Red Crayon Aristocrat
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So, Cyberpunk 2077 is not a reboot of Cyberpunk, the prior game books like 2020 are supposed to be 2077's backstory, making it not our future but the future as imagined by the 1980s, a world where even 90 years later the culture has not moved totally away from 1980s style aesthetics.
The first edition of Cyberpunk launched in 1988 and was set in 2013, so that's a 25 year gap, what transpired in those 25 years to make the world already Cyberpunk and different than our own?
I'm assuming the books go into at least some of the history of the world, though I don't know what exactly, but it's fun to speculate.
For starters, I can only assume it's a world where Bill Clinton was never elected President, instead either George HW Bush was reelected or some other fictional Republican was President for most of the 1990s, plus the Cold War may not have ended in 1991, keeping America stuck in that 1980s mindset and culture.
And of course it must be a world where the Japanese bubble economy never burst, explaining why every Japanese culture is such a big part of the world and perhaps why there were greater technological innovations than our reality.
Basically it's a world where the cultural, economic and political trends of the 1980s continued on past the 1980s, to where the 1990s was just the 1980s part 2 and so on, it's a fascinating scenario and I'm glad that's the idea CDPR went with rather than just rebooting it and simply saying it's "the future" instead of an alternate future.
The first edition of Cyberpunk launched in 1988 and was set in 2013, so that's a 25 year gap, what transpired in those 25 years to make the world already Cyberpunk and different than our own?
I'm assuming the books go into at least some of the history of the world, though I don't know what exactly, but it's fun to speculate.
For starters, I can only assume it's a world where Bill Clinton was never elected President, instead either George HW Bush was reelected or some other fictional Republican was President for most of the 1990s, plus the Cold War may not have ended in 1991, keeping America stuck in that 1980s mindset and culture.
And of course it must be a world where the Japanese bubble economy never burst, explaining why every Japanese culture is such a big part of the world and perhaps why there were greater technological innovations than our reality.
Basically it's a world where the cultural, economic and political trends of the 1980s continued on past the 1980s, to where the 1990s was just the 1980s part 2 and so on, it's a fascinating scenario and I'm glad that's the idea CDPR went with rather than just rebooting it and simply saying it's "the future" instead of an alternate future.
