wafflemoose posted:

Eww...no more Steelport please, probably the worst open world city ever made.

DaysBefore posted:

Red Faction Armageddon was such an unbelievable gently caress up. All people want was more poo poo to blow up and more jerks to hammer, not whatever that was

Palpek posted:

Red Faction Armageddon was a terrible Guerilla sequel but it was an amazing Spaceship Troopers game. Everybody who bought it and wanted to blow up poo poo was rightfully disappointed as hell but I went into it with zero expectations and when I realized that it's a bug-killing game I embraced that. It shouldn't have been a Red Faction game though, that's for sure.

Twobirds posted:

Who controls the media in Night City? Most of the talkshows are dumb fluff but some are directly critical of the cops or corporations, some of it to the point that I probably wouldn't hear in today's media. Are they kind of private, brash, yellow journalism outlets that just like to be critical/sensationalist? (I did like the newspaper shard that made a big deal of trace asbestos found in Militech cyberware.)

itry posted:

If it's critical towards a corporation it's probably being funded by a competing corporation. The NCPD is also privately owned.

SniperWoreConverse posted:

In Red a media or rockerboy have a whole thing where the point is to actively dangerously criticize the current order, or kind of sneak in counternarratives, or to just be a repulsive sellout

Twobirds posted:

One news piece I was thinking of was critical of corps in general, and was pushing for higher taxes. Though it was part of a debate and the pro-corpo guy was obviously kind of slimy. If it was propaganda it wasn't very good propaganda.

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

The two competing news stations in Night City more or less align to political parties, which in turn are backed by different megacorps, for which we used Arasaka and Militech. (The other big corps might have their own preferences but it would be too much to try and cram all that in)

The two major parties in NC politics are the Devolutionists, who favor retaining NC as a free city, more or less aligned with NorCal and the other (former) free states. This party is backed behind the scenes by Arasaka. Their biggest advocate in local politics was Lucius Rhyne, but after his unexpected death he's replaced by Weldon Holt, who is *extremely* unsuited for the job due to his widespread unpopularity. Rhyne had basically become a gangster, but people still loved him for what he did during the Unification War and during the red decades (he's in Cyberpunk RED if you didn't see it!), and since then he always made sure that his constituents got what they needed and the corps supported him because he was reliably corrupt. Holt was more or less just a gangster, had a gross personal affect, and the corps didn't really trust him.

On the other hand you have the Federalists, who think that NC should seek better relations with the NUSA and try to get SoCal to loosen the border. They typically haven't been a force in local politics (you will notice that there are very few NUSA flags in Night City outside of 6th Street territory) but Jefferson Peralez, city councilman and former DA, has built a really solid base of support by putting populist policies ahead of any sort of foreign policy goals. His stated goals are to close some loopholes in the city tax code and to reduce the number of council seats that are corporate owned (the city charter sets asides many seats in the council for corporations). A lot of people think it's all just talk and against Rhyne he'd surely lose the election, but with Holt stepping in...

N54 and WNS are actually big megacorps who own or franchise local stations, so the stuff you see in NC is made in NC. Global media is something we wanted to minimize. In short, the media content isn't pure propaganda, but they definitely have their viewpoints, preferred scapegoats, and political agendas.

DaysBefore posted:

Is there a working 3rd person mod? All these goofy outfits and I can't actually see them as I frantically sword-arm my way through nerds

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

The two competing news stations in Night City more or less align to political parties, which in turn are backed by different megacorps, for which we used Arasaka and Militech. (The other big corps might have their own preferences but it would be too much to try and cram all that in)

The two major parties in NC politics are the Devolutionists, who favor retaining NC as a free city, more or less aligned with NorCal and the other (former) free states. This party is backed behind the scenes by Arasaka. Their biggest advocate in local politics was Lucius Rhyne, but after his unexpected death he's replaced by Weldon Holt, who is *extremely* unsuited for the job due to his widespread unpopularity. Rhyne had basically become a gangster, but people still loved him for what he did during the Unification War and during the red decades (he's in Cyberpunk RED if you didn't see it!), and since then he always made sure that his constituents got what they needed and the corps supported him because he was reliably corrupt. Holt was more or less just a gangster, had a gross personal affect, and the corps didn't really trust him.

On the other hand you have the Federalists, who think that NC should seek better relations with the NUSA and try to get SoCal to loosen the border. They typically haven't been a force in local politics (you will notice that there are very few NUSA flags in Night City outside of 6th Street territory) but Jefferson Peralez, city councilman and former DA, has built a really solid base of support by putting populist policies ahead of any sort of foreign policy goals. His stated goals are to close some loopholes in the city tax code and to reduce the number of council seats that are corporate owned (the city charter sets asides many seats in the council for corporations). A lot of people think it's all just talk and against Rhyne he'd surely lose the election, but with Holt stepping in...

N54 and WNS are actually big megacorps who own or franchise local stations, so the stuff you see in NC is made in NC. Global media is something we wanted to minimize. In short, the media content isn't pure propaganda, but they definitely have their viewpoints, preferred scapegoats, and political agendas.

Lucius Rhyne (Rockerboy): A community organizer in the newly forming Watson Development, Lucius is a rare idealist working to make the world a better place. He is well-known for his inspiring speeches and calls to action.

Jack Trades posted:

Palpek posted:

A solid summary of the game's history up until the current situation:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mujp-ChhUDk

Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

For a guy who makes videos about CP twice a week, you'd think he'd have figured out how to say polish names by now.

he's gotten better, at least edit: a little

Alchenar posted:

I did a triple take at that acronym.

Bust Rodd posted:

Is there literally any other game currently being played that still has weekly YouTube surges about its status while the actual game goes months without a blip? Like, who is still invested in 2077 enough almost a year later to still want to watch videos like that but isn’t already 100% up to date on where the game is?

It just seems like an Ouroboros of talking about the game begetting disappointment which creates a new wave of people making videos about how they’re still disappointed a year later.

Palpek posted:

Anyway, I like watching a relatively short video like that from time to time exactly because I'm not going to read different articles, chase down dev streams and read subreddit posts.

Bust Rodd posted:

Is there literally any other game currently being played that still has weekly YouTube surges about its status while the actual game goes months without a blip? Like, who is still invested in 2077 enough almost a year later to still want to watch videos like that but isn’t already 100% up to date on where the game is?

It just seems like an Ouroboros of talking about the game begetting disappointment which creates a new wave of people making videos about how they’re still disappointed a year later.

Bust Rodd posted:

literally all of that ends up in this thread. the gross reddit goons will always bring the good stuff back to the goon hive, that's what we bred them to do. I have never had to hunt for anything, it all ends up in here.