You deserve it bro a whole 2 hours of research and work. And that’s just the final product I bet you had way over 2hrs of context before editing. Well done 👍🏼
I think what I love most about this universe is that the stories of David and V are like drops of rain, tiny in the grand scheme of things. Both David and V went through hell, leaving bodies upon bodies on their path to freedom or survival and in the end? Night city remains. The megacorps remain. To the average night city resident, it was just another Tuesday.
I'd say that is a fundamental aspect of the genre - no matter how over the top and extreme things can get from a surface observation, in the long run it is almost always utterly futile. There is no stopping the corporate/capitalist juggernaut as the greed that lead to corporations in power implies even if you tear them down new ones will take their place. That is if you're even on the level of being able to take a corp down. The genre as a whole puts a juxtaposition of survival in an utterly dystopian reality against neonbright shining moments of beauty aswell as glimpses into utter horror. It ends up asking questions in the same way Planescape: Torment does "What does one life matter?"
IDK, my V was last seen heading off into space. He could be anywhere doing anything. In my head, enough of his brain was saved to keep him alive with nanobots and has to share half of his brain with Johnny or die. Its the opposite of those twin brothers from beat on the brat: two minds, one body.
@@danjal87nl well said man! If I recall, during the mission at clouds, V mentions wanting to just matter. And in the end, well, he really didn't matter did he? Idk just a cool little detail that ties everything together
@@rubyrock555 he actually did. Except for 2 endings, he literally becomes the most known merc in night city and completely destroys arasaka, along with killing hanako. If that "doesnt matter" then thats weird
There is so much incredible lore for the creators to work with, I can't wait to see what's next in night city. Edgerunners was an incredible addition to the world, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Im not even a fan of anime, edgerunners was my first, but I'm a sucker for cyberpunk lore.
Kinda perfect that both Fallout 3 and Cyberpunk have Pittsburgh be renamed "The Pitt" and be irradiated wastelands. And honestly the footage works here for it.
I just looked it up and I honestly think the video creator got two concepts completely mixed up. The Pit is just an apartment building inhabited by a gang in Cyberpunk
@@chase4086 you won't find it by quick google search, but you can find that information in "NeoTribes" cyberpunk sourcebook. So, the author didn't mix anything up
@@PPSzB yeah, I wish more of the info was widely available, because it’s absolutely in the Neo-Tribes sourcebook. It’s obviously quite different from what happens in the Fallout universe, but it’s definitely called “The Pitt” in 1994 of Cyberpunk’s universe.
Johnny was never captured by Arasaka. When he encounters Adam Smasher in the building, Smasher shoots him in half. Spider, the netrunner on the crew, slotted a shard that had the soulkiller program on it into Johnnys head before he took his dying breath. The visions we see of Johnny being carted out of the building and interrogated are either memories that were planted in Johnnys head, or they were completely fabricated by Johnny himself in the 50 years he was trapped in Mikoshi trying to make sense of how he could have possibly lost everything. Johnny is a narcissist, and there's tons of examples of him embelishing events throughout the game. Alt herself even tells you that you cant trust the things he tells you. Johnny wanted to believe he was more important than he really was. He was convinced arasaka had taken Alt to get to him when really they didn't give a shit about him. The vision of the tower raid doesn't include Morgan Blackhand because Johnny wants to remember himself as the leader of the raid, and that it was his idea when in reality it was fully funded and supplied for by Militech.
@@vwilhelm5788 it's not stated explicitly. You'd have to be aware of how things actually went down in the tabletop Cyberpunk game and compare. Once you realize it though it becomes so obvious and there's hints literally all throughout the game that what you're seeing/hearing from Johnny isn't all true or how things actually happened.
@@mando5803 yeah but its also started within the game that his memories are false and didn't happened stated by Alt but tbh i prefer his pov in my own headcanon
@Ruvaäk Ildrasil Well yeah, why do you think I'm happy to see it revitalized? Hope dies when the last memory of the world before goes first. After that it's just "the way things have always been" and until then it's a fantasy world to be avoided. Catch my drift?
@@vincentsavoretti2201 What I meant was that it was seen before as science fiction almost, fantasy as you say. Now it's very real. It's a bit scary that in 20 years fantasy became reality ^^
Personally i always found this genre fascinating, but also horrifying at the same time due to how realistic it's becoming, and especially in my case in which i have a phobia of implants, surgeries and cybernetics, yet I'm still playing the game haha
Wow so The Edgerunners had just ended a year before V and his crew came on scene. Aww man we just just missed it by a year. Would have loved to run into anyone from Davids crew.
Closer to 4-7 months before V shows up the prologues of V's back stories take place around the same time David dies. V ends up in David's old apartment. Unfortunately by the time V is an established Merc, only Falco and Lucy are still alive. You can find a short side quest where Falco texts you and tells you you have a lot in common with David and then tells you not to look for anyone from his old crew. Then he leaves David's jacket with El Capitan. In newer patches you can find the graves of Rebecca, Julian, Kiwi and David at the Columbarium with epitaphs written by Lucy.
You sort of can. If you go to the Mega Building that David lived in during Edgerunners you will find graffiti on the wall of the same symbol David has on the back of his jacket. Eventually you will get contacted by Falco telling you to not bother looking for any of the crew, they don't want to be found. As a show of good faith, because Falco says David and V have a lot in common, Falco gives you David's jacket. You can also find Rebecca's shotgun, Guts, in a bush outside Arasaka tower at the site of her death in Edgerunners. There may be other Edgerunner references in 2077 but that is what I've found so far.
There were a few"just because" situations that left a few things feeling weak. Small nuclear bomb goes off so the city of newyork immediately goes feral for a long time? And other cities becoming "combat zones"... Just because And magically all the earthquakes, plagues (ok?),droughts and famine only affected the US... Repeatedly. Like the author's needed to find an inflated over the top reason to keep the US influence to a minimum. And not sure how Europe can become a power house with all those independent countries disagreeing with each other. The real world EU shows that won't happen.
@@crushingit5128 It helps to remember that everything needs to be framed in the context of a tabletop game, i imagine things like the combat zones were just so they could make cool combat scenarios.
1:57:55 Maine didn't actually kill Dorio. She was shot by one of the cops while she was trying to inject Maine with a dose of immunosuppressants. I think it's purposefully presented in a confusing way in the anime, to make the audience think what Maine's thinking in that moment, confusion on if he'd killed his own lover while he was going psycho.
quite sad if you think about it. Maine's soul must have been devastated knowing how he treated David and Dorio, considering it made him have a brief moment of clarity before death.
