What was the first cyberpunk video game you played? Were you playing the point & click adventure games back on DOS? Shadowrun on SNES? Deus Ex on PC? Or did you just recently discover this thing called “cyberpunk” with Cyberpunk 2077?
I’m curious how long everyone here has been into cyberpunk.
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Syndicate wars. I think they was cyberpunk.
Deus ex invisible war. On PS2.
I still liked it.
Does Jet Set Radio Future count as cyberpunk?
I’d say it does. Have you seen the new-ish game Bomb Rush Cyberfunk? It looks just like JSRF to me.
It’s amazing and well worth the price.
I’m a huge scifi nerd. I’ve seen Bladerunner, and am well aware of Cyberpunk, but 2077 was my first game of the genre.
Does Perfect Dark count as cyberpunk?
Maybe a little, with a game that wierd it’s hard to tell
Shadowrun on the SNES
Well, Oddworld for gameboy probably doesn’t count but it was my first game in this kind of dark setting, even though there’s some NPC and alien town with futuristic elements, it’s probably not punk enough.
Nomad Soul. Sick cyberpunk detective game that also featured David Bowie. Always sticks in my brain as such a cool one
The only games I could think of that might be cyberpunk and that I have played are ones like BioShock or Halo 3, which are clearly not cyberpunk. So probably the earliest one I can recall playing would be Jet Set Radio Future about 2-3 years ago. Can’t think of any other titles, besides maybe borderlands (specifically the first since it’s the game I’ve played the most).
Edit: don’t remember the exact entry in the series or if it counts, but Twisted Metal. Not sure if it counts, though. Also, Ratchet and Clank came into my head too, but that’s probably a lot closer to sci-fi than cyberpunk. I would also probably say the same for Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity.
Shadowrun: Returns from Hair Brained Schemes.
Syndicate. Control 4 agents doing corporate espionage missions.
Tron for the Intellevision.
Deus Ex. Give me the GEP gun
“Stick with the prod.”
Remember that a nonlethal takedown is always the most silent takedown.
The GEP gun takedown is always the most silent way to eliminate Manderley.
Don’t believe me? It’s all in the numbers.
It’s a silent takedown if no one else is alive to hear it 😎
…i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games…
…before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don’t think anything i played in the seventies counts…
Shadowrun on SNES. And I’m running Shadowrun tonight for the first time in literal decades (I last GMed it when I was in middle school!), for people who haven’t played before; I’m so nervous and unprepared! I hope that even if I mangle the rules I can get across the vibes.
Good luck!
Thanks chummer, I’ll need it!
Don’t get brain-burnt! (Am I doing it right, been too long…)
Thanks, I didn’t flatline! One of my players couldn’t make this week so I improvised a variant on the classic Food Fight intro scenario so that we could familiarize ourselves with the combat without going off on a run sans street samurai. In retrospect I’m not sure I handled recoil penalties correctly, and we slogged through the rulebook looking for some things like “Why does spell Force matter again?” but in the end only one of the players got mildly shot, and the mage manabolted a guy so hard that he totally fried from the inside out, so I’m calling it a success!
That sounds awesome, nice job!
