You don’t need 70% affinity. You just gotta choose the right dialogue. My bad Also Somehow I forgot to schedule the video so for the first hour it was out it was unlisted lmao. The first 100 people who saw it congrats, ya’ll rebels
I think you missed the fact that the reason why CD Projekt Red wanted Rebecca was because she looks…underaged. Studio Trigger didn’t care, but this incident got a bunch of far right weebs praising Studio Trigger for their “integrity”……
@@jakespacepiratee3740 No? I mean yeah far right weebs were being cringe and evil as always but that's not why they wanted her in the show. Studio Trigger usually has "gremlin" like characters in their shows. Nonon in Kill la Kill, Sucy in Little Witch Academia, etc. Rebecca was just another one
Just started the iceberg so I’m not sure if this is in it, but sharks are extinct in their world lol. If it’s not sharks, I know it’s for sure some kind of aquatic animal like dolphins or something.
I feel like Lucy definitely made the graves for everyone because the Rebecca grave says “I wish we could have finished our conversation” Rebecca was talking to Lucy before she got Adam Smashed
You know after the horrible launch and all the lawsuits, I was fully expecting them to just let it die. I’m so glad that they fixed it because the cyberpunk IP deserves a good video game. It deserves a few good movies and tv shows too but we’ll see
I can't speak for next gen but it's ran fine for me since day 1 on PC. I think all of that could have been avoided if it didn't release on Xbox One and PS4 at all
@@a7x5631agreed; I put 260 hours in following the launch. I get pretty tired of the revisionist history of this launch. 9's and 10's on PC, but played like shit on the previous gen (shouldn't have been released on ps4 and Xbox One in the first place)
@@netwatch7261 i mean yeah, i feel like you should be able to at least run the game on a $1500 pc on low settings. The game is great now, but lets not pretend it always was
Also, I honestly think it's more how we perceive his LOD or the Netrunner using Adam as a Proxy, since we know good old Adam was never a particularly skilled Netrunner, but Arasaka would absolutely outfit him with state-of-the-art/prototype countermeasures.
Fun fact about Rebecca’s shotgun: if you fire it midair you can actually get a triple jump as the gun resets the jump and allows you to jump again but you have to fire it downwards
@@dreamtalk2794Yes, and you don't need to fire it downward. Shoot any direction, it'll reset your speed midair and allow you to add another double jump and another air dash. Also works with Brick's shotgun you can buy from the black market dealer in Dogtown.
Its interesting that you mentioned vampires in Cyberpunk. There is a relatively obscure crossover module with Vampire the Masquerade that combines the World of Darkness with Cyberpunk 2020. It actually has some really interesting lore explaining how the supernatural population has adapted to the Dark Future. Vampires are pretty pissed that humans can actually put up a fight now lol
The best part about it is that in Vampire the Masquerade canon, Vampires automatically heal to the exact form they had at the time of their Embrace (when they were turned into a vampire), This means you have all sorts of weird shit in the lore like Vampire Vikings who have to shave and groom themselves every morning to keep up with the standards of the societies they live in, as well as humans being tortured by being cut in half and disemboweled and then embraced so everysingle night they re-live that torment. But also, it means if a vampire gets an arm-mounted missile launcher that shoots 12 missiles in under a second and blasts a small building into pieces? the next sunrise when they sleep their body will close-to-literally chew it up and spit it out as a pile of scrap metal. Vampires pretty much can't use augments, even vampires Embraced in the cyberpunk era would have their augments malfunction and lose power the moment they die, or worse yet, start calling trauma team to send highly trained humans to recover a masquerade (the rule that vampire MUST NOT be discovered) breaching vampire. It adds a lot of cool complications to the lore!
That's a perspective but i think having the love of your life's child with you to remember them by is pretty nice. Plus lucy wouldn't be alone in the world with everyone she knew being dead.
But she would have to take care of the kid while also running from Arasaka, also maybe with the horrible world she lives in she doesn’t want a kid. For some reason whenever a heroine of a series who was in a relationship has an ambiguous fate the theories always go “she’s pregnant” like people think being pregnant is the best thing that could happen to her, and not an active hinderance to her survival.
6:38 You dont need 70% friendship with Johnny. This is a myth that people keep thinking is true. You need to select specific dialogue options when visiting his 'grave'. With the correct option Johnny will realise how V is his closest friend and how much of a dick he has been, this then changes how he sees V and opens the option for him to suggest they alone atack Arasaka Tower. I got the ending with only 50% affinity
Editing gets your message unpinned 😂 damn. Thanks for letting me know future runs are saved, also have you played PL? I really liked Johnny’s dialogue in that.
Tbh I really like the idea of having cyber vampires as a sorta side story adventure. Kinda like a cyberpunk horror story about a bunch of cyber-psychos running around converting people to a cult and causing mass panic across night city and your able to either join up with them or go full blade and take them all down. Btw great iceberg as always!
Theres one cyberpsycho from the Maelstrom that fits pretty much the bill for this horror story in the game, is one that you can only fight at night, a Maelstrom woman naked with mantis blades, that came from a fridge filled with ice and body part surrounded by dead bodies. you need to find some hidden clues so she came out to fight you, the cool thing about this cyberpsycho is that she is watching you all the time from some high points and if you look directly to her, she will mess with your optic implants, and change position pretty scary sht.
@@efxnews4776 Your right! I remember fighting her for the first time weren't they basically trying to do what the voodoo boys are trying to do? Break through the wall where AIs are like Alt? At least I think that's the one I think you're talking about but I do remember that fight
surprised johny's engram or engram tech wasn't mentioned. a small plot detail most people overlook is the shard that helman gives you. the shard talks about how most engrams only reach 70-80% rate of cohesion to who they're based on. Meaning the johny we have in our head could be very different than the one who was alive. Briggete also tells us a lot of the memory on the shard is corrupted. and alt flat up tells us that the memories we experienced from johny had no basis on what happened in reality. We also know that arasaka experiments and modifies memories of engrams. as well as that johny's engram isn't unique and the one we have in our head isn't the original, somehow johny also seems to know this because when we first meet him its one of the first thing he says "the original engram must be out there" in johny's memories he also doesn't die like he is stated to in the lore. in the lore he is killed by smasher and shot in half. this is backed up by a line V has joking that "a ghost of a man cut in half haunts arasaka new recruits" so johny's memories are either wrong or have been falsified when we experience them
Additional note: Silverhand's body is recovered by some Runners during the time of the RED and is brought to a secured location where the person who has him, was working on possibly revivng him.
Johnny's memories are the way they are because BD or BD adjacent experiences are subjectively based on the individual. Johhny is a drunk drug addled unstable narcissist who tends to inflate his importance due to his ego. Also the process johnny went through was different than the imperfect 80% digital copy.
Just a heads up, Maxtac is made up almost entirely of reformed cyberpsychos. It's partially the reason why your told to not kill them in the game and incapacitate instead
AND ONLY CYBERPUNK PHYCOS LIKES CYBERPUNK LEGENDS LOVE OBLIVION OBLIVION TOP CYBERPUNK BOTTOM ALL GAMES WHERE AN SAD ENDING NOT GOOD OBLIVION BEST GAME OF ALL TIME
That's what annoyed me about the "controversy", everyone is commercialised and fetishised in cyberpunk, there are no exceptions, it feels entitled for people to only complain about this one instance of fetishisation.
Skippy only switches to the opposite mode that you initially selected. If you select puppy loving pacifist upon your first interaction, it’ll switch to the headshot only mode permanently after 50 kills.
Mine messed up, I chose puppy loving pacifist and went through it but Skippy decided to lock me in that mode! Gave him to Regina ASAP I was kinda pissed lol
@@Bmoran325 There's a wait time for the switch. If you unequip him, or holster him, it'll reset. You can achieve the dialogue just by keeping him in hand for a while any time after the 50 kills. You can also duplicate him if you want, and give one to Regina.
Really? When I asked him why can't I switch back to lethal, he replied: "Why can you only kill 50 people? YOU FUCKING PSYCHO!" What does he say if you ask why can't you stay non-lethal?
54:49 Lucy cannot contact Falco otherwise they would be caught by Arasaka easily. Hence the mention of Falco to V by saying they're "out of the spotlight".
Calling Joshua's quest "weird" is an understatement. Crucifying him was as incredible and otherworldly as the most fantastical boss fights in some games. It really felt important, and giving him a chance to spread his truth, instead of rotting in night city, seemed very human.
Still have never been able to bring myself to that ending. If you get right up to the choice, but refuse to do it yourself, you still get all of the same benefits as if you are involved directly.