We may still get the cool cybernetics. Technology just needs to advance enough to invent and improve them along with advancing the internet to what C-2077 has.
You know, this video just kind of reinforces how much of a legend V is. Took down multiple gang leaders, adam smasher, dozens of psychos and arasaka elites... Depending on your build and difficulty, V did it like it was NOTHING too lol.
Small Saburo fun fact: there was a Japanase fighter ace called Saburo Sakai, who went to similar ordeals getting his eye shot out and having to fly to base for hours while passing out from his wounds several times
Fantastic, as a lore nerd, couldn’t ask for a better video. Before 2077 didn’t know squat. After playing 2077 became my favorite game and second only to Halo in my favorite lore.
Absolutely I love how deep the lore is, it goes back miles and even forward a bit. Reminds me of subautia, lore laid out for u before but u get to go back and figure it out
@@Psycholosopher I thought I already replied but it’s not here any more, but I FUCKIN love Star Wars. The lore goes back eons and just has no end. And the entricatness of the light and dark side. And how at the same time it’s plain and simple 😙👌🏿 chefs kiss and the whole reason I’m a nerd
The game and anime that has come from this universe are my all time favourites of their respective genres and with your help to explore the wider cyberpunk lore, your youtube series on cyberpunk have become my all time favourite youtube videos. Amazing work, thanks a lot, choom
I just think it's amazing that Mike Pondsmith drew incredible believable parallels from our real world and weaved an incredible story and universe from it. Shit, don't know how old some of these ideas are here but the man may as well be a prophet at this point. Just incredible, amazing execution on editing of the lore as well. I loved every second of this video!
Most of what is written in the lore in this video was written from 1988 to 1994. The vast majority. Mostly the 2030-2077 stuff is from 2015 on. So yeah, man was WAY ahead.
I'm glad to see this amazing video back up, it's gone right back to the top of the Lore videos playlist I use for work/sleep. Keep up the great work Wise.
Family, this was INCREDIBLE. Thanks for taking the immense amount of time required to flesh out all the written lore into a chronological timeline. Fair play, mate, you successfully chronicled almost 40 years of writing, and just added SO much to my understanding of the Cyberpunk '77 universe.
I'm not a huge lore nerd but I am a huge cyberpunk nerd. Man did this vid scratch a huge itch for me, cause Cyberpunk (the series) has such a crazy and wildly complex background that I can rarely ever scratch the surface of reading the sourcebooks before I need to move on to other things, but it's one of those things I've always wanted to know more about. This must've taken an insane amount of time to put together, kudos and thanks for doing so!
thanks, man! this is a true masterpiece and logical conclusion (as of this point in time) to your massive Cyberpunk series. it’s really great that you’ve managed to solve all the underlying issues that contributed to the first upload’s handling by YT. this piece deserves to be seen by as broad audience it can possibly reach with no artificial handicaps
I cannot overstate how much I appreciate the quality of your lore videos. Visuals, background music, pacing, and your absolutely stellar vocal presentation to top it off--absolutely some of the best out there. Been lurking on your channel for quite some time now, and I think you finally reaching 100k is absolutely deserved. Congratulations!! 😘😘
Reality is much worse. Most people don't want to admit the reality of many things. Even the board game neglects reality in favor of faceless oppressors that are generic and inoffensive. In truth, the US (and many, many parts of the world) is not ran and influenced by people as faceless, generic and as inoffensive as the boardgame fictionalizes it to be. But if the boardgame were to get that aspect correct, it would not have existed in the first place, which only further proves that reality is much worse. Who truly runs the corporations/governments of today? Why are their last names so weird sounding? Why is it so blatantly obvious that the CEO/owners of these corporations clearly are not the current owners of said corporations and are simply only following instructions? Very fascinating stuff...
Honestly, I am a history lover, so learning about stuff in the past and how things came to be and all that is just so interesting. So learning about the most important Cyberpunk history and lore just had me even more invested in the universe than I already was after playing the game
I know your comments about 11 months old now, but you should really check out fallouts lore and history. I really appreciate it when game devs take actual history and then divert it to fit a games lore narrative. I love how creative it gets when our history diverts into the games history.
@@OddBall002 11 months already? Jesus, time flies... And I like the Fallout lore, but I just really REALLY couldn't get into the games cuz of the gameplay
I was halfway through the other one. On my way to work, I went to finish it, and nothing there was big sad. I'm glad it's back. Hopefully, still here in the morning so I can watch it!! Great video. Thanks for all the hard work!!
As a budding TH-camr focusing on photography and cinematography, I have ridiculously high respect for you for making anything this long. My videos average about 8-9 minutes long and the work that goes into THOSE is a lot. I can’t imagine your workflow and talents to make a damn movie-length video and have it all fit together so well. Superb work!
cyberpunk lore is that it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse (cool robotic implants)
Have to say dude, the way you have edited this video, is truly impressive! Literally had me going "oh i know that game/movie/show!" All throughout! Yet you link them up with relevant times dates and places in the cyberpunk timeline. You managed to make it all connect together so well it feels like its footage from cp 2077's universe.. Seriously, well bloody done!
Maybe, in this world it makes sense. Getting overthrown would likely result in a royal civil war, and it isn’t like kings and princes aren’t know for leading soldiers in civil wars lol
My favourite part of cyberpunk lore is how the entire world is constantly rocked by devastating financial collapses and disasters with incredible frequency yet somehow there's never labour shortages or supply chain disruptions that would stop massive construction and technology projects
Such a fantastic video, this took me like a week to actually watch and absorb so I can’t imagine how much work went into this. Thanks man, you’re awesome.
This video was very informative and well arranged. My favorite part of this video is that it managed to put into a clearer perspective how terrifying Adam Smasher is for ending the lives of a few NC's legends, and how BADASS it is that our V to be able to take him down, while being handicapped by suffering from the Relic's side effect! Hail V!
Wonderful video. Well worth the effort. It was articulated extremely well and seems to have contained everything one would need for a total lore overview for Cyberpunk. Thank you.
Thanks for a great overview of the story! It filled a lot of the gaps I had from only playing the game. By the way, 34:37 it’s CHOOH2, “O” as in oxygen, although such chemical molecule is not possible; not with our current technology, at least. However, a molecule with one less hydrogen IS possible. CHOOH is a formic acid, a basic carboxylic acid. The name is derived from the acid ants produced. In Latin, formica means an ant. Also, 56:12 his name is Kim Jong-il, not “the second”.
