And flying high off of 5 or 6 bumps of Mr. Whitey, glitter, and a huff of that phant Edit: I'm thinking about it now, and based on the effects of those drugs documented in the game... pretty sure you'd start killing everyone around you until your heart explodes.
When you are FLYING between cars with a load of cops, tanks and a load of bullets on your ass, this song comes on.... and its You'll never catch me, time!
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus for me during that situation I prefer the Us Cracks w/Kerry song. but I know exactly what you are saying. gets the adrenaline pumping.
Cyberpunk as a game really likes to hit you in the emotions. The three I requested are really good examples of how they utilize the sounds and music to really punch harder. PonPon Shit definitely more on the radio driving around side. So you really did get the spectrum.
You're confused because you're listening to music with different purposes in the game. Ponpon Shit sits squarely in the worldbuilding arena as it reflects the a piece of the culture of the world you're playing in. If the music seems like its all from different parts of the world, that's because the world you're playing in is very much that. Phantom Liberty is in the thematic storytelling area evoking emotions the player feels going though the narrative. And here is where music direction shines imo. There is a song in this game, which then gets re-used in the Cyberpunk animated series. And every time I come back to this game and hear that song again....haunting. The best part is this song was just one of those worldbuilding, atmosphere songs. Pretty certainly, but nothing too special. But the animated series uses it in a narrative way that hits like bricks. This particular cyclical synergy is very special. I love it.
The singer of the first one is Dawid Podsiadło, who is basically one of the top polish indie pop singers here. He also appears in the DLC as a cameo. It was pretty cool for us poles to have a quick random encounter with a guy that looks and sounds like the guy you can hear in the polish radio all the time, even if the game takes place in USA
Real bands, in-game aliases. "Living in the moment" is funnily enough a theme in the game. Pon Pon also has a stripped down guitar cover in-game that's unironically super chill. 😂
Its one of the rare song from the game that followed me outside IRL. I LOVE that song. Lol The artists singing that song will lead you down a rabbit hole too!
When I first played Cyberpunk on release, the main thing I experienced was massive frame rate drops any time I entered combat. There was also an issue of textures not loading in properly, or not at all. It was annoying, but I kept pushing through because I had been very excited to play this game for a long time. Beyond that, there were two things I could easily tell had a lot of thought and care put into them: the story and the music. Cyberpunk's story impacted me in such a way that very few games ever do. As I kept progressing through it, I couldn't stop thinking about the choices I had made and if things would be different if I had gone a different route (Cyberpunk is a first-person, open world RPG that features a lot of dialogue and action choices that affect the story in both minimal and major ways). Then, there was the music blessing my ears from story moments to simply roaming around aimlessly. The title screen alone easily had one of the best tracks in the game. The first time I heard it, I was grinning from ear to ear thinking, "YES". Also, there is a portable radio in the game that allows you to cycle through different stations. Each of these stations houses a different genre of music from each other. Crazy enough, most of these radio tracks are original to the game (and they are SO GOOD). Now imagine all of what I just mentioned, but the gameplay has been fixed and exponentially improved (words cannot even describe the world of difference), the story hits even harder, and you get to hear even more amazing music. That is what the Phantom Liberty dlc brought to the table. I've got a little over 250 hours in this game, and I still have a multitude things I have yet to explore.
There were so many insane little touches like being able to leave messages to that one friend. Like I did that to my grandpas old phone until the service was cut off.
Cyberpunk2077 is one of the best storytelling games of today. Top quality story, quest design, visuals and soundtrack. And all of that merges togheter perfectly in the gameplay. The crazy thing is that the game is still not "complete" as the developers wanted to deliver.
Phantom Liberty song/video takes heavy inspiration from old james bond openings since the whole DLC story is actually spy thriller like. It is about the storyline of the DLC. On the other hand poponshit is a radio song that can play when driving or walking the streets (yes it uses half japanese half english lyrics). Although this one has a bit more popularity since the "us cracks" group are in game characters we can meet/ have quests so we hear a bit more. Also some songs will be more likely to play in some areas in shops and around in general (like there is a japanese neighboorhood where you will hear ponponshit more, but if you go in the haitian neighboordhood then you will hear their style of music more). The music for radio stations are all over the place since you have many radio stations that each specialize in one genera (Jpop, metal, rock etc).
I have about 800 hours in Cyberpunk. The world feels so immersive that I keep going back for another playthrough. Thankfully there is enough variety in your options to keep each playthrough feeling fresh. The game give you buffs for Eating, Bathing, and Sleeping, so my character goes back to their apartment every night, watches some of the in-game TV, showers, and sleeps; then she eats breakfast before changing her clothes (from my large closet) and heading out the next morning. It has several radio stations to listen to while you walk or drive (never fast travel, you miss so much of the city when you do) and the atmosphere is some of the best you'll ever experience in a game. You meet that band ('Us Cracks') who sings "Ponpon Shit" in the game and have a couple missions with them. That spins off of a mission you have with your Rockstar buddy.
The fun thing about the Phantom Liberty ending video is that it basically summarizes the entire expansion plot. From the characters you meet to conflicts they have (either with you or with each other). But if you don't know then it just goes above your head really.
Ponpon Shit is a song by a girl band in universe who you actually meet as part of a sidequest interestingly enough. You can hear it on the radio like a ton of other songs that were specifically made for the game in a wide range of genres. I would say this is probably one of the more divisive ones lmao. As you saw the song is by a real idol group called Namakopuri. An answer to your question at the end: I've played the game twice (early and late 2023, once before and after the Phantom Liberty expansion). It's not the best game I've ever played but it's fun, and I got a good 150 hours out of it total so I definitely got my money's worth. I did admittedly wait until people said the game was good to actually give it a shot though.
Cyberpunk is worth your time, Jesse. Even if you play a non-streamed game. The quest writing is amazing, and some of the must fun in the game is driving around Night City listening to the radio. Some times, all you wanna do is just drive and listen to music. I'm not gonna describe a single thing about the story because you just have to experience it all yourself. I will say though that there is a quest where you meet the girls who sing Ponpon Shit. After watching the video some... I will clarify... Just some background lore that's not a spoiler... Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in a Blade Runner type future where Japan became the dominant super power, so Japanese Culture is very relevant despite taking place in California. The description as to the kind of game it is... It's based on a Table Top RPG (like DND). The game is an RPG with quests and side quests that takes place in a single VERY densely packed city. The city is its own character. It's an experience you need to have as a gamer. If you stream it, you will have to turn on Streamer Mode though which removes some copyrighted music. Stuff written by Rhianna and Grimes will get a copyright strike. On your question at the end: That game kept me sane during the pandemic. I had just finished my Ph.D work but I was still under lockdown. It crashed for me a lot, sure... But it allowed me to feel some experience like I was driving around and having some normal experiences, driving out in the rain or at night. Sometimes, you just play Cyberpunk to do nothing. It had it's problems. I got it on PS4. But in spite of everything, I loved it from the beginning, and I played through it while it got patched to what it is now. So I saw the whole thing change and I loved it more and more as it went. It's one of my all time favorite games.
