Nomad is good for first entering the city. But if you read the shards and listen to the NPCs, the corpo start at arasaka counterintel gives the deepest insight into the lore of the world, the history of arasaka, the attack by Johnny and so an. For a first time player, id still recommend the Nomad, cause in the border office you get to see the big map of the nusa, Republic of Texas and you learn where night city even is.
Exactly! The way he sticks up to you in the club is a clear show that there's already a strong connection there. I really got the sense that if Jackie wasn't in V's life, she'd have been taken away and killed by those 3 guys. Jackie not only saved her life but then picked her up from her lowest point, giving her a new direction in life.
I obv can't speak for the majority of viewers but I'd love some "chill" episodes filled with reading, riding/walking around, listening and taking in the sights.
@@Jpow5734 its the only city open world that I do not fast travel. also yes, you have to read and walk to truly immerse yourself into NC and all its dystopian glory.
Fem V corpo is by far my favorite. I personally prefer her voice over male V and corpo definitely has some of the coolest dialogue options (even though lifepath specific dialogues are rare)
@@Kolket1389 I mean I can name a very specific moment in which Male V says his line normally, and Female V trails off as if she's about to pass out because she was just given a sedative. It's like Male V was given no context as to what was happening in the moment, and female V makes you really feel like she is about to pass out as she's saying goodbye to the person she's talking to. (wont spoil) This is just one of DOZENS of spots where she gives a unique take on what is happening in the moment. And Male V just kind of says the line like he always does.
@@Kolket1389 Agree, Male V did and amazing job, people who trash his work don't know what good VA work is, and both are amazing but Drea goes beyond and nails it multiples times. Amazing stuff.
Cherami Leigh killed it with her V performance. My first playthrough was male V, and I thought it was great voice acting, but after my 2nd playthrough as female V I just can’t imagine this character with any other voice anymore
absolutely agree, was the same for me. but now after playing with the korean male v voice for fun I its like the same again and i can not imagine another voice for male v anymore.
I've just started my 6th playthrough. Only my second was male 4. The VA is really good, but Cherami is just spectacular. And I prefer the romance path, especially in one particular circumstance.
They both have their strengths such as for me male v is better for sounding intimidating and badass while female v is better during emotional and heartfelt moments and I feel like the jokes and sarcasm work better with her as well. I personally prefer female v as well but both Gavin and Leigh did an amazing job.
well, my v-card does not even support raytracing, well, actually is doesn't even meet minimum specs (gtx1050 2gb) but with some tinkering i get ~50fps and good enough visuals
@@ciberzombiegaming8207fr it's impressive how much they've done to it since release. I have an rx570 4gb and I get 30~50fps on medium settings and admittedly high FSR
Not only does the game have a lot of original music, it has a radio station (Growl FM) that specifically plays fan-made music. And it's pretty good, too.
The funny thing about the game's original music is that Samurai is among the weakest shit you'll find in there. There's one good Samurai track ("Never Fade Away"), the rest range from forgettable to embarrassing.
Corpo V and femme V are both my favorites / my "canonical" playthrough. I really love the intro and the ongoing dialog options, as well as femme V's voice acting.
So stoked you're sticking with female V like others have said, Cherami Leigh killed this role and just fits so well in this universe. Enjoy the journey brother it's a great one.
Every time I watch someone play this game and their V goes to bed, I expect the early game “half on the bed, half on the floor” animation. Those were the days. 😂😂 So glad they fixed it in a patch!
I like female V's voice acting so much more than male V. Corpo is also great. That's what my current playthrough is. I thought Corpo V would rub me the wrong way, but I'm loving it so far.
When i first played Cyberpunk i really didnt liked this origin, because it felt so short to me but now I have to say it became my favorite, alone for all the corpo dialogue options
The "Car Guy" at the start used to be Elon Musk. He showed up to one of Grimes' recording sessions for Lizzy Wizzy and threatened to beat someone up with a baseball bat if they didn't put him in the game somewhere.
While the 6 month skip is something most of us would've loved to play through, you have to absolutely commend the technical prowess on display. In a matter of milliseconds it loads the next scene, seamlessly from outside in Night City to inside buildings to outside to inside, loading new people, new props, cars etc. It's genuinely incredible how they were able to pull that off, even some games taking advantage of the PS5's faster storage still don't manage such seamless scene transitions without major pop in
The intros are basically Night City from below, from the outside, and from above. Streetkid V had been away from NC proper by being elsewhere, but this V has also been away from it without actually leaving. So this corpo V is both more plugged into the world, but also as removed from it as, say, Nomad V. Having corpo V already be friends with someone like Jackie rather than, say, meet him to do some deal, is kinda the most incongruous of the three for this reason. Either way you start back out at the bottom of course, and each background leads to a few “wouldn’t V be familiar with this already?”-moments during the game, just different ones.