Formic acid exists only in dimers: (CHOOH)2 so the chemical formula would make physical sense this way. And there are fuel cells IRL that work on formic acid.
Absolute brilliant! Thanks! One thing I'm curious to know more about is how cyberware came to be as prolific as it is; how it all started and how it evolved throughout the timeline.
Honestly I think that was thanks to the war, a reason why I think we’ll have similar cybernetics is thanks to the neuralink, with it, it can pair both your brain and a cybernetic arm thus making it part of you.
Thank you WiseFish for your hard work. You definitely deserve many more subscribers and i hope your future is better than the Cyberpunk world.😆 I just finished Cyberpunk 2077 a few days ago. So this video came out at great time. I can't wait to see your videos on the Cyberpunk dlc expansion.
As brillant as ever ;) Yet 2 mistakes : Dorio wasn't kill by Maine, but died taking a bullet for him, bullet shot by a NCPD officer (the scene yet might be confusing). from the crew, only Lucy and Falco survived, as David dies covering their flight. Minor points really, in comparaison to the troumendous work done here 🙏
David also might have been hit by soulkiller, the last thing Smasher says to David was "You could prove an interesting construct" I think David's resilience to cyberpsychosis means Arasaka probably wants his engram
@@thomasfitzpatrick8077nah, smasher had a bit of respect and David said he didn’t care about becoming a construct so he killed him off before arasaka could get their mittens on him
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this! ❤I‘ve entered the Cyberpunk universe with the game, and always wondered how this world became what it is in the game.
This was incredible. I really enjoyed watching it all the way through. This world is so alive. Even the smallest moment can cause a huge impact. Thank you for making this video.
Glad to see this back up. Great video. One note - Kei (Arasaka) is always pronounced "kay" or simply "K" in Japanese. Your pronunciation only works if it was spelled Kai.
Cyberpunk's world is the type of sci-fi I could actually see happening. Sure,not to the extreme of using so many nukes, but the economic and most grounded technological aspects, are somewhat believable, especially nowadays with AI progressing and prosthetics getting better, while economic inequality, government corruption, and pollution grows. Aldecado (the founder), and Richard Nights are probably the only ones I dare to say who are actually good people, while the rest are.. a bit iffy at beat, sociopaths at worse
Economic equality is the only thing that’s grown, pollution has gone down massively (except for in developing nations and China) and the US government is roughly the same corruption wise as far as we know, it’s just more obvious now that most people have the internet and easier access to information. This is over the top, but some beats could really happen in our future. I do think there’ll be space colonies and plenty of global crises in the future, but prosthetics and AI will change the world, more likely that prosthetics won’t be recreational, but I could see the government utilizing them for military purposes if AI soldiers don’t come first lol
Hell yea man! My friends are a bit new to the setting and we're gonna give Cyberpunk RED a go, this will be a great primer and help for them! Thanks for your awesome efforts!
I love the game, it has it's ups and downs from a technical standpoint, but the story is just amazing. One of these worlds that feels too real at some time, and to think that we might be just a century or so off...
I have been aware of the Cyberpunk 2077 realm since a couple of years before the release of the PC game. Life has sadly prevented me from engaging with said game. Now 2/3rds of the way through this video, I just wanted to stop and say just how incredible both your effort AND the CP2077 world are!! Kudos, and thanks!!
IDK if anyone4 caught this but The Pitt in Pittsburgh is also in fallout as well. Fallout Wiki: "The Pitt, nicknamed the Steel City,[1] City of Steel,[2] and the Gateway to the West[2] before the War, is a raider-dominated city built in the ruins of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"
God the graphics and art direction from 0:01 to 1:39 is so amazing, what a city they've created I wish they had made like 5 expansions for this game not just one :( :(
Its wild to think how much can be done within this universe. Ixm ezcited for the next one. Cyberpunk 2077 os my favorite game 9f all time. Thank you for this video. Extremely well done.
1:57:54 very tiny nit pick Maine did not kill Dorio. if you watch the scene closely. she slips past his shots at her. gives him his meds and he comes to seeing he was actually shooting at Dorio. then the cops shoot her from behind. knowing this it is actually even worse because he wasn't in a cyberpsychosis state when he had to watch her die because she cared more for him then herself.
A wonderful recital of the full timeline! I’d probably only be able to recall a few details, as I was driving in my car as I was listening, but it was very entertaining. You also have a great narrating voice!
Cyberpunk has become one of my fav games of all time. It’s like the perfect mix of fallout meets GTA, and those are 2 of my fav game series already. Plus with the whole futuristic and punk aesthetic as the cherry on top. I come back and listen to this video all the time cause I just love this universe and world that’s been created and that you can be a part of. Thank you for making this legendary piece of content for us cyberpunk fans. I always look out for your new stuff and I can’t wait til the Orion videos flood my home page ! Take it easy, thank you, and take care choom!
Cannot thank you enough for not trying so hard to “have a personality” and try to make constant jokes for 2 hours. God bless a straight informative video
Fallout is just stolen ideas from many fictional universes, especially from the universe of Cyberpunk. It even steals the tone of Cyberpunk with the nihilism to only turn tail and run towards a more comedic and uncaring (i.e. retconning) tone; certainly emboldened by the IP acquisition by Bethesda but also the "hardcore" fans who they themselves found liking towards the terrible and corporate Amazon show. New Vegas is my favorite (simply because of the based Legion faction) but the series overall is absolutely without question the most overrated video game series to ever exist. I hope for more Cyberpunk games and less Fallout games, maybe none to be quite frank.
Okay so people already brought up the correction of Dorio's death, but what I also wanted to bring up was that Johnny's death is still the same as in the TTRPG. Killed by Adam Smasher from a shotgun blast that cut him in half. What was shown in the game was fabricated by Johnny's egotistical side, trying to make himself out like he's the hero of the story, when in reality, it's actually Morgan Blackhand and Johnny essentially went out like a bitch. Edit: Also Arasaka never recovered Johnny's body. So it is not known how Johnny actually became a construct.
First time watching this and I can honestly say, this is a fascinating video about a wonderful game and a terrifying world CD Projekt Red created. Thank you so much for all of your efforts. It's time for jumping into the game again!
CD Project did create 2077 and the map / world of 2077 there of, but the world of Cyberpunk was created by Mike Pondsmith. Mike wrote the first pen and paper Cyberpunk in 1988 (later reknown as cyberpunk 2013 when Cyberpunk 2020 released in 1990.)
@@itsCobbi No Problem. Mike is a real swell guy, and i'm happy as hell for him that his world and universe got to be made in viddeogame form by CD Projekt.
