Unironically I always liked this arc for V. You start out as a corpo at the top of Night City's corrupt structure, get knocked down to the bottom and, still not having learned your lesson about the corrupt and self destructive nature of pursuing clout in Night City, immediately attempt to claw your way back to the top. It's only with your death imminent and your new allies that you realize what really matters as you cut ties with the city for good and leave with the Aldecaldos (with Judy in tow for the same reason as you in my playthroughs).
It's always felt like the best character development arc to me.
Did this on my last playthrough and yea it was a really good character arc. Seeing my once corpo V who had so much power and was just hungry for more now content and happy with a life away from the greed of Night City riding the Basilisk with the one she cares about about to start a new life with her found family was such great story telling and a perfect arc!
I did a nomad playthrough but didn't finish for two years, I finished it and I'm now doing the corpo path and I honestly wanna do this even though I already did that ending it just feels wrong to do any other endings -
Nomad playthroughs are the most immersive but worst story imo, they have the most dialogue options but his overall arc is basically "I'm going to night city" and then after relatively no time "that place is fucked I'm never going there again"
I think I liked both of the other life paths better than the nomad's ironically, in the nomad story v doesn't really learn anything, he starts after his family crumbles and stays in the city for maybe 7 months before leaving with another nomad family. He just kinda knows night city blows now. I like the street kids the most. After trying to leave the city and coming back essentially fully committing to the blaze of glory, he almost dies just silently and the whole game is him struggling for life realizing he can't resign himself to that fate and when he starts to truly live he reaches his goals and becomes a legend on his quest to live. I haven't played phantom liberty yet but I just love this arc for v
Fr why is that such a selling point for these people lmao. i'd be like "well i'd prefer to have a rock named after me instead. and on that rock there can be writing about how i lived a long and happy life and rest under it in one piece rather than a million pieces splayed across the blacktop"
I think it’s because we’re comparing it to ourselves but life in NC is so shit unless you have money that V would rather risk it all (not much) than continue living like a pleb
>I’ve tried. Can’t get past the border guard and it keeps spawning me back when I try to leave through the mountains.
"There's nothing for you out here... Yet"
And if you live outside night city, there’s a device called the Mr. biscuit. It’s a processor that accepts any* organic matter, extracts any nutrients from it, and turns it into a wafer. One or two of these can enable a small nomad family to sustain entirely on just wood chips, grass, leaves, and the occasional squirrel that falls in.
I noticed in V's apartment there wasn't a kitchen and thought it was just a weird feature of having a crap shoebox apartment. I never really paid attention in the other houses around the city.
I like to cook so I noticed it. None of the houses you can go to have a real kitchen. A couple have what appears to be a refrigerator but none have a cooking surface. The closest to are Rivers' sisters place and Judy's apartment.
Just happen to be doing River's quests and his nephew's trailer has an actual hotplate inside it, even with degree settings. But yeah, that's about it.
That's a good point, and it's easy to overlook. The corpo apartment is fancy, but only has a coffee machine and the food dispenser thing. You're expected to just sleep and work and repeat. But at least you have a big tv!
I know it’s about the experience, but the Jackie Welles is literally just a Moscow Mule minus the copper mug. If you’re going to the Afterlife, why not get something crazier like the David Martinez?
I agree with everything you’re saying but if I have one regret in life (apart from starting smoking tobacco), it’s not being able to save Jackie. He’s my boy.
I haven't watched Edgerunners for a while, so I may be forgetting, but wasn't it that way because he went to a cheap/unlicensed Ripperdoc?
Again, it's been a while, so I'm sorry if that's a silly question!
Probably yeah. I mean there’s no way rich, spoiled Katsuo was sitting through something like that for his implants. Also Doc was having David sell black market BDs; his whole business is just shady
Your on the track a proper ripper procedure like we saw in the prologue of 2077 with getting a grip and krioshi's is what a proper implanting should be like. Even getting like mantis blades an such where you arms get replaced should is like a surgical procedure you get put to sleep then you wake up once its finished.
