CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel

https://web.archive.org/web/20240628192128/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/cd-project-devs-want-to-call-out-big-problems-like-homelessness-and-the-wealth-gap-in-cyberpunk-2077-sequel

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newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y

Less people randomly walking in every direction and more people just randomly sitting on broken down cardboard boxes.

alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 2y

Cyberpunk 2077's Cyberpunk was entirely aesthetic. I have zero faith in the devs being able to actually address those issues in a meaningful way.

Which is a shame because the genera's whole purpose was to criticize how capitalism would subvert potentially utopian technologies to make everything worse.

Kaboom@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Didnt they do that in the original?

DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y

It's a theme the whole cyberpunk genre is founded on lmao

bjmllr@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y

Not really.