How Dex DeShawn Became Night City's Worst Fixer | Cyberpunk 2077 Character Analysis & Explained

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  • @lydiscott
    @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +408

    Pls READ LOL! Hey so I don’t know what’s up with the audio cutting out at 10:30? That’s weird? I had a lot more to say right there? 😂 ughhhh. I blame my ancient Mac and premiere, it was there when I checked it before exporting. Sorry guys I was talking about how I was trying to come up with a theory for Dex’s Pacifica gig but then I realized there’s just too many blank spots to really do that, segueing to what I think is cut content. Still gets the message across as is, but… AGH 🤣 I don’t want to take the video down because the comments are great. So. I’ll keep an eye out for that in the future.
    Also. Note! When I say Dex made the combat zone what we know it as today, I mean he worsened the already existing combat zone. I feel like the way I said it makes it read like he’s the reason Pacifica is screw up which is… unfortunately not true 😂 that’s a whole other iceberg! Should’ve been more clear. Sorry guys!
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    • @young5395
      @young5395 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Woah 🤯 that theory I believe is spot on. The voodoo boys have been said only to use people and they throw them away. Fantastic catch, something about this is true.

    • @TheMecoolerest001
      @TheMecoolerest001 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Having finished reading the book recently I would say if you are on the fence I would recommend taking the jump! It’s a fun easy read.

    • @JohnnySilverwrench
      @JohnnySilverwrench 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I left a comment something for you to ponder about...info I know since the game came out and dlc as well as ttrpg

    • @midnight_yota
      @midnight_yota 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      At first I was confused but then I realized I actually kinda appreciated the small section of tranquility lol

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@midnight_yotahonestly whenever I hear bells of laguna bend I’m suddenly very chilled out lmao

  • @shaolinthe5th
    @shaolinthe5th 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3774

    Portrayed himself as a king, died like a peasant…

    • @Gyrokaenzo212
      @Gyrokaenzo212 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      he wanted to be the bowery king but thought too highly of himself to play the bum

    • @jamaldee2355
      @jamaldee2355 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

      Love when Johnny was like how’s that quiet life treating ya

    • @alexhulea2735
      @alexhulea2735 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn't even know what the heist was about the first time i played the game, but after seeing his skanky ass face i said to myself 'he's gonna betray me, i just know it'

    • @adrenjones9301
      @adrenjones9301 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      @@jamaldee2355 lol, never noticed that. Thats hilarious.

    • @jamaldee2355
      @jamaldee2355 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      @@adrenjones9301 yeah when you go back to scrap yard and look at dex’s dead body Johnny will make a comment about him loll

  • @victornecrofunk7061
    @victornecrofunk7061 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2629

    Justice for Misty. She told Jackie to avoid all mean reds (dexter, arasaka), and we didn't. Had we listened to her nobody would have been in that mess

    • @michelphilippe193
      @michelphilippe193 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

      Never thought about this

    • @janx1978
      @janx1978 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +325

      "Code Red" also gets initiated in Konpeki Plaza after saburos assassination, and the rest of the mission has red neon lights throughout the halls. I always loved that little detail.

    • @Cryptic0013
      @Cryptic0013 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +160

      It's also a cheeky allusion to the fact that the most recent edition of the tabletop game is called "Cyberpunk RED"
      As in, the entire game we're playing is RED in all caps. For Jackie, the only winning move is not to play.

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

      Judy also told us that we were already dead, and that the only thing she sees when talking to us are walking corpses.
      And she was right. Everyone involved in that job died. The only difference is that V got a couple more weeks, or months, to contemplate their mistake. But the real V died in the no tell Motel after Dexter betrayed them.
      Also If you chose the corpo lifepath you literally went through that same thing before. Get offered a job way out of your league that you feel obligated to accept and get caught in the crossfire of corporate infighting.
      Really, there is no reason why anyone should have accepted that job. Everyone involved should have been able to see how bad of an idea it was from the beginning.

    • @TheAsylumCat
      @TheAsylumCat 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      I also felt it was directed at V as well since our hud is in red (compared to Johnny's blue), implying we would secretly drag him down as well.

  • @hustle_simmons
    @hustle_simmons 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2042

    Dex pretends like he cares about the consquences but he doesn't. He only cares about a big amount of money. Its a big difference between him and someone like Wakako who has a level of professionalism to her. The more I play the game the more I realize Dex never had control and mercs were blinded by what he presents to be as success when in all actuality he's a joke.

    • @peacefusion
      @peacefusion 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +111

      On the other hand, Dex gathered all the intel and provided both the bot and the service Delamaine. But like he said, he didnt have knowing of Saburo. Dex was like V that he didn't care about Corpos. But unlike Wakako, Dex chose to live the literal blaze of glory jobs. There's a reason why older Fixers are alive in NC. They either mellow out, or they sellout like Rouge. Dex is professional as Fixers come in NC, he's just more reckless like dealing with Maelstrom. Someone's that's actually unprofessional is people like Kirk. Kirk just has bad jobs, bad intel, and bad rep.

    • @bloodieddeadman6.1.65
      @bloodieddeadman6.1.65 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +122

      Royce called it first by saying "Dexter deshawn. The lard ahh who punching animal f***ed half of Pacifica and he ain't dead". The maelestromers were laughing at V and Jackie like "seriously? That guy out of all fixers ?" Vik called it too. Vik told V to becareful around him and that he isn't as "cool" as he makes himself out to be

    • @fluffywolfo3663
      @fluffywolfo3663 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      It’s a pretty common question cp2077 asks - “what’s ‘success,’ _really,_ and is it worth it?”

    • @ved2360
      @ved2360 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      @@peacefusion
      There's another essayist who pointed out that it really doesn't matter if he couldn't know Saburo would've shown up. The context clues were there. Hanako's carrier was in the bay of Night City and we know Saburo is going to come to blows with Yorinobu, or is at least, _extremely_ possessive of his flagship immortality tech. Saburo is the kind of guy who'd nuke Night City to prevent the biochip for leaking. Look at T-Bug and compare her to all the overpowered Netrunners you meet and you start to realize how out of their depth the crew is. V and Jackie were always disposable stooges. Somewhat skilled, but naive and over-eager.
      Also Delamain is a severe failure point. He knows the identities of V, Jackie and likely of Dex as the paying client. Delamain is a rogue AI that's going to protect himself. He has no loyalty to the Afterlife or its subculture of mercs. If a corp as powerful as Arasaka puts the screws to him, there's no reason Delamain wouldn't sell them out. It would've made infinitely more sense to hire on a wheelman from the Afterlife you'd pay a huge amount not to know or ask too much. Tell that wheelman to pretend to be a limo driver. Don't ask why or who, here's 100,000 eddies. Shut up and drive.

    • @jhudsu1
      @jhudsu1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@peacefusion no Evelyn gathered all the intel. Dex did not figure out a goddamn thing beyond what she told him. He didn't provide the bot either, V did that. He didn't even provide the idea of the bot, that was T-Bug's idea. Dex is worse than useless. His sole contribution to the job is tipping off the Voodoo Boys that Evelyn had double crossed them.

  • @MrEstaporqueria1
    @MrEstaporqueria1 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +275

    Dex’s story is such a good introduction to the core ideas of cyberpunk and the vibe of night city: there’s always bigger, meaner fish than you

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Very true!!!

  • @Shinigami88X1
    @Shinigami88X1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1264

    Have you noticed that Dex wears rose tinted glasses

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +243

      OHHHH I LOVE THAT

    • @alistairbolden6340
      @alistairbolden6340 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +163

      @@lydiscott I really think the Konpeki gig going badly was entirely that Tbug was a crap Netrunner. The job should have been done in 15m after the Solo's entered the building, hours later they were still waiting for Tbug to break security and the second the buildings Netrunner woke up, she died. Tbug was the teams weak link. Tbug should not have allowed anyone to even take the elevator to the penthouse while V and Jackie were there, she had control over the elevators and doors in the building while the other Runner was asleep, any Netrunner worth anything would have done a much better job, even unopposed Tbug didn't do half the things she could have.
      A good Netrunner would have been able to disable the Arasaka Netrunner on their own instead of having to use a bot to put them to sleep. Dex is not entirely to blame as he likely knew she was not great, but V, and Jackie did agree to work with her while also knowing that.
      The first gig you do with Tbug shows just how totally useless she is. On you're first mission with Tbug all she did was open one window.... There is a hundred different things a Netrunner could have done and Tbug decided to open a window.

