Understanding My Obsession With Cyberpunk 2077
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Ever since its release, Cyberpunk 2077 has had a hold on me unlike any other video game. With the Cyberpunk Edgerunners anime and Phantom Liberty continuing to pull me back in, I couldn't figure out just why I kept coming back to Cyberpunk. So I made this video, a love letter to Cyberpunk 2077 and its world in an attempt to move on.
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Have a wonderful day chooms ❤️
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Timestamps:
0:00 the beginnings
3:30 Night City
6:50 Cyber-
11:41 -Punk
15:00 Characters (spoilers)
18:43 Phantom Liberty (spoilers)
23:28 Edgerunners (spoilers)
25:20 A Happy Ending?
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my year has been made.
14hrs ago damnnnnn. pls feed my cyberpunk addiction
Thank all of you guys for giving me my favourite game of all time. I thought nothing could top InFAMOUS until a couple weeks ago.
This my favorite game as well..
greatest game of all time.
I agree with you so much. I'm almost obsessed with the world of cyberpunk. The architecture, the culture, the technology, the lawlessness, and the colorful neon lights just mesmerize me to where I sometimes wish I could've witnessed it or something very similar with my very own eyes.
Yess it’s all so dangerous but so strangely comforting
I’ve always had an obsession with the architecture. The gloomy view of these mega skyscrapers with hundreds of windows shining light. Neon lights from advertisement/holograms also shining down on you. It’s such a beautiful aesthetic that I gravitate towards for some reason. I mean, nature is pretty cool too lol but for some reason, futuristic cities with tall buildings, neon lights
and rainy weather does something to me lol
As odd as this sounds…I in a way have become V. I have put 100’s of hours into Cyberpunk 2077 and my character I truly feel like I am playing as myself at this point. I love the whole look and concept of the game…but I find myself thinking of this game even when I am out of the house.
@JustADudeDoingSomething you said it perfectly. The whole world and theme of Cyberpunk just grabbed me so hard, and I love it. Think about it on a daily basis.
Don't count it out just yet, barring ww3 most zoomers will live to 2077
Night city just swallowed me, I wasn't able to play anything else but Cyberpunk. Ending on my first playthrough just broke me, like I was literally dead behind the screen. After that I decided to get PL on next sale and I do not regret any penny spent on this masterpiece. We all know cyberpunk had rough start, but now this is literally on of the best games over there. Waiting for Sequel for sure.
Absolutely, both the base game and PL’s endings just have you starting at the credits contemplating life
best looking game ever too imo
Same, I can't wait for Cyberpunk Orion. I am so curious about how Orion will be, especially that now they are working on Witcher 4? And Said that will be a totally new gen of game AAAA+. So really, imagine Cyberpunk in 10 years.
@@ashortgingerI don’t know how they do it so many times, pretty much every ending the game and edgerunnners just leaves you empty.
Yea Orion is gonna be insane
what gripped me was everything about the world, but the the nail in the coffin was the fact that it is one of the only games that I feel dirty fast travelling, and I look forward to that long drive across the map
I know my way around without even using the map, I have gotten that used to the streets of NC! I agree I don't like to fast travel, though the metro is awesome we have it now!
i have to agree. i usually don't bother travelling across the whole map in open world games. but in CP it just feels disrespectful to the great desing that this city has. if i have to go somewhere near, i always go by foot and constantly look at the futuristic skyscrapers and architecture that always manages to amaze me
@ecto8068 At 170 km/h on my Kusanagi motorcycle! Oh yeah!
The only time I really use the fast travel in 400 hours is when I'm trying to bang out side missions as fast as possible lol
Same 👍
I finally found my people. I’ve sunk over 600 hours into the game and I still can’t get enough. The world, characters, stories and atmosphere found within the game are just so amazing and I’m excited to see how Night City is going to be portrayed in the next game.
I'm thinking of doing a custom New Game Plus where I raise the level cap to 100 and unlock EVERYTHING! lol, need a few mods for it to work
Over 600 hours, my my, I am only at 2,247 hours and still have many to go.
I just past 400 hours... I thought I was doing too much... guess I have to catch up choom!
For everyone in the comments here, what do you guys do for so many hours? Not hating or anything, but at one point isn't there just nothing left? Like how do you get more than 200 hours?
@@hmmnotsureI’m assuming replaying the game
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the most important pieces of art I have ever experienced.
the most important, for me at least. it may not have changed me in a 180° kind of way, since my character has always been level headed already, but it for sure solidified it and my beliefs by a lot. there's always that "what would johnny do" tho haha
It really is
Man I gotta get this for ps5 , I bought kingdom come deliverance for 4 bucks but it’s too slow for me , ima get this game soon
@@jordanmarazzi3548 id recommend pc but whatever works works
This...and RDR 2. Many similar themes actually. And the worlds and characters, writing, production, is SPOT on.
"G'night, Valerie. Today was a good day." Hits hard. Johnny is sad that he is going to get wiped but accepts it because he knows it will genuienly save V. And in the end that's what he wanted.