If i remember right there’s a mission where some random sketchy guy you just met offers u a BD that fries you if you take it then you wake up with all your stuff missing lol
@dawsongerard9748 YO YO YO DAWG GOT DA PREEMEST BD RITE HAR!!!! YA DIG?? FINEEEEE 2LEGIT2QUIT ill need about ten billion eddies thank you very much! And all your cyberware 😂😂😂😂
my personal theory is that mr blue eyes is an AI because characters eyes turn blue when data is being transferred, an AI could hypothetically continuously upload data to a person and control them. a lot of the dlc and story points to the dangers of the self aware ai beyond the black wall and it would make sense that they're trying to expand because as time progresses, the real estate of the old net is gonna become more and more finite
I originally bought that theory as well. But I don’t think that much computational power can be achieved with having human doll. At least lore behind human dolls in CP2077 universe is left quite unexplained. Mr Blue Eyes is like that Mass Effect The Illusive man guy or at least being inspired by TIM. I’m sure CDPR is building something with Mr Blue Eyes character which Peralez quest line and Phantom Liberty hints at.
@viljaminieminen6925 think of a Doll chip like a streaming service. They're just the interface, the computation and load-bearing activity happens at the source (AI) I'm not up on the Blue Eyes lore but it makes sense.
Johnny pistol got me thru the game an dlc ouuuu cyberpunk is such a masterpiece I can’t believe that it use to be buggy as fuck but I’m glad I didn’t give up on it very good game I just wish we got another dlc
I wanted to mention that johnnys arm was an equipable item at the games launch that you'd get after the chipping in quest, it would appear in your backpack and selecting it would give you the hologram arm effect that happens when johnny is in your body It was removed after a patch due to it being a bug and not a feature
1:35:00 You missed a detail. CDPR was one of the very first sets of people told Bowie was dying, months before it happened, long before the knowledge was released, because he _wanted_ to do it. But he was going to be dead in like two or three months, so he was honest with them of why he couldn't.
Iceberg videos are like, my go to video to listen to whilst doing other things. Basically your channel is heaven for me, fr thank you for making such good content! All of your videos are so well made!!! easy to understand, interesting topics, well edited. You put SO MUCH effort into these videos and I hope you're happy doing so homie!
Regarding the Kojima cameo, in Japanese, Kojima is written 小島, using the characters for "small" and "island". Oshima would be written 大島, using the characters for "big" and "island".
There's a second Akira reference during the car chase with Goro Takemura after Dexter gets flatlined. One of the Arasaka guys chasing you does the classic bike drift turnaorund move that Kaneda does, that classic iconic moment. I'm not sure what kind of bike he's riding though, it would be perfect if he was on the Yaiba.
OK, so for the seashells thing, I looked it up online and apparently you’re supposed to use two of the seashells clamp together to get off any larger remaining bits. Then you use the last seashell by itself to wipe off anything else. That sounds rough and inefficient, but apparently it’s what the Director of demolition Man wanted.
You missed the MAIN piece of evidence to the "Adam knew V and Jackie were there" theory, if you have the augment that auto-highlights enemies that have seen you when stealthing, it literally highlights him. Yeah, it's pretty much canon. This is also not out of character for Adam Smasher, there's another theory that in the Arasaka Tower Bombing, he deliberately stopped Johnny from getting the nuke to the tower's base because he knew it would cause more destruction and chaos in the area surrounding Corpo Plaza. Johnnys original plan was to have it detonate in the basement.
theres plenty of evidence to indicate that since smasher is a boss character, he's programmed to always highlight red on the threat detector. Also Johnny's memories are corrupted in some way, so i wouldnt trust anything from those. It was blackhand that got the nuke set up, i doubt he'd fuck it up like johnny would.
I think it’s somewhat confirmed the nuke did end up going off in the basement. In the Panam ending, while in the basement, Saul points out that you’re in the exact location the nuke detonated, to which Panam quips that they must be surrounded by radiation.
Just in time of the 2.0 drop. Seeing the first entry makes me realize how far this game has come and how solid a brand CD Project is. Great video pigpen.
I hope the new DLC will learn more about Morgan Blackhand, like where is he and why wasn't he part of Johnny's memory. The dude is literally a mystery in this game.
Also just to let you know that he probably was. That part with Johnny is on the roof yeah that was most likely Johnny superimposing himself on Morgan Blackhand because we know in the lore that Johnny immediately died the second Smasher saw him
@@mariobadia4553glad you said this, the real mystery is if Johnny is a reliable narrator or not. We know how the Arasaka tower raid went because of the table top game, but it is *completely* different from what is shown in game. Like pigpen said, there’s a lot of people who don’t even know cyberpunk had an original rpg
@@mariobadia4553doesn’t Alt tell you during her first appearance that a lot of Johnny’s stories, Arasaka tower especially, were completely full of shit? In his head he was the brave hero during the tower bombing, not Blackhand
@@mariobadia4553I always got the impression Blackhand only appeared between the cuts of each memory. He probably still had his fight with Smasher on the roof, but Johnny was unconscious by then to witness it.
The secret ending is only partially true. You dont have to have a specific amount of likeability. You just need to choose a specific dialogoption in the mission chippin in. You need to tell Johnny that he destroyed your relationship with him, he fucked up, and then give him a second but last chance. This dialog takes places when you visit his graveside after obtaining his car.
@yoyo7718 not really ive had playthroughs where I had 85%, so the maximum before the last mission and it didn't work. If you don't give him a second chance he doesn't bring it up because he has no need in fixing it
My ending was different I betray Johnny he was shock I liked the expression on his face😂 I took him out but at the end I felt bad I want another dlc for cyberpunk 2077
Thank you for mentioning this! I thought I was losing my mind thinking "why are there classic car ads on here???" and I wasn't seeing anyone talking about it in the comments.
Lol, sure the name of the mission may possibly be simply referencing the chemist, Heisenberg, and not Walter White's alter-ego, Heisenberg. However, considering the mission itself involves taking out a drug lab and it's chemists it's definitely referencing the "Heisenberg" from Breaking Bad and not just the real-world chemist or any of his ideas/theories associated with his name. I mean c'mon now, basically anything with a drug lab and those "iconic" yellow hazmat suits count as a BB reference considering the show is responsible for popularizing/making the general public aware of how a drug lab/drug manufacturing production looks like, even if the piece of media in question isn't explicitly referencing BB imo they may as well be if they include a drug lab or the yellow hazmat suits, and especially if they reference/visually nod at the iconic "Blue Dream" meth that Walter makes in the show, like if the blue meth is there it's automatically a BB reference, even if the drugs are only blue to reference how IRL people started dying/making their meth blue because of the show. Like in the Walking Dead, for instance, there's a scene where they show blue meth, and while I'm sure they were just referencing how there's blue meth IRL (due to the popularity of the show) it still counts as a Breaking Bad reference since the show was basically the genesis of people thinking meth is typically blue/people actually dying their meth blue. Sorry but BB pretty much defined how meth is physically perceived in media, and will continue to do so for a good long while, especially since people actually started dying their meth blue following the show's popularity, either to match the show/be recognizable or possibly to trick people into thinking it's "hyper-pure" since Walter's meth in the show was 99.6% pure in the show, but idk man 😂
There was a youtuber, Jesse Cox, in the game that appeared in a side mission where V would have to escort him to a ripperdoc to fix his “smoking cox.” V could either agree to drive him over there or leave him to his fate. Either way the money you earned helping him isn’t worth much. (I’m kinda fine that you missed because he was, personally, kinda an irl asshole when meaning him at a fan meetup) Another youtuber referenced in the game is one, Alanah Pearce, who only appears if players chose the nomad life choice. At the second act, in the badlands, V would be notified that their old nomad vehicle at the start of the nomad playthrough has appeared on the map; more specifically in the landfill area. When V approaches to their old vehicle, they will make some remarks at the vehicle condition before Lana, approaches you and the two will argue on wether the car is theirs or not. Three outcomes with two of them having Lana keep the car forever and the other with V repossessing the car. (Honestly there’s better cars in the game than V’s starter nomad car, either sell it to her or let her keep it)
Happened to me twice. 1st time just thought it was a visual bug cause recently I loaded from a save. 2nd time it happened was coming back from the badlands. Funny to know the real reason now.
One alternate story path for Cyberpunk 2077 that they could do which would lead to having Jackie as a sort of antagonist is if he didn't take the Relic out in the car ride over as he finally bled out... With the way the relic works, as he died it should have activated and he'd become Johnny, or at least start sharing a brain with him the way V does.
The alternate ending for Edgerunners where David becomes a war machine like Adam Smasher sounds so dope. It would be really cool if he became the next big villian that you would eventually have to fight in the Cyberpunk sequel game like how Adam Smasher was to V.
That would be impossible, since the game came out BEFORE the anime, and would also be horrible because it would Smasher would pretty much be killed in an spin off from the game (it doesn't matter how good the anime is, is still an spin of from the game). Like it or not the David Martinez we know from the anime only came to existence in the game and was barely a foot note on it, Adam Smasher was a pretty major character since most of the franchise existence. The fact that Smasher died in the game was major for the whole franchise, altough i don't deny that more Edgerunners related stuff MUST come out, i think turn David into a killing machine, just to oppose V is stupid, let the boy rest as a night city legend that he fought so much to become.
@@soupgirl1871 That wouldn't explain what he's been up to for over a year. Someone who went through all of that and became a killing machine then vanish until a sequel is pretty bad. At best, he could've been added as a bonus Cyberpsycho that would been harder to takedown than the others with the option to help or kill him.