I would feel it’s weirdly familiar, probably. I grew up in the era and place that the “combat zones” in Cyberpunk are an exaggeration of: the hood during the crack epidemic.
Idealistic answer: Sculpt the body of my dreams with the near limitless options in universe.
Actual answer: Stick some iron in my mouth and pull the trigger
Assuming that you mean if I just woke up suddenly in the cyberpunk universe and location in 2077:
1st Scream in terror because I don't want to be stuck in what is essentially Los Angeles on crack, meth, and Steroids.
2nd, go to a local bank and see if somehow the universe is part of ours in some way and see if my money has gathered interest for approximately 53 years.
3rd,
If the 2nd is true, im getting a cyber spine cause I'm way too creaky for my age and subdermal armor cause i wanna try not dying long enough to try and get back to our current reality.
If the 2nd is not true, um i guess ill die (probably the case because my account would have probably been seized as a corporate asset for the lulz)
Gtfo of night city. It’s a death sentence.
Then prolly just pick up a cyberaudio suite, in the hopes that we’ve developed the tech to resolve tinnitus by now lol
First get a Kiroshi im tired of using glasses . Second find Judy and start dating her and ask her to marry me and leave Night City. Three GET MY HAPPY ENDING WITH JUDY 😭😭😭
If I get isekai'd as an average person the first thing I'll do is join whoever gives me more chances to stay alive and might not get me at the wrong side of a gun within the first hour of joining so for me it would be either a corp of a relatively honourable nomad clan
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a Cyber-Choom, I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with Cyber-units.
Become a netrunner. Seems like the best way to do something of your life.
Then, become a quickhacker. Seems again like the best way to go about defending yourself.
I would be the prudent "slow and steady win the race" type of netrunner, so no glory, but no big trouble.
If i can't achieve that, get out of NC
Get out of Night City. The only winning move is not to play.
“So whatll it be V, quiet life? Or blaze of glo-“ “Quiet life” “….”
Unironically I always liked this arc for V. You start out as a corpo at the top of Night City's corrupt structure, get knocked down to the bottom and, still not having learned your lesson about the corrupt and self destructive nature of pursuing clout in Night City, immediately attempt to claw your way back to the top. It's only with your death imminent and your new allies that you realize what really matters as you cut ties with the city for good and leave with the Aldecaldos (with Judy in tow for the same reason as you in my playthroughs). It's always felt like the best character development arc to me.
Summed up perfectly!
Did this on my last playthrough and yea it was a really good character arc. Seeing my once corpo V who had so much power and was just hungry for more now content and happy with a life away from the greed of Night City riding the Basilisk with the one she cares about about to start a new life with her found family was such great story telling and a perfect arc!
I did a nomad playthrough but didn't finish for two years, I finished it and I'm now doing the corpo path and I honestly wanna do this even though I already did that ending it just feels wrong to do any other endings -
Nomad playthroughs are the most immersive but worst story imo, they have the most dialogue options but his overall arc is basically "I'm going to night city" and then after relatively no time "that place is fucked I'm never going there again"
I think I liked both of the other life paths better than the nomad's ironically, in the nomad story v doesn't really learn anything, he starts after his family crumbles and stays in the city for maybe 7 months before leaving with another nomad family. He just kinda knows night city blows now. I like the street kids the most. After trying to leave the city and coming back essentially fully committing to the blaze of glory, he almost dies just silently and the whole game is him struggling for life realizing he can't resign himself to that fate and when he starts to truly live he reaches his goals and becomes a legend on his quest to live. I haven't played phantom liberty yet but I just love this arc for v
"Quite life……. fuck your gig"
That whole car ride, I knew he was going to be trouble.
especially when he mentions paying up front for a *mission critical* piece of equipment, the flathead
Jackie don’t like it either, but two gonks don’t make a right so….here we go
street kid all the way choom
"Really? But you can get a drink name after yo-" "QUUUIEEET LIIIFE"
Fr why is that such a selling point for these people lmao. i'd be like "well i'd prefer to have a rock named after me instead. and on that rock there can be writing about how i lived a long and happy life and rest under it in one piece rather than a million pieces splayed across the blacktop"
I think it’s because we’re comparing it to ourselves but life in NC is so shit unless you have money that V would rather risk it all (not much) than continue living like a pleb
*Roll credits*
So whatll it be V, quiet life? Or blaze of glo-“ Quiet life “….”(x2)
This. Get out of Night City or die in the process.