That line hit me so fuckin hard. After the ending credits I sat there just thinking about everything. I do believe Johnny was sincere and that he ultimately didn't want us to die because of him
I feel you man, the first time I heard, him full name dropping, the emotions and everything that happens after that I felt regret with that ending choice. As V literally loses almost all of his friends, it really hits you that Johnny was the real one and always there for V
@@kingofblackout yea I couldnt handle the Tower ending. Soon as I saw where it leads (SPOILERS AHEAD), V losing everyone and everything, getting beaten up by some street punks and basically becoming a nobody, all while Militech takes over NC, I went and did The Star ending afterwards on that same character, just to give myself a better closure. Never picked the Tower ending after that on any of my consecutive playthroughs.
The tower was the missing piece. It's what Dex alledges to when he asks if you'd like to be a nobody or a legend.
@@BL00DYME55 same here, bud. I went behind and saved Songbird
Cyberpunk just feels real. It isn't trying to show you a perfect world it has it flaws and shortcomings but it never once claims to be perfect.
"Cyberpunk isn't about saving humanity.
It's about saving yourself"
~ Mike Pondsmith
I am absolutely obsessed with the Cyberpunk world. Cyberpunk 2077 is the best game i've ever played and Edgerunners is top 1 on my anime list. I just can't stop thinking about this universe
Check out the RPG that originated this setting 30+ years ago.
saying cyberpunk is the best game you have ever played is wild
@@mcbill7352 By far the best out there I won’t even debate
You need to play persona 5 you would love it
@@elisavage1359 I just checked real quick it looks so weird x)
I've logged over 3500 hours in this game. First playthrough ruined me. That was a bit under a year after the game originally launched (I had an old PC that was on its last legs when the game came out so I got a mate to build me a Cyberpunk read one in 2021). I'm an old, first gen female gamer - in the second half of my fifties with the declining hormone levels to match. I thought I had become, not exactly dead inside, but emotionally muted (you really don't realise how much those hormones influence your emotions until they go away). And that first playthrough actually made me realise that I could still feel, because it made me so bloody sad in a way I hadn't been for ages.
I'm terrible for repeat plays - I can spend months and months playing and replaying games to try different paths, different builds, etc, and so it was with this. Subsequent playthroughs didn't make me feel in the way the first did, but I began to relax and enjoy the gameplay more. I did take a side trip into RDR2 (itself a wild emotional ride) for a few months while I was waiting on Phantom Liberty but the DLC lured me right back in and is even better than the main game.
I'm an Alpha gen gamer too! Cyber punk was a special game, played on release and on the PC it was like a 90s PC game in that it crashed maybe 6 or so times in the 60 odd hour play through, it was not deserving of the bad press or at least not on the PC. It was easily a top 10 game of all time for me but after patch 2.0 and the release of PL it went next lv, now it's cemented it's self in my top 5. I am not up to the mad 3.5k hours you have clocked up but I have completed it 6 times which is astonishing for me. Certainly my favourite action rpg which is odd as other than ME1&2 I much prefer fantasy based rps rather than future ones. From Aug last year to just past Christmas was either CP or BG3 which again was an absolute stonker! Little bit disappointed that there won't be a further expansion as with the Pamam ending there did feel like there was another story to be told. I know that they are focusing on the new CP but I just hope and pray that Project Red have not bitten off more than they can chew with the amount of new games they have in development and am concerned they will follow the disastrous path most of their peers are taking and sacrifice strong story telling on the alter of woke drivel
@@simonsimon6431 Equally the space heist is an untold story, but basically, every ending allows CDPR to refer to V as the merc who took the city by storm and then disappeared. Pretty sure Orion will have a new protagonist.
this game ruined me too. i have abit over 2k and i'm still hooked and stop anytime soon. since you have a pc, if you haven't used Mods yet you should, they can almost make it a new game
@@spinkey4842 Oh I always use mods. Even on my 1st play though on every game the most important thing is to find a mod that gives unlimited carry capacity, what a hideous mechanic. Not one single human being ever has enjoyed inventory management in games. It only make me think no one has actually thought about it ie how is that adding plates and cups fun or a challenge to a game
Cyberpunk 2077 on an OLED TV/monitor, with HDR on and path tracing, looks so good and real. I love it.
You know what I noticed on release, and even kinda now? Most people who enjoy Cyberpunk 2077 weren't gamers per se, those whom enjoy the gameplay first, but more of a film, books, and etc. lovers, whom may have overlooked bugs and flaws of this game, and were in awe from atmosphere and story that was on release. No other game had dragged me in so much, that 3.5 years after it's release, I still think so highly of this game, and still ocassionallly return to it once every 6 months to complete it, as soon as the memories of details fade away a bit
You are on to something here.
I agree.
i agree babes 😭 i did not care about those bugs it was still so full of life
Yeah I’ve never played the game, still love it.
that absolutely applies to me. I play the occasional game but I would never call my self a "gamer". As someone here said, It "swallowed me whole". The comes from the fact that regardless of the medium, its such an amazing story. There are layers upon layers upon layers of details. The world building is unlike anything I have experienced before outside of maybe starwars or startrek. Its one game but it feels like a lifetime of world building.
Really one of the most painful things to me is to see how unrecognized and under appreciated this game still is. My friends still laugh at me when I tell them Cyberpunk is my favorite game of all time and many of them still have never picked it up despite me nearly begging due to the shaky release and bad press the game got surrounding it's release. These love letters to Cyberpunk mean so much to me, they put in to words what a lot of us can't how brutal and cruel the world is but yet at the same time full of love and hope if you dig deep. The characters are unparalleled and the graphics and setting just can't be beat, thanks for this choom much love to all of you out there!
