"in 2077 my city was voted the worst place to live in america. main reasons? sky high crime rates, and more people below the poverty line than anywhere else" 🗿
I still remember before the game’s Release there was this fantastic long video that explored the lore of cyberpunk, I hope you do the same just like the fallout series with the lore
(Questionably) luckily for him, Night City only became overrun with crime and violence once he died. His assassination was actually carried out by gangsters so that organized crime groups could take over the city.
I suppose 'San Franciscan ghost town' is a bit of an ill-descriptor. An article about the Morro Bay Massacre was published by a San Francisco news company. This article is what peaked Night's interest in using the site for his new city project. I realize Morro Bay is kinda btwn LA and SF. It's very tough to provide a complete lore breakdown while also keeping the videos under 60s. I'll be better.
Thank you for the clarification. Native Californian here and I heard morro bay and was like “San franciscan?” It’s a really beautiful place irl, quiet as hell with a lovely population of people
I would be super interested in learning about Corpo Wars!!! That's like one of my biggest wonders in this universe. I mean, the corps had to make monsters like Adam Smasher to fight one another so I'd find it super cool to see the human atrocities they created to go to war with one another o.O Love your lore videos!
A thing I remember my dad told me about the original pen and paper is Night City spanned the entire Californian coast due to absorbing all the smaller cities
Back in 2020 before the city was nuked and involved in lots of wars etc. The place has basically had a facelift every 2-3 decades, but never quite reached the golden age of the 2020s.
His wife kept Night City Corp alive, so they still do stuff in the city, but it's a bit hush hush mysterious, as to what the Corp actually does besides construction contracts. Anyway, that said it's maybe possible he survived/faked his death.
Morro Bay? I just found out that I live in Night City. I can't say I'm surprised that they planted a city here, but hot damn San Luis Obispo fell apart.
I have a crazy theory. What if Mr. Blue Eyes is actually an Ai, that took over a body. One that went rouge, and modeled its personality and actions on that of Richard Night, but instead of trying to create a Utopia for humans, due to its rogue nature, its trying to create a Utopia for Ai?
Quick rundown on time line I hope this channel explains more of: Night’s wife tried to emulate her husbands dream and succeeded for a while as did her successor but over time gangs and crime lords took over and made the city into a bloodshed. Overtime the corporations within the city got tired of this as bloody actions were bad for business and literally went to war with the gangs. Thus resulting in mega corps winning and eventually Arasaka cleaning up and rearranging the city to fit its intended direction ofc with an angle to benefit Arasaka to an almost unlimited cycle of profit from citizens. Night city remained autonomous to its own jurisdiction and night corp stayed alive albeit a shell of its former self (not even being recognized on the game map as a blip to fast travel to) and Arasaka truly being the powerhouse of the town. Less bloody but more corrupt than ever.
Ironically, his name was spelled Knight in the original 2020 TTRPG book, but it said that the citizens themselves later dropped the K from "Knight City" Hilarious lore crossover.
so happy you’re touching this series, always wanted to know the story but never got into the game (got it when it first game out and the bugs have scared me away)
I wish we could get bio mods in the game since biotechnica made biological implants that could make you look like an animal if you wanted that also gave you special abilities
@@futuza I mean in the original table top. I mean, you basically would do that. But this current iteration of the gang in the game seems to be more about just being beefcakes
@@nerofoxkrell The Biosculpted Exotics mod will partially do what you want (no abilities though, you'd probably have to combine it with another mod for that). TBF exotic bodysculpting in the tabletop usually didn't give you abilities (other than risking giving you cyberpsychosis or cancer depending on if you're talking CP 2020 or CP Red) unless the referee was doing funny things, it mostly just altered appearance and changed your attractiveness score/acted as a way to disguise yourself. It was mostly just cosmetic. If you wanted new abilities you would combine it with cyberware, eg: bodysculpt some cheetah legs and also buy Corvette Cyberlegs to actually mechanically make yourself go faster. In fact sometimes it actually made your abilities worse (eg adding claws could give you a -2 to REF).