Becca's design story is not "explained" correctly. The main controversy was the danger of overcrowding the cast for just 10 episodes, as she was concept of the animation studio not done in advance. Her design was just a part of her problem.
@@lucre113 is the fact that she is a loli type of character, she looks like a young teenager, and is very sexualized, despite been mature enough I kinda understand CDPR in this regard, after the horrible launch of the game a scalded cat would fear cold water for sure, but thank God they trusted Studio Trigger to do their job, and so the controversy was just this small detail of something bad that was avoided.
I remember seeing somewhere that the theory for Smasher knowing that V is in the room isn't just a theory because if you manage to get a certain ability prior to the mission, he lights up, indicating that he can actually see you in the room. I could be misremembering, but I wanted to mention it just in case.
^ this. it's literally in their code, so all bosses always light up red with a Threat Detector. it wouldn't be surprising if he knew either way though.
Found this out the hard way, did everything for the ending, and it wouldn't pop up. So dumb, it should have just been 70% because man, it's real picky about what you say
@@JesterDragon8743Yeah, I still think it's bullshit you can complete all those side quests and not get that ending just because Johnny is a picky little bitch about someone trying to make him feel better. Motherfucker, I still took the time to do all that for you even though I'll basically die of cancer in 6 months
@@MacinteuchPlusI mean getting 70% in itself is impossible without the dlc or very specific things, being extremely picky about it over 1 dialogue option in the hundreds you have with Johnny is pretty weird
Cyberpunk had such a good comeback, I had so much faith in this game and never gave up on it. I enjoyed it even with the bugs and glitches. But now I LOVE IT. Did 13 play throughs and rn my 14th for phantom liberty😅
You forgot one hilarious easter egg. There's somewhere a dead body of the guy who had an accident on a motorbike. There's a note beside, that tells you he's Pablo Jumper which is a nod to the viral RUclips video (in Poland). The guy in the video was named Paweł Jumper. He rode on his bicycle and jumped of some kind of stairs through the front of his bike, scoring a beautiful fail. I highly recommend seeing it Edit: Also some enemies in polish version yell "Ała kurwa rzeczywiście", Paweł Jumper says that after his fail. It means sth like "ouch, fuck for real" (like it hurts for real)
14:40 Technically "The Heisenberg Principle", is a reference to "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle" which states: "There is inherent uncertainty in the act of measuring a variable of a particle." But in Breaking Bad, Walter White takes on the alias "Heisenberg" in his business dealings.
I'm 99% sure Mr. Blue eyes is actually part of night corp based on the information you learn through the side mission where you give the drive back to Sandra Dorsett. Oh and of course there's an entire set a missions revolving around a certain politician being mind controlled and he just so happens to be watching you at the end of said quest line after you receive a very threatening phone call.
Also that same politician, we find, was groomed for his role his whole life, and he met his wife, similarly groomed, while they both attended school on a Night Corp Scholarship.
i got cyberpunk for the pc the day it came out and as rough as it was, i always felt the story carried strong. i never regretted the purchase. i figured it was like a 6 or 7 out of 10 on release because my pc had fewer issues. and it was fun being in on the memes. i replayed it again after 2.0, and it is now one of my favorite games of all time, i simply cant stop playing.
So I kinda like the first person cutscenes, I read the art book and it mentioned that the intention was to show the world through Cyber Eyes. It’s part of the reason why V always has cyber eyes regardless of choice. I guess my question is, without V’s cyber eyes would V even see Johnny, since he’s a construct?
He wouldn't be able to, yeah. It's like a prerequisite situation. The optics are wired to the chipware, without optics it would still function but you would have no GUI.
Heres why i think lucy wrote the headstones and didnt off herself. Because one, davids own real wish was for her to be happy, so odds are shes gonna keep living. Especially since that would invalidate the entire anime. People die and sacrifice herself just so she can go "damn good run, but imma cut it short". Nah, i dont see that happening. And for my second part, the headstones. Mainly glorias, thats written by someone who was close and talked to david a lot. We dont really see falco interact with david that much, besides, feels weird spilling your dead lovers conversation to someone else so they could write the memorial
the guy in the fridge with his "show for busting myths" is probably also a reference to adam savage of the show mythbusters - guy is a propmaker and kind of famous for his indiana jones style fedora, as well as making bullwhips and in a lot of the show he kind of dresses like indiana. in the show, they've also tested the big rolling ball thing too, i think
To those still using Current Gen (PS4, PS4 Pro, XBox One) Cyberpunk 2077 actually runs amazing and glitch free if you install it to an external solid state drive. It has to be SSD and not HDD.
That Picture with River had me rolling fr. Still does, glad they changed it. Hadn't gotten that far in my new 2.0 play through so I haven't seen the new one but man was that shit goofy....
I was playing the game today and I found out In the diner after the Kerry mission where you blow up a van there's a fat guy dressed in green ordering two number 9s a number 9 large, etc it was pretty unexpected but funny
Mr. Blue Eyes kind of reminds me of the G-Man from the Half - Life series... I mean if you think about it, both wear a suit, have unique eyes, and are really mysterious while also watching the protagonist from a far and being very vague. The only difference is that Mr. Blue Eyes is only seen once (or twice if you did the secret ending.) Also Mr. Blue Eyes doesn't own a briefcase. Update/Edit: He's seen a third time in Phantom Liberty.
To me he draws more inspiration from The Illusive man from Mass Effect trilogy. Both have blue eyes and suit and operates as some sort of agent of collective intelligence. Mr Blue eyes man is was also referred by Songbird she V pries further at the space port.
Ozob is Bozo backwards, obvious right? But, if you’re old enough to remember, there’s a childrens game show that has a character called Bozo The Clown.. Pretty awesome of a Eater egg
50:10 if you go to Corpo Plaza and parkour a bit to get up high, you can actually find some monorail trains riding the tracks. You can't interact with them but you can catch a ride on top of them and ride it around NC. Not useful for anything but it does let you get to some neat areas for screenshots.
I wonder why CD Project Red never finished the rail way system the fixed and added so much why didn't they finish the mono rail system I would've actually used it Not complaining I love this game just curious
Ah, the irony with the tram is gold. The Lucy "offs herself" is completely random based only on "I believe"-nonsense. Also, T-Bug was found dead, fried in her dock/station. It's unlikely that she was targeted by Soulkiller, however. Nothing hints to it and it otherwise would be an additional good opportunity (CDPR would have) missed later on the game, similiar to Jacky's "return".
I think the "I AM NOT ME" is written by dolls who lost their sense of identity via their work. Given the ties to Evelyn's story and the nature of how the dolls conduct their work; changing appearance and wiping memory after and whatnot. I imagine it could lead to identity crises like we see in these scrawlings.
Fun fact, Muamar Reyes and mr. Blue eyes actually have identical faces, the hairstyles and eyes just do such a good job of differentiating the two its hard to tell. I am 101% sure this is not an in universe thing, Muamar Reyes is not exactly shrouded in mystery, and has his own history thats been fleshed out more in the 2.0 update. But its a fun and really odd detail.
1:13:05 T-Bug is confirmed dead. Remember that netrunner store in Kabuki you can visit during the prologue to get your first quickhack? Return there after the heist and the shop clerk will confirm that they found her body.
There's also an ad you'll see in the elevators that has to do with clothing. In the ad, a person steps into a white void and suddenly infinite rows of clothes slide into frame from the background. Which is another reference to the first matrix movie
You might find interesting that the developer's room code 60 51 85, if interpreted as decimal values for ASCII characters (it is a decimal keypad you're typing it on) translates to "
there are a lot of more films refferences in cp2077 plot, my fave one and prolly one of the most obscure is that the mission 'double life' in polish version is named 'third side of the night' which is refference to 1971 film with the same title dir by andrzej zulawski and plot of it is abt the guy forced to survive during ww2 by work in nazi laboratory as a tester for typhus vacine what really messing up with his brain. i think fact that game and this film shares the theme of trying to survive at all costs having brain demaged during the worst time of their lives is worth noticing, also great job with the vid i really enjoyed it
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48:04 personally i think the archangel song could have been used for an interaction with Johnny about him commenting that he was composing a song but he never had the time to actually finish it or publish it. Bonus points if Johnny would actually sing it for us or play it on his guitar
The Adam Smasher theory is back up if you had the ocular upgrade to highlight enemies that detect V. And if you have this and look at Adam Smasher, he is highlighted wheen looking at you
Dude anything cyberpunk related pacified and enthrals me like nothing else Thanks for the awesome vid! Not much I didn’t already know, but hopefully this gets more people to play CPR, because it RULES. Take care!
Although I was totally on the “Mock Cyberpunk 2077 for bad launch and weak RPG options” bandwagon, and although I still have lots of criticism for the game, I consider myself primarily on the side of art and creative people. The creators on Cyberpunk 2077 wanted to tell a unique and interesting story, and those efforts are noble. The Anime also legitimately helped revitalize my interest in the setting. I also saw lots of jokes about Battlefield 2042 and Halo Infinite making Anime’s to regain some interest too lol
Same, I was one of the guys who had no better things to do other than make jokes about Cyberpunk's bugs. But honestly, since the launch I've always considered the game to be one of my favourites in terms of aesthetic and visuals. The game absolutely nails that 90's futuristic aesthetic and was probably the one reason that made me hopeful for its future. The game looks almost magical during night time.
