This is all lore from the original tabletop RPG source material, Cyberpunk2020. There's 50 years inbetween for CDPR and Michael Pondsmith to play with.
The lore is cool, but maybe not the best lore in any universe, for example my favorite lore is Elder Scrolls, but it's hard to compare... In any case, it's still a very good lore.
Yup and in contrast with other franchises this one is like the most plausible to occur as an scenario in the near future, corporations are already in the path of becoming more powerful than countries
A Cyberpunk 2077 Live action series would be monumental on the TV, with the right budget, writing & acting, it would easily become the series of the decade
I thought they’d announced something in the works with the ip a few months ago? 🤔 Maybe I’m getting mixed-up with something else like the Fallout tv series. (or that anime on netflix - the predictable, cheap go-to for most gaming i.p’s)
It really needs to have a good show runner. Someone like Tony Gilroy who did Andor. The acting has to be grounded. No Marvel silly jokes and forced fan service.
We get a hint of what Rhyne did for the city and the loyalty he garnered from people who remember in I Fought The Law. Love how these vids add context to what was hinted at in game.
That's a lazy take there's channels that talk about the corporate wars to nomads even the history of NC but whenever the devs of the game make shit like this it's "oh my God you cures my cancer" all ober again 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@danielnava5917Doesn't matter that they talk about it. The question is, will player of the game watch them. And believe me it is way more likely that average player will be exposed to the lore with these official CDPR videos than videos from small lore channels. Might entice part of the viewers dig deeper and find smaller lore channels as well. So that is a positive all around.
The best thing I ever did was read through the Cyberpunk Red source book cover-to-cover before playing 2077. It meant that I had at least some understanding of the lore ahead of time. These videos are perfect for explaining what is a very complex and developed history.
Feel like these should have been in the game for context, ngl I was really lost for a lot of it especially NUSA which I knew nothing about. These cutscenes would have helped so much
@@0spidey1I guess for the average gamer, it's hard to expect them to read all those texts. Watching videos like this takes less effort and is a ton more fun.
@@arinc9 Exactly, I hate when games lazily bury the world's lore in collectibles and codex entries. Like Division 2, that game was all codex and no story. So boring that way!
Cyberpunk does what Mass Effect lost the opportunity to do, which was expand on their lore-rich universe. Whether thru anime, comics, etc. There’s just so much to touch on thru a variety of mediums!
Imagine if these lazy ass devs finally made braindances useful and add it to in-game but they won't because they WILL come up with horse shit excuses like they did for mods on consoles to 3rd person and New game plus like it shows they prefer pc over consoles because they could be fixing console ports
Oh my god, this just keeps getting better and better. I'm going to put these episodes on my favs and keep listening to them over and over. Awesome lore. Awesome story. Awesome universe. We're gonna need a series about this.
What makes this universe so great is how grounded it is. The world feels like it could be our future which is exactly the vocal point of Cyberpunk: not an aspiration but a warning.
@@lsq7833The USSR is still a thing, but it looks much more like modern Russia, so much so that communist principles are abandoned entirely by a revisionist government dominated by SovOil, which is portrayed as a very capitalist corporation.
@@lsq7833the USSR is actually dead, the states within the USSR regularly go to war with one another. The Muslims and Christians had an ‘Afghanistan’ scenario. The only thing that is keeping the USSR alive in SOVOIL which is slowly dying out, the old oligarchs and the new oligarchs bratva and what’s left of the state KGB holding onto whatever power is left. It’s basically the USSR in 1989 or Russia in 1993 at its dying stages on steroids.
1:47 It looks like Texas didn't fall to the NUSA 👀 Can't wait for whatever comes next in the Cyberpunk franchise, clearly Mike Pondsmith and the team at CDPR have a grand story in mind
The world building and the production quality of these videos is astounding! Can they be a regular thing? More insights into the history of the City and the world? Background studies of important characters?
