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 unsuitable”. Naturally, this information has me questioning how Cyberpunk’s timeline may need affected probably the most outstanding basketball dynasty of the Nineties.
The tiny nugget of information we bought about this second metropolis comes from Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk TTRPG sequence that CD Projekt’s futuristic RPGs are primarily based on. It is the primary little bit of concrete data in regards to the recreation – past simply the place it is at in the manufacturing course of – we have gotten for some time.
Talking to 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 take a look at scripts and supply his views on stuff like new cyberware made for Mission Orion.
As an example, he revealed that when he was there lately, he “spent quite a 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 unsuitable’. I mentioned ‘yeah, , 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 for those who’ll do the identical, however the point out of a Cyberpunk metropolis that could be a bit like Chicago bought me questioning what the prevailing Cyberpunk lore says in regards to the precise Windy Metropolis.
In accordance with the sequence’ Fandom Wiki (which does word that it wants extra citations), Chi-town was “left in a state of absolute devastation” by the collapse of the US 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, the 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 “at present inoperational”, however topic to revitalisation efforts by Evening Corp.
Cool. However this is the factor. If Chicago began to crumble in 1996 – the 12 months that martial legislation 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 believe it is value exploring anyway.
The scenario is that this so far as I can inform – the aforementioned martial legislation runs from 1996 to 1999, so Jordan and co have that to cope with, along with a 1998 midwest drought and the collapse doing a lot injury that “an estimated 90%” of Chicago is deserted by the tip 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 bought 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!