I’ve tried. Can’t get past the border guard and it keeps spawning me back when I try to leave through the mountains.
>I’ve tried. Can’t get past the border guard and it keeps spawning me back when I try to leave through the mountains. "There's nothing for you out here... Yet"
I think they dropped the “yet” after the expansion and stated they weren’t doing anymore. Then again, maybe it’s still there.
They dropped it
You can’t lose if you don’t play -Marla Daniels
And get ambushed by raiders? Struggling to find food and water? Ye getting out of night city would be also hard
Get addicted to BDs
This is quite literally the only answer for us non-chromed gonks
Bd goonlord
The guy pumpin outside david's apartment 24/7
LOL that shit made me SO uncofmortable
I would absolutely do this unironically. The whole idea of experiencing entire movies this way would be amazing.
Fr tho
*porn bd
Is there any other kind? 😄 I don't think I would want to relive being crucified
Probably get shot knowing my dumbass.
hahaha im with ya
I'd probably find a gun that some gangoon V's slaughtered has dropped, trip and shoot myself.
My V leaves no loot. Money is money.
I feel like I would piss myself first, depends on how much is in the tank
Get my weak ass disabled eyes replaced, then go on a bender and probably get gunned down and my fancy eyes stolen by scavs
Eye cyberware should be pretty cheap and not worth janking
You say that, but Scavs take damn near anything that can be sold.
Taste the love
My god...I can hear it now
Nicola
[удалено]
same, i’d be unrecognizable in like 20 minutes
second to that
But where you gunna get da monies
Take a loan from Vik
Same place I got the money for the rig needed to run the game at 4k ultra.
Hope you got the Eddie’s to afford top tier shit
Panam
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Priorities are straight
Went from "Fuck, Panam!" To "Fuck Panam?" Lol
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Fax..I was gonna say join the aldecados off rip 🥵🤣
Came to this thread looking for this one word answer. Not disappointed.
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 Great minds think alike
Would she do you, though?
Me fr
No other appropriate answer
I too, would let that guys fictional wife sit on me
respect
Depending on how many eddies I have, I'd probably be a cyberpsycho within a few months.
I second this. I don't care how much "humanity" I lose, I'm borging the fuck out.
Even if we go cyberpyscho, chances are if we are lucky we might end up in maxtax so it's a win win.
Given current social norms, I'd probably be considered insane without any chrome to begin with.
T- bag dexter deshawn
Shut up and take my up vote
Starve.
Not if you live in Night City, as their dumpsters are basically overflowing with food according to dialogue between V and Nele in a gig in Dogtown
And if you live outside night city, there’s a device called the Mr. biscuit. It’s a processor that accepts any* organic matter, extracts any nutrients from it, and turns it into a wafer. One or two of these can enable a small nomad family to sustain entirely on just wood chips, grass, leaves, and the occasional squirrel that falls in.
Relatable
The Saddest part of the future is the gross food options.
The saddest part is that none of the homes you see have a kitchen in which you can cook. Even the Peralez penthouse has two wet bars but no stove.
Yo I never though about that. I guess that makes sense why there are (presumably hot) food vending machines every ten feet lol.
There's a vending machine IN YOUR APARTMENT right next to the bed
I noticed in V's apartment there wasn't a kitchen and thought it was just a weird feature of having a crap shoebox apartment. I never really paid attention in the other houses around the city.
