It’s a hyper-alienated end-stage capitalist world, you morons. Also
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The good ending can only be achieved if you choose to accept help from the close knit community of outcasts
Capitalists not entirely missing the point of media challenge.
I agree. Cyberpunk as a genre has tragic elements baked right into it, so complaining that CP2077 didn’t have happy endings is like complaining that Romeo and Juliet didn’t end up living happily ever after
A lot of the classics of the genre actually do have semi-happy endings. Snowcrash turns out okay. Neuromancer and Johnny Mnemonic aren’t totally downer endings.
The OG Deus Ex has positive endings where real social change occurs.
Old school cyber-punk wasn’t unrelentingly miserable. When the good guys won, or at least survived or broke even, it was usually because the punks came together and figured out a way to survive.
