[QUOTE]Cyberpunk is a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgenre"]subgenre[/URL] of [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_fiction"]science fiction[/URL] in a [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future"]future[/URL] setting that tends to focus on the society of the proverbial "[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tech"]high tech[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-life"]low life[/URL]";[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-1"][1][/URL][URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-2"][2][/URL] featuring advanced technological and scientific achievements, such as [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_technology"]information technology[/URL] and [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics"]cybernetics[/URL], juxtaposed with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_order"]social order[/URL].[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-3"][3]
[/URL]Cyberpunk plots often center on conflict among [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence"]artificial intelligences[/URL] and among [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megacorporation"]megacorporations[/URL], and tend to be set in a future [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth"]Earth[/URL], rather than in the far-future settings or galactic vistas found in novels such as [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov"]Isaac Asimov[/URL]'s [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(Isaac_Asimov_novel)"]Foundation[/URL] or [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert"]Frank Herbert[/URL]'s [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)"]Dune[/URL].[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-Graham-4"][4][/URL] The settings are usually[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-industrial"]post-industrial[/URL] [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystopia"]dystopias[/URL] but tend to feature extraordinary cultural ferment and the use of technology in ways never anticipated by its original inventors ("the street finds its own uses for things").[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-Gibson.2C_William-5"][5][/URL] Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_noir"]film noir[/URL], and written works in the genre often use techniques from [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detective_fiction"]detective fiction[/URL].[URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk#cite_note-6"][6][/URL][/QUOTE]
- Wikipedia
[B]Getting started with cyberpunk? Check out:[/B]
- Deus Ex / Deus Ex: Human Revolution (in any order)
- Blade Runner
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
This thread is for the discussion of cyberpunk media (books/tv/movies/games), cyberpunk culture, and current events and technology and their relation to it. The first thread was neat, so let's get another one rolling.
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"Remember me" seemed like it really did a lot of stuff right world design wise, but the game itself was lacking and that overshadowed the pretty neat aspects of the game world itself. Some of the concept arts for that game were really cool I thought:
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That concept art really caught my eye when they first started talking about that game a number of years ago, seemed to be a really interesting realization of a cyberpunk world. The story in that game is really another issue, and while the memory swapping/erasing and some of the related societal issues meld pretty well with cyberpunk themes the writing is pretty weak, which really lets the whole experience down.
"Cyberpunk Thread v 'Cyberpunk 2077 STILL isn't out!' "
Daily reminder that the world is fast becoming a cyberpunk setting that people were imagining back in the 80s and 90s.
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The last two pictures are of the [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions]Chungking Mansions[/url] in Hong Kong.
[quote]CUHK anthropologist Prof. Gordon Mathews estimated in 2007 that people from at least 120 different nationalities had passed through Chungking Mansions in one year. Mathews also estimates that up to 20 percent of the mobile phones recently in use in sub-Saharan Africa had passed through Chungking Mansions at some point[/quote]
Actually I wouldn't be surprised if those places haven't changed since 1980s, works like Blade Runner or Akira take a lot from polluted Chinese/Japanese towns covered in neon signs as they existed back then.
What's more alarming is how we're slowly entering an era where machines replace not only human muscle, but also brains. We might just end up in a cyberpunk dystopia where megacorporations rake profits from fully automated services while the useless working class rots in the alleys.
Why no mention of Ghost in the Shell in OP? Forget the fact that it's anime, it's fucking [I]rad[/I].
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I've been eyeing up VA-11 Hall-A/Waifu Bartending since i caught one of the trailers and it's going to be released on the 21st of June. Really love the general concept of exploring everyday life in a Cyberpunk dystopia, and the music is top notch too. Give it a listen if you can.
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Also, apparently the devs are from Venezuela of all places.
[QUOTE=Qaus;50466509]Why no mention of Ghost in the Shell in OP? Forget the fact that it's anime, it's fucking [I]rad[/I].
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On the note of this sort of thing, for those of you that aren't aware [url=https://vimeo.com/15103971]Hayao Miyazaki of Studio Ghibli fame made a cyberpunk music video complete with dystopian police SWAT teams fighting creepy future cultists[/url]
Some other cool cyberpunky anime:
Akira: A classic of the genre and with good reason, probably one of the best cyberpunk movies ever made. For the few of you that haven't seen it, it follows a bunch of kids in a biker gang in Neo-Tokyo and things get crazy. Just go watch it. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtPhrCTjMtQ][Trailer][/url]
Ergo Proxy: Cyberpunk/Post Apocalyptic, sort of getting into post-cyberpunk territory. A good watch though, also it plays each episode out to Paranoid Android by Radiohead. It starts off with a plot about how a city's robotic population is being infected with a virus that starts to drive them insane. [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfL9sa5ZCKk][Trailer][/url]
Psycho-Pass: Sort of like Minority Report meets Judge Dredd, where it shows a future society where people are preemptively arrested based on their mental wellbeing to prevent them from committing crimes. Again, this is more firmly in Post-Cyberpunk territory. It's pretty violent (the lethal settings on the law enforcers' guns make you explode) and some of the social commentary can be a little heavy handed but still worth a look. Also the main character has crazy big eyes [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzuJnyebc40][Trailer][/url]
There's also a bunch of older stuff from the 80s and 90s I haven't gotten around to seeing yet.