I actually think the aerondight car is supposed to be a sort of statement about relationships in cyberpunks world. Caliburn is Arthur's sword so you're probably expecting its sister car to be named Excalibur but instead its named after aerondight (lancelots sword) and geunivere (who cheated on arthur with lancelot). Combined with how many side gigs and NPC interactions include infidelity i always interpreted it as a statement on how normalised cheating is in 2077
I think we'll see more of the crazy stuff in the Cyberpunk universe in Orion. The poser gangs, vampires, and even the exotic body mods could have easily put people off of the game who hadn't been introduced to the world. Now that it's more established in the public eye, they can dial it up a bit.
1:25:39 The theory is actually because in the pre 2.0 versions of cyberpunk, there is an ocular cyberware mod that can highlight enemies that can see you, and Smasher is highlighted when equipping said mod.
I have seen so many icebergs of this game, Decided to do yours whilst messing around in the DLC. There is so much here I didnt know. Superb Quality here my man
14:40 "The Heisenberg Principal" sounds to me like a reference to Werner Heisenberg who created the Heisenberg uncertainty principal. Basically we can never know the speed AND direction of a subatomic particle.
Its both, bc Walter White named himself after Heisenberg, and the gig takes inspiration from Breaking Bad, being about chemists making an almost 100% pure drug
Also you missed a matrix Easter egg. If you use the sandy and shoot at enemies who dodge they actually bend backwards to avoid the bullets. At least some of them do.
I just realized how eerily creepy the Cyberpunk universe is. Wich is why I really love the Cyberpunk Universe. I kinda like 3.0 due to it's eerieness of the Pictures and the dated weird ass CGI in the pictures. Especially uncanny pictures. Showing, its more Horror-ish atmosphere way. Aswell, 3.0 exist if the second Nuke went off on the Arasaka Tower. But, since the second one didn't go off. It leads up to 2077. So, 203X is basically an Alt. Non-con Universe. Btw, your icebergs seems really interesting to hear.
13:10 Judy's caller ID icon is also a direct reference to the name of the series. I noticed this for the first time towards the tail end of ~75 hours into my second playthrough.
You don’t need 70% affinity. You just gotta choose the right dialogue. My bad
Also
Somehow I forgot to schedule the video so for the first hour it was out it was unlisted lmao. The first 100 people who saw it congrats, ya’ll rebels
As someone who was it in the first 14 mins
I love exploiting human error
Funny thing I actually use the background you’re using as a live wallpaper on my laptop
Wow man I saw/listened to the mcu2berg before this awesome time
I think you missed the fact that the reason why CD Projekt Red wanted Rebecca was because she looks…underaged. Studio Trigger didn’t care, but this incident got a bunch of far right weebs praising Studio Trigger for their “integrity”……
@@jakespacepiratee3740 No? I mean yeah far right weebs were being cringe and evil as always but that's not why they wanted her in the show. Studio Trigger usually has "gremlin" like characters in their shows. Nonon in Kill la Kill, Sucy in Little Witch Academia, etc. Rebecca was just another one
Ironically considering the state of the world in cyberpunk I don’t think there’s any icebergs left
Hey at least they might have underwater cities which fits with the Rapture-esc society.
Just started the iceberg so I’m not sure if this is in it, but sharks are extinct in their world lol.
If it’s not sharks, I know it’s for sure some kind of aquatic animal like dolphins or something.
I just made the 69th like to your comment. Nice
😂😂
Good one
The river family photo will forever be my favorite part of cyberpunk 2077.
Screaming “graphic design is my passion”
They fixed it sadly in either 2.0 or phantom liberty
What I don’t get is why not just shoot V a text saying everything is good now. They fucked up the picture and where like whelp gotta us it I guess.
@@p0k3mn1well yea its in the video
@@evanbelisle8464to be fair the game’s entire development was basically a rushed panic so i doubt they were thinking straight
I thought it was intentionally faked by river as his family had ended up rejecting him again.
I feel like Lucy definitely made the graves for everyone because the Rebecca grave says “I wish we could have finished our conversation” Rebecca was talking to Lucy before she got Adam Smashed
getting "adam smashed" is way funnier than it has any rights to be
before adam throatfucked her with his gun to death :(
You could say it was absolutely "smashing" *rich person chuckle*
Yeah, I highly doubt she got in contact with Falco and asked him to write the epitets with those specific quotes.
She definitely did, Davids says “You didn't take me to the moon, but you were there with me" so she came back to NC after the moon trip
You know after the horrible launch and all the lawsuits, I was fully expecting them to just let it die. I’m so glad that they fixed it because the cyberpunk IP deserves a good video game. It deserves a few good movies and tv shows too but we’ll see
I can't speak for next gen but it's ran fine for me since day 1 on PC. I think all of that could have been avoided if it didn't release on Xbox One and PS4 at all
@@a7x5631 it was pretty broken on a lot of next gen and pcs aswell. My pc couldn’t run it at first
@@a7x5631agreed; I put 260 hours in following the launch. I get pretty tired of the revisionist history of this launch. 9's and 10's on PC, but played like shit on the previous gen (shouldn't have been released on ps4 and Xbox One in the first place)
@@davidponder1654was your PC a mid range PC?
@@netwatch7261 i mean yeah, i feel like you should be able to at least run the game on a $1500 pc on low settings. The game is great now, but lets not pretend it always was
Adam Smasher’s “demon skull” isn’t alluding to his actual skull, it’s how he perceives and displays himself on the net.
Also, I honestly think it's more how we perceive his LOD or the Netrunner using Adam as a Proxy, since we know good old Adam was never a particularly skilled Netrunner, but Arasaka would absolutely outfit him with state-of-the-art/prototype countermeasures.
Ohhh, so he’s just like those edgy 13 year olds who use a flaming skull as their pfp on social media
@@BeamFiend Yes exactly lmao
@@BeamFiend but he actually has the fists to back it up
@@BeamFiendpretty much. But the difference is, he had the ability to back up the edgy demon look of him on the net
Fun fact about Rebecca’s shotgun: if you fire it midair you can actually get a triple jump as the gun resets the jump and allows you to jump again but you have to fire it downwards
this was sadly patched out lolz, unless they re added it in 2.0 ofc
Oh so basically you're saying that Rebecca used a gun that allowed her to rocket (shotgun?) jump...yeah that's perfectly in character for her.
Yeah, basically same mechanic as for Scout´s Force a Nature from TF2
Does it still work?
@@dreamtalk2794Yes, and you don't need to fire it downward. Shoot any direction, it'll reset your speed midair and allow you to add another double jump and another air dash. Also works with Brick's shotgun you can buy from the black market dealer in Dogtown.
The acid rain triggered when I first entered Pacifica and it was honestly the dopest combo I’ve seen in a open world game
Had no idea this was a thing, and I have 600 hours
i just thought it was a really bad sandstorm
@@awkwardgenius9910 a haboob if you will
OBLIVION RAIN PHYSICS BETTER
@@opticalsalt2306OBLIVION BEST GAME EVER
Its interesting that you mentioned vampires in Cyberpunk. There is a relatively obscure crossover module with Vampire the Masquerade that combines the World of Darkness with Cyberpunk 2020. It actually has some really interesting lore explaining how the supernatural population has adapted to the Dark Future. Vampires are pretty pissed that humans can actually put up a fight now lol
That’s fuckin cool definitely canon then
The best part about it is that in Vampire the Masquerade canon, Vampires automatically heal to the exact form they had at the time of their Embrace (when they were turned into a vampire), This means you have all sorts of weird shit in the lore like Vampire Vikings who have to shave and groom themselves every morning to keep up with the standards of the societies they live in, as well as humans being tortured by being cut in half and disemboweled and then embraced so everysingle night they re-live that torment.
But also, it means if a vampire gets an arm-mounted missile launcher that shoots 12 missiles in under a second and blasts a small building into pieces? the next sunrise when they sleep their body will close-to-literally chew it up and spit it out as a pile of scrap metal. Vampires pretty much can't use augments, even vampires Embraced in the cyberpunk era would have their augments malfunction and lose power the moment they die, or worse yet, start calling trauma team to send highly trained humans to recover a masquerade (the rule that vampire MUST NOT be discovered) breaching vampire.
It adds a lot of cool complications to the lore!
Imagining an oblivious Vampire deciding Morgan Blackhand looks like a good meal.
TBF a lot of the Worlds of Darkness crossovers barely work within its own continuity, so I guess if it doesn’t work with canon, go big or go home.
Do you know if aliens are canon lore?
lucy being pregnant is “too uplifting” is insane i think that would make it even more depressing than the other alternative ending
That's a perspective but i think having the love of your life's child with you to remember them by is pretty nice. Plus lucy wouldn't be alone in the world with everyone she knew being dead.
