Right hired mercenary, trail of bodies, like it's kinda our thing.

I always found it odd whenever V talks about morality and doing the right thing. V's path is always paved with corpses. Even in non-lethal games, V's actions will always directly cause other people to die. Why should anyone in Night City listen to V's moral compass when no matter what V does, people get hurt?

​@@MrVirus9898Qualified to talk through experience "You're doing the wrong thing.....did that once, 31 dead and 63 injured, trust me when I say it wasn't a pretty sight"

​@@MrVirus9898 Cuz its night city. Whatever shit you do, someone's gonna die. At least V knows how to not kill indiscriminately. David Martinez from edgerunner shows how being a normal dude gonna get fuck 8 days a week from night city. V and David at least abide by a basic rule of kill only for job or self defence. Which most gangs in night city dont

She wanted to kill him herself.

Yep, that about sums it up 😅

LMAO

spot on

Also get the mod to have a nice sidestory and romance wirh sleeping beauty aka bugbear

And Never Let Johnny Silverhand be a Narrator.

Tbf, a tortoise is a way better choice, since they can get pretty old.

​@@anlumo1 Fr but they are terrible pets. Cats are better.

@@Sigma_Male_Anti_FemaleCats are nothing compared to dogs

@@FatherDinny Cope.

I really tried with Barry I did. And when he killed himself it was like hearing my friend went and took their own life anyway. Was it my fault? Did I say something wrong? I didn't mean for any of this to happen

I didn't know that holy hell

That’s so similar to the plot of that one vampire quest in Novigrad in TW3. I wonder if that was intentional.

I just kept following Moon and accidentally did the aerial takedown on the stalker. Awesome feeling.

it's because there is a wrong stalker and a real one, she doesn't get killed if the real one is identifieeeed

I killed some dude taking pics of her but yeah killed the real stalker too.That guy taking pics just annoyed me so snapped his neck

It does a good job rewarding it in small and big ways unlike most games. Game developers still struggle to find a way to make compelling choices. Do you want to kick the puppy for evil points or don't for good points isn't the deep philosophical question developers tend to think it is

Empathy in this case being "understanding what others are feeling", not "trying to help others". Sometimes people don't have any patience for bs. In those cases a direct answer may be more important.

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein true. some will just tell you not to patronize them

@@rumplstiltztinkerstein CDP did a good job of walking the line between empathy and sympathy. Knowing the difference is half the battle. =)

I think that's deliberate, Night City is constantly portrayed as heartless, brutal, randomly fatal and totally nihilistic. It seems to cater only to the selfish, aggressive and angry but in the end they all meet harsh endings and doing the "right" thing, thinking of others and showing a bit of humanity is the perfect way to fight back against the inhuman setting. Not that empathy gets anyone happy endings either, given nobody has a good ending in Night City, but checking in on a neighbour is a great mini-rebellion against the city that tells you they don't matter and neither do you

I did everything right for the Barry quest up until I went to talk to his friends after finding out it was a tortious. I figured Mr. Strong jock type would mock Barry if I told him and thus got Barry killed. I was super bummed.

@@samuelansin8307 Exactly what devlopers wanted. And rightfully so, when making a game for a mature audience. Nothing bettter than a good punch in the guts as a reminder that things are really at stake.

@@connycontainer9459 does Barry die either way? or does he end up alive after the quest?

@@Lemon1Seed Don't know never played it. I'm on Fallout 4 now and the writing is terrible :)

@@Lemon1Seed you can keep him alive by finding where his friend is buried and visiting the grave

Kerry has his appearance protected, so nobody can look like him. It's a good assumption that the record label holds the rights to the Us Cracks' likeness.

yeah, Us Cracks is obviously modeled after how Kpop/Jpop bands function and takes it to what it would into in a dystopian cyberpunk setting.@@anlumo1

Glad you’re here❤

Stay safe man.

Stay happy and enjoy every minute and hour of your life I went through the same thing cause everyone kept dying and I just couldn’t help but think if I should’ve just ended it all I never even got to say goodbye to any of them and I regret so many things that I’ve done and never done

it's also something many devs are afraid of doing, but it's really memorable. Also it means that two people who played the same game will have different stories to share, which is very cool

And it's more realistic and immersive when your actions actually have permanent consequences.

Exactly because it means your choices have impact. I hate people that complain about choices not having impact and then get mad because they missed content. Stupid. I do wish in games like that there was a way to skip back to those moments instantly instead of multiple save states but whatevs

I'd be ok with it if there was some form of New Game Plus in this game. I'd love to replay the game, but having to find all the dataterms, start from Level 1, and have none of the cyberware and weapons I already bought just turns me off from it so hard.

