@@jennatolls9543 It wouldn't have been satisfying anyway. The Gigs are too short. They're basically just slightly longer versions of Scanner Hustles. If you set out to do all the side content in 2077, and I'm speaking from experience here, you'll spend roughly 50-60% of your time driving and/or fast traveling all across the map because all the Hustles, Gigs, Cyberpsycho sightings and quite a few Side Jobs are all just super fucking short "Kill [x amount of people]" or "Retrieve [x data] from building". There are a few that are like..."Don't get seen/caught" but those only add a slight amount of extra depth to the mission.
This whole game hit me super-hard. Didn't help that my Mum died not long ago, so Jackie just ebbing out like that with nothing I could do had me literally bawling my eyes out. That and the other mission where the guy asks you to be the one to end him and stay with him until he dies. This game is a fucking masterpiece.
It's sad because CDPR always promised that. I don't know why marketing team decided it's gonna be good to advertise 2077 like it's next GTA. Their advertisement for Witcher 3 (which all people forgot) was "we're gonna do open world big like Skyrim but we're gonna actually give a crap about story aspects" And for Cyberpunk 2077 they wanted to do the same thing but bring non-linear gameplay mechanics into play (inspired by Skyrim and Deus Ex). There's actually interview with Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz talking about it.
it is a story game, the open world is just a bonus ( even if the city is mindblowing and probably the most impressive ive ever seen in a game ), the main reason you buy this game still is for the story, side quests and characters. Way too many people thought this would be a futuristic GTA in my opinion
exactly, I understand the critiques of the NPC AI, cops AI and some missing features (to a degree, we all know the general public became absolutely mental with the hype and started to fantasize about the game being a literal life simulator at some point) It really is on the same vein as TW3 or Mass Effect even, its all about history, most people were expecting the "blank-slate" type of RPG, more akin to New Vegas or even Skyrim, more classic type of RPG but it isn't, its a heavy-story based RPG, V is like a Shepard o Geralt, and thats okay, would the game with a more trad RPG style have the same story? I don't think so, in my opinion, it was the good choice to invest more on story than on pure RPG aspects, I replay TW3 regulary because its story, not its gameplay, BUT, I think that CDPR coulda just invest a little bit more on the gameplay side, a Social stat, even if simplified, a la Skyrim, could have been great, but oh well, the game, aside from the perfomance and technical issues is amazing, I really hope CDPR fixes it and adds some missing features in the future, its a shame that any type of discussion is shunt down instantly because the issues and missing content.
@@pawe1721 It's marketing. If you the smoking package says "Smoking is cool" and then you die after smoking do you complain? Come on guys this is capitalism...you all know better. I'm glad I'm a sceptical person and got to enjoy this game for what the talented artists envisioned it to be. Also Witcher 3 was nothing like GTA either. Previous work is always the best indicator of the next project.
@@pawe1721 “advertise like it’s the next GTA” They misadvertised like crazy but under no way did they advertise like it was going to be the next GTA. What the hell. People, mostly hardcore rockstar fans, expected a GTA-like game. The whole thing of being GTA-like is what people embedded into each other’s mind. Also because the first thing people think when hearing open-world is GTA. I really can’t give them the wrong though but still.
@@ExquisiteFailure if you have enough friendship with Johnny at the end on the roof, he asks you that if you don't choose any option for like 5 minutes. That's also how you do the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" ending
@@Mitsumejin Leaving with the nomads definitely seemed worth it to me. You're with Panam and Judy can come to if you romanced her as female V. The secret ending is more of a blaze of glory ending then it is a happy one and the Nomad ending is probably the closest to happiness V gets in the end of this game.
@@zSTALKn no but playing it seriously and spoiler free ,first ending is the one that matters the most as it is purely based on your decisions and trust and attachment to characters .
@@razorxlvii4852 It took me about 20 mins asking friends without spoilers what they chose, and then thinking about what every character and v did together and then finally chose to let rogue and Johnny go at it, because every ending if you think about it ends with V dying inevitably so I thought maybe go out with a bang and give someone else who shares the same opinion a go at another life because silverhand saved v's so it's v's to return the favor once more and at least a legend will remember another legend.
The funny thing on my first play through is I waited like over 15 minutes. I should’ve been able to see the alternate ending then, but somehow I screwed up with Johnny on the last 10% and was ineligible. Found out about it later. Still the best ending. However it sucks if you have a romance going because you know what’s the outcome
In the end, the one I chose above all is asking help from Panam, but at the very end (spoiler ahead) Leave my body to Johnny. If I had to die in 6 months anyway, better he keep my body, while I become something more, while I search a way to return, one way or another. I may now be part of Alt, but I came this far, fighting off the Arasaka, Smasher and in the end escaping Death, in a way. If I could go beyond the Blackwall, what stops me to one day come home ?
Really goes to show how insignificant you really are to this world and the corps that run it. This technology is not only killing you, but overwriting and replacing your soul. Its caused you just about the worst possible fate a person can experience. Yet there it is, advertised as a product to the masses, as if the suffering it caused you had never happened. No one here gives a shit about V. Hes just another disposable consumer. A source of profit for the elite. Nothing else. They could care less that their product is killing you.
This ad only plays when you’re deciding which ending to go. It reverts back when you’re done talking with Johnny and thought it was a cool detail. It’s pretty ironic the arasaka logo is above it too lol
@@KhapriSun Actually if you think about it, every cyberpunk story is telling you that the most important things in life are the relationships you've made, not the gadgets or tech, or money, or power, just the people you meet and how they add meaning to your life.
@@Shadi_Wajed that is really true. I feel like it's easy to look at just the realism and pessimism of this story, but it also tries to teach you something. I think the suicide ending is sort of a good example. seeing in the credits how your closest friends and love interest reacts to the news. what especially stood out for me was Misty's line "I don't think you really knew how many friends you had" real gut punching game lol
@@KhapriSun Exactly, and the entire story of Johnny, and him realizing that that all his efforts to achieve greatness were futile, and his relationship with his friends were more important and he should've focused on it, and that what he tried to fix the second time, and if you chose at the end to let Johnny take your body, you find that he doesn't care about Arasaka or the any news about the corpos anymore, and he leaves the city to really live his life instead.
