#because it still sticks to the late capitalist/corp owned/exploitative/tech advanced/dystopia of the genre

[spacedlexi]

i just want to say thank you stray for proving you can have a piece of media in the cyberpunk genre about hope instead of futility

#just thinking about how good stray was again #listening to the stray ost while playing cp2077 #trying it again after all the bug fixes and im having more fun with it now but like.... #its such a futile game #i love the genre in theory but so much of it is just so unnecessarily gritty and edgy #where is the hope #whats the point in having a backdrop of despair and grit and struggle of there is no hope to contrast it #also where is the love. where is the community #cp2077 is mostly about saving yourself. which is futile #i said back after cp2077 came out that the outer worlds was a better cyberpunk game #because it still sticks to the late capitalist/corp owned/exploitative/tech advanced/dystopia of the genre #(in space) #but its also a game about hope. your character is literally a passanger from the ship named the hope #and the goal is to save the other passangers (who were left in cryosleep bc the corps didnt care about saving them) #and to hopefully save the planetary system from a slow painful deaths at the hands of corporations who only wish to save themselves #plus all the other smaller main missions in the game. edgewater. monarch. and how u choose to get factions to work together #i just see so many people praise cp2077 for its despair and edginess cuz its 'fitting for the genre' but eeehhhhhh #sorry but thats boring. give me hope please #cyberpunk as a genre needs more hope in it tedtalk over #it speaks