This was the origin I chose and after watching the other ones I think it's still my favourite! The pre-existing relationship with Jackie is really good. Although I only played maybe an hour or two after this and then kind of fell off... not really sure why. I'd like to get back into the game so maybe this playthrough will inspire me!
Idk when you played but try it out with phantom liberty. This game has everything now Action gameplay, great Story, great characters, edgy things, eldrich horror things. Its a really fun ride
I do hope you go with this life path, female V and corpo is a perfect fit for this game in my opinion. And it just feels like it’s the life path CDPR put the most effort in, it has the most unique dialogue options and it ties into the main storyline a lot more.
@@ilias856 most people would never try a female character in choice based games, a lot of it due to internalized misogyny (though some also just like playing as "themselves"). That's not the dunk you think it is
One cool detail that's easy to miss is the guy you were talking to that worked for Abernathy is with the Arasaka agents that terminated you. Weaselly snake xD
1:27:10 regarding the shooting during the slide, you should take a look at the skills in the different skill trees reflexes in particular has a lot of really good movement skills
Will look forward to the corpo run! This game really has so many details, as you said, that it's mind boggling how it's even possible to cram so much into a game.
If you know a bit about the Cyberpunk lore, it's easy to understand why the corpo life path is so different from the others in this game. After all, the whole story behind the Cyberpunk genre is about mega corporations fighting each other for the control of entire cities, if not the entire world! They're shady, resort to corruption and cover-ups, treat people as cattle, and so on... The perfect recipe for dystopian chaos!
So glad I found you when I did! I just finished replaying this game, and the DLC with the latest update and the experience is much different than when I played it years ago. I like your take on trying each life path first as well! New subscriber and I look foreward to seeing a newcomer to the series experience everything for the first time. This game has a ton of incredible details and it's great seeing someone really appreciate the world.
I've actually never seen the Corpo path before, because my first playthrough was Streetkid and second was Nomad. I do also like that we know Jackie already. However, when it comes to you thinking about what choice you like the most, honestly the biggest and most meaningful is your character's voice in my opinion. I like Fem V more personally but both are good for sure. The lifepaths don't really mean much after the prologue, other than offering some unique dialogue here and there. Obviously it can help with roleplaying that you know what background your V came from.
Everyone has their own interests, I think the Corpo route is my favorite. However I also liked your first character best which actually looked like yourself.
This is def my favorite starting line. So much so that I have a displate of the selection image in my apartment lol. The corpo aesthetic and ruthlessness is just so good. And for your music question, yeah there's a radio station that is filled with fan made tracks that was released in Phantom Liberty. Probably my favorite radio station in the game.
Glad you went with female V. Gavin Drea isn't bad, but Cherami Leigh's performance is the clear winner, for me. Corpo is a great lifepath choice, as well. The corpo dialog options are always pretty interesting. Also, I had never checked the Arasaka webpage in V's office before. Seeing her performance review and stuff was super cool. I'm sure others have mentioned it, but shoot while sliding is in the perk tree. Thank god, because my favorite playstyle: run n gun shotgun blitz does a lot of sliding. I have come to terms with the 6 months later cut. There's plenty more game that makes up for it. BUT I do wish the montage varied a bit depending on lifepath.
So stoked you've decided to stick with both female and corpo V for this playthrough! About the hair - it's funny as you sound like you're joking about the hair being cybernetic implants but that's literally the lore so you're right on! 😆😄
I feel like 6months later mongate is good for establishing V's first apartment, car, contacts. We drop in just before life changing event, and there's still plenty of gigs and other content besides main quest line to enjoy night city. It wouldn't feel great if you had to play half in game year doing random shit for story to progress.
I know I ended up playing through the game three times for each life path. There's times when it comes up again, but I also did it to try three different builds, because they all play very different. My Street V was a bit of an everything in a blender back before the patches, my Corpo V was a netrunner smart pistol gunner with a sniper rifle that homed in and killed anyone in the head with barely any aiming on my part, my nomad V is currently dressed up as JC Denton, but uses the sandevistan to bullet time kill everything and it's just so smooth.
Yeah, I've done four playthroughs and bad bitch corpo V is my personal favorite and headcanon. Male VA is good but love the cornered animal vibe of female V.