All I can say about the Cyberpunk story -both the main story in the game as well as the DLC story in the Phantom Liberty expansion, are absolute peak of videogame storytelling. So much so that it feels like you're actively engaging with a work of cinema. It's so well written and produced. Without saying too much, it plays with existentialism and what it even means to be yourself in a world that does not care about who you are. Has some amazing twists and great characters that you get to truly care for -for all the right and wrong reasons. Overall the game is open-world sandbox, but with a directing storyline that keeps your momentum focused, and everything is interconnected. Lots of multiple-choice situations that may or may not affect your gameplay further down the line as you progress, interacting with the world in different orders of events can sometimes lead to different outcomes/options, etc. High focus on story, woven seamlessly into an open rpg-style world.
Also, the Phantom Liberty music video/trailer is pretty much this game's version of a classic James Bond opening song - which fits nicely into the more spy-thriller esque gameplay and focus that the Phantom Liberty expansion has. Super well made.
Cyberpunk is a game that is in your face at all times, spread over every emotional imput you can percieve. Cyberpunk is about a world where the senses is cranked to level 15, while trying to keep your humanity in a dystopian future. And that is why every song feels so drastically different ;D That is why of all the songs, i didn't expect PonPon Sht to make the list, but at the same time i ain't surprised at all because it encapsulates perfectly the vibe of the setting 😭😭😭
As someone already said this is a song from one of the ingame bands, the us-cracks. The other band related to the protagonist in a very special way hated them and their music. The story related to them is interesting. But this song... It's something else. I'll copy paste the lyrics here with also the information.. ponpon is a special term for having sex. So this song.. Well... Yes No Yes No pillow NoLet me PONPON with you Everyday l am your only PONPON-chan Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday You are my PONPON I love you doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON PON PON SHIT Let me PONPON with you everyday I am your only PONPON-chan Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday You are my PONPON I love you doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPONPON PON SHIT PON PON SHIT So what? No way? Is it true or just fake?You can't do that Ain't no good Gonna PONPON on my teacher Yes No Yes No pillow No You can't do that Ain't no good Gonna PONPON on my teacher
I love this game. It had its issues when it first came out but its a polished gem now, especially with Phantom Liberty. The music in this game is also its own story-teller.
1300+ hours in cyberpunk, the game is great the dlc was insane and the soundtrack was ALWAYS banging. Have you heard of the tv show "The Witcher" - thats another game from cd projeck red. single player role playing first person game (3rd person driving)
Recommend also reacting to “I Really Want to Stay At Your House” song from cyberpunk Netflix series (it also appears in radio in the game). This song hits completely different after watching actual show, which I also recommend (it's called "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners"). Edit: Edgerunners - Ending Theme "Let You Down" song, another recommendation.
you should listen to some of Idris Elba works which are part of the Cyberpunk OST ! Like Choke Hold, I think he is rapping himself, not only the beatmaker/dj of the track. The track is played during a flashback / action mission the player is shooting around, quite epic
I 100% cyberpunk 2077 and it made me sad because I did all I could do in the game when I wanted to continue living in the city to see more stories and where the other characters end up. It's such a great game and glad it got its positive rebound from its original release.
For me, as a fan of the game since the TTRPG version of Cyberpunk 2020 in the '90s, the music on the radio stations and the score to the game were better than anything I had ever imagined. It felt perfectly like the genre. I think some of it comes down to the input the original author of the game had in its development. (The chap is even a D.J. on one of the radio stations.)
I played in way that i "betrayed" the songbird.. the song hit very well on that.. i need to replay it again some day. The music in my opinion is more leaning into worldbuilding.. but as many said in comments that when you driving in night city it hit difrent.
CP2077 was a pre order purchase for me - the whole asthetic and world was what I had been craving to experience, for quite some time. Release was a mess unfortunately, so much so I actually didn't play the game until at least 2 weeks after release, so that most of the worst bugs were dealt with. By patch 1.4 I was able to really enjoy my time with the game, where certain main story and side story experiences really stuck with me to this day - despite my old graphics card barely able to keep the framerates above 30 (without any Ray Tracing enabled). Now, I have a new graphics card and a 40" OLED TV that can be my external monitor for 2K 60fps gaming with medium RT and FSR upscaling; along with a decent sound system hooked up to my TV via fibre optic, this combo means I have been able to truly appreciate the vision CDPR had for CP2077 since Phantom Liberty's release (v2.0 / 2.1). This is the experience Cyberpunk was meant for and meant to be - everything has been changed completely or significantly overhauled. They listened to fan feed back and even introduced Edgerunners easter eggs for the harcore fans. Only No Man's Sky comes close to a similar story of apologising for years while doing everything they can to bring the game one step closer to their vision...
Guess some context on ponpon shit. The city the game takes place in, Night City is owned by a Japanese company (which yes, a corporation owns the whole city and makes all the law and yes that's a major problem). That causes the city to have a very strong Japanese district and there is a lot of J-Pop because of that. Also, that song is about just having sex, lots of sex with everyone. The English translation is: Yes No Yes No pillow No Let me PONPON with you everyday I am your only PONPON-chan Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday You are my PONPON I love you doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON PON PON SHIT Let me PONPON with you everyday I am your only PONPON-chan Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday You are my PONPON I love you doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON PON PON SHIT PON PON SHIT So what? No way? Is it true or just fake? You can't do that Ain't no good Gonna PONPON on my teacher2 Yes No Yes No pillow No You can't do that Ain't no good Gonna PONPON on my teacher Origanal: Yes No Yes No 枕 No あなたと毎日PONPONさせてね 私はあなたのPONPONちゃんなの 毎日PONPONさせてね PONPONさせてね You are my PONPON 我愛你 PONPON 君にPONPON 君にPONPON PON PON SHIT あなたと毎日PONPONさせてね 私はあなたのPONPONちゃんなの 毎日PONPONさせてね PONPONさせてね You are my PONPON 我愛你 PONPON 君にPONPON 君にPONPON PON PON SHIT PON PON SHIT でも？やだ？ウソ？ほんと？ いーけないんだ ダメなんだ 先生にPONPONだ Yes No Yes No 枕 No いーけないんだ ダメなんだ 先生にPONPONだ But also to be fair to this Ponpon Shit is a radio/club song so it's used in game as something the actually character would listen to when driving and is just 1 of many different songs in many different styles you can listen to. The theatrical music for Cyberpunk is all in the same vain of Phantom Liberty.
Whilst I can see how Ponpon shit can make somebody think "The fuck is this game about?" It's absolutely crazy how much it ties in with the world of cyberpunk 2077. Once you enter the game and take a stroll through Japantown with this thing playing from a random radio on the street or a vendor, it makes so much more sense than just listening to it raw.
You've already played one of my other favorite games, NieR, and Cyberpunk is another top 3 of mine. The story is very good, hard hitting on the emotions, and the world itself is incredible immersive. I can't recommend it enough when you get the time!
You could summarize them getting a bunch of real artists together and asking them what type of music would you make if you were to live in the cyberpunk 2077 world/night city. Or how would music evolve in the future.
I played Cyberpunk at launch, and got all the way to the end. It was a great story and somewhat fun gameplay, but very flawed. I kinda wish I had waited though because it looks so much better now, but I don't feel like I have the time to go all the way back through it again. Even though I want to, just to see how much better it is.
the songs in this game just hit so differently then most video game musical scores do. its like each song can tell a story about something in the game. I've played a lot of games with amazing sound tracks but Cyberpunk 2077 has set the bar so high. I can hear a couple notes from any song from the game and immediately have a memory of something in the game come to mind. and the song you are listening to at the beginning of the video is end credits song for the DLC Phantom Liberty.
