The second tallest structure in Liverpool England is the former 96’7 radio city tower with the elevation of 138m ( 453 ) with the fastest elevator to transport visitors to and from the observation deck . The aesthetics of the tower is built on 1940-1950’s American architecture that’s a mixture of cyberpunk meets science fiction B movie sets . However the tower like its counterparts once stood as a moving restaurant diner’s but later got disbanded the silver lining about it that got saved by St John’s by renaming the tower as the Beacon . Lastly: where as its counterparts in America either got destroyed or abandoned for my visit to the beacon I gave the experience a 10/10 for its splendor and charm.
Small note on the Megabuildings, they were just Night City's version of an in-universe Arcology, a self sustaining environmentally stable community that was made due to the severe climate change of the early 2000's. One of the fun little (probably) unintentional things about the Megabuildings in particular though is that all of the stores and overlapping amenities make them look like indoor malls. Which were the quintessential hyper-capitalist experience of the everyday American back in the late 80's and 90's, back when Cyberpunk 2020 was being written. And I mean "I live in a mall that advertises itself as an ideal human habit" screams Cyberpunk,
Funny side thing, about the climate change. The central hole of the mega buildings should facilitate passive cooling. Like I just saw this video about how buildings with inside gardens get cool in desert environments. They put a pond on there too, so the evaporation helps with that even more. I'm guessing something similar can be done with megabites to reduce power use. And there's this city-in-a-building in Alaska I think, where they have everything within a block to reduce heating requirements, too. So doubly good.
weird tangent but what I love about the world of Night City. Is how accurate it is to our world. What I mean is if I go to a section in NIght City. You'll see these GIANT buildings that are used for Corpo stuff or apartments. I know what you're gonna say, "But other games do that too". What I'm saying is other games tend to either keep these buildings as sorta of "Neutral", Like you dont know what specifically they are all you know is they're a giant building. But NightCity those buildings serve a purpose. In real life when I go to the city. Ill always see these giant buildings. BUT they weren’t there for decoration, They served a purpose, some corporations the other housing. I'm sorry if my explanation sounds weird. I just love this game and every time I replay it. I always notice something minuscule especially since I already know how the story goes. I get to focus on the really small stuff.
Choom, I've been trying to solve this one for 8 months or more. Still no solution. I do know that you can find a homeless guy that's identical to the burning man in Dogtown where Songbird and Vi pop out of the tunnels
YES! I was literally just talking to someone about the world of cyberpunk 2077. Just walking around the city in first person is fun. Seeing little bits of life everywhere. Hearing the dispatcher for the NCPD get hit on by an officer. Even just going to the El Coyote or Sunset Motel or Unification Park and people watching is fun
I bought it on release... Didn't play it for, like you, a year. Then spent days, in the morning sitting down, wondering how it became already midday, thinking I'll go to eat something in ten minutes and getting up at 6 in the evening... It was like blinking the time away. And I missed a lot even with my mind fully being in the game. It was way too good (year after release) I can't let it go, and it made me angry so much I went on rampages (the braindance editors, about the kid, you'll know the mission) and cried when I saw the ending messages after choosing the corpo ending/uploading myself. And the government ending of the DLC left me mentally scared. Was shocked for a day about it. Yeah maybe that sounds stupid, but I let myself feel like I'm V and it was worth all the money CDPR charged me.
Night City brought back a lot of memories from my teenage/student years. The buildings, the foggy streets in the night, with the amber light of streetlamps shining on wet pavement... somehow it feels so real. Often I just fire up the game and start walking in a random direction - not doing any quests or car deliveries, just walking. Or I simply chose to sit down at the Growl FM party, listen to the music, watch Johnny sweeping the dirt from one of his boot and Rita Wheeler vibing in her armchair... Come to think of it, it's not just the city... the characters in CP 2077 have this real-life person vibe, they talk like real people and not like actors reading lines from a script. I hope the sequel will be just as good as the first game.