    • @DaniszAstronauta
      @DaniszAstronauta 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

      @@alistairbolden6340 My guess is, that other good runners knew about his reputation, and wanted to stay away from him.

    • @alistairbolden6340
      @alistairbolden6340 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      @@DaniszAstronauta Yeah fair.

    • @aljazslemc9569
      @aljazslemc9569 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      ​more like probably anyone worth their salt wanted to stay away. I also like the idea that tbug might've faked her death.

  • @gamesretweets9979
    @gamesretweets9979 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +878

    Shot V out of hand, Takemura found him within weeks, all the same. Took Takemura to his one bargaining chip, V's corpse which also happened to be a convenient place for his own corpse after he had outlived his usefulness to Takemura. Dex was the real fool, how Rogue tolerated him operating out of Afterlife is beyond me.

    • @Geekezf
      @Geekezf 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +172

      I guess letting him doing that gig was a great way for her to get rid of him.
      And, knowing she's a sell out for Arasaka, she might be the one who tells this to Smasher (hence him knowing you're there)

    • @gamersanonymous4me131
      @gamersanonymous4me131 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +121

      We notice in Phantom Liberty - Hands remark, that the information (Saphire building plans) given to V were secure and no one would know he had them "unlike the late Mr. Deshawn" , so you gotta wonder how Takamura was so quick to track down Dex, as his face wouldn't have been on the security footage (like V's and Jackies) yet he knew who to look for and where to find him within days of Relic Heist. Maybe T-Bugs Net intrusions were too easy to uncover or Delemain gave up who paid for the Limo, or?

    • @gamesretweets9979
      @gamesretweets9979 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +150

      @@gamersanonymous4me131 That answer is easy, they hit T-Bug with soulkiller. That gave them everything.

    • @dranixrush3306
      @dranixrush3306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      So, what was DeShawn supposed to do? Lay down and give up? His rep as a fixer was trashed because of a screw up that let to a war. He doesn't stand a chance of getting back to the top without doing something big. His ego of course wouldn't want him to stay of the game so he's going to take the risk to get back to being one of the greats of night city.

    • @twinodoom
      @twinodoom 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      Rogue tolerated Dex because he was no threat to her. He's basically a cockroach. Not particularly dangerous to anything bigger than he is, but good at running away and lying low until his enemies forget about him.

  • @kotorandcorvid4968
    @kotorandcorvid4968 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1339

    Dexter is an example of how you can sell anything if you speak with the right confidence and charisma. Also, nice that CDPR gave Caseoh a small role in their game

    • @S.Ingram
      @S.Ingram 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      I don’t know, his role is pretty massive just like who he’s based off.

    • @GoodOldSport
      @GoodOldSport 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      Did Caseoh have to do blackface? Like Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man) in Tropic Thunder?

    • @S.Ingram
      @S.Ingram 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

      Nah they accidentally threw him into one of those tanning machines too long and just decided to make Dex black, but he has recovered and is back to being pale.

    • @GoodOldSport
      @GoodOldSport 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@S.Ingram Did him well done like a steak eh?

    • @S.Ingram
      @S.Ingram 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@GoodOldSport Not even well done it’s a whole ass ceremony and parade.

  • @aidenpopour594
    @aidenpopour594 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1635

    In the elevator for your first mission it seemed like T-Bug feels uncomfortable if you get to close to her by calling her pary of the team

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +470

      Yes, she seems very much so a “keep it professional” sort of person… not wanting to get attached at all. Hmmmmmmm.

    •  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +227

      @@lydiscott Can be due to the fact she only want to leave NC and the edgerunner life. Without attach, no regret to leave NC.

    • @ZeallustImmortal
      @ZeallustImmortal 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +209

      ​@@lydiscottCant blame her. T-Bug is definitely one of the most "fit for the job" characters in the whole game. In fact, shes probably the most fit for the job.

    • @Randomuser-nn7ls
      @Randomuser-nn7ls 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      ​@@ZeallustImmortalshe was absolutely undequalified, it was kind of her fault

    • @ZeallustImmortal
      @ZeallustImmortal 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +123

      @@Randomuser-nn7ls I mean moreso mindset wise. Shes job focused, and thats it. Making no loose ends, just getting a job done.
      Also, pretty much anybody would be underqualified for that job. Even So Mi would struggle with that. The most surprising thing is that T-Bug didnt just flat out deny the job.

  • @Shinigami88X1
    @Shinigami88X1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +734

    I think that reason why T-Bug worked with Dex is because she was longing for a quiet life

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +137

      I think you may be right. It seems like she’s wanted to get outta dodge for a long time, if Rhino’s interview is anything to go off of. Makes total sense.

    • @julioacceus253
      @julioacceus253 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +58

      @@lydiscott As calm and collected she was, you can tell in her urgency she like Jackie wanted to make a big score and change their lives forever.

    • @Joel-wx7zk
      @Joel-wx7zk 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @@julioacceus253Yep, similar to how Dex wanted a better life for him and his family, T-Bug wanted that escape to Greece

    • @thefez-cat
      @thefez-cat หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      They were all three of them desperate. V is disaffected and struggling with staying in the league of merc they're in and desperate to have _something_ better. Jackie is desperate to become a legend. T-Bug is desperate to get the hell out. Dex is desperate to be back on top.

  • @chefrowlet
    @chefrowlet 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +623

    I really like him as a character. Fun to hate, but first impressions (as I desperately try to brainwash myself into forgetting the trailers that spoiled the prologue) of him being a calm but dangerous man... Speaking in the casually confident tones of a guy who believes nobody would dare cross him, but a coward who panics and acts without thinking things through when the chips are down... Such good stuff.

    • @dranixrush3306
      @dranixrush3306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      DeShawn wasn't a coward per se. Where are people getting that? Nor was he all that reckless. Even though the plan had holes, DeShawn and T-Bug were able to get most of the plan in order. Nothing was rushed. DeShawn made a desperate plan in the end that made sense. It was fucked up, but it made sense if he wanted a chance to survive.

    • @dquinn9482
      @dquinn9482 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      Best comment here, I see a lot of Dex hate lol but lest we forget the idiot who set up the gig for stolen merch and it was just knock off anime tees? All that to say: people arent realizing that everyone in NC are cowards acting tough and buckle under the crushing weight of reality. Even for the Judy lovers she does not stick it out with you in hard times. That is the existential threat of this world. The City of Gang is like that because no one wants to be SOLO in NC, its the most dangerous and lonely road. People look up to fixers because they give a pathway to make dreams real and they bring people together to start trying for those dreams. Think about it: When you're winning, successful of course you're talking big. But in your last moments? Gun to your head? Are you talking a big game then? Really? Only Johnny Silverhand says he went out like that but that wasnt ever really true either...Dex, V. even Rache Bartmoss all dead in the same trash heap at the end of the day. The worst fixer is the one that never had the vision to start.

    • @incandescentdream
      @incandescentdream 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Agreed. It's a shame he died as early as he did, I wouldn't mind him having more screen time in the game.

    • @SaltyChickenDip
      @SaltyChickenDip 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it does also racket up the stacks. Dex is shown and talked about ( by Jackie mostly) as a big deal a major player. Well after the prologue you learn that he is a small time dude now you are dealing with real players in night city, real threats .

    • @Philip7710
      @Philip7710 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@dranixrush3306the plan wasn’t even bad, other than not being able to predict yorinobu would kill saburo (which how the hell is anyone predicting that?) it was basically perfect

  • @Wackstunn
    @Wackstunn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +311

    Dex sat on a throne made of shit and fooled himself into thinking it was made of gold.

    • @tootnoots
      @tootnoots 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Reminds me of a quote in the game,
      “Word on the street’s when Wako says ‘golden’ it’s usually a turd wrapped in crepe paper.”

