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What about Blade Runner, Neuromancer and Cyberpunk 2077?

• stametseater 4y ago
  > What about Blade Runner, Neuromancer Neon aesthetics were appropriate in these because of technological context in which these were created. Neon signage was not yet an anachronism in the 80s. I don't blame sci-fi writers of the past for failing to predict future technology, but at the same time I find it hard to take deliberately anachronistic sci-fi seriously. It's analogous to the difference between genuine Victorian science fiction (e.g. Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, etc) and modern steampunk media set in the Victorian era. Modern steampunk emulates the style and feel of Victorian science fiction, but I think that makes it a different genre. Victorian science fiction wasn't written to be anachronistic but steampunk is, so they're different genres. > Cyberpunk 2077 I haven't played it so I can't really judge it, but I can say that what little I've seen hasn't gotten me excited.
  • philipov 4y ago
    The way Cyberpunk 2077 adapted Cyberpunk 2020 made me realize that we've moved the near future 50 years farther off, but we're still stuck in the same futurism fantasy of the 70s/80s. ... I guess I knew that already, but this made me realize it in a new way :)
    • pharmakom 4y ago
      Cyberpunk Edgerunners is quality media and I’m not usually into anime.