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Obviously the release of Cyberpunk 2077 was a huge disaster, but there’s another problem with the game that’s becoming a little too much like real life:
Self-righteousness.
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Written by Pavel Rusakov & Sean W. Malone
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Cyberpunk 2077 is about an Anti-Hero in a Dystopian Cyberpunk world in the year 2077, and it was the reason I was never picked it oñup nor showed Interest. Iam sick of Dystopian Anti-Heroes in video games.
"How much more of this job can I take?
My boss never gives me a single break!
Haven’t had a raise in seven years
I wish I were in bed but instead I’m stuck here!
I got passed over for that big promotion
So now I’m counting up my ammunition!
Shoot all your problems away
Shoot all your problems away
Grab your gun now you’re having fun
Shoot all your problems away!
Living with you can be a chore
You leave wet towels on the bathroom floor
You never put your dirty dishes in the sink
You chew so loud I can’t hear myself think
Shoot all your problems away
Shoot all your problems away
Grab your gun now you’re having fun
Just shoot all your problems away
Slept in late? Shoot your problems away
Can’t lose weight? Shoot your problems away
Email spam? Shoot your problems away
If your gun gets jammed, shoot your problems away
"
There's degrees of gray in Johnny's character and it really asks the question is it better to not fight at all knowing there's going to be casualties or should you fight the war against the megacorps despite the sacrifices that will be necessary? It's a though question honestly but either choice is a bad one and it perfectly sums up Cyberpunk. A dark future where you try to make the best of a bad situation.
Personally, would love to see a dedicated video talking about some of the things that happened in the game. Though that could just be me
In my play through I made Johnny into a nice guy and fixed his past relationships
I love how seamlessly FEE can take stuff from media, spin it to fit the real world, and have it all make sense, you guys are a shining beacon of accessible libertarian content on Youtube.
he is a mess for sure. he wants to make the world better, but… well he is a blunt instrament. incredibly charismatic, able to rile up people to do his bidding. but he doesn't have much capability for long term planning. being a huge addict doesn't help with that, for sure.
You know what fictional society I thought of? Naturepunk. Societies of vertical forests 🌳, powered by solar panels, air panels, and other things that guarantees respect towards nature (environment, plants, and animals).
To paraphrase Bill Hicks: "Stop, take a look at it; what do you see? Piece of s***! And that's all it is, there's nothing more! You're right, not those f***ers who try to convince you there's something more to this, and say it with me now, piece of s***! Just say "Piece of s***", and walk away!"
For the bit I'm referring to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a7j1kNb4KY
In fairness my understanding when I played the game is that this was implicated in the game's story telling at multiple points, where you realize that Johnny is a character that has a lot of flaws, including his proclivity to violence. Given that we're talking about a video game that is intended to be in part directed by the decisions of the player and not a movie which is telling you a specific story to an audience without their direct input on it, I think any indication the game itself is presenting Johnny as a "mixed bag" rather than justified or not justified is acceptable. The goal would be for the player themselves to decide if Johnny's actions were justified or not, obviously Johnny himself thinks they were which is believable.
That all being said when I played Cyberpunk a lot of the anti-cooperate stuff I just rolled my eyes at, but that's the cyberpunk theme in a nutshell, I knew it was going to be there. I personally was always disgusted by Johnny's character throughout the story and perpetually came off as a person who was so damaged and morally distorted there was very little change he would get back from it. But frankly, given that I'm not convinced by the whole "the AI copy of you is really you still!" and think ultimately it is just a program echo of a dead person I didn't care much for his(or it's) attempts at resolving issues with me, the player.
Overall I thought Cyberpunk was actually a good game, it wasn't amazing but still a solid gaming experience with some thoughtful writing for some of the side story archs. But that's what I think the biggest problem with Cyberpunk as a theme is, that I thought some of the side narratives were more compelling than the main story narrative. That and I have a bigger issue with the main character more than I do with Johnny's character, while I do think you have character choice in the game I was disappointed how "lacking" some of those choices could be. Some premises in the game are never even challenged and cannot be challenged by the player(social norms of the game, private ownership vs public ownership, etc). For instance, with Johnny's tirade about corporations at one point in the game you as a player either agree with him or essentially just dismiss his argument as "whatever, that's just how it is," no option to essentially tell him he's full of it and completely misunderstands the problems he sees.
You're allowed to make your own character, but ultimately you're still playing CDPR's "V", just like you were playing Geralt in Witcher 3, not your own unique character. This isn't a bad thing necessarily, but it comes off as somewhat of a bait and switch as one of the ideas was that you can have a more unique character with different backstories and such. Personally thought that was one of the major shortcomings of the game.
that's kind of the point of Johnny's character. he isn't rewarded for his violence he loses everything his band, his lover, his chance with rouge,all his friends and in the end he is hooked up to the soul killer. the point of Johnny is to show that sex, drugs, rock and violence dont fix the system.
after 50 years Johnny is back in night city and it is worse than ever not only did he accomplish nothing but arasaka tower is even bigger than it was before he blew it up and the people of night city are still just as corrupt violent and greedy
in the end of the game V either dies (in one way or another) or V/Johnny leave night city showing the only true way to stop arasaka. to leave the system entirely not to fight them or join them but to simply disappear is the only way to stop the system
They also ripped off Razorfist the Rageaholic’s likeness.
