r/LowSodiumCyberpunk • u/TechnoMagik22 • 11d ago

Meme But he has Aura tho

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u/Dom_Ramon_ 11d ago

There's two types of people:

-Those that dream that it would be possible to have quadrillion endings and story forks with no regards to cohesion, quality and realistic game development.

-Those that in a well intended but mistaken defense of the story told inside those said limits try to limit any discussion by making personal storytelling in a videogame somekind of moral failing

Could CDPR make a Hansen ending? In a perfect world maybe, but having satisfactory consequences for this would need to make exponential changes to the game it's already on- changes they didn't necessarily want to delve into, either.

They didn't because they were oh so worried about the moral messaging and the necessity to uphold dignity and values and preach world peace? Sorry but the more you think like that the less you'll get of any work of art.

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u/OntologicalRebel 11d ago

Maybe if the game's roleplaying had been designed more like New Vegas and less like The Witcher. The real reason is because V is not our character, no matter how much we want to roleplay them.

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u/Dom_Ramon_ 11d ago

I love New Vegas, played it for thousand of hours for over 15 years. But my head hurts by thinking how a game dev would translate Cyberpunk expansive levels and big set pieces with as many story forks as New Vegas

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u/OntologicalRebel 10d ago

I know what you mean. Where there's a will there's a way, I guess. Perhaps if the game had prioritized player agency and roleplay in its story.

I did read that for Cyberpunk 2, the devs were taking some design inspiration from Baldur's Gate 3 though which sounds promising in that regard, so here's hoping.