Corpo is the best background, try and prove me wrong.

[MrFizzlepop]

I read a comment that said Nomad was the best background and introduction to the game, and I just can not accept that.

Corpo is the best background and here is why.

Right away the Corpo background gives insight that corporations are all powerful when you are forced to wait while JENKINS (Yes, I'm convinced they're related.) orders the murder of the that security council.

Then you get a great overview of the city in a flying car so you have an Idea just how big this game is going to be, and then at Lizzie's, how important implants and netrunning are in this world.

Unlike the other backgrounds, Corpo actually sounds like they understand the world and not just a neighborhood or the idea of freedom and import/export laws.

It's also the background choice that makes you a counter-intelligence officer for a corporation, which makes you sound like you might have the skills to actually be or work with a NUSA agent, with that background and your merc training.


P.S. I do know the term "Fight me!"

[McDeath]

Exactly not a bad guess lmao i hated the street kid and then the nomad just doesnt feel right its missing something plus jackie saved your life a long time ago in the corpo so there's that i guess corpo seems to be the best or most fleshed out as it has the most dialog options as well

[Tchuvan]

Streetkid is best. BURN CORPO ♥♥♥♥!

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by Tchuvan:

Streetkid is best. BURN CORPO ♥♥♥♥!

Best at empty responses lacking in understanding apparently.

Corpo background is a former corpo.

What makes you think you can ever match my hate for corporations?

[id795078477]

"Best" background? That makes very little sense - if at all, because different people will have different criteria which define what's "best" for them.

If you just add a single word into your definition and state "best for me" - then it will be fair game no matter who says what as you're entitled to your own opinion as well as everybody is entitled to theirs and/or ignoring the opinions of others.

[The Grin]

Life paths are useless anyway.
With or without DLC......the endings are all the same with basically ZERO IMPACT related to lifepath choices. It's just roleplaying. What a failure........

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by id795078477:

"Best" background? That makes very little sense - if at all, because different people will have different criteria which define what's "best" for them.

If you just add a single word into your definition and state "best for me" - then it will be fair game no matter who says what as you're entitled to your own opinion as well as everybody is entitled to theirs and/or ignoring the opinions of others.

10 points for attacking a single word and it's meaning as your opening move. It's not points I'd want to gain, but you do you.

I will need more than that though, I mean you say add a single word and then add two words, for and me.

I did not say it was opinion, and invited feedback.

This post was not a test to pass, but if it was, you failed.

[Vaylor]

I always pick nomad because it's the only one that impacts the game by giving you an additional quest later on. And I just like the nomad vibe and areas the best.

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by Melon Usk (^3^):

Life paths are useless anyway.
With or without DLC......the endings are all the same with basically ZERO IMPACT related to lifepath choices. It's just roleplaying. What a failure........

Part of this reply is true.

For role-players, the bonus is choosing a character that reduces the "That would never happen" feeling while playing the game.

It is a game, so having the most dialog choices is usually seen as a good thing.

Additionally, I know people that can't get out of the Nomad start on very hard difficulty because it has combat and they don't know to target the cars and not the gunmen.

Backgrounds do matter for more than just role-playing, because while my corpo is sipping champagne while flying over the city, the nomad is in a gunfight that can end them.

[Fray]

Originally posted by Vaylor:

I always pick nomad because it's the only one that impacts the game by giving you an additional quest later on. And I just like the nomad vibe and areas the best.

all three give you a lifepath-specific quest later on

[Wantoomany]

Any path that starts you off by taking everything you had away, and being stabbed in the back by your intern, is not the true path.

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Any path that starts you off by taking everything you had away, and being stabbed in the back by your intern, is not the true path.

I don't what life path you are talking about, Corpo starts with cash in hand from a hit job you no longer have to do, and Nomad starts with half the money from selling a lizard to someone.

Only the Streetkid is temporarily living at Jackie's without chippin in.

If you are talking about the guy that worked for Abernathy, who was Jenkins boss and thus V's second level manager, then you aren't talking about V's intern, you are talking about V's work associate that barely knows them, other than from that one operation they teamed up on.

Feel free to clarify.

[Soldier's Fortune]

Sure, Corpo makes a lot of sense when it comes to interacting with and challenging the upper-level politics of Night City. But when it comes to surviving once the Corpo safety-net is ripped away, the other two lifepaths make a lot of sense for navigating the rougher politics of the underworld. Being a former Corpo from counter-intel would make it extremely difficult for other factions who hate Corporations to trust V. What's to say that your dismissal from Arasaka wasn't an elaborate ploy to turn V into a double-agent? What if V is gathering field data and secretly sending it back to Arasaka HQ? The entire Biochip story could be a very convincing lie designed to disarm others so they allow V into their inner circles.