But she would have to take care of the kid while also running from Arasaka, also maybe with the horrible world she lives in she doesn’t want a kid. For some reason whenever a heroine of a series who was in a relationship has an ambiguous fate the theories always go “she’s pregnant” like people think being pregnant is the best thing that could happen to her, and not an active hinderance to her survival.
OBLIVION BETTER CYBERPUNK BECAUSE OBLIVION HAS A HAPPY ENDING CYBERPUNK IS NOT HAS SAD ENDING
OBLIVION THE BEST GAME ALL TIME
@@calvintyler9281OBLIVION LEGEND CYBERPUNK BOTTOM
@@artperson7617OBLIVION LEGEND CYBERPUNK IS THE BOTTOM
6:38 You dont need 70% friendship with Johnny. This is a myth that people keep thinking is true. You need to select specific dialogue options when visiting his 'grave'. With the correct option Johnny will realise how V is his closest friend and how much of a dick he has been, this then changes how he sees V and opens the option for him to suggest they alone atack Arasaka Tower. I got the ending with only 50% affinity
Thank you! Finally, someone else took the 5 seconds required to Google it.
that’s what i’m saying!! i got the ending but i’m pretty sure my friendship was like at 40 with johnny or something
Man it didn't trigger me the mission I really wanted to do that.
Either way you need actual friendship with Johnny, the Johnny grave scene leading to chippin in gives more friendship
Editing gets your message unpinned 😂 damn. Thanks for letting me know future runs are saved, also have you played PL? I really liked Johnny’s dialogue in that.
Tbh I really like the idea of having cyber vampires as a sorta side story adventure. Kinda like a cyberpunk horror story about a bunch of cyber-psychos running around converting people to a cult and causing mass panic across night city and your able to either join up with them or go full blade and take them all down. Btw great iceberg as always!
Theres one cyberpsycho from the Maelstrom that fits pretty much the bill for this horror story in the game, is one that you can only fight at night, a Maelstrom woman naked with mantis blades, that came from a fridge filled with ice and body part surrounded by dead bodies. you need to find some hidden clues so she came out to fight you, the cool thing about this cyberpsycho is that she is watching you all the time from some high points and if you look directly to her, she will mess with your optic implants, and change position pretty scary sht.
@@efxnews4776 Your right! I remember fighting her for the first time weren't they basically trying to do what the voodoo boys are trying to do? Break through the wall where AIs are like Alt? At least I think that's the one I think you're talking about but I do remember that fight
Pretty sure in the cyberpunk universe it was more akin the the real life style of vampires. Like elites drinking young blood to stay young
There's also a pentagram on the ground iirc, there was a bunch of occult about that fight.
@@efxnews4776 I fought her in the day time, it was actually the first time I noticed Lillith pointing and laughing at me.
im so glad mr hands got reworked, the newer one feels more mysterious despite being able to talk face to face with him in phantom liberty
Bro I swear the OG VA is yes man from New Vegas😂
surprised johny's engram or engram tech wasn't mentioned. a small plot detail most people overlook is the shard that helman gives you. the shard talks about how most engrams only reach 70-80% rate of cohesion to who they're based on. Meaning the johny we have in our head could be very different than the one who was alive. Briggete also tells us a lot of the memory on the shard is corrupted. and alt flat up tells us that the memories we experienced from johny had no basis on what happened in reality. We also know that arasaka experiments and modifies memories of engrams. as well as that johny's engram isn't unique and the one we have in our head isn't the original, somehow johny also seems to know this because when we first meet him its one of the first thing he says "the original engram must be out there" in johny's memories he also doesn't die like he is stated to in the lore. in the lore he is killed by smasher and shot in half. this is backed up by a line V has joking that "a ghost of a man cut in half haunts arasaka new recruits" so johny's memories are either wrong or have been falsified when we experience them
Additional note: Silverhand's body is recovered by some Runners during the time of the RED and is brought to a secured location where the person who has him, was working on possibly revivng him.
@@Saeiane777isn’t it also heavily implied that Angel, the person that requested the body, a clone of Alt Cunningham?
@RobertoCCantu I cannot say, but that would be *super dope* if so
Johnny's memories are the way they are because BD or BD adjacent experiences are subjectively based on the individual. Johhny is a drunk drug addled unstable narcissist who tends to inflate his importance due to his ego. Also the process johnny went through was different than the imperfect 80% digital copy.
It's absolutely not stated in the lore that Johnny died all it says is he was never seen again after the bombs went off
Just a heads up, Maxtac is made up almost entirely of reformed cyberpsychos. It's partially the reason why your told to not kill them in the game and incapacitate instead
AND ONLY CYBERPUNK PHYCOS LIKES CYBERPUNK LEGENDS LOVE OBLIVION
OBLIVION TOP CYBERPUNK BOTTOM
ALL GAMES WHERE AN SAD ENDING NOT GOOD OBLIVION BEST GAME OF ALL TIME
@@NigerianCrusaderOblivion has a sad ending
@@ZeallustImmortal HOW DOES IT HAVE A SAD ENDING IT ENDS WITH YOU SAVING THE WORLD
@@NigerianCrusader Idk man ask Martin
@@ZeallustImmortal HE LITERALLY SAVES THE WORLD YEAH HE DIES BUT HE BECOMES A GOD SO ITS NOT SAD
22:16 I still don't get how people didn't realize it being fetishized was the entire point lol
Everyone prefers to throw nuance out the window for the much simpler option.
Be offended
@@laxelford3533 Sad but true
@Biotear someone with sense whatca chad
Because people aren’t very smart
That's what annoyed me about the "controversy", everyone is commercialised and fetishised in cyberpunk, there are no exceptions, it feels entitled for people to only complain about this one instance of fetishisation.
I was very happy to see we got to use the rocket area in Phantom Liberty, what a great DLC.
OBLIVION HAS BETTER DLCS AND IS THE BEST GAME ALL TIME
CYBERPUNK BOTTOM OBLIVION BEST GAME ALL YEARS AND BEST GAME ALL TIME
@@NigerianCrusaderBruh you’re comparing two very different games lol just chill out and enjoy them both
@@thomasandersondrums2260 THERE NOT VERY DIFFERENT THERE BOTH OPEN WORLD RPGS VERY SIMILAR JUST DIFFERENT SETTINGS
That river ward photo was your reward for going through the nightmare that was his questline.
Skippy only switches to the opposite mode that you initially selected. If you select puppy loving pacifist upon your first interaction, it’ll switch to the headshot only mode permanently after 50 kills.
Mine messed up, I chose puppy loving pacifist and went through it but Skippy decided to lock me in that mode! Gave him to Regina ASAP I was kinda pissed lol
@@Bmoran325 There's a wait time for the switch. If you unequip him, or holster him, it'll reset. You can achieve the dialogue just by keeping him in hand for a while any time after the 50 kills. You can also duplicate him if you want, and give one to Regina.
@@leksasdf how do you duplicate him?
Really?
When I asked him why can't I switch back to lethal, he replied: "Why can you only kill 50 people? YOU FUCKING PSYCHO!"
What does he say if you ask why can't you stay non-lethal?
@@leksasdf Dude, here I am thinking I'm locked out of quest progression, I had no idea about the reset. I've killed HUNDREDS with Skippy.
54:49 Lucy cannot contact Falco otherwise they would be caught by Arasaka easily. Hence the mention of Falco to V by saying they're "out of the spotlight".
Calling Joshua's quest "weird" is an understatement. Crucifying him was as incredible and otherworldly as the most fantastical boss fights in some games. It really felt important, and giving him a chance to spread his truth, instead of rotting in night city, seemed very human.
Still have never been able to bring myself to that ending. If you get right up to the choice, but refuse to do it yourself, you still get all of the same benefits as if you are involved directly.
I love that V had one good experience with a random XBD and then proceeded to try every XBD she found on the ground or that was offered to her
If i remember right there’s a mission where some random sketchy guy you just met offers u a BD that fries you if you take it then you wake up with all your stuff missing lol
I LOVE THAT THE HERO OF KVATCH DOESNT DIE AND INSTEAD BECOMES AN IMMORTAL LEGEND
CYBERPUNK BOTTOM OBLIVION LEGEND
@@dawsongerard9748HERO OF KVATCH A LEGEND
OBLIVION BEST GAME ALL TIME
@@dawsongerard9748YOU DELETED MY COMMENT
OBLIVION BEST GAME CYBERPUNK ROGUE
@dawsongerard9748 YO YO YO DAWG GOT DA PREEMEST BD RITE HAR!!!! YA DIG?? FINEEEEE 2LEGIT2QUIT ill need about ten billion eddies thank you very much! And all your cyberware 😂😂😂😂
my personal theory is that mr blue eyes is an AI because characters eyes turn blue when data is being transferred, an AI could hypothetically continuously upload data to a person and control them. a lot of the dlc and story points to the dangers of the self aware ai beyond the black wall and it would make sense that they're trying to expand because as time progresses, the real estate of the old net is gonna become more and more finite
I originally bought that theory as well. But I don’t think that much computational power can be achieved with having human doll. At least lore behind human dolls in CP2077 universe is left quite unexplained.
