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Cyberpunk as a genre is as dead as this forum.
| I dont think so. The new Blade Runner movie, the live action of ghost in shell proves the genre still strong
| It's always been counter culture. Being niche doesn't make it dead.
| no u
| Don't worry kiddo, with RPO coming up, you'll get a "nice" bunch of posers getting into cyberpunk for the a e s t h e t i c and the "lol it's like RPO, I'm so clever".
You'll get to say "Frag off" faster than an US invasion for oil.
| >>202683
It is all about making a few more bucks on previous successful titles. And for that matter, both movies sucked hard in comparison to whatever good the originals had settled and constructed.
Cyberpunk is really almost dead and doomed to never be more than a small pixel in the big picture of futurism, scifi and hi tech. Because in the end, low life is what all that lives try to get away from. We watch it, we applause it, we move along for we would never want to make it real
| >both movies sucked hard in comparison to whatever good the originals had settled and constructed.
The original novel really wasn't that great.
| What if it's dead? Sometimes things that keep on living are even awful.
Cyberpunk in my opinion should stay dead (or if it's not dead, atleast underground) for the people that actuqlly appreciate the genre.
| Even more*
| DUDE WE LIVING THE CYBERPUNK RIGHT NOW. People have acess to high tech more easily but they still have a low quality of life. "CYBERPUNK SHOULD STAY UNDERGROUND BLABLABLA"
People only say that about the things they like cause they wanna be "different". Grow up.
| If cyberpunk made it to mainstream It would be great.
| I think that cyberpunk is just a boring genre in general. It's my favorite genre, but when you get down to it, lots of time cyberpunk is just not that entertaining. It'll make me think but it's not like I ever think "wow that was great."
| >>203796 that seems more like a problem of not liking the execution of cyberpunk genre conventions, rather than an intrinsic issue with cyberpunk in and of itself.
| Red strings club
| >>203491 I think I misunderstood>>202918
"both movies" means the new BR and GITS, i thought he meant "both blade runners suck"
| >>203806
Vast majority of world population has lived in misery, continues to do so and will do so for a while still. Technology has always advanced, continues to do so and will do so for a while still. Combining these two and saying 'cyberpunk foresaw this' is like getting excited to discover water is wet. Looking really into it c.p is simply the awe of being a bag of fleas in a future scifi setting. That is why it has no core appeal, just borrows some beauty from standard scifi.
| Good thing that CD Projekt Red is going to add some more "steam" to it once Cyberpunk 2077 is released. If it's at least as great as Witcher then it's going to be a big push for cyberpunk.
| Cyberpunk as we know them in the old times IS dead, because we are long past the 'wow technology oh no technology' atmosphere. Trying to aspire to those "cyberpunk classics" just means you'll be taking the aesthetic but with no substance.
Now that we live and breath technology I'm more looking forward to... whatever new genre this phase of society can spawn. VA-11 Hall-A's focus on everyday life is a good one.
| >>204262 True that. You can see it happen in cyb/ too where the big 'wow' things seem pushed and force fed while the most success actually is in not in the big wars and superhuman characters, rather in the common appartments and bars involving more normal and believable characters.
| >>204328
Pretty much. Excessively overpowered characters with few or no flaws have always been boring and large events are supposed to be kept rare lest they become boring. But that has little to do with cyberpunk the genre being boring in itself. Cyberpunk is just the setting. Whether it's interesting or not has more to do with the skill of the writer than anything else.
| And on that note, genres are only dead if there's no one around to appreciate it or be a part of it. Simply saying something is dead doesn't make it so. If you would like to kill it, or at least for yourself, you wouldn't frequent this part of the board- certainly, most of the website doesn't.
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| >>205671
Identifying the board with the genre is not correct. Mixing them is not appropriate. In this board are people who are here for different reasons, one maybe because they dislike the genre, for instance.
It also is true that all my scepticism about the genre comes because I like it and my lifestyle and proffession make me live it to a certain exent everyday. This, and nostalgia combined are maybe why I am among the ones who know it well enough to point out its fatal wounds.
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| Meanwhile, the weebs dominate.