I love the idea of Corpo V getting unceremoniously kicked from his job, then one day coming back with the “don’t fear the reaper” ending and wreaking havoc to your old employer.
The old employer and the third counterintelligence department got cut (killed) even the women who betrayed your boss Abernathy got killed too so technically you can just not your direct one
You missed a talking about a unique interaction for the Nomad lifepath. When stealing the relic with Johnny on it, there is an Iguana to the left of the elevator. If you approach it V and Jackie will have a conversation about whether on not THIS Iguana is the one they smuggled into NC.
There's also the interaction with Jackie before talking to the Maelstrom about modification to his Bike. If you are on Nomad, you can get him to modify it slightly (with I think 6 tech rating).
Corpo is the best imo. It has the strongest arc, you're actually already close to Jackie instead of just meeting him & it has the best dialogue options.
I fucking love the Streetkid meeting jackie though Get jumped by him, get your asses beat, then just go get some lunch together. Weirdly fitting for some reason
especially with the whole story being tied with saka it makes more sense that V worked there and was nearly killed gives the real main villain vibes and fits better overall
I feel like they must've mixed the two up or something. it always struck me as odd that Corpo V is buds with Jackie, an ex-Valentino. But yet Street kid V who has a lot more in common with Jackie doens't cross paths with him until later.
My first completed playthrough was Corpo but got the "happy" Nomad ending leaving Night City with Panam and it felt like such a satisfying way to end the game. Starting out as a Corpo enjoying all the luxury, then in the end just leaving it all behind to live a more free and simple life with the nomads.
same here, started corpo because i tought it was a more natural story to get revenge on Arasaka, everything had a meaning. Didn't chosed the ending on purpose but im glad with it
This is exactly my mindset!! V leaves his clan to make a name for himself, but ultimately learns that he needs a family, much like you teach Panam yourself. It's poetic and imo perfect
@@valravn0728 I don't think it's stupid though. Nomad's just aren't used to city life since they are used to living with one family, and one family only. But in Night City you are surrounded by outsiders and strangers. Nomad's don't trust strangers very easily (apart from Panam I guess since you can romance her like 3 days after meeting her for the first time lol.)
@@valravn0728It makes total sense lmfao. V enters NC after leaving Nomad life to make a name for himself, turns out NC is a fucking dump and he needs to topple some of the heavy hitters. In the very end he decided City Life just isn’t worth it, and finds peace with Panam and Nomad Life. Makes perfect sense
Corpo has the best dialouge options, but honestly I wish they'd give you diffeent start of the game vehicles and weapons, your clothes do change but in the end it really doesn't make a difference
@@NEEDbacon You get the SEMURAI crystaljock bomber, a knock off jacket from the guy that gives you the job that has you meet Jackie. Edited to fix some spelling.
@@NEEDbacon I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I'm decently sure there was a fixer armor set and one of the pieces required you to be a Streetkid. Pretty small thing, but at that point in time the fixer set was the second best armor in the game I think.
Ideally the lifepath should effect how "happy" your chosen ending is CorpoV should get an option to return to work as a special operative. This is the only way to remain with Goro if that's important to you NomadV should be able to rally the Aldacaldos w/o completing Panam's entire quest line though it goes badly if you do SteeetKidV should.enjoy becoming Prince of the Afterlife. Your meeting is with bunch of rookies and V is putting together their own version of The Heist
That would be cool but I think cdpr wanted to make numerous expansions of of the endings of the game that's why every ending is a bit of a cliff hanger but obviously there not doing that anymore because of the bad launch but we don't know anything about fantom Liberty yet other than its 40 to 60 hours long so who knows maby they find some way to tie in all the endings but Johnny silverhand retuning as much as I love his character could shoot that theory down before it's even taken of.
I love this idea. Each life path should have a happy ending. I would like to see corpo v get back into arasaka. I would like to see a more impactful ending with the aldecados as a nomad. Street kid needs a chance to really celebrate living out jackie's dream. They all feel so generic.
@@Kos4Evr Technically they are all happy endings depending on you look at it. A male V who romances Kerry or a Female who stays with River has a sort of happy ending in Blaze of Glory. A male or female who romanced Panam or Judy get to ride off into the sunset. Devil's Ending is the only one that's unquestionably bad since Johnny treats it as a betrayal and Hanko and Goro essentially abandoned V after they served their purpose. V is left alone without even the biochip to remember Johnny and Jackie by
I agree with these options, but I have a few more. corpo path aldecado ending is V learning what actually makes him happy, and it's not the endless rat race of the city. Streetkid V aldecaldo ending, basically the same thing. Afterlife ending to me feels happy no matter what. Corpo V may not have risen to the top of the corpo world, but he's the top of the merchant world, and that's arguably better. Streetkid V became king of the city he knows and loves. Bonus points if you get your hands on a Rayfield during the course of your playthrough. Nomad V risked it all to find success in NC, and they got it in spades. And let's not forget: Jackie dreamed of the major leagues. In this ending, you ARE the major leagues. You fulfilled your promise to your best choom.