Now, Now this game is in Full gear man!!! I have already completed this game twice and I am very much excited to know what happens next in V's story. Such great world building and story telling
hell yeah i've been really getting into the deep lore of this universe and then the next week these videos start dropping. thanks so much for this stuff!
Lmfaoo fuck that shit how about the lazy ass devs fix the game instead because I'm reliving launch and there's junkies saying bugs and glitches doesn't happen
So Johnny basically stopped the Corp War and got Saka kicked out of the States? Sounds like a pretty clear win tbh. I guess sometimes terrorism just works lol
I love this video series. For someone who did not play the table top version but love the game the history is not fully told in game so this is great! Please do so many more of these.
Oh this is a goldmine for any Cyberpunk TTRPG enthusiasts. The idea of making this lore series was great one, and it will also help us better understand what's going to be happening in Project Orion, i think.
Although I learned about these things in-game, this video explains quite well the Arasaka/Militech and Free states/NUSA conflicts of recent Cyberpunk lore years.
This the best cyberpunk universe hands down. The lore is just insane. I could only wish for a decent tv series. Can you imagine if they really cast kianu as the rockerboy, a man could only dream...
I love your lore videos! The quality is top notch and immersive for the Cyberpunk universe. The narration voice is almost sounding like the Arasaka AI when you do the Corpo lifepath beginning of V.
i love this series THANK YOU and we don't deserve you as a studio team I hope everyone is well and thank you, I also watched the documentary thank you for sharing with us and I found out on twitter there's ANOTHER UPDATE patch 2.1 coming and a live stream with some legends :) wow thank you so much for all your dedication support and hard work and communicating with us too THANK YOU :)
I wish we got more of President Myers in PL. It seems like she was a savvy politician who understood how to work people. We also didn't really get a sense of NUSA's and "Washington's" motivations.
I felt that too, Myers has valid reasons for the things she does. Everyone in this story compromises ethics to achieve their goals, including V. Nobody gets out clean in a Cyberpunk story.
This reminds me of reading the source material and original game manuals from the table top rpg game before the games release, ngl tho I kinda wish there was more retro punk type aesthetic in the game like the original 2020 book
Cyberpunk already has an anime. Now just make it into a series with the same passion as the anime had and we good to go. Having a series telling the story of this world would be amazing
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please tell me there's like 20 episodes of this, i could listen to every aspect of the lore for hours on end
In the beginning it says this is episode 2 out of 3
@@Ronzem2 it also says "folder 1", I wish we get more folders and chapters too!
How 'bout 120 episodes?
Same! Could listen to all the stories and lore of Night City for hours
This is all lore from the original tabletop RPG source material, Cyberpunk2020. There's 50 years inbetween for CDPR and Michael Pondsmith to play with.
Mike Pondsmith created the coolest lore ever, it's so interesting, I read so much lore before the game release, there's so much and it's all so good
He's a genius. :)
The lore is cool, but maybe not the best lore in any universe, for example my favorite lore is Elder Scrolls, but it's hard to compare...
In any case, it's still a very good lore.
@@Nageat68boring
Yeah, but I would've still liked a real video game adaptation of the pen'n'paper version of the game WAY better!
Yup and in contrast with other franchises this one is like the most plausible to occur as an scenario in the near future, corporations are already in the path of becoming more powerful than countries
I always love how much story cyberpunk has
It's so easy to get invested
Cyberpunk might have it, but the game sure doesnt lol.
@@BigMisterApple Sure bud, whatever you say
Benefit of basing your game on a tabletop RPG that's run since the 1980s, but I agree completely.
@@BigMisterApple clearly haven't played the game. Everything discussed in this video is showcased within the game.
? The game is a masterpiece what are you on about@@BigMisterApple
Phantom Liberty ambient music in the background is literally perfect for these
SIMP
"Literally" btw
"By the way", by the way... @@z-trip5457
I could listen to another 100 episodes and not get bored!