But it is still not good game design. Decisions should not just cut out content. They should provide with an alternative version. Obviously it is not always possible when you kill somebody but in some examples it is possible l.

the fucking quest completed for me, didn't even know that was a thing despite looking at the various early quests religiously(without a guide at the time) only to later "complete" again once he died.

Didn't even know you could complete it wrongly lol.

the quest told me to check up on him again after my first encounter with him, and i really wanted to but somehow couldnt enter his apartment. still dont know if i did sth wrong. same with the mission sinnerman, a trashbin got stuck in the front of the car and i couldnt drive anymore, shortest chase ever...

I thought. Yeah... was clear from the start. I'm surprised to hear he can actually survive.

put the quest not on my main priority and then i saw the yellow badge aswell made me a bit sad

Yeah tbf, that makes a lot more sense. The name, the kid looking different. I'd say you're probably right there! (If Linda is Cynthia)

Bingo. She was made taller, spine strengthened to support the taller body, skin color altered, eye shape changed. along with her face. Sound like she was in some potentially deep shit. And from speaking with Pepe this seems to be the only issue in their marriage (suspected infidelity). She's also expecting too, so things were going fine until the events we took part in.

oh good, someone beat me to it, fun fact, Nguyen is pronounced Nowen. ~

@@HarukoHoshiko not nowen. The N is silent. Its pronounced "Wen"

@@HarukoHoshiko Noted, thank you!

Sinnerman will probably go down in history for me as one of the most memorable quests in an RPG. if for no other reason than how disturbing it ends up being.

The only two ways how I've dealt with Sinnerman is A) Just kill Joshua straight away under the bridge. B) keep him alive and visit him at the house later on. Then something got asked which made me be like 'yeah no...I'm out and walk away from this'... at which point (to my knowledge) the culmination remained in limbo. After having seen the brief thing about the crucifixion, I'm not sure what I would consider the "good ending" of this particular quest. I'm tempted to say that just killing everyone right under that bridge, making it as quick as possible would be my good ending. Sure, the job didn't go perfect, but I can at least say the job was done. Everything that came afterwards should Joshua live feels like having fallen into a dark rabbit hole where I lose a part of my soul regardless. And no, not thanks to the relic.

I just finished the mission recently, I went along with it because I kept thinking he was meaning "put me on a cross" to be a metaphor or something. Then entered the next room to find the literal meaning and reloaded the game lol

Most rpgs I play how I would handle things in real life. Listening and empathy, and appropriate vengance. Even when I try to do another play through with I'll intentions, it never settles right with me. I can't begin to tell you how many times I played kotor and just wanted to be a sith, and just ended up being a gray jedi..or even with mass effect, alpha protocol, deus ex, witcher.."you're a bad guy, buy you're not a bad guy"

​@@ericwise7 Lame. I just do things to get the best rewards and nothing more.

@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female Talk about lame. Also,whats even more lame is judging someone else's playthrough based on their decision in a VIDEOGAME.

@@skorpion7132 Your character is a mercenary.

@scarletgoat173 you do know what rpg stands for, yeah? You should probably stick roblox if that's how you play, kiddo

Could be worse. Could have gotten good critics. Look at movie and game critics over the last years. If they praise a game, it's probably shit and they got bribed.

I'm sure the BD will get a cult following. It did the same for that one choom just over 2000 years ago.

@@dr.krimson1010 A cult that lasts even to this day in real life, sadly. People still believe Jesus was a divine being and will return one day. heh the human brain just loves superstition and give ''magical'' meaning/purpose to things they don't understand.

@@Kristers_K Sheesh bit edgy there you two, try not to play the violin with your wrist there

​@1992Wowcrazy 200 bucks says you believe in something far dumber than religion. Im an atheist and I find the "lol religion is a cult" shit to be pathetic when those same people will unironically base their worldviews off far less rational shit.

Because 99% of the time the blue lines do absolutely nothing.

​@@Paragon231 they are interesting tho how can you skip them?

@@Paragon231 Most of the time they give you lore or info, sometimes they give you more options on how to finish a job.

@@Paragon231 They are interesting, often funny, and I'm pretty sure conversation with Barry is not the only one that can change outcomes based on if you skip them or not

@@Safewoood Because they don't change the outcome. I only care about results.

I don't even care, honestly. I only finished the race because Claire lied to me and agreed that there'd be no executions. If she hired me to assassinate Sampson from the start and was honest and told me the races were a prerequisite to get him vulnerable I'd agree readily.

On the flip side, I've never seen the good outcome.