Actually I see the happy endings being a little more mixed up. Street kid B who’s known only Night City finding love with Panam and family in the Aldercaldos and leaving with them. Nomad V who’s known family and the struggle to survive desiring the comfort of the corpo life. Finally corpo V who’s been suffering and living unfulfilled seeking the glory and freedom of becoming a Night City legend and going out with a bang and a middle finger.
There r many gigs n side jobs that can be completed differently if u chose a certain life path, it’s very subtle but it’s there, u could easily miss it but in my opinion that kinda makes the game better, and def adds to its replay value
Love the Nomad path along with the Nomad ending. You begin the game entering Night City for the first time and end the game leaving Night City for the last time. Full circle.
This is my favorite too. A close second is Corpo V giving the man who blew up their former employer's tower a second chance at life after bonding with him.
I like the StreetKid life path more. I like the idea of my V trying to become the best in Night City. However, after the horrible job and Jackie dying, V is totally lost and feels like they don’t wanna be in the top now since they know how horrible the life of a merc is now and just wants to leave
Streetkid has a few of them and they’re actually really funny like V pretending to be a drug dealer to get to the Soviet fixer, or V saying they’re an XBD star talent scout to get into the club for Dino . Streetkid getting Wakako to help them by mentioning her son so there’s more beyond the diner one
Corpo has just been the best story so far for me, how you are able to twist so many corpo arms to get a better deal and get into places much easier lol. Plus the whole aspect with Johnny just seems a lot more organic since you started off as a Corpo as opposed to the other choices.
The nomad side mission where the girl is after your car actually sits really well with the character. You're dying or you're not going to be leaving NC any time soon, so it almost feels like passing the torch to a new generation.
@@derekk2666 bro, it's a shitty car. At least let her have it so she can drive away from NC. You already got Jackie's car, The Tiger claw bike from that sidemission, that one car with guns you find at a warehouse that johnny is excited about, johnny's car if you do his sidemissions. And you got enough cash to buy better cars.
There's a really great one if you're a Nomad. When you do the gig Guinnea Pigs stealthily, and by talking to the man at the desk first. If you then do the gig Olive Branch, and then proceed to talk to the corpo in the trunk, you can ask if he knows the woman from Guinnea Pigs, and feel a little less remorseful about handing him over to the Tyger Claws. I loved that little detail, but I wish there was more for a Nomad as it is my favourite life path.
Huh, I'd missed that one too and I've never handed that guy over to the Tygers so I guess I know what I'm doing next play through! Another nice Nomad one is being able to actually confirm to Meredith that Gilchrist was the mole for Maelstrom.
I can think of at least five good reasons to choose either Corpo or Nomad (StreetKid would have been better for second playthroughs with advanced knowledge). But if lifepaths had exclusive content, people would condemn CDPR for locking them out of content in the full experience. Each lifepath has major contributions to the themes of the game. Corpos in particular lose "their" wealth to illustrate a major point: your prosperity belongs to your employer, and they will revoke it the minute it inconveniences them.
As long as missions or choices are not behind a paywall, I doubt people would complain. Though there were complaints about who you could romance with the gender you chose.
I wouldn't mind having content locked by choice of lifepath, or choices in game (like some gangs become more or less aggro or give quests depending on if you're on good terms). And for the romances, i think the problem stems more from the fact there's so few of them. If there were à ton of them, i wouldn't mind having most being locked by gender or even lifepath and in game choice. But right now there is only 4 of them which is one by each gender/sexuality combination (granted you can choose between two if you play bi but it's still only one option of each gender).
They took out a great little bonus of going Streetkid. You used to get the El Coyote Quick Travel location unlocked before you could normally leave the lockdown.
That would have been a nice compromise. Act 1 *should* have been your path to solvency, similar in each route but personally tailored by your origin as to how you all get to The Rescue. Gives *much* needed time actually investing the player in Jackie's character and giving enough time for V to default into the pseudo Street Kid shtick the majority of the game shoves you into.
@@t.t6294 Yes and no. Yes, as far as mainstream games are concerned. No, as far as indie passion projects that gamedev by their own rules and don't have a publisher breathing down their necks. I just want another mainstream RPG that does it again. Many big studios seem absolutely *terrified* of making such engaging narratives for some reason. Too fucking proud of their stories possibly having "missable" content exclusive to player selected origins.
I like Nomad, I am fairly sure it's the only one where you can specifically tell Meredith Stout that Gilchrist is the mole in the 'Pickup' mission... (dependant on how the mission plays out).