The suicide ending really tells you a lot why suicide is not an option. Because you can see in the end credits when all your friends hear about what you did they're all really sad. And suicide doesn't hurt you but mostly all your friends. You can even hear Misty saying "You didn't realise just how many friends you had."
That's not an argument. Because when you die, you stop caring about who you hurt and what kind of consequences it will have. Because there is no more *you.* You are a cold rotting corpse. And unlike everyone in NC, you're no longer moving trying to do more harm
For me the suicide ending was the third best ending because you just fade quietly turn into another number in night City we're trying to sleep might be better than getting a bunch of people killed and causing all that hassle just to save one life
Think my favorite ending was the new Phantom Liberty ending because it basically means V is forced to live a quiet life to as dex would have put it "dying of old age slightly smelling of piss"
That seems crazy though. That someone should be forced to live in absolute suffering, just because other people can't handle them not being there. That ones life doesn't belong to oneself and that they're effectively forced to be born into and live within this world and they have no say in the matter. It's literal hell.
1:17 Due to this song's despondence and tempo, you can truly *feel* how exhausted V is at the end of this journey. The emotion-invoking music, painstakingly detailed environments, and fantastic writing made any bugs in this game wholly irrelevent to me.
I played this cp2077 from the first day on and had fun even tho there were bugs I didnt even notice those since I wasnt looking out to trash the game. From the begining the Story and the realness of Night City just chained me into to the game. It took me 4 total days to complete the main missions but I really feelt every second of the game. and one thing I have to say the songs/Story matters more than the bugs to me.
You get a real sense of despondency at this point. V is dying and has so few options left. The secret ending feels like the only right choice. Anyone who has had a run at the ending with Rogue, Panam or Takemura knows that they all fall short. Going solo with Johnny feels like the only right choice.
@@sntshkmr60why do so many people do that. I leave v in his body. It's his body. Johnny can go with alt. He'd still exist. Just digitally. If Iwas v I'd never leave my own body
No, the game is dogshit, the Ai is awful, the atmosphere isn’t fully polished, the city feels empty after the first 20 hours of the game. BUUUT I got a hell of a ride with it. Truly failed masterpiece, if RED spent another year or two behind the shutter (with actual work and not fooling people with overhyped marketing) it would definitely had been one of the most iconic games to date
@@ogfatdante You might be correct but the cult of CDPR will bootlick like there is no tomorrow. I only bought the game after it went on a sale because that was exactly how much it was worth. It truly became a somewhat modern game with the 1.5 version. I am positively expecting that CDPR will drop it after a single DLC at which point they'll start overhyping the next game in the series
My favourite 2021 game. This game generally made me forget about the real world for a bit. The writing, characters, city, emotions. Truly spectacular. My street kid V just wanted to be a legend but found Panam and the Aldecados, realised life wasn’t better in night city and that family meant more. My corpo V though, alcoholic, womaniser. Relied on no one, and did the secret ending. It’s like Skye says ‘If you have to kill, kill, if you need to burn it to the ground, then let it burn’
@@imradioactive0309 yeah sure the game could of been better and had a good release but people are generally ‘shitting’ on a masterpiece. Here I stand at 300 hours and a 4th play through. You can honestly tell the devs put the work in for this game, but couldn’t keep up with the project due to the corpos and shareholders.
@@sandevastated1 true im just waiting for a story expansion , f those people who have stupid problems but i respect those who have real problems like overpromising advertisement or bugs. i support the devs with my full heart.
Cyberpunk 2077. A game where a dying man tries to chase greatness and fame before his time is up, before he is forgotten just like any other no name who shared the misfortune of being swallowed up by night city. What he doesn't realise, until it's too late, is that through the people he has met and friendships he has made, that his name won't just be forgotten. He chased what he already had to the point of death. RIP V ❤🙏🏾
@@yxnxs_0805 don''t all endings eventually result in his death at some point? cuz he wasn't cured in any of them from what I rememeber, unless there's one im forgetting
It's pretty much instant tears when I hear this track. No other game has made me face my own mortality like this one. I have lost family and friends. People I loved dearly. I know the pain of being the one left behind all too well. V's story taught me there is a worse fate, and it's being the one who leaves others behind.
this place was my favorite, I always look around when playing, I looked directly to my left and I saw "The World" tarot on the wall, basically a straight up signal from the game saying "this is it the end of The fool's journey" having done the side quest with the tarots already it really hit especially from what Misty said: "You either make peace with the world, or you declare victory"
Everytime I hear this track, it sucks me back in. Back to night city, the roof top, memories of everything I've done in cyberpunk and all the lives affected by what I've done and will do. Haunting and beautiful. Given the choice, who knows what I would pick. This game is more than breath taking, it's soul crushing
This scene is so perfectly setup. Just sitting, staring, and mulling over your options while looking out over Night City, then the details of what's in front of you start to hit you and it makes choosing even harder. SECURE YOUR SOUL
im not sure if this was a placebo effect, but i noticed that throughout the game, the closer you got to the ending, johnny got less and less glitchy, less like something from the relic, and more like a real person
I know it’s strange but you can hear no feel the pain in each note that comes out and not just for v but for Johnny to because he knows how it feels to die and he doesn’t want the same for v and they both know that one of them is not coming back from arasaka tower......”goodbye v and never stop fightin”
"If I gotta die, rather fall into my grave gun in hand and on fire. And not drag anyone down with me." "Huh, you just discovered what it takes to become a legend... Grab your iron - let's mobilize." "Time to party like it's 2023." Let's attack Arasaka solo! 🦾😈🤟🏼
"Come a long way to get here, haven't we? Just think - it all started in a fuckin' landfill." No... it all started back in January 10, 2013 when that teaser came out, and then proceeding to wait 7 years, the entire life cylce of the PS4 and Xbox One, to get to this very moment. Was it worth it? Yes.
When Jackie and Panam had moments where they needed meds, both in a car strangely enough, I could not stop thinking to myself "dude, here. I have 144 MaxDocs you can have as many as you need."
i remember this scene on the rooftop back when it was 2021, i was in my bed with my laptop playing, and felt suffocated, in many ways, we're like v, we look for reasons for the stuff happening to us, we look for the most painless way to live, and by the end of it, death is inevitable, as desperate V was, all the world was at that time, we didn't know who will live, who will die, if it will ever end. It hit me hard, the pandemic was at its peak, and i found myself crying for those who couldn't make it because of the pandemic and didn't get to play this masterpiece.
