China puts up a capitalist front to become a totalitarian state and it's a tech, filth and crime ridden nightmare.
the west is not quite there yet, but they're pulling in that direction.
>>343460772
I don't give a shit. Bartender gameplay is not something unimaginable. At all. Such things have been done before, and I expected that here.
What I got was a poor VN by a retard with ebin 4chan memes. Although I should have expected the latter after taking just a quick look at everything related, but I though he wouldn't be stupid enough to carry this shit over into the game. Boy, how wrong I was.
>>343460629
Im past the "first city" about 8-10 maybe more hours in. Its really good, if you are the kind of person who can ignore flaws like sensitive camera and walking.
I've been playing it like KOTOR meets Deus Ex. It has flaws like Kotor did, weak writing here and there, but there are some redeeming factors.
A lot of the bad reviews seem to be from how antiquated the RPG is compared to "open world" rpgs of today. It is open world like KOTOR, "worlds" or areas with corridors, no mounts and the like.
Story isn't great, but it's better than any modern Bioware game.
Unlike other RPGs you arnt some super force sent to change the world, rather an unlucky shit who literally was born as Mars falls into chaos over thousand year old secrets.
The combat is alright, again similar to KOTOR mixed with batman with no QTEs. The stances are sweet, 3 ways to fight and switch between with eletric magic boogaloo to supplement.
I'd say it's worth it if you'd like to play a super dystopian, Mars themed cyberpunk adventure.
Also some of the companions are actually interesting like the brillant musclebound mutant, the mentally inept doctor, and the singer turned spy.
Otherwise from what else I can tell the choices make a difference. If you dont side, or piss off, a faction enough it changes how the beginning goes as far as I can tell. I ended up not being a suck up and now I am hot shit, wondering if I played as a suck up if the game would be different.
Anyways tldr; I'd give it a 7/10.
>>343459591
love that album
>>343461283
>>343461721
Oh also big thing, water corporations rule all the cities in the game, and all the people including you so that's a pretty big cyberpunk thing. If that gets you going, you can either work for them, for yourself, or with the Opposition (rebels) so far as I can tel.
>>343461817
New one out on the 26th. Get excited for more chill comfy cyberpunk tunes.
>>343461703
I agree with you, if any country is closer to cyberpunk dystopia that would be China. Corporativism and Authoritarism merging, creating a state with no care about the enviroment or it's population.
>>343458461
Cyberpunk tech is cool n all but it's nothing without the aesthetic and vibe. That's what people like the most about cyberpunk usually. People love steampunk because victorian chic plus DIY gear-wear. People like gothic settings because CATHEDRALS, leather and vampires.
Aesthetics of a setting are its lifeblood. I don't give a fuck if we have neon signs and universal collectors. I want to see street gangs with bright mohawks and american football vests lined with spikes.
It is distant. Unkown to this current lifetime. When I look at a cyberpunk-esque drawing I feel an attraction. Like I've some sort of recollection of a previous experience. I look at the neon clad scenery and I see a cold, but familiar scene.
...
I'm pretty sure this sounds autisict as fuck.
>>343455724
Because it's literally the world of neets.
>>343460730
>wild guns is getting a remake
>won't be released on Steam
>>343459136
>>343459591
At least post the soundtrack that goes with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9L4q-0Pi4E
We need another game like Dreamweb again
>>343456271
That's pretty cool of them to do that for him, but it was disappointing to not see it really work. It seems they were more focused on aesthetic than actual functionality.
>>343460624
Fukken nice. Marking my calendar.
>>343460624
jesus christ howambient
>>343463353
>being able to pick up every single item
TECHNOLOGY
>>343464428
>Didn't pick up one obscure item in the first apartment
>Can't progress
>Can pick up a bajillion different items, 99% of which serve no use at all
Wonderful and difficult but sometimes it's CAN'T WAKE UP-tier when you realize you need to restart the game and redo an hour's worth of shit.