One of my friends kept telling me how much the game has improved since launch. I refused to believe until a few months ago when it went on sale and I bit the bullet. So glad I listened and bought the game. I. Am. In. Love!!~💕
Edit: I am specifically in love with how V's long painted nails look when reloading a shotgun. I can't stop staring at that animation xD
To be fair, it was messed up to release the game in that state. It was a giant F-U to consumers. I agree the game is a 10 out of 10 NOW, but think of all the gamers who got screwed over buying the game day one. Can't blame anyone for being unwilling to give it a chance CDPR created a lot of bad blood with customers.
But hey, I'm glad I gave it a shot. Totally worth it now they fixed it.
I pre ordered the game on PC and never regretted it i think thats the best way i can put it.... it really did smth to me somehow
I grew up in LA, cyberpunk feels like home to me. Everyday I see inspirations and scary parallels. I was best friends with a Jackie Welles in high school, and had a fling with a Judy. Night city will always feel like home
Truly is a city of Dreams eh?
Real asf
@@jackthorton10 "cuz one has to be asleep to believe it"
@@greedy_mf Amen to that
It kinda hurts in a way doesn’t it like a necessary evil i cant explain it its close to the feeling of nostalgia
300 hrs in… zero regrets. I love this game dearly and I really love cyberpunk. Lol even wrote a fanfic 😂👌🏾
Ayy nice
Yeah 267 the game is crack! Strong opening too one of the strongest I’ve seen in any game
If you've played Cyberpunk, what's the reason you keep returning to it?
Edit: Thank you amazing chooms for all the love ! stick around for more content like this, just talking about the games I love
I actually want to see how far we can go as humans within my lifetime. I want to see if we are able to make self-aware AI. How far can we integrate ourselves with technology. Cyberpunk is the game of my heart essentially.
It just keeps pulling me back in. I've mostly finished everything I could but I can't leave it behind for long. Even when I'm not in Night City I'm listening to the games soundtrack and making multiple playlists. Im glad that I do come back though, as I always find a new detail or some place I haven't been. Hell, I found an entire side quest I had no idea existed by finding out I could open a random garage door in Santo Dom. Its a City of Dreams and it keeps me dreaming.
The soundtrack is so easy to listen to all the time… it was in my Spotify wrapped last year lol
Everything else just sucks.
Nothing else is as immersive and compelling as this game. The world, the setting, the detail, the MUSIC, the combat, everything can keep me sucked in for literally hours on end without completing a single quest. I’m at like 1200+ hours into the game in the past year alone. The only other game that feels this immersive is Witcher III, but the setting of Night City is so much more appealing to me personally. I am obsessed. I haven’t played another game fully since discovering Cyberpunk in February 2023.
I absolutely love the world of Cyberpunk. I put 100 hours on my first playthrough. I did all the gigs, all the police reports, all the side missions I could do, phantom liberty, driving around the city listening to bangers from Body Heat radio, optimizing my build, and much more. Im so glad I played the game this year instead of when it came out. I feel bad for those who had to deal with the game on release, but you haven't played Cyberpunk yet I 100000% recommend it now. Anything Cyberpunk sign me up. I can't wait for Cyberpunk Orion!
This is exactly how I feel about it. I’ve put maybe 30 hours into it so far and haven’t even completed the second act. Taking my time and don’t want my first play through to end, I have a feeling the ending is gonna hurt lol. But I just picked it up in the last month and have even told my friends I’m so glad I didn’t play it when it released. Anyways, it’s truly and quickly become my second favorite game of all time, right after TLoU. Glad you’ve enjoyed it as well!
Every police report is insane there’s too much
i have 700 hours in cyberpunk. i first completed it within the first 3 release weeks and find myself starting another playthrough again and again. i honestly don't really know why. maybe it's some sort of nostalgia, i want to experience the game for the first time again. i want to immerse myself in night city, get to know all the characters, feel the dread, experience the vast interconnected worldbuilding and the hidden depths behind every corner of this huge game. of course it never ends up feeling the same. its never as mindblowing and captivating as the first time, yet i still love night city and find myself longing to wander its streets. i don't know how often i replayed the main storyline, i 100%-ed the game like 3 times, and i have done each and every ending over and over again. i just cant comprehend how they were able to create such a huge variety mindblowing storylines, intrigues and mysteries all interconnected, coexisting symbiotically in this beautiful hellscape that is night city.
This was my first AAA video game, not counting MYST, old Atari ST games, or Pong! So imagine my shock & awe when I discovered Cyberpunk 2077 last December on YT. Having worked in Blender 3D, I was impressed with the realism. But as a Mac user, I thought I could never play this game... until I discovered CrossOver, which allows me to play on my Mac M2 in 4K native with no upscaling, which blew my mind! I even got DLSS working and archive mods. I completed several endings, cried deeply, and then continued until all quests & gigs were completed. I was still not done and went to Night City daily. I now have over 1000 hours and continue to explore. I can't get enough! The music got me, the visuals are amazing, the writing is rich, and the cyberpunk fashion is so cool. I’ve never experienced anything like this and it’s changed my life. I don’t think I’ll ever be over this, not until they release Orion. I now paint my nails like Valerie, I bought a Cyberpunk sweatshirt, Night City keychain, cyberpunk credit card skins, an official Cyberpunk LED sign, and bumper stickers! My music tastes have changed due to the game, too! It makes me see precursors to 2077 all around today, such as homelessness, urban decay, Neuorolink, robotic arms, corporate behavior, guns, and violence… the game is so thought-provoking. And they spent $437 million to date - totally awesome! I will never be the same and still cannot stop exploring and experiencing Night City! “Hello, my name is Wendy and I’m a Cyberpunk addict”!