The visuals on the roof where definitely some of the best in the entire game imo Beautiful colours the view of night city carrying on as usual as if nothing has happened even after all you have done in the game And right in front of you Arasaka tower Johnny and the ad for the relic 3 of the most important parts of the story in cyberpunk
I set a screenshot of this scene with the arasaka relic advert on the "secure your soul" part as my pc backround because GODDAMN if it isnt an amazing shot.
I love this game,its a very emotionally charged story with some great characters and the ending cutscenes are amazing,leaves you with a lump in your throat
how can someone play this game to the end , and still say that it is not a very good game? I mean sure , lot of stuff could have been done better , optimization , cut content etc. But what really matters is how a game unfolds , and how it ends... When I finish one of the assassin's creed (if I actually finish) , I don't even remember what happened 10 minutes ago. When I finished cyberpunk ,one of the endings , I wanted to sit in a corner of my room , I was so depressed. the game hits you , and it hits you hard. And this will always be how you know a game is good. graphics , even gameplay are secondary to this if your game's main goal is to tell a story. This is when you realize this game is really art. because it makes you feel more than some bits of fun , it gives you an emotional ride. cdpr always succeeded at doing that , that's why I think most people like their games. it's just so sad that this game has been cut of so much of it's potential... it's like seeing Rembrandt paint "The Night Watch" , then his patrons come , throw his tools away , take a shit on his painting , try to sell it , and blame the painter for the unfinished mess. And yet , someone with good eyes would quickly notice the amount of details and dedication beneath all the shit.
you know i did the suicide run and the ending credits hurt me even more than the credits after comitting suicide. i know that bonds we formed was the only actual point of this whole story but i think it's unfair. not just to v but to their friends too. my v saved kerry (and romanced him) from his obsession with the past, with the johnny, he made kerry look forward to the life and enjoy the present, not think of the past. but when v dies what will happen to kerry? what'll happen to river? to misty? to judy? to panam? to nibbles for fuck's sake? they all lost too much it's so so cruel to make them lose even more. i hate when games dont have any happy endings. dont get me wrong i absolutely ADORE cyberpunk 2077 it's a great and incredibly amuzing game. and i love that it actually shows us that it was all the friendships we made along the way (unlike many other stroies that tell us that but never prove). but it made me i dunno... lose hope? after finishing the game i feel the loneliest i have ever felt and now i am also out of hope. i never thought that there is any point in living whatsoever but at least i believed that you can make little good things. but now? i dont even have that. i feel like whatever i do nothing will ever affect anything and there's no sense in even trying because it will always go to waste. my life will go to waste. everyone else's will too. the game was so amazing and the story so strong it broke the last parts of me that contained all the hope i had left.
@@Pyrohawk well three sentences earlier i was talking about the negative effect. the one that’s out of my control, the one that might ruin them. i’m saying that i feel like whatever i do to make anything at least a little better - it won’t do shit. if you were talking about kerry then sorry i wasn’t sure how to properly express my thought. but i don’t think kerry is ready to move on without v. i don’t think v’s soon death won’t ruin him. if v died 10 years later then perhaps kerry would be alright. and that’s the thing. nothing mattered. judy would leave night city either way. panam probably would still be the head of aldecaldos with soul even without out help. river would still get kicked out of ncpd and im sure he would still make up with his sister - one way or another. we messed with arasaka, sure, but corpos are still fucking thriving no matter what we do. if you look closely - nothing really changes. and that’s just fucking with my head.
@@nikeun510 yeah, the story in the game is fucking bleak, thats pretty par for course with the genre. But i mean in life. The negative effects are only there because of the immense positive effects you have on the people around you. Noone mourns the loss of bad things... Stay positive. We can't change the world. But we can make the world better for the people important to us. In my opinion, that's more than enough. And think of it like this... You leave a positive impact, improve people's lives, they become happier, more positive... that impact radiates to their friends, and that radiates to theirs.. its an infection. With enough effort, slowly, the world begins to smile.
What I find really crazy is that this perspective of the city must've been the very first concept, just for the motif, and then they built an entire city around it.
“If I gotta die, rather fall into my grave gun in hand and on fire. And not drag anyone else down with me” “Youve just discovered what it takes to become a legend. Grab your iron. Lets mobilize!”
A lot of us personalize this track with moment when V chooses his/her path. Think about it tho... all of the sick things you can witness in this game like mass poverty, mind controlling, corpos trying to destroy your soul... hell, there's even a theory that Biotechnika clones human meat in those creepy cow-farms of theirs. If you think about it all, you realize that that's what this track is truly about. It doesn't matter what you choose, or who you save, because this world is truly hopeless. It will end one way or another, and the only thing right now is to choose which part of this neon void you will be.
When V found out he only had a limited time to live even after having removed the biochip that moment had me frozen the way he leaned and just couldn’t accept his fate. All he did only for a temporary release
Putting aside the glitches and false promises; this game is by far one of the best games in terms of emersion. The soundtrack, the natural dialogue and brilliant voice acting of the npc in combination with the phenomenal ambience of the world makes you become hooked and emotionally invested in the game. There is a reoccurring theme of melancholy throughout the whole game which is carried heavily by the story in combination with the looks of a run down night city and the mournfull soundtrack seen here. I have yet to see a game that can copy this kind of artistic display.
I played cyberpunk at release and even though I knew it wasn't a 10/10 in practice it was 10/10 in spirit, any game that makes you think about your own mortal life and different events in life is a great game, even this scene and this music kind of canvasses what I am trying to say, I have yet to play the DLC and the improved original game, but I wanted to spoil myself when I upgraded to 4k on a 5090 with max settings ray tracing etc
Suffering through an insane headache right now. I feel like this is how V feels when the Relic Malfunctions. The gaspings for air, the helplessness, I feel it.