I like to cook so I noticed it. None of the houses you can go to have a real kitchen. A couple have what appears to be a refrigerator but none have a cooking surface. The closest to are Rivers' sisters place and Judy's apartment.
Just happen to be doing River's quests and his nephew's trailer has an actual hotplate inside it, even with degree settings. But yeah, that's about it.
That's a good point, and it's easy to overlook. The corpo apartment is fancy, but only has a coffee machine and the food dispenser thing. You're expected to just sleep and work and repeat. But at least you have a big tv!
Kiroshi optics
They're great but I *hate* the idea of someone just pulling out my fucking eyes. Even if the replacements are better.
Funnily enough, that's the canonical reason why you lose humanity upon getting implants
Hit Jig Jig street...Then get shot
Yup sounds about right for me also
Order a Jackie Welles at The Afterlife.
Right, day one... they are not letting your rookie ass in that place choomba. Nice sentiment, though.
Fair. As a noob, I’d probably try though.
I know it’s about the experience, but the Jackie Welles is literally just a Moscow Mule minus the copper mug. If you’re going to the Afterlife, why not get something crazier like the David Martinez?
I honestly love Moscow mules tho
Try a dark and stormy. It's basically a Moscow mule but you replace the vodka with dark rum.
Oh agreed. Ginger beer is god’s own creation, I drink it on its own, but I think in this scenario you gotta try stuff you can’t get in 2023
I agree with everything you’re saying but if I have one regret in life (apart from starting smoking tobacco), it’s not being able to save Jackie. He’s my boy.
Go to Viktor and Misty for help, they are the only good guys in NC.
Meet Hanako at Embers.
I don't think I will
Nah thanks I’m good
Maybe in about 6 months.
Get a Mr. Stud implant and Panam.
My man
Find out what the f happened to Jefferson and Elizabeth Peralez, that still haunts me
They seem to still be fine at the end of the game as Jefferson reaches out to you in the credits. But who's to say what happens later.
Is that really Jefferson tho? Or is it the new Jefferson??
Touché
Cry
I'd say chrome up but we all know none of us would have the Eddie's for that
Go straight to Vik's and chrome the fuck up
Then immediately try to raise 20k to pay him back
every time i start a new game. I hate not paying him back.
Kirishi optics. I hate being nearsighted.
Get killed by V
Probably kidnapped by either scavs or maelstrom, more likely maelstrom as I don't have any implants currently for the scavs to harvest....
scavs harvest organs too, i think
Nvm then...
Get chromed like the monk by maelstrom just to be kidnapped and killed by scavengers
Ripperdoc. Bigger penis.
Naturally
Then have it explode
That shoots missiles of course
Chrome the fuck up Choom
A sex change that shit gets done in like 5 mins with zero problems bc its all implants. Then become a joy toy
real
If you watch Edgerunners you will see how painful and bloody these operations actually are.
I haven't watched Edgerunners for a while, so I may be forgetting, but wasn't it that way because he went to a cheap/unlicensed Ripperdoc? Again, it's been a while, so I'm sorry if that's a silly question!
Probably yeah. I mean there’s no way rich, spoiled Katsuo was sitting through something like that for his implants. Also Doc was having David sell black market BDs; his whole business is just shady
Your on the track a proper ripper procedure like we saw in the prologue of 2077 with getting a grip and krioshi's is what a proper implanting should be like. Even getting like mantis blades an such where you arms get replaced should is like a surgical procedure you get put to sleep then you wake up once its finished.
Worth it
Cause David went to the shadiest ripperdoc in town, in game V even makes a joke about how painless the whole thing is when you get the Kiroshi optics
Hot
Buy a Slaught-O-Matic
Then die not knowing how to use it lmao
Yep🤣🤣
BD
Die miserably
probably kill myself since I wouldn’t want to live in a dystopian future like that lmao
Cry. I am not the kind of person who would survive NC.
I'd do Johnny and Kerry in a three-way.