    • @Shinyspddmn
      @Shinyspddmn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      A polished turd is still a turd

  • @Christopher-eq1rn
    @Christopher-eq1rn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +475

    It occurs to me that t-bug would have been a lot more interesting if she and mamam Brigitte were the same person. Imagine she suddenly goes silent during the heist because she's aware of the saburo incident, and decides to cut loose ends and fall back. When V manages to survive, have things play out as normal, but instead of Dex's hustle knocking V out, t-bug turns off optical camo in the corner and uses the active connect she has to V's system to shut down his cyberware, making him an easy target for the hustle, before telling Dex to clean up and walking out. (While behind the scenes putting takemura on Dex's tail to continue cleaning up loose ends) Things play out as normal with V having no idea what happened to her, so he chases down the lead with Evelyn to find out T-bug hired her and that she wanted to personally make sure there were no hiccups, which is why she was using one of several alieses. Since she thinks the relic is ruined (because of the damage to the case) and V is dead, she follows other leads, leading to her getting frozen by netwatch and things progress normally. Gives a lot more weight to the voodoo boys decision too

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

      Ohhhh I love this. Whenever I look at her concept art, it just reminds me of the Voodoo boys with their casual netrunner look. Would be super interested to know if she was supposed to be involved with them. Voodoo boys always felt like there was some connections that were supposed to be there between them and the heist beyond what we got, but were ultimately cut. I’ll try and look into this with her video.

    • @Christopher-eq1rn
      @Christopher-eq1rn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +65

      ​@@lydiscottyeah I far prefer her concept art, she has a very basic look in the released game and I wish they did more with her. Jackie's impact can be felt long after he dies, but the game basically forgets about t-bug

    • @TheMecoolerest001
      @TheMecoolerest001 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The VDB are probably the most dangerous gang in NC. Its why Netwatch wants them so bad. If the VDB get what they want it would likely unleash an AI hellscape. I do not get the vibes that Bug wanted anything to do with destroying civilization. She just wanted out.

    • @dranixrush3306
      @dranixrush3306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      Well, it still made sense why the Vodoo Boys wanted Johnny's engram. If they could draw out Alt Cunningham and make a deal with her, their goal would come further into fruition.

    • @orbit1894
      @orbit1894 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      There would be several plot holes with this regarding Ev, V and Dex.

  • @TroySpartan247
    @TroySpartan247 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +394

    The cutscene where T-Bug betrays V really seems like it was supposed to be the canon plot. While video game developers have been known to model swap characters to ruin spoilers, tbe fact that V's cyberware malfunctions because of a quickhack really makes me believe T-Bug was meant to attack v, not some random assistant

    • @Jorvalt
      @Jorvalt 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      That would've made more sense than what we got, considering it just felt so weird that you die so easily in that scene without really being able to put up a fight.

    • @Bocchi-the-Rock_
      @Bocchi-the-Rock_ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      I don't know what you guys are talking about, the big dude straight sucker punches you the moment you leave the restroom, and Dex would just shoot you like he plans to anyway if you tried to get up or move at all - I don't remember tech being shut down but also people can print EMP grenades on them, and with how widespread tech is EMP tech being more common makes sense too, hell the big dude could have gorilla fists or other implants with shock and makes your body not respond
      But yeah, also considering we know when someone is hacking us, I'd say it's either the obvious freight train punch to the face or another device if you are disabled, though the excuse could be V is just preoccupied with being betrayed playing out in front of them

    • @Jorvalt
      @Jorvalt 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      @@Bocchi-the-Rock_ it's more the fact that in game V can just go toe to toe with max tac, cyberpsychos, shrug off explosions and shotguns to the face point blank etc but then suddenly becomes absolutely helpless when subjected to a single punch in a cutscene, not even trying to fight back.

    • @MandoF
      @MandoF 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      @@Jorvalt V doesn’t start off that skilled. Though through canon idk how long a time period he’d have to hone his skills. But V was tired and mentally exhausted, lost his best friend. So him getting caught off guard definitely isn’t impossible.

    • @arshiaaghaei
      @arshiaaghaei 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

      @@Jorvalt Because canonically the V that gets shot in the head isn't the same V that goes toe to toe with MaxTac.
      You're not super resistant to Cyberpsychosis until Johnny pops in your head, therefore you can't max up with the chrome.

  • @psymcdad8151
    @psymcdad8151 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +481

    My Theory?
    Dex never was a big shot. He got a smal scale gig and screwed it ROYALY. Nobody knows what it was about because it was insignificant. But due to him F-in up in ways unimaginable, he actualy got a rep boost, because... hey, if you fail THAT hard, it must have ben important, right? ...and thus started the legend of Dex, the Top-Fixer who could not fix water out of a boot, even if the instructions are written on the sole.

    • @machinedude9386
      @machinedude9386 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

      Stealing Experimental tech from the most powerfull megacorp in the game is hardly a small time gig.

    • @SprayNpreyT
      @SprayNpreyT 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@machinedude9386 cause of the big rep boost

    • @azazelreeds
      @azazelreeds 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

      ​@@machinedude9386They mean the job you hear about from Jackie that Dex fucked up before disappearing for a couple years

    • @psymcdad8151
      @psymcdad8151 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      @@machinedude9386Im refering the "Unknown thing in Pacifica".

    • @machinedude9386
      @machinedude9386 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@psymcdad8151 ah, fair point.

  • @isaiahjenkins3821
    @isaiahjenkins3821 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +776

    “How’s that quiet life working for you now? Choom” 🚬💨

    • @bloodieddeadman6.1.65
      @bloodieddeadman6.1.65 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh he's living the quiet life. As a corpse at the dump with a round in his head 💀

    • @SirHellnBack
      @SirHellnBack 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      love that line from johnny. toss some ash on him.

    • @SPINEBUSTER2023
      @SPINEBUSTER2023 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      🗿

    • @STG1183
      @STG1183 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      Johnny is a real one just for that smark remark alone.

    • @isaiahjenkins3821
      @isaiahjenkins3821 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      FR

  • @NowioFel
    @NowioFel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2829

    Dex shows pure Chicago thug energy: thinks he is the boss while being a mere embarrassment.

    • @PoeMore
      @PoeMore 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      🤔 because he's black?? Wdym by Chicago thug? And you got a like from the channel. 😂😂😅😮

    • @PoeMore
      @PoeMore 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      🤔 because he's black?? Wdym by Chicago thug? And you got a like from the channel . I posted this on a comment on this video. You liked the video, are you saying all black people are thugs in Chicago? Before anyone say anything about race im white....

    • @printezstroman
      @printezstroman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +345

      "...pure Chicago thug energy..."
      Bruh, you could've just said the word and be done with it.

    • @HabitabIe
      @HabitabIe 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +144

      @@printezstroman”Pure average black-American energy 😊”
      Is that you wanted little sister?😊😊😊

    • @C_0_N
      @C_0_N 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

      @@HabitabIe
      Just "Chicago warlord Energy" that would be nice

  • @Malaclypse_the_Third
    @Malaclypse_the_Third 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +297

    I always figured Dex was always planning to throw V and Jackie under the bus as easy scapgoats. He's picked mercs who are competent but out of their depth. I think rather than a come back he just wants to have a massive score and then leg it.
    I think T Bug might even be in on it. She doesn't want ties, and she says a couple of suspicious things on the lead up to the heist.

    • @dranixrush3306
      @dranixrush3306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Leg it for what? There would be no point to coming to night city if that was the case. It seems Dex had enough resources to start over and build a new life.
      In my opinion Dex was trying to make a comeback to restore his honor to some degree.

    • @RiotforPeacePlz
      @RiotforPeacePlz 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Voodoo boys always exterminate outside help when done with the job. No matter what V was going to get hit.

    • @Malaclypse_the_Third
      @Malaclypse_the_Third 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      @@dranixrush3306 We know very little about Dex's current resources, he's been out of the loop for a while. If honour was his goal he goes a funny way about it.
      It seems more likely to me that he wants a big score for the money and then a quiet retirement living like a king. No one stealing that chip was going to be safe in Night City.

    • @dranixrush3306
      @dranixrush3306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Malaclypse_the_Third Several other ways he could have gone about it, if it's just for money. Nah, it's pseudo honor he was going for. Yeah, he fucked up in Pacifica but I think he was trying to get into the good grace's of the merc world. He knows how to hustle evidently, so money I doubt was his main drive.

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      Theres literally dialogue with Jackie where V says that Fixers are people that get the biggest and cheapest idiot for the job and then dispose of them afterwards.
      And considering Evelyn also tried to cut the others out of the deal I have no doubts there would have been tons of backstabbing even If the gig was succesful.

  • @jansen4282
    @jansen4282 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +90

    Fucks up, ducks in Pacifica for a couple years. Comes back. Fucks up the very first job. Should have asked more questions. Would have realized Ev was in way over her head

    • @FlameDarkfire
      @FlameDarkfire 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Greed blinds

  • @IronDragonslayer2316
    @IronDragonslayer2316 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +312

    my only regret from the konpeki plaza gig is aside from the fact i couldn’t save Jackie is the fact i didn’t get to Zero him myself.