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A Cyberpunk 2077 Live action series would be monumental on the TV, with the right budget, writing & acting, it would easily become the series of the decade
I thought they’d announced something in the works with the ip a few months ago? 🤔 Maybe I’m getting mixed-up with something else like the Fallout tv series. (or that anime on netflix - the predictable, cheap go-to for most gaming i.p’s)
I hope Netflix doesn't touch it (live action)
It really needs to have a good show runner. Someone like Tony Gilroy who did Andor. The acting has to be grounded. No Marvel silly jokes and forced fan service.
It is already officialy announced that CDPR is working with Anonymous Content on Live Action Project (posted on twitter CDPR IR on fifth of october)
Yeah it'd probably suck though, like 75% of all video game adaptations
0:47 Global conflict’s cool” 😎
We get a hint of what Rhyne did for the city and the loyalty he garnered from people who remember in I Fought The Law. Love how these vids add context to what was hinted at in game.
yep
Speaking as a Cyberpunk lore enthusiast, these videos are a very welcome surprise and a great way to get more peeps into the lore. Hats off, CDPR!
That's a lazy take there's channels that talk about the corporate wars to nomads even the history of NC but whenever the devs of the game make shit like this it's "oh my God you cures my cancer" all ober again 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@danielnava5917Doesn't matter that they talk about it. The question is, will player of the game watch them. And believe me it is way more likely that average player will be exposed to the lore with these official CDPR videos than videos from small lore channels. Might entice part of the viewers dig deeper and find smaller lore channels as well. So that is a positive all around.
0:25 "A group of unidentified attackers"
We all know who it is :)
It's definitely Johnny Silverhand and his crew.
The best thing I ever did was read through the Cyberpunk Red source book cover-to-cover before playing 2077. It meant that I had at least some understanding of the lore ahead of time. These videos are perfect for explaining what is a very complex and developed history.
Feel like these should have been in the game for context, ngl I was really lost for a lot of it especially NUSA which I knew nothing about. These cutscenes would have helped so much
There are loads of codex entries in the game you can read
I think the shards should have been short videos like this instead of just texts, or maybe have some shards to be text or lore videos
@@0spidey1I guess for the average gamer, it's hard to expect them to read all those texts. Watching videos like this takes less effort and is a ton more fun.
@@arinc9 Exactly, I hate when games lazily bury the world's lore in collectibles and codex entries. Like Division 2, that game was all codex and no story. So boring that way!
I wish the game had *more* shards.
Wish this had 1000 episodes or just like 10 long ones... Jesus, this is so perfect. I wish it was a movie or something
They won't add this to in-game because then the lazy ass devs have to make the other braindances to work as well lol 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
Cyberpunk does what Mass Effect lost the opportunity to do, which was expand on their lore-rich universe. Whether thru anime, comics, etc. There’s just so much to touch on thru a variety of mediums!
It is a true miracle that the earth of this universe is still habitable with the drift that history has had here.
Its so cool to consider that all of this was written in the 80s yet it still holds up today as some of the best fictional lore ever written
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING CONTINUOUSLY
These are so fucking cool and only solidify how epic of a franchise Cyberpunk can be
Don't put me out of business!
lol. Love your vids, btw.
Keep this going; the lore is the lifeblood of Cyberpunk and the production values here are top notch!
Imagine if these lazy ass devs finally made braindances useful and add it to in-game but they won't because they WILL come up with horse shit excuses like they did for mods on consoles to 3rd person and New game plus like it shows they prefer pc over consoles because they could be fixing console ports
"a group of unidentified attacks detonates a nuclear device in Corporate Plaza"
Johnny Silverhand: *whistles innocently*
The production value of this is outstanding.
I love this presentation. It reminds me of the beginning of the movies “Escape from New York” and “Escape from LA”
Oh my god, this just keeps getting better and better.
I'm going to put these episodes on my favs and keep listening to them over and over.
Awesome lore. Awesome story. Awesome universe.
We're gonna need a series about this.