I've completed the game with all 3 starts and tried out both genders - neither voice actor was bad but I have to say that the female lines always felt more immersive to me, and corpo agent's added dialogue always felt the most interesting. It's really nice having insight into how they do things, since the whole city seems to be in the palm of their hands.
Regarding shooting during a slide, that's a perk. A lot of the perks are cool extra abilities like that and some add cool extra things, like slowing down time, allowing you to airdash and create earthquakes with your first etc. Edit: Also worth noting you can't redistribute ability points, but you can freely move perks around if you have regrets. So go and have fun.
wardrobe is visual only, inventory equipped clothes are actual items and have stats, wardrobe ones don't. also any clothes you ever picked gona register in wardrobe even if you dropped them immediately
Congrats on your choice. It’s a great one. Looking forward to your playthrough. I’ve only played this game when it first came out, before all the fixes and updates. Really curious to see how the game has improved and changed.
I'm currently on my 3rd Cyberpunk playthrough. But I have even more difficulty choosing in bg3. So much to choose, so much to see, and everything is so different. Decided to do 2-3 playthroughs too.
Perfect timing, just finished your first two episodes. And now my fav one! Damn, a shame you gotta miss on copyrighted music on your first run. That's cruel.
Female V is my personal headcanon, I feel like her voice actress edges out the male va by a tiny bit (male V is good too, but I feel like emotionally female V sells it a bit better) I like all three lifepaths, but for me Streetkid is my favorite, I feel like it makes the most sense why V wants to be a legend in Night City, as they grew up there
In the start of this one you read a shard about the arasaka academy. If you have seen edge runners you will know that the MC (David) his mom literally spends all her money to send David to said academy
Awesome path and gender choice there! Just a few things: remember to scan the environment regularly, you'd be surprised how much you can learn about the world. Try to read absolutely everything, database, shards, but also item descriptions, mission descriptions, emails, messages, internet sites etc... You got no idea how ginormous and expansive the cyberpunk world/lore is. Another point about the wardrobe: what you just put together is your transmog look, no matter what you put on, you'll look just like you look now (can save up to 6 looks). There are surely many more things to mention but another time I guess.
I was kind of skeptical of the Corpo origin since it seems pretty shady when you read the description. But this is actually super cool! I might just do Corpo myself next time I play. Ton of fun as usual mate!
I suggest putting only the iconic (yellow background) weapons into your apartment’s stash. The rarest ones will be displayed on the wall. There’s no use storing clothing and other non-iconic weapons. 99.9% of clothing is purely visual and gives no perks, so you can strip them for crafting components in your backpack. Same with weapons, just equip the strongest ones. Clothing - even if you no longer possess the items in your stash or inventory, you can still equip them in the wardrobe.
I did 10 playthroughs, 1 Streetkid, 1 Nomad, 8 Corpo V's :-D I like it best also for roleplaying reasons. The backstory gives some interesting dialogue options and the contrast to your new life as a merc is great to play with.
Nope! :-D only Cyberpunk... I got in too deep :-D Also joined a TTRPG group, got my V 3D printed and everything... 850 hours in... I... have a problem :-D@@jeminatamminen
I'm not positive but I think the inability to shoot the heads off bodies IS a censorship thing. And the other headless bodies got that way through other mechanics. Bit of inconsistency I guess. Unless it has something to do with the facial rec blocking cyberware, but I don't remember that being a thing on my playthrough. With swords heads went flying a lot in my playthroughs, so we'll see as you progress.
The moment I've heard female V's voice I knew I had to play as her being a man myself. Cherami Leigh did a fantastic job portraying the sassiness of a brazen hot-shot merc!
I hope you will look what mods are out there, some really add to the game. Also I think its best to watch Edgerunners alongside your first playthrough. At least somewhere in the middle of the main plot of the game. The show has some additional lore and vice versa.
First time hearing Fem V voice and it sounds soo good! almost want to restart my Bro V haha. Like always in these games the "fem" hairstyles are so much better too, in my opinion. The hairstyle you went with kinda gives me vibes of default femshep which I love... wish there was, unless I missed it, a ME3 jack style. Curious to see what combat style you'll like the most as all of them sound really fun, especially after the update. I tend to go with either stealthy ranged or mage type classes in games, so a sneaky, silencer wielding netrunner really spoke to me. The couple times I was able to clear an entire building without setting foot inside was just wild to me.