Mr Blue Eyes is like that Mass Effect The Illusive man guy or at least being inspired by TIM. I’m sure CDPR is building something with Mr Blue Eyes character which Peralez quest line and Phantom Liberty hints at.
@viljaminieminen6925 think of a Doll chip like a streaming service. They're just the interface, the computation and load-bearing activity happens at the source (AI)
I'm not up on the Blue Eyes lore but it makes sense.
What real ai could do that though?
Guts is crazy. That, silverhands pistol, and the monowire got me through my entire playthrough.
Johnny pistol got me thru the game an dlc ouuuu cyberpunk is such a masterpiece I can’t believe that it use to be buggy as fuck but I’m glad I didn’t give up on it very good game I just wish we got another dlc
I wanted to mention that johnnys arm was an equipable item at the games launch that you'd get after the chipping in quest, it would appear in your backpack and selecting it would give you the hologram arm effect that happens when johnny is in your body
It was removed after a patch due to it being a bug and not a feature
THATS BECAUSE CYBERPUNK NOT GOOD BECAUSE SAD ENDING
OBLIVION GAME OF THE YEAR BECAUSE HAPPY ENDING AND OBLIVION BEST GAME ALL TIME
@@NigerianCrusaderAre you 11 years old?
@@excalligator5529 DID YOU PLAY HALF LIFE 2 ON 2004
@@NigerianCrusader Can you speak in lowercase?
@@pacg1801 I JUST SPEAK IN CAPS TO GET MY POINT ACROSS
1:35:00 You missed a detail. CDPR was one of the very first sets of people told Bowie was dying, months before it happened, long before the knowledge was released, because he _wanted_ to do it. But he was going to be dead in like two or three months, so he was honest with them of why he couldn't.
Aw this is so sad to read
Damn.
Iceberg videos are like, my go to video to listen to whilst doing other things. Basically your channel is heaven for me, fr thank you for making such good content! All of your videos are so well made!!! easy to understand, interesting topics, well edited. You put SO MUCH effort into these videos and I hope you're happy doing so homie!
Regarding the Kojima cameo, in Japanese, Kojima is written 小島, using the characters for "small" and "island". Oshima would be written 大島, using the characters for "big" and "island".
There's a second Akira reference during the car chase with Goro Takemura after Dexter gets flatlined. One of the Arasaka guys chasing you does the classic bike drift turnaorund move that Kaneda does, that classic iconic moment. I'm not sure what kind of bike he's riding though, it would be perfect if he was on the Yaiba.
A Kusanagi probably. Have to recheck to be sure.
CYBERPUNK THE BOTTOM
OBLIVION GAME PF THE YEAR ALL YEARS
OBLIVION HAS CARS AND MOTORBIKES
@@lordmorklen5166RECHECK THAT CYBERPUNK IS BOTTOM AND OBLIVION LEGEND
@@NigerianCrusader Literally nobody fucking cares stop commenting this shit everywhere
@@NigerianCrusader morrowind legend > oblivion bottom
OK, so for the seashells thing, I looked it up online and apparently you’re supposed to use two of the seashells clamp together to get off any larger remaining bits. Then you use the last seashell by itself to wipe off anything else. That sounds rough and inefficient, but apparently it’s what the Director of demolition Man wanted.
OBLIVION BETTER THAN CYBERPUNK
Omw to pinch my hemorrhoids off
You missed the MAIN piece of evidence to the "Adam knew V and Jackie were there" theory, if you have the augment that auto-highlights enemies that have seen you when stealthing, it literally highlights him.
Yeah, it's pretty much canon.
This is also not out of character for Adam Smasher, there's another theory that in the Arasaka Tower Bombing, he deliberately stopped Johnny from getting the nuke to the tower's base because he knew it would cause more destruction and chaos in the area surrounding Corpo Plaza. Johnnys original plan was to have it detonate in the basement.
theres plenty of evidence to indicate that since smasher is a boss character, he's programmed to always highlight red on the threat detector.
Also Johnny's memories are corrupted in some way, so i wouldnt trust anything from those. It was blackhand that got the nuke set up, i doubt he'd fuck it up like johnny would.
I think it’s somewhat confirmed the nuke did end up going off in the basement. In the Panam ending, while in the basement, Saul points out that you’re in the exact location the nuke detonated, to which Panam quips that they must be surrounded by radiation.
Just in time of the 2.0 drop. Seeing the first entry makes me realize how far this game has come and how solid a brand CD Project is. Great video pigpen.
TIME TO PARTY LIKE IT'S 2023
I hope the new DLC will learn more about Morgan Blackhand, like where is he and why wasn't he part of Johnny's memory. The dude is literally a mystery in this game.
Also just to let you know that he probably was. That part with Johnny is on the roof yeah that was most likely Johnny superimposing himself on Morgan Blackhand because we know in the lore that Johnny immediately died the second Smasher saw him
@@mariobadia4553glad you said this, the real mystery is if Johnny is a reliable narrator or not. We know how the Arasaka tower raid went because of the table top game, but it is *completely* different from what is shown in game. Like pigpen said, there’s a lot of people who don’t even know cyberpunk had an original rpg
It is sad sf
@@mariobadia4553doesn’t Alt tell you during her first appearance that a lot of Johnny’s stories, Arasaka tower especially, were completely full of shit? In his head he was the brave hero during the tower bombing, not Blackhand
@@mariobadia4553I always got the impression Blackhand only appeared between the cuts of each memory. He probably still had his fight with Smasher on the roof, but Johnny was unconscious by then to witness it.
Very excited to watch this, you make great iceberg videos and this is a topic I love
The secret ending is only partially true. You dont have to have a specific amount of likeability. You just need to choose a specific dialogoption in the mission chippin in. You need to tell Johnny that he destroyed your relationship with him, he fucked up, and then give him a second but last chance. This dialog takes places when you visit his graveside after obtaining his car.
It's either or. You either do that dialogue, or have the relationship high enough
@yoyo7718 not really ive had playthroughs where I had 85%, so the maximum before the last mission and it didn't work. If you don't give him a second chance he doesn't bring it up because he has no need in fixing it
My ending was different I betray Johnny he was shock I liked the expression on his face😂 I took him out but at the end I felt bad I want another dlc for cyberpunk 2077
OK, the vintage car ads as transitions were GENIUS. Loved the vid and subscribed!
Thank you for mentioning this! I thought I was losing my mind thinking "why are there classic car ads on here???" and I wasn't seeing anyone talking about it in the comments.
Wake the fuck up samurai, we have an iceberg to watch.💙
No way my man said “The Heisenberg Principle” is a breaking bad reference 💀
On god lmfao
Considering the mission titled that consists of breaking into a drug production lab and taking out the equipment/chemists, it most definitely is.
it literally is tho? youre breaking into a drug making lab and taking out the chemists.
Lol, sure the name of the mission may possibly be simply referencing the chemist, Heisenberg, and not Walter White's alter-ego, Heisenberg. However, considering the mission itself involves taking out a drug lab and it's chemists it's definitely referencing the "Heisenberg" from Breaking Bad and not just the real-world chemist or any of his ideas/theories associated with his name. I mean c'mon now, basically anything with a drug lab and those "iconic" yellow hazmat suits count as a BB reference considering the show is responsible for popularizing/making the general public aware of how a drug lab/drug manufacturing production looks like, even if the piece of media in question isn't explicitly referencing BB imo they may as well be if they include a drug lab or the yellow hazmat suits, and especially if they reference/visually nod at the iconic "Blue Dream" meth that Walter makes in the show, like if the blue meth is there it's automatically a BB reference, even if the drugs are only blue to reference how IRL people started dying/making their meth blue because of the show. Like in the Walking Dead, for instance, there's a scene where they show blue meth, and while I'm sure they were just referencing how there's blue meth IRL (due to the popularity of the show) it still counts as a Breaking Bad reference since the show was basically the genesis of people thinking meth is typically blue/people actually dying their meth blue. Sorry but BB pretty much defined how meth is physically perceived in media, and will continue to do so for a good long while, especially since people actually started dying their meth blue following the show's popularity, either to match the show/be recognizable or possibly to trick people into thinking it's "hyper-pure" since Walter's meth in the show was 99.6% pure in the show, but idk man 😂
It is a Breaking Bad reference, and a song reference, and a science reference. You know things can reference multiple things, right?
There was a youtuber, Jesse Cox, in the game that appeared in a side mission where V would have to escort him to a ripperdoc to fix his “smoking cox.” V could either agree to drive him over there or leave him to his fate. Either way the money you earned helping him isn’t worth much.
(I’m kinda fine that you missed because he was, personally, kinda an irl asshole when meaning him at a fan meetup)
Another youtuber referenced in the game is one, Alanah Pearce, who only appears if players chose the nomad life choice. At the second act, in the badlands, V would be notified that their old nomad vehicle at the start of the nomad playthrough has appeared on the map; more specifically in the landfill area. When V approaches to their old vehicle, they will make some remarks at the vehicle condition before Lana, approaches you and the two will argue on wether the car is theirs or not. Three outcomes with two of them having Lana keep the car forever and the other with V repossessing the car. (Honestly there’s better cars in the game than V’s starter nomad car, either sell it to her or let her keep it)
Oh and Alanah is pretty chill, I haven’t met her in person; but I would assume she’s probably nicer than Jesse.
