Cyberpunk Edgerunners Is Good! VERY Good! Gives Us A Glimpse Of The Game We WISH! Cyberpunk 2077 Was



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cyberpunk 2077 was an enormous disappointment to most and many expected cyberpunk edgerunners to follow in it’s footsteps and it DID! in that it demonstrates what cd projekt red’s game COULD and SHOULD have been!

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41 thoughts on “Cyberpunk Edgerunners Is Good! VERY Good! Gives Us A Glimpse Of The Game We WISH! Cyberpunk 2077 Was”

  1. Personally I've never gotten invested into a game to where I "feel like the main character" I'm always along for the ride because video games make that agency impossible. A TTRPG I can understand but it's really asking the world from these devs in my opinion.

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  2. Honestly, you didn't play the game at least for the full extent, i can definitely say that because, theres more than ONE ending and in not all endings Jhonny replace V, you are complaining about something that you didn't even give a chance to fully immersed yourself.
    Theres ONLY one ending where Jhonny replace V, only one out of 8 or 9 endings, and honestly i don't even know how you are complaning about this ending, since is YOU who chooses to give your body to Jhonny Silverhand, even if you play the final mission with Jhonny! It still a choice (and evil one if you choose to keep the body but still, you are the one who decide) the game also have the side quests connected to the ending.
    If you don't do some side quests you may not get all the endings, theres variations (like saving Takemura) who change some endings.
    Thats the problem with folks who don't know what they are talking about, and aren't call out on their on bs, you ended up been the source of injustice.
    The story in the game as the characters are great, thats where CDPR NAILED.
    Ps: the name of the "tutorial guy" is Jackie Whells.

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  3. What i really really dislike about Cyberpunk 2077 the most is that the story FORCES you to rush through it from a narrative point of view yet does not allow you to keep playing once you finish it. Like noone with the affliction V has with that chip eating away would go do tons of sidejobs and take their time exploring the city, i hate that part about it. I honestly would have just loved to be some nobody that works their place up in the world.

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  4. I haven´t watched anime long time and it was enjoyable series to end. Also hoped more episodes from them to bring more out of characters. Like you spoke in video i had same feeling with game and literally i hoped heist members survived heist. At least Jackie would survive order to see V turn middle of road to Silverhand. Where Jackie would react to it. Like whole game has lot of times you can say your turning to silverhand but people mostly are. Meh. Other major gripe of game in general is fact your forced to do main quest order to get rest of side activity's and ability to buy stuff. Even NG+ comes and game gets all promoted content. I would never play game again from start. Simply how much i hate playing V cucked by celebrity in game character. Who only says bigger dick matters and other irrelevant stuff. Like i give you these tags from someone who sacrificed him self to me. Also using tutorial dialogue mock V as those statements of early game was dedicated of some random cause. What happened only challenge matters to dexter… When only reason i personally said it in game was sake of money.

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  5. For me Edgerunners is ALL the style, and almost no substance. The animation, the action sequences, the setting; I loved all those things, but the characters didn't leave much of an impact on me. Kind of like a popcorn flick, but over a series instead. Enjoyable, but looking back on it you just end up wishing there was a bit more to chew on.

    I view the MC as "Bland McBlanderson" who has been the most generic protagonist I've seen in a long while, he's not good, he's not bad; he's just boring and devoid of interesting traits and motivations. I didn't think there was any kind of particular chemistry between anyone he interacted with. If emotionally distant was the point of his character then he succeeded in spades, and his love interest being also emotionally distant; well I just felt the emotionally distant sparks fly between them in their relationship. If you were to ask me what were the motivations of every main character I'd be hard pressed to come up with an answer. I'd probably be able to come up with an answer to some of them, but I wouldn't be convinced that's what they actually want in life. There's this haze of nihilism that surrounds every character, and again that might be intended but it's not going to endear me to the struggles of the cast when they themselves don't really care.