To add to the list in the op, here is a semi random list of cyberpunk works I enjoyed:
[B]Books[/B]
* Snow Crash
* The Diamond Age
* Altered Carbon
* The Stars My Destination (Not strictly cyberpunk, but this book inspired a lot of classic cyberpunk writers. A lot of the science fiction tropes come from here)
* Labyrinth Of Reflections: a weird Russian book that takes place in a world where a random hippie accidentally found a way to transform every single computer in the world into a VR machine by offloading graphic rendering onto the human imagination.
* Blindsight: this book is more hard science fiction than cyberpunk but I felt like it's trans-humanism themes have a lot in common with similar themes in cyberpunk novels.
[B]Graphic Novels[/B]
* Transmetropolitan
[B]Anime[/B]
* Everything mentioned by RearAdmiral
* Serial Experiments Lain.
[B]Videogames[/B]
* Shadowrun Dragonfall
* E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
* Dystopia
* Neotokyo
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* E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy
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It'd be easier to classify this as a french source engine fever dream than as cyberpunk :v:
Don't forget to add Snatcher and System Shock to the video games list.
[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;50473934]It'd be easier to classify this as a french source engine fever dream than as cyberpunk :v:[/QUOTE]
I'd usually just describe it as Warhammer 40k meets Google Translate.
Does Frozen Synapse count? I've only seen screenshots.
[url=http://www.remar.se/daniel/iji.php]Iji[/url] is interesting in that it describes a militaristic cyberpunk [i]alien[/i] society that is currently attacking Earth and dropping their personal e-diaries all over for you to read. The game is also a spiritual sequel to System Shock.
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Images like this always freak the hell out of me. Yea it looks cool but holy shit dude how can you sit there.
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cyberpunk music
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Kinda reminds me of this one
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One of my favorite game soundtracks and it's not even included in the game it was made for
[QUOTE=Highwind017;50466667]I've been eyeing up VA-11 Hall-A/Waifu Bartending since i caught one of the trailers and it's going to be released on the 21st of June. Really love the general concept of exploring everyday life in a Cyberpunk dystopia, and the music is top notch too. Give it a listen if you can.
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Also, apparently the devs are from Venezuela of all places.[/QUOTE]
really looking forward to this. They nailed everything.
I really enjoyed the dialogue in the demo too:
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What are cyberpunk raves like? I'm working on an SFM set that's supposed to depict a cyperpunk-esque rave in a basement and I wanna know if there's anything special to them or if it's just like a regular rave.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50482317]What are cyberpunk raves like? I'm working on an SFM set that's supposed to depict a cyperpunk-esque rave in a basement and I wanna know if there's anything special to them or if it's just like a regular rave.[/QUOTE]
In an actual cyberpunk world I feel there would be a lot of anonymity at things like raves, people wearing masks and stuff. Also tons of over the top lighting, glow sticks, LED bracelets, stuff like that.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50482317]What are cyberpunk raves like? I'm working on an SFM set that's supposed to depict a cyperpunk-esque rave in a basement and I wanna know if there's anything special to them or if it's just like a regular rave.[/QUOTE]
The rave could take place in VR where everyone looks completely different, while IRL it's really creepy, pretty much just a dirty basement full of people wearing VR goggles dancing in silence, so as not to make any noise and attract the cops.
There are some really fascinating old Cyberpunk PC-98 games. The production quality isn't something I'd imagine to see in old obscure anime games.
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The Japanese sure did love their cyberpunk back in the eighties and nineties.
I always thought that kavinsky made for good cyberpunk music. If I ever were to see a film adaptation of Virtual Light, Neuromancer or Snow Crash I would honestly want some of this music in it. Those three books are pretty good cyberpunk novels in my opinion. When Gravity Fails is also ok.
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I feel like this is obligatory, but coincidentally I also like the song.
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almost all of this 80s stuff is way too light for cyberpunk
Thoughts on the incoming Blade Runner 2, everyone?
[QUOTE=Monkah;50533376]Thoughts on the incoming Blade Runner 2, everyone?[/QUOTE]
One of my teachers is working on it in the art department. Also I hope it's good.
[QUOTE=Monkah;50533376]Thoughts on the incoming Blade Runner 2, everyone?[/QUOTE]
I'm just excited that it's a sequel and not a reboot.
Imagine walking on the beach along the Californian coast. The soft light of the evening sun is dimmed by a overbearing shroud of smog. Along the beach itself is clumps of hideous trash and garbage. Mounds the size of small hills cover the coast as massive vehicles continue to dump their loads onto the once clean beach. Feral dogs roam freely, devouring the mass graves of dead fish that wash up daily. Looking into the distance. A city that once was los angeles, towers into the sky as mile high skyscrapers pierce through the clouds. Where the rich and powerful live in the clear and clean high sky, as the rest of humanity live in the slums of the old city. Left to die as the smog burn their lungs every day.
All you can think is "Why....."
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