Cyberpunk 2077 is another one of those games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age Inquisition, and Dragon Age II where I feel the female protagonist’s voice actor is superior to the male voice actor (Sorry Mark Meer…)
Never read the 2nd screen on V's desk, but listening to you reading it I was like.... wait a minute that sounds familiar. Keep on playing and you'll find out 🧐🤫🤐
I always love playing my icecold female corpo katana Vs. Cherami's voice acting just nails it for me. Also WTF it's the same car dude as in the other origin. Is it maybe a standard model or did they do it intentionally?
Cherami Leigh's performance as fem V is phenomenal. Keanu Reeves as Silverhand is uh... well... You can definitely tell which of them is the professional voice actor.
The problem with the music in the game is really serious because it makes or breaks many scenes. I would almost recommend that you watch iconic scenes again on RUclips afterwards to see what they would actually be like. Simply because you, well, ruin a lot of scenes for yourself and the immersion. Unfortunately, that's a real shame. So I would really recommend you watch the iconic scenes again afterwards. Or replay it on your own, maybe with a different life path because the male or female V, can actually have a very different story lines.
Can we crowdfund Mapo a japanese pronunciation guide for this playthrough? :D. (And maybe a spanish one, but IIRC he's struggled a lot less with those in the past.)
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My favourite start story. The pre-existing connection to Jackie really makes your new life with him as your choomba feel more realistic.
Agreed. I *really* like the arc of a corpo-V growing disillusioned with Night City.
I like the Nomad V for a first-time play but yeah, Corpo V is pretty darn cool too
Nomad is good for first entering the city.
But if you read the shards and listen to the NPCs, the corpo start at arasaka counterintel gives the deepest insight into the lore of the world, the history of arasaka, the attack by Johnny and so an.
For a first time player, id still recommend the Nomad, cause in the border office you get to see the big map of the nusa, Republic of Texas and you learn where night city even is.
Best arc is starting out as corpo and leaving the city with Panam in the end.
Exactly! The way he sticks up to you in the club is a clear show that there's already a strong connection there. I really got the sense that if Jackie wasn't in V's life, she'd have been taken away and killed by those 3 guys. Jackie not only saved her life but then picked her up from her lowest point, giving her a new direction in life.
I obv can't speak for the majority of viewers but I'd love some "chill" episodes filled with reading, riding/walking around, listening and taking in the sights.
Agreed. So many hidden secrets just walking around the streets of Night City, never know what you’re gonna find.
On my first playthrough I never fast traveled (and even to this day I barely do) because there's just so much detail everywhere
@@blinkachu5275tbh night city is actually quite walkable and really well designed, it puts most real world American city planning to shame.
@@Jpow5734 its the only city open world that I do not fast travel.
also yes, you have to read and walk to truly immerse yourself into NC and all its dystopian glory.
me too especially since this is a blind playthrough for me as well!
I love that the Corpo starts with a different UI, with stocks and news chyrons all over, a little detail but I love it.
Fem V corpo is by far my favorite. I personally prefer her voice over male V and corpo definitely has some of the coolest dialogue options (even though lifepath specific dialogues are rare)
Female V is just a vibe. Sure she can be a bit much here and there, but I'll take that over the monotone delivery of Male V.
Idk I think male V delivered the lines in the story much more convincingly. ESPECIALLY in the DLC
@@Kolket1389 I mean I can name a very specific moment in which Male V says his line normally, and Female V trails off as if she's about to pass out because she was just given a sedative. It's like Male V was given no context as to what was happening in the moment, and female V makes you really feel like she is about to pass out as she's saying goodbye to the person she's talking to. (wont spoil)
This is just one of DOZENS of spots where she gives a unique take on what is happening in the moment. And Male V just kind of says the line like he always does.
@@Kolket1389 Agree, Male V did and amazing job, people who trash his work don't know what good VA work is, and both are amazing but Drea goes beyond and nails it multiples times.
Amazing stuff.
Male V comes across as more of a cold professional merc, FemV is a lot less reserved.
I'm absolutely delighted you liked Corpo the most. It's not just the best introduction imo, I think it has the most interesting followups as well.
Cherami Leigh killed it with her V performance. My first playthrough was male V, and I thought it was great voice acting, but after my 2nd playthrough as female V I just can’t imagine this character with any other voice anymore
absolutely agree, was the same for me. but now after playing with the korean male v voice for fun I its like the same again and i can not imagine another voice for male v anymore.
I've just started my 6th playthrough. Only my second was male 4. The VA is really good, but Cherami is just spectacular. And I prefer the romance path, especially in one particular circumstance.
