Yes it's Gibson but his take and Pondsmith/CD take were never going to be the same. An the only thing that matters is that it captures CD/Pondsmith vision not Gibsons. Especially if he wants to boil it down to it being a GTA reskin with Punk slapped onto it. After just seeing the trailer. You know? that's my angle.
It might be the only thing they know. Which is not even the actual visual and landscape variety of Blade Runner, just their idea of it they've been cultivating through derivative media for years and years. They want night, neon signs, rain, dude in trench coat. But they also want it to be "original".
You can also go hang out in a grungy bar to play pool, go to a premier with fashionable Sorayama robots, and put on eye makeup with the lower half of your face detached.Yeah. The way the trailer was cut, the feeling conveyed by it, the events depicted were mostly that of action - not contemplation, introspection, conversation, and so on. I don't necessarily mean bullet-strewn violence, but I do mean action. Action can also consist of people's heads blowing up from some cyberspace hack or fighting a robot dummy in a boxing ring, not just shooting guns. The moments that weren't action packed seemed to exist only to add context to the action and serve as worldbuilding, and not the other way around. Like, I look at these gifs and it tells me what I can probably do in this game: shoot guns, hack into cyberspace and shortcircuit people from across the room, etc.
I'm not saying this looks bad! It looks like it could be really fun! I just hope we see more on what sort of quests we'll have and the actual pace of the game, since we can't really gleam much about that from the trailer alone.
Man, this has been answered a thousand times this thread. The game has a character creation and class. You'll build your own character like a pen and paper rpg.
I wasn't personally excited by that original trailer either. I'm approaching this as a fan of cyberpunk literature and film - those two trailers don't really focus on what I liked about the genre, but I know they have elements of cyberpunk that some other people love. There's a lot of different things to like about cyberpunk, so there's a lot a game can take from it (and a lot to discard).
The hacker cyborg lady in the skimpy clothes and the scythe arms getting shot in slow motion should have been a tip off for them.
Because the world and characters look amazing, bc the developers have proven themselves and bc we have waited 5 years for this.
Yeah I LOVE rain with neon lights at night and a guy in a trench coat, but I'll always confuse me when people think that is what makes something cyberpunk. People like that are just ignoring all of the themes of the genre.
Especially those people. Bunch of damn 12 year olds that have played GTA5 and nothing else, from the sound of it.
Also add "Gameplay at E3 in some form" to that list of stuff people apparently manage to overread.
William Gibson's a 70 year old man who's one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk, you can't dismiss his GTA hot take by calling him a 12 year old.
Your right, dammit. Those things can't be in a cyberpunk setting, time to stop making 2077 CD and make it more downtrodden ala Blade Runner.
Why can't Gibson express his opinion of a game in public? He's a person who plays games and he commented on one that's clearly in his wheelhouse. You don't have to agree with him, but there's nothing unprofessional about not being impressed by a trailer.
I am sure there will be a wide range of tones, just like in TW3. Sometimes it feels like Game of Thrones, sometimes your horse talks to you, you are transported to a fairy-book land, and it feels like Shrek.
Because people are posting it like it's gods word.
Personal preference and all that, but I really hope nothing like that ever happens in any game, ever.