YES! This! I love walking around NC. Hearing the little conversations, seeing routines play out, such as when people move to the burning barrels of trash at night. Seeing people go to the vendors on the street or sit at the park. It feels very real
You've successfully put into words what I've been feeling about this game since that day I got fully immersed in it. Cyberpunk 2077 is a phenomenal game that must be enjoyed fully, not partially, immersed. There are sooo many of these "invisible perfections" throughout Night City, it blows my mind. I can't put it down. Btw, today I've successfully climbed up top Megabuilding 06 during my mission for El Capitan Muamar. The feeling I had when I made it over the edge to get a great screenshot was so satisfying. lol... useless information but wanted to share anyways. Great content, choom. Hope to see more.👌🏻
22:44 I just had an excellent epiphany. Rouges shirt saying “SURVIVE” is the 4th statement to trust no, one turn back, no future. And like the bull on the bottle. Idk if that could have any meaning but it’s interesting symbolism and with the goat head as well at the terminals. Just MY personal theory. Probably already been talked about but yea. Just a refresher lol
I just thought of something interesting for you, what if this is a trilogy? I’ll try to explain it clearly if I can. 2077 - the darkest part of human history the dystopian world the first chapter in this series filled with crimes of murder and rape and extortion and so forth Orion - new city new place less crime less poverty, I do believe it’s stated that night city is the worst place in America right the darkest part, so what if the new location is neutral? ???? - the final chapter the end of cyberpunk the destruction of the Blackwall and the rogue ai. What if with the theory in my other comment makes this game the good part of the trilogy where for the time being peace is back? The reason I thought of this was 2 reasons 1- your constant vids they open up new possibilities on how the game is progressing through a trilogy series and how we’re gonna get there 2- the last thing Johnny says to you before returning to your body “ maybe I learnt something from you too V, to save my energy for 1 final big bang “ what if that big bang is johnnys return to help destroy the ai bringing about the good ending? Oh and mikes comment on the game is bout saving yourself and not the world I think is wrong because as you save yourself you save those around you that save others, river ward and the weapons heist, and paralez and his mayor run all could lead to bigger changes that spread a ripple effect? Crazy idea I know but what if that were the case and if I’m not mistaken Orion is the constellation of the hunter and new location neutral setting?
I like your theory Choom! For three main reasons. 1 - Everything you just mentioned above. 2 - CDPR is going to make the new Witcher games a trilogy. 3 - The Rogue AI invasion might begin in Cyberpunk Orion and the end in the final installment of the trilogy. It would just make sense in some way. I don't know if you see where I'm coming from
I wouldn't be surprised if, in Orion, CDPR decided to make the game, well, bigger. It wouldn't take much to import the existing assets and possibly the map from the Red Engine into UE5, then they can also design the other major cities in which the player could travel to (Chicago, LA Metroplex, New York, Washington D.C and others) as well as the Crystal Palace. Having a game world of this size would also allow for either MMORPG-style gameplay or even just single player gameplay similar to Elite: Dangerous and is pretty trivial to enable with UE5 (as well as other fun features such as VR). I'm more of a fan of having an in-game lobby of sorts (such as the Afterlife in NightCity) where players in the city would be able to meet and group up, then once they leave, they run the game on a peer-to-peer network with the lowest latency player being the host/server for the group. This would be a pretty substantial cost reduction for CDPR as far as supporting network infrastructure as well since they would only need to host the zones that serve as the lobby rather than the entire game world. As far as the overall plot and timeline goes, I suspect we will be in a timeline that is set during the next war, whatever it would be called. This is due to all of the little hints that are everywhere in the game and will obviously include Arasaka, Militech, Biotechnica, the NUSA and others, however, I do have a suspicion that we will see a "shadow war" being played out between Netwatch and Blackwall against the combined forces of NightCorp and various rogue AIs. If my suspicions are correct, while this will be an extremely massive undertaking by CDPR, even if the engine can handle what they throw at it, it will take a very, very long time for it to come out.
Fully agree. I've played as Corpo twice and enjoyed it. Tried the Streetkid life path, and honestly the introduction felt really boring to me and I didn't connect with it at all. Now playing as Nomad where I also rather liked the prologue. Still liking Corpo the most, though.
I like Nomad most cause you start off completely new to the city, especially for a first playthrough cause you and V both experience this place for the first time.