    • @synphilia4776
      @synphilia4776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

      Yea, then we could've at least saved him from the indignity of being turned into an engram by Arasaka

    • @lukaskolisek2208
      @lukaskolisek2208 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

      @@synphilia4776 Just send him home instead of Vik's place. That way Saka won't get his body and you get an extra side quest.

    • @synphilia4776
      @synphilia4776 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@lukaskolisek2208 forgot about that option, you're right

    • @jonusaguilar8156
      @jonusaguilar8156 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@synphilia4776you could also tell Del to not do anything and wait for V; did that on my first play through not knowing that Dex shoots V minutes later.

    • @kaoru288
      @kaoru288 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      its frustrating because we couldve been faster. we had lots of ways to turn things around. we couldve just said fuck it and ran up, had T bug unlock the ship Saburo was in and delta outta there, or, broke the glass walls, slid faster towards the ladder, or if all else had to be the way they were, we couldve saved Jackie with some stims. we have a lot. surely in the far off year of 2077, we dont have internal bleeding suppressants in one of those injectables?

  • @la_engineer
    @la_engineer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +115

    The first time I met Dex I thought to myself: "Wow, he sounds like one of those financial coaches from the internet who wants you to invest in his snowball system" :D

    • @jeffy1862
      @jeffy1862 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I thought the same darn thing! That “die young and glorious, or old and irrelevant” pitch was a dead giveaway for him being trouble to me. But as much as I would have liked my V to have walked away, we have a story we have to play out, and Cyber Punk isn’t about playing it safe. It’s about making the ballsy decisions that either leave you a survivor, or a statistic.

    • @chrisgoblin4857
      @chrisgoblin4857 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Crypto pump and dumper. Hit the nail on the head.

  • @TremelJackson
    @TremelJackson 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +335

    The fact that Rogue has the balls to go out on missions shows how legendary of a fixer she is not even Wakako is brave enough to go into battle with you

    • @DashingSteel
      @DashingSteel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

      I mean, Rogue is a Solo first and foremost. Best Solo in the biz before she retired as a merc. No Fixer actually goes on gigs, it's not something one should expect.

    • @Ordoabchao-x9k
      @Ordoabchao-x9k 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

      Dude wakako is literally a granny

    • @Carolinafan85
      @Carolinafan85 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      Rogue is a legendary merc herself, but she has a family now, something to live for, so she doesn't expose herself to danger and doesnt need to when there are hundreds of leadheads lining up to work for her.
      She only went out to find Smasher cause Jhonny guilted her into it, like it was her fault he's stupid and got himself killed, and wants to blame her for being smarter and surviving, one reason raiding Arasaka has Jhonny is the 2nd worst vanilla ending, Rogue deserves to live out her life in peace

    • @Finckelstein
      @Finckelstein 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      @@Ordoabchao-x9k So is Rogue. Are you forgetting that she's literally in her 80's?

    • @Ordoabchao-x9k
      @Ordoabchao-x9k 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      @@Finckelstein yes but rouge doesn't literally look like my granny behind a counter. She probably has combat chrome and age reversing shit in her. She still moves like she's 30 or something

  • @Drarack
    @Drarack 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    I used to take it as a deliberate move that the bigger picture can be extremely difficult to piece together in a lot of the game's story. Like, this is a world that does not revolve around you and does not care about you beyond your role in it. The story of Night City is not the Story of V. He/She is not important enough to ever really have it all laid out in front of him/her. Just like in real life, you only ever get to see part of the picture and are left to draw your own conclusions.
    Now I'm starting to wonder how much of that is actually just a result of stuff getting cut or rewritten

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I’m in the same boat. The more I read and the more I played the game, it started to be more and more of a “hmmm this feels like somethings missing”. It’s honestly really interesting to investigate! 😄

  • @Big_Dip1
    @Big_Dip1 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Dex is a parody of greed...the pistol you get off him even charges you per bullet lol

  • @SPINEBUSTER2023
    @SPINEBUSTER2023 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

    How Dex DeShawn Became Night City's Worst Fixer?
    -Gang war in pacifica wich he got involved thats why he retire
    -Betraying V

    • @ExeErdna
      @ExeErdna 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      It's amazing it wasn't Voodoo who fried T-Bug and left bread crumbs for Arasaka to find Dex. Since we kinda find out they were watching that go down.

  • @sorrenblitz805
    @sorrenblitz805 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    The only thing that I could find on Dex and Pacifica is that it's mentioned a couple times that before the Heist he got Ran out of Pacifica before going off grid for a while and it's implied heavily that he's kind of a joke.

  • @ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc
    @ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

    There is also an Arasaka fixer downtown but you never get to interact with her.

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Ohhhhh didn’t know that! I’ll have to do some research for my video on the ripperdocs!

  • @blar2112
    @blar2112 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    13:00 i love the deep serious talk while you plow trough pedestrians with your car

    • @NevNeedsALife
      @NevNeedsALife 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      "roadblocks" *hits civilians*

    • @RachelLouren28
      @RachelLouren28 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      haha that's what I was thinking

  • @sidequestJil
    @sidequestJil 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    i really love that in the prologue you see how Dex's Facade crumbles even for jackie as you, jackie and t-bug do everything except booking delamain

  • @jeffy1862
    @jeffy1862 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    It is helpful to remember that chapter 1 as well as a LOT of the overall story went through some pretty major rewrites after Keanu Reeves expressed a desire for Johnny to play a bigger role in the story for 2077.

  • @Cryptic0013
    @Cryptic0013 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +106

    The fact that V went along with this guy and then got dropped by his bodyguard after such an obvious setup really reinforces my headcanon theory that the entire Prologue and Act 1 are a flashback, just like Johnny's memories, and they're about as reliable. When he wakes up, V's scrambled, composite mind is trying to remember "Who am I? How did I get here?" and he gets two answers, both of them filtered through the subconscious mind (and therefore the acute Main Character Syndrome) of one Johnny Silverhand, where he sees himself as having been cooler, more competent, and cannier than he ever really was. Then he gets up, and with the further help of that subconscious mind, proceeds to actually become That Guy.

    • @ExeErdna
      @ExeErdna 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      That's why the character starts kinda don't make sense in way. Like personally Corpo makes the most sense since that makes you a LIFETIME buddy of Jackie yet that ironically still would tie you to Streetkid like since you were that you just took a slight different path. Like all the starts happened in way. Like It started off Corpo, the Streetkid aspect was your true backstory then one of your first missions with Jackie post corpo was getting that Iguana. Yet everything was mixed up due to the trauma

    • @filipstudeny
      @filipstudeny 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      My headcannon is that V just died and the Relic made a copy of him. So through out the whole game you are playing as Relic V while at the same time being merged with Johny

    • @chrismanuel9768
      @chrismanuel9768 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@filipstudenyThat's not even headcanon. That's canon. The Relic is designed to restore a corpse to life and overwrite the old data in the brain. The problem is that it was already in your head the moment you were killed and it brought you back too soon. You died. Dexter killed you. Now you and Silverhand are occupying the same space, but he's slowly taking over more and more of the neural pathways until V doesn't exist anymore. The Relic is just repairing a corpse and the V personality is brain damage.

    • @howlingdin9332
      @howlingdin9332 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@chrismanuel9768 More analysis from people who forget what 'dead' and 'corpse' mean.

  • @RustyShacklefardd
    @RustyShacklefardd 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    The whole philosphy of the games story hinges on Dex asking V. Would you rather live long or Go fast and become a legend? The idea that getting what we want comes at a price.

  • @GhostwalkerSparrow
    @GhostwalkerSparrow 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Dex believed he was the biggest fish in the pond, without realising he was actually in an ocean with shark

  • @bmo5852
    @bmo5852 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

    2:02 here's an interesting tidbit. In an unreleased board game: 'Gangs of Night City' someone is described as "The go-to fixer for Pacifica". It's not Mr Hands, it's not Dex, it's Faraday

    • @Foogi9000
      @Foogi9000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Interesting

    • @tootnoots
      @tootnoots 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Makes sense. Up until his death, Faraday seemed like he was well connected and *quite influential* as a fixer.
      Then Dex comes back and dies, forgotten almost as quickly as he returned.
      Then we (V) helps to solidify Hands’ status in Pacifica and Dogtown.