Enjoy your stay in the city of dreams !
Try it with geforcenow with path tracing enabled and a 4k hdr tv...mind=blown
genuinly, first off we have the same taste in games which I love ; but the reason I'm commenting is that I've also been depressed for years, but one of the credits sequences in Cyberpunk is one of my main barriers against zero-ing myself, to use the game's slang : the sheer amount and weight of emotion when Judy asks you if you ever thought about what happens to everyone else, and how she breaks down when she can't leave you a message because she knows you'll never answer, it just floored me. That and most everyone else being a different stages of grief, Viktor angrily snaps at how he wishes he could, no even should have done more (his words, not mine) ; even Panam, with the most violent and angry message out of them all, to me at least, seems to be angry not only that she did so much for you, but it still wasn't enough, and you weren't thinking about anything at all, because if you were, you'd have asked for help from a reliable source.
To quote the name of a video essay I adore about Cyberpunk 2077 : Night City hates you, and you have to deal with that, but as is said in the video, you can love living in a city that hates you, not just because you're an outsider who faces no consequence in a city created by artists, but also because within that Hate that surrounds you at all times, you can find myriad little holes carved out of the world for people : families, crews, lovers, friends, brothers, and hell even good colleagues (see V and their Fixers)
The reason we love Night City so much isn't down to the disgust of capitalism that writhes within it, but that even 53 years from now, when we'll be closer to Saul or Viktor's age, love and hope persist
Beautifully put, hope to see you there , in 2077 fellow Choom :)
I have been obsessed with Skyrim for the longest time, literally feeling homesick for an imaginary world. I recently started playing cyberpunk after my partner kept saying how good it was, and I can truthfully say that Cyberpunk and Skyrim fall into that same category of a cruel world that is so beautiful you want to be in it.
I get you. I played old version many times with all it's flaws. Night City is the best built city in any video game. Seriously it makes other developers look like they are not even trying. The city just feels alive. When I play I never go from point A to point B. I explore, parkour and sometimes just stand and look around for minutes. When you go to city center and Corpo Plaza the absolute size and marvel of the city hits you hard. Makes Los Santos laughable. You can honestly look at city as it's own character.
2077 inspired me to get into GMing for tabletop games, as I picked up Cyberpunk Red afterwords and have been building characters and writing stories with my friends in the setting ever since.
Same here. I had GM'd previously but it was Cyberpunk that got me back into it in a major way.
I feel ya choom! This game captivated me. The characters, the world, the gameplay and the modding community. I have so many hours in this game and have never gotten bored. I am so in love with the story telling, the characters (lookin at u Panam ;)) and the world building. I even watched edgerunners, and Ive never watched an anime in my life (and probably never will again). ❤ I hope Cyberpunk 2 delivers just as much care and attention as this gem has.
I'm too can't seem to stop thinking about cyberpunk. This game somehow just keeps me coming back time and time again.
Characters are definitely the best part of the game and especially PL. I cried and laughed so many times on the first play through it's kinda crazy.
That was a great video man, thank you so much. I'm literally in tears writing this comment after watching the video - you did a great job!
Thank you for expressing exactly how this game makes me feel. I have over 600 hours in this game, countless playthrough, and everytime the game still manages to entrance me and capture me. I tried many other games but none can satisfy me the same way CP77 did. On my first play of PL i sent So Mi to the moon and I cried like a baby, looking at my screen, and that moment will stick with me forever. That's moment like these that makes an epic game for me.
Wow thank you, the first few minutes alone explain exactly to the point how i feel about cyberpunk
Im actually tearing a little, no game, series or film has ever made me feel what i felt playing this game.
When i think back in a few decades i hope to remember this game and the great great time i had ❤️
brother you have no idea how much I'm proud to see your video, because ever since i experienced cyberpunk that experience never left my my mind or thoughts, and definitely had a great long lasting impact on me, and I just can't let that go i keep playing the game yearly, and i still find new content new vision, and i said to my friends that i feel my soul has bonded with cyberpunk world from the second that i launched the game and saw the magic, it feels so amazing to see there is people who enjoyed this experience like me luv ya man, preem video
i feel you so much. i literally cant tell what about this game has me so enamored. i fell in love with all the characters (to the point where it actually saddens me to see them after their questlines when they just repeat the same 3 lines)
i fell in love with night city and i dont think ill get over it anytime soon
I love every single part of this video, the music, the image, the narrator with a touching end that I can relate to, everything is so perfect doing justicie to my actual favorite game right right now
Platted the game just yesterday after starting over with the 2.0 update . Had the game since launch and experienced so few issues, even on my old ass PS4. Throughout all of the controversy, I've sung the praises of Cyberpunk and CDPR, and Phantom Liberty and the experience of platinuming the game really cemented the game as one of my favourites of all time. This video expressed everything I've been feeling about the game recently. Great job dude!