Oh the dread I felt the first time I got to this stage and had to pick a plan 💀 your choices may not actually matter much, but if the game manages to convince you that they do, does it even matter? I was on edge with every choice I had to make my first play-through
When I hear this music I have some scenes before my eyes: *Abby kills Joel, The Last of Us Part 2. *Shepard sacrifices himself for synthesis, Mass Effect 3. *Desmond sacrifices himself in order to protect humanity from Sun in 2012, Assassin's Creed III. *Sylvanas and Anduin in the Maw, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. *Johnny goes with Alt and save V, Cyberpunk 2077. *Detlaff's death, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine.
This choice was a point of terrible self reflection on how I played V, as not even Johnny was on my side. I’d fucked up panams story in the first mission locking me out of the rest, and took the opportunity to be an ass to Johnny the one time it mattered. Judy, I’d already called was the only relationship I hadn’t screwed over in the game. I genuinely considered the path of least resistance, before remembering- I’d come too far in trying to get rid of Johnny to let him take over. I downed the blockers and sold my soul to the devil (literally). That V is still waiting, until she can be a tapeworm on some poor soul who would dare try to steal a 'saka chip yorinobu.
i wish this game was like the original trailer a dark gritty city, dirty with steam pipes like here. does anyone know any movies with this sort of gritty setting like matrix 1 and dark city. terminator feels similar in this vibe i guess
It's extremely cathartic for people who've wanted to say, "fuck it all." You can just feel how tired, exhuasted, and fed up with his reality V is at this point. He's sick of Johnny. He's sick of Arasaka. He's sick of watching people die. He just wants it to end.
Everytime Johnny began to talk about his revolution, about how corpos are the worst thing in the world and this music started... and then, when I knew it was gonna be the last time I would listen it... it broke me, and in some way, it still does
Don't fear the reaper was a great ending if you beat the challenge you get probably the second best ending in the game no one dead and your a legend in NC but if ypu fail you get the suicide end credits which is pretty much what you do entering Arasaka's front door very well thought out I think
The end of a journey was there. Deciding what option is the best decision for V, but also thinking about the consequences you'll bring upon yourself and for others. Not an easy choice regardless.
Crazy how hard Jackie’s death changes the entire atmosphere of the game
He was a bright light in the neon-filled streets of Night City. One that was all too soon, and all too easily, snuffed out.
It’s sad to think that all the gig missions could have been done with Jackie but all of them only involved us alone
@@jennatolls9543 It wouldn't have been satisfying anyway. The Gigs are too short. They're basically just slightly longer versions of Scanner Hustles. If you set out to do all the side content in 2077, and I'm speaking from experience here, you'll spend roughly 50-60% of your time driving and/or fast traveling all across the map because all the Hustles, Gigs, Cyberpsycho sightings and quite a few Side Jobs are all just super fucking short "Kill [x amount of people]" or "Retrieve [x data] from building". There are a few that are like..."Don't get seen/caught" but those only add a slight amount of extra depth to the mission.
@@CB-141 Sure side gigs are boring but the side jobs were super good
This whole game hit me super-hard. Didn't help that my Mum died not long ago, so Jackie just ebbing out like that with nothing I could do had me literally bawling my eyes out. That and the other mission where the guy asks you to be the one to end him and stay with him until he dies.
This game is a fucking masterpiece.
I feel like when playing this game I treated it as a story game rather than an open world game so I appreciated it much more
It's sad because CDPR always promised that. I don't know why marketing team decided it's gonna be good to advertise 2077 like it's next GTA.
Their advertisement for Witcher 3 (which all people forgot) was "we're gonna do open world big like Skyrim but we're gonna actually give a crap about story aspects"
And for Cyberpunk 2077 they wanted to do the same thing but bring non-linear gameplay mechanics into play (inspired by Skyrim and Deus Ex). There's actually interview with Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz talking about it.
it is a story game, the open world is just a bonus ( even if the city is mindblowing and probably the most impressive ive ever seen in a game ), the main reason you buy this game still is for the story, side quests and characters. Way too many people thought this would be a futuristic GTA in my opinion
exactly, I understand the critiques of the NPC AI, cops AI and some missing features (to a degree, we all know the general public became absolutely mental with the hype and started to fantasize about the game being a literal life simulator at some point)
It really is on the same vein as TW3 or Mass Effect even, its all about history, most people were expecting the "blank-slate" type of RPG, more akin to New Vegas or even Skyrim, more classic type of RPG but it isn't, its a heavy-story based RPG, V is like a Shepard o Geralt, and thats okay, would the game with a more trad RPG style have the same story? I don't think so, in my opinion, it was the good choice to invest more on story than on pure RPG aspects, I replay TW3 regulary because its story, not its gameplay, BUT, I think that CDPR coulda just invest a little bit more on the gameplay side, a Social stat, even if simplified, a la Skyrim, could have been great, but oh well, the game, aside from the perfomance and technical issues is amazing, I really hope CDPR fixes it and adds some missing features in the future, its a shame that any type of discussion is shunt down instantly because the issues and missing content.
@@pawe1721 It's marketing. If you the smoking package says "Smoking is cool" and then you die after smoking do you complain? Come on guys this is capitalism...you all know better. I'm glad I'm a sceptical person and got to enjoy this game for what the talented artists envisioned it to be.
Also Witcher 3 was nothing like GTA either. Previous work is always the best indicator of the next project.
@@pawe1721 “advertise like it’s the next GTA”
They misadvertised like crazy but under no way did they advertise like it was going to be the next GTA. What the hell. People, mostly hardcore rockstar fans, expected a GTA-like game. The whole thing of being GTA-like is what people embedded into each other’s mind. Also because the first thing people think when hearing open-world is GTA. I really can’t give them the wrong though but still.
"Hard to decide which of your friends get to die, isn't it?"
Who said that? Either way it's a badass quote.
@@ExquisiteFailure Johnny
@@victorangel_naranjo2178 I must've missed it. Thanks for clearing that up.
@@ExquisiteFailure 👌
@@ExquisiteFailure if you have enough friendship with Johnny at the end on the roof, he asks you that if you don't choose any option for like 5 minutes. That's also how you do the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" ending
Me waiting for the secret ending dialogue to trigger
But it never happens, here is the bruh moment
@@infectionn1283 It happens if Johnny likes you at the end
I only did the secret ending never did the others it just wasn’t worth it
@@Mitsumejin Leaving with the nomads definitely seemed worth it to me. You're with Panam and Judy can come to if you romanced her as female V. The secret ending is more of a blaze of glory ending then it is a happy one and the Nomad ending is probably the closest to happiness V gets in the end of this game.