Great vid, pretty accurate description of the corpo pathway with the dog eat dog type of structure. As well as a good explanation of the games world in general. Also I had a strange theory on this game, what if this isn’t real but more like a story or memory of V’s that you gotta play through kinda like at the end of mass effect 3 where you find that your journey was nothing but a story being told down to a small child. Anyway none the less great vid gave a lot to think bout even for potentially new players. Oh and what are your thoughts of them employing a person from sweet baby inc, a company with a rep for tanking games and franchises do you think it’ll impact cyberpunk 2077’s sequel?
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it! I've had the same thoughts before actually so I like your theory. Even more so because it means humanity won against rogue AIs in the end. Because otherwise there would be no one to tell stories to. Oh, I had missed this drama on hiring the woman from sweet baby inc. Too early to call but I feel like CDPR should try and do the right thing here. Would be dumb to risk it all by putting someone with a bad track record in charge
Orion will have a different feel, I think. Opening an American office , not sure how I feel about that. Our country is so extreme about politics and identity it leaches into everything. Cyberpunk 2077 is far enough removed from that to have a timeless (ironically) feel to it. I think making it more American will make it more a product of an era, more a mirror of the American left vs. right than a mirror of mankind vs. itself. That is my worry: however, I still have hopes that it may continue to transcend this and it will keep asking the important questions.
Oh just quick addition: my “head canon” on V is that they are actually a rogue AI that breached the Blackwall , entering V’s body after the head wound for the purpose of assimilating Alt.
I've heard the news of the woman they employed, and I'm a little worried as well. I guess we can only wait and see what happens. I hope for the best because I think if CDPR just sticks to the way they've been crafting the first game and just plan it out better and give it enough time, we'll have a winner. It gives me confidence, also, to know that someone like Sasko has climbed the ladder and is now an associate director at Orion. From what I've seen (in this video as well), he's a great guy who knows what he's doing and cares about Cyberpunk. I hope they kept many of the other competent and passionate senior devs on board as well, particularly in the writing branch where this woman has been employed. Should help balance her out if she's bad, as well as potential other negative influences. That is my idea, anyway. Still, it is worrying, also because CDPR has apparently made the whole diversity and inclusion thing a bigger focus in recent years, which is worrying with how it seems to have negatively impacted games' quality recently.
I never considered that the megabuildings where made after Arasaka Tower. I just thought they´re designed to reduce the need of the residents (usually poor) to go outside and use the city. Crazy
I’ve never actually seen any evidence for this in-game (or in the TTRPGs). Is it not more likely the Megabuildings are setup like this simply to reflect how dystopian Night City is? You can see it in films like Dredd for example.
You definitely right on that it is a sign of a dystopian world. But in Dredd for example they were created as a result of people fearing to leave their homes due to an insane lvl of crime. You're also correct in that CDPR / Mike Pondsmith have never gone into details about the main reason for adding megabuildings to NC but Corpo wars and the nuke at AHQ is my bet.
Yeah, you're right. I think I messed up sometime before exporting the video to mp4. Inside the editing problem everything sounded good. Sorry about that
Small error in the video. GTA V was not released in 2023, but in 2013...as we all know!
The second tallest structure in Liverpool England is the former 96’7 radio city tower with the elevation of 138m ( 453 ) with the fastest elevator to transport visitors to and from the observation deck .
The aesthetics of the tower is built on 1940-1950’s American architecture that’s a mixture of cyberpunk meets science fiction B movie sets .
However the tower like its counterparts once stood as a moving restaurant diner’s but later got disbanded the silver lining about it that got saved by St John’s by renaming the tower as the Beacon .
Lastly: where as its counterparts in America either got destroyed or abandoned for my visit to the beacon I gave the experience a 10/10 for its splendor and charm.
Small note on the Megabuildings, they were just Night City's version of an in-universe Arcology, a self sustaining environmentally stable community that was made due to the severe climate change of the early 2000's.
One of the fun little (probably) unintentional things about the Megabuildings in particular though is that all of the stores and overlapping amenities make them look like indoor malls. Which were the quintessential hyper-capitalist experience of the everyday American back in the late 80's and 90's, back when Cyberpunk 2020 was being written. And I mean "I live in a mall that advertises itself as an ideal human habit" screams Cyberpunk,
Funny side thing, about the climate change. The central hole of the mega buildings should facilitate passive cooling. Like I just saw this video about how buildings with inside gardens get cool in desert environments. They put a pond on there too, so the evaporation helps with that even more. I'm guessing something similar can be done with megabites to reduce power use.