Because it gives me good ideas for dank biotech grants B)
So i'm sitting here listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VrsE3lGjnk , with a typewriter in front of me and thinking up cyberpunk ideas for short films I'll write and film this year. It's 20 minutes to 4am, the lights dimmed from a power surge and what I currently got is:
- Bedroom at night. Rain on the window pane, woman asleep in bed, man at the computer talking with an AI on the computer. AI tells him they are sorry for what happened. We get a sense of delusion from the man, as if he's hallucinating or having awful dreams that are shaking him.
I'd like to make it melancholy, perhaps without words and the important shit is either acted out or typed in, with a view of the screen. Perhaps just shots of the room and interactions with things around it.
>>343455724
I don't like most of it. The music is always those fucking Protomen fucks and I'm glad /v/ has finally calmed down about sucking their dicks, and the people who like anything -punk are just such assholes.
anyway, night driving is cool and it's even better in a bright futuristic city with neon lights and advertisements
>>343466009
Stick the AI in a dermal implant that projects into the eye and brain. Don't call it an AI. Give it an interesting name. Or shit give it a persons name. Make ppl think he's speaking to the woman only to find he's talking to the AI in his head.
I finally saw Blade Runner. You excited for the sequel? October something 2017
>no vangelis
seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RScZrvTebeA
>>343462375
You're not alone. I feel very relaxed when I look at cyberpunk images/art. It's depressive tone makes me feel at home in addition to the dreary color palette.
A cyberpunk city is cramped, but in a way that makes you feel comfortable. And huge, which makes you also feel small, but in a way you're fine with. You want to keep being a small part of this cold, yet alive body, with neon lights as its veins.
Sunlight doesn't distract you anymore, rain brings you into the state of melancholy.
Technological advancement lets you isolate yourself more than ever and offers many things you may not even think of at first.
Most people choose isolation but there's plenty of those who start expressing themselves more, in various exotic ways.
Nobody knows how much power the government actually has anymore. But that's probably not even your business.
Many not-so-legal things just can't be kept under full control anymore. You may observe various ev-
Ah, fuck it, I'm all out of cheese. Have this instead.
https://youtu.be/yDCMn5CmlTY
>>343458413
I'm gonna climb that Eiger!
>>343466457
Hearing Denis Villeneuve is going to direct made me kinda excited
>>343460624
Wait what the fuck? I literally just bought their other album a few seconds ago because of the anon that posted it earlier in this thread and now I see this.
It's just meant to be for me I guess.
>>343466292
I'm all for the human AI idea, but unsure about the dermal implant. Short films need to be simple to attract. It's an incredibly common mistake to try and cram as much as possible into a short, treating it as a feature.
I'd like to add more psychological, dementia or schizophrenia touches to it. Honestly, kinda like Dreamweb itself. In that the guy has recurring dreams of saving the world from an apocalypse and he believes in it so hard, you don't know if the game shit is real or if he's just delusional and going on a rampage.
>>343466457
>Blade Runner
>sequel
>2017
I can't be excited for this. It's just wrong.
>>343466656
2814 is popular as shit, and they announced that just yesterday. Nothing should surprise you here.
>>343458864
80s is the only good part of the music
>>343458461
Real life is too good to be cyberpunk.
Cyberpunk comes with an added dash of grime and dust that the modern world lacks. It needs weekly mechanized police riots and a growing population of thugs wearing mechanical implants for the sake of style. It needs martial law being implemented on a yearly basis due to the staggering number of internal terrorist threats and cults popping up like pimples on a thirteen year old with a pizza habit. Most importantly, it lacks the handsome and strangely ragged protag who stands diametrically opposed to this era of lawful lawlessness and can solve every problem with a mechanized fist and a simple cynical mindset oriented towards fixing this mess one laser shootout at a time.
>>343466784
>2814 is popular as shit, and they announced that just yesterday. Nothing should surprise you here.