Wish all history summary be presented like this. Entertaining, engaging, pact with info and very cool looking. Well done cdpr team!!
What makes this universe so great is how grounded it is. The world feels like it could be our future which is exactly the vocal point of Cyberpunk: not an aspiration but a warning.
Yeah no, it diverges from our timeline in the 80's. The USSR is still a thing in the world of cyberpunk lol.
@@lsq7833 Yeah, because the story was written by Pondsmith in 1988.
Pondsmith did write the setting as a warning (which is scarily starting to come to fruition these days) back in the 80's
@@lsq7833The USSR is still a thing, but it looks much more like modern Russia, so much so that communist principles are abandoned entirely by a revisionist government dominated by SovOil, which is portrayed as a very capitalist corporation.
@@lsq7833the USSR is actually dead, the states within the USSR regularly go to war with one another. The Muslims and Christians had an ‘Afghanistan’ scenario. The only thing that is keeping the USSR alive in SOVOIL which is slowly dying out, the old oligarchs and the new oligarchs bratva and what’s left of the state KGB holding onto whatever power is left. It’s basically the USSR in 1989 or Russia in 1993 at its dying stages on steroids.
1:47 It looks like Texas didn't fall to the NUSA 👀 Can't wait for whatever comes next in the Cyberpunk franchise, clearly Mike Pondsmith and the team at CDPR have a grand story in mind
Alternative history 😮
Whatever Cyberpunk game comes out next please have lore in game like this. This is amazing and fills in so many gaps. Thank you.
The world building and the production quality of these videos is astounding! Can they be a regular thing? More insights into the history of the City and the world? Background studies of important characters?
제작사에서 이렇게 공식 설정 영상을 내주니까 너무 좋네요. 감사합니다.
Best game I've ever played
Damn!! That supercarrier must have a lot of firepower to force the NUSA to stand down.
Please DON'T STOP making these! I love this stuff!
I need hours of this. Straight up history of cyberpunk universe 8 hour video...I'm here for it
Now, Now this game is in Full gear man!!! I have already completed this game twice and I am very much excited to know what happens next in V's story. Such great world building and story telling
Next? V is dead or out of action.
Wow this is really cool, its so interesting to hear lore about the bigger picture of things in Cyberpunk
I love these but it wouldve been so sick to hear Maximum Mike reading the lore in similar fashion. Man bleeds Cool.
Absolute Cinema
Absolute Cinema
The lore of this universe is so rich! Idk how much is Pondsmith’s original ideas and how much is CDPR’s but god damn. Love it.
I am super excited to watch this! Thank you so much Cyberpunk 2077 Team. You are amazing :)
Just imagine these small videos as intros to seasons about Cyberpunk prior to 2077 and Night City
hell yeah i've been really getting into the deep lore of this universe and then the next week these videos start dropping. thanks so much for this stuff!
These lore episodes are so good. I love learning about the backstory!
I could listen to these kinds of videos all day. Keep 'em coming.
"Some wars never end."
Again, again, again! And thanks for subtitles !
I hecking love Cyberpunk lore. Keep em coming!
Loving these motion graphic style videos, visually stunning and succinct way to lay out the some lore. Keep them coming!
Lmfaoo fuck that shit how about the lazy ass devs fix the game instead because I'm reliving launch and there's junkies saying bugs and glitches doesn't happen
So Johnny basically stopped the Corp War and got Saka kicked out of the States? Sounds like a pretty clear win tbh. I guess sometimes terrorism just works lol
It's not terrorism, but the damn thermonuclear bomb that works lmao
I love this video series. For someone who did not play the table top version but love the game the history is not fully told in game so this is great! Please do so many more of these.
This being called subfolder 1 implies the existence of further subfolders, meaning more lore. Yes, please
Man, I love this! Thanks for making these Cyberpunk lore videos!
I can't explain how much i needed something like this!
Oh this is a goldmine for any Cyberpunk TTRPG enthusiasts. The idea of making this lore series was great one, and it will also help us better understand what's going to be happening in Project Orion, i think.