Honestly Cyberpunk 2077 and Red Dead Redemption 2 are the only games that I would personally consider perfect. They truly left me broken and wanting for more. I’m obsessed with both of them. The worlds, the characters, the stories, the lore… everything is perfect.
Fantastic Video, could not put it better. What Cyberpunk and Night City thought me is a feeling I never had before. This feeling can be described as the knowledge to be completely alone within millions of people and noone would ever care if you die in a sidestreet which sounds horrible. But it is also relieving to know the feeling of freedom which comes with it. Everything is in the moment and nothing is forever.
Who would've thought a game with rdr2 level writing, doom level gameplay, an insane soundtrack, and an occasionally beautiful dystopian world would be unforgettable. I don't blame you I love this game to death.
how does it have rdr2 level writing? i enjoyed it sure but it wasnt that good so im curious
@@Jacket50BlessingsRDR2 is less complex
I did only 1 playthrough and now i'm waiting for a little longer in order to forget as more as possible before my next playthrough. Definitely the best game for me as well. Watching Shogun recently reminded of CP 2077 because I got stuck with that feeling after finishing the show. Very well written and presented characters makes you care like they are your real friends.
i started out my cyberpunk journey on the playstation 4 and once i got into it i just couldn't stop, i have 1000+ hours in the game because its just so big, beautiful but sad and everything you said and more. you helped me realise some reasons i love the game and feel seen by it, the game hits so deep and feels so real. i cant put into words how it makes me feel but its good to see im not alone in how we feel and love the game
What a beautiful video this is, a true love letter. Sharing your emotions and about your depression, I can relate so much to this, I was close often in my life to end it all but decided to push through it. You had me crying instantly talking about Jackie and seeing Panam, hearing the PL song had me in absolut tears. I never was as emotional as playing Cyberpunk 2077, it's the best story game for me.
I'm on my way to get my diagnose for ADHD and Autism, I'm 37 years old and just started to live my life. If you struggle and you read this please don't stop fighting.
Never stop fighting, never let them win
Just the Night City itself is beautiful enough to keep me staring. The more I like the art design, the more I feel bad for not being able to see the full of it.
FF7 was my favourite game of all time from 1997 till Cyberpunk came out. It’s just an amazing game and an amazing world to be in. I love just walking around the city.
Exactly the same in my case.
Brilliant essay man. I took share an infatuation with the world of Cyberpunk. I can't get enough and it's a profound work of combined art. Hope you do more!
Well-done on this video choom, you made me see some different perspectives and enlightened things I half knew. Thanks my mans, I hope everyone enjoys this game as much as we did as well.
Pretty much agree with everything in the vid except for how they handled Jackie. Don't get me wrong he's a great and likeable character but V's relationship with him felt pretty rushed. I would've really liked to have more time spent with him at the beginning instead of just a minute-long montage and a time skip.
"I can't stop digging Night City" - Jackie Wells
Me neither, Choom. Me neither....
As much as I hate Night City...it feels....kinda like a home.
What a love letter man. I played it on release on pc and even though there were some bugs it was the most immersive game I've played ever. I truly felt like I lived a life with these characters. I still remember escaping the boundaries of night city's outskirts with Panam looking at the stars. It gave me such a euphoric, freeing but sad feeling of what awaited even though that's where it ended. I realized that's literally what V was probably feeling too.
I've done a few playthroughs of Cyberpunk. The amount of emotion that I went through when I initally played the game from understanding and trusting Johnny to the silly texts as you mentioned. The romances, characters and enviorment want me to play again and again and I usually find something new to do. Phantom liberty made me not only cry but angry to with the ending when you side with Songbird. Even watching this brought a tear to my eye. Definitely a game I will continue to replay in my older years.
Cyberpunk 2077 is such a good game, the world CDPR built and its atmosphere is just above perfection ! I cant wait to play the sequel in few years !
if only they put car decals, apartment customization, weapon modification, and also just more NPC diversity and dialogues (breaks the immersion for me immediately)
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This game's story made me cry. There's something about trying your absolute hardest to be something and have it all just to be swept under the rug or simply forgotten that destroyed me. That helplessness was gut-wrenching. How many V's are there in NC? We were special until we weren't
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love the 6 frames of Gurren Lagann lmao
amazing video bro, i myself seem to have fallen back into the world of night city recently and you summed up the feeling pretty well.
Wait why does this vid only have 700 views?? It’s so fuxkin good!!
Lmao thank you, just uploaded yesterday and tis a small channel :) hoping the algo picks it up ha
I can live in this game. When I'm bored of every other game I go back to it - just like Skyrim.
Day off work? Cyberpunk.
Ill? Cyberpunk.
Depressed? Cyberpunk.
Waiting for Orion now and believe me I will be booking a week off work when that drops.
I play it when I’m depressed too. Everyone in the game is going thru something and I genuinely try to help them, even tho it’s a game.
Excellent work. I think the coverage in your editing is particularly strong!
Your ability to explain and your love for this game and its story seriously made me want to experience it for myself, thank you for sharing your experience I hope I can feel as much as you did and take in as much form this game as you did
Amazing video my man
I used to shit on this game a lot during release cus I was reasonably hyped and we all know the launch day state, but Update 2.0 changed my mind plus PL, now it sits on one of my most fav games. The customization, weapon balancing, new weapons, etc. and just being stable, it became as it should've been at launch date.