This song sounds like it should have been a Bond theme. And the fact that it plays at a part in a game where they do an animated music video sequence reinforces that feeling.
I grew up with a Frankensteinien PC cobbled together with old hand-me-down parts, and subsequently grew up playing games that didn't run especially well. I got pretty used to degrees of janky experiences and lousy framerates. Many years later, and as a result, when I picked up Cyberpunk at a time I had a machine I'd put together myself with newer parts, I managed to find some settings that let it run 'well enough', and got very well invested in the world and story, flaws and all. I even played through it a few times before putting it down and letting the patches slowly roll through. As a result, a game I already enjoyed only became better with time. The characters were great, there's some laughs, there's some solid tension and plenty to do overall. Yeah, there's not as many immersive aspects as I would lie for the usual 'living, breathing world' tag-line, but there's so many things to get up to, all with well written dialogue and the typical journal entries that have some surprising interconnectivity, that I still loved the game then, and only do more so now. I heavily recommend anyone give it a go if it at all interests them.
Phantom Liberty might be the most appropriate and satisfying end credit song I have ever experienced. The build up to the end and the aftermath, it all accumulates in a way that leaves you feeling like a husk, looking at everything critically. Shell shocked isn't the right description, but it comes damn close.
If you love a game with great sound and solid narrative, Cyberpunk 100% worth and DLC is like a whole nother step up. The music is extremely good throughout - was one of the few highlights when game came out before they fixed it and now it's a genuinely great game. The whole game drips with social commentary, political and social, if that's your thing as well.
As to the questions about the game itself. The easiest discription would be. Imagin GTA in the nearish future with a havy dose of dystopia mixed in, you do have some RPG elements for your charackter development/playstyle. Cyberpunk2077 as the name implies is a Cyberpunk setting and Cyberpunk as a genres main themes are mostly the conflict of individuality vs technological unification in a distopian (often corporal) society and often depict a bleak existence for the Main Charackter and Humanit, at large
Very interesting is the right way to describe it. Not going to spoil anything, but the main story deals with some very deep and thought provoking topics - some of which are topics that many humans eventually have to face. Music might seem all over the place, because they really tried to place the player in what might be another version of earth - and having their own version of radio tunes that the player will hear throughout the world, while also having their own set of music that carries the main story elements.
I enjoy story games so I got my money's worth even at the beginning. But I definitely understand how the technical issues of the game prevented many people from enjoying the story. And there're still some technical issues remaining that I'm hoping they'll not repeat in the sequel.
Honestly the variety that Cyberpunk music is really good. A mix of soft, some R&B a few with heavy metal, some with electronic, and quite a number that hit you hard. Heck after I saw Edgerunners I can't listen to "I wanna stay at your house" the same anymore. Even PonPon Shit, ironically I was annoyed with the song at first...but it really caught on with me and I tend to fight/drive more intense with it. XD As an aside, you might've heard about CD red without realizing it. They were the people behind The Witcher. So you might not have known the studio by name, you might've known their works.
There's a lot of revisionist history surrounding CP2077 following the release of the anime and CDPR's massive PR blitz, but to your point: one thing is for certain, and that's the actual developers tried their best, and even rung the alarm bells when it became evident that there was a problem. CDPR just got high on their own supply after releasing back-to-back hits with the Witcher 2 and the Witcher 3 and over promised, then under delivered. It never became the game that they marketed it to be, but it's at least okay for what it is.
Ngl... Very few games ever hit me deep... Upon the completion of the Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty DLC... The game got me pondering my existential existence. This theme hit sooo hard after playing through it, it touches on every theme and emotion you feel while playing. Ponpon shit by comparison is basically battle music 🤣
The story of Pondsmiths Cyberpunk (2013, 2020, RED) and CDPRs 2077 is essentially "You can't save the world, its too far gone. But you can save yourself." With varying degrees of success, and wide margins of what 'save' means.
I really really urge you to play this game if you're ever able to. It will absorb you in with its dystopian futuristic metropolis and desert landscape, while also immersing you in the experience of a "major leagues" hopeful guy (or gal) who is desperately trying to escape an impossible situation. Through all the gunfire, tears, and tension, there are moments of humanity that I seriously have trouble finding in even AAA games and movies. Do yourself a favor and don't pass on this one. It'll have you thinking for a while after the final credits roll.
After listening to all of this music, you owe it to yourself to find time and play this game. You will NOT regret it. The story, characters, and music, and visuals just pull you right in. And as others have pointed out, some of the music isn't just randomly there..or just background music. There are in world bands that exist, and the music is often part of their story lines. In Phantom Liberty, a Singer that you had already met before the DLC becomes much more prominent within the DLC Story and is in a scene that is worth just sitting there and watching. There are non video moments in this game where things play out from NPC characters that will blow your mind if you take a moment to enjoy. And there are like a million little "nice touch" things in this game that are totally un-necessary, other than the fact that they are just cool for being there.
ponpon shit does play on the radio, but I hear it more when I'm walking down the street, pass food vendors or random stores. It's an atmospheric song that sells a different culture/demographic in the city the game takes place in. Night City is the map of the game, and its an amalgamation of Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and american culture. There are different districts that are heavily controlled and patrolled by gangs affiliated with these different backgrounds, and ponpon shit would come from the Japanese district.
I played this game on release and it was almost unplayable with all the crashes and bugs. I stopped playing about 1/3rd into the game. I did a replay after Phantom Liberty and holy shit did they this game. Not only was it nearly bug free, but they reworked a lot of the mechanics on the game such as skill trees and how gear worked. This game is easily a 9/10 in its current form. PS: You should try listening to some on the black metal that's in this game. There's a radio station exclusive to metal
When Cyberpunk first came out the ost felt like it was deliberately supposed to sound a bit foreign and different and it helped create the vibe that you're in a different era, I think PonPon is a good example of that. Also I will say I never once used fast travel in Cyberpunk because I always liked driving around and listening to the radio, a lot of the music fits the atmosphere of the city very well.
9:07 There's some stuff in the game that aren't that realistic but mostly the game is grounded, the game and the table top game this game is based on is very similar to the real world but with the twist of what if corporation dominates almost everything and people just use enhancements and mechanical augments in their body like if you where buying clothes or a coffee in the morning.
Ponpon is a piece designed to be weird brainrot song an old rocker would hate. Theres quest built around it. At first I hated it. In my second or third playthrough nothing changed. Then I clicked. Damn brainrot. Wife got addicted on third play.
So a big part of the game music is it copyright free radio song made for the game covering like 7-9 station that everything from pop music to metal to edm aswell as like ska and grime. It worth to listen to each radio mix in your free time it insane.
Phantom Liberty is one of the best videogame narratives I've ever played. Over a year later I still get random flashes of pain/guilt/regret over what went down in my playthrough. Cyberpunk was a disgraceful mess at launch but the devs turned it around into a masterpiece.