This deserves a Second Renaissance Style anime! Love it
“devolutionist” never spoken of again
So?
One of the coolest stories in all of gaming history.
Although I learned about these things in-game, this video explains quite well the Arasaka/Militech and Free states/NUSA conflicts of recent Cyberpunk lore years.
I love it in Cyberpunk universe anything, literally Anything its never Black or White.
This is a great video series so far, keep them coming
This the best cyberpunk universe hands down. The lore is just insane. I could only wish for a decent tv series. Can you imagine if they really cast kianu as the rockerboy, a man could only dream...
Shadowrun is a hell of a lot better.
(Joke joke, put the gun down, choom)
Edgerunners is literally right there. I get what you mean though, you want something Live Action.
This is my favorite documentary series ❤
I'm loving these lore videos. Keep them coming. It's going to be a long wait until Orion lol
love a fleshed out world lore like this. you can build anything on top of it. looking for more CP in the future,
yoooooo we needed this, great backstory
These videos are wonderful. ❤❤❤
This is amazing please keep bringing us more lore videos!!
I love your lore videos! The quality is top notch and immersive for the Cyberpunk universe. The narration voice is almost sounding like the Arasaka AI when you do the Corpo lifepath beginning of V.
would be cool if they added this series to the game as a braindances, that would be scattered in Night City.
The editing is so top notch
Love the Animatrix The Second Renaissance style and voice, but with the rouge AI touch from CP.
I need a hundred episodes of this!
This is fantastic! I've seen other lore videos but getting it from the source itself is so cool and interesting. Please, please, please do more!
i love this series THANK YOU and we don't deserve you as a studio team I hope everyone is well and thank you, I also watched the documentary thank you for sharing with us and I found out on twitter there's ANOTHER UPDATE patch 2.1 coming and a live stream with some legends :) wow thank you so much for all your dedication support and hard work and communicating with us too THANK YOU :)
It’s cool already knowing this but seeing a story video on it is just so cool
Please keep these comin this is awesome
Can't wait for the next one!!!
Jakie to jest zajebiste :D Oby tak dalej!!!
I hope there is more of these videos of lore for other corporations and countries in the Cyberpunk universe
Du lore, quel respect pour l'oeuvre: allez dites nous qu'il y aura du contenu bientôt!
These are great and super interesting. Great too have some more backstory!
I wish we got more of President Myers in PL. It seems like she was a savvy politician who understood how to work people. We also didn't really get a sense of NUSA's and "Washington's" motivations.
I felt that too, Myers has valid reasons for the things she does. Everyone in this story compromises ethics to achieve their goals, including V. Nobody gets out clean in a Cyberpunk story.
great pleasure to see this video, maybe a bit too soon
Brilliant, keep them coming. Reminds me a bit of the animatrix.
This is awesome I really hope that a movie or series can be done on this timeline in cyberpunk.
new Amstaff Power Shotgun is sick
If you wanna just keep pumping these out for years until Cyberpunk 2 comes out...I'd happily just start throwing money at my screen. GGWP.
This is absolutely amazing
I love this
These are so epic. Please keep them coming!
Keep it coming, you gorgeous beasts!
thank you that's great to put players up to date when playing the paper RPG! (though officially stuck in 2045)
Very cool. I love listening to Cyberpunk's lore.
Yesss!! Chapter 2!! Now I’m excited for chapter 3!!😍😍
This reminds me of reading the source material and original game manuals from the table top rpg game before the games release, ngl tho I kinda wish there was more retro punk type aesthetic in the game like the original 2020 book
Cyberpunk already has an anime. Now just make it into a series with the same passion as the anime had and we good to go. Having a series telling the story of this world would be amazing
mmm nice video! wacthing every one and then ill re watch it again ;D
이 시리즈 너무 좋다아 몰입감이 더욱 올라갑니다!
These lore videos are amazing!
Keep giving us lore pills, thank you CDPR!