They both have their strengths such as for me male v is better for sounding intimidating and badass while female v is better during emotional and heartfelt moments and I feel like the jokes and sarcasm work better with her as well. I personally prefer female v as well but both Gavin and Leigh did an amazing job.
@@Jpow5734 Her banter feels so much more lively with Silverhand also.
The scene that sold me was her yelling at the 6th Street thug in Streetkid. She goes so hard in that scene that I was scared .
as someone else said, the game still looks beautiful without ray tracing and obviously it runs better so maybe its best to try that one out
well, my v-card does not even support raytracing, well, actually is doesn't even meet minimum specs (gtx1050 2gb) but with some tinkering i get ~50fps and good enough visuals
I can max every setting as long as I don't turn on ray tracing. Still looks awesome and my PC doesn't get fried
@@ciberzombiegaming8207fr it's impressive how much they've done to it since release. I have an rx570 4gb and I get 30~50fps on medium settings and admittedly high FSR
Not only does the game have a lot of original music, it has a radio station (Growl FM) that specifically plays fan-made music. And it's pretty good, too.
The funny thing about the game's original music is that Samurai is among the weakest shit you'll find in there. There's one good Samurai track ("Never Fade Away"), the rest range from forgettable to embarrassing.
@@GaldirEonai I think that's intentional.
@@GaldirEonaibro what ? Ballad of the Buck Ravers, Archangel, and Chippin in’ is fire 🔥
Good thing Subnautica is still popular in 2077!
yes! someone else who actually noticed the music!
Corpo V and femme V are both my favorites / my "canonical" playthrough. I really love the intro and the ongoing dialog options, as well as femme V's voice acting.
So stoked you're sticking with female V like others have said, Cherami Leigh killed this role and just fits so well in this universe. Enjoy the journey brother it's a great one.
Every time I watch someone play this game and their V goes to bed, I expect the early game “half on the bed, half on the floor” animation. Those were the days. 😂😂 So glad they fixed it in a patch!
That frustrated me so much.
The music is such a big part of the game's atmosphere it's such a shame about the copyright stuff.
21:35 Mr Evrart is helping me find my corpo backstory
I like female V's voice acting so much more than male V. Corpo is also great. That's what my current playthrough is. I thought Corpo V would rub me the wrong way, but I'm loving it so far.
When i first played Cyberpunk i really didnt liked this origin, because it felt so short to me but now I have to say it became my favorite, alone for all the corpo dialogue options
Corpo dialogue are my favourite ones. The side quest you do for the hacker in Afterlife and you have to do a pickup is my favourite example
The dialogue option you can say to the receptionist at Kompeki always stands out to me and sets the tone for what kinda person corpo V is.
The "Car Guy" at the start used to be Elon Musk. He showed up to one of Grimes' recording sessions for Lizzy Wizzy and threatened to beat someone up with a baseball bat if they didn't put him in the game somewhere.
Corpo is my life path in every playthrough...... And the Subnautica soundtrack was surprisingly fitting
My favorite Lifepath. I thought I'd be most into Nomad but turns out Corpo has by far the most interesting stuff to say.
While the 6 month skip is something most of us would've loved to play through, you have to absolutely commend the technical prowess on display. In a matter of milliseconds it loads the next scene, seamlessly from outside in Night City to inside buildings to outside to inside, loading new people, new props, cars etc. It's genuinely incredible how they were able to pull that off, even some games taking advantage of the PS5's faster storage still don't manage such seamless scene transitions without major pop in
The intros are basically Night City from below, from the outside, and from above. Streetkid V had been away from NC proper by being elsewhere, but this V has also been away from it without actually leaving. So this corpo V is both more plugged into the world, but also as removed from it as, say, Nomad V. Having corpo V already be friends with someone like Jackie rather than, say, meet him to do some deal, is kinda the most incongruous of the three for this reason. Either way you start back out at the bottom of course, and each background leads to a few “wouldn’t V be familiar with this already?”-moments during the game, just different ones.
Corpo was the one I picked, and the one I found most fitting... but then my character was a hacking-tech kinda guy
This was the origin I chose and after watching the other ones I think it's still my favourite! The pre-existing relationship with Jackie is really good. Although I only played maybe an hour or two after this and then kind of fell off... not really sure why. I'd like to get back into the game so maybe this playthrough will inspire me!
Idk when you played but try it out with phantom liberty. This game has everything now
Action gameplay, great Story, great characters, edgy things, eldrich horror things. Its a really fun ride
Corpo had the best outfit since the beginning. I'm glad we are playing this.