​@@clarencewalters338 facts

I killed Sampson. Fuck corpos.

I got the bad outcome once because i opted not to exhaust all of the dialogue options with barry (some of the preview text seemed really rude)

Yeahhhh, represented life pretty accurately honestly.

​​@@aga3852 You're telling me you let life go on without making your own choices and speaking for yourself? Damn, bro rlly be a irl NPC I guess lolol

Even if V would have had a choice which would have aligned with that line of thought, it doesn't guarantee that Claire would not still be madly upset with you. Even if you'd be able to restate your reasons for doing this, Claire felt robbed from her revenge and she was going to hold that over your head for at least a while. What I think the game fails in a slight bit here, is that Claire never really turns aroud from either two conditions, but particulairly more so in that instance. After a while Claire could also easily have become a bit despondant and just say something like: "oh its you" ultimately giving you a new dialogue option allowing you to talk about it. The outcome in this instance doesn't have to be as friendly as she is when you help her, but to constantly be yelled at so thoroughly can indeed become quite annoying like that yes. I can't remember if I ever got any of those texts afterwards. I might having been running through the game at such a pace it never triggered in time. But I would've liked some of that reflection to be something you can talk to her about in the afterlife.

Yeah I think I get what you mean. When you see the options pop up you're hoping letting Sampson go would have v tell Claire revenge is stupid and that even if she's mad at you eventually down the line she'll come to understand but I'm guessing completing the race is more like v telling Claire they don't give a shit what they were hired for or about Claire's problem they just NEED to win. I've never seen the choice and I just let Claire kill him.

Yeah I can see why a lot of people would knowingly take some of these choices, or just get these consequences accidentally by playing the character they want to be, and while you might be punished by other characters for making choices they don’t like, it doesn’t exactly feel like the game is punishing you for making them.

I don't know, I feel with the way V's dialogue is written, it's out of character for them to do a lot of the more POS stuff the game lets you do.

Ha! I got the song reference, but forgot about Phil Spector!

Same for me. Though the first time I played Sinnerman and V gets chased off after accompanying Joshua part of the way had me worried that I had screwed up.

Worth what you pay for it, IMO. What's with the no stash access?

Its not that hard, just question Claire's version of events and don't acquiescence to her murdering someone.

Or have her toss a drink in your face and scoff you

Uh I'm pretty sure she's supposed to be gone. Implying once v takes rouges place she either quits or v fires her.

Agreed. Plus Sampson is a corporat and the only good corpo is a dead corpo.

She clearly thought of you closely that's why she brought you along to do something so personal she literally told no one else about what ya'll were doing I don't get that thought process at all

​@fogheaded3866 I don't get yours. Who goes along telling everyone that they are about to kill someone? At the same time, if that's how you feel like playing the game then so be it. Who are you to judge what someone does in a fictional game that has no impact on your life. It's a game part it the way you do. I still don't get why people try to insert themselves into these games instead of walking in another's shoes, like it's meant to be.

@HodgeLLCool tf are you talking about in night city you can literally just walk up and murder someone literally everyone does that man and yes you are supposed to get immersed in a game everyone would say you're a bad dude if you join the legion in fnv

@fogheaded3866 I just felt that she knew what V was/is capable, and when she saw that guy, she wanted to kill him with my help. You say personal, I saw it as a transaction and was a professional merc.

It depends on where you tell delamain to take his body after konpeki plaza. Anyting other than sending him to his family lets 'saka goons take him and mama Welles will only do the service with his body.

I found that the other day now you mention it. Not a scanner hustle or anything, totally unmarked. The guy has abducted them and trapped them in the basement. Very disturbing! I think it might be a reference to something, I'll do some more research. Thanks for reminding me! I'd love to explore it more in a future video! 😁

Wait seriously? I thought that was Aaron McCarlson.

@@tropicalstorm24 It is. Barry is on indefinite leave during Happy Together.

idk how I messed it up that barry committed suicide, twice on two different saves and characters.

@@tropicalstorm24 oh yeah sorry now got it

@@tropicalstorm24 thanks for clarification, although they both look same!

On my first play trough i killed nobody

Nice false equivalency.

i refuse to help clare with that, i just win the race and the dumb broad can keep her slow troontruck

I swear, as soon as she told me to work on my driving skills after getting first place. Too bad there wasn't a real option to betray her.

Yeah the cthulhu is such a great car compared to Claire's bouncy castle truck that can't maneuver for shit.

​@@Leonson1 and if you do that rouge hates you and you're locked out of all her stuff🤣

what a stupid character. glad i used the dollar store buggati and completely blew by any chance of him getting revenge

Johnny really comes off as a lot more reactionary and assholish than I got from reading R. Talsorian's stories about him.