@@itsCobbi They didn't create it. Cyberpunk has been a TTRPG for like 30 years. The worldbuilding was done by Mike Pondsmith in the early 90s and the lore was written over decades. CD Projekt Red brought it to screen in a beautiful manner, but they had a huge "bible" to work from
@lowkeylysemith2568 I knew all about Mike and the TTRPG side of Cyberpunk. I was talking about the game. The implementation, the art style, the music, the stories and everything else that comes with it. Yes, they created the game.
The perfect video to watch before starting a new playthrough following the major updates / changes from patch 2.0, before Phantom liberty drops shortly. Thanks
slight correction, johnny probably never had a buddy that took bullet for him, more likely he is talking about him old self, that he died so that johnny silverhand could be born and live
Subscribed! Amazing lore video. Haven’t even finished it and I’m already blown away. Your pacing is great. Was listening to this on my drive home. Keep ‘em coming!
What I find most appealing about 2077 is that it manages to both make you feel like you're a regular citizen in Night City, as weird as everyone else with your own story, yet it also makes you feel special and different as a protagonist. It's fun to switch between regular city-merc doing gigs and the reincarnated Johnny Silverhand.
Waheyyy first video to hit 1million views! Thank you all so so much for checking it out and supporting the channel! ❤
Well done. I am glad I came accross this keep up with the great work
You deserve it bro a whole 2 hours of research and work. And that’s just the final product I bet you had way over 2hrs of context before editing. Well done 👍🏼
Love everytime you threw shade at dodgy andrew lmao
Thank you for doing all this work, I want to run a cyberpunk red game with my friends, so this saves me a lot of time.
GOOD VIDEO BROTHER MANNN ❤
I think what I love most about this universe is that the stories of David and V are like drops of rain, tiny in the grand scheme of things. Both David and V went through hell, leaving bodies upon bodies on their path to freedom or survival and in the end? Night city remains. The megacorps remain. To the average night city resident, it was just another Tuesday.
I'd say that is a fundamental aspect of the genre - no matter how over the top and extreme things can get from a surface observation, in the long run it is almost always utterly futile. There is no stopping the corporate/capitalist juggernaut as the greed that lead to corporations in power implies even if you tear them down new ones will take their place. That is if you're even on the level of being able to take a corp down.
The genre as a whole puts a juxtaposition of survival in an utterly dystopian reality against neonbright shining moments of beauty aswell as glimpses into utter horror.
It ends up asking questions in the same way Planescape: Torment does "What does one life matter?"
IDK, my V was last seen heading off into space. He could be anywhere doing anything. In my head, enough of his brain was saved to keep him alive with nanobots and has to share half of his brain with Johnny or die. Its the opposite of those twin brothers from beat on the brat: two minds, one body.
@@danjal87nl well said man! If I recall, during the mission at clouds, V mentions wanting to just matter. And in the end, well, he really didn't matter did he? Idk just a cool little detail that ties everything together
@@rubyrock555 he actually did. Except for 2 endings, he literally becomes the most known merc in night city and completely destroys arasaka, along with killing hanako. If that "doesnt matter" then thats weird
There is so much incredible lore for the creators to work with, I can't wait to see what's next in night city. Edgerunners was an incredible addition to the world, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Im not even a fan of anime, edgerunners was my first, but I'm a sucker for cyberpunk lore.
Slight correction is that Falco (driver for Maine and David's crews) survived the events of 76 and has a small text chat with V
Officially he’s dead. Unofficially he survives.
@CevicheGato you mean like he went off the books and faked his death?
@@imstupidforreplyingbut-3203 he means cyberpunk 2077 is technically not canon in the board games lore, wish it was, but it aint unfortunately.
@@danielhogan6255i looked it up it says 2077 is a direct continuation what do you mean
@@CevicheGato any source officially stating he is dead?
Kinda perfect that both Fallout 3 and Cyberpunk have Pittsburgh be renamed "The Pitt" and be irradiated wastelands. And honestly the footage works here for it.
I just looked it up and I honestly think the video creator got two concepts completely mixed up. The Pit is just an apartment building inhabited by a gang in Cyberpunk
@@chase4086 you won't find it by quick google search, but you can find that information in "NeoTribes" cyberpunk sourcebook. So, the author didn't mix anything up
Lol wrong
@@PPSzB yeah, I wish more of the info was widely available, because it’s absolutely in the Neo-Tribes sourcebook. It’s obviously quite different from what happens in the Fallout universe, but it’s definitely called “The Pitt” in 1994 of Cyberpunk’s universe.
@@AC-hj9tv no I’m right
I love how the entire timeline is basically “what if everyone had horrible international relations skills?”
The world but every nation is ran by teenager
So what you are saying is that Cyberpunk lore is just a casual hoi4 session ?
Everyone in the game throws one liners at each other like it's a comic book, so I guess global tensions are always high when everyone is edgy.
Like when you play Risk drunk. And on amphetamines.
wdym? US is kinda in the same ballpark xD
Johnny was never captured by Arasaka. When he encounters Adam Smasher in the building, Smasher shoots him in half. Spider, the netrunner on the crew, slotted a shard that had the soulkiller program on it into Johnnys head before he took his dying breath. The visions we see of Johnny being carted out of the building and interrogated are either memories that were planted in Johnnys head, or they were completely fabricated by Johnny himself in the 50 years he was trapped in Mikoshi trying to make sense of how he could have possibly lost everything. Johnny is a narcissist, and there's tons of examples of him embelishing events throughout the game. Alt herself even tells you that you cant trust the things he tells you. Johnny wanted to believe he was more important than he really was. He was convinced arasaka had taken Alt to get to him when really they didn't give a shit about him. The vision of the tower raid doesn't include Morgan Blackhand because Johnny wants to remember himself as the leader of the raid, and that it was his idea when in reality it was fully funded and supplied for by Militech.
I don’t remember this in the game?
@@vwilhelm5788 it's not stated explicitly. You'd have to be aware of how things actually went down in the tabletop Cyberpunk game and compare. Once you realize it though it becomes so obvious and there's hints literally all throughout the game that what you're seeing/hearing from Johnny isn't all true or how things actually happened.
@@deadanyway3951 so in Cyberpunk 2020 or RED, you can see/read/play/whatever what actually happened to Johnny?
@@mando5803 yeah but its also started within the game that his memories are false and didn't happened stated by Alt but tbh i prefer his pov in my own headcanon
That's really really sad.... :'(
15 minute lecture? Nah.
2 hour long timeline of cyberpunk? hellyeah.