@@suburbannegro411 I felt like the only way to beat the game was to go down in a blaze of glory
It all started in a fuckin' landfill. - Johnny Silverhand
"then you tried to kill me."
@@Luxan-yf4rv "See, exactly what I mean,. Tryna save your sorry hide now"
the hardest moment in game
Panam (and Johnny) first, Rogue, then Takemura. Why pick just one when you can experience it all?
my body went cold as ice at this moment.
@@zSTALKn no but playing it seriously and spoiler free ,first ending is the one that matters the most as it is purely based on your decisions and trust and attachment to characters .
Complete all side quests before doing all the main quests equals overpowered player to kill all the guards and boss go all in or don't become a legend
@@imradioactive0309 lol I killed myself haven't been able to play since female v voice acting killed it during the suicide ending
POV: You've spent 9 minutes and 35 seconds trying to figure out which ending you want to get
Sorry for the necro'ing, but...9 minutes and 35? :D
For me it was like 30 mins, I swear
@@razorxlvii4852 It took me about 20 mins asking friends without spoilers what they chose, and then thinking about what every character and v did together and then finally chose to let rogue and Johnny go at it, because every ending if you think about it ends with V dying inevitably so I thought maybe go out with a bang and give someone else who shares the same opinion a go at another life because silverhand saved v's so it's v's to return the favor once more and at least a legend will remember another legend.
You get a secret ending if you wait 5 minutes...
The funny thing on my first play through is I waited like over 15 minutes. I should’ve been able to see the alternate ending then, but somehow I screwed up with Johnny on the last 10% and was ineligible.
Found out about it later. Still the best ending. However it sucks if you have a romance going because you know what’s the outcome
In the end, the one I chose above all is asking help from Panam, but at the very end (spoiler ahead)
Leave my body to Johnny.
If I had to die in 6 months anyway, better he keep my body, while I become something more, while I search a way to return, one way or another.
I may now be part of Alt, but I came this far, fighting off the Arasaka, Smasher and in the end escaping Death, in a way.
If I could go beyond the Blackwall, what stops me to one day come home ?
"SECURE YOUR SOUL - RELIC" that ad made me have flashbacks to the junkyard.
Woh I never realised that was there. Something that has so drastically ruined Vs life is just a simple advertisement in the world.
@@sparta117corza me neither!
It's also foreshadowing what can happen in one of the endings
Really goes to show how insignificant you really are to this world and the corps that run it. This technology is not only killing you, but overwriting and replacing your soul. Its caused you just about the worst possible fate a person can experience.
Yet there it is, advertised as a product to the masses, as if the suffering it caused you had never happened.
No one here gives a shit about V. Hes just another disposable consumer. A source of profit for the elite. Nothing else. They could care less that their product is killing you.
This ad only plays when you’re deciding which ending to go. It reverts back when you’re done talking with Johnny and thought it was a cool detail. It’s pretty ironic the arasaka logo is above it too lol
the PAIN in each note, this game really hits you hard. actually amazing, but in a depressing way lmao
You have just described the entire cyberpunk genre :D
@@Shadi_Wajed its so depressing 😭
@@KhapriSun Actually if you think about it, every cyberpunk story is telling you that the most important things in life are the relationships you've made, not the gadgets or tech, or money, or power, just the people you meet and how they add meaning to your life.
@@Shadi_Wajed that is really true. I feel like it's easy to look at just the realism and pessimism of this story, but it also tries to teach you something. I think the suicide ending is sort of a good example. seeing in the credits how your closest friends and love interest reacts to the news. what especially stood out for me was Misty's line "I don't think you really knew how many friends you had" real gut punching game lol
@@KhapriSun Exactly, and the entire story of Johnny, and him realizing that that all his efforts to achieve greatness were futile, and his relationship with his friends were more important and he should've focused on it, and that what he tried to fix the second time, and if you chose at the end to let Johnny take your body, you find that he doesn't care about Arasaka or the any news about the corpos anymore, and he leaves the city to really live his life instead.
The suicide ending really tells you a lot why suicide is not an option. Because you can see in the end credits when all your friends hear about what you did they're all really sad. And suicide doesn't hurt you but mostly all your friends. You can even hear Misty saying "You didn't realise just how many friends you had."
Judy’s reaction to it always got me :(
That's not an argument. Because when you die, you stop caring about who you hurt and what kind of consequences it will have. Because there is no more *you.* You are a cold rotting corpse. And unlike everyone in NC, you're no longer moving trying to do more harm
For me the suicide ending was the third best ending because you just fade quietly turn into another number in night City we're trying to sleep might be better than getting a bunch of people killed and causing all that hassle just to save one life
Think my favorite ending was the new Phantom Liberty ending because it basically means V is forced to live a quiet life to as dex would have put it "dying of old age slightly smelling of piss"
That seems crazy though. That someone should be forced to live in absolute suffering, just because other people can't handle them not being there. That ones life doesn't belong to oneself and that they're effectively forced to be born into and live within this world and they have no say in the matter. It's literal hell.
1:17 Due to this song's despondence and tempo, you can truly *feel* how exhausted V is at the end of this journey. The emotion-invoking music, painstakingly detailed environments, and fantastic writing made any bugs in this game wholly irrelevent to me.
pain and hopelessness
Imagine if the devs were given time and we had a full game to play. :>
I played this cp2077 from the first day on and had fun even tho there were bugs I didnt even notice those since I wasnt looking out to trash the game.
From the begining the Story and the realness of Night City just chained me into to the game.
It took me 4 total days to complete the main missions but I really feelt every second of the game.
and one thing I have to say the songs/Story matters more than the bugs to me.
@@talhakoek Exactly man. Some people were out to trash the game from the start.
You get a real sense of despondency at this point. V is dying and has so few options left. The secret ending feels like the only right choice. Anyone who has had a run at the ending with Rogue, Panam or Takemura knows that they all fall short. Going solo with Johnny feels like the only right choice.
during this game, i feel like i was V.
maybe it's the first time that i'm so immersed into a game
Same
Yeah same, crazy thing i use the same username in my xbox so people call me V or VK and that game made me feel more immersed
Yeah, the music and dialogues made me cry when I was kicking him out of my life/body in Mikoshi.