Nah just cool to me. I love it when I discover a new artist only to find out they have a whole new album coming out soon.
Somebody posted this picture on /vr/ and it made me feel like I wanted to live and be alive. Is this cyber punk?
Chummers what sort of decks you running?
>>343455724
Because it's street level view of the future and it's more real and grungy than most sci fi
Though that depends on the cyberpunk, some of it is just as clean and pretty and LE BADASS ARMBLADES KILLS EVERYONE as normal sf
>>343457775
I hope mankind divided is good.
Remove Jians
>>343467017
Yeah, must be great. They have two albums so far. If you're done with both, you may want to check out http://telepathtelepath.bandcamp.com/ and http://hkedream.bandcamp.com/
2814 is a collab project between those two.
Then there's https://dreamcatalogue.bandcamp.com/music The styles there vary a lot but there's still similar stuff you may like.
I've got a thing for retro visions of the future. What they thought things would be and look like. The best old cartoons, I forget if they were Merrie Melodies or what, were the "house of the future" and "car designs" like being able to retract the seat to pull your sweetie closer.
It's just so cute to think that somebody thought a city would look like this by 2020
>>343458670
If you live in Hong Kong or the shitty parts of the pacific northwest
>>343467568
Thanks man I will give them a try also. Made an account on that bandcamp website, never heard of it until I bought the 2814 album; it seems pretty coolio.
>>343458670
there's neon everywhere in the CBD at my city. dunno what happened to yours. if murrican, try moving to vegas.
the lack of perpetual rain is because, to everyone's surprise, some people actual care about the environment enough that they've made some significant pushes towards alternate energy
except in China. they still get yellow smog and acid rain.
>>343467573
I know that feeling. Today we view the future as it was designed by Apple. Fuck this hipster future.
Alien, Neotokoyo, Blade Runner. Those were goat man, just heavy and brutal in a way that's strangely inviting.
>>343458913
isn't that God Eater?
>>343467974
It's going back to that now though. I mean look at Elysium and the new Star Wars, they were grungy as fuck
>>343467069
>Snatcher
Yup. Plot is Kojima's basic aping of Blade Runner.
>>343467974
you realize what what you want is straight up the counter culture to what we have, right?
>>343468183
Green Room was so fucking good
>>343468420
cuck
Postan some music to hack to.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_lcMJkDEo
>>343468356
Except i don't like it because it's counter culture. I like it since it was thing, it just became the opposite of what we have incidentally.
>>343468686
no I mean it's out there, and it's going to become more prominent and codified as the mainstream becomes more apple-fied
>>343468336
snatcher > blade runner
>>343468530
Why would a cuck like Green Room?
>>343455724
I like all the futuristic internet and cyborg shit. Shadowrun is fucking.
>>343468916
I don't know man. I'm 2 hours in to Snatcher and it's endless talking. I have to keep going through menus to get back to ask about the same thing again because then there's new dialogue.
Blade Runner was over and told a whole story in 2 hours
>>343468819
Well, i'm game for it. Those aesthetics really deserves the love.
>>343455724
Hacking is cool and being able to hack more stuff is more cool.
>>343468916
Eh, plebs gon' pleb.
>>343456310
Pic related was cyberpunk and it was on the fucking New York times bestseller list
DX:HR did really good too
>>343455724
good game
>>343455724
Futuristic enough to have robowaifus and cool technology, not too futuristic where we still have shitty urban cities with neon lights and non-flying cars.
>>343466581
The Eiger climbs you.She is not gentle.
>>343456310
>no relevant or fleshed out cyberpunk games
Funny because the last two games i played were Sattelite Reign and Shadowrun. So i disagree.
![2529048-screen+shot+2013-08-13+at+5.44.14+pm[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/gxsYT6m.jpg "2529048-screen+shot+2013-08-13+at+5.44.14+pm[1].png")
reminder to play Saints Row IV
>>343455724
>cyberpunk images always have random moon rune signs
by chance that we someday live in a cyberpunk society, which of the big three moon languages will everyone be speaking? japanese, chinese or korean?