Ponpon Shit is a very weird experience that your brain wants to hate because it sounds off, like a perverted japanese song but once you realize it fits perfectly into the the trashy part-asian-part-american influenced Cyberpunk universe it turns into a weird bop that makes you smile whenever it starts playing on the radio.
this game's case for me is of a product that should've received more time in development, at least 1 more year. Played in 2022 right after the anime released (the whole reason I even started it was to get one of the anime character's shotgun, completely worth it, best game shotgun I've ever tried) and by that time the game already had most of its issues fixed, while my experience was less than ideal since my hard drive could barely keep up with the amount of stuff being loaded I still feel like it's one of the best games in the last 5 years. the diversity in music works really well with the game's world, being this massive city with people from all over the world speaking all sorts of languages
I played Cyberpunk at launch and while there was definitely some jank I made it through the story OK. I think the most notable one was when I summoned my car and it drove through a wreck on the road and promptly exploded next to me. Other than that it was T-posing and a lot of random crashes. I used to play the tabletop RPG a lot in the 90s / early 2000s so I was also somewhat inclined to give the game the benefit of the doubt just for the experience of hanging out in the city where I had spent so much imaginary time. Arguably the biggest disappointment for me was that the planned multiplayer was canned to free up resources for overhauling the game; several of my old tabletop group and I had been planning to play it together.
Phantom liberty is easily the best DLC expansion I have ever played. It's not terribly long but that's a good thing. I cared more about So mi and Reed by the end than I ever did about Jackie because the writing and story is just that strong. I really hope project Orion retains the same quality as Phantom liberty because it really was a homerun.
I would 100% enjoy watching you play this game. I have tried to find someone who plays this game in a reserved, nuanced way, but everyone I have found treats it like gta or like its a dating sim, where they kill indiscriminately or want to flirt with every character. I would love a mature play through of this game, because it has a very serious story. There are many dialogue choices in the game, and many outcomes that are definitive. As far as the difficulty, its pretty easy once you decide on a play style, but the first 5 hours or so you will be extremely weak.
Cyberpunk is a game very worth playing, even at its very broken launch. Its kinda uncomfortble how close to current events the background for the setting is like shit that was written in the 80s coming true in a Kojimaesque way. Cyberpunk as a whole started as a tabletop rpg back in the 80s heavely based on Bladerunner and a lot of early anime, basically CDProject Red (the company behind The Witcher games and Good Old Games) put out a teaser 10 years too early, like it had only been in active development for about 5 of those 10 years and were in a postion where the public and investors had known about it for a decade and had to be put out. On launch there were many gamebreaking bugs but the story and world were there, the thing was so unplayble on ps4 it was pulled from the online shop and refunds were issued though. Its at the point where it is one of if not the best openworld immersive sims now though. Has a sequel announced, no teaser or anything just a name and probably not a direct sequel, kinda almost sunk CDproject Red and the ip though, the netflix anime did the heavy lifting getting people reinvested in it.
Beliebe me, Ponpon shit goes hard as hell while driving arround the city apreciating the visuals, it goes SO hard, its just addictive. Its so bad... and so good at the same time...
Two songs from completely different genres causing dissonance when listened to back to back, yup that's cyberpunk 2077 for you. If you see this, you should check out Pain by Le Destroy also from cyberpunk
I would say a large reason this game struggled was their insistence on using an in-house game engine the company had developed for previous games. It just wasn't made to handle how much was packed into this game, and they acknowledged that by deciding to switch to a different engine for the sequel.
ponpon shit is a song from the ingame idols band "Us Cracks".. think of them as baybemetal in a cyperkunk univers with that kind of music... @jesse you should listen and watch the video Edgerunners (thats the anime that plays befor (time of) the game) "Let you down" (the song and video plays befor (time of) the anime Edgerunners) and this song/video should give you a rough overview about the world... If you watch animes, i highly recomand watching Edgrunners to.
Cyberpunk base game is just very 'cyberpunk'. Near future dystopia, hyper capitalist. The story has a lot to do with future tech, violence and 'do you want to be remembered by going out in a blaze of glory?'. It's ... good. It's super cyberpunk. Hyper capitalism also explains a lot of the music - it's imagining how our current music could evolve. PonPon shit in particular is very much kinda a parody on nonsensical JPOP stuff that's so much there to just make money. Phantom Liberty DLC takes this setting and everything, which has so many different possibly stories to tell, and tells a spy thriller in this world. The song itself reflects this as well - for me, it kinda feels like a James Bond credit song. The DLC is also just super good. One of the best stories that I've played in gaming, with super hard choices to make and characters that are often conflicted, sympathetic but flawed. It also plays in an area that makes the dystopia even more dystopic, basically squatters, military control and rich people, no real laws, in one tiny area. And it's about liberty, it's about the US, about politics in a world that barely has normal politics anymore, mostly just hyper capitalist corporations.
The setting of Cyberpunk 2077 is effectively a post-apocalypse, except it's hypercapitalism rather than nukes or zombies or machines. As for the story, it's largely about people; not just what makes a person a person but what matters to a person, the bonds between people and the marks we leave on the world. As the creator of the setting has said, it's not about saving the world, it's about saving yourself. The game approaches that from a very metaphysical and existentialist perspective, and like I said it places a focus on the bonds between people. Not supernatural metaphysics, there's no gods or magic in the setting outside those of our own making, but nonetheless metaphysical.
Yup, this game îs about choices and consequences, especially towards the end. Cp2077 will give you two things: a great Time and a friggin depression. Tread with care! Was preordered by me and from day 0 i had a blast with the game. Music? 11/10! Graphics? 11/10! Story? Same! What lacked was polish, bug fixing, activities and some stuff promised by the devs. As i said, it will be an amazing experience, but it has a high probability of inducing depression.
In-game radio has multiple stations, each playing different music (over 150 songs total, done by many different bands from all over the world). Ponpon Shit is one of them (most annoying one in my opinion :P ).
Trust me, ponpon shit hits harder when driving at high speeds
I found it annoying until doing kerry's story line and meeting Us Cracks. now this is my fav driving song when jacking cars for Mu El Captain Reyes
And flying high off of 5 or 6 bumps of Mr. Whitey, glitter, and a huff of that phant
Edit: I'm thinking about it now, and based on the effects of those drugs documented in the game... pretty sure you'd start killing everyone around you until your heart explodes.
When you are FLYING between cars with a load of cops, tanks and a load of bullets on your ass, this song comes on.... and its You'll never catch me, time!
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus for me during that situation I prefer the Us Cracks w/Kerry song. but I know exactly what you are saying. gets the adrenaline pumping.
Ponpon shit is so out there and chaotic that it is addictive😂
Yeah it's definitely meant to be so bad that you hate it at first, and then eventually it hooks you in with it's repetitive nature.
This and "P A I N"
I hate it and I love it
Cyberpunk as a game really likes to hit you in the emotions. The three I requested are really good examples of how they utilize the sounds and music to really punch harder. PonPon Shit definitely more on the radio driving around side. So you really did get the spectrum.
You're confused because you're listening to music with different purposes in the game. Ponpon Shit sits squarely in the worldbuilding arena as it reflects the a piece of the culture of the world you're playing in. If the music seems like its all from different parts of the world, that's because the world you're playing in is very much that.
Phantom Liberty is in the thematic storytelling area evoking emotions the player feels going though the narrative. And here is where music direction shines imo.
There is a song in this game, which then gets re-used in the Cyberpunk animated series. And every time I come back to this game and hear that song again....haunting.
The best part is this song was just one of those worldbuilding, atmosphere songs. Pretty certainly, but nothing too special. But the animated series uses it in a narrative way that hits like bricks.
This particular cyclical synergy is very special. I love it.
Are you referring to "I Really Want to Stay at Your House"?
@DiZphunx Yup.