@@sntshkmr60why do so many people do that. I leave v in his body. It's his body. Johnny can go with alt. He'd still exist. Just digitally. If Iwas v I'd never leave my own body
“Time to party like it’s 2023.”
Aged well
Best ending
The pain in every sound...
I'll never forget how awesome this game was, let the haters hate.
A masterpiece
YES
No, the game is dogshit, the Ai is awful, the atmosphere isn’t fully polished, the city feels empty after the first 20 hours of the game. BUUUT I got a hell of a ride with it. Truly failed masterpiece, if RED spent another year or two behind the shutter (with actual work and not fooling people with overhyped marketing) it would definitely had been one of the most iconic games to date
@@ogfatdante You might be correct but the cult of CDPR will bootlick like there is no tomorrow. I only bought the game after it went on a sale because that was exactly how much it was worth. It truly became a somewhat modern game with the 1.5 version. I am positively expecting that CDPR will drop it after a single DLC at which point they'll start overhyping the next game in the series
@@johnecoapollo7 ikr?? I always see those guys on cyberpunk videos that are like “the devs cared it wasn’t their fault” and “it’s such a masterpiece”
My favourite 2021 game. This game generally made me forget about the real world for a bit. The writing, characters, city, emotions. Truly spectacular. My street kid V just wanted to be a legend but found Panam and the Aldecados, realised life wasn’t better in night city and that family meant more. My corpo V though, alcoholic, womaniser. Relied on no one, and did the secret ending. It’s like Skye says ‘If you have to kill, kill, if you need to burn it to the ground, then let it burn’
me too ,it made me forget about reality and i started thinking i was v.
@@imradioactive0309 yeah sure the game could of been better and had a good release but people are generally ‘shitting’ on a masterpiece. Here I stand at 300 hours and a 4th play through. You can honestly tell the devs put the work in for this game, but couldn’t keep up with the project due to the corpos and shareholders.
@@sandevastated1 true im just waiting for a story expansion , f those people who have stupid problems but i respect those who have real problems like overpromising advertisement or bugs. i support the devs with my full heart.
2020 game*
@@n_word_gaming yeah I know, I just played it in 2021
Cyberpunk 2077. A game where a dying man tries to chase greatness and fame before his time is up, before he is forgotten just like any other no name who shared the misfortune of being swallowed up by night city. What he doesn't realise, until it's too late, is that through the people he has met and friendships he has made, that his name won't just be forgotten. He chased what he already had to the point of death. RIP V ❤🙏🏾
Or woman
@@iainkilcar7463 don’t ruin it dude…
he‘s not really dead it depends on your ending
@@yxnxs_0805 don''t all endings eventually result in his death at some point? cuz he wasn't cured in any of them from what I rememeber, unless there's one im forgetting
@@KhapriSunThey get cured in DLC, if they pick a specific path.
Although not everything goes as intended.
It's pretty much instant tears when I hear this track. No other game has made me face my own mortality like this one.
I have lost family and friends. People I loved dearly. I know the pain of being the one left behind all too well.
V's story taught me there is a worse fate, and it's being the one who leaves others behind.
this place was my favorite, I always look around when playing, I looked directly to my left and I saw "The World" tarot on the wall, basically a straight up signal from the game saying "this is it the end of The fool's journey" having done the side quest with the tarots already it really hit especially from what Misty said: "You either make peace with the world, or you declare victory"
The soundtrack of this game is so goddamn sad. So good
"Just put it all to rest..."
This is the option the CD Projekt managers will take lol
@@mostlypixels2975 The hype train left the station way too early :/ Guess they reaping what the sown
@@mostlypixels2975 not quite
@@mostlypixels2975this did not age really well lol
@@mostlypixels2975in fact it did not age all that well
Everytime I hear this track, it sucks me back in.
Back to night city, the roof top, memories of everything I've done in cyberpunk and all the lives affected by what I've done and will do.
Haunting and beautiful.
Given the choice, who knows what I would pick.
This game is more than breath taking, it's soul crushing
The irony of the Relic sign being there.
This scene is so perfectly setup. Just sitting, staring, and mulling over your options while looking out over Night City, then the details of what's in front of you start to hit you and it makes choosing even harder. SECURE YOUR SOUL
Generally my favourite game
Genuinely?
It's a fun game.
bruh the amount of people who think genuinely is generally
@@n_word_gamingit's generally insane the amount of people who think that😂😂
S E C U R E
YOUR SOUL
im not sure if this was a placebo effect, but i noticed that throughout the game, the closer you got to the ending, johnny got less and less glitchy, less like something from the relic, and more like a real person
hm, thinking about it I can see that as well
Nah that's definitely the case, I guess as your body starts making more and more room for him, he starts to integrate gradually and more naturally
This is probably mt favorite track in the game. It really captures the desperation and exhaustion that not only V has, but everyone within Night City.
It also somehow manages to capture rage while being so somber.
I know it’s strange but you can hear no feel the pain in each note that comes out and not just for v but for Johnny to because he knows how it feels to die and he doesn’t want the same for v and they both know that one of them is not coming back from arasaka tower......”goodbye v and never stop fightin”
I assume everyone went and searched for Chopin Nocturne Op.55 No.1 after listening to this? If not, highly recommended!
is there a bass and drums version of that song ???
POV: it’s 2024 and you’re missing V just as much as your missing Jackie and Johnny.
attaboy, Kimi! Let's hope the composer knows that we're kinda hungry for the complete score of Cyberpunk 2077.
"If I gotta die, rather fall into my grave gun in hand and on fire. And not drag anyone down with me."
"Huh, you just discovered what it takes to become a legend... Grab your iron - let's mobilize."
"Time to party like it's 2023."
Let's attack Arasaka solo! 🦾😈🤟🏼
I love how the secure your soul ad is in the background, unconsciously driving the player to make that choice even if it’s the wrong one
This music is a soul pain reflection
It’s a shame that this gameripped ambient sountrack will probably be forgotten since it wasn’t included in the ost album.
"Come a long way to get here, haven't we? Just think - it all started in a fuckin' landfill."
