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frostdiamond Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:40pm
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Why are all the "cyberpunk" games have such stereotypical character designs?
People with colour hair. Pink, blue, lime, all that.

People with tattoos. What happened to clean skin?

Why can't there be any normal looking people in 2077? Most of us will live to 2077 and I bet in 2077, the general population does not look as depicted here.
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Originally posted by Silverbane7:
Because cyberpunk was created in the 1980's mate.
Punk was huge back then.
Mohawks, tattoo's, piercings, dyed hair, BIG hair, leather and ripped stuff, pinning your sleeve to your jacket with safety pins....
Its was everything folks who wanted to f&*k the system wore, did and acted.
And the universe reflects that.
The rebels back then listened to punk rock and heavy metal. They wore Dr marten's boots and tatty leather jackets. Dyed their hair and spiked it with a whole tub of gel or wax. Smoked, drank and banged each other. Swore, spat and fought. Mosh pit surfed.
And pretended they were cool, that they 'fought the system'

Cyberpunk reflects those punks.
They couldn't just make 'Street Punk Rocker Simulator' back then as a game tho.
So Mike turned to the books of the time, Neuronancer and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (which became Bladerunner the movie)
And things fit. It was loved. It was played.
In darkly lit back rooms all over, people got together wearing mirrorshade's and leather. Played characters who died in back alley brawls and Friday night Firefights, or went down in mind blowingly spectacular fashion, mid Op (lol)
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placeforpets Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:43pm 
Cyberpunk 2077 lore isn't the same as real life just so you know and especially during 1990 the timelines change most from there onward so you are also almost 100 years behind to ask why it is different so it's a bad point you make sorry to say
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GamingWithSilvertail Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Soemone doesnt have a sence of imagination.
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Sentient_Toaster Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
Because it's based on the setting written by Mike Pondsmith decades ago, and that's just how that setting *is*.
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Narz' thiccDew™ Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
K
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Storm Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:44pm 
hes right though, rebels would have no tats in the future. Only sheep
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Tactical Drongo Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:45pm 
in case you didnt pay attention - the world in cyberpunk 2077 looked already like that in 2020 (in universe) as 2020 was imagined dystopian in the ... 80s?

alternate timeline

what you say is like playing a steampunk game and complaining about goggles and women wearing pants

(also my current character goes with a semi-gaudy black and gold look so I dodged that bullet :P)
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Okihara Jones Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:45pm 
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Why do there have to be Munchkins in Oz? Where are the normal people
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MacCheese Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:45pm 
just do research on the cyberpunk genre in general and all your questions will be answered.
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Mord Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:50pm 
CDPR held true to the art forms that the original 1980's content made society looked like. It's just the games theme.

For example, everyone smokes. Thats because in the 80's, society didn't realize so many would quit via politics and taxation, and - health.
Last edited by Mord; Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:51pm
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Zero McDol Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:50pm 
Sounds more like you're talking about one character OP.

- Takemura, no tattoos
- Panam, no tattoos that I can remember
- Some Mox do and some Mox don't
- NPCs, plenty of different types
- Story characters, also plenty of different types
Last edited by Zero McDol; Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:51pm
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Actalo Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:50pm 
Originally posted by frostdiamond:
People with colour hair. Pink, blue, lime, all that.

People with tattoos. What happened to clean skin?

Why can't there be any normal looking people in 2077? Most of us will live to 2077 and I bet in 2077, the general population does not look as depicted here.

Imagine, if you will, what Portland, OR will look like in 50 years if things continue to progress toward their logical, dystopian future...
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Mord Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:52pm 
'Why can't this alternate dystopian future conform to the way I want it too?'

/Thread
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blaque_czar Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:53pm 
Originally posted by frostdiamond:
People with colour hair. Pink, blue, lime, all that.

People with tattoos. What happened to clean skin?

Why can't there be any normal looking people in 2077? Most of us will live to 2077 and I bet in 2077, the general population does not look as depicted here.
I kinda feel sorry for you.:steamsad:
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Steven Seagull Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:56pm 
Originally posted by frostdiamond:
People with colour hair. Pink, blue, lime, all that.

People with tattoos. What happened to clean skin?

Why can't there be any normal looking people in 2077? Most of us will live to 2077 and I bet in 2077, the general population does not look as depicted here.

Because it's Cyberpunk, it's an alternate reality that is very different from ours, which I'm sure you're already aware as I'm 99% sure this is a troll post.
If it's not idk how you managed to miss out on the very obvious theme that is cyberpunk as a subgenre of science fiction.
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frostdiamond Sep 25, 2023 @ 4:56pm 
A lot of toxic people here.

People from 1980's don't look all that different than the people outside of your window now. why are you all so butt-hurt about me raising a similar question? Sure, I get that it's all about diversity and LGBTQ these days, but not everyone I see on the street has pink hair with half of their heads shaved; in fact, very few of them do. What makes you people think in 2077, EVERYONE on the street would look like this?
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