@@sickmit3481 The mod page doesn't mention anything about additional movement sounds so it was probably because of something my V was wearing. I can go check if you want.
Honestly, in a world where your brain can get hijacked by a punk and could make you blow your brains out with your own pistol, using a landline is actually clever way to go unnoticed.
@@TonyTylerDraws Agreed. Sure, it can still be stolen. Heck, someone might even read it. Yet the likely hood of interception is low, given Corpos and Agencies (both in fiction and our world) typically use more advanced and convenient methods of communication. Plus, what makes V and Reed’s interaction good depends on your dialogue choices: Say someone from Arasaka or, unlikely, Bhargest has the wire tapped? What exactly do they have to go by? Depending on your options, V and Reed dont even reveal their name. They might get revealed by a voice recognition software, but that’s it…and given the politics of the corpos of Night City, it would take a lot of time to send a spy into Dog Town.
@@somerandommenI'm an early millennial and not only were rotary phones still fairly common to see, but we've even had them as toys. Some even came in a pair and you could use them to speak between them (the chord wasn't particularly long though).
@@Soridan i'm a mid-gen z and i've used one of those rotary phones too, my grandmother used to have one in her living room and i remember playing with it when i was like 5 lmao
@@kacperwoch4368 yeah because smart phones dont have a touchscreen keypad where you can dial a number. oh wait they do. well at least you dont hold your smartphone to your ear when your talking on it. oh wait you do. so were going to just act like 30 years from now children arent going to be able to figure out how to remember and press the numbers to call a phone number. so were just going to assume that everyone becomes retarded between now and 30 years from now. does anyone actually realize how dumb of a detail that is? i argue that V has mental retardation since she cant figure this out.
Amazing work by Keanu Reeves. He's spectacular in all of CP2077 but outdoes himself in some parts of PL, of course the final monologue (especially the high affinity one) but even small things like these. Funny thing is... at least this side of the Atlantic (Italy) I fear even today there'd be a lot of people who have no idea what a landline phone is.
@@francescodarcangeli4197 when i first played cyberpunk, i was very off put by his performance since i always viewed keannu in a very wholesome and positive one. However, i slowly grew to really like his character as Johnny starts to sympathize or warm up to V. After some time away from cp2077, the word corpo began being used more and more, and it made me grow onto johnny more because of that I think.
@kentuckyfriedsocks4384 If you pay attention, Keanu voices Johnny in a very progressive way throughout the course of the game. When you first get to know him, he voice acts Johnny in very systematic, almost robotic AI-sounding lines. By the end of the game, Johnny has learned to be a lot smoother and cohesive with his speech patterns with V. It's a natural progression that you don't quite notice right off the bat. ;)
@@vendetta3941 Yes, in dlc their relationship is evolving a lot PS: because of this, V's behavior in the old endings seems immature and I consider the new ending to be canon.
@@blackwolf_365 Johnny was a manipulative dick in the old game, he seems to actually sort of care about V at this point in the dlc, my guess is the dlc is meant to be an end game thing, like before meeting Hanako at embers, after the Kerry/ us cracks stuff, and aso having an 85% and above relationshio with Johnny. The dlc can raise your relationship with him too.
I loved the one mission you get from Jackie's bar with Johnny narrating the whole thing, the male V especially sounds so tired of listening to him, it's hilarious
Taking in account Takamura uses a "throwaway phone", this doesn't seem crazy. I'm more intrigued about what a throwaway is in the Cyberpunk universe. I wonder if it's the same way as the vending machines that sell you shitty one-time weapons
@@parzivalwolfram7084 In the tabletop game they have phone-like devices called Agents that are handheld. Getting the neural implants is still expensive as hell in this universe
In my country landlines won't be supported soon, they're being phased out. It'll be pretty interesting to think that this might be our grandkids reaction to seeing a landline one day.
@@amongusus47825 They're being phased out because the whole country has a good mobile network connection and most people have mobile phones. Maintaining landline infrastructure is being deemed as too expensive to be worth it because technology has developed to the point that landlines are nearly obsolete. I don't know many third world countries that can do this.