And there's this city-in-a-building in Alaska I think, where they have everything within a block to reduce heating requirements, too. So doubly good.
weird tangent but what I love about the world of Night City. Is how accurate it is to our world. What I mean is if I go to a section in NIght City. You'll see these GIANT buildings that are used for Corpo stuff or apartments. I know what you're gonna say, "But other games do that too". What I'm saying is other games tend to either keep these buildings as sorta of "Neutral", Like you dont know what specifically they are all you know is they're a giant building. But NightCity those buildings serve a purpose. In real life when I go to the city. Ill always see these giant buildings. BUT they weren’t there for decoration, They served a purpose, some corporations the other housing. I'm sorry if my explanation sounds weird. I just love this game and every time I replay it. I always notice something minuscule especially since I already know how the story goes. I get to focus on the really small stuff.
Johnny Silverhand gotta be one of Keanu Reeves best roles ever
15:21 love you man, love you
Love you too Choom!
well said my friend
Wtf is up with that burning man?
Choom, I've been trying to solve this one for 8 months or more. Still no solution.
I do know that you can find a homeless guy that's identical to the burning man in Dogtown where Songbird and Vi pop out of the tunnels
Imagine gta online in Night city with high buildings and beautiful lights everywhere
That would be so cool ngl!
YES! I was literally just talking to someone about the world of cyberpunk 2077. Just walking around the city in first person is fun. Seeing little bits of life everywhere. Hearing the dispatcher for the NCPD get hit on by an officer. Even just going to the El Coyote or Sunset Motel or Unification Park and people watching is fun
Exactly this! It feels so good just existing in Night City even when you're not doing some crucial mission.
When the game was released I used to always say it was my favorite walking sim. 600+ hours later I still think this.
New pc, just by the game last week. And I have a total blast! Thx for the video, I completely miss the dildo gate story :D
Enjoy the game choom! It's been on of the best I've played. And thank you for watching this video I appreciate it :D
I bought it on release... Didn't play it for, like you, a year. Then spent days, in the morning sitting down, wondering how it became already midday, thinking I'll go to eat something in ten minutes and getting up at 6 in the evening... It was like blinking the time away. And I missed a lot even with my mind fully being in the game.
It was way too good (year after release) I can't let it go, and it made me angry so much I went on rampages (the braindance editors, about the kid, you'll know the mission) and cried when I saw the ending messages after choosing the corpo ending/uploading myself.
And the government ending of the DLC left me mentally scared. Was shocked for a day about it. Yeah maybe that sounds stupid, but I let myself feel like I'm V and it was worth all the money CDPR charged me.
One can sense your passion and sense of art ``justice`` trough this video, congrats and thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you!
Night City brought back a lot of memories from my teenage/student years. The buildings, the foggy streets in the night, with the amber light of streetlamps shining on wet pavement... somehow it feels so real. Often I just fire up the game and start walking in a random direction - not doing any quests or car deliveries, just walking. Or I simply chose to sit down at the Growl FM party, listen to the music, watch Johnny sweeping the dirt from one of his boot and Rita Wheeler vibing in her armchair... Come to think of it, it's not just the city... the characters in CP 2077 have this real-life person vibe, they talk like real people and not like actors reading lines from a script. I hope the sequel will be just as good as the first game.
YES! This! I love walking around NC. Hearing the little conversations, seeing routines play out, such as when people move to the burning barrels of trash at night. Seeing people go to the vendors on the street or sit at the park. It feels very real
Loving these videos. You really understand what the world of Cyberpunk is. Keep it up, choom! 🤘
Thank you Choom! I really appreciate that!
You've successfully put into words what I've been feeling about this game since that day I got fully immersed in it. Cyberpunk 2077 is a phenomenal game that must be enjoyed fully, not partially, immersed. There are sooo many of these "invisible perfections" throughout Night City, it blows my mind. I can't put it down.
Btw, today I've successfully climbed up top Megabuilding 06 during my mission for El Capitan Muamar. The feeling I had when I made it over the edge to get a great screenshot was so satisfying. lol... useless information but wanted to share anyways.