Broken guns were a change in v2.0, they just give parts now. Quite good, just makes the guns that survive a bit more special.
And less time spent getting over-encumbered and doing inventory management
I do hope you go with this life path, female V and corpo is a perfect fit for this game in my opinion. And it just feels like it’s the life path CDPR put the most effort in, it has the most unique dialogue options and it ties into the main storyline a lot more.
Female corpo v is 100% my favourite
The corporate angle gives you a very "Odd Couple" vibe with Jackie
The female V voice actress is so good. I have a hard time playing male V because of it.
literally have the opposite problem, her tone is all over the place
Just like a normal human who isn't dead inside then?@@alctaurion9038
@@alctaurion9038 yea, that's why it sound natural, male V sounds like a robot
@@filipe5585 That's hilarious considering most people played male V.
@@ilias856 most people would never try a female character in choice based games, a lot of it due to internalized misogyny (though some also just like playing as "themselves"). That's not the dunk you think it is
That special UI at the start of this backstory is so cool to see. News ticker and stock prices instead of stuff like ammo counts.
My favorite start, as others have said it feels more natural to already have a connection with Jackie.
One cool detail that's easy to miss is the guy you were talking to that worked for Abernathy is with the Arasaka agents that terminated you. Weaselly snake xD
1:27:10 regarding the shooting during the slide, you should take a look at the skills in the different skill trees
reflexes in particular has a lot of really good movement skills
Yeah he has already found and taken the skill in future episodes.
@@manic-n5n i know, my comment is from a week ago
@@SebastianSyrinx Ah, my bad!
Will look forward to the corpo run!
This game really has so many details, as you said, that it's mind boggling how it's even possible to cram so much into a game.
If you know a bit about the Cyberpunk lore, it's easy to understand why the corpo life path is so different from the others in this game. After all, the whole story behind the Cyberpunk genre is about mega corporations fighting each other for the control of entire cities, if not the entire world! They're shady, resort to corruption and cover-ups, treat people as cattle, and so on... The perfect recipe for dystopian chaos!
I never noticed that Meat Man article, definitely very subtle foreshadowing.
Really makes me want to play the game again. Loving this
So glad I found you when I did! I just finished replaying this game, and the DLC with the latest update and the experience is much different than when I played it years ago. I like your take on trying each life path first as well! New subscriber and I look foreward to seeing a newcomer to the series experience everything for the first time. This game has a ton of incredible details and it's great seeing someone really appreciate the world.
I've never seen the corporate way of V. This looks absolutely cyberpunky. After my actual playthrough, I will go the corporate route.
1:18:21 the door opening as you walk through the hole in the wall lmao
I've actually never seen the Corpo path before, because my first playthrough was Streetkid and second was Nomad. I do also like that we know Jackie already. However, when it comes to you thinking about what choice you like the most, honestly the biggest and most meaningful is your character's voice in my opinion. I like Fem V more personally but both are good for sure. The lifepaths don't really mean much after the prologue, other than offering some unique dialogue here and there. Obviously it can help with roleplaying that you know what background your V came from.
Everyone has their own interests, I think the Corpo route is my favorite. However I also liked your first character best which actually looked like yourself.
This is def my favorite starting line. So much so that I have a displate of the selection image in my apartment lol. The corpo aesthetic and ruthlessness is just so good. And for your music question, yeah there's a radio station that is filled with fan made tracks that was released in Phantom Liberty. Probably my favorite radio station in the game.
You definitely need to experience the bars and car radio music sometime on your own without recording. The atmospheres are just *chefs kiss
Glad you went with female V. Gavin Drea isn't bad, but Cherami Leigh's performance is the clear winner, for me. Corpo is a great lifepath choice, as well. The corpo dialog options are always pretty interesting. Also, I had never checked the Arasaka webpage in V's office before. Seeing her performance review and stuff was super cool.
I'm sure others have mentioned it, but shoot while sliding is in the perk tree. Thank god, because my favorite playstyle: run n gun shotgun blitz does a lot of sliding.
I have come to terms with the 6 months later cut. There's plenty more game that makes up for it. BUT I do wish the montage varied a bit depending on lifepath.
So stoked you've decided to stick with both female and corpo V for this playthrough!
About the hair - it's funny as you sound like you're joking about the hair being cybernetic implants but that's literally the lore so you're right on! 😆😄
I feel like 6months later mongate is good for establishing V's first apartment, car, contacts. We drop in just before life changing event, and there's still plenty of gigs and other content besides main quest line to enjoy night city. It wouldn't feel great if you had to play half in game year doing random shit for story to progress.