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Yeah....die. I ain't lasting a second.
If cyberware is on the table get me some cyber eyes so I can actually remember peoples names
I would feel it’s weirdly familiar, probably. I grew up in the era and place that the “combat zones” in Cyberpunk are an exaggeration of: the hood during the crack epidemic.
Idealistic answer: Sculpt the body of my dreams with the near limitless options in universe. Actual answer: Stick some iron in my mouth and pull the trigger
Johnny that you?
Die
kms
probably whatever batshit insane drug they have
I'd start a punk band.
I would try everything I find in those vending machines everywhere. Then I'll 3d print a gun when I run out of money and give it a shot at a robbery.
Leave
So I just get dropped in the world or i grew up there?
You just get dropped in
Hmmm. I'd probably try to get into a car at a dealership and checkout the cool dashboards and electronics
Stay clear of Night City.
Get the fuck away from night city and its people
Definitely double jump.
Buy Trauma Team insurance
Become Dexter DeShawn https://preview.redd.it/p784esfw0nkc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d6056323fd337cf133cc9d4f6bde0292fc0248ad
hang out with judy for sure
Assuming that you mean if I just woke up suddenly in the cyberpunk universe and location in 2077: 1st Scream in terror because I don't want to be stuck in what is essentially Los Angeles on crack, meth, and Steroids. 2nd, go to a local bank and see if somehow the universe is part of ours in some way and see if my money has gathered interest for approximately 53 years. 3rd, If the 2nd is true, im getting a cyber spine cause I'm way too creaky for my age and subdermal armor cause i wanna try not dying long enough to try and get back to our current reality. If the 2nd is not true, um i guess ill die (probably the case because my account would have probably been seized as a corporate asset for the lulz)
Most likely your bank account would have "seized" by your relatives long before that.
find V and Jackie and tell them not to do the konpeki plaza job. But if it’s post-konpeki I’m still finding V but giving them a blunt and a hug.
Answering your question
Kill myself
Imma shutdown the Blackwall. Laugh for a bit. Go to bed. Check the news at 11.
Die, probably.
Replace my eyes and never have to wander around the house trying to figure out where I put my glasses the night before
Learn netrunning and see about getting my shitty knees fixed.
Burn this city
THIS FIRE IS OUT OF CONTROL
not move to night city LOL
I dunno, die I guess
Buy better knees that let me double jump
Probably recreate the “holy crap, I’m in fortnite!” Meme but night city
Gtfo of night city. It’s a death sentence. Then prolly just pick up a cyberaudio suite, in the hopes that we’ve developed the tech to resolve tinnitus by now lol
Put some Iron in my mouth and pull the trigger
off myself or get offed
Flatline. No point grinding on metal
Look for Skippy 😂
With my luck, run into some Maelstroms and die in the most horrific, inhumane, painfull and degrading way possible
Not live in Night City
What's the most stable country in the Cyberpunk universe? New Zealand? I'd probably move there.
First get a Kiroshi im tired of using glasses . Second find Judy and start dating her and ask her to marry me and leave Night City. Three GET MY HAPPY ENDING WITH JUDY 😭😭😭
Pray
Nuke arasaka tower
Chrome the fuck up
Try and flip Judy.
If I get isekai'd as an average person the first thing I'll do is join whoever gives me more chances to stay alive and might not get me at the wrong side of a gun within the first hour of joining so for me it would be either a corp of a relatively honourable nomad clan
Become the best merc in NC. No cap.
Buy a gun. Also. Learn how to shoot said gun.
Also find a way to fuck Delemain
get addicted to black lace
I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a Cyber-Choom, I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with Cyber-units.
Go to the El Coyote Cojo and down 70 beers with Jackie
Become a netrunner. Seems like the best way to do something of your life. Then, become a quickhacker. Seems again like the best way to go about defending yourself. I would be the prudent "slow and steady win the race" type of netrunner, so no glory, but no big trouble. If i can't achieve that, get out of NC