@@bakersmileyfacecorrection: theyre being phased out so tracking and cataloging your every word and movement is easier and streamlined. Personalizing surveillance AI has never been more effective now that you have no analog privacy. But sure, wear it as a badge of honor and brag about it on the internet.
@@SecretMarsupial I'm not bragging about it on the internet. I'm stating what's happening and one factor as to why it's happening that was related to the topic I was replying to. You have stated another reason as to why they're making the change and you did it by speaking to me in a demeaning manner. Well done. Do you feel superior now for talking to me like that? Did you win those internet brownie points you were looking for? I certainly feel like I'm winning those childish internet points for replying to you like this, so you must've felt great when you were typing that out 😂.
@@Deathstro I mean... Reed is a dumbass (imo) and V did call him on a landline in the year 2077 so it technically isn't clickbait. I get where you're coming from though.
So in 2020 there are no smartphones. People still used cell phones. And that presumably meant that landlines existed at the time. People still had communication implants but I think they were far less prevalent. So Johnny would have used a landline, drunk off his ass, prank calling Rogue
There's another level to this. Jonny asks for double cheese burger while big smoke's order from san andreas is written right there. Two number nines, one number nine large etc.
I haven’t played 2077, but how does using a landline to call someone mean the person on that end has a landline too? You do know landlines can ring cell phones, right?
@@Squirrelinatux This landline is the only way to call the guy so he's still "using it", even if not directly. Also, I'm pretty sure the main way of calling people in cyberpunk 2077 is more akin to discord/messenger calls than regular phone calls since I'm pretty sure this is the only time we see anyone physically type in or tell someone about a phone number
Probably one of the best examples of the "Used Future" concept in modern gaming. The phone is ancient even by some of our own standards yet still retains a futuristic (albeit crude) design.
One thing I hate is that V keeps being EF up by almost anyone. The Corpo Body guard who shove him on the ground, Max Tac and Reed pointing a gun on his liver. I know its part of the lore but it's kinda annoying. Sorry for ranting lol.
“Who the fuck is this?!” Male V: *in thick wise guy tone* “Mistah Silvahand sends his regahds.” *hangs up* Johnny: told you, fuckin fun isn’t it? Male V: choom the guy’s gotta have what, the last standing landline in the fuckin state, let alone the country? And you had me give ‘em a mafia death threat from you? Johnny: thought it’d be funny, and if horses weren’t extinct I’d have had you track down his house and put a horse’s head in his bed just to get the message across. Male V: choom, you’ve been watching too many mobster movies. Johnny: well so-rry, when you’re a fuckin ghost in the machine stuck in the head of a Godfather and Goodfellas fanboy you don’t get a lot of options for entertainment. Pardon me for wanting to fuck with the gonk in a novel way, should’ve moved on from a phone that was popular in the 80s when he had the chance.
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on (and shares an universe with) cyberpunk 2020. It has both an alternative past and alternative future. So it's kinda pointless to compare them to the real world.
Funny and weird that this particular phone still look like made in 2060-2077, judging by the numpad and design, since it's not like it came from 1980's with such visual design look.
My smart ass thought this would be V from Devil may cry. “Dante, we don’t have much time… a very powerful demon is about to resurrect.” “Who’s Dante?” “Wrong number”
@@SerbianSpark19 Johnny was born in 1988 and the cyberpunk timeline's major divergences from our's started in the 80s so he definitively used a landline before
When V and Johnny talk there just talking in V's head though I guess It's would still be weird since V is just silently staring at a wall or something for 30 seconds before going back to whatever he was doing
You say that like people in the 1980s were learning to drive a horse buggy. They weren't because it's obsolete, a lot of technology is obsolete in the 2020s. So don't give me that Gen Z BS, boomer. If anything it's the old people having problems catching up with technology.
@@AjitAdonisManilal Most Gen Zs cant even use Microsoft Word or Power Point. But they can surely use crap like TikTok. And before you call me a boomer, I'm Gen Z, unfortunately.