    • @DashingSteel
      @DashingSteel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

      Faraday: Showed up to meets in person. Acted arrogant. *Killed by Smasher while out on the open because he thought he had a say in the matter*
      DeShawn: Showed up to meets in person. Acted arrogant. *Killed by Fakemura because he thought he had a say in the matter*.
      Mr.Hands: Never shows up to meet you in person until you've already solidified his position. Acts professional, cordial, even fatherly (which makes sense since he clearly has a child). *Survived and probably becomes the shadow ruler of Dogtown.*
      Mr.Hands has achieved his Big Break by operating like a True Fixer. He never overextened, never acted arrogantly, but did act like a knowledgeable and educated person, which you would want your Fixer to be.

    • @bobsempletank5362
      @bobsempletank5362 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@DashingSteel Exactly. Faraday overextended his reach by far. Despite being obviously way more competent and intelligent than Dex, Faraday's arrogance made him misread his position. He didn't view himself as a fixer, but as a boss, ordering pawns and climbing up a corporate ladder to a point where he was untouchable. Essentially, Faraday was never cut for the fixer life, and while he had a good run for the most part, the misreading of the true content of his job and position made his arrogance overrule any intelligence or skill he had. He was a man obviously much more cut out for the corporate world, but seemingly viewed himself as too superior for such a job, and paid the price dearly for such an incorrect mindset. Dex is a bumbling idiot who lucked his way into his rep and believed he deserved it, while Faraday is sort of an unprepared Icarus who flew too close to the sun, got burnt, and fell to his death- metaphorically and literally

    • @magicoofmac8904
      @magicoofmac8904 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@DashingSteelHands is definitely a favorite of mine. His manners are immaculate and his jobs are layered.

  • @chrisc448
    @chrisc448 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    For sure T-Bug was underdeveloped, and I feel the same about the VDBs. Placide was a great baddie, would have enjoyed that being built up. They'd have been a great fit for the Blackwall stuff in Phantom Liberty.
    I love Dex, I remember being awed by his presence and apparent competence in the limo briefing first time I played. Took me multiple playthroughs and lore vids like this to clock that he was a desperate chancer feeding small timers into a buzzsaw.

    • @RCorvinus
      @RCorvinus 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Glad I’m not the only one that couldn’t pick up the clues. Granted as a player I did feel the whole heist was going to go sideways.

  • @ravendelacour1917
    @ravendelacour1917 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +71

    "Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it."
    As for the missing data on Dex's worst day, sometimes it's better not to know. A secret drives us to speculate, search, theorize. A known fact is just filed away and considered trivia. Often what we imagine can be far better than the reality we uncover.

  • @dantran9962
    @dantran9962 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    One of the biggest issues for me is how V and Jackie were able to climb up so fast in 6 months that somehow got in contact with T-Bug a known aloof Netrunner that is way above their pay grade, V is able to afford a pretty sizeable apartment, a decent ride, were able to worked for Padre and Wakoto two fixers that are known to being strict on who they hire, got the attention of Regina Jones who hires V on a very serious work involving cyber psychosis. There is no way they would accomplish all that in Night City in 6 months that Dex will be like, yep these two are key to this gig I have crafted.

    • @owlsayssouth
      @owlsayssouth หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      They are up and comers, desperate to become legends. Perfect profile for disposable mercs for a red hot gig that is going to be incredibly radioactive afterwards.
      The combination of competent but also wet enough to be willing to go against arasaka.

    • @chrisgoblin4857
      @chrisgoblin4857 6 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@owlsayssouth And their lack of experience brings plausible deniability when things go south.

  • @midnight_yota
    @midnight_yota 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    I think you have a good point. I’ve seen other people theorizing that the montage of you and Jackie was originally supposed to be playable content but they didn’t have time to work on it.

    • @TheFatalcrest
      @TheFatalcrest 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      i swear this game was a victim of just 'We need to deliver this, no more delays anymore, cut whatever isn't fully needed" And we lost either potential content or just a bit more of that nice, moment to moment gameplay. You getting extra time with Jackie is something I always wanted in that game.

  • @sideshowmo653
    @sideshowmo653 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    There's a line in the first meeting V has with Dex where he says he reached out to people in Pacifica to check out Evie and he's paid a "visit" by friends from pacifica. They don't say this is the VDbs, but the intimation is there. I think the VDBs knew all about the heist from that point and planned to take advantage of it. They lost track of everything when the shit hit the fan.
    If Dex did bail on T-Bug i'm surprised that she was working with him again unless she was planted by the VDBs to help them keep track of the heist and screw everyone over at the end.
    Finally, i think using greenhorn mercs was probably calculated to allow a betrayal at the end.

    • @KurokishiOcelot
      @KurokishiOcelot 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yeah. I thought something similar. With the hints that Dex had abandoned her once already, I thought it was really strange that she would trust him again. Unless she was with the VDBs and sent in because of her history with him as an inside person for the op. With that original trailer, I think it was canon at one point, rather than just a spoiler hiding model swap. I think she would betray V and then Dex to keep the relic and take it back to VDB, only to realize it can't be extracted without damaging it.

    • @riccardomallardo7779
      @riccardomallardo7779 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      The way I understood it is that the voodooboys wanted to make their own heist and hired evelyn to shoot a braindance in yorinovu's suite for it, but evelyn then decided to do her own heist and hired dex. Because when you extract evelyn's memories she mentions the relic and maman brigitte tells her something "it's none of your business, just record the BD"

  • @Kaijugan
    @Kaijugan 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    I feel like Dex’s old gig is meant to be what we in the trope space call a “Noodle Incident” something that implies more in the world that people mention constantly but never explain because that’s part of the appeal and what adds to the world building as a whole.
    If you’re unfamiliar with this trope, I suggest watching OSP Red’s Trope Talk on it.

  • @Nyghtking
    @Nyghtking 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +46

    I would suspect, based on what I think his real goal for the mission was, that he probably had almost no contact left, and maybe not much money either.
    Like lets say he had contacts with Corps like Hands does, why would a Corp want to keep working with him after his massive fuck-up that cause a city wide war? and the knowledge that he ran when it went down.
    Corps tend not to like when people working for them screw up so I imagine they cut ties when he proved that he doesn't really know when a gig shouldn't be done, or at the vary least proved he didn't know what to do to make it work.
    I would also assume he probably had to leave behind a lot of his stuff, which in two years was probably confiscated, stolen, or repossessed, it's not like the gangs would keep away and I doubt the NCPD would care, they probably wouldn't like him much either since they probably had to get involved in the city wide gang war, if they knew he caused it.
    So if true this paints a scenario of a guy with almost nothing left putting on a facade so he can get this last job done and cash out.

    • @Foogi9000
      @Foogi9000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      It makes sense because what Fixer chooses a nobody like V? Yeah, you smashed up a Scav haunt but that's not really anything special. No, he needed people who were just competent enough to do it adequately but also were desperate and blind enough to see how much of a suicide mission it actually was.

    • @Nyghtking
      @Nyghtking 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@Foogi9000 Yup he had no way of knowing how big V would be, but he could see how desperate Jackie was to make it big and that V would go along with him, would also explain the lack of precautions taken for the mission.

    • @Foogi9000
      @Foogi9000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Nyghtking Yeah

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Foogi9000
      V literally has dialogue with Jackie about how fixers find the biggest, cheapest, yet barely qualified idiot they can get and then dispose of them afterwards once they have outlived their usefulness. Seems that is exactly what Dex intended to do.

    • @jeffy1862
      @jeffy1862 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup! That about sums up my thoughts on Dex’s situation as well.

  • @onidarkmoon2381
    @onidarkmoon2381 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +54

    Theory: TBug didn’t die, she just made it look that way, and led Goro to where Dex was…then she made the escape proper. Long form revenge!

    • @Foogi9000
      @Foogi9000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Sadly i don't think so, she definitely got soulkilled in that moment.

    • @tootnoots
      @tootnoots 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      Johnny’s exposition dump in the first part of Tapeworm where he mentions that Arasaka can fry your brain and pack away your mind and psyche with soulkiller makes me think T-Bug had that fate as well.

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      If you are a netrunner you get a mission from t bug for a free quickhack at a quick hack shop. If you return there after the heist you can ask the women there If she heard from t bug and she tells you that she was found with her nervous system fried, and that it is probably the worst death imagineable.
      Safe to say that she is dead...