Great content, choom. Hope to see more.👌🏻
22:44 I just had an excellent epiphany. Rouges shirt saying “SURVIVE” is the 4th statement to trust no, one turn back, no future. And like the bull on the bottle. Idk if that could have any meaning but it’s interesting symbolism and with the goat head as well at the terminals. Just MY personal theory. Probably already been talked about but yea.
Just a refresher lol
Madonna is her birth name tho.
I had to double-check this and...you're correct! I always assumed it was a nickname. Who gives their kid such a cool name?
Same! I thought it was like Cher@@relaxedswede
@@joseybryant7577 cher is also her real name.
@@joseybryant7577 Cherilyn Sarkisian
@@faithlessfate What the hell is going on out here 😅OK I got with "Eminem" now. Can't be his real name
I just thought of something interesting for you, what if this is a trilogy? I’ll try to explain it clearly if I can.
2077 - the darkest part of human history the dystopian world the first chapter in this series filled with crimes of murder and rape and extortion and so forth
Orion - new city new place less crime less poverty, I do believe it’s stated that night city is the worst place in America right the darkest part, so what if the new location is neutral?
???? - the final chapter the end of cyberpunk the destruction of the Blackwall and the rogue ai. What if with the theory in my other comment makes this game the good part of the trilogy where for the time being peace is back?
The reason I thought of this was 2 reasons
1- your constant vids they open up new possibilities on how the game is progressing through a trilogy series and how we’re gonna get there
2- the last thing Johnny says to you before returning to your body “ maybe I learnt something from you too V, to save my energy for 1 final big bang “ what if that big bang is johnnys return to help destroy the ai bringing about the good ending?
Oh and mikes comment on the game is bout saving yourself and not the world I think is wrong because as you save yourself you save those around you that save others, river ward and the weapons heist, and paralez and his mayor run all could lead to bigger changes that spread a ripple effect? Crazy idea I know but what if that were the case and if I’m not mistaken Orion is the constellation of the hunter and new location neutral setting?
I like your theory Choom!
For three main reasons.
1 - Everything you just mentioned above.
2 - CDPR is going to make the new Witcher games a trilogy.
3 - The Rogue AI invasion might begin in Cyberpunk Orion and the end in the final installment of the trilogy. It would just make sense in some way. I don't know if you see where I'm coming from
@@relaxedswedeyea I do as 2077 seems to be not the game game but more like the set up for the bigger more important part of the game
Onions belt has 3 stars. I smell a trilogy
I wouldn't be surprised if, in Orion, CDPR decided to make the game, well, bigger. It wouldn't take much to import the existing assets and possibly the map from the Red Engine into UE5, then they can also design the other major cities in which the player could travel to (Chicago, LA Metroplex, New York, Washington D.C and others) as well as the Crystal Palace. Having a game world of this size would also allow for either MMORPG-style gameplay or even just single player gameplay similar to Elite: Dangerous and is pretty trivial to enable with UE5 (as well as other fun features such as VR). I'm more of a fan of having an in-game lobby of sorts (such as the Afterlife in NightCity) where players in the city would be able to meet and group up, then once they leave, they run the game on a peer-to-peer network with the lowest latency player being the host/server for the group. This would be a pretty substantial cost reduction for CDPR as far as supporting network infrastructure as well since they would only need to host the zones that serve as the lobby rather than the entire game world.
As far as the overall plot and timeline goes, I suspect we will be in a timeline that is set during the next war, whatever it would be called. This is due to all of the little hints that are everywhere in the game and will obviously include Arasaka, Militech, Biotechnica, the NUSA and others, however, I do have a suspicion that we will see a "shadow war" being played out between Netwatch and Blackwall against the combined forces of NightCorp and various rogue AIs.
If my suspicions are correct, while this will be an extremely massive undertaking by CDPR, even if the engine can handle what they throw at it, it will take a very, very long time for it to come out.
Cyberpunk in its current state is an absolute banger. With mods I'm loving it more than modded Fallout. I think it's better.
The corpo life path is the best , hands on
Fully agree. I've played as Corpo twice and enjoyed it. Tried the Streetkid life path, and honestly the introduction felt really boring to me and I didn't connect with it at all. Now playing as Nomad where I also rather liked the prologue. Still liking Corpo the most, though.