Cyberpunk is a masterpiece on every level
Riding a bike at full speed in the street of Nightcity while listening Ponpon shit is the real Cyberpunk experience
That or I Really Wanna Stay at Your House
@@TheKnizzine No.
...Still too soon.
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That first song (the end credits song) is such a James Bond theme song. Absolutely love it.
The singer of the first one is Dawid Podsiadło, who is basically one of the top polish indie pop singers here. He also appears in the DLC as a cameo. It was pretty cool for us poles to have a quick random encounter with a guy that looks and sounds like the guy you can hear in the polish radio all the time, even if the game takes place in USA
And the character he plays crashes into V during this video....
15:25 the way you nod along, but slowly stop when the Us Cracks are starting to sing 🤣🤣🤣
PonPon shit, the song that hit when you're roaming the roads of Night city at 100mph.
Real bands, in-game aliases.
"Living in the moment" is funnily enough a theme in the game.
Pon Pon also has a stripped down guitar cover in-game that's unironically super chill. 😂
Its one of the rare song from the game that followed me outside IRL.
I LOVE that song. Lol The artists singing that song will lead you down a rabbit hole too!
When I first played Cyberpunk on release, the main thing I experienced was massive frame rate drops any time I entered combat. There was also an issue of textures not loading in properly, or not at all. It was annoying, but I kept pushing through because I had been very excited to play this game for a long time. Beyond that, there were two things I could easily tell had a lot of thought and care put into them: the story and the music.
Cyberpunk's story impacted me in such a way that very few games ever do. As I kept progressing through it, I couldn't stop thinking about the choices I had made and if things would be different if I had gone a different route (Cyberpunk is a first-person, open world RPG that features a lot of dialogue and action choices that affect the story in both minimal and major ways). Then, there was the music blessing my ears from story moments to simply roaming around aimlessly. The title screen alone easily had one of the best tracks in the game. The first time I heard it, I was grinning from ear to ear thinking, "YES". Also, there is a portable radio in the game that allows you to cycle through different stations. Each of these stations houses a different genre of music from each other. Crazy enough, most of these radio tracks are original to the game (and they are SO GOOD).
Now imagine all of what I just mentioned, but the gameplay has been fixed and exponentially improved (words cannot even describe the world of difference), the story hits even harder, and you get to hear even more amazing music. That is what the Phantom Liberty dlc brought to the table. I've got a little over 250 hours in this game, and I still have a multitude things I have yet to explore.
There were so many insane little touches like being able to leave messages to that one friend. Like I did that to my grandpas old phone until the service was cut off.
Cyberpunk2077 is one of the best storytelling games of today. Top quality story, quest design, visuals and soundtrack. And all of that merges togheter perfectly in the gameplay.
The crazy thing is that the game is still not "complete" as the developers wanted to deliver.
"Flatline."
Choom you ain't kidding
Phantom Liberty song/video takes heavy inspiration from old james bond openings since the whole DLC story is actually spy thriller like. It is about the storyline of the DLC.
On the other hand poponshit is a radio song that can play when driving or walking the streets (yes it uses half japanese half english lyrics). Although this one has a bit more popularity since the "us cracks" group are in game characters we can meet/ have quests so we hear a bit more. Also some songs will be more likely to play in some areas in shops and around in general (like there is a japanese neighboorhood where you will hear ponponshit more, but if you go in the haitian neighboordhood then you will hear their style of music more). The music for radio stations are all over the place since you have many radio stations that each specialize in one genera (Jpop, metal, rock etc).
I have about 800 hours in Cyberpunk. The world feels so immersive that I keep going back for another playthrough. Thankfully there is enough variety in your options to keep each playthrough feeling fresh. The game give you buffs for Eating, Bathing, and Sleeping, so my character goes back to their apartment every night, watches some of the in-game TV, showers, and sleeps; then she eats breakfast before changing her clothes (from my large closet) and heading out the next morning. It has several radio stations to listen to while you walk or drive (never fast travel, you miss so much of the city when you do) and the atmosphere is some of the best you'll ever experience in a game.
You meet that band ('Us Cracks') who sings "Ponpon Shit" in the game and have a couple missions with them. That spins off of a mission you have with your Rockstar buddy.
The fun thing about the Phantom Liberty ending video is that it basically summarizes the entire expansion plot. From the characters you meet to conflicts they have (either with you or with each other). But if you don't know then it just goes above your head really.
Ponpon Shit is a song by a girl band in universe who you actually meet as part of a sidequest interestingly enough. You can hear it on the radio like a ton of other songs that were specifically made for the game in a wide range of genres. I would say this is probably one of the more divisive ones lmao. As you saw the song is by a real idol group called Namakopuri.
An answer to your question at the end: I've played the game twice (early and late 2023, once before and after the Phantom Liberty expansion). It's not the best game I've ever played but it's fun, and I got a good 150 hours out of it total so I definitely got my money's worth. I did admittedly wait until people said the game was good to actually give it a shot though.
"It's been claimed before, but you actually did it. ROCK IS DEAD. And you killed it. Congratu-fuckin-lations"
Cyberpunk is worth your time, Jesse. Even if you play a non-streamed game. The quest writing is amazing, and some of the must fun in the game is driving around Night City listening to the radio. Some times, all you wanna do is just drive and listen to music. I'm not gonna describe a single thing about the story because you just have to experience it all yourself. I will say though that there is a quest where you meet the girls who sing Ponpon Shit. After watching the video some... I will clarify... Just some background lore that's not a spoiler... Cyberpunk 2077 takes place in a Blade Runner type future where Japan became the dominant super power, so Japanese Culture is very relevant despite taking place in California.
The description as to the kind of game it is... It's based on a Table Top RPG (like DND). The game is an RPG with quests and side quests that takes place in a single VERY densely packed city. The city is its own character. It's an experience you need to have as a gamer.
If you stream it, you will have to turn on Streamer Mode though which removes some copyrighted music. Stuff written by Rhianna and Grimes will get a copyright strike.
On your question at the end: That game kept me sane during the pandemic. I had just finished my Ph.D work but I was still under lockdown. It crashed for me a lot, sure... But it allowed me to feel some experience like I was driving around and having some normal experiences, driving out in the rain or at night. Sometimes, you just play Cyberpunk to do nothing. It had it's problems. I got it on PS4. But in spite of everything, I loved it from the beginning, and I played through it while it got patched to what it is now. So I saw the whole thing change and I loved it more and more as it went. It's one of my all time favorite games.
Ponpon Shit is basically a parody of music
All I can say about the Cyberpunk story -both the main story in the game as well as the DLC story in the Phantom Liberty expansion, are absolute peak of videogame storytelling. So much so that it feels like you're actively engaging with a work of cinema. It's so well written and produced.
Without saying too much, it plays with existentialism and what it even means to be yourself in a world that does not care about who you are. Has some amazing twists and great characters that you get to truly care for -for all the right and wrong reasons.
Overall the game is open-world sandbox, but with a directing storyline that keeps your momentum focused, and everything is interconnected. Lots of multiple-choice situations that may or may not affect your gameplay further down the line as you progress, interacting with the world in different orders of events can sometimes lead to different outcomes/options, etc. High focus on story, woven seamlessly into an open rpg-style world.
Also, the Phantom Liberty music video/trailer is pretty much this game's version of a classic James Bond opening song - which fits nicely into the more spy-thriller esque gameplay and focus that the Phantom Liberty expansion has. Super well made.
