ok but inventing entirely novel forms of shit can rob the narrative of some of its ability to effectively critique the present day, concerns become abstracted beyond the audience’s ability to relate to them
part of the reason cyberpunk has remained relevant is precisely because the things it critiqued in its early days are still present today
Something can be stale to the point of being Flanderized in its own genre, which is fine and even good to some, but not to others.
part of the reason cyberpunk has remained relevant is precisely because the things it critiqued in its early days are still present today
Sure, sure, but updating almost nothing to meet the present reality (even the USSR is somewhat still existence in the game’s setting) is making that “still present today” more and more vague.
ok but inventing entirely novel forms of shit can rob the narrative of some of its ability to effectively critique the present day, concerns become abstracted beyond the audience’s ability to relate to them
part of the reason cyberpunk has remained relevant is precisely because the things it critiqued in its early days are still present today
I wasn’t asking for that.
Something can be stale to the point of being Flanderized in its own genre, which is fine and even good to some, but not to others.
Sure, sure, but updating almost nothing to meet the present reality (even the USSR is somewhat still existence in the game’s setting) is making that “still present today” more and more vague.