Genre Discussion: Cyberpunk

[Mannahnin]

100%. Punks do everything they can to avoid toeing the line.

Side note, that being part of why Hobie in Across the Spider-Verse is so damn good.

 

[Reynard]

toeing the line.

Dammit.

 

[payn]

CP doesnt always have to be punks from the start. I like the working stiff, cog in the machine, that is thrust into the heart of a conspiracy and decides to go punk story just as much.

 

[Ryujin]

This sounds like a problem born of players living in a society where corproations are too often considered good guys, or at least part of the establishment. Corporations rule instead of governments, but most players still end up towing the line. The boss is just different.

I have never played a prewritten Shadowrun adventure and one of my friends that really likes the game is decidedly anti-corporate in outlook. So we never served the corps so much as we would steal their tech and sell it to the highest bidder, or blow up some factory or whatever causing real harm.

The 'punk in cyberpunk is supposed to be supplied by the players.

Oh, it's definitely a prewritten adventures thing. If you end up stealing stuff from a corp then it's pretty much because another corp hired you to do it.

 

[Valetudo]

Every time I play cp2077 I end up going corpo with a katana and a suit. Am I the baddy?

 

[Autumnal]

CP doesnt always have to be punks from the start. I like the working stiff, cog in the machine, that is thrust into the heart of a conspiracy and decides to go punk story just as much.

Bruce Sterling called his book Islands In The Net “cyberstraight” in a lighthearted moment.