Can someone explain the appeal of the Cyberpunk genre?

>>Deus Ex
>memeshit
Do you have a single fact to back that up?

Furthermore, with the amount of memes in OP's post, you'd think "memeshit" was a compliment.

still a shit time, today you can:
get anywhere easily
have access to endless information
play vidya of all kinds
live longer and healthier
with a click of a button talk to anyone on this planet, like the good people of Yea Forums.
yeah, im thinking BASED.

And despite all of the cool shit half of the western population is on medication for being miserable

Cool tech integrated into everyday life, pretty much
Stuff that doesn't lean into super scifi like mass effect and also focuses on the human body being modified by tech

>Can someone explain the appeal of the Cyberpunk genre?
No. Form your own fucking opinion, which it looks like you have and its not to your liking. Not everything has to be either so fuck off and let people enjoy what they want.

Who the fuck was talking about the 60's you scatterbrained piece of drek? Cyberpunk was generally 80's/90's era popularity.

Turns out people have different taste in different genres. Some people think High Fantasy is gay ass nigger shit, while praising Steampunk as the best thing ever.

Then you get that weird hipster that gives you an offended look and tells you "I uh, only like, uh, Dieselpunk, mkay?"

Perhaps the genre is just not for you. I suggest you might find home in other communities.

It's just a setting, now we only have to wait for the classic based chad japanese dev to come in and make another GOTY with it and dabbing on all the shitty western coding incels

>I have shit taste.
No need to make thread for this.

Unironically awesome shit like this

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It's another fine classic "OP is a faggot" thread.

it's going to be a decent fps rpg hybrid, similar to new vegas, with likely more things to shooty, new interesting enemies and mechanics that aren't often seen in games, overall it looks fun

>half of western population
you know the us is just ONE part of the western population?

Yes, that's what he meant by half.

Yurop is not doing much better

Shadowrun

based zoomer

>get anywhere easily
You could do that in the 90's in any half decent country with public transport infrastructure.
>have access to endless information
Yes, Encyclopedia's and Libraries have existed since the 90's too user, that information didn't just vanish. You even had early internet in those days too and digital encyclopedia software. Hell Wikipedia was even around in those times in an early state.
>play vidya of all kinds
There was arguably more consoles and games during the 90's than the entire 2000-2009 era plus you still had arcades.
>live longer and healthier
Sure, I don't think average life expectancy has changed too much since 90's and 2k decades, it should more or less have gone up.
>with a click of a button talk to anyone on this planet, like the good people of Yea Forums.
What? You mean the telephone or the internet? Because those have been around since the 90's too.

neuromancer was all i ever needed from this shit genre

Half (by weight)

Pretty much this, if you don't like Deus Ex or Ghost in the shell, i'm afraid you probably just won't like the Genre OP.
A cyber punk game series i really enjoyed were the newer Shadow Run games. They are fun if you are into tb combat.
As far as shows, i could recommend Altered Carbon.
But if you don't like the genre that's ok, not for everyone

You missed the greatest piece of the cyberpunk sub genre and that's Dredd (2012)

Can someone explain the appeal of the [genre i dont like] genre?
>[genre movie] and [genre anime]
Boring pieces of shit
>[genre book]
Worst shit I've ever read
>[genre game]
memeshit

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can someone make me like things i don't like (and i don't even know how to explain my dislike for it except for buzzwords)?? everything should cater to me!!

>Half (by weight)

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it can look cool visually, cooler than medieval tolkien at least

>hey Yea Forums, i hate this.
>can someone explain to my autistic self how people can like it?

My problem with cyberpunk at the moment is that its vision of the future didn't evolve, partly due to the audience being children. Cyberpunk was a result of its time - despite technology making huge leaps, the streets were crime-ridden and living conditions for the vast majority didn't improve. Also, Japan was on its way to becoming an economic superpower rivaling the US. It was supposed to be socio-economic horror vision proving the assumption wrong that technological progress would improve everybody's lives. Yet all the audience took from it was DUDE BIG CITY AT NIGHT NEON LIGHTS MOHAWKS. With the way things are right now, cyberpunk is merely of a set of visual clichés clinging to outdated visions of the future. Cyberpunk became stale because it doesn't reflect the current times anymore. The assumptions about the future are basically unchanged.

Blade Runner but as a game is not a boring concept.

>Can someone explain the appeal of the Cyberpunk genre?
>Snow Crash
>Worst shit I've ever read
No I cannot, you wouldn't understand.

>doesn't like Bladerunner or GitS
There's no fixing this level of shit taste.

>some things have improved so you can't complain about the other things that have gotten worse

Pretty much this. Cyberpunk had pretty much evolved from a semi philosophical post modern cultural movement to a bland caricature of itself. It was already pretty much dead when the audiences were cheering keanu more than the premise of the game. But that's whow stuff works, after 20 years later, koomers/loomers? of the era would remember cyberpunk through this game, a perverted eulogy to the genre.

>public transport
I meant in the world, as in planes and more organized system of said flights
>encyclopedias and libraries
I meant the internet as we know it today,fast and full of any information you are looking for. and you can NOT compare the quick access you have in the palm of your hands to getting your fatass to the library and actually looking for a specific book that might not actually be there.
>more consoles and games
try again
>average life expectancy
you actually have access to information about your health and can fine tune your body with plenty of diets and excercises that werent around back then.
>what? you mean the telephone or the internet
I meant both, they both have improved tenfold since then, any smartphone today completely trumps anything from back then.
TLDR; everything is improved and there is LITERALY no reason to go back imo unless you liked the AESTHETIC vibe of the time or some shit

This could be half of it, personally, i've seen so many "ye old medieval fantasy world" rpgs that I'm tired of the setting, same with top down RPGS, I want more first/third person stuff, and a different setting, cyberpunk sounds ideal.

