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<blockquote data-quote="BrokenTwin" data-source="post: 8469898" data-attributes="member: 7017978">A big loss of the appeal of Cyberpunk for me is that it kinda happened, but without all of the cool parts? Corporations causing massive environmental devastation in pursuit of profits, tech being used to spy on us in ways that cyberpunk never dreamed of, the free open net has become a series of walled gardens, and the idea of a bunch of guttersnipes pulling themselves up by their entrepreneurial bootstraps to live a flashy violent life filled with shiny life-changing chrome seems even more implausible than the D&amp;D fantasy superhero lifestyle does.Cyberpunk stopped being a dark mirror of our potential future and started looking more like a reflection of our present. Except we're not the daredevil live-free-or-die-hard mercs, we're corpo slave #2357.Having said that, I think Hard Wired Island is probably the best cyberpunk RPG I've seen in a while. Not much for those who're in it for the gear porn, but I think it works really well for a game that focuses on the humanity of a cyberpunk setting. I've read Cyberpunk RED (and have a player that really wants me to run it), but I don't know if it's the game for me right now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrokenTwin, post: 8469898, member: 7017978"] A big loss of the appeal of Cyberpunk for me is that it kinda happened, but without all of the cool parts? Corporations causing massive environmental devastation in pursuit of profits, tech being used to spy on us in ways that cyberpunk never dreamed of, the free open net has become a series of walled gardens, and the idea of a bunch of guttersnipes pulling themselves up by their entrepreneurial bootstraps to live a flashy violent life filled with shiny life-changing chrome seems even more implausible than the D&D fantasy superhero lifestyle does. Cyberpunk stopped being a dark mirror of our potential future and started looking more like a reflection of our present. Except we're not the daredevil live-free-or-die-hard mercs, we're corpo slave #2357. Having said that, I think Hard Wired Island is probably the best cyberpunk RPG I've seen in a while. Not much for those who're in it for the gear porn, but I think it works really well for a game that focuses on the humanity of a cyberpunk setting. I've read Cyberpunk RED (and have a player that really wants me to run it), but I don't know if it's the game for me right now. [/QUOTE]

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