Funny how those that made fun of the game for how bad it was ended up actually ended up loving it once they realized how deep and immersive its world can be.
Personally, I’ve always loved the game even back when it was broken as I was lucky enough not to experience major game breaking bugs. I’m just glad more people are finally being unbiased and realizing there’s a genuine masterpiece hidden underneath all the bad press. Let it be known, CDPR really should not have released the game in such a state though.
@@SilverGeFerYeah, they made it up to the fans for all the false hope and lies, but I'm not gonna trust CDPR for next projects like Witcher or any unfortunately, will believe it once I see it on release. Regardless I'm glad they didn't give up on this game, devs like EA, Bethesda, etc. Probably would've had
It feels so nice to see people loving this game as much as you do, great video!!!
II completely agree with you. Your video made me emotional. This game is my favorite; I just can't stop going back to it. For me, it's like home. I'm so attached to these characters and this world. It hurts me to see people hating a game that I love so much. I'm glad to see that someone else feels the same way.
Awesome video man you really hit the core experience of playing cyberpunk
Fantastic video yo, ever since it’s admittedly rocky launch I’ve also been enamored with this world.. I’m on like… my 9th play through now? And it just gets me every time… I dont even skip the heist I just play through it all cuz it hits so hard. The influences from Blade runner, Ghost in the shell, Akira, the love given to the source material. It’s all sooooo good, even edgerunners knocks it out of the park. The characters you meet and the journey V goes through will always hold a special place in my heart. Phantom Liberty is in my opinion, a perfect expansion as well, so many players on the board with so much at stake, it’s hard to choose who is right. I feel granting So Mi her final with is also the best choice, its the least risky.
Even just the PL ending music during the transition into that segment gave me chills man, such an amazing game. I've loved it since launch day even with all the bugs and let downs, I have to stop myself from starting another new playthrough bc I'll just end up sinking another 80+ hrs into it.
The Phantom Liberty theme played through the end credits is now one of my favourite pieces of music. Also, that end credit sequence had a very James Bond movie vibe to it.
A very intelligent and thoughtful essay, choom. I could hear the passion, love and sensitivity in your voice. I'm in my early sixties; as a kid, there was no cyberpunk, just SF & F. Even personal computers were a thing of fiction, let alone that the new PC sitting on my desk is probably more powerful than a super computer of the 1970's was.
Thankfully, I've never dealt with depression or other mental health issues. I once described myself as chronically well adjusted and generally content, if now downright happy. Oddly, I think my real life almost nomadic childhood had something to do with that. Moving so often, I became very good at adapting and letting go of what was left behind. A brief stint in the Canadian Armed Forces equipped me with endurance and self-discipline. That service is also what lead to my deepest connection with V.
Of course, I have tried all possible endings in both the base game and expansion. The one that hit me hardest was when you take the cure from the NUSA and find yourself unable to use cyberware, becoming just a face in the crowd. As a very young soldier (I'm talking 17 to 18 years of age) I was capable of doing things my non-military friends weren't. It sometimes made me feel more than human. But over the years my spine curved and gradually became worse. It continues to get worse every year. It has taken away a lot of my physical ability. So like V after being cured, I find myself remembering what it was like to be so damn good, but now I've lost it all and I'm just another face in the crowd.
But I persist; I have endurance, I am stubborn and for crying out loud, there's just ONE MORE THING I need to do in one game or another before I go! LOL
Keep up the good work. You've got a good head on your shoulders. If your videos cast a new ray of light and hope into even one person's life, then you've done the world a good turn.
Thank you so much, I very much appreciate your kind words and personal thoughts !
Thank you for showing this game the love it deserves. The sheer depth of it gave me the feeling i had playing skyrim for the first time. Lost in a new world with everything to discover. The setting and stories are so believable and well made, you can get sooooooo lost in night city and i loved every bit of it.
This might be the best video I’ve ever watched explaining my thoughts on this game and world. Thank you so much
thank you
Dude I’ve been so obsessed with this game for so long. I’m obsessed and haven’t been this obsessed with a game in a while. It’s so nice to know there are other people who are also as into it as me. Feels so affirming . So so grateful this games launch didn’t deter everyone, this game has so much promise and is so beautiful . Shame so many people wrote it off so fast, grateful for all you chooms
that also got caught up in the craziness and beauty that is cyberpunk
Great review man. When I tell people this is my favorite game, I'm always hit with the same comments about it being unfinished.
But this is genuinely more of a game. It's an experience. So real, and visceral. I cried genuine tears across the game and show. And they absolutely should go down in history as some of the finest content ever produces.
This was a great video, man. I feel exactly the same about Cyberpunk 2077 and Night City. It would require too many words to elucidate, but the game is masterful and a world that I keep coming back to.
First off, amazing video
you presented every reason why I and many others love this game.
As for me, I'll just say that the first days at launch i lterally dreamed i was V in that world and was obsessed, something that never happened with any other game.
After Edgerunners and PL expansion i came back living the same obsession I had at launch and every once I need to visit Night City again.
Lastly, this game affected me on multiple levels such as emotional, modern life perspective but especially creatively for my art.
As a producer / sound designer, it gave me specific inputs through aesthetics, vibe and music that immensely helped my artistic growth and taste.