I still want to know where exactly does Cyberpunk’s timeline separate from ours. I have a feeling that it must’ve been a very large change, given the fact that there are megacorps, flying cars and cybernetics in the 2020s
Well it did untill the gov collapsed in the 1990s and the entire city was caught in the middle of war between the Hells angels and the local police. Those who survived pretty much left and Night bought the land for pennies on the dollar
Free/night city: do you want depression do you want pain don't worry we got it here daily for the price of free! All you need to do is live or born in here!
If you ever have the pleasure of going to Morro Bay in California do go and see more rock it's pretty amazing it's just a huge rock at least a thousand feet high or more and the bottom of it is starting to get worn out it's pretty interesting place but also find it pretty interesting that they mentioned it very small town Morro Bay in cyberpunks lore that's pretty cool
The term Night City first existed in the cyberpunk genere in the 1984 novel called Neuromancer by William Gibson and it was located in Japan. Would recommend reading the novel its influence is all over CDP's syberpunk.
There's one element of night City that always bugs me in the new cyberpunk lore. In the old cyberpunk lore from the RPG night city was called night City because the city was so overbuilt overdeveloped and overcrowded that the skyscrapers blocked out the Sun. So the place had about the same level of UV radiation exposure as people living in Gotham City. So night City should basically be jet black and neon Chrome cyberpunk hellspace or no one has ever actually seen the light of day.
Standing here I realize You are just like me Trying to make history But who's to judge The right from wrong When our guard is down I think we'll both agree That violence breeds violence But in the end it has to be this way I've carved my own path You followed your wrath But maybe we're both the same The world has turned And so many have burned But nobody is to blame Yet staring across this barren wasted land I feel new life will be born Beneath the blood stained sand Beneath the blood stained sand
more cyberpunk lore? been enjoying the show and already started a 2nd playthrough of the game.
A new avenue of video game lore? Yes, please!
Yes, Cyberpunk has some very interesting and deep lore it will be nice to have a channel to explore it
Yessir I love cyberpunk
Yes please
Yes that would be amazing
Forget rolling, Night must be freaking spinning in his grave
he probably has reached terminal velocity at this point
Man’s probably powering the whole damn city
Yeah
In cyberpunk 2 he'll break out from his coffin and attack the player while dark souls boss music plays for the final boss
Perpetual fucking motion
'Free from crime' 🗿
"in 2077 my city was voted the worst place to live in america. main reasons? sky high crime rates, and more people below the poverty line than anywhere else" 🗿
That line didn't age well, did it?!
Well it's located in America
What you expected?
@@kingsupreme1532 land of milk and honey
Went right to the comments when he said that lmaoo
Visionaries dying before the work is complete, and their work being turned into a bastardization is very common in real life and in fiction.
What can be said? We are a people of tradition 😂
There was no way some city would ever be a “utopia”. Night should’ve invested in giving to the people. If you stop poverty you stop crime.
@@alexoxo1 Last I checked, rich people commit crimes at the same rate as poor people.
@@romanboi3115they don’t lmfao. That is patently false 😂😂😂
I still remember before the game’s Release there was this fantastic long video that explored the lore of cyberpunk, I hope you do the same just like the fallout series with the lore
Might be TheNeonArcade. Still does cyberpunk content 👍🏼
Where can I find this video you mentioned?
Do you know the name of the video
Here for that video title, got a 3-hour drive coming up and I need something to listen to
@@Punched0 neon arcade
Holy shit I've been to Morro Bay. It's a beautiful costal town. I didn't know it's the same place in the cyberpunk lore. That's awesome.
But where is the giant rock in the game.
@@sloppyoyster5779 the edge of the map menu, not visible tho
Yeah I went to school there lol, there's references to surrounding towns in the game too
@@sloppyoyster5779 Correction, the spaceport is a flattened Morro Rock
I live here. How do you think i feel?
I hope this becomes as popular as the fallout videos because I really want to see more cyberpunk lore
It's gonna be, an anime from Trigger will always brings people into the culture and also the game.