No... it all started back in January 10, 2013 when that teaser came out, and then proceeding to wait 7 years, the entire life cylce of the PS4 and Xbox One, to get to this very moment. Was it worth it? Yes.
When Jackie and Panam had moments where they needed meds, both in a car strangely enough, I could not stop thinking to myself "dude, here. I have 144 MaxDocs you can have as many as you need."
Thank you so much. I literally looked everywhere for this. You are the MVP!
i remember this scene on the rooftop back when it was 2021, i was in my bed with my laptop playing, and felt suffocated, in many ways, we're like v, we look for reasons for the stuff happening to us, we look for the most painless way to live, and by the end of it, death is inevitable, as desperate V was, all the world was at that time, we didn't know who will live, who will die, if it will ever end.
It hit me hard, the pandemic was at its peak, and i found myself crying for those who couldn't make it because of the pandemic and didn't get to play this masterpiece.
I always come back when i'm in the feels.
The soundtrack is so impactful. One of the best things in the game
The visuals on the roof where definitely some of the best in the entire game imo
Beautiful colours
the view of night city carrying on as usual as if nothing has happened even after all you have done in the game
And right in front of you
Arasaka tower Johnny and the ad for the relic
3 of the most important parts of the story in cyberpunk
This gives me Bladerunner vibes
Immersion is when you half expect Johnny silverhand to come round the corner irl
Got a strong True Detective vibe from this track.
I set a screenshot of this scene with the arasaka relic advert on the "secure your soul" part as my pc backround because GODDAMN if it isnt an amazing shot.
Man.... I just realised something, every ost in this game invokes certain emotions, that's just crazy
I love this game,its a very emotionally charged story with some great characters and the ending cutscenes are amazing,leaves you with a lump in your throat
The only game ... that actualy made me cry in a long time ... i love this game and hate it at the same time of how depressing i felt after the end
how can someone play this game to the end , and still say that it is not a very good game?
I mean sure , lot of stuff could have been done better , optimization , cut content etc.
But what really matters is how a game unfolds , and how it ends...
When I finish one of the assassin's creed (if I actually finish) , I don't even remember what happened 10 minutes ago.
When I finished cyberpunk ,one of the endings , I wanted to sit in a corner of my room , I was so depressed.
the game hits you , and it hits you hard.
And this will always be how you know a game is good.
graphics , even gameplay are secondary to this if your game's main goal is to tell a story.
This is when you realize this game is really art.
because it makes you feel more than some bits of fun , it gives you an emotional ride.
cdpr always succeeded at doing that , that's why I think most people like their games.
it's just so sad that this game has been cut of so much of it's potential... it's like seeing Rembrandt paint "The Night Watch" , then his patrons come , throw his tools away , take a shit on his painting , try to sell it , and blame the painter for the unfinished mess. And yet , someone with good eyes would quickly notice the amount of details and dedication beneath all the shit.
you know i did the suicide run and the ending credits hurt me even more than the credits after comitting suicide. i know that bonds we formed was the only actual point of this whole story but i think it's unfair. not just to v but to their friends too. my v saved kerry (and romanced him) from his obsession with the past, with the johnny, he made kerry look forward to the life and enjoy the present, not think of the past. but when v dies what will happen to kerry? what'll happen to river? to misty? to judy? to panam? to nibbles for fuck's sake? they all lost too much it's so so cruel to make them lose even more.
i hate when games dont have any happy endings. dont get me wrong i absolutely ADORE cyberpunk 2077 it's a great and incredibly amuzing game. and i love that it actually shows us that it was all the friendships we made along the way (unlike many other stroies that tell us that but never prove). but it made me i dunno... lose hope? after finishing the game i feel the loneliest i have ever felt and now i am also out of hope. i never thought that there is any point in living whatsoever but at least i believed that you can make little good things. but now? i dont even have that. i feel like whatever i do nothing will ever affect anything and there's no sense in even trying because it will always go to waste. my life will go to waste. everyone else's will too. the game was so amazing and the story so strong it broke the last parts of me that contained all the hope i had left.
How can you say that nothing well affect anything, when just three sentences earlier you were talking about the effect you have on your friends?
@@Pyrohawk well three sentences earlier i was talking about the negative effect. the one that’s out of my control, the one that might ruin them. i’m saying that i feel like whatever i do to make anything at least a little better - it won’t do shit.
if you were talking about kerry then sorry i wasn’t sure how to properly express my thought. but i don’t think kerry is ready to move on without v. i don’t think v’s soon death won’t ruin him. if v died 10 years later then perhaps kerry would be alright. and that’s the thing. nothing mattered. judy would leave night city either way. panam probably would still be the head of aldecaldos with soul even without out help. river would still get kicked out of ncpd and im sure he would still make up with his sister - one way or another. we messed with arasaka, sure, but corpos are still fucking thriving no matter what we do. if you look closely - nothing really changes. and that’s just fucking with my head.
@@nikeun510 yeah, the story in the game is fucking bleak, thats pretty par for course with the genre.
But i mean in life. The negative effects are only there because of the immense positive effects you have on the people around you. Noone mourns the loss of bad things...
Stay positive. We can't change the world. But we can make the world better for the people important to us. In my opinion, that's more than enough.
And think of it like this... You leave a positive impact, improve people's lives, they become happier, more positive... that impact radiates to their friends, and that radiates to theirs.. its an infection. With enough effort, slowly, the world begins to smile.
@@Pyrohawk thank you
"Cyberpunk isn't about saving humanity. It's about saving yourself"
-Mike Pondsmith
Sometimes "self" is bigger than just your one body, though...
What I find really crazy is that this perspective of the city must've been the very first concept, just for the motif, and then they built an entire city around it.
Source: Just trust me bro
This song is how i feel when i think about what our society has become.
wdym what it has become? became from what? it's always been shit but now its clearly better, we dont burn people alive for being a "witch" and shit
we live in a society🤡
A man came back from the future once to teach us that there was no fate but what we make
“If I gotta die, rather fall into my grave gun in hand and on fire. And not drag anyone else down with me”
“Youve just discovered what it takes to become a legend.
Grab your iron. Lets mobilize!”
We put all this... the pills, everything... to bed...