@@AjitAdonisManilal yes but cities built for horse buggies are objectively better than ones built for cars, and the design and usage of older technology is a lot more interesting than everything being centralized into the same dull brick, whats more fun, watching a tv show on streaming that buffers every 10 minutes or owning your media, sometimes older technology has objective strengths over newer technology, and even gen z is the biggest group of people still using flip phones
wtf, how you get the sleeves?😮
It's a mod called "sleeves" on nexus.
@@Echo_ohc3 i install redscript, and has a error, mods doesn't work🫠
@@Echo_ohc3 is the leather sound from the game or from the sleeves mod. i never noticed this sound i think although playing 300 hours
@@sickmit3481 The mod page doesn't mention anything about additional movement sounds so it was probably because of something my V was wearing. I can go check if you want.
@@Echo_ohc3 no need to but i just find new details in this game everyday its crazy.
Honestly, in a world where your brain can get hijacked by a punk and could make you blow your brains out with your own pistol, using a landline is actually clever way to go unnoticed.
It’s like mailing a letter today
@@TonyTylerDraws Agreed.
Sure, it can still be stolen. Heck, someone might even read it. Yet the likely hood of interception is low, given Corpos and Agencies (both in fiction and our world) typically use more advanced and convenient methods of communication.
Plus, what makes V and Reed’s interaction good depends on your dialogue choices: Say someone from Arasaka or, unlikely, Bhargest has the wire tapped? What exactly do they have to go by?
Depending on your options, V and Reed dont even reveal their name. They might get revealed by a voice recognition software, but that’s it…and given the politics of the corpos of Night City, it would take a lot of time to send a spy into Dog Town.
@@TonyTylerDraws I think the correct equivalent would be using radio comm as it was around 1940
@@kormannn1 but radio comms can be intercepted no?
Arrow called it "Security through Technological Obsolesence"
It would funnier if it was those old rotary phones and johnny still knows about them
then V gives him shit about being ancient
Johny was around in the 80's he's ironically Older than most people who played the game.
Johnny was an early millennial, there's a chance he would've known how to use one from visiting a grandparent.
@@somerandommenI'm an early millennial and not only were rotary phones still fairly common to see, but we've even had them as toys. Some even came in a pair and you could use them to speak between them (the chord wasn't particularly long though).
@@Soridan Same, as an 18 year-old. My neighbor and grandmother had one. It find it unlikely that Johnny would've not been exposed to one.
@@Soridan i'm a mid-gen z and i've used one of those rotary phones too, my grandmother used to have one in her living room and i remember playing with it when i was like 5 lmao
I always enjoyed the little detail that V has no idea how to use a landline as somebody born in the 2050’s
Looking at how some people hold their phones today i can totally see this becoming a lost knowlage at some point.
@@kacperwoch4368 yeah because smart phones dont have a touchscreen keypad where you can dial a number. oh wait they do. well at least you dont hold your smartphone to your ear when your talking on it. oh wait you do. so were going to just act like 30 years from now children arent going to be able to figure out how to remember and press the numbers to call a phone number. so were just going to assume that everyone becomes retarded between now and 30 years from now. does anyone actually realize how dumb of a detail that is? i argue that V has mental retardation since she cant figure this out.
seeing johnny try to get you to use the phone is actually pretty cute..
It kinda wholesome for that asshole 😂
Yeah, his little kind of, friendly expression and amused expression while he makes the phone gesture with his fingers was just so casually wholesome
Amazing work by Keanu Reeves. He's spectacular in all of CP2077 but outdoes himself in some parts of PL, of course the final monologue (especially the high affinity one) but even small things like these.
Funny thing is... at least this side of the Atlantic (Italy) I fear even today there'd be a lot of people who have no idea what a landline phone is.
@@francescodarcangeli4197 when i first played cyberpunk, i was very off put by his performance since i always viewed keannu in a very wholesome and positive one. However, i slowly grew to really like his character as Johnny starts to sympathize or warm up to V.
After some time away from cp2077, the word corpo began being used more and more, and it made me grow onto johnny more because of that I think.