@@123Suffering456I concur!
I like Nomad most cause you start off completely new to the city, especially for a first playthrough cause you and V both experience this place for the first time.
@@melancholymelon5316It also gives a whole new layer to the Aldecaldo path.
Great vid, pretty accurate description of the corpo pathway with the dog eat dog type of structure. As well as a good explanation of the games world in general.
Also I had a strange theory on this game, what if this isn’t real but more like a story or memory of V’s that you gotta play through kinda like at the end of mass effect 3 where you find that your journey was nothing but a story being told down to a small child.
Anyway none the less great vid gave a lot to think bout even for potentially new players.
Oh and what are your thoughts of them employing a person from sweet baby inc, a company with a rep for tanking games and franchises do you think it’ll impact cyberpunk 2077’s sequel?
Thank you for watching, I really appreciate it!
I've had the same thoughts before actually so I like your theory. Even more so because it means humanity won against rogue AIs in the end. Because otherwise there would be no one to tell stories to.
Oh, I had missed this drama on hiring the woman from sweet baby inc. Too early to call but I feel like CDPR should try and do the right thing here. Would be dumb to risk it all by putting someone with a bad track record in charge
@@relaxedswedecompletely agree
Orion will have a different feel, I think. Opening an American office , not sure how I feel about that. Our country is so extreme about politics and identity it leaches into everything. Cyberpunk 2077 is far enough removed from that to have a timeless (ironically) feel to it. I think making it more American will make it more a product of an era, more a mirror of the American left vs. right than a mirror of mankind vs. itself. That is my worry: however, I still have hopes that it may continue to transcend this and it will keep asking the important questions.
Oh just quick addition: my “head canon” on V is that they are actually a rogue AI that breached the Blackwall , entering V’s body after the head wound for the purpose of assimilating Alt.
I've heard the news of the woman they employed, and I'm a little worried as well. I guess we can only wait and see what happens. I hope for the best because I think if CDPR just sticks to the way they've been crafting the first game and just plan it out better and give it enough time, we'll have a winner.
It gives me confidence, also, to know that someone like Sasko has climbed the ladder and is now an associate director at Orion. From what I've seen (in this video as well), he's a great guy who knows what he's doing and cares about Cyberpunk. I hope they kept many of the other competent and passionate senior devs on board as well, particularly in the writing branch where this woman has been employed. Should help balance her out if she's bad, as well as potential other negative influences. That is my idea, anyway. Still, it is worrying, also because CDPR has apparently made the whole diversity and inclusion thing a bigger focus in recent years, which is worrying with how it seems to have negatively impacted games' quality recently.
The audio mixing in this video is atrocious I still enjoyed the video but my ears didn't
Will do better next time. Thanks for the feedback
bro what the hell is that audio... it's like you were speaking right into the mic...
My bad Choom. Still trying to figure out the perfect setup/ settings for my MV7
@@relaxedswede no prob... no dislikes from me :)
I think most of CP77 is now covered... maybe look into other game? Like Warhammer? Just sayin
well, okay, i take it back... Now i dont think most of CP77 is covered, but i still hold my stance, you should look into other games too
@@electrolyteorb Scary to try other games but I will be doing it in my upcoming videos!
ouch, my left ear
My bad Choom!
No idea why that specific section has no volume on the right side
I never considered that the megabuildings where made after Arasaka Tower. I just thought they´re designed to reduce the need of the residents (usually poor) to go outside and use the city. Crazy
I’ve never actually seen any evidence for this in-game (or in the TTRPGs). Is it not more likely the Megabuildings are setup like this simply to reflect how dystopian Night City is?
You can see it in films like Dredd for example.
You definitely right on that it is a sign of a dystopian world. But in Dredd for example they were created as a result of people fearing to leave their homes due to an insane lvl of crime. You're also correct in that CDPR / Mike Pondsmith have never gone into details about the main reason for adding megabuildings to NC but Corpo wars and the nuke at AHQ is my bet.
9:18 the gameplay only comes from the left channel
Yeah, you're right. I think I messed up sometime before exporting the video to mp4.
Inside the editing problem everything sounded good. Sorry about that
you cant say hacking over bluetooth is a better idea over a wire, you are not a hacker
How do you know that I'm not a hacker?