Lmfao he was a RUclipsr?
Cohn Carnage, a streamer/youtuber, also plays Gary The Prophet.
Ah man, Jessie is a dick irl? That's a shame, I hope it's a fluke or he was having a bad day,
Ive experienced acid rain once, i thought it was a bug because i got back from doing Riders Of The Storm, so i thought the dust storm just stayed.
Happened to me twice. 1st time just thought it was a visual bug cause recently I loaded from a save. 2nd time it happened was coming back from the badlands. Funny to know the real reason now.
One alternate story path for Cyberpunk 2077 that they could do which would lead to having Jackie as a sort of antagonist is if he didn't take the Relic out in the car ride over as he finally bled out... With the way the relic works, as he died it should have activated and he'd become Johnny, or at least start sharing a brain with him the way V does.
The alternate ending for Edgerunners where David becomes a war machine like Adam Smasher sounds so dope. It would be really cool if he became the next big villian that you would eventually have to fight in the Cyberpunk sequel game like how Adam Smasher was to V.
That would be impossible, since the game came out BEFORE the anime, and would also be horrible because it would Smasher would pretty much be killed in an spin off from the game (it doesn't matter how good the anime is, is still an spin of from the game).
Like it or not the David Martinez we know from the anime only came to existence in the game and was barely a foot note on it, Adam Smasher was a pretty major character since most of the franchise existence.
The fact that Smasher died in the game was major for the whole franchise, altough i don't deny that more Edgerunners related stuff MUST come out, i think turn David into a killing machine, just to oppose V is stupid, let the boy rest as a night city legend that he fought so much to become.
@@efxnews4776emphasis on when they said the sequel game, not 2077
@@soupgirl1871 That wouldn't explain what he's been up to for over a year. Someone who went through all of that and became a killing machine then vanish until a sequel is pretty bad. At best, he could've been added as a bonus Cyberpsycho that would been harder to takedown than the others with the option to help or kill him.
@@jamad-y7m no, it isn't, Mike Pondsmith was steering the boat the whole time, the game is just a different medium than the books.
I can't handle the River Ward hospital pic it sends me into a laughing fit every time I see it
Becca's design story is not "explained" correctly. The main controversy was the danger of overcrowding the cast for just 10 episodes, as she was concept of the animation studio not done in advance. Her design was just a part of her problem.
Yeah I should’ve mentioned that. My bad
Well it sure is a glaring part of the problem 😂
@@lucre113 is the fact that she is a loli type of character, she looks like a young teenager, and is very sexualized, despite been mature enough
I kinda understand CDPR in this regard, after the horrible launch of the game a scalded cat would fear cold water for sure, but thank God they trusted Studio Trigger to do their job, and so the controversy was just this small detail of something bad that was avoided.
@@efxnews4776 I mean I agree it was a pretty small issue but it is so weird that archetype of character even exists as a concept within Japan
@@efxnews4776y’all need to talk to some grown small women 💀 you’re projecting things onto Rebecca that aren’t applicable
I remember seeing somewhere that the theory for Smasher knowing that V is in the room isn't just a theory because if you manage to get a certain ability prior to the mission, he lights up, indicating that he can actually see you in the room.
I could be misremembering, but I wanted to mention it just in case.
It might also be a glitch or oversight, rather then an intentional detail.
Boss characters can constantly “see” the player. Hence him being highlighted.
^ this. it's literally in their code, so all bosses always light up red with a Threat Detector. it wouldn't be surprising if he knew either way though.
@@svgarpawsyeah this is the actual answer but I like the headcannon that he knew. Man was just trolling
@@Pigpen_YTIt would be on character for smasher, having a bit of fun on the job and see what happens
HK-13, while being a Star Wars reference, the fact that he strangled a scientist and jumped out a 16th story window also makes it an iRobot reference.
6:39 It's not the 70% with Johnny that causes the trigger, it's the dialogue "The man who saved my life" in the junkyard.
Found this out the hard way, did everything for the ending, and it wouldn't pop up. So dumb, it should have just been 70% because man, it's real picky about what you say
@@JesterDragon8743Yeah, I still think it's bullshit you can complete all those side quests and not get that ending just because Johnny is a picky little bitch about someone trying to make him feel better. Motherfucker, I still took the time to do all that for you even though I'll basically die of cancer in 6 months
@@JesterDragon8743 hey it ain't a secret ending for nothing
@@MacinteuchPlusI mean getting 70% in itself is impossible without the dlc or very specific things, being extremely picky about it over 1 dialogue option in the hundreds you have with Johnny is pretty weird
@@soupgirl1871 yeah that's what a secret is supposed to be like, hard to find
A bit of a correction on Adam's demon skull: Adam has a battle armor he wears since 2023, the armor's model is "Dai Oni", literally "Big Demon".
Cyberpunk had such a good comeback, I had so much faith in this game and never gave up on it. I enjoyed it even with the bugs and glitches. But now I LOVE IT. Did 13 play throughs and rn my 14th for phantom liberty😅
You forgot one hilarious easter egg. There's somewhere a dead body of the guy who had an accident on a motorbike. There's a note beside, that tells you he's Pablo Jumper which is a nod to the viral RUclips video (in Poland). The guy in the video was named Paweł Jumper. He rode on his bicycle and jumped of some kind of stairs through the front of his bike, scoring a beautiful fail. I highly recommend seeing it
Edit: Also some enemies in polish version yell "Ała kurwa rzeczywiście", Paweł Jumper says that after his fail. It means sth like "ouch, fuck for real" (like it hurts for real)
You know I find it incredibly weird that there's not a single deus ex easter egg.
14:40 Technically "The Heisenberg Principle", is a reference to "Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle" which states: "There is inherent uncertainty in the act of measuring a variable of a particle."
But in Breaking Bad, Walter White takes on the alias "Heisenberg" in his business dealings.
Bro I swear this man deserves a award for the effort he puts in his videos
I listen to the rock radio exclusively when playing. Never knew that was Pondsmith’s voice! What a cool detail
I literally just updated Cyberpunk 2077 today so I can play from the start again and this is the best surprise all day
I'm 99% sure Mr. Blue eyes is actually part of night corp based on the information you learn through the side mission where you give the drive back to Sandra Dorsett. Oh and of course there's an entire set a missions revolving around a certain politician being mind controlled and he just so happens to be watching you at the end of said quest line after you receive a very threatening phone call.
Also that same politician, we find, was groomed for his role his whole life, and he met his wife, similarly groomed, while they both attended school on a Night Corp Scholarship.
i got cyberpunk for the pc the day it came out and as rough as it was, i always felt the story carried strong. i never regretted the purchase. i figured it was like a 6 or 7 out of 10 on release because my pc had fewer issues. and it was fun being in on the memes. i replayed it again after 2.0, and it is now one of my favorite games of all time, i simply cant stop playing.
how is lucy finding out she's pregnant 'too uplifting'? BRO THAT WOULD OF KILLED US ALL EMOTIONALLY
Cuz the possibility of meeting or teaming up with the with their kid and helping him become a night city legend
IKR? But I guess the writers wanted Lucy all alone at the end 😢
So I kinda like the first person cutscenes, I read the art book and it mentioned that the intention was to show the world through Cyber Eyes. It’s part of the reason why V always has cyber eyes regardless of choice.
I guess my question is, without V’s cyber eyes would V even see Johnny, since he’s a construct?
He wouldn't be able to, yeah. It's like a prerequisite situation. The optics are wired to the chipware, without optics it would still function but you would have no GUI.
Funny how they had a photosensitive woman reviewing video games. Sounds like they were trying to kill her.
Heres why i think lucy wrote the headstones and didnt off herself. Because one, davids own real wish was for her to be happy, so odds are shes gonna keep living. Especially since that would invalidate the entire anime. People die and sacrifice herself just so she can go "damn good run, but imma cut it short". Nah, i dont see that happening.
And for my second part, the headstones. Mainly glorias, thats written by someone who was close and talked to david a lot. We dont really see falco interact with david that much, besides, feels weird spilling your dead lovers conversation to someone else so they could write the memorial
the guy in the fridge with his "show for busting myths" is probably also a reference to adam savage of the show mythbusters - guy is a propmaker and kind of famous for his indiana jones style fedora, as well as making bullwhips and in a lot of the show he kind of dresses like indiana. in the show, they've also tested the big rolling ball thing too, i think
49:19 phantom liberty made this a reality finally
To those still using Current Gen (PS4, PS4 Pro, XBox One) Cyberpunk 2077 actually runs amazing and glitch free if you install it to an external solid state drive. It has to be SSD and not HDD.
That Picture with River had me rolling fr. Still does, glad they changed it. Hadn't gotten that far in my new 2.0 play through so I haven't seen the new one but man was that shit goofy....