>Still no cure for every known disease
>Still no augmentations to extend your life to 200+
>Still no augmentations so the blind can see, the deaf can hear, people without hands or feet that can get cyber arms and legs that can feel and can be used as easily as the real deal
>Still no robot waifu
>Still no cyber benis implants for women, so Yea Forums can post more spongebob licking advertisment poster with women using them.
>Still no trauma team flying in to save you if you get attacked or hurt badly.
Unfair, at least we're slowly getting there. If that robotic arm connected to nerve endings gets more advanced we might actually get cyber limbs in our lifetime.

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europe and asia are just as miserable, africa too propably

Recommend me some Cyberpunk kino pls for inspiration in my tabletop campaign

Really? I'm from Europe, and one of the poorer countries too, but I'm still feeling fairly happy, and my routine is pretty much, Job - Home where I sit on my PC. Tho to be fair, I love and feel loved back, have nice interactions with the people around me. People getting along and caring about each other is probably a huge part of staying happy. If you feel unloved/uncared for you'll probably get sad, sure there's problems, but that's just kindof a thing that will happen everywhere, I'm just glad it's as good as it is. since it could probably get worse and hope it gets better/try to make it better.

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Have you played RUINER, that was bretty gud. Not very much in the way of rpgs, you got deus ex, shadowrun and ... huh ... is that actually it? There was observer_ but I'm not sure how cyberpunk it is.

>observer
id say its pretty cyberpunk, definitely recommend

Deus Ex was great but yes to the other two.

>I don't like something
>this means it's bad

Is critical thinking simply not taught anymore in schools or something?

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That's not cyberpunk you dumb nigger.
>ruiner
>good
lol

Zoomer.

>implying we're not already living in a cyberpunk setting
Principles of cyberpunk have very much become a reality, even if we don't have chainsaw prosthetic arms. Yet.

it's more about subjective opinions and feelings having more prominence over facts and empirical evidence. in a sense, it's because the internet gave every mongoloid out there a voice and they think their opinion is now worth listening to because of that.

Unless by Europe you mean shitholes like Russia and its eternally suffering neighbors, it's actually doing pretty fine.

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user, remember where you are.

>lol
I think it's bretty gud, game play feels fun, setting's not bad either.

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Shit game. Dropped.

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>cyborg
>not cyberpunk
just blew in from stupid town?

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one swallow does not a summer make

The setting and art is all it has going for it.

That's platinumpunk dumbass.

cyberpunk setting is so boring. I don't know if it's the colors or technology or what, maybe the entire point is for it to be soulless idk

>not always night
>no neon
>no constant rain
>"cyberpunk"

Not a fan of the instant transmission, don't get hit game play? I suppose I can understand, I don't imagine it's for everyone, personally I feel like it's fun, even if my score tends to be B+ or D if I mess up hard. I think I've only managed 2-3 S' in it.

This, cyberpunk is entirely an aesthetic. Having a cyborg doesn't make something cyberpunk.

>critical thinking
just look at all the fucking fanboys out there

lmao just kidding nigga havent played it. Thanks for reminding me about it, I'll pick it up at some point :)

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I haven't seen any evidence for why the examples are good. Blade Runner is a poorly fucking directed film that was recut 7 times, Ghost in The Shell is bootleg Japanese Tarkovsky and Snow Crash has a good idea of not taking itself too seriously but the humor is on the level of Ready Player One etc...

nothin personnel, kid...

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Watch Brazil

having neon, rain and night doesn't make it cyberpunk either

Fuck off trannypunkfag. Talk to me when your game is like bladerunner and actual cyberpunk.

Ruiner is one of my favorite games, I just love frenetic action games

Cyberpunk is a retarded setting.
The only reason I am looking forward for this game is because its made made by the same guys who made Witcher 3.

Not Cyberpunk.

>t. brainlet

>I'm so angry and contrarian

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pretending to be retarded doesn't count as good baiting

it definetly is cyber, but not much punk

It is

I don't think so. I think the technology is specifically not advanced enough for that. As a matter of fact, it shows a world where technology, instead of properly moving forward, just got needlessly complicated and dysfunctional.

Eden: It's an Endless World!
A really good cyberpunk manga with a lot of action, drama and more. You actually watch as the protagonist grows up and become an adult.

OP here, I've actually read that and it went to shit halfway through. Really liked it up to the Pedro arc though.

Just like what is happening now

It's classic bait at this point, my Reddit loving friend. Watch this...

Blade Runner isn't cyberpunk either, it's just sci-fi noir.

Only the super rich are going to be able to afford that shit anyway.

>If that robotic arm connected to nerve endings gets more advanced we might actually get cyber limbs in our lifetime
The problem is it would be connected on cloud, share your location, your data and have social network integration.
The current future is much MUCH worse than cyberpunk

It's proto cyberpunk. William Gibson thought Neuromancer would be considered a ripoff of it.

>half of the western population is on medication for being miserable
Women were always miserable cunts though

Cyberpunk is the future fictionalized by the past to be the upcoming future that will eventually never happen at the current rate humanity is developing. What would happen in 2077 is actually never going to happen, and it won't be as a cybernetic or obvious oligarch dystopia.

See: The Jetsons