Did a double take when the Subnautica music started
I'm sad you missed the basketball on the roof after your scuffle. Looking forward to the rest of this playthrough.
I love Female V voice actress, she did such a great job with that performance
Am I insane or do I hear Abandon Ship from Subnautica's OST at 1:01:03?!
I know I ended up playing through the game three times for each life path. There's times when it comes up again, but I also did it to try three different builds, because they all play very different. My Street V was a bit of an everything in a blender back before the patches, my Corpo V was a netrunner smart pistol gunner with a sniper rifle that homed in and killed anyone in the head with barely any aiming on my part, my nomad V is currently dressed up as JC Denton, but uses the sandevistan to bullet time kill everything and it's just so smooth.
im so pumped for mapo first encounter with AS 😅
Yeah, I've done four playthroughs and bad bitch corpo V is my personal favorite and headcanon. Male VA is good but love the cornered animal vibe of female V.
Cornered animal. Couldnt have said it better myself.
The beginning the corpo one gives me Deus Ex (first game) and Deus Ex Human Revolution feelings.
Glad your going with female V
I enjoy her voice alotttt more then the counter part
I've completed the game with all 3 starts and tried out both genders - neither voice actor was bad but I have to say that the female lines always felt more immersive to me, and corpo agent's added dialogue always felt the most interesting. It's really nice having insight into how they do things, since the whole city seems to be in the palm of their hands.
Regarding shooting during a slide, that's a perk. A lot of the perks are cool extra abilities like that and some add cool extra things, like slowing down time, allowing you to airdash and create earthquakes with your first etc.
Edit: Also worth noting you can't redistribute ability points, but you can freely move perks around if you have regrets. So go and have fun.
55:30 first time i've noticed that music in background is "abandon ship" from subnautica
I was giggling at V punching an elevator wall, looking like a complete psycho.
wardrobe is visual only, inventory equipped clothes are actual items and have stats, wardrobe ones don't. also any clothes you ever picked gona register in wardrobe even if you dropped them immediately
Congrats on your choice. It’s a great one. Looking forward to your playthrough. I’ve only played this game when it first came out, before all the fixes and updates. Really curious to see how the game has improved and changed.
Tab is your best friend. It's like pressing v in Dragon Age.
Can't wait for how long this is gonna be lol
I'm currently on my 3rd Cyberpunk playthrough. But I have even more difficulty choosing in bg3. So much to choose, so much to see, and everything is so different. Decided to do 2-3 playthroughs too.
There are a few Detective cyberpunk games I think, of them I've only played Observer, I quite enjoyed that one for the most part.
Perfect timing, just finished your first two episodes. And now my fav one! Damn, a shame you gotta miss on copyrighted music on your first run. That's cruel.
Female V is my personal headcanon, I feel like her voice actress edges out the male va by a tiny bit (male V is good too, but I feel like emotionally female V sells it a bit better)
I like all three lifepaths, but for me Streetkid is my favorite, I feel like it makes the most sense why V wants to be a legend in Night City, as they grew up there
I disagree, I think that male V delivers the lines much more realistically, compared to video-gamey-anime tone female V has.
@@Kolket1389idk what you're on about, fem V's voice isn't over the top by any means, actual people do speak like that
@@jeminatamminen disagree
suggestion for a next blind playthrough: The Invincible (based on a novel by Stanisław Lem, who also wrote Solaris)
In the start of this one you read a shard about the arasaka academy. If you have seen edge runners you will know that the MC (David) his mom literally spends all her money to send David to said academy
Gaming doesn't cause violence.
Gamer: Wow, you can fuck up their bodies, after thy're dead. 😆
Awesome path and gender choice there! Just a few things: remember to scan the environment regularly, you'd be surprised how much you can learn about the world. Try to read absolutely everything, database, shards, but also item descriptions, mission descriptions, emails, messages, internet sites etc... You got no idea how ginormous and expansive the cyberpunk world/lore is. Another point about the wardrobe: what you just put together is your transmog look, no matter what you put on, you'll look just like you look now (can save up to 6 looks).
There are surely many more things to mention but another time I guess.
Corpo lifepath has that eerie music from the get-go
Netrunner corpo V I think you'll love this path the most
I was kind of skeptical of the Corpo origin since it seems pretty shady when you read the description. But this is actually super cool! I might just do Corpo myself next time I play. Ton of fun as usual mate!