I agree with everything you say in the video this game was just the most immersive and beautiful experience I've ever had, it's like not only this setting is one of the best I've ever seen in a game and has so much identity and atmosphere to it, but on top of it the characters just feel so real like they are real people with émotions, a personnality, a past. Ive never been so immersed into a world and attached to fictional characters
the game, the characters, the world all felt so real to me and i loved every moment of it. there were times i would just boot up the game to just walk or drive around to just live in it for the time
Dude, amazing work on the video! Couldn't say it better myself regarding the obsession with this game.
I can’t believe there’s other people who share my struggle. I just can’t stop coming back to it.
Late to this video, and you have a new sub. Glad to see so many people as completely obsessed with this game as I am. Been playing since the release, I'm on my second build - pure Netrunner - and absolutely love simply exploring Night City on Jackie's Arch or even just walking around sometimes, if I'm not doing a side gig. Still puts a smile on my face when I randomly hear KABOOOOM from a ad nearby =)
So I got a series x at launch and cyberpunk was one of the first next gen games I bought. Despite a few bugs I was still able to complete the main story and a few other side missions. Even with the issues it was one of the best games I’ve played. So glad that others love the game like this, video hits the nail on the head!
Finally someone who understands why Cyberpunk2077 is one of my favorite games of all times. I have well over 1k hours in it, even before the DLC came out, and saw LITERALLY everything, starting a new playthrough never gets boring. Its more like coming home.
The most impactfull ending for me was the suicide one, seeing all the characters at the end trying to cope with V just ending it on the roof is so fucking heartbreaking man. Especially Judys, she loosing both her best friends in short period of time and her just crying and stumbling for words really got to me.
The base game ending were all really good but the DLC once just stepped it up a notch, the first ending I did was siding with So Mi and getting her to the space port and onto the shuttle was WILD. Frying everonces brain with the blackwall hacks in a final stand type situation, the stand off with Reed, carrying So Mi to the shuttle, seeing it take and then getting the final message from her.
Everything was so well written, its still crazy to me that people still say that this game sucks. Yeah sure the launch was "something" but I still enjoyed the shit out of it
WHY DID YOU NEED TO MAKE ME CRY BRO 😭😭 but fr tho, this vid is fire and I relate so much to everything you said, I think CP77 is THE game I liked the most, and for me it really is one of these games that make video games the 10th art, it's a masterpiece cuz people who worked on it put all their emotions and love in it
I held off on Cyberpunk because of all the reasons you mentioned on release. I had also never even heard of it or the genre, so it seemed to come out of no where to me. A few friends of mine played it, overlooked the bugs and still enjoyed it. Flash forward to 3 months ago. I finally picked up the game on sale and I think all I did was sleep, work, cyberpunk, repeat. Coming into Cyberpunk after 2.0, it was everything I had hoped it would be based on everything I had heard on its release of what it was promised to be. Since I have started running a Cyberpunk Red campaign, got the Edgerunners tattoo and found myself completely lost in this world. Let's go Chooms!
This is a great video, I really relate and love this game deeper than just playing a great video game. It made me feel things very few media or entertainment pieces ever have
It's a work of art with a downright impressive scope. I find myself admiring so many different locations within the game not just because the graphics are great, but because it feels like thought and care was put into designing all the hundreds of tiny corners in the city. Same with the writing; a lot of the story-heavy missions convey their ideas in a more subtle way than most video games. They resolved a lot of the plots in bleak or uncertain ways that felt really appropriate for the genre.
My post-cyberpunk depression still did not end. I've played all the majors RPGs but this had a strange impact on me. Night City is in reality its own separate character and there is no happy ending there. Thats why I think the aldecaldos ending is the best (If I remember correctly Misty even calls you saying that there is a chance of survival). Amazing video.
ive played this game so many times since day one, and everytime i play i get sucked in for days at a time. currently playing through again, up to like 62 hours and still have a few side quests and rouge gigs to get through before i move on to the ending portion of the game, and fuck its so good. something about it is incredibly captivating
I agree with everything you said in your intro i feel the same way! im hooked into the world, every analysis of the city and the game and its characters. I dont ever want to leave
This game literally has changed me and i want more
One of my favorite games of all time!!! And you did an excellent job on the video 💯
yooo same!!! I keep coming back tk Cyberpunk because I personally like this game actually feels next gen. And it is for sure the most immersion game I have ever played.
I've done 4 playthorughs already, and every playthrough I do a new build. It feels like a completely new game.
The amount of ways you can approach a combat scenario on top all the choice making. Keeps each playthrough feeling fresh
I’m with you, no game has kept me this driven to play more and more, and Phantom Liberty completely destroyed any hope of me putting this game down for any prolonged period of time, but I’m ok with it, it’s that amazing, great video 👏👏👏✌🏾❤️👽
There, you done it. I was just coming to grips with playing something else, now I watched you video and probably have to start yet another playthrough!
same lol gonna redownload it now
I loved Cyperpunk so much Sci-Fi is my new favorite genre! I even started writing a Sci-Fi novel. I wasn't into this genre at all until I played this game. There's something truly so amazing about it.
You don’t just feel like your leveling up you feel like your making an impact on the world, putting a dent in the system with every body that falls. I tried it on launch and it was terrible, time passes and I binge edge runners and immediately put 102 hours into phantom liberty right after the patches. Incredible.