Take that education system!
@@WiseFish nahhh lore is more important
Gotta say, I love the constant jabs at Prince Andrew
Glad someone noticed haha
Looked for the comment, at beginning I was like "hmmmm is this gonna be a theme" was not disappointed
He was an old dude who was friends with Epstein, means nothing
Hahaha, yass... I'm not alone
The pedo?
I'm so happy to see Cyberpunk as a genre being revitalized, and this series specifically is a perfect way to make that happen
It's funny that this genre was so interesting in 1980 and became real in 2000
@Ruvaäk Ildrasil Well yeah, why do you think I'm happy to see it revitalized?
Hope dies when the last memory of the world before goes first. After that it's just "the way things have always been" and until then it's a fantasy world to be avoided. Catch my drift?
@@vincentsavoretti2201 What I meant was that it was seen before as science fiction almost, fantasy as you say. Now it's very real. It's a bit scary that in 20 years fantasy became reality ^^
@@Ruva4k And I'm saying that's exactly why I'm happy it's back
Personally i always found this genre fascinating, but also horrifying at the same time due to how realistic it's becoming, and especially in my case in which i have a phobia of implants, surgeries and cybernetics, yet I'm still playing the game haha
Wow so The Edgerunners had just ended a year before V and his crew came on scene. Aww man we just just missed it by a year. Would have loved to run into anyone from Davids crew.
Closer to 4-7 months before V shows up the prologues of V's back stories take place around the same time David dies. V ends up in David's old apartment. Unfortunately by the time V is an established Merc, only Falco and Lucy are still alive. You can find a short side quest where Falco texts you and tells you you have a lot in common with David and then tells you not to look for anyone from his old crew. Then he leaves David's jacket with El Capitan.
In newer patches you can find the graves of Rebecca, Julian, Kiwi and David at the Columbarium with epitaphs written by Lucy.
You sort of can. If you go to the Mega Building that David lived in during Edgerunners you will find graffiti on the wall of the same symbol David has on the back of his jacket. Eventually you will get contacted by Falco telling you to not bother looking for any of the crew, they don't want to be found. As a show of good faith, because Falco says David and V have a lot in common, Falco gives you David's jacket.
You can also find Rebecca's shotgun, Guts, in a bush outside Arasaka tower at the site of her death in Edgerunners. There may be other Edgerunner references in 2077 but that is what I've found so far.
This is one of the coolest alt-history timelines I've seen. Very realistic (minus the future tech) and compelling
I was jump scared when bro mentioned cybernetics in the 90s.
Right. It's extremely grounded and believable outside of the science fictiony stuff. Just incredible uses of cause and effect with the story telling.
There were a few"just because" situations that left a few things feeling weak.
Small nuclear bomb goes off so the city of newyork immediately goes feral for a long time? And other cities becoming "combat zones"... Just because
And magically all the earthquakes, plagues (ok?),droughts and famine only affected the US... Repeatedly. Like the author's needed to find an inflated over the top reason to keep the US influence to a minimum.
And not sure how Europe can become a power house with all those independent countries disagreeing with each other. The real world EU shows that won't happen.
True. Europe bringing back the USSR just to spite the US is extremely realistic.
@@crushingit5128 It helps to remember that everything needs to be framed in the context of a tabletop game, i imagine things like the combat zones were just so they could make cool combat scenarios.
1:57:55
Maine didn't actually kill Dorio. She was shot by one of the cops while she was trying to inject Maine with a dose of immunosuppressants.
I think it's purposefully presented in a confusing way in the anime, to make the audience think what Maine's thinking in that moment, confusion on if he'd killed his own lover while he was going psycho.
Damn.
quite sad if you think about it. Maine's soul must have been devastated knowing how he treated David and Dorio, considering it made him have a brief moment of clarity before death.
Cyberpunk strikes me as the future we're heading into but without the cool cybernetics, at least, not to the same degree.
I wished we gotten the cool cybernetics. Maybe it could’ve possible if some technological regulations didn’t exist.
We may still get the cool cybernetics. Technology just needs to advance enough to invent and improve them along with advancing the internet to what C-2077 has.
If that's the case my best bet is moving out of the USA and moving to Europe
And how corporations are screwing the people and ruining the land
@ducksoup10 war is the mother of invention, or rather nessecisty, which is what drives the development of technology.
well worth the second watch. you have created a great and interesting 2 hour long lore video
Thank you!! Glad you thought so, really appreciate the view and comment :)
I love Judy’s mission at the dam. I absolutely love sunken architecture and greatly fear it. So it was a thrilling experience.
Big underwater industrial stuff terrifies me.
I was extremely grateful that it wasn't dark and creepy
That’s such a niche fear I love it! hahah glad that it enhanced your experience rather than take away from it :]
@@svenneumann2816 try Subnautica
I completely forgot Judy was a Lez and died laughing when she rejected my guys advances
You know, this video just kind of reinforces how much of a legend V is. Took down multiple gang leaders, adam smasher, dozens of psychos and arasaka elites...
Depending on your build and difficulty, V did it like it was NOTHING too lol.
Small Saburo fun fact: there was a Japanase fighter ace called Saburo Sakai, who went to similar ordeals getting his eye shot out and having to fly to base for hours while passing out from his wounds several times
He is the creator of the pen and paper, which the game is based on
@@Joseph-mh9xdno he isn’t. Mike Pondsmith is the creator of the Pen and Paper cyberpunk game.
@@Matt_10203for sure, however he was very much influenced by William Gibsons "Neuromancer"
Another fun thing, there was a Japanese rifle issued in the Imperial Army during WWII called Arisaka 😂
@@Joseph-mh9xdwhy are you just lying 😭
Fantastic, as a lore nerd, couldn’t ask for a better video. Before 2077 didn’t know squat. After playing 2077 became my favorite game and second only to Halo in my favorite lore.
Same only Cyberpunk lore now sits in 3rd for me while Elder scrolls and Destiny lore are in front of it, although Mass Effect lore is right behind it
Absolutely I love how deep the lore is, it goes back miles and even forward a bit. Reminds me of subautia, lore laid out for u before but u get to go back and figure it out
What about Star Wars?
@@Psycholosopher I thought I already replied but it’s not here any more, but I FUCKIN love Star Wars. The lore goes back eons and just has no end. And the entricatness of the light and dark side. And how at the same time it’s plain and simple 😙👌🏿 chefs kiss and the whole reason I’m a nerd
@@EternalNightingale destiny 1 lore is peak
The game and anime that has come from this universe are my all time favourites of their respective genres and with your help to explore the wider cyberpunk lore, your youtube series on cyberpunk have become my all time favourite youtube videos.