Lol everyone looked so mad except the little girl
1:30 I dont think thats suposed to be adam smashers skull, but rather his netrunner self because in that scene lucy is trying to hack him
I was playing the game today and I found out In the diner after the Kerry mission where you blow up a van there's a fat guy dressed in green ordering two number 9s a number 9 large, etc it was pretty unexpected but funny
34:15
Cyberware. The answer’s always cyberware when something like this comes up in-game
I think the “demon head” for Adam Smasher is just how he looks in cyberspace, so we now know he goes very edgy in the metaverse
Mr. Blue Eyes kind of reminds me of the G-Man from the Half - Life series... I mean if you think about it, both wear a suit, have unique eyes, and are really mysterious while also watching the protagonist from a far and being very vague. The only difference is that Mr. Blue Eyes is only seen once (or twice if you did the secret ending.) Also Mr. Blue Eyes doesn't own a briefcase.
Update/Edit: He's seen a third time in Phantom Liberty.
“The Watcher” is a classic trope
@@lucre113 Not unless your Marvel...
@@officialwyattthesans12345 lmfaooo good one
@@lucre113 Thanks. 😁
To me he draws more inspiration from The Illusive man from Mass Effect trilogy. Both have blue eyes and suit and operates as some sort of agent of collective intelligence.
Mr Blue eyes man is was also referred by Songbird she V pries further at the space port.
T bug is definitely dead. You can confirm this by talking to a shop keeper who sells net running gear
Yeah, they found her body
Ozob is Bozo backwards, obvious right? But, if you’re old enough to remember, there’s a childrens game show that has a character called Bozo The Clown..
Pretty awesome of a Eater egg
50:10 if you go to Corpo Plaza and parkour a bit to get up high, you can actually find some monorail trains riding the tracks. You can't interact with them but you can catch a ride on top of them and ride it around NC. Not useful for anything but it does let you get to some neat areas for screenshots.
I wonder why CD Project Red never finished the rail way system the fixed and added so much why didn't they finish the mono rail system I would've actually used it
Not complaining I love this game just curious
Ah, the irony with the tram is gold.
The Lucy "offs herself" is completely random based only on "I believe"-nonsense.
Also, T-Bug was found dead, fried in her dock/station. It's unlikely that she was targeted by Soulkiller, however. Nothing hints to it and it otherwise would be an additional good opportunity (CDPR would have) missed later on the game, similiar to Jacky's "return".
This guy doesn't even know how to use the Three Seashells 🤣
I think the "I AM NOT ME" is written by dolls who lost their sense of identity via their work. Given the ties to Evelyn's story and the nature of how the dolls conduct their work; changing appearance and wiping memory after and whatnot. I imagine it could lead to identity crises like we see in these scrawlings.
Fun fact, Muamar Reyes and mr. Blue eyes actually have identical faces, the hairstyles and eyes just do such a good job of differentiating the two its hard to tell. I am 101% sure this is not an in universe thing, Muamar Reyes is not exactly shrouded in mystery, and has his own history thats been fleshed out more in the 2.0 update. But its a fun and really odd detail.
I'm so glad multiplayer was cancelled, that sounds like it would have been a mess
No way Rebecca is 20, another "looks 12 but definitely of legal age" case in anime. No wonder they wanted to change her design.
hi, i completely agree.
1:13:05 T-Bug is confirmed dead.
Remember that netrunner store in Kabuki you can visit during the prologue to get your first quickhack? Return there after the heist and the shop clerk will confirm that they found her body.
"This might be the worst launch of a game ever..." DAIKATANA would like a word with you 😂😂😂😂
DAIKATANA is the reason we have Deus ex, hardly a fail I'd say.
There's also an ad you'll see in the elevators that has to do with clothing. In the ad, a person steps into a white void and suddenly infinite rows of clothes slide into frame from the background. Which is another reference to the first matrix movie
You might find interesting that the developer's room code 60 51 85, if interpreted as decimal values for ASCII characters (it is a decimal keypad you're typing it on) translates to "
there are a lot of more films refferences in cp2077 plot, my fave one and prolly one of the most obscure is that the mission 'double life' in polish version is named 'third side of the night' which is refference to 1971 film with the same title dir by andrzej zulawski and plot of it is abt the guy forced to survive during ww2 by work in nazi laboratory as a tester for typhus vacine what really messing up with his brain. i think fact that game and this film shares the theme of trying to survive at all costs having brain demaged during the worst time of their lives is worth noticing, also great job with the vid i really enjoyed it
“Children of Men”…I have not seen this movie but I have heard from several people that this movie is definitely worth watching.
This is the first video of yours that I have watched…I appreciate the incredible research that you have done for this video…I am looking forward to watching your other videos as well.
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48:04 personally i think the archangel song could have been used for an interaction with Johnny about him commenting that he was composing a song but he never had the time to actually finish it or publish it. Bonus points if Johnny would actually sing it for us or play it on his guitar
The Adam Smasher theory is back up if you had the ocular upgrade to highlight enemies that detect V. And if you have this and look at Adam Smasher, he is highlighted wheen looking at you
Dude anything cyberpunk related pacified and enthrals me like nothing else
Thanks for the awesome vid! Not much I didn’t already know, but hopefully this gets more people to play CPR, because it RULES. Take care!
Although I was totally on the “Mock Cyberpunk 2077 for bad launch and weak RPG options” bandwagon, and although I still have lots of criticism for the game, I consider myself primarily on the side of art and creative people. The creators on Cyberpunk 2077 wanted to tell a unique and interesting story, and those efforts are noble. The Anime also legitimately helped revitalize my interest in the setting.
I also saw lots of jokes about Battlefield 2042 and Halo Infinite making Anime’s to regain some interest too lol
I mean, I'd watch a Battlefield 2042 anime
Same, I was one of the guys who had no better things to do other than make jokes about Cyberpunk's bugs.
But honestly, since the launch I've always considered the game to be one of my favourites in terms of aesthetic and visuals. The game absolutely nails that 90's futuristic aesthetic and was probably the one reason that made me hopeful for its future.
The game looks almost magical during night time.
Also I hate how Halo with an anime artstyle could actually fit the aesthetic and work if done right.
I need it.
Play it now nigga
@gibleyman the Halo Legends anime exists, though I'm not sure of the quality of the material
I actually think the aerondight car is supposed to be a sort of statement about relationships in cyberpunks world. Caliburn is Arthur's sword so you're probably expecting its sister car to be named Excalibur but instead its named after aerondight (lancelots sword) and geunivere (who cheated on arthur with lancelot). Combined with how many side gigs and NPC interactions include infidelity i always interpreted it as a statement on how normalised cheating is in 2077
I think we'll see more of the crazy stuff in the Cyberpunk universe in Orion. The poser gangs, vampires, and even the exotic body mods could have easily put people off of the game who hadn't been introduced to the world. Now that it's more established in the public eye, they can dial it up a bit.
Oh i could already see some Furries having a time of their life…
@@viljaminieminen6925 Ew. Well, I guess it's better they have a virtual outlet.
@@alexandertiberius1098 :D
@@alexandertiberius1098oh, shut up.
@@alexandertiberius1098oh it’s 2024 get the fuck over it.
1:25:39 The theory is actually because in the pre 2.0 versions of cyberpunk, there is an ocular cyberware mod that can highlight enemies that can see you, and Smasher is highlighted when equipping said mod.
"hey, we're sorry the game was so buggy when it was released after we were pressured by the public to finish the game earlier"
Pretty sure it was the Suit people.
I have seen so many icebergs of this game, Decided to do yours whilst messing around in the DLC. There is so much here I didnt know.
Superb Quality here my man
skippy actually switches to whichever one u didnt pick, if u pick pacificist he'll turn to murder mode n vise versa
14:40 "The Heisenberg Principal" sounds to me like a reference to Werner Heisenberg who created the Heisenberg uncertainty principal. Basically we can never know the speed AND direction of a subatomic particle.
Speed and position. Not direction. But yes you are probably right.
Its both, bc Walter White named himself after Heisenberg, and the gig takes inspiration from Breaking Bad, being about chemists making an almost 100% pure drug
Also you missed a matrix Easter egg. If you use the sandy and shoot at enemies who dodge they actually bend backwards to avoid the bullets. At least some of them do.
Perfect timing got my nights off to grind out cyberpunk and listen to my favorite RUclipsr’s iceberg
I just realized how eerily creepy the Cyberpunk universe is.
Wich is why I really love the Cyberpunk Universe.
I kinda like 3.0 due to it's eerieness of the Pictures and the dated weird ass CGI in the pictures. Especially uncanny pictures. Showing, its more Horror-ish atmosphere way.
Aswell, 3.0 exist if the second Nuke went off on the Arasaka Tower. But, since the second one didn't go off. It leads up to 2077. So, 203X is basically an Alt. Non-con Universe.
Btw, your icebergs seems really interesting to hear.
13:10 Judy's caller ID icon is also a direct reference to the name of the series. I noticed this for the first time towards the tail end of ~75 hours into my second playthrough.