Isn’t that… like… almost the entirety of the purpose of the genre?
Ya I always figured cyberpunk got big in the 80’s because it was a commentary of the hyper capitalist neoliberal policies of the era, which have only gotten stronger since then.
I’ve never double-checked or researched this but I always thought it made sense.
Sorta. The whole point is more capitalism gone to the extreme, homelessness and poverty are just a consequence of that.
They should focus on making a functioning playable game within 3 years of launching it before they focus on preaching at its players
Odd, it was functioning just fine and entirely playable for me at launch. I put over 100 hours into my first play through without issue
I played at launch too. It wasn’t as bad as people were making it out to be, but I ran into a number of major bugs.
Agreed. It was a buggy mess, but nothing made it unplayable (unless you were playing on xbox1/ps4). Additionally, the game is in a much better state now, CDPR put a lot of effort into polishing it up rather than leaving it a buggy mess
TLDR:
The dystopian hellscape set in the future isn’t as dystopian as current reality…
Kind of a given for the entire genre, isn’t it?
You’d be surprised how many people’s heads that goes over
so in 20 years when its released, we’ll have a lukewarm statement on homelessness being “not nice” in a videogame marketed by sexualized trans bodies. awesome, thanks bros