Amazing work, thanks a lot, choom
ahhh your a good person for that. Good taste in games and anime too...
What anime? What is it called? Never heard of it.
@@matesajben5274 Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
@@matesajben5274😳
This commment is my favorite comment of all time
I just think it's amazing that Mike Pondsmith drew incredible believable parallels from our real world and weaved an incredible story and universe from it. Shit, don't know how old some of these ideas are here but the man may as well be a prophet at this point. Just incredible, amazing execution on editing of the lore as well. I loved every second of this video!
Most of what is written in the lore in this video was written from 1988 to 1994. The vast majority. Mostly the 2030-2077 stuff is from 2015 on. So yeah, man was WAY ahead.
Never did I think i would hear "The bloods" "Travelling circus" and "Disney" in the same sentence.
Never did I think I would hear make America great again!
MAGA 2024!
@@NigerianCrusaderno one asked
@@rimut230 DONT BE MEAN TO ME
What next, The Crips doing a Sunday matinee for the kids?
im surprised theyre allowed to use the real corporation names like this in a game setting
The Cyberpunk universe is by far my favorite out of any video game I've ever played. Great video, I always enjoy videos diving deep into the lore
Fallout universe is still the GOAT for me
@@YeTism Same man !
Pond smith is genius with world building
This and Half Life
In addition to Cyberpunk, Fallout, and HalfLife, I would suggest to play Deus Ex. It's a similar setting in a sci-fi dystopian society.
I'm glad to see this amazing video back up, it's gone right back to the top of the Lore videos playlist I use for work/sleep. Keep up the great work Wise.
Thank you dude! Really appreciate the kind words :)
I thought I was the only one😅
Family, this was INCREDIBLE. Thanks for taking the immense amount of time required to flesh out all the written lore into a chronological timeline. Fair play, mate, you successfully chronicled almost 40 years of writing, and just added SO much to my understanding of the Cyberpunk '77 universe.
The game and universe does a fantastic job at making you feel like you’re just another member of society rather than the world revolving around you.
I'm not a huge lore nerd but I am a huge cyberpunk nerd. Man did this vid scratch a huge itch for me, cause Cyberpunk (the series) has such a crazy and wildly complex background that I can rarely ever scratch the surface of reading the sourcebooks before I need to move on to other things, but it's one of those things I've always wanted to know more about. This must've taken an insane amount of time to put together, kudos and thanks for doing so!
thanks, man! this is a true masterpiece and logical conclusion (as of this point in time) to your massive Cyberpunk series.
it’s really great that you’ve managed to solve all the underlying issues that contributed to the first upload’s handling by YT. this piece deserves to be seen by as broad audience it can possibly reach with no artificial handicaps
I cannot overstate how much I appreciate the quality of your lore videos. Visuals, background music, pacing, and your absolutely stellar vocal presentation to top it off--absolutely some of the best out there.
Been lurking on your channel for quite some time now, and I think you finally reaching 100k is absolutely deserved. Congratulations!! 😘😘
Very happy to see this one back online, I wanted to rewatch it and I could not find it. Google really is the Arasaka of our times
Haha they’re the big bad corpos
They are "burning the library of Alexandria".
Reality is much worse. Most people don't want to admit the reality of many things. Even the board game neglects reality in favor of faceless oppressors that are generic and inoffensive. In truth, the US (and many, many parts of the world) is not ran and influenced by people as faceless, generic and as inoffensive as the boardgame fictionalizes it to be.
But if the boardgame were to get that aspect correct, it would not have existed in the first place, which only further proves that reality is much worse. Who truly runs the corporations/governments of today? Why are their last names so weird sounding? Why is it so blatantly obvious that the CEO/owners of these corporations clearly are not the current owners of said corporations and are simply only following instructions? Very fascinating stuff...
I love how the lore is like:
-*Awful thing happens and tons of people are killed/affected*
-"But if you thought THAT was bad..."
Honestly, I am a history lover, so learning about stuff in the past and how things came to be and all that is just so interesting. So learning about the most important Cyberpunk history and lore just had me even more invested in the universe than I already was after playing the game
I know your comments about 11 months old now, but you should really check out fallouts lore and history. I really appreciate it when game devs take actual history and then divert it to fit a games lore narrative. I love how creative it gets when our history diverts into the games history.
@@OddBall002 11 months already? Jesus, time flies...
And I like the Fallout lore, but I just really REALLY couldn't get into the games cuz of the gameplay
This is the Mona Lisa of lore videos.
Second times the charm! Hopefully this one won’t be hit. Hope you all get to enjoy it this time!!
If TH-cam does, screw them. Honestly
I was halfway through the other one. On my way to work, I went to finish it, and nothing there was big sad. I'm glad it's back. Hopefully, still here in the morning so I can watch it!! Great video. Thanks for all the hard work!!
Thank you for your dedication! TH-cam sucks for this..
I already watched the first upload lol lets go for the second!
When was the first one uploaded?
As a budding TH-camr focusing on photography and cinematography, I have ridiculously high respect for you for making anything this long. My videos average about 8-9 minutes long and the work that goes into THOSE is a lot. I can’t imagine your workflow and talents to make a damn movie-length video and have it all fit together so well. Superb work!
cyberpunk lore is that it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse, and then it gets worse (cool robotic implants)
Have to say dude, the way you have edited this video, is truly impressive! Literally had me going "oh i know that game/movie/show!" All throughout! Yet you link them up with relevant times dates and places in the cyberpunk timeline. You managed to make it all connect together so well it feels like its footage from cp 2077's universe.. Seriously, well bloody done!
The idea of Charles III and prince Andrew leading armies to war is the funniest thing possible
Maybe, in this world it makes sense. Getting overthrown would likely result in a royal civil war, and it isn’t like kings and princes aren’t know for leading soldiers in civil wars lol
My favourite part of cyberpunk lore is how the entire world is constantly rocked by devastating financial collapses and disasters with incredible frequency yet somehow there's never labour shortages or supply chain disruptions that would stop massive construction and technology projects
Such a fantastic video, this took me like a week to actually watch and absorb so I can’t imagine how much work went into this. Thanks man, you’re awesome.
This video was very informative and well arranged. My favorite part of this video is that it managed to put into a clearer perspective how terrifying Adam Smasher is for ending the lives of a few NC's legends, and how BADASS it is that our V to be able to take him down, while being handicapped by suffering from the Relic's side effect!
Hail V!