@kentuckyfriedsocks4384 If you pay attention, Keanu voices Johnny in a very progressive way throughout the course of the game. When you first get to know him, he voice acts Johnny in very systematic, almost robotic AI-sounding lines. By the end of the game, Johnny has learned to be a lot smoother and cohesive with his speech patterns with V. It's a natural progression that you don't quite notice right off the bat. ;)
I prefer flipping ones, cheaper, more secure and harder to trace
Better Call Saul reference?
Alright Doc. Chill with the burners.
They also let you do that Cool Hollywood Clap Thing whenever you end the call
i love how they made the phone lowkey nostalgic but still look different
I played this mission, not realizing that Johnny's showing V how to use the phone.
Yeah, Johnny was born in 1988, so he would’ve seen and used landlines before the Cyberpunk timeline diverged from ours
lmao what did you think when he made the gesture??
@@trapper1211 V wouldn't know what to do though
everyone can laugh, until you realise its the most secure way to get a com out. The Battlestar galactica used the same tech for a reason XP
i love how aggressive the title is towards reed 😭
The title 😭
😼
This DLC made Cyberpunk 2077 a top game ever 1000%
me watching the news seeing them say landlines in my country will be fundamentally extinct in the next few decades
johnny having his boomer moment
That constant leather squeaking would drive me nuts.
It's less noticeable in game than you'd think
"Antique" my ass V
Is this from the game?
enter 80085 and johnny says something
If there's a Nokia 3310 in the Cyberpunk universe, they'd also make solid throwing weapons.
If there is one, Adam smashers armor is definitely forged from it
Finally, blunt throwing weapons!
@@PaleBrownDot Perfect for turning your enemy's face into a a soup bowl, guess what the bits are.
This needs to be added as a mod.
It was so cute when Johnny realized that V couldn't hold the phone and showed 🤙
And V guessed that this gesture meant all along
I'm not the only one who thought this V and Johnny moment was cute. Their love hate friendship is the best part of this game sometimes.
@@vendetta3941 Yes, in dlc their relationship is evolving a lot
PS: because of this, V's behavior in the old endings seems immature and I consider the new ending to be canon.
@@blackwolf_365 Johnny was a manipulative dick in the old game, he seems to actually sort of care about V at this point in the dlc, my guess is the dlc is meant to be an end game thing, like before meeting Hanako at embers, after the Kerry/ us cracks stuff, and aso having an 85% and above relationshio with Johnny. The dlc can raise your relationship with him too.
I loved the one mission you get from Jackie's bar with Johnny narrating the whole thing, the male V especially sounds so tired of listening to him, it's hilarious
@@vendetta3941 That's why I like to play as female V, I think her interactions with Johnny are very cute.
Taking in account Takamura uses a "throwaway phone", this doesn't seem crazy. I'm more intrigued about what a throwaway is in the Cyberpunk universe. I wonder if it's the same way as the vending machines that sell you shitty one-time weapons
What Takemura was referring to seems just like a Burner phone like you can get now. real cheap phones with a pre-paid sim card.
Or do a throwaway posts like they do on Reddit
You can see NPCs using handheld phones in the corpo plaza. I'd guess it's for those that aren't chromed at all, or maybe for secured direct lines?
@@parzivalwolfram7084 In the tabletop game they have phone-like devices called Agents that are handheld. Getting the neural implants is still expensive as hell in this universe
V not knowing how to use a landline and Johnny just showing her how is just wholesome
If you call the numbers on the wall theres a witcher 3 easter egg
I thought the numbers were big smokes order
@@memesupreme2400 The numbers under the reciever are big smoke's order. The witcher easter egg is written on one of the notes on the wall
Low tech is not dumb it’s smart in a world of advanced tech
the animations in the dlc look so goddamn good compared to the base game
The effects of crunch
Honestly, the animations in the base game look great too, but I see what you mean.