@@nekoali2 In the OG game, Johnny comes out as an idealist. He's got his quirks, sure but he's basically political about all the Corpo-government duality that has driven the US into the ground. But unlike CDPR's version, Johnny does take personal responsibility for his actions and genuinely cares for people, even if he actually hurt Rogue by leaving her for Alt. Basically, Johnny singlehandedly turned Rogue into the hardbitten b*tch we come across in CP2077. But unlike CDPR's Johnny, the OG version owned this move as a shitty one from the beginning.

​@@Gearparadummies Og Johnny is a corporate shill lmao.

@@Sigma_Male_Anti_Female OG Johnny hates Arasaka's guts. He only teamed up with Militech in 2023 for the chance of nuking Arasaka's HQ in Night City. I should know, I have all Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG sourcebooks. Started playing in 1991.

Just completed my third playthrough (did NOMAD & female V), and for whatever reason from the prior two as male & other paths, I never got to the Kerry Eurodyne missions until this time around. Probably some of my favorite missions that I've done for sure too. Love this game and its story and how I'm still getting a lot out of it after sinking so many hours in it.

Happy Together is a reference to a song by The Turtles, a reference to Andrew the Tortoise. But yeah, the Polish name is a bit more fitting.

@@Anonymous37980 Oh, didnt know that. That cool

During that mission, V does make a remark about staring into the abyss.

​@@KaylakazeIt was Johnny 😉

@@reptiloidmitglied2930 Oh, ok. Not that I remember what this is about.

Oh, also, I think the Blue Moon one mimics the murder of John Lennon, where Chapman got something signed, then went and shot Lennon not long after. I think (off top of my head) he bought the gun and some sandwiches after the signing then went and found a spot to shoot from and wait for the police (referenced in a song by Radiohead).

I think it's pretty realistic. People are complicated like that.

Uh did you not realize you fucked up when PEPE also got mad at you for not telling him? How did you possibly think that was a good idea?

I was too, everyone has their inner battle with "the shadows". It passes eventually just gotta HODL.

It's something defo worth exploring further! In fact if we factor in the Lizzy Wizzy quest alongside, it starts to become clear that Cyberpunks music world runs deep in conpiracies

It's a corpo. They'd probably flatline Purple, recreate all the music with an AI and run marionettes in any concert. 24/7 music creation and no royalties that way too.

@@adventtrooper Us Cracks would have been replaced from the beginning if that was the case. Who knows maybe that is the ultimate outcome anyway

Wait, Us Cracks is the girl band, right? Is there more to that after you take the picture with them and leave?

@@SamBram i would say so, given what we know about Johnny Sins, even though he was an anti corpo terrorist...he was deep in the music industry as well...and look what happened to him.

At this point it's better to wait for it. The 1.7 patch will change a lot of stuff in the game. Vehicle combat, new cops system where they don't appear from thin air and a lot more stuff. Even the base game will feel brand new once the patch drop.

​@@chamoo232 It won't change base game

@@dustojnikhummer The dev said "These changes will take effect following the next update to the base game, no earlier than 90 days, and also apply to Phantom Liberty". So yes a lot of it is for the base game. Revamped skill tree. Cyberwear stuff and more. Patch 1.7 is for the base game.

she acts the same in that ending regardless of your choices.

@@ajthewhitetiger8133 damn :c

dude, spoiler alert

​@Silas-Inservio-Pax this game is years old. Spoilers can't be a thing with something this old

Well. He IS commiting straight blasphemy in the act of equating himself and his death to Jesus, as well as committing false idolitry, and the sin of pride (that being so vain as to think HE is the only one who can make this work). I spend the whole mission convincing him to drop the self righteous suicide and stick it to the man.

From what I know, there are no differences.

Claire is her happy self if you run the Afterlife, and she also doesnt treat Johnny in V's body badly if you win the race before you let Johnny have his night on the town.

@@paragonyoshi4237 Yuck. That’s unfortunate. I appreciate the answer.

@@bahlor I can forgive that oversight I suppose. With all the damage CDPR fixed since launch, I can forget that this one decision branch doesn’t continue into the ending. Also, thank you for the answer.

@@chrismatteson1312 Oh absolutely forgive it, I LOVE the game I have over 700 hours into it, I was just pointing it out as you asked the question.

Some of these were "gigs" given from Fixers (light blue squares on map) so if you didn't clear your map you're missing out on a ton of missions

you just slaughtered a whole generation of barrys

I just couldn't bring myself to crucify someone, even if it's in a game.