If we don’t do something anything we’re both doomed
A lot of us personalize this track with moment when V chooses his/her path. Think about it tho... all of the sick things you can witness in this game like mass poverty, mind controlling, corpos trying to destroy your soul... hell, there's even a theory that Biotechnika clones human meat in those creepy cow-farms of theirs. If you think about it all, you realize that that's what this track is truly about. It doesn't matter what you choose, or who you save, because this world is truly hopeless. It will end one way or another, and the only thing right now is to choose which part of this neon void you will be.
fuck, this game is so good man
i swear i was actually shaking tryna make a decision here. The music makes it all so erie.
" It all started in a fuckin' landfill. "
When I listen this music in this game I feel terrifed.
It makes you feel like your going up against something monstrous.
@Pdrum2 Which is exactly what's coming our way. The technocrates who control our world want to control our mind and soul.
When V found out he only had a limited time to live even after having removed the biochip that moment had me frozen the way he leaned and just couldn’t accept his fate. All he did only for a temporary release
The "Contemplating Suicide" theme
I love this piece of music, it makes u realise that the end is fast approaching for V and he only has a few options to try and save his life
Putting aside the glitches and false promises; this game is by far one of the best games in terms of emersion. The soundtrack, the natural dialogue and brilliant voice acting of the npc in combination with the phenomenal ambience of the world makes you become hooked and emotionally invested in the game.
There is a reoccurring theme of melancholy throughout the whole game which is carried heavily by the story in combination with the looks of a run down night city and the mournfull soundtrack seen here.
I have yet to see a game that can copy this kind of artistic display.
This tracks theme is so surreal and ominous it just draws you in
I loved this game a lot
Its so beautiful and filled with an amazing soundtrack, the story is so good too...
love it
''Fuckin' scared me, know that? Thought you were on your way out''
''No, still here''
''For now''
Thank you for this!
This is how I started my day!
this is one of those songs to listen to where you are in deep thought to make a tough choice that either one will screw you over or benefit you
the music fits perfectly to this scene
I can hear the reaper...calling...
This song gives me an obsessive fear of the future.
All fun and games until this soundtrack hits and the player is reminded that our time is running out !
I played cyberpunk at release and even though I knew it wasn't a 10/10 in practice it was 10/10 in spirit, any game that makes you think about your own mortal life and different events in life is a great game, even this scene and this music kind of canvasses what I am trying to say, I have yet to play the DLC and the improved original game, but I wanted to spoil myself when I upgraded to 4k on a 5090 with max settings ray tracing etc
Suffering through an insane headache right now.
I feel like this is how V feels when the Relic Malfunctions.
The gaspings for air, the helplessness, I feel it.
Oh the dread I felt the first time I got to this stage and had to pick a plan 💀 your choices may not actually matter much, but if the game manages to convince you that they do, does it even matter? I was on edge with every choice I had to make my first play-through
it wasn't until recently that I noticed the "secure your soul" advert playing not only in front of you, but also on the side of our megabuilding 10.
When I hear this music I have some scenes before my eyes:
*Abby kills Joel, The Last of Us Part 2.
*Shepard sacrifices himself for synthesis, Mass Effect 3.
*Desmond sacrifices himself in order to protect humanity from Sun in 2012, Assassin's Creed III.
*Sylvanas and Anduin in the Maw, World of Warcraft: Shadowlands.
*Johnny goes with Alt and save V, Cyberpunk 2077.
*Detlaff's death, The Witcher 3: Blood and Wine.
Arthur Last Ride on Horse Back Before Confronting Dutch
@@salimbendali8189 low honor imo
This song makes me feel so much dread it’s insane.
This choice was a point of terrible self reflection on how I played V, as not even Johnny was on my side. I’d fucked up panams story in the first mission locking me out of the rest, and took the opportunity to be an ass to Johnny the one time it mattered. Judy, I’d already called was the only relationship I hadn’t screwed over in the game. I genuinely considered the path of least resistance, before remembering- I’d come too far in trying to get rid of Johnny to let him take over. I downed the blockers and sold my soul to the devil (literally). That V is still waiting, until she can be a tapeworm on some poor soul who would dare try to steal a 'saka chip yorinobu.
Cyberpunk 2077 OST is so amazing
I don’t know why but this makes me sad like I want to cry after listening to this
"You know it's still not too late, I can still call Reed... You forget I had that option?"
Reed won't do that. That's not an option. He's a fed. Just a fed, too scared to ever slip the leash. Takemura and Reed are the same person.
i wish this game was like the original trailer a dark gritty city, dirty with steam pipes like here. does anyone know any movies with this sort of gritty setting like matrix 1 and dark city. terminator feels similar in this vibe i guess
Definitely check out Bladerunner if you haven't already, it nails the gritty dirty cyberpunk feeling
Sounds like Bladerunner is right up your alley, check out both the original and it’s sequel
i love this part of the game. this theme drives everything the game has been telling you, home.
what an eerie moment it was
I imagine this is what plays if you make it past the cyberwall
One of the best soundtracks l have ever heard- it really like- gives you this weirdly good vibe if you know what l mean-
It's extremely cathartic for people who've wanted to say, "fuck it all." You can just feel how tired, exhuasted, and fed up with his reality V is at this point. He's sick of Johnny. He's sick of Arasaka. He's sick of watching people die. He just wants it to end.
Everytime Johnny began to talk about his revolution, about how corpos are the worst thing in the world and this music started... and then, when I knew it was gonna be the last time I would listen it... it broke me, and in some way, it still does
"RELIC - SECURE YOUR SOUL"
what a nice sound. so disturbing and calming at the same time. author is genious
i feel like i sat at this part for so long, just stuck.
u can see the lights turning on by the windows its a cool detail
Don't fear the reaper was a great ending if you beat the challenge you get probably the second best ending in the game no one dead and your a legend in NC but if ypu fail you get the suicide end credits which is pretty much what you do entering Arasaka's front door very well thought out I think
You can just tell how tired V is how sad he is but not once did he ever shred a tear not once in the game do they show him crying….
The end of a journey was there. Deciding what option is the best decision for V, but also thinking about the consequences you'll bring upon yourself and for others. Not an easy choice regardless.
"Are you sure? It will not be possible to roll back" - attack the Arasaka Tower
I want a film about cyberpunk 2077
This melody is weeping