@@Koomoee r u stupid
im talking about maingame vs dlc how could u not figure that out
@@Koomoee they meant on the main game not the DLC
@@LumiDummiMy mistake
Fun fact: if you call the top number from the card with 2 numbers, Witcher 3 soundtrack will start playing and Johnny will smile
In my country landlines won't be supported soon, they're being phased out. It'll be pretty interesting to think that this might be our grandkids reaction to seeing a landline one day.
Bro lives in 3rd world 😂😂😂
@@amongusus47825 They're being phased out because the whole country has a good mobile network connection and most people have mobile phones.
Maintaining landline infrastructure is being deemed as too expensive to be worth it because technology has developed to the point that landlines are nearly obsolete.
I don't know many third world countries that can do this.
@@bakersmileyface bro tried to flex that his 3rd world nation got good mobile connections in 2024 💀💀💀
@@bakersmileyfacecorrection: theyre being phased out so tracking and cataloging your every word and movement is easier and streamlined. Personalizing surveillance AI has never been more effective now that you have no analog privacy.
But sure, wear it as a badge of honor and brag about it on the internet.
@@SecretMarsupial I'm not bragging about it on the internet. I'm stating what's happening and one factor as to why it's happening that was related to the topic I was replying to.
You have stated another reason as to why they're making the change and you did it by speaking to me in a demeaning manner.
Well done. Do you feel superior now for talking to me like that? Did you win those internet brownie points you were looking for? I certainly feel like I'm winning those childish internet points for replying to you like this, so you must've felt great when you were typing that out 😂.
And here I've been using the postal system all these years
There is something about getting mail through your postbox that's impossible to beat by digital shite.
they should've add a secret phone number for some kind of mcdonalds, so that johny could "enjoy" his burgers
If you call 911 it goes straight to hold
Bro wtf is this title 💀
Hey, It got me to 9.4k views. Maybe I found the new meta?
@@Echo_ohc3 clickbait titles are not new bud 💀
@@Deathstro I mean... Reed is a dumbass (imo) and V did call him on a landline in the year 2077 so it technically isn't clickbait. I get where you're coming from though.
@@Echo_ohc3The dumbass is you mate.
It’s a good, concise title
People still have smartphones and they work the same way in terms of putting them up to your ear. Shouldn’t working a landline be easy?
they probably just stream audio directly to your brain, you never actually hold the thing in game
Me: "haha what kind of a dumbass still uses landline"
Reed: "Hello."
Me: 💀
Silverhand made that song for alt never fade away
This is actualy realy smart like drug dealers using a old prepaid phone with a 2g network
So in 2020 there are no smartphones. People still used cell phones. And that presumably meant that landlines existed at the time.
People still had communication implants but I think they were far less prevalent. So Johnny would have used a landline, drunk off his
ass, prank calling Rogue
Hey at least I'm not getting my call disconnected every 15 fucking minutes for no reason if I live near a cell tower
There's another level to this. Jonny asks for double cheese burger while big smoke's order from san andreas is written right there. Two number nines, one number nine large etc.
Imagine V trying to use the technology we have today in our real world. She'd probably get stumped trying to drive a stick shift car.
I haven’t played 2077, but how does using a landline to call someone mean the person on that end has a landline too? You do know landlines can ring cell phones, right?
@@Squirrelinatux This landline is the only way to call the guy so he's still "using it", even if not directly. Also, I'm pretty sure the main way of calling people in cyberpunk 2077 is more akin to discord/messenger calls than regular phone calls since I'm pretty sure this is the only time we see anyone physically type in or tell someone about a phone number
Probably one of the best examples of the "Used Future" concept in modern gaming.
The phone is ancient even by some of our own standards yet still retains a futuristic (albeit crude) design.
What mission is that??
@@sanfloo_ One of the first missions in the phantom liberty dlc
Loving cheeseburg
What makes this more funny is that the landline doesn't even have an antique look, still somehow futuristic looking
One thing I hate is that V keeps being EF up by almost anyone. The Corpo Body guard who shove him on the ground, Max Tac and Reed pointing a gun on his liver. I know its part of the lore but it's kinda annoying. Sorry for ranting lol.
“Who the fuck is this?!”