    David's dream is supposedly Lucy's dream, but unlike his mother who spent all of her time and effort squirrelling savings at every opportunity to fulfill a dream, David apparently didn't do anything to make Lucy's dream come true. It was to the point that Lucy assumed he had completely forgotten and a single throwaway line was supposed to make it sound like he still cared, yet in retrospect it's obvious he could have afforded that dream long before things fell apart. This wasn't going to happen because the point of the show is to setup 'beautiful death' and that the only way David would grant Lucy's dream was through his death. It would have had more of an impact had I felt David actually gained anything that was worth sacrificing, and the one thing he didn't want to sacrifice wasn't even his to sacrifice anyways.

    I kinda wonder if people are far more engaged with the cardboard cutouts of personalities in Edgerunners simply because everyone has been worn down so much by everything else that anything that meets the basic requirements for a well-rounded character is seen as a great achievement.

    Then I have to point out the obvious that people don't seem to realize: The setting adds absolutely nothing to the story. If you replaced the cybernetics with just any generic sci-fi weapon the plot would essentially stay the same. Despite it being a cyberpunk story, it ignores not one but two of the main themes that you go to that setting for: The line between humanity and machine, as well as the push and pull between the classism that arises from it. For David these things are essentially background noise for the first few episodes and they both completely fade away into complete silence by the end of it. The idea of cybernetics just basically took the place of drug use and weapons in a pretty typical 'gang' story.

    Honestly if the story had been focused around Maine it would have been a better story because that was the more emotionally gripping story: He was the one who was losing his grip on his sanity that caused the loss of the people he cared about around him, but Edgerunners did a speed run through it. I initially thought that his spiral into madness would have been the season finale or near it, but instead of it was half way instead. It would have been nice to have explored his character more, especially since I can't really answer the question of "What motivates him".

    Edgerunners is still good, but I wouldn't consider it great. They played it extremely safe, too safe in my opinion; but that said I'd rather they play it safe than to see yet another show play the 'making fans angry' game. Certainly a great show when it comes to video game adaptations since there's so few good ones, but I still place Castlevania way above Edgerunners.

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  6. Arch, when you said that Edgerunners was one of the best pieces of entertainment to come out in years, I went back through your archive and checked to see if you ever did a video on Arcane. I didn't fine one, so I have to say: GO WATCH ARCANE IF YOU NEVER DID! If you liked Edgerunners, I'm sure you'll enjoy it as well.

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  7. I finished the game and this series and I agree with you that the game needed much much more time in the oven. However, I enjoyed my time with the game and and enjoyed this anime. I look forward to the future if this series. But yeah, CDPR better make sure they never forsake their fans like that again.

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  8. Arch any company can make a good product if they get rid of the BS by that I mean let’s continue on with edgy entertainment if Disney but let’s just say is it Bob Chapek goes into the office tomorrow I mean I know it’s Sunday here in the states but let’s say he goes in the office tomorrow and just on a snappy whim Puts out a memo and it gets sent to all the heads of studio all the production everyone all the way down to the janitors at Disney World and Disneyland and it basically says I have decided that from this point forward that Disney is a for-profit company and if you don’t like that and if you don’t stop putting out this walk garbage you will be fired there will be no reprieve no parole no giving you another chance automatic firing‘s so either stop the walk and stop being a namby-pamby and start putting out product and making us money or you’re fired he can do that tomorrow we can do that Monday he can do that at any time it is just a question will he because he doesn’t have to worry about it he has a three-year contract he doesn’t have to do a damn thing he can let both the parks and the television and go to hell which it seems like it is because he does not have to worry about any major threat he got rid of his major threat to his job he fired him and he’s gone and now they’re all afraid they’re all afraid that they will be the next one hired if Bob gets pissed off and that’s what bob needs to do he needs to be pissed off and start lobbying off heads and start firing people and I’m not talking about one or two strategic people I am talking about whole groups like going into Lucas film and just randomly looking at the story room the writers room and telling them they’re all fired walking over to everyone below Kathleen Kennedy inspiring them except for Fabbro and Filoni like walking in the marvel studios telling kevin figie he’s fired and telling the mid tier in the the bottom of the bunk people they’re fired over marvel firing them all or not just now but getting rid of about oh 2/3rds of the entirety of Disney staff I think would have a dramatic effect and scare the hell out of the rest of them oh shit who’s next if companies would do this again and scare the hell out of the employees in whether they’re good or not and scare the hell out of them and say you could be next so you better shape up or ship out you’ll see two things that you see the bad apples leave because they know they’re going to be next and you’ll see the good ones just stare quietly twiddling thumbs and hope to the gods that no one ever comes and gives them a pink slip in that’s just one example you can do this nationwide with every company with every entertainment company I mean all of it it’s like if you were going to Hollywood today let’s say you have the power to fire everybody in Hollywood let’s see I mean just for whatever reason you have that kind of God light power and you walk into paramount and you fired everybody on Star Trek fired them all the animator The writers the production staff the all of the talent and you fired that idiot that’s running it now what kind of direction do you think that with me that would save paramount plus a lot of money and it would also give them any ability to course correct in fix the incessant problems like going to Amazon firing the head of Amazon then going to the hair to the entertainment division of Amazon hiring him canceling Power the rings they would have to eat $1 billion shit sandwich but better to do it now later later I mean it would put the fear of God into these people and they would be so scared they all these SJW‘s all of these woke tards All of these families they would crawl back to the choir dark horse that they crawled out of about two or three years ago and they would never be seen again