Don't worry, choom! Shooting while sliding is a skill you can unlock. Just gotta invest those perks wisely.
finally you try my fav origin, the corpo "Femme Fatale" V
i wish you will play as female V as you did in mass effect. So much more emotions
I suggest putting only the iconic (yellow background) weapons into your apartment’s stash. The rarest ones will be displayed on the wall.
There’s no use storing clothing and other non-iconic weapons. 99.9% of clothing is purely visual and gives no perks, so you can strip them for crafting components in your backpack. Same with weapons, just equip the strongest ones. Clothing - even if you no longer possess the items in your stash or inventory, you can still equip them in the wardrobe.
I did 10 playthroughs, 1 Streetkid, 1 Nomad, 8 Corpo V's :-D I like it best also for roleplaying reasons. The backstory gives some interesting dialogue options and the contrast to your new life as a merc is great to play with.
i get a couple of playthroughs but jeez 10 is next level 😂 have you even played anything else for the past 3 years
Nope! :-D only Cyberpunk... I got in too deep :-D Also joined a TTRPG group, got my V 3D printed and everything... 850 hours in... I... have a problem :-D@@jeminatamminen
Subnautica end credits music... good choice. 👍
I'm not positive but I think the inability to shoot the heads off bodies IS a censorship thing. And the other headless bodies got that way through other mechanics. Bit of inconsistency I guess. Unless it has something to do with the facial rec blocking cyberware, but I don't remember that being a thing on my playthrough. With swords heads went flying a lot in my playthroughs, so we'll see as you progress.
I heard Corpo Female is fan favorite! Can't wait for this playthrough!
think there is a skill for sliding and shooting if I remember right not played the agile skills in a long while and a slow motion thing
The moment I've heard female V's voice I knew I had to play as her being a man myself. Cherami Leigh did a fantastic job portraying the sassiness of a brazen hot-shot merc!
I hope you will look what mods are out there, some really add to the game. Also I think its best to watch Edgerunners alongside your first playthrough. At least somewhere in the middle of the main plot of the game. The show has some additional lore and vice versa.
35:00 That game is called "Observer", a Horror Game.^^
First time hearing Fem V voice and it sounds soo good! almost want to restart my Bro V haha. Like always in these games the "fem" hairstyles are so much better too, in my opinion. The hairstyle you went with kinda gives me vibes of default femshep which I love... wish there was, unless I missed it, a ME3 jack style.
Curious to see what combat style you'll like the most as all of them sound really fun, especially after the update. I tend to go with either stealthy ranged or mage type classes in games, so a sneaky, silencer wielding netrunner really spoke to me. The couple times I was able to clear an entire building without setting foot inside was just wild to me.
The hairstyles are the same for male and female :')
55:46 I feel a Stanfield comparison coming on
You don't need to put clothes in the storage, as soon as you collect it, it's in the wardrobe.
I know im late, but i remember reading Corpo V is also from Haywood
Cyberpunk 2077 is another one of those games like Mass Effect, Dragon Age Inquisition, and Dragon Age II where I feel the female protagonist’s voice actor is superior to the male voice actor (Sorry Mark Meer…)
Never read the 2nd screen on V's desk, but listening to you reading it I was like.... wait a minute that sounds familiar. Keep on playing and you'll find out 🧐🤫🤐
I always love playing my icecold female corpo katana Vs. Cherami's voice acting just nails it for me.
Also WTF it's the same car dude as in the other origin. Is it maybe a standard model or did they do it intentionally?
Cherami Leigh's performance as fem V is phenomenal. Keanu Reeves as Silverhand is uh... well... You can definitely tell which of them is the professional voice actor.
I thought Keanu did great, especially in the dlc
Keanu's performance is excellent, tf do you mean
The problem with the music in the game is really serious because it makes or breaks many scenes. I would almost recommend that you watch iconic scenes again on RUclips afterwards to see what they would actually be like. Simply because you, well, ruin a lot of scenes for yourself and the immersion. Unfortunately, that's a real shame. So I would really recommend you watch the iconic scenes again afterwards. Or replay it on your own, maybe with a different life path because the male or female V, can actually have a very different story lines.
Can we crowdfund Mapo a japanese pronunciation guide for this playthrough? :D.
(And maybe a spanish one, but IIRC he's struggled a lot less with those in the past.)
I'm sorry, did you add on music from Subnautica when you got to Lizzies?! Awesome if you did (or it leaked in from somewhere!)
i feel like a lot of those hairstyles were added with the dlc? i dont recognize any of them lol
aren't the nomad and corpo lifepaths where you become a streetkid so cool?