>>343457479
>It will show everyone how great cyberpunk really is, even to normies.
Just like how TW3 showed them how great The Witcher is by turning into Skyrim 2.0? I'd rather not.
>>343467092
custom U/B Jace
>>343469534
Already cleared everything, anon.
>>343469570
Chinese, probably.
>>343469570
Japan was growing into an economical powerhouse back then, companies expanding and all, so it stick the idea the future would be full of moonrunes. Nowadays, we think about China though when looking at those runes.
Cyberpunk is already happening, it just hasn't kicked off completely yet. If you live in a metropolis like NY, you can see it happening already. Poor are cramped. Public transportation everywhere to connect the city. Lots of small shops and bigger shops. Bureaucracy of agencies administering it.
Problem with NYC, is that's entirely grid base with next to no elevation to it. Everythings on city level, along the edges of a box. Maybe you go down some stairs for stuff underground, but it's still directly adjacent tot he sidewalk. Nothing like OP with multiple levels and dimension which give the city depth. One street, is mostly like every other street.
Watch Chungking Express. Just watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7khaFUIiuU
>>343455724
At this point it's just retro futurism.
>>343456310
See above.
>>343458461
Old guy here. You're full of shit. NOTHING from cyberpunk came true. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.
>>343469570
Seoul is a pretty comfy metro area. It has half the countries population and is only growing since so much of the country's economy is based off it with a poor countryside. It's so urbanized, south korea has one of the worlds lowest birthrates, surpassing even fucking hong kong.
I'd probably say though it'd be a mix of korea and china. I imagine the koreas will unify, and then a rail will connect the littoral cities of china to the former north korean capital, and finally to seoul. Probably a free movement of workers etc to redevelope north korea.
>>343457735
>not STR
Come at me, bro.
>>343469314
I want Eiger to brutally contort my meatrod while Mercy watches.
>>343469975
Sheeeeeeeeeeit.
I can't stress this one enough. It's not strictly cyberpunk at all, but god damn the cinematography just makes it have a unique vibe.
I get what you're trying to do, I just can't explain it well.
JAMMIT. Why is everyone here dressed like a Fascist?
>>343467983
idk is it?
>>343467983
God Eater doesn't have body mods or augments, but it is a dressup monster killing game.
Also not cyberpunk
>>343469035
blade runner has no soul.
Harrison ford wasn't cast right.
no fun robot sidekick.
action sequences sucked.
monologue in the rain was dumb and contrived.
almost no actual cyberhacking, etc. even happened in BR. if you want decent cyberpunk watch GiTS anime.
>endless talking
and? what's the big fucking hurry? you clearly don't value your time since you're here.
>>343469975
shit movie. lost in translation is better.
>>343471251
>>no fun robot sidekick
And this is a negative?
>>343471251
>this list
I don't think Blade Runner is the problem here, it's your complete lack of intelligence.
>>343459597
>Ghost in the Shell
>OH BOY I CAN'T WAI-
>Arise
Hm. Well I guess it's better than nothing.
>>343471251
>shitting on Blade Runner while recommending anime
You don't deserve the right to use the internet.
>>343470954
is destiny closer??
>>343471669
>shitting on GitS
Both, out.
>>343470747
idk that's why I asked. I just remember seeing my friend play as a guy in a suit with a big robot sword killing monsters in the city
>>343458913
Freedom Wars is as close as it gets.
>>343472001
>Freedom Wars
Jesus christ, why couldn't it have been better
>>343471868
>
Ghost in The Shell is pretty good but it doesn't deserve to be invoked in the context of that post.
>>343459597
This list is complete garbage and has always been. I mean, it starts with a non-cyberpunk game, why is it still a thing?
