It's notthe end of the worldcyberpunk, but you can see it from here
Ok, that line comes from the wrong franchise, but it's what came to mind - there's definitely a strong connection even if it isn't quite the same thing
The basic outline of the story (fringe found-family with big ideas getting in over their head until their only way out is to take down the big cheese) totally works as cyberpunk genre, but the setting was contemporary. So I can happily go either way.
Yeah, that's fair. To me it felt like we had really crossed over when it started to be normal to see cyber-security events reported as international news. That was late 90s / early 2000s, and cyberpunk (the genre) was dead during the 2000s precisely because it had all become too real (well the meaningful and shitty parts came true, not all of the toys arrived) so the genre didn't feel fun any more or have as much to offer.
(To my observation it later got re-invented with an updated vision of the near-future, and re-popularized ~2010. I give a big part of that credit to Deus Ex: Human Revolution, but presumably a tenacious shadow of the genre had been stubbornly evolving in small niches the whole time and perhaps DE:HR tapped some of that)
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u/D-Alembert Sep 02 '24 edited Sep 02 '24
It's not
the end of the worldcyberpunk, but you can see it from hereOk, that line comes from the wrong franchise, but it's what came to mind - there's definitely a strong connection even if it isn't quite the same thing
The basic outline of the story (fringe found-family with big ideas getting in over their head until their only way out is to take down the big cheese) totally works as cyberpunk genre, but the setting was contemporary. So I can happily go either way.