I am vibing so hard on this show, to the point of run-on sentences.

Edit: Aw, it kinda wobbled a bit at the end for me, but I still had a blast for the overall package.

@Reason said in CHROME THE FUCK UP! Cyberpunk-edgerunners:

they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.

From what I recall from reading about the Red period, the net was basically obliterated. So it makes sense that netrunning would take a back seat.

Sure. My take away was just that it was less that netrunning takes a back seat (which is fine) and more that the way the replacement net is handled is mechanically ugly and thematically silly.

-r

they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.

From what I recall from reading about the Red period, the net was basically obliterated. So it makes sense that netrunning would take a back seat.

@Reason I get the hesitation, but in a time when your SF options in MU* Ares/Evennia-land are essentially Firefly or Pern, I really think a proper hard SF game could do well. Or at least I would hope so.

Possible! It’s a genre with a lot of recommend, and a lot of the dynamics of CP Red are unique, compelling, and refreshing – there’s a subtle post-apocalyptic feel that’s a departure from our classic 1980s cyberpunk genre.

It was just hard to motivate myself to work on building the game after staring at the netrunning rules – they’re really, really, really not good and given how iconic netrunning is for the genre, that realization really took some wind out of my sails.

-r

@Reason I get the hesitation, but in a time when your SF options in MU* Ares/Evennia-land are essentially Firefly or Pern, I really think a proper hard SF game could do well. Or at least I would hope so.

I’ve powered through about half of it in a night, it has been so good to me. The soundtrack, the stylized action sequences, the trippy portrayal of cyberpsychosis, it is just…firing on all cylinders and sooooo much better than I expected.

The one downside is that it makes me want a pure cyberpunk MU* so bad that it makes me PHYSICALLY ANGRY AAAAAHHHH

I had the skeleton of CP Red Chargen built for an Evennia game but was just so utterly depressed by how netrunning was handled that I abandoned the effort.

I think I had gotten as far as the ability to build everything but a gear inventory, with a fully integrated +dice system. I should scour the interwebz and see if someone’s written reasonable houserules for netrunning.

-r

Oof, yeah. Y’know, aside from the shitty state of the PS4 release I had and the general feel that the game was about six or seven years behind the curve in terms of mechanics and features, I really enjoyed the story (although that was like 90% wanting to marry and DEVOTE MY ENTIRE LIFE to Panam, lol). It’s a shame!

At least CDPR is making it up to us at least a little by producing this beaut.

Rage for a good game, that should have been.

The one downside is that it makes me want a pure cyberpunk MU* so bad that it makes me PHYSICALLY ANGRY AAAAAHHHH

RIGHT, I JUST FINISHED IT! All of it in one day, it was just wow!

The first episode was so gooooood! Trigger branching out from saving anime to save failed games.