Let me get this straight.. CDPR is making an expansion for a 10 year old game, a sequel to that game, a sequel to cyberpunk, and a new open world rpg?? Holy shit
@excobarfed @jxmusic31@essdeekid2 Key distinction. ISRAELIS!! Not Jews. Most Jewish people I know personally don’t believe Israel has a right to exist.
Imagine it's 1984 chooms, and Ian McCulloch writes lyrics for "The Killing Moon" song, and the iconic line "fate up against your will, he will wait until you give yourself to him". Forty years later, that song by rock band Echo & the Bunnymen inspired us to become a title of a quest in Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. And if you analyze the chords, it's Bowie's "Space Oddity", in reverse. The story of a man who goes up and does not return and Songbird's whole plan is to leave Earth for a clinic on the Moon.
And that iconic line, it almost captures the entire quest. Fate against will. V chooses to help Songbird, but the cure was always just for one person. The train, the spaceport, the helicopter, the BlackWall: all of it is the long walk between the moment V believes they have agency and the moment they discover they were keeping a promise the universe had already broken. Braided intense action and cinematic spectacle, taking the player on the emotional journey to understand, fate against the will.
The BlackWall sequence is where the metaphor stops being just a metaphor. Songbird, dying, opens the wall that has held back the rogue AIs of the old net for decades. She and V pull a piece of that abyss into the world. This composition was important for us: a mortal carrying a goddess who is briefly channeling something older than either of them, and the world dissolves. V holds Songbird and unleashes the very thing that is killing her, in violent, spasmic sequence. They are, in that instant, almost like the song. The Killing Moon.
Designed by Błażej Augustynek, currently Quest Director of The Witcher 4.
The plots of Baldur's Gate 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 both focus on objects in the protagonist's brain that are overwriting their personalities, but Cyberpunk is more fun about it because sometimes the object takes over and gets into a drunk driving accident with a stripper.
@wlthdrawls It’s because they cut funding for vfx and don’t give them enough time, the artists are better than ever and have the most advanced technology
The live-action ‘ELDEN RING’ movie has begun pre-production, with sets starting to be built.
Directed by Alex Garland & produced by A24.
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