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  9. I watched a few of the scenes under the Polish dub and the subtitles straight up didn't match the words half the time 🤣 but I think because they've dubbed the anime in so many different languages, maybe that's why the English subs are so broad? Who knows 🤷‍♂️

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  10. Cool series, but boy, Trigger just don't seem to know how to lift their foot off the pedal and let a story get through the finish line on momentum.

    And some of the dialogue is painfully expository. Seriously, a kid interested in chromed up murder machines that kind of wants to work for Arasaka one day needs to be told who Adam Smasher is? Whatever could they be setting up with that.

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  11. I disagree with everything you said about Johnny silverhand, watching him come to the realisation that his life of fame and fortune meant nothing and none of his 'friends' even tried to find his grave, and perhaps the closest thing he has to a friend is V, and him wanting to find a cure for V was a very good arch(pun intended)

    If anything the biggest problem with this game (apart from the bugs and release state) was that CDPR themselves admitted that they wanted the game to be shorter because they had surveyed and found that most people don't want to play games as long as witcher 3, this was their single biggest mistake, sure a lot of people may quit due to the length of games but the most loyal fanbase often comes from games that consume you for 100s of hours (like Skyrim)
    And instead of meaningless NCPD scanner hustles, the game needed more gigs with Jackie, and more gigs with other characters to flesh them out.

    My first playthrough i mostly played it like an FPS, my 2nd playthrough i actually understood what you could truly do with a netrunner build.

    I started my 3rd playthrough after watching Edgerunners and believe it or not, all this time I've never used the mantis blade or monowires.

    This game has amazing replayability.

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  12. The issue i have the game is that they tried to make it happy and cheerful at the same time as keeping its oppersive and and dark. CP2077 the Tabletop game is a dark place with lots and lots of terrible or worse endings. The Game needed to get more of the darkness and just plain enui into it. A player should be forced to make the choice of do i get more Augs and get more powerful or do i not and completely avoid the chance that you have a moment of Cyber Pyscho and you come out on the run from max tac and the cops because you turned the local area into a crater.
    Edgerunner showed more faith to the tabletop game and it showed things we needed in the game. Max Tac should be a thing toi be feared instead they show 1 in the tutorial and thats it.

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  13. I am just hoping this anime will give Cyberpunk Red some much needed life in the table top rpg sense. Kinda like how DnD movies give DnD some life in their cycle. I wish Arch would have talked about Cyberpunk Red and not Cyberpunk 2077. Really feels that could been a good talking point. Oh well it a very good video.

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  14. Make a real sandbox, don't bother with sidecharacters, only with the bad guys, make it multiplayer as in an actual RPG (TTRPGs you kids call them), make it so a group of players could choose to be the bad guys. Collect their coin.

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  15. western animation voice work is actually really really good if its not dubbed material but original work. dragons blood is a perfect example and i hope they continue the story somehow. i just wish i could hear va work and sound design clearly like before but alas i cannot lol

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