Male V: *in thick wise guy tone* “Mistah Silvahand sends his regahds.” *hangs up*
Johnny: told you, fuckin fun isn’t it?
Male V: choom the guy’s gotta have what, the last standing landline in the fuckin state, let alone the country? And you had me give ‘em a mafia death threat from you?
Johnny: thought it’d be funny, and if horses weren’t extinct I’d have had you track down his house and put a horse’s head in his bed just to get the message across.
Male V: choom, you’ve been watching too many mobster movies.
Johnny: well so-rry, when you’re a fuckin ghost in the machine stuck in the head of a Godfather and Goodfellas fanboy you don’t get a lot of options for entertainment. Pardon me for wanting to fuck with the gonk in a novel way, should’ve moved on from a phone that was popular in the 80s when he had the chance.
Type 8008
Its weird because modern phones exist in this world, im mean Wakako uses one, oh wait, she was probably born in the early 2000s huh.
More like the most smart man in 2077.
If you think a landline payphone in a cyberpunk game is stupid then you don't know much about the genre
Johnny is so cute when he was showing V how to use the phone he was just like 📞🙂
WHY do people play with motion blur on??? it looks so bad
Dude, it’s 2024 and my mom still has her landline.
Surprised that phone still works XD
The title 😂😂
I like Fem V voice in English.
I should try to play the game in English in my next play through
definitely give it a go. one of the top 10 voice actors in gaming imo
Honestly the only problem with this is the landline having a touch screen.
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on (and shares an universe with) cyberpunk 2020. It has both an alternative past and alternative future. So it's kinda pointless to compare them to the real world.
I mean nomad v uses a modified smart phone for communication so..
Omggggggg I love your role play!!
Funny and weird that this particular phone still look like made in 2060-2077, judging by the numpad and design, since it's not like it came from 1980's with such visual design look.
I love Johny here
My smart ass thought this would be V from Devil may cry. “Dante, we don’t have much time… a very powerful demon is about to resurrect.” “Who’s Dante?” “Wrong number”
That cute yellow phone resembles the ones you could still see in phone boxes in Poland untill like the 2010s, I think.
I was hoping it didn't work and Johnny would tease V since she didn't picking up the receiver before dialing
I'm happy to see I wasn't the only one who found Johnny helping out with the 🤙 funny
JUST USE A CELLPHONE.
cellphones are boring bricks
I still use rotary. A phone is a phone..
Reed doesn't use pagers?
Call 80085 and Johnny is disappointed
When was johnny born ?
Im born in 2004 and i think that people born in 2000-ish would know how to operate phones
@@SerbianSpark19 Johnny was born in 1988 and the cyberpunk timeline's major divergences from our's started in the 80s so he definitively used a landline before
I love to think about what it looks like When V talks to johnny from and outsiders Perspective.
When V and Johnny talk there just talking in V's head though I guess
It's would still be weird since V is just silently staring at a wall or something for 30 seconds before going back to whatever he was doing
There are calls that go directly into your brain so it's not that unusual to see someone talk to themselves in that setting.
where is this phone?
Capitan Caliente restaurant in Dogtown
It's a part of the phantom liberty DLC's main questline.
Gen Z with literally anything people have been dealing with since forever or learning how to use things like Google.
Amogus😂😂😂
You say that like people in the 1980s were learning to drive a horse buggy. They weren't because it's obsolete, a lot of technology is obsolete in the 2020s. So don't give me that Gen Z BS, boomer. If anything it's the old people having problems catching up with technology.
@@AjitAdonisManilal Most Gen Zs cant even use Microsoft Word or Power Point. But they can surely use crap like TikTok. And before you call me a boomer, I'm Gen Z, unfortunately.
@@AjitAdonisManilal yes but cities built for horse buggies are objectively better than ones built for cars, and the design and usage of older technology is a lot more interesting than everything being centralized into the same dull brick, whats more fun, watching a tv show on streaming that buffers every 10 minutes or owning your media, sometimes older technology has objective strengths over newer technology, and even gen z is the biggest group of people still using flip phones