The Witcher RPG - Save your money

BadApple · January 26, 2024, 09:55:34 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit on January 25, 2024, 11:38:08 AM
Quote from: BadApple on January 22, 2024, 04:20:05 PM

In both cases, PC development is a more gradual slope that the leveling system that Crawford uses. I think this is the right way to do Cyberpunk. Crawford's view of cyberpunk seems stuck in 1992 and the genre has since grown. I think these two games do a lot to bring the past with them into the current world of cyberpunk stories.

Cyberpunk is meant to be an allegorical criticism of corporate/government corruption and rising totalitarianism. It has now instead been largely turned into nostalgia memberberries ("It's like the 80s, but in the FUTURE").

The only way to do a real Cyberpunk RPG today would be if the villain were basically the globalist managerial class and the WEF. Which is why I would ironically be the best qualified person on earth to make that RPG, and am terrified of doing it, because I bank a lot on my games not being political, and this one would be obviously and plainly political because that's the only way for it to be Cyberpunk.

If you choose to make a cyberpunk game, do it under another pseudonym and make sure you're ready for the end of RPG revenue for some time.

RPGPundit · January 27, 2024, 03:50:25 AM

Quote from: Brad on January 25, 2024, 09:08:59 PM
Quote from: RPGPundit on January 25, 2024, 11:38:08 AM
Quote from: BadApple on January 22, 2024, 04:20:05 PM

In both cases, PC development is a more gradual slope that the leveling system that Crawford uses. I think this is the right way to do Cyberpunk. Crawford's view of cyberpunk seems stuck in 1992 and the genre has since grown. I think these two games do a lot to bring the past with them into the current world of cyberpunk stories.

Cyberpunk is meant to be an allegorical criticism of corporate/government corruption and rising totalitarianism. It has now instead been largely turned into nostalgia memberberries ("It's like the 80s, but in the FUTURE").

The only way to do a real Cyberpunk RPG today would be if the villain were basically the globalist managerial class and the WEF. Which is why I would ironically be the best qualified person on earth to make that RPG, and am terrified of doing it, because I bank a lot on my games not being political, and this one would be obviously and plainly political because that's the only way for it to be Cyberpunk.

You do realize you have to make that RPG now, right?

I keep having other projects to work on. Though I guess at some point, assuming our society keeps slouching toward that dystopia, I'll have to write it.