Cyberpunk is a game that is in your face at all times, spread over every emotional imput you can percieve. Cyberpunk is about a world where the senses is cranked to level 15, while trying to keep your humanity in a dystopian future. And that is why every song feels so drastically different ;D
That is why of all the songs, i didn't expect PonPon Sht to make the list, but at the same time i ain't surprised at all because it encapsulates perfectly the vibe of the setting 😭😭😭
Phantom Liberty is DLC more focused on espionage, that's why Podsiadło and Adamczyk go full James Bond theme.
As someone already said this is a song from one of the ingame bands, the us-cracks. The other band related to the protagonist in a very special way hated them and their music. The story related to them is interesting.
But this song... It's something else.
I'll copy paste the lyrics here with also the information.. ponpon is a special term for having sex. So this song.. Well...
Yes No Yes No pillow NoLet me PONPON with you Everyday l am your only PONPON-chan
Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday
You are my PONPON
I love you doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
PON PON SHIT
Let me PONPON with you everyday
I am your only PONPON-chan
Let me PONPON everyday PONPON Everyday
You are my PONPON
I love you doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPON For you I'm doing PONPONPON PON SHIT PON PON SHIT So what? No way? Is it true or just fake?You can't do that Ain't no good
Gonna PONPON on my teacher Yes No Yes No pillow No You can't do that Ain't no good Gonna PONPON on my teacher
I love this game. It had its issues when it first came out but its a polished gem now, especially with Phantom Liberty. The music in this game is also its own story-teller.
1300+ hours in cyberpunk, the game is great the dlc was insane and the soundtrack was ALWAYS banging. Have you heard of the tv show "The Witcher" - thats another game from cd projeck red. single player role playing first person game (3rd person driving)
the song has bond score vibes, which is fitting because the phantom liberty story could be straight out of a flemming novel, its immaculate
Recommend also reacting to “I Really Want to Stay At Your House” song from cyberpunk Netflix series (it also appears in radio in the game). This song hits completely different after watching actual show, which I also recommend (it's called "Cyberpunk: Edgerunners").
Edit: Edgerunners - Ending Theme "Let You Down" song, another recommendation.
you should listen to some of Idris Elba works which are part of the Cyberpunk OST ! Like Choke Hold, I think he is rapping himself, not only the beatmaker/dj of the track. The track is played during a flashback / action mission the player is shooting around, quite epic
I 100% cyberpunk 2077 and it made me sad because I did all I could do in the game when I wanted to continue living in the city to see more stories and where the other characters end up. It's such a great game and glad it got its positive rebound from its original release.
For me, as a fan of the game since the TTRPG version of Cyberpunk 2020 in the '90s, the music on the radio stations and the score to the game were better than anything I had ever imagined. It felt perfectly like the genre. I think some of it comes down to the input the original author of the game had in its development. (The chap is even a D.J. on one of the radio stations.)
Oh we are doing this? Heck yeah lets go, this is gonna be interesting 🤣
Ultra vibes instant sub
I played in way that i "betrayed" the songbird.. the song hit very well on that.. i need to replay it again some day.
The music in my opinion is more leaning into worldbuilding.. but as many said in comments that when you driving in night city it hit difrent.
CP2077 was a pre order purchase for me - the whole asthetic and world was what I had been craving to experience, for quite some time.
Release was a mess unfortunately, so much so I actually didn't play the game until at least 2 weeks after release, so that most of the worst bugs were dealt with. By patch 1.4 I was able to really enjoy my time with the game, where certain main story and side story experiences really stuck with me to this day - despite my old graphics card barely able to keep the framerates above 30 (without any Ray Tracing enabled).
Now, I have a new graphics card and a 40" OLED TV that can be my external monitor for 2K 60fps gaming with medium RT and FSR upscaling; along with a decent sound system hooked up to my TV via fibre optic, this combo means I have been able to truly appreciate the vision CDPR had for CP2077 since Phantom Liberty's release (v2.0 / 2.1). This is the experience Cyberpunk was meant for and meant to be - everything has been changed completely or significantly overhauled. They listened to fan feed back and even introduced Edgerunners easter eggs for the harcore fans.
Only No Man's Sky comes close to a similar story of apologising for years while doing everything they can to bring the game one step closer to their vision...
Guess some context on ponpon shit. The city the game takes place in, Night City is owned by a Japanese company (which yes, a corporation owns the whole city and makes all the law and yes that's a major problem). That causes the city to have a very strong Japanese district and there is a lot of J-Pop because of that. Also, that song is about just having sex, lots of sex with everyone. The English translation is:
Yes No Yes No pillow No
Let me PONPON with you everyday
I am your only PONPON-chan
Let me PONPON everyday
PONPON Everyday
You are my PONPON
I love you doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
PON PON SHIT
Let me PONPON with you everyday
I am your only PONPON-chan
Let me PONPON everyday
PONPON Everyday
You are my PONPON
I love you doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
For you I'm doing PONPON
PON PON SHIT
PON PON SHIT
So what? No way? Is it true or just fake?
You can't do that
Ain't no good
Gonna PONPON on my teacher2
Yes No Yes No pillow No
You can't do that
Ain't no good
Gonna PONPON on my teacher
Origanal:
Yes No Yes No 枕 No
あなたと毎日PONPONさせてね
私はあなたのPONPONちゃんなの
毎日PONPONさせてね
PONPONさせてね
You are my PONPON
我愛你 PONPON
君にPONPON
君にPONPON
PON PON SHIT
あなたと毎日PONPONさせてね
私はあなたのPONPONちゃんなの
毎日PONPONさせてね
PONPONさせてね
You are my PONPON
我愛你 PONPON
君にPONPON
君にPONPON
PON PON SHIT
PON PON SHIT
でも？やだ？ウソ？ほんと？
いーけないんだ
ダメなんだ
先生にPONPONだ
Yes No Yes No 枕 No
いーけないんだ
ダメなんだ
先生にPONPONだ
But also to be fair to this Ponpon Shit is a radio/club song so it's used in game as something the actually character would listen to when driving and is just 1 of many different songs in many different styles you can listen to. The theatrical music for Cyberpunk is all in the same vain of Phantom Liberty.
Whilst I can see how Ponpon shit can make somebody think "The fuck is this game about?"
It's absolutely crazy how much it ties in with the world of cyberpunk 2077. Once you enter the game and take a stroll through Japantown with this thing playing from a random radio on the street or a vendor, it makes so much more sense than just listening to it raw.
You've already played one of my other favorite games, NieR, and Cyberpunk is another top 3 of mine. The story is very good, hard hitting on the emotions, and the world itself is incredible immersive. I can't recommend it enough when you get the time!
You could summarize them getting a bunch of real artists together and asking them what type of music would you make if you were to live in the cyberpunk 2077 world/night city.
Or how would music evolve in the future.
I played Cyberpunk at launch, and got all the way to the end. It was a great story and somewhat fun gameplay, but very flawed. I kinda wish I had waited though because it looks so much better now, but I don't feel like I have the time to go all the way back through it again. Even though I want to, just to see how much better it is.
The guitar cover for PonPon shit is actually pretty good
the songs in this game just hit so differently then most video game musical scores do. its like each song can tell a story about something in the game. I've played a lot of games with amazing sound tracks but Cyberpunk 2077 has set the bar so high. I can hear a couple notes from any song from the game and immediately have a memory of something in the game come to mind. and the song you are listening to at the beginning of the video is end credits song for the DLC Phantom Liberty.