Also, I'll admit I'm biased toward the Nomad lifepath simply because of the unique car. XP

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by Soldier's Fortune:

Sure, Corpo makes a lot of sense when it comes to interacting with and challenging the upper-level politics of Night City. But when it comes to surviving once the Corpo safety-net is ripped away, the other two lifepaths make a lot of sense for navigating the rougher politics of the underworld. Being a former Corpo from counter-intel would make it extremely difficult for other factions who hate Corporations to trust V. What's to say that your dismissal from Arasaka wasn't an elaborate ploy to turn V into a double-agent? What if V is gathering field data and secretly sending it back to Arasaka HQ? The entire Biochip story could be a very convincing lie designed to disarm others so they allow V into their inner circles.

Also, I'll admit I'm biased toward the Nomad lifepath simply because of the unique car. XP

I like using the Chimera core as a sculpture in my apartment, but don't care much for collecting junkers.

I won't ask for any examples, and your what ifs mean nothing in regards to my post.

I'm not saying no one should ever play another life path.

Go ahead, have less dialog options, less understanding about the world you have just slipped into, and get a car after you've already got one or more depending on your playthrough, as well as a motorcycle.

I mean, are you saying a corporate spy couldn't understand a street level thug's motivations?

It's a game and you can do whatever you want, but it won't make Nomad the best life path.

[Wantoomany]

Originally posted by MrFizzlepop:

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Any path that starts you off by taking everything you had away, and being stabbed in the back by your intern, is not the true path.

I don't what life path you are talking about, Corpo starts with cash in hand from a hit job you no longer have to do, and Nomad starts with half the money from selling a lizard to someone.

Only the Streetkid is temporarily living at Jackie's without chippin in.

If you are talking about the guy that worked for Abernathy, who was Jenkins boss and thus V's second level manager, then you aren't talking about V's intern, you are talking about V's work associate that barely knows them, other than from that one operation they teamed up on.

Feel free to clarify.

This guy

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Smith#google_vignette

Your assistant/intern is the guy who betrays you and ends up with you losing everything. He is not some high level executive, not some gang leader, not boss or operative, you get taken down by a nobody.

And the worst part is the corpo path requires your downfall. You have power, you have influence. The game has to reset you. Has to put you back down to the level of a street kid, otherwise there is no reason for the rest of the story to take place.

[MrFizzlepop]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

Originally posted by MrFizzlepop:

I don't what life path you are talking about, Corpo starts with cash in hand from a hit job you no longer have to do, and Nomad starts with half the money from selling a lizard to someone.

Only the Streetkid is temporarily living at Jackie's without chippin in.

If you are talking about the guy that worked for Abernathy, who was Jenkins boss and thus V's second level manager, then you aren't talking about V's intern, you are talking about V's work associate that barely knows them, other than from that one operation they teamed up on.

Feel free to clarify.

This guy

https://cyberpunk.fandom.com/wiki/Carter_Smith#google_vignette

Your assistant/intern is the guy who betrays you and ends up with you losing everything. He is not some high level executive, not some gang leader, not boss or operative, you get taken down by a nobody.

And the worst part is the corpo path requires your downfall. You have power, you have influence. The game has to reset you. Has to put you back down to the level of a street kid, otherwise there is no reason for the rest of the story to take place.

This is what it says on the site you linked,

"Carter Smith was an Arasaka computer specialist working directly as V's assistant, should V choose the Corpo lifepath. He is a capable technology specialist, but dislikes working for the Arasaka Corporation, finding their methods unethical. "

I don't understand how this guy ranks higher than anyone trying to take V out, cops included, since V was planning an assassination.

Does your V make no enemies with all the mayhem and chaos that surrounds them?

Are you just taking NCPD and Cyberpsycho jobs?

You think those gangs chasing you want your autograph?

Is that the fantasy you are living, that everyone loves V?


I think I am missing your point. Perhaps you can explain it better than "I don't like it when one specific NPC has more ethical integrity than love for V".

Unless that IS your point, in which case I'm interested in hearing how you felt about Judy when she braindance kills you with a shot to the back of the head when you first meet.

Based on what you've said, I have to assume you hate her.