I remember when the game first came out and everyone was laughing. Little did we know we would all be wanting more Cyberpunk.
Not gonna lie, anytime i see cyberpunk lore, i get that same fallout feel from it.
cyberpunk lore is super cool. i just hope that CDPR continues making good cyberpunk content so we can get more lore
@@stuckonaslide well I mean, all the lore you need all ready exist you just gotta invest in the ttrpg
I am pretty sure that Night after seeing what his utopian city has ended Up becoming said to himself, "welp I tried"
(Questionably) luckily for him, Night City only became overrun with crime and violence once he died. His assassination was actually carried out by gangsters so that organized crime groups could take over the city.
No he didn't say anything or even see what night city would become because he's dead
@@CodeeXD r/whooosh
I suppose 'San Franciscan ghost town' is a bit of an ill-descriptor. An article about the Morro Bay Massacre was published by a San Francisco news company. This article is what peaked Night's interest in using the site for his new city project. I realize Morro Bay is kinda btwn LA and SF.
It's very tough to provide a complete lore breakdown while also keeping the videos under 60s. I'll be better.
Morro Bay is a good beach if you don’t want to be surrounded by tourists
Goated
Maybe just make a full length video???😂
Channels that JUST do shorts are the epitome of laziness
Morro bay is neat, has a big ol rock
Thank you for the clarification. Native Californian here and I heard morro bay and was like “San franciscan?” It’s a really beautiful place irl, quiet as hell with a lovely population of people
It's said that Richard Night is powering Arasaka tower due to how fast they make him spin in his grave.
This kinda omits the bit about how in order to build the city Night had to work with the west coast mobs,and how they're the ones that had him killed.
Its a 60 second video man relax he can't fit night cities entire history
Damn, imagine how disappointed Richard would be if he was resurrected just to see his ideal city becoming a shit hole of a dystopia
If I remember right there were the corporation wars and the oil wars, The nuking of many cities and stuff like that will be cool to explore
"Free from crime."
Becomes literal cyberpunk dystopia.
Love it. Lore the shit out of more stuff my man
Night city founder: “I WANT MY CITY CRIME FREE” Night City: “CYBERPSYCHO GOES BRRRRRRRRR”
I can literally walk to where this is supposed to be located on the map in real life it’s crazy and I love being near things like this
Just make sure to stay away from large corporate buildings whenever there's a concert nearby
Smoke stacks gone soon
@@megablasters5 I heard that, yeah that sucks those were so cool
@@jaygged6472 let’s party like it’s 2023
I would be super interested in learning about Corpo Wars!!!
That's like one of my biggest wonders in this universe.
I mean, the corps had to make monsters like Adam Smasher to fight one another so I'd find it super cool to see the human atrocities they created to go to war with one another o.O
Love your lore videos!
All the people and seals living in Morro Bay: I guess im a Ghost now...
This is weird seeing this when you’re actually just chilling in morro bay currently
A thing I remember my dad told me about the original pen and paper is Night City spanned the entire Californian coast due to absorbing all the smaller cities
Night City proper is just one city. I'm pretty sure the Free City of Night City is what owns a large chunk of coast.
Back in 2020 before the city was nuked and involved in lots of wars etc. The place has basically had a facelift every 2-3 decades, but never quite reached the golden age of the 2020s.
Idk why but Richard Night as a name sounds badass
Companies like: Arasaka
*Me hearing Arisaka: "WHAT"*
Arasaka is based on Arisaka. They were major weapons manufacturers for Japan in WW2 in the lore after all.
@@guccifer764 ohh I see. I sure do love war criminals
Would be VERY DOPE if the AI behind The Blue Eyes were Richard Nights himself! Just like Saburo.
His wife kept Night City Corp alive, so they still do stuff in the city, but it's a bit hush hush mysterious, as to what the Corp actually does besides construction contracts. Anyway, that said it's maybe possible he survived/faked his death.
Morro Bay? I just found out that I live in Night City. I can't say I'm surprised that they planted a city here, but hot damn San Luis Obispo fell apart.