    • @Foogi9000
      @Foogi9000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      @@tobiasbayer4866 Yeah... it's safe to say that she suffered a fate worse than death which is sad. The scream she made was similar to how it sounds when someone gets soulkilled or *(Spoilers)*
      When they get hit by a rogue blackwall A.I, the glitched screams is especially indicative of such an entity.

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@Foogi9000
      On the brightside, If you do the secret ending and decide to go beyond the blackwall with Alt and let Johnny have your body, Alt will merge itself with all the engrams in Mikoshi, which includes you and possibly T Bug If she truly was hit by Soulkiller. So a happy reunion at last... Yay?

  • @twiningsirishbreakfasttea3826
    @twiningsirishbreakfasttea3826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    i think that the conversation with Evelyn in the hallway at Lizzie’s is further evidence of Dex’s story being cut down for the final release, since she asks you to go behind his back and do the job for Evelyn herself, but you never get the option to go through with this or follow up on the conversation later in the game

    • @sambryce321
      @sambryce321 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      I think that’s just meant to trick you into thinking the job will actually pay out, or possibly show you not to trust anyone in night city

  • @RagtagOcean
    @RagtagOcean 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Glad to see people making content about Cyberpunk lore. There is so much to learn about the world and its people.
    Also might just be me but longer videos aren’t an issue, I can happily listen to an hour long video about Dex

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I have this feeling an hour long video is gonna be unavoidable sometime soon. Johnny needs… a lot! 😂 thank you so much for watching!

  • @cantide
    @cantide 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    "Deservedly, underwhelming demise" yes!

  • @Skully_14
    @Skully_14 9 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    I just started a new game and I decided to NOT go into the bathroom to wash my face after the heist went wrong. Dex calls up a shuttle, a shuttle specifically for one person. At that point, I figure part of V's mind probably went "Fuck."

  • @coldhaven1233
    @coldhaven1233 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I'll admit, it is hard to dislike Dex. He's got charisma. The first time I played, I got played, and didn't even really realize it. I thought he was a pretty cool character. Having played through a few times, I get more of what was going on. I know Vik had some things to say about Dex, but you'd think he would've clued V in on everything he knew. Might not have swayed V because of how tight they were with Jackie, but still. It would've gone a long way toward feeling trepidation as the day of the heist came about.
    Maybe I'm dumb and a bit naive, but I felt a little blindsided. And maybe that's how you were supposed to feel. It isn't wrong how it came across, but I would've felt a bit more anxious knowing how many people had severe doubts about Dex, or even given V more info about why he left Night City. Maybe I just didn't pick up on it like I was supposed to. Who knows. Its still an awesome story. My only wish is that the Devs had been able to make all of CP 2077 like they did with Phantom Liberty. I absolutely loved that DLC. It had been a very long time since a game made the experience so visceral that I kept dying rather than give up Songbird to Reed (not knowing that I could put her down and stop him later.) I was absolutely livid to the point I wanted to quit the game entirely rather than let Reed have her. THAT is an amazing story.

    • @virtualgambit577
      @virtualgambit577 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I went into this game completely blind, never saw any trailers or demos. But I did go to school in the inner city, so I got around a bit. Dex immediately had me suspicious of him, he was captured so perfectly! He’s the type to give you a doomed drug run and turns tail the moment he hears you got pulled over haha. I really liked the small mannerisms and writing for him though, it definitely tipped me off!

    • @shorewall
      @shorewall 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@virtualgambit577 When he asked which I wanted, to die in a blaze of glory or live a long life, I was like, "Why are you asking me this now?" :D I don't plan to die, do you? I know the game makes a theme of going out in a blaze on your own terms and becoming a legend, but I also think that you gotta plan for success, not failure. The fact that he was talking about failure made me sus of him.
      And then it was all bravado, and he sells us out thinking he can cut and run. Yeah, same old shit. He reminds me of Big Smoke, from GTA San Andreas. :D

    • @chrismanuel9768
      @chrismanuel9768 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Really? Charisma? I hated him the moment I met him. All self aggrandizing and speaking in smarm. His blaze of glory shtick was weak and clearly him trying to manipulate you

  • @SuperFriendBFG
    @SuperFriendBFG 13 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    My understanding for the "beginning" of the game, and why it had so many weird holes, is that the part where Johnny Wakes you up after your untimely demise was meant to be much later in the game, and not part of a prologue of sworts. That he was re-written to be much more prominent in the game after his first stage appearance at E3.

  • @willywallyb2379
    @willywallyb2379 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    11:33 i think this is on purpose, showing how green V was and how poorly he planned. With other fixers, you know exactly what you are dealing with, and exactly who has your back. With dex, its all like the first car ride, smoke in your face. He doesnt tell you what hes done, why he picked you, or why hes goign after that in the first place. All sogns he really isnt much of a fixer at all

  • @NPTV1950XX
    @NPTV1950XX 21 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    16:50, I think the mystery and lack of background regarding Dex and Tbug plays well into the themes of chapter one. I think the player not being able to access background information on Tbug and Dex forces the player to behave and think like Jackie does: Tbug is an amazing netrunner that knows what she's doing and can handle the entirety of konpekki plaza's dataforetress on her own and that Dexter is a legendary night city fixer that knows what he's doing.
    This lack of context and information has the player and Jackie put their 'trust' in these two only for the wool that the devs and dex placed to be ripped off of their eyes. I think that giving the players access to greater context or backstory AFTER chapter one would've been nice, maybe a gig or two that cleanup messes dex left behind, or grabbing some of Tbugs old gear before netwatch can grab it. But as it stands I think it's perfectly fine for the story.
    Tbug being a major player in a "what if" scenario feels as important to the overall story as flaming crotch man being a major part of the story. It would be nifty, but not necessary to the cautionary tale of greed and pride.

  • @gameoverinsertcointocontin8102
    @gameoverinsertcointocontin8102 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Dex did not create the combat zone. He screwed up a gig spectaculary and had to leave NC, but other than that we don't know much. The Combat existed at least around 2045 during the age of Cyberpunk: Red. Later Corpos tried to turn this area of NC around with massive investments. But aside from gang resistance a massive Militech/NUSA invasion foiled these plans. The half completed buildings of this failed endeavor litter Pacifica. When the war ended a ground commander of NUSA with most of his forces went rogue and instead of leaving he held on to the combat zone around 2070. Renamed his area Dogtown and established himself as an international arms dealer with a district fully independant from NC.

  • @RealCryptoTest
    @RealCryptoTest 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Fixer? City? Close enough PROJECT MOON SLEEPER AGENTS SWARM HIM-

    • @kdr_roxas
      @kdr_roxas 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      WASHED UP GRADE 9 FIXER 🗣️

  • @andytypes8271
    @andytypes8271 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    11:55 id say chapter one feels like it was written first with all the ambition promised at the start and as ambition met reality and they scaled back to hammer down and fix story elements they left a lot in with hopes of paying off in expansions or DLC

  • @ACE7F22
    @ACE7F22 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    I like that there's unanswered questions. Feels life like, cause you don't often get the whole story in real life. The mystery gives a sense pf intrigue, or you just don't care. Like, he sucked, I'm glad my time wasn't wasted learning about his past.

  • @beige_projection
    @beige_projection 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Yes please. More character analysis like this. I thought I knew a lot about the lore and the characters but I didn't know that we were given more details about Dex's failed gig in Pacifica. I've read a few of those Humans of Night City entries before but never Rhino's. I should go back and read them all.

  • @THEMithrandir09
    @THEMithrandir09 5 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Cyberpunk for me is a genre thats partly about stories cut short. Not wizards living to ripe old age but young lost adults dying way too early.

  • @oinkerbob2
    @oinkerbob2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I'm glad I found your channel. I know I'm not alone in feeling like the Konpeki heist makes no sense as a genuine effort to steal the Relic, and this led me to assume that someone involved had some hidden motive to ensure its failure. While I stopped watching at the first mention of Phantom Liberty since I wanted to avoid spoilers, your take and the sources provided on Dex help me contextualize the prologue a lot better than before. I now see the job the way it was likely intended to be viewed: a half-baked plan by a disgraced fixer with several people doing their best to take advantage of his weakened position in the criminal world.

  • @printsignalsoma1248
    @printsignalsoma1248 10 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    When you learn about the lore of the corpo wars and arasaka it’s amazing anyone woulda been willing to do the job.

