• dax@feddit.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    62
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Exactly, what’s so grueling about the CP universe is that they have the tech and means of creating a utopia, but due to the extreme capitalism, corruption and overwhelming power of corporations nothing gets better. It’s like everyone who cares just gave up on fixing that society and everyone is just fending for themselves.

    • LemmysMum@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      28
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      Exactly, what’s so grueling about our universe is that they have the tech and means of creating a utopia, but due to the extreme capitalism, corruption and overwhelming power of corporations nothing gets better. It’s like everyone who cares just gave up on fixing that society and everyone is just fending for themselves.

    • MindSkipperBro12@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s just that the psyche of the world just broke at some point and this is the remnants of a broken people.

      At least LGBT people are well accepted, I suppose🤷🏿

      • bouh@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        20
        ·
        1 year ago

        Dude, life is already going extinct. Cats are mostly extinct already, and most animals are either robots or uber expensive clones! There are no animals in wilderness. There are acid rains and all sort of climate problems because the climate is already in shambles.

        Cops will definitely kill you on a whim. Or it will be one of the gangs or corpo who will. Didn’t you see the shootings in pacifica?

        Religion is very much there with a guy who crucifies himself on a braindance!

        Cyberpsycho would be killed on sight of Regina wasn’t hiring you to extract them. Did you watch any of the media of CP77? It seems like you didn’t.

        Did you hear about the corpo wars? CP77 is about the start of a war between arasaka and militech btw…

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        14
        ·
        1 year ago

        This is not true. The game doesn’t have to touch on this topics to tell Vs story but they do touch on climate on the news, cops are very trigger happy, religion is present in the game and you go to a church as part of a mission and there’s a whole sect obsessed with cyberware that does judge everyone else constantly throughout the game, including mutilating a monk that refused to get augmented.

      • ZeroTemp@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        ·
        1 year ago

        I see your points and I agree but I have to call out their climate is not stable. You often hear the news in the game talk about weather and temperatures being in the safe range for humans.

        Also the cops gun you down over the slightest infraction, or at least they did, I haven’t played since the Phantom Liberty update.

        Also in Pacific you attend a funeral at a church and it is heavy on the Christian iconography. Oh and I just remembered you can help a dude crucify (kill) himself for his sins while it’s being streamed and recorded for brain dance experiences!

        I recall domestic/intentional politics and espionage being mentioned several times in the game. Even to the point where we uncover a conspiracy where someone is brainwashing potential political candidates. I have an inkling politics will come up in Phantom Liberty as well.

      • michaelrose@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        10
        ·
        1 year ago

        How do you know most of this isn’t true just out of scope of Vs vision he is pretty laser focused on the brain cancer quickly replacing his personality and multiple threads of his own drama enough so he’s not as interested in larger social issues.

        • bouh@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          1 year ago

          Almost all of these are directly in the game. I wonder whether these people are blind or oblivious…

      • Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        1 year ago

        Well the cops are corrupt and there are clearly tribalistic behavior. Racism is a type of tribalism. I don’t know how racist arasaka is. Do they want to keep their bloodline “pure”? So why wouldn’t a corrupt police force attack in the interest of racists? There might be a lot of racism for all I know.

      • Solivine@sopuli.xyz
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        1 year ago

        It would be pretty weird for the game focused on a particular city to focus on global issues