Looking back at Night City. A utopian dream turns into a dystopian city
Given that Arasaka now rules NC with a chrome fist, it really fits that they'd be the one's to assassinate Night.
I have a crazy theory.
What if Mr. Blue Eyes is actually an Ai, that took over a body. One that went rouge, and modeled its personality and actions on that of Richard Night, but instead of trying to create a Utopia for humans, due to its rogue nature, its trying to create a Utopia for Ai?
The idea of Night City being founded as a Utopia free from Crime is absolutely hysterical.
Quick rundown on time line I hope this channel explains more of:
Night’s wife tried to emulate her husbands dream and succeeded for a while as did her successor but over time gangs and crime lords took over and made the city into a bloodshed. Overtime the corporations within the city got tired of this as bloody actions were bad for business and literally went to war with the gangs. Thus resulting in mega corps winning and eventually Arasaka cleaning up and rearranging the city to fit its intended direction ofc with an angle to benefit Arasaka to an almost unlimited cycle of profit from citizens. Night city remained autonomous to its own jurisdiction and night corp stayed alive albeit a shell of its former self (not even being recognized on the game map as a blip to fast travel to) and Arasaka truly being the powerhouse of the town. Less bloody but more corrupt than ever.
Feed us the Cyberpunk lore. I already binged through your Fallout lore shorts.
If only Night was alive, Night City could have really become a beacon of hope and a shining light in the dark future of Cyberpunk.
"Free from crime" That didn't age so well
Please do more lore, I just played it through last week.
Ironically, his name was spelled Knight in the original 2020 TTRPG book, but it said that the citizens themselves later dropped the K from "Knight City"
Hilarious lore crossover.
Once again good intentions absolutely fk everyone beyond reason or belief.
- A brief history of... History.
Good timing I started playing and ur my fav ytber
Night: I'm gonna build a utopia free of crime!
Reality: *Lol nope!*
so happy you’re touching this series, always wanted to know the story but never got into the game (got it when it first game out and the bugs have scared me away)
Love the old Cyberpunk 2020 lore being reintroduced
I wish we could get bio mods in the game since biotechnica made biological implants that could make you look like an animal if you wanted that also gave you special abilities
Just join the Animals Gang 😂
@@futuza I mean in the original table top. I mean, you basically would do that. But this current iteration of the gang in the game seems to be more about just being beefcakes
@@nerofoxkrell The Biosculpted Exotics mod will partially do what you want (no abilities though, you'd probably have to combine it with another mod for that).
TBF exotic bodysculpting in the tabletop usually didn't give you abilities (other than risking giving you cyberpsychosis or cancer depending on if you're talking CP 2020 or CP Red) unless the referee was doing funny things, it mostly just altered appearance and changed your attractiveness score/acted as a way to disguise yourself. It was mostly just cosmetic. If you wanted new abilities you would combine it with cyberware, eg: bodysculpt some cheetah legs and also buy Corvette Cyberlegs to actually mechanically make yourself go faster. In fact sometimes it actually made your abilities worse (eg adding claws could give you a -2 to REF).
I like that your doing more games, keep up the good work 👍
The irony of his vision is crazy
I still want to know where exactly does Cyberpunk’s timeline separate from ours. I have a feeling that it must’ve been a very large change, given the fact that there are megacorps, flying cars and cybernetics in the 2020s
Waitwaitwait. Night City is future morro bay!??? That's only 2 or so hours from me, and I go a few times a year!
Ah yes the typical result of "What could go wrong?"
That's foul. They assassinated a visionary, took his dream and made it a nightmare
Oh I’m so down for more cyberpunk lore
More cyberpunk lore please!
YESSS! More cyberpunk stuff! I bought it but lost interest but if I get invested into lore I might actually play it again!
Goddamn, delusional would be an utter understatement, lmao.
Aww man, I love morro bay irl. Shame it don’t exist in the Cyberpunk universe
Well it did untill the gov collapsed in the 1990s and the entire city was caught in the middle of war between the Hells angels and the local police. Those who survived pretty much left and Night bought the land for pennies on the dollar
Richard night always look like he tweakin
He looking at what it has become 💀
Free/night city: do you want depression do you want pain don't worry we got it here daily for the price of free! All you need to do is live or born in here!
