Cyberpunk 2077‘s sequel will allow us to take a detour from the returning Evening Metropolis to go to a brand new location which feels a bit “like Chicago gone mistaken”. Naturally, this information has me questioning how Cyberpunk’s timeline might need affected essentially the most distinguished basketball dynasty of the Nineties.
The tiny nugget of information we received about this second metropolis comes from Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk TTRPG collection that CD Projekt’s futuristic RPGs are based mostly on. It is the primary little bit of concrete info about the game – past simply the place it is at in the production process – we have gotten for some time.
Chatting with Tvgry throughout this 12 months’s Digital Dragons Convention, Pondsmith touched on his present relationship with CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk devs. He is “not as concerned instantly with the sequel as he was with the primary Cyberpunk, however he does nonetheless pop by the studio to have a look at scripts and supply his views on stuff like new cyberware made for Undertaking Orion.
As an example, he revealed that when he was there lately, he “spent a whole lot of time speaking to one of many surroundings guys, and he was explaining how the brand new place in Orion – as a result of there’s one other metropolis we go to, I am not telling you any greater than that, however there’s one other metropolis we go to.”
“Evening Metropolis’s nonetheless there,” Pondsmith continued, telling us extra, “I bear in mind it and going ‘yeah, I perceive the texture that you are going for on this, and this actually does work – it does not really feel like Blade Runner, it feels extra like Chicago gone mistaken’. I stated ‘yeah, you recognize, I can see this working.'”
This chatter begins at across the three hour and 45 minute mark of the video embedded above, if you wish to test it out for your self. I do not know if you happen to’ll do the identical, however the point out of a Cyberpunk metropolis that could be a bit like Chicago received me questioning what the prevailing Cyberpunk lore says concerning the precise Windy Metropolis.
Based on the collection’ Fandom Wiki (which does be aware that it wants extra citations), Chi-town was “left in a state of absolute devastation” by the collapse of the USA that happens between 1996 and 2008 within the Cyberpunk timeline, and was subsequently ravaged by a “catastrophic bio-plague” created by the federal authorities itself. By 2077, town’s “implied to have undergone some degree of reconstruction” by rumours of it being linked to Evening Metropolis through the transcontinental maglev rail community that Cyberpunk 2077’s database describes as “presently inoperational”, however topic to revitalisation efforts by Evening Corp.
Cool. However here is the factor. If Chicago began to disintegrate in 1996 – the 12 months that martial regulation was declared throughout the USA in Cyberpunk lore – do Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls win the 1996, 1997, and 1998 NBA championships to cement themselves as arguably the best basketball dynasty of all-time? That is assuming Jordan and the Bulls even exist within the Cyberpunk universe, however I feel it is value exploring anyway.
The state of affairs is that this so far as I can tell – the aforementioned martial regulation runs from 1996 to 1999, so Jordan and co have that to deal with, along with a 1998 midwest drought and the collapse doing a lot injury that “an estimated 90%” of Chicago is deserted by the top of it in 2008. It is MJ although. I am nonetheless banking on him to beat the Jazz within the finals, even when he is received to dribble previous bio-plagues and hostile cybernetically-augmented troopers to do it.
Do you suppose his airness nonetheless finally ends up with six rings on his bizarre cyber-fingers? Additionally, how do you’re feeling about visiting this second metropolis in Cyberpunk 2? Tell us under!