It feels like someone reached into my brain and made a video about how i feel about Cyberpunk2077. here's what i can add
firstly the lore is absolutely INSANE, which makes this game a true RPG not a linear action/adv and you wont only be "playing" but living the life of V and tbh those who are not into that kinda experience dont seem to enjoy the game much. The whole thing is also incredibly relatable and at the same time different enough form our reality to be a legit "escape". Youre allowed to be scared for your life and feel vulnerable and make a big deal out of all the crazy difficult choices you have to make which honestly how we all feel in real life even if we try to tone it down as much as possible. add to this the fact that the first person pov makes all the npcs look into your eyes and are directly talking to YOU so you truly ARE v.
From an architect's pov the city planning and functionality is designed beautifully which is like unlike any other similar games I've played so far. you can literally go for a ride and enjoy the otherworldly music and the BEAUTIFUL graphics of the game. and dont even get me started on Phantom liberty and the edgerunners! Seriously bc this comment is too long already XD
You and I definitely have the same feeling when it comes to thinking about Cyberpunk a lot. The way it grabbed my mind is unlike any other game I’ve ever played.
Very very well said, choom! Also not 1 day has passed since 2020 without Cyberpunk in my mind. By far the best entertainment product I have experienced!
Why keep returning to it? As you said, the characters, story, emotional moments and the whole atmosphere and flair of Night City is a class of its own!
The only caveat I have with it is that it simply isn't enough! Because everything in this game makes you longing for so much more and it'll be a while until that happens.
Man right before Phantom Liberty came out, I remember they dropped the OST early, and I was just listening to that shit endlessly because it was SO DAMN GOOD. I don't know how they did it, but those haunting vocals match the setting so well. The music in this game in general is just amazing and it contributes to all the emotions that you get while playing. Even just watching this video, the background music you used was just SO good...
yeah they went on another level with the PL ost
One of the only games that can ever get an emotional reaction out of me. Every time. Thank you for putting into words my feelings on this masterclass of a game.
Some games you play. 2077/Phantom Liberty you experience. Truly enjoyed 2077. loved the story and characters. Just started a second play trough. You summed it al up choom. Nice one!
Yeah, I think this the best video I've seen about why Night City feels like a real place and why we can not stop going back to. I couldn't agree more with what you said nor I could say it better, Thank you!
thank you sm!
Exactly. The storyline, the historical context, the workd, the architecture, the lawlessness, man the characters and the music are just so damn amazing. I absolutely love this game and i know no other game like this one.
Lovely analysis. Looking forward to trying the phantom liberty expansion!
Awesome take, I 100% agree. I never play a game again, but with this one I've done it 3 times already and thinking I should do another.
Love this game and this review. One game that I love that i would say is on par to this is the Witcher 3 and a little push back on the optional character point you made about witcher 3 and ciri, kind of like me looking at cyberpunk and saying you have to talk to Johnny Silverhand, it's not so optional. Witcher 3 absolutely has many of those optional characters you can sink your teeth into just like cyberpunk and I would highly recommend a playthrough of it if you love cyberpunk. Great takes all round!
I love Cyberpunk 2077, I too was also obsessed over it. In a way which you would like to spend all time with a friend that is dying and coming to terms with that fact and also accepting it as reality - and than letting it go the theme and concept of death, dying is a huge deal of the game until or if you decide to do the liberty ending. Cyberpunk 2077 made me definitely feel immersed in that setting.
I have like 30 something days in the game since launch (a lot of it is the pause menu because I often just leave it running or just fall asleep before turning off) but still a lot of real playtime too. 3 extremely thorough playthroughs, taking my time to do everything a certain, specific way depending on the playthrough. Trying all the best cyberware combos for the best builds. Not to mention all the time spent going back and trying different endings, or finding a really powerful build and testing it on Don't Fear the Reaper. Lots of time spent trying new mechanics after 2.0, time spent exploring skyscrapers, the desert, trying to break boundaries and find new secrets. Then Phantom Liberty itself, which my 3rd playthrough was completely centered around preparing for. Trying to get cool cinematic kills, making a save and going back over and over to perfectly stealth a room in my netrunner playthrough. Lots and lots of time spent on this masterpiece.
I don't have an exciting way to describe the game, its just amazing. The story, the characters, the gameplay, the music, the graphics, etc. They really made something special and I'm still inn disbelief that they stuck with it, most game companies with a launch that bad just give up and leave it for the modders. It's a world that's extremely immersive and believable on a level few other games have achieved for me.
Very well thought out, and articulated video. Kudo's to you for sure. I too am highly addicted to the world of CP77, and I think all of us who are have our own reasons, every time I go try to start a different game lately I always find myself putting it down and going back. There hasn't been a game in years and years (I'm old) that has been able to captivate me and draw me/immerse me into its story and world quite like this one, to the point I'd gladly trade my reality to join it, as odd as that may sound yearning for such a dystopian lifestyle. The deep connection to so many characters you end up building as you adventure through the story and side stories is outstanding. I feel it was such a blessing to get to disappear into this world as we've all gotten to, to escape the things we all feel stressed and burdened by, if even just for a little while. Cheers
Dude u nailed it i have played this game like 5 times and its still on my mind i just live this world i cant explain its just where i wanna be 😂