Bro… I could be at night city in like an hour rn 💀💀
"Free of crime" well that aged well
Finally Cyberpunk is getting the love it deserves.
more cyberpunk lore would be cool :)
If you ever have the pleasure of going to Morro Bay in California do go and see more rock it's pretty amazing it's just a huge rock at least a thousand feet high or more and the bottom of it is starting to get worn out it's pretty interesting place but also find it pretty interesting that they mentioned it very small town Morro Bay in cyberpunks lore that's pretty cool
It's kinda hard to make a utopian city free from crime when your allies are the worst kind of criminals.
Mr. Night should have played Bioshock series. "Independent Capitalistic Utopia" never ends well for anybody.
“A utopia free from crime”
Meanwhile, me, gunning down gang members in broad daylight
Take a shot every time he says city.
No way haha I grew up in Santa Cruz just up the bay. That's dope.
Please keep up the good work! 👍🏻
The term Night City first existed in the cyberpunk genere in the 1984 novel called Neuromancer by William Gibson and it was located in Japan.
Would recommend reading the novel its influence is all over CDP's syberpunk.
*Mike Pondsmith's
Bruh this take place in Morro Bay??! Finally a SoCal city in a game
finally
The cyberpunk anime. Edgrunners made me cry 1000/10 would definitely recommend. Also please more cyberpunk lore
Wait morro bay? I I like that place. It's real cozy, and that's a giant rock on the shore
Just got the game, need more of these!
That’s a tough set up
Do more cyberpunk lore.
30 years ago cyberpunk was just a role-playing game. Now one of its city's gets a highlight on RUclips....
I’m playing it as I type. I love this game so much
“Utopian, crime free city”
Hehe… well…
more cyberpunk stuff please
Holy fuck, the free city is an autonomous free city
Talking about Cyberpunk now? Nova!
It's really weird knowing that I visit morro bay a lot and plan to move there eventually
I really like this 💎
oh man, you gotta do my bro, Mr. Blue Eyes. Love your videos, really excited for this run.
We were told specifically not to try to look into Mr. Blue eyes, you're gonna end up getting that Jefferson special
Free of crime🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💀 that went absolutely nowhere💀💀💀💀
In cyberpunk 2077. Crime, death, poor people, rich people, desert outskirts, Fallout during 2077. Has been nuked.
MORE OF THIS
the dude looked like the devil. you expect me to believe that guy had good intentions?
I would love more lore
There's one element of night City that always bugs me in the new cyberpunk lore. In the old cyberpunk lore from the RPG night city was called night City because the city was so overbuilt overdeveloped and overcrowded that the skyscrapers blocked out the Sun. So the place had about the same level of UV radiation exposure as people living in Gotham City. So night City should basically be jet black and neon Chrome cyberpunk hellspace or no one has ever actually seen the light of day.
That was untill big fuckoff nuke killed most of the city
I didn't know about this fallout DLC
Richard night looks like Murphy from z nation
Richard Knight look like Cyber-Ben shapiro
The image at the start is my wallpaper so that sketched me out for a second
CYBERPUNK LORE VIDEOS OMG LOVES IT XOXO
I live in California and Morro Bay is 2-3 hours away from San Francisco. It is not a San Franciscan Coast town.
Standing here
I realize
You are just like me
Trying to make history
But who's to judge
The right from wrong
When our guard is down
I think we'll both agree
That violence breeds violence
But in the end it has to be this way
I've carved my own path
You followed your wrath
But maybe we're both the same
The world has turned
And so many have burned
But nobody is to blame
Yet staring across this barren wasted land
I feel new life will be born
Beneath the blood stained sand
Beneath the blood stained sand
This is a nice change.
First Arkhan Land and now Richard Night
free of crime and literally in the founding of his crimepess city he fell victim to one and tradition continues to 2077 and beyond.
"free from crime" well that didn't work out
I'd actually enjoy a shadowrun series a lot.