  • @uwuowo8599
    @uwuowo8599 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Yeah, the game was crunched and is kind of unfinished, but man, it still goes so God damn hard.
    Anyway, nice video.

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I’m amazed at the quality of narrative they were still able to have, despite all the setbacks and treatment of the devs. Shows the passion and care of the people who put so much into it. And thank you so much for watching!

    • @redxhand
      @redxhand 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      If they got alot more time and more devs for support, Cyberpunk would been more massive and better. WItcher 3 if im not mistaken got a lot of changes too especially the story.

  • @Nyvek91
    @Nyvek91 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I think it actually makes sense that T-Bug was supposed to betray V and Jackie there because if you think about Kiwi in the show... She could have been a nod at T-Bug's cut story... just food for conspiracy lol

  • @Altair00rion
    @Altair00rion 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I liked your video on Jackie Welles. You provide a different perspective from when I play the game getting sucked into his charisma. Nice seeing more videos on this great game

  • @petoperceptum
    @petoperceptum 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the things I really like about this game's narrative(s) are the gaps around the edges. There are so many things that you never get complete resolution or allt he background on. It really makes the world feel alive and realistic, like sure, you are the main character in your story, but everyone else has their stories too and you at most make a cameo in them. It isnt like Skyrim where everything revolves and resolves around you.
    Dex's fall is old news, only reason any merc cares is to not work with him.

  • @NorseGraphic
    @NorseGraphic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Coast View is populated by the VDBs, Scavs and Animals. I wonder if Dex’ actions split the VDBs into the two factions. The ones in Dogtown and the other in Coast View.
    The VDBs in Dogtown was very aware of the Blackwall and saw it as a mistake to mess with it. Momon Brigitte on the other hand seemed to have false hopes to gain access to the other side, never realizing the danger.
    T-Bug never pierced the Black Wall, so her being affiliated with the VDBs in Coast View seems plausible, making her acquaintance with the gang in Dogtown very unlikely.
    By piecing this information together you gain a view of who’s who, and where their operations originated.
    I doubt T-Bug would have wasted so much time if she’d been affiliated with the Dogtown’s VDB’s. The fact it took _hours_ after she gained access after neutralizing the netrunner at Konpeki Plaza says a lot. So Dex’ modus operandi of using the cheapest and most expendable seems to be confirmed. He probably sweet-talked T-Bug, and like Jackie and V, fell for it.

  • @CarBENbased
    @CarBENbased 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    One of the most unsatisfying things for me from the early game is probably a result of those content/story cuts after that one trailer. That's the fact that we don't get to exact revenge on Dex ourselves. I have a feeling that initially they planned to have revenge quest lines for Dex and possibly T-bug as well, but when they had to rewrite the main story they realized they couldn't put that in. So we ended up with T-but getting fried and Dex dead in the junkyard. Which is really an interesting way to wrap it up when you think about it. Because you as the player don't get that satisfaction you're left wanting, just like V is.

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Honestly I kind of like it that way. Everyone involved in that job died. Even V, just later rather than sooner.
      It always reminds me of that scene from Intro where you ride with Jackie in your Car after saving that women from the scavs and see a group of thugs get wiped out by maxtec. A couple of idiots that a wrong move messing with the wrong people and paid the price for it. Thats us when we attempted that job.
      I think thats one of the main themes of Cyberpunk, the genre, the game, the edgerunners anime. Its about desperately wanting to leave a mark on the world, its about hope. But ultimately it is a false hope. In none of the endings you can actually escape your fate, all that changes If your outlook on life and what you choose to with it.
      I think it represents the genre beautifully, and that you arent getting closure, or that revenge is unsatisfying is part of the point.

  • @wisteriapetals
    @wisteriapetals 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I wonder what the deal was with him and T Bug. T Bug seemed to have a decent head on their shoulders, how did they not see Dex for who they were? Or maybe they did? If so, why did they trust Dex so much? They seemed to get along quite well, both enjoyed philosophical discussions.

  • @simonmacomber7466
    @simonmacomber7466 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    To understand Dex you have to realize that at the start of the game he's still "in exile" and is being used by the Voodoo boys for the heist. Yes, Dex wants to grow old and retire, but there is always that need for "one last score." He fled to space, but that wasn't exactly living in the lap of luxury. He was likely begging all of his former allies for help to come back into the game. Which is where the heist comes in. The Voodoo Boys were never going to give Dex his cut. He was always destined to be eliminated.

  • @Niko.and.Starfox
    @Niko.and.Starfox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    your channel is evolving. i notice your video essays include backgrounds and it looks like your appearance is geared toward the genre. Have you thought about techwear like Fabric of the universe and machine 51?. the growth in just a few months is fantastic in terms of editing and production value.
    T bug betraying v is good notice. i feel like jackie was set up in the initial trailer indicates a jackie betrayal as well. These videos are so fun to watch btw. Keep up the good work.

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Awww thank you for saying that! Seriously means a lot that you’ve been watching for all this time. Ohh that would be fun! Cyberpunk fashion is also just great in general 🤣

    • @Niko.and.Starfox
      @Niko.and.Starfox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lydiscott Cyberpunk is so fun. I actually want to start a dystopian cyberpunk themed ramen shop featuring my Shiba and jindos as characters. I'm looking to serve highest quality ramen that's sure to also offend Guro Takemura.

    • @Niko.and.Starfox
      @Niko.and.Starfox 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lydiscott Also have you been watching Delicious in Dungeon? Studio Trigger is so awesome!

  • @dimarichmain
    @dimarichmain 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great video and an interesting theory.
    I feel like they wanted to make the story of V and Jackie, realised there isn't enough time, compressed the 6 months into the intro montage, cut the quests. This is how V was introduced to T-Bug initially, now she is in the tutorial and the first mission instead. This also would've meant V working with Wakako and maybe other fixers, and then Dex would've actually been a new fixer in town (instead of the fixer of your literal first mission, aside from the intro). It doesn't make much sense to get into "major leagues" after the first gig the player does. They covered this hole a little bit, but I still wish I could play a little bit as an unknown merc. In the game every fixer in town gets to know V only after you complete the first chater and visit their region. It's like V has never been anywhere besides Watson.
    [upd] Ev's entire story is that she knows about the chip and organises the gig, dies immediately after. It's almost like they had to stitch the story back up after they decided VB didn't hire Dex. In other words, your theory makes sense. You can't possibly save Ev (unlike other characters?), which could mean she wasn't in the game when they wrote the base story.

  • @EdnaStudios132
    @EdnaStudios132 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I feel like act 1 could've really used a warmup gig from Dexter, before the heist. A little more time to spend with and flesh out the introductory characters would have gone a long way and made the heist more impactful.
    It's a shame to see the game present such strong characters at the beginning, but there's such little time to actually learn about them and connect with them.

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ohhh that would’ve been awesome! 😄 would’ve loved to get some more on all the Chapter 1 characters, even Jackie.

    • @zerosorigin8387
      @zerosorigin8387 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So basically if they didn’t make those 6 months after the Prologue a video montage.

  • @DragonKnightDragonborn
    @DragonKnightDragonborn 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dex lived like a king and thought could do others for his bidding. Then died like a fool who flew way to close to the sun. Reminds me of Icraus from Greek lore so much. I did wish i knew bit more.

  • @GhostEchoX17
    @GhostEchoX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Perfect timing! About to start cooking dinner and now i got something to listen too! Really excited for this one
    After watching this I wonder what could've have been if scenes from the trailer played out in the game like why T Bug tried to defend him. I wonder what reason she would have to work for him after his failures. Definitely feels like a missed opportunity to there

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hell yeah! Have a nice evening, thanks so much for watching! 😄

    • @GhostEchoX17
      @GhostEchoX17 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@lydiscott Your very welcome and enjoy your evening too! I'll update my comment on my thoughts in a few! Thanks again for another wonderful video

  • @boyholland
    @boyholland หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i know cdpr aren’t updating the game anymore, but i think they should add one more side quest that has V investigating Dex’s past. maybe it could start by us receiving a signal from TBug’s corpse and then working backward

  • @three1i
    @three1i 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I hope you do Songbird soon, really want to not hate her as much as I do.

    • @lydiscott
      @lydiscott  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Currently recording phantom liberty 😄 looking forward to taking a closer look at her story!

