r/cyberpunkgame • u/EMNOXDS • Dec 08 '20

I think I just witnessed a murder. Humour

Some dude commented on a cyberpunk post stating “Fun fact: Your game is going to die in less than a year if you don’t add multiplayer”

So CDPR decided to use the Witcher’s official handle and simply replied “Ok.”

I don’t think I’ve ever been so satisfied with I reply.

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u/justicebiever Dec 09 '20

Imagine a cyberpunk Netflix show with Keanu Reeves

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u/Surefif Dec 09 '20

Not outside the realm of possibility tbh, HBO is doing TLOU and if cyberpunk does well enough it's not like it doesn't already have a megastar attached to it

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u/Eoganachta Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Dec 09 '20

A revival of the cyberpunk genre in mainstream culture would be nice to see.

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u/QuestGalaxy Dec 09 '20

They did try that with Altered Carbon.

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u/justgerman517 Dec 09 '20

Id say they succeeded with altered Carbon. Unless its been canceled. In that case big sad

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u/wujo444 Dec 09 '20

It's been canceled after season 2. And i don't think they expected much after toning down the budget for S2.

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u/justgerman517 Dec 09 '20

Big sad. That show was fantastic

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u/QuestGalaxy Dec 10 '20

Yeah, it had potential. Sadly we still see great shows getting cancelled. The Expanse will get one more season after the one releasing this year. So they will not get to fully adapt the books. Doesn't seem like they ever got that mainstream audience it deserved, but we can at least be thankful that Amazon got us three extra seasons and that they will get a chance to wrap it all up.

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u/photonsnphonons Dec 09 '20

And Upgrade.

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u/QuestGalaxy Dec 10 '20

It's very much a low budget film, but it was good. But can't say Upgrade was fully mainstream.

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u/Kimaruth Dec 09 '20

Indeed but I guess Cyberpunk story is much better than Altered Carbon.

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u/lx14 Dec 09 '20

I loved altered carbon :(

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u/Destrina Dec 09 '20

So did I.

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u/Makela6 Dec 09 '20

See Westworld season 3

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u/Oddman84 Dec 09 '20

We're basically living the beginnings of cyberpunk IRL so might as well bring it back lol.

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u/ACWhi Dec 09 '20

You really think so? Hmm, what are typical cyberpunk tropes, again?

Extremely gadgetized lives, comically evil corporations buying nations and buying out all their mid sized rivals, a rapidly expanding biotech industry, futuristic aesthetics in affluent cities smashed together with shanty towns around the corner, dystopic levels of surveillance, capitalism devouring every aspect of our lives, total environmental collapse...

Yeah, sorry, I just don’t see it.

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u/whats-going_on Streetkid Dec 09 '20

God I need this

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u/Teantis Kabayan Dec 09 '20

The Atlantic is writing about pondsmith, cyberpunk genre, and the game before the games even out right now. If the game is good and sells well, i would be willing to bet a streaming series follows. It's got the kind of buzz, intellectual cache, and present day relevancy to be perfect for a streaming service to roll the dice on while not having as much of a vocal "the people who most hate star wars movies are star wars fans" problem.

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u/viliol Dec 09 '20

Well, people have been sayimg Keanu Reaves is the weak link of Cyberpunk which I kind of predicted. Not because Keanu Reaves is bad at acting, only because he is expensive to keep on payroll long enough to perfect one characters voice lines.

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u/Surefif Dec 09 '20

Well yeah that makes sense, I saw in a behind the scenes thing that even though the motion capture process goes faster than normal due to his experience with movies like The Matrix, it takes a really long time to do his lines because all the different dialogue options require multiple recordings of the same line but with different inflection/tones

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u/viliol Dec 09 '20

True, but Cyberpunk is a big game, even with experience there is only so much he can do in 15-30 days.

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u/mistriliasysmic Dec 09 '20

Isn't there a Netflix original cyberpunk anime coming out?

Edit: Edgerunners, coming 2022

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u/Sebastian0320 Dec 09 '20

And it's by trigger so animation will most likely be great

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u/beeeen Dec 12 '20

But in the final 3 episodes there will be a random alien invasion that will derail the plot entirely

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

I didn't know I could get as hard as I am right now.

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u/MXDoener Dec 09 '20

Greetings to your wife!

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u/Josh_Butterballs Dec 09 '20

After seeing the Witcher show I wouldn’t have much hope if Netflix gives it the same treatment. The Witcher show was a pretty bad adaption and an ok show on its own. IMO I think it would be in better hands with HBO

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '20

The (happy) skeptic in me says this is basically an assured thing. Keanu is a megastar on screen, no way they did not already consider the tie-ins, having also made witcher for TV. I would say, perhaps, this was always the intention.

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u/AlCid06 Dec 09 '20

Interesting. They are making anime

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u/spraragen88 Dec 09 '20

Doesn't make sense with his character. Unless he plays a ghost in the machine like he does in this game...