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I feel like if there's a video game that comes out with cyberpunk themes for our time, Zuckerberg won't allow it to buy ads on Facebook in the same way Hearst t
by danbolt 6y ago
I feel like if there's a video game that comes out with cyberpunk themes for our time, Zuckerberg won't allow it to buy ads on Facebook in the same way Hearst tried to prevent Citizen Kane from having newspaper coverage.
- alasdair_ 6y agoWatch_Dogs 2 is pretty close to "cyberpunk themes for our time" - it's set in SF, with clones of Google, Facebook etc. as the baddies.
- stuxnet79 6y agoFor a 2014 game, Watch_Dogs 1 was more prescient and innovative. Watch_Dogs 2 didn't innovate much and was instead tapping a 90s esque "Hackers" vibe but in a 2010s setting which I feel has been overdone in the media. Watch_Dogs 1's tone was more serious and the mechanics really drove home the subtle but negative consequences of widespread surveillance capitalism.