This song sounds like it should have been a Bond theme. And the fact that it plays at a part in a game where they do an animated music video sequence reinforces that feeling.
I can't even imagine what it's like to listen to ponpon shit after phantom liberty with no context at all
Pon Pon Shit is an absolute masterpiece and I'll defend that position to the grave, but it didn't sink in until halfway through my second playthrough.
I recommend the tracks Force Projection or Gate K9 from Phantom Liberty next! 👍
I grew up with a Frankensteinien PC cobbled together with old hand-me-down parts, and subsequently grew up playing games that didn't run especially well. I got pretty used to degrees of janky experiences and lousy framerates. Many years later, and as a result, when I picked up Cyberpunk at a time I had a machine I'd put together myself with newer parts, I managed to find some settings that let it run 'well enough', and got very well invested in the world and story, flaws and all. I even played through it a few times before putting it down and letting the patches slowly roll through.
As a result, a game I already enjoyed only became better with time. The characters were great, there's some laughs, there's some solid tension and plenty to do overall. Yeah, there's not as many immersive aspects as I would lie for the usual 'living, breathing world' tag-line, but there's so many things to get up to, all with well written dialogue and the typical journal entries that have some surprising interconnectivity, that I still loved the game then, and only do more so now. I heavily recommend anyone give it a go if it at all interests them.
Phantom Liberty might be the most appropriate and satisfying end credit song I have ever experienced. The build up to the end and the aftermath, it all accumulates in a way that leaves you feeling like a husk, looking at everything critically. Shell shocked isn't the right description, but it comes damn close.
@@_inSight__ I think emotionally drained is what you’re looking for.
@@poakcastle not quite my experience
If you love a game with great sound and solid narrative, Cyberpunk 100% worth and DLC is like a whole nother step up. The music is extremely good throughout - was one of the few highlights when game came out before they fixed it and now it's a genuinely great game.
The whole game drips with social commentary, political and social, if that's your thing as well.
As to the questions about the game itself.
The easiest discription would be.
Imagin GTA in the nearish future with a havy dose of dystopia mixed in, you do have some RPG elements for your charackter development/playstyle.
Cyberpunk2077 as the name implies is a Cyberpunk setting and Cyberpunk as a genres main themes are mostly the conflict of individuality vs technological unification in a distopian (often corporal) society and often depict a bleak existence for the Main Charackter and Humanit, at large
at first i hated ponpon, but the more i listened to it i got addicted to it. its such a banger!
Very interesting is the right way to describe it. Not going to spoil anything, but the main story deals with some very deep and thought provoking topics - some of which are topics that many humans eventually have to face.
Music might seem all over the place, because they really tried to place the player in what might be another version of earth - and having their own version of radio tunes that the player will hear throughout the world, while also having their own set of music that carries the main story elements.
Boy, talk about a study in contrasts. 😂
Phantom Liberty reminds me of Radioheads Pyramid Song so much. I love it!
I enjoy story games so I got my money's worth even at the beginning. But I definitely understand how the technical issues of the game prevented many people from enjoying the story. And there're still some technical issues remaining that I'm hoping they'll not repeat in the sequel.
Honestly the variety that Cyberpunk music is really good. A mix of soft, some R&B a few with heavy metal, some with electronic, and quite a number that hit you hard. Heck after I saw Edgerunners I can't listen to "I wanna stay at your house" the same anymore.
Even PonPon Shit, ironically I was annoyed with the song at first...but it really caught on with me and I tend to fight/drive more intense with it. XD
As an aside, you might've heard about CD red without realizing it. They were the people behind The Witcher. So you might not have known the studio by name, you might've known their works.
There's a lot of revisionist history surrounding CP2077 following the release of the anime and CDPR's massive PR blitz, but to your point: one thing is for certain, and that's the actual developers tried their best, and even rung the alarm bells when it became evident that there was a problem. CDPR just got high on their own supply after releasing back-to-back hits with the Witcher 2 and the Witcher 3 and over promised, then under delivered. It never became the game that they marketed it to be, but it's at least okay for what it is.
Ngl... Very few games ever hit me deep... Upon the completion of the Cyberpunk Phantom Liberty DLC... The game got me pondering my existential existence. This theme hit sooo hard after playing through it, it touches on every theme and emotion you feel while playing.
Ponpon shit by comparison is basically battle music 🤣
The story of Pondsmiths Cyberpunk (2013, 2020, RED) and CDPRs 2077 is essentially "You can't save the world, its too far gone. But you can save yourself." With varying degrees of success, and wide margins of what 'save' means.
I really really urge you to play this game if you're ever able to. It will absorb you in with its dystopian futuristic metropolis and desert landscape, while also immersing you in the experience of a "major leagues" hopeful guy (or gal) who is desperately trying to escape an impossible situation. Through all the gunfire, tears, and tension, there are moments of humanity that I seriously have trouble finding in even AAA games and movies. Do yourself a favor and don't pass on this one. It'll have you thinking for a while after the final credits roll.
After listening to all of this music, you owe it to yourself to find time and play this game. You will NOT regret it. The story, characters, and music, and visuals just pull you right in. And as others have pointed out, some of the music isn't just randomly there..or just background music. There are in world bands that exist, and the music is often part of their story lines. In Phantom Liberty, a Singer that you had already met before the DLC becomes much more prominent within the DLC Story and is in a scene that is worth just sitting there and watching. There are non video moments in this game where things play out from NPC characters that will blow your mind if you take a moment to enjoy. And there are like a million little "nice touch" things in this game that are totally un-necessary, other than the fact that they are just cool for being there.
me: mom can we have james bond
mom: no we have james bond at home
james bond at home
ponpon shit does play on the radio, but I hear it more when I'm walking down the street, pass food vendors or random stores. It's an atmospheric song that sells a different culture/demographic in the city the game takes place in. Night City is the map of the game, and its an amalgamation of Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and american culture. There are different districts that are heavily controlled and patrolled by gangs affiliated with these different backgrounds, and ponpon shit would come from the Japanese district.
I played this game on release and it was almost unplayable with all the crashes and bugs. I stopped playing about 1/3rd into the game. I did a replay after Phantom Liberty and holy shit did they this game. Not only was it nearly bug free, but they reworked a lot of the mechanics on the game such as skill trees and how gear worked. This game is easily a 9/10 in its current form.
PS: You should try listening to some on the black metal that's in this game. There's a radio station exclusive to metal
When Cyberpunk first came out the ost felt like it was deliberately supposed to sound a bit foreign and different and it helped create the vibe that you're in a different era, I think PonPon is a good example of that. Also I will say I never once used fast travel in Cyberpunk because I always liked driving around and listening to the radio, a lot of the music fits the atmosphere of the city very well.
2:32
Because he sounds like Thom York?
You should definitely play this game. It’s an amazing experience
9:07 There's some stuff in the game that aren't that realistic but mostly the game is grounded, the game and the table top game this game is based on is very similar to the real world but with the twist of what if corporation dominates almost everything and people just use enhancements and mechanical augments in their body like if you where buying clothes or a coffee in the morning.
Ponpon is a piece designed to be weird brainrot song an old rocker would hate.
Theres quest built around it.
At first I hated it. In my second or third playthrough nothing changed. Then I clicked.
Damn brainrot. Wife got addicted on third play.
