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The trailer is somewhat succesful in capturing the tone of the R. Talsorian roleplaying game Cyberpunk, which is good as this seems to be an official license (the original version of the RPG was called Cyberpunk 2013, which might explain why they were keen to get a trailer out at the beginning of the year).

Tulpa, what do you find misogynistic about that trailer?

Toptube, i disagree with your reading - the trailer makes it clear that the bullets have little effect, which could (but probably won't) make an interesting game.

Personally i dislike this kind of trailer (lack of gameplay, use of music), so it guess it's the idea of an official Cyberpunk game made by a team who might have a clue which has me slightly hopeful about this.


EDIT: also it should probably be said that the situation described in the trailer & the accompanying text are taken directly from the RPG. Characters had an Empathy statistic which would be reduced by the addition of cyberware, and dropping below zero meant the character suffered "cyber-psychosis". This generally meant going insane and attacking everyone (I believe the rules suggested that characters reverted to the control of the Game Master at this point). The amount of Empathy lost was random to some degree, so past a certain level of augmentation you weren't sure that adding new cyberware would be safe.

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Thanks for the explanation, Tulpa. It wasn't obvious to me - the only thing I could see that might be objectionable at first glance was the scantily clad women. The reason I asked is because those are present in the source material (see the Chromebook covers for examples), and it's quite easy to insert such images into a dystopian society where corporations are producing them to feed the desire for their products. I'm not claiming that this is the only (or even the main) reason for their inclusion (they are on every Chromebook cover, after all), but i don't think that it damages the believability of the setting very much. There are plenty of in-fiction reasons (as far the RPG goes) for the way the female character is dressed, but any created image can be explained in a multitude of ways, and it doesn't address the pattern of presenting women in such ways in videogames.

However, being able to alter one's body to such a large degree is one of the interesting parts of the RPG, I think - with enough money, any ideal image becomes 100% obtainable.

I don't think that showing a woman being attacked is necessarily misogynistic, but tying it into a pattern with the Hitman trailer (and perhaps the new Tomb Raider?) helps make the point a bit clearer. I guess it can see it more from the point of view that the woman is being subdued/enslaved by the cyberpsycho squad.


I've watched the trailer several more times now and it seems to me that the first scene is actually more of a dynamic diorama, by which I mean that a static scene has been created and then small elements have been moved (along with the camera) to make it seem more alive. There's not that much animation going on. I'm also wondering if it shows the starting point for the game, with the player character being someone who has succumbed to cyberpsychosis. Pretty interested to see how this turns out, especially with Mike Pondsmith being involved.

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i think it was probably designed to stop the player characters having every single piece of cyberware.

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is this confirmation that Suda51 listens to The Jesus and Mary Chain???

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Chivalry is on Free Play on Steam this weekend. I'm fosforgrim on there if anyone wants to team up/tolerate my ineffectual fightings.

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FINAL GENERATION

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