😒👎🏽
Seems like a problem with the real world not the game itself.
"Terrible person' lol. He detonated a nuke in the middle of the city. He's a fucking terrorist, who dwarfs Bin Laden
Johnny's not supposed to be the good guy, in fact you spend most of the game dealing with the fallout of his life. The game shows how self destructive a life like that is.
I can get where this touches lightly on economics, but good grief, FEE needs to stop reviewing entertainment as they repeatedly miss the point. Case in point; I highly doubt the reviewer played through the game as the character of Silverhand actually develops with his many interactions with V.
So, how it is exactly another Cyberpunk 2077 problem? Im pretty sure this was exactly the point of Johnny character. He is not a "good guy" in this story.
"There's another problem with the game that's becoming a little too much like real life: Self-righteousness.." Sorry, what?!? Did you ever played this game? How exactly this game trying to be "self-righteous"? How the hell did you even came up with that conclusion? Every single ending in this game is bad ending. This game does not trying to be "self-righteous" at all. What are you smoking mate?
I think he's supposed to be a flawed character, FEE. Maybe just stick with the economic videos
The game literally has dialogue options where you call him out for exactly these flaws in his character. He's meant to be a stand in for real world communist revolutionaries
Violence not solving your problems…
Obviously you are not using enough violence. 😜🤔😁😏
Why is this a short? i wanna see a full length video
FEE put this out prematurely for likes and views. Clearly he hasn’t played the full game.🤦🏽♂️
"He's not Judge Judy and executioner!"
Sorry, I'll always think of Hot Fuzz when I hear the phrase. Which reminds me, that film would make a great subject for an Out of Frame. With the series wrapping up, it's probably too late, but it fits the themes of the channel perfectly.
Are you seriously making the tired, old argument that "video games cause violence?" 🤣🤣
Not to mention Johnny is not telling the player all the truth about the assault on Arasaka tower.
I've met a "Johnny Silverhand" once, dude was a terrible friend and would throw everyone who loved him under the bus to get what he wanted but everyone still loved him and followed him everywhere. One day he messed up really bad and I hit him in the face, of course I was seen as the bad guy until a few months later when he had screwed over everyone so bad that people started to hate him, coincidentally he was also a guitarist.
they made him too "nice" because of keanu reeves.
we (the players) were supposed to HATE silver-hand. but, it's keanu reeves, he is breathtaking!
So if you have some time, you could was hello futur me's video on the game
He's what makes the Punk in CyberPunk. A genuine rebel against society with the unending goal to undo it one way or another; not "selling out" even if the moderate, safer paths are objectively better. Punk culture is hardcore as hell, but it can be ironically just as suffocating as the system it was meant to destroy when there doesn't exist any compromise.
Yeah BLM and the other groups like you
Violence is never the answer.
It is a question and the answer is always yes
There's a great point a friend of mine mentioned to me that seems to get overlooked a lot. This is NOT Johnny Silverhand. It's an Engram of his personality on one of the worst, angriest days of his life. He CANNOT change or overcome it. He's locked into being this violent, hateful asshole just by the way the tech works.
Ever heard of character development? At the end of the game he changes as a character and realises he’s wrong and hurts those he cares about, he’s meant to start off as a dick, I get the feeling u haven’t played the whole game.
Oh boy, this is your third "I missed an incredibly important plot point" this year. Let me explain.
While yes, Johnny's approach was extremist to a T, operating well beyond any degree of morality, the murder wasn't the issue. It was his blatant disregard for the people of Night City and those around him, the nuke being the perfect example. Night City HAS no legal justice, it's very literally owned and operated by the Arasaka Corporation from the ground up.
Couldn't the same have been said for John Brown?
That's true, the courts should be responsible for bringing the rich and powerful to justice.
Too bad they can't be arsed to actually do it.
No one is fighting for Just Cause.
It's a terrible series.
You need to look back into the tabletop RPG to get a handle, not only on Silverhand, but also the environment of Cyberpunk. The Megacorps, like Arasaka, operate as a nation-state on their own. Business dealings are conducted in the boardroom and in firefights, assassinations, etc. with equal frequency.
Dude is labeled as a Terrorist by V which is appropriate since he did nuke a building just for shits n’ giggles but I think that’s the point of his character. I find Morgan Blackhand a bit more of a hero then Johnny.
Its a fuckin video game >>> …
Except in the real world, these ppl are fighting small business, and with the corporation and establishment. Backwards