  • @genericfakename8197
    @genericfakename8197 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When the "fake it 'till you make it" guy finally gets promoted to their level of incompetence.

  • @fist-of-doom487
    @fist-of-doom487 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Honestly the fact you can feel like there would be an entire plot line around T Bug, Jackie and Dexter only for all of them to die hurts so much more. Like the saying goes “Night City always wins” even Dexters death was very unsatisfying because he was taken out in front of your eyes and you didn’t even get a chance

  • @imposternaruto
    @imposternaruto หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your video essay presentation style is adorable and fun. Even if you say something I know, I want to hear you say it anyways! Great work!

  • @TrishaClark-b1q
    @TrishaClark-b1q 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I mean the plan was solid, nobody expected the kid would kill his dad.

  • @dungeonsanddobbers2683
    @dungeonsanddobbers2683 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sorry, I don't know if you talk about it in the video, because I've just started watching it, but a thing that popped into my head recently is a small detail that shows off how Dex might not be the big-shot that he thinks (and likes to make out that he is): he's the _only_ fixer who discusses the details of the job in a soundproof booth.
    The fixers for each district will call you, which can be traced, and Rogue and other mercs in Afterlife (many of whom are presumably fixers) talk about their jobs out in the open. Dex's biz is discussed in a back room, out of sight and sound of the rest of the club, possibly because nobody with any kind of rep wants to be seen in the same room as Dex.

    • @screamingcactus1753
      @screamingcactus1753 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think fixers usually don't take precautions when giving you the details of a job because the jobs are either small enough that nobody who matters will care, or they aren't screwing over anybody more powerful than the fixer themselves. Dex's whole plan was to effectively steal Saburo Arasaka's shot at immortality. If the wrong people got wind of their plan, they'd all be thoroughly disappeared before dawn. The privacy is also probably part of the mystique which is what makes him so good at manipulating new mercs. Now I DO think it's telling that Dex is the only fixer who's willing to take jobs that require such strict opsec.

  • @subjectdelta4758
    @subjectdelta4758 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    V should’ve listened to the clues Dex was using. He basically pulled a Nash (with Jackie and V being the fall guys incase it went to shit). Also V realizes far too late that Dex’s plan was half baked and how unprepared he actually was (hell, Takemura finds V like a few hours from when he shot V), he was out of the fixer scene for like 2 years then all of a sudden had a grand heist on Arasaka for a biochip only a few people knew about, Dex pre-paid for the Militech drone only for V to have to shoot his way out of Maelstrom territory, he had zero backup plans for if/when Yorinobu’s would show up (hell, T-Bug could’ve locked the elevator and possibly opened the door for V and Jackie), Dex was Evelyn’s last choice for the job and Evelyn figured how Dex was unreliable, etc. if V wasn’t so blinded by ambition, he would’ve most likely seen the signs. Hell, Dex even asks V how THEY’D rather go out.

  • @evanlee93
    @evanlee93 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't mind the "holes" in the intro plot. It's a lot like real life. You will not always get all the details. Sometimes you won't get any of the details. I agree that the intro feels like it was rushed, because it just feels so short and you barely get any time to connect with the characters (I connect with them anyways)

    • @tobiasbayer4866
      @tobiasbayer4866 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Personally I always felt like the intro was just a long tutorial, which I think makes sense considering you get the title drop right after getting shot by Dex.

  • @IsaiahMutex
    @IsaiahMutex หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cant believe i watched a 20min video about Dex DeShawn

  • @tylertheguy3160
    @tylertheguy3160 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Maybe it's a bad idea to try and rob the most powerful and dangerous corporation in the world with a fixer who literally just came out of hiding for an entire year over a previous fuck up.

  • @TheSecondKidNamedFinger
    @TheSecondKidNamedFinger 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    One interesting thing is when you're going through the plan with T-bug and Dex in the Afterlife, T-bug is wearing shoes with the branding "Delta V" like T-bug is subtly trying to tell V to leave the job

  • @jameslayman
    @jameslayman 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    8:05 Dex said he put out word and was himself contacted by the VDBs to stop looking, thus he probably isn't on outright "talking terms" with them

  • @___Venice___
    @___Venice___ 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    cheers for these videos, when i actually play games i'm always a berserkhead high functioning cyberpsycho who never reads anything, so it's nice to get some context for things i've only taken at face value

  • @mathewcooper8505
    @mathewcooper8505 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Looking forward to part 2! Time to binge the rest of this channel’s lore

  • @gimmeaminett2859
    @gimmeaminett2859 12 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Never heard penchant pronounced in such an… interesting way.

  • @DarthMatusHolocron
    @DarthMatusHolocron 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've only recently discovered your channel, but Im a HUGE Cyberpunk fan, and your analysis of these characters is truly fantastic. Great work

  • @Sacredsnow2
    @Sacredsnow2 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just want to say, I love this video so much and you got my sub immediately. I forced myself through 2077 at launch with an xbox one, thats how excited I was. Over 200 crashes x.x I put the game away after that but over the last year or so I've been getting recommended 2077 content on YT and I love the community around this game. I've gotten back into the game now that it's fixed and it has become my favorite game of all time. I just love the story and the worldbuilding, so much. Video essays on 2077 are some of my favorite content on YT and plus you mentioned fallout, my other favorite game, so I can't wait to start binging your content!

  • @squallthegriever
    @squallthegriever 24 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Had to come back to these older videos. Love em.

  • @Navin4061
    @Navin4061 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video and analysis! I always thought that the legend surrounding him as one of the best fixers in Night City at the beginning of the game even though his returning to the NC after spending a few years 'off the grid' was a bit shady.

  • @GuntherRommel
    @GuntherRommel 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I am an old man (45). I have discussed the finer details of the world with Maximum Mike, Ed Bolme, and a few others. I even did some writing for the TTRPG's offshoot game.
    You get it. You sincerely get it. Thank you. Liked, subscribed, binging.

  • @lazyrshmuk
    @lazyrshmuk 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This analysis is great. It makes it things a bit clearer for what could've happened to T-Bug. I can't see her working with Dex willingly, after he bailed on her and Rhino in Pacifica EXCEPT if she's out to use him the same way he's using everyone else for The Heist. I'm in the camp that T-Bug bailed because she knew the mission would fail and she 'bugged out', she didn't get fried. Everyone is out to use everyone in this mission. The Voodoo Boys and NetWatch using Evelyn, Evelyn using Dex, Dex using V&J, T-Bug using Dex. So many things went wrong with The Heist, it makes me wonder if some of it was manufactured as a cover for T-Bug. Taking "hours" to work her way through Arasaka virtual space, not knowing about Saburo despite news reels talking about "The Whale" in the bay - she just gave the job a nudge so it would blow up in Dex's face as payback for what he did to her in Pacifica, ESPECIALLY if she has ties to the VB. She couldn't reach him on the moon, but once he showed his face in town? He was dead the second he came back, I'm sure he didn't count on T-Bug still being alive.

  • @Casual-BeANs
    @Casual-BeANs 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love how much of a scoundrel he ended up being. he portrays himself as this cool, calm dude, but as soon as his massive plan goes awry, he blames everyone around him and tries to skip town again.

  • @LeonardMosca
    @LeonardMosca 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you. Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion."

  • @EREBVS999
    @EREBVS999 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love your vocal enunciation no vocal fry. Very professional.

  • @JB-yr6qt
    @JB-yr6qt วันที่ผ่านมา

    My favorite theory has T-Bug either having ties or working for the Voodoo Boys. The heist plan seems to be T-Bug's and prioritizes her safety with the Flathead which would have kept her more or less out of harm's way if Sobaru hadn't shown up, which would leave V, Dex, and Jackie saddling most of the risk from being there in person or being the name doing all the digging and legwork. She wanted that last big payout, and/or was in on the VDB's plans for the Relic so she called in her favor with Dex to get him to run the gig. I think for both his own contacts and experience, his funds to put it together, and because his name would get Jackie and V to take on the risky job that no other sane fixer would touch.

  • @stebokanebo20
    @stebokanebo20 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I have 326 hours in cyberpunk. I’ve played it over and over. I never get tired of these kinds of videos either.

  • @ravenRedwake
    @ravenRedwake 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    7:14 I don’t think tbug would deal with him again if he left her out like that

  • @fourtruths3324
    @fourtruths3324 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Dexter reminds me a lot of the characters of The Wire. A lot of them had the opportunity to get out of the game but always succumbed to the itch to come back