Wow. Thank you for making this. I can't even fathom how much time and effort went into it, but I genuinely enjoyed every moment! 🙏
Wonderful video. Well worth the effort. It was articulated extremely well and seems to have contained everything one would need for a total lore overview for Cyberpunk. Thank you.
Thanks for a great overview of the story! It filled a lot of the gaps I had from only playing the game.
By the way, 34:37 it’s CHOOH2, “O” as in oxygen, although such chemical molecule is not possible; not with our current technology, at least.
However, a molecule with one less hydrogen IS possible. CHOOH is a formic acid, a basic carboxylic acid. The name is derived from the acid ants produced. In Latin, formica means an ant.
Also, 56:12 his name is Kim Jong-il, not “the second”.
Formic acid exists only in dimers: (CHOOH)2 so the chemical formula would make physical sense this way. And there are fuel cells IRL that work on formic acid.
he probably saw it written as “Il”
No regrets for sitting through this entire playlist. Well written, edited, and narrated!
Absolute brilliant! Thanks!
One thing I'm curious to know more about is how cyberware came to be as prolific as it is; how it all started and how it evolved throughout the timeline.
The main reason i found this video was for that answer specifically
Honestly I think that was thanks to the war, a reason why I think we’ll have similar cybernetics is thanks to the neuralink, with it, it can pair both your brain and a cybernetic arm thus making it part of you.
This actually made the universe make a ton more sense for me. Thank yeh.
Hopefully this one stays up :). Love your work.
Me too! Thanks for checking it out dude!
Truly the cyberpunk world is so lore rich. This world could’ve make logical sense for GTA games to exist.
Wdym?
@@111paolo2flying bikes, flying cars, space cannons, death machine vehicles, constant crime and danger in LS and so on and so forth
@@brysonkuervers2570 ohhhhh I haven't played gtao since 2016 lol
By the time GTA games take place, Cyberpunk was already an advanced world
This is so in-depth and detailed, thank you so much for making this, quite the ride.
Just finished edgerunners, this was exactly what i was looking for. Very good writing and ty for the vid :)
Thank you WiseFish for your hard work. You definitely deserve many more subscribers and i hope your future is better than the Cyberpunk world.😆
I just finished Cyberpunk 2077 a few days ago. So this video came out at great time. I can't wait to see your videos on the Cyberpunk dlc expansion.
My home town! Rocks dropped from orbit... Why you gotta do us like that Aliens!?
Great video thanks for the quality content choomba!
Thanks for the reupload!! Can't wait to watch it later.
No worries I hope you get to watch it fully this time!
This was incredibly interesting for me as a notorious text log ignorer. Thanks for putting this together.
If ever a cautionary tale for the real world… Thanks for putting this together 🙏🏾
As brillant as ever ;) Yet 2 mistakes : Dorio wasn't kill by Maine, but died taking a bullet for him, bullet shot by a NCPD officer (the scene yet might be confusing). from the crew, only Lucy and Falco survived, as David dies covering their flight. Minor points really, in comparaison to the troumendous work done here 🙏
David also might have been hit by soulkiller, the last thing Smasher says to David was "You could prove an interesting construct" I think David's resilience to cyberpsychosis means Arasaka probably wants his engram
@@thomasfitzpatrick8077nah, smasher had a bit of respect and David said he didn’t care about becoming a construct so he killed him off before arasaka could get their mittens on him
Thank you so much for the time and effort you put into this! ❤I‘ve entered the Cyberpunk universe with the game, and always wondered how this world became what it is in the game.
This was incredible. I really enjoyed watching it all the way through. This world is so alive. Even the smallest moment can cause a huge impact. Thank you for making this video.
Just starting Cyberpunk 2077 and this was a real eye opener. Thank you for an excellent job!
17:13 Juan's story is basically what happened to David, damn.
Glad to see this back up. Great video.
One note - Kei (Arasaka) is always pronounced "kay" or simply "K" in Japanese.
Your pronunciation only works if it was spelled Kai.
Ah thanks for letting me know, I wasn’t sure.
@@WiseFish No worries, I only mentioned it because you seem to care, which I appreciate.
Cyberpunk's world is the type of sci-fi I could actually see happening. Sure,not to the extreme of using so many nukes, but the economic and most grounded technological aspects, are somewhat believable, especially nowadays with AI progressing and prosthetics getting better, while economic inequality, government corruption, and pollution grows.
Aldecado (the founder), and Richard Nights are probably the only ones I dare to say who are actually good people, while the rest are.. a bit iffy at beat, sociopaths at worse
Economic equality is the only thing that’s grown, pollution has gone down massively (except for in developing nations and China) and the US government is roughly the same corruption wise as far as we know, it’s just more obvious now that most people have the internet and easier access to information. This is over the top, but some beats could really happen in our future. I do think there’ll be space colonies and plenty of global crises in the future, but prosthetics and AI will change the world, more likely that prosthetics won’t be recreational, but I could see the government utilizing them for military purposes if AI soldiers don’t come first lol
I could see it happening if the "90s" was the 2040s instead. And even that is the minimum.
Hell yea man! My friends are a bit new to the setting and we're gonna give Cyberpunk RED a go, this will be a great primer and help for them! Thanks for your awesome efforts!
I love the game, it has it's ups and downs from a technical standpoint, but the story is just amazing.
One of these worlds that feels too real at some time, and to think that we might be just a century or so off...
Love the straight-up putting Prince Andrew on blast, sir! Very well done! Great job with the timeline as well! Great video!
This was amazing! Perfect video to watch before Phantom Liberty.
I have been aware of the Cyberpunk 2077 realm since a couple of years before the release of the PC game. Life has sadly prevented me from engaging with said game. Now 2/3rds of the way through this video, I just wanted to stop and say just how incredible both your effort AND the CP2077 world are!! Kudos, and thanks!!
Try it out if you get time this year!!
To be fair, a lot of this stuff came from the TTRPG which predated the video game.
IDK if anyone4 caught this but The Pitt in Pittsburgh is also in fallout as well.
Fallout Wiki:
"The Pitt, nicknamed the Steel City,[1] City of Steel,[2] and the Gateway to the West[2] before the War, is a raider-dominated city built in the ruins of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania"
Thanks, I thought I was the only one to get this
He even used modded fallout 3 gameplay when he was talking about it lol
This was an incredible watch/listen. Thanks for all the effort you put into this. 👏🏻
Dude you are a LEGEND! This is a top 15 all timer for me and I’ve been on TH-cam since 06!