So a big part of the game music is it copyright free radio song made for the game covering like 7-9 station that everything from pop music to metal to edm aswell as like ska and grime. It worth to listen to each radio mix in your free time it insane.
MOAR CYBERPUNK!!!
Phantom Liberty is one of the best videogame narratives I've ever played. Over a year later I still get random flashes of pain/guilt/regret over what went down in my playthrough. Cyberpunk was a disgraceful mess at launch but the devs turned it around into a masterpiece.
Ponpon Shit does indeed have Japanese lyrics
Ponpon Shit is a very weird experience that your brain wants to hate because it sounds off, like a perverted japanese song but once you realize it fits perfectly into the the trashy part-asian-part-american influenced Cyberpunk universe it turns into a weird bop that makes you smile whenever it starts playing on the radio.
this game's case for me is of a product that should've received more time in development, at least 1 more year.
Played in 2022 right after the anime released (the whole reason I even started it was to get one of the anime character's shotgun, completely worth it, best game shotgun I've ever tried) and by that time the game already had most of its issues fixed, while my experience was less than ideal since my hard drive could barely keep up with the amount of stuff being loaded I still feel like it's one of the best games in the last 5 years.
the diversity in music works really well with the game's world, being this massive city with people from all over the world speaking all sorts of languages
ponpon shit, ponpon shit
I played Cyberpunk at launch and while there was definitely some jank I made it through the story OK. I think the most notable one was when I summoned my car and it drove through a wreck on the road and promptly exploded next to me. Other than that it was T-posing and a lot of random crashes. I used to play the tabletop RPG a lot in the 90s / early 2000s so I was also somewhat inclined to give the game the benefit of the doubt just for the experience of hanging out in the city where I had spent so much imaginary time. Arguably the biggest disappointment for me was that the planned multiplayer was canned to free up resources for overhauling the game; several of my old tabletop group and I had been planning to play it together.
Phantom liberty is easily the best DLC expansion I have ever played. It's not terribly long but that's a good thing. I cared more about So mi and Reed by the end than I ever did about Jackie because the writing and story is just that strong. I really hope project Orion retains the same quality as Phantom liberty because it really was a homerun.
I would 100% enjoy watching you play this game. I have tried to find someone who plays this game in a reserved, nuanced way, but everyone I have found treats it like gta or like its a dating sim, where they kill indiscriminately or want to flirt with every character. I would love a mature play through of this game, because it has a very serious story. There are many dialogue choices in the game, and many outcomes that are definitive. As far as the difficulty, its pretty easy once you decide on a play style, but the first 5 hours or so you will be extremely weak.
Cyberpunk is a game very worth playing, even at its very broken launch. Its kinda uncomfortble how close to current events the background for the setting is like shit that was written in the 80s coming true in a Kojimaesque way. Cyberpunk as a whole started as a tabletop rpg back in the 80s heavely based on Bladerunner and a lot of early anime, basically CDProject Red (the company behind The Witcher games and Good Old Games) put out a teaser 10 years too early, like it had only been in active development for about 5 of those 10 years and were in a postion where the public and investors had known about it for a decade and had to be put out. On launch there were many gamebreaking bugs but the story and world were there, the thing was so unplayble on ps4 it was pulled from the online shop and refunds were issued though. Its at the point where it is one of if not the best openworld immersive sims now though. Has a sequel announced, no teaser or anything just a name and probably not a direct sequel, kinda almost sunk CDproject Red and the ip though, the netflix anime did the heavy lifting getting people reinvested in it.
Beliebe me, Ponpon shit goes hard as hell while driving arround the city apreciating the visuals, it goes SO hard, its just addictive.
Its so bad... and so good at the same time...
Ah yes…ponpon shit…it’s sounds good when driving-well to summarize…it’s a brain rot song… 🫠
I think… 🤔🥲
THE ACOUSTIC VERSION OF PONPON SHIT IS REALLY GOOD
Two songs from completely different genres causing dissonance when listened to back to back, yup that's cyberpunk 2077 for you.
If you see this, you should check out Pain by Le Destroy also from cyberpunk
I would say a large reason this game struggled was their insistence on using an in-house game engine the company had developed for previous games. It just wasn't made to handle how much was packed into this game, and they acknowledged that by deciding to switch to a different engine for the sequel.
As I was listening it also reminded of Matt Bellamy, it does sound a lil like him
Ponpon Shit is the music of the future.
Is that a humidifier or a fog machine in the back?
ponpon shit is a song from the ingame idols band "Us Cracks".. think of them as baybemetal in a cyperkunk univers with that kind of music... @jesse you should listen and watch the video Edgerunners (thats the anime that plays befor (time of) the game) "Let you down" (the song and video plays befor (time of) the anime Edgerunners) and this song/video should give you a rough overview about the world... If you watch animes, i highly recomand watching Edgrunners to.
Ponpon shit is one of those tracks that is different from the others but it doesn't sound out of place at all in the game.
Cyberpunk base game is just very 'cyberpunk'. Near future dystopia, hyper capitalist. The story has a lot to do with future tech, violence and 'do you want to be remembered by going out in a blaze of glory?'. It's ... good. It's super cyberpunk. Hyper capitalism also explains a lot of the music - it's imagining how our current music could evolve. PonPon shit in particular is very much kinda a parody on nonsensical JPOP stuff that's so much there to just make money.
Phantom Liberty DLC takes this setting and everything, which has so many different possibly stories to tell, and tells a spy thriller in this world. The song itself reflects this as well - for me, it kinda feels like a James Bond credit song. The DLC is also just super good. One of the best stories that I've played in gaming, with super hard choices to make and characters that are often conflicted, sympathetic but flawed. It also plays in an area that makes the dystopia even more dystopic, basically squatters, military control and rich people, no real laws, in one tiny area. And it's about liberty, it's about the US, about politics in a world that barely has normal politics anymore, mostly just hyper capitalist corporations.
Ponpon Shit has a real music video, shame it was skipped.
Best song in the game, perfect Japan random music.
Phantom liberty would make a great Bond theme.
The setting of Cyberpunk 2077 is effectively a post-apocalypse, except it's hypercapitalism rather than nukes or zombies or machines. As for the story, it's largely about people; not just what makes a person a person but what matters to a person, the bonds between people and the marks we leave on the world.
As the creator of the setting has said, it's not about saving the world, it's about saving yourself. The game approaches that from a very metaphysical and existentialist perspective, and like I said it places a focus on the bonds between people. Not supernatural metaphysics, there's no gods or magic in the setting outside those of our own making, but nonetheless metaphysical.
ponpon shit accoustic > everything
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@@JessesAuditorium yeah it's sombre
Yup, this game îs about choices and consequences, especially towards the end. Cp2077 will give you two things: a great Time and a friggin depression. Tread with care!
Was preordered by me and from day 0 i had a blast with the game. Music? 11/10! Graphics? 11/10! Story? Same! What lacked was polish, bug fixing, activities and some stuff promised by the devs. As i said, it will be an amazing experience, but it has a high probability of inducing depression.
I have a little 007 vibe from this ost
It's kinda dumb that the Bond song to top all Bond songs Phantom Liberty and Ponpon Shit are in the same game, it's true.
Please check out Contra la Luna from Cyberpunk sir
In-game radio has multiple stations, each playing different music (over 150 songs total, done by many different bands from all over the world). Ponpon Shit is one of them (most annoying one in my opinion :P ).
best one*