I should probably include a link to the Steam page. And I guess this game has a demo, so go check it out if you’re interested!

In addition to serving as showrunner of the limited series, Silka Luisa is exec producing

Silka Luisa worked previously on the Halo TV series as producer and writer. So we’ll see how this goes…

I agree. It’s a shame that this and Star Wars 1313 were both abandoned.

For me, the hard part is how many silly episodes there are. When I think about the series, I think about the amazing action sequences and villains. But when I actually look at a list of episodes, I just skip past a lot of them. The “Jack needs new shoes” episode, the “Jack loses his clothes” episode, the “Jack gets turned into a chicken” episode. There’s a lot of weird episodes in the series. When it’s good, the show is very good. But not every episode is good in my opinion.

Source: “Reality”
Original artwork by Eran Fowler, 2005.

I can’t find the quote now so I’m sure I’m going to butcher this, but i remember seeing some interview with Gibson where he said computer nerds at the time were all laughing at him because the sheer scale of networking speeds he was talking about (up to hundreds of baud!) were physically impossible. Of course, his total ignorance of computers ended up being more accurate than what nerds at the time thought was possible.

William Gibson’s response: https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1782941140003729650

I had 10.7 hours of gameplay and HowLongToBeat says the average is ~11 hours for people who don’t spend much time in the side quests, so that seems about right.

And Michael C. Hall does a great job as the evil CEO.

Snatcher is a fantastic choice for a retro cyberpunk game! I’m not going to judge what your favorite retro cyberpunk game is, I only mentioned action-oriented games to try to get people thinking.

Also, I’m more likely to try a game I’ve never heard of if it’s action since point & click adventure games usually demand more dedicated time. You can’t just pick up a point & click game and play for 10min to see if you like it.

Well I’ve never heard of any of those games! Thanks!

There’s a PS1 game called One which I think might be cyberpunk:

But unfortunately, either I’m terrible at the game or the game itself is terrible because I can’t beat the first level.

I understand this novel is practically a diary, but that doesn’t mean it has to be a good movie.

I’ve read a lot of PKD’s books and while i won’t stop anyone from enjoying them, I personally felt like he had great ideas/worlds but struggled with telling a story in that world. So I’m not confusing the films made from his work with the actual work, I’m specifically only referring to the films. I think when films use his novels as a template for world-building, it turns out great. But attempting to accurately portray his novels on film tends to fall flat.

It’s perfectly fine if you to disagree with me, but I wasn’t making any comment about the novels or his writing style. I was only making broad generalizations of the film adaptations.

It’s more GitS, which is always a good thing. With the new character models you can tell this is a new continuity and to not worry about trying to align into earlier stories/plotlines, even though everything is still similar. This is kind of telling the story of how Major joined Section 9, but things are different enough that you wouldn’t call it a prequel series.

Arise is probably the easiest to get through because it’s only four 50-minute OVAs. Then they re-cut those 4 OVAs into eight 30-min episodes and called the series ‘Arise – Alternative Architecture’. Of course, just to complicate things, Alternative Architecture got another “OVA” as the final two 30-min episodes called Pyrophoric Cult. So you could consider the entire series to be 5 OVAs. Oh, and I guess Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is also part of this continuity. So 5 OVAs and a movie.

You can watch the entire series on Crunchyroll. Note that Crunchyroll shows “season 1” as being all the OVAs, “season 2” is the re-cut OVAs into episodes (Alternative Architecture), and “season 4” is The New Movie. I have no idea why Crunchyroll didn’t call that “season 3”…

To be fair, this includes all novels and video games too. As far as animation, I see it as: the two movies, Stand Alone Complex anime, Arise anime, and SAC_2045 anime. It isn’t too overwhelming in my opinion. Although, Stand Alone Complex is like 52 episodes, which is longer than most anime I watch.

Also, Stand Alone Complex and SAC_2045 both had their episodes pared down into compilation movies (which is what the arrows represent). So you could get through those even faster if you wanted.

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There’s this movie called Reminiscence that takes place after the ice caps have melted. The world-building is phenomenal as everything is just slightly flooded and all the streets have basically become canals. But the story they decided to tell in this world was so boring I can’t remember any of the details. I just remember loving watching Hugh Jackman’s character move about the city.

You can watch it on Tubi and Max.

Also, to re-iterate a previous rant, I think Elysium is a great cyberpunk movie which uses the current cultural fears of climate change, wealth gap, and access to healthcare as the backdrop for the story.

It is interesting though how in the 80s we thought the world would be covered in clouds/pollution/smog and we’d never see the sun. Yet it’s more likely we’ll make the world so hot and dry that it’ll become more of a desert wasteland than a dark and gloomy rain-filled world.

Very true. Just like there’s high fantasy vs low fantasy, there’s almost a “cyberpunk by aesthetic” and “cyberpunk by themes” distinction in cyberpunk.

Like the other person said, I’m just trying to start a discussion. I don’t actually care what the answer is, I’m just providing a topic. I try to find movies where i could see the arguments for and against being cyberpunk and I’ll post it here to see how others feel.

Honestly, I consider these posts a success if the top two comments are “of course it is!” and “of course not!” because that means i picked a good movie that walks the line between cyberpunk and not and typically leads to a good discussion.

Also, I’ve been trying to post something here every day for almost three months now and it’s hard to keep coming up with items that fall firmly into the cyberpunk category. So I start to question how I define cyberpunk and these posts help quantify it.

According to the wikipedia page:

Megazone 23 was conceived as a 12-episode television series set to air on Fuji TV, but it was changed to a direct-to-video project after the sponsors withdrew their support mid-production. According to Noboru Ishiguro, the end result was a “compilation movie” of already produced episodes.

That might explain why so many plot threads are randomly dropped and ignored.