God the graphics and art direction from 0:01 to 1:39 is so amazing, what a city they've created I wish they had made like 5 expansions for this game not just one :( :(
There is going to be a sequel
@@vwilhelm5788 unfortunately not for at least another 4 years
@@justwes1240hey, at least it will be finished at launch
@@AHHHHHHHH21 we can only hope
Holy shit! Finally all of the info in one place, Thanks a lot❤️🔥
What a journey! Props for covering so much ground!
Its wild to think how much can be done within this universe. Ixm ezcited for the next one. Cyberpunk 2077 os my favorite game 9f all time. Thank you for this video. Extremely well done.
I'm happy you included clips from my two favorite games. Of course Cyberpunk and Mass Effect... that was a nice Easter Egg
Just got Cyberpunk last week, and found your channel just yesterday. Too cool, The lore DEF makes the experience much much better. Thank you sir!
Loved the first video, great work choom
your storytelling is amazing
This channel is a goldmine for every gamer ❤
Man this is so in depth and comprehensive thanks so much! I’m starting the game now 2.0 and PL have dropped and really appreciate the setup here.
1:57:54 very tiny nit pick Maine did not kill Dorio. if you watch the scene closely. she slips past his shots at her. gives him his meds and he comes to seeing he was actually shooting at Dorio. then the cops shoot her from behind. knowing this it is actually even worse because he wasn't in a cyberpsychosis state when he had to watch her die because she cared more for him then herself.
A wonderful recital of the full timeline! I’d probably only be able to recall a few details, as I was driving in my car as I was listening, but it was very entertaining. You also have a great narrating voice!
I love this Vid, awesome timeline, really good analysis and everything important on spot explained and your timeline builds up from zero to 100
For some reason I don't know why i really enjoy these alternative/fictional histories like Cyberpunk and Fallout. It's really interesting.
Cyberpunk has become one of my fav games of all time. It’s like the perfect mix of fallout meets GTA, and those are 2 of my fav game series already. Plus with the whole futuristic and punk aesthetic as the cherry on top. I come back and listen to this video all the time cause I just love this universe and world that’s been created and that you can be a part of. Thank you for making this legendary piece of content for us cyberpunk fans. I always look out for your new stuff and I can’t wait til the Orion videos flood my home page ! Take it easy, thank you, and take care choom!
There are a couple of minor mistakes I noticed, but overall, this is an incredible video. Really useful for me as a GM for Cyberpunk RED.
I like how you don’t point out the mistakes yet included it in your criticism lmao
@@SubaruOutback-gi6jn Right. The point wasn't criticism. It was praise for the usefulness of the video. Maybe learn to read with context lmao
@@charleswhitehurst7635 if it wasn’t criticism then why include it? And context is irrelevant when it’s all typed out - zero context missing
@@SubaruOutback-gi6jn he can still include it to let someone know
Watching this to hype myself for tomorrow's phantom liberty expansion. Finally going to play again.
the cyberpunk timeline was always a interesting one to me and even though it's a dystopia its one that i wouldn't mind living in it
I love that you used Fallout 3 for the Pitt. I never knew Cyberpunk had its own Pitt
Cannot thank you enough for not trying so hard to “have a personality” and try to make constant jokes for 2 hours. God bless a straight informative video
Fallout Universe : Did super corporations ruin your world too?
Cyberpunk Universe : Yep
Fallout is just stolen ideas from many fictional universes, especially from the universe of Cyberpunk. It even steals the tone of Cyberpunk with the nihilism to only turn tail and run towards a more comedic and uncaring (i.e. retconning) tone; certainly emboldened by the IP acquisition by Bethesda but also the "hardcore" fans who they themselves found liking towards the terrible and corporate Amazon show.
New Vegas is my favorite (simply because of the based Legion faction) but the series overall is absolutely without question the most overrated video game series to ever exist. I hope for more Cyberpunk games and less Fallout games, maybe none to be quite frank.
My bs detector is off the charts
@@charlie1234500You support the legion, you are nothing but a walking corpse without morality
Okay so people already brought up the correction of Dorio's death, but what I also wanted to bring up was that Johnny's death is still the same as in the TTRPG. Killed by Adam Smasher from a shotgun blast that cut him in half. What was shown in the game was fabricated by Johnny's egotistical side, trying to make himself out like he's the hero of the story, when in reality, it's actually Morgan Blackhand and Johnny essentially went out like a bitch.
Edit: Also Arasaka never recovered Johnny's body. So it is not known how Johnny actually became a construct.
First time watching this and I can honestly say, this is a fascinating video about a wonderful game and a terrifying world CD Projekt Red created. Thank you so much for all of your efforts. It's time for jumping into the game again!
CD Project did create 2077 and the map / world of 2077 there of, but the world of Cyberpunk was created by Mike Pondsmith. Mike wrote the first pen and paper Cyberpunk in 1988 (later reknown as cyberpunk 2013 when Cyberpunk 2020 released in 1990.)
@@rednekzombie2988 i didn't know that! Thank you for this info! :)
@@itsCobbi No Problem. Mike is a real swell guy, and i'm happy as hell for him that his world and universe got to be made in viddeogame form by CD Projekt.
@@itsCobbi They didn't create it. Cyberpunk has been a TTRPG for like 30 years. The worldbuilding was done by Mike Pondsmith in the early 90s and the lore was written over decades. CD Projekt Red brought it to screen in a beautiful manner, but they had a huge "bible" to work from
@lowkeylysemith2568 I knew all about Mike and the TTRPG side of Cyberpunk. I was talking about the game. The implementation, the art style, the music, the stories and everything else that comes with it. Yes, they created the game.
The perfect video to watch before starting a new playthrough following the major updates / changes from patch 2.0, before Phantom liberty drops shortly. Thanks
Thanks for making this video! It was a lot of help for me in reviewing the Cyberpunk timeline before running a Cyberpunk Red game set in 2078.
Wake the fuck up, Samurai. We have a lore video to watch.
S-tier content as always bro 👍
slight correction, johnny probably never had a buddy that took bullet for him, more likely he is talking about him old self, that he died so that johnny silverhand could be born and live
Something tells me you don't particularly like Prince Andrew.
Subscribed! Amazing lore video. Haven’t even finished it and I’m already blown away. Your pacing is great. Was listening to this on my drive home. Keep ‘em coming!
What I find most appealing about 2077 is that it manages to both make you feel like you're a regular citizen in Night City, as weird as everyone else with your own story, yet it also makes you feel special and different as a protagonist. It's fun to switch between regular city-merc doing gigs and the reincarnated Johnny Silverhand.