To answer the question: the choices don’t have many long term effects. You get a unique prologue, and for the rest of the game you’ll get dialogue options relating to your background. They change how V’s personality feels a little, but V is pretty much always going to be snarky, loyal, and ballsy. I went with Nomad for my first run through and Corpo for my second. With the first, he felt unsurprisingly like a wanderer. He’d interject conversations with bits and pieces of nomad trivia or stuff like that. Admittedly I don’t remember much. With corpo, he’s almost kinda like Jack Reacher from the Jack reacher movies. It only applies when he’s talking to corporate people, but those options were always pretty neat. He knew the game they were playing and would just tell them how they were doing it or what they wanted. He speaks much more confidently with those options, occasionally being more aggressive as well. It’s a nice difference from his usually dry responses to stuff.
What I like about Streetkid their mannerisms seem the most consistent in the prologue to Act 1. Corpo felt more stressed and timid (to be fair cant blame them) and Nomad felt a bit more neutral. Streetkid felt badass while having some audacity due to knowing Night City like the back of their hands
@@kobrax0341 yea i agree i also feel like that in the corpo path it breaks that narrative a bit like v will start ranting about how much he hates the corps ( which even corpo V has a good reason to) but then he starts going on about how much he loves arasaka it's weird. Also as street kid I love starting from starting from the very bottom of society and climbing to the very top and you just don't get that same feeling when you play as corpo. It's one of the reasons when I do a play through of Cp I always do every single gig to really feel like your becoming a NC legend
The lifepaths honestly just make things for my own stories feel better. A nomad finding his clan with the aldercados, a streetkid leaving the city behind, a nomad finding himself on top of the big city, a corpo being ousted from corporate but still ruling the city on his own terms etc. these are narratives I make myself vs the game making them for me
I am halfway through my initial play through and I chose Corpo. I feel that it’s a fine choice, I’m not into 2 hour prologues. It was the only choice that seemed to fit my idea for an InT 20 and Tech 20 build. I’ve gotten a bunch of well flavored dialogue options so far, so I’m happy!
I want to see ACTUAL corpo jobs. Even if the corporation is a new one we never heard of, something small. Just being able to climb the corporate ladder, dirty tricks, etc. Night City is huge and I would welcome playing as other people. As cool as V is, there's so many more opportunities out there, from Maxtac to Trauma team to Maelstrom smuggler.
@@vodkadotka I don’t think that’s true at all? On UA-cam alone there’s a large amount of table top play groups. And with the success they have it’s quite obvious people do have interest table top playing.
@@vicentemuerte5640 your average person doesn't wanna sit and look at people's faces while they sit there and imagine things. That's for DnD basement dwelling virgins.
I played like nomad and corpo... I have to say that I like nomad much more - I really like the options of nomad dialogs and I feel like it's more fillfull... it's my feeling :) and then when Panam and her family take you like their own... so nice and I love that nomad's ending choice with nomad V.
DAO had a good use of the origin system and its influence was felt relatively throughout the game when characters address you or the dialogue options you had. Star Wars The Old Republic also from bioware, took it way further where the origin you pick (bounty hunter, sith, jedi etc) influences your whole story arc, voice, companions, ship and personality. All 8 origins feel different and separate from the others... Until you do the expansion where everything is streamlined into one path
SWTOR is a hard comparison, given how they damn near bankrupted themselves on the project while it consistently nosedived until F2P. Millions were crammed into it, while pennies were spent on the creaky engine never meant for such a project, so much so that it had to be frankensteined into something entirely different just to keep it afloat. CP2077 would have been the time to try something crazy like that, but after the disastrous initial launch, I can't imagine there was any scenario in which they could have made it work without tacking on another couple of years of development. And I don't think they're going to get to play around with fuck-you-money development blank checks next time around.
@@thant0s you aren't wrong 😂 was just using swtor origins as a comparison for what I thought was a good use of the origin system in a game and that I personally prefer going through the origin stories rather than the expansions
@@NormandySR16 Yeah, as far as RPGs where there's a clear distinction as to where you're from and what brought you into the conflict, *and* how people behave towards you, SWTOR is like, *the* standout, even when compared to DAO. Nothing else comes to mind that handles that so significantly at that scale of production. Not even the likes of the Pathfinder games or Baldur's Gate III really dig into it to that degree.
There is a street kid interaction during an aldecaldos side quest, where some of the members are trying to do an arms deal with either scavs or maelstrom, and as street kid you can talk the scavs out of the conflict entirely with a pretty cool dialogue choice
I started as Nomad because I wanted to be a badass outlaw/ cowboy revolver user. Then I did streetkid and liked it because when we get David's jacket, there is actual meaning when Falco says we are similar to David. I just started Corpo but as one of the comments mentioned, we go on a revenge quest and I feel like we bond with Silverhand a bit more because we both hate Arasaka on this life choice. I'm still on the beginning with Corpo playthrough but yeah, it really doesn't matter what you pick, only offers dialog options and a few life choice specific quests.
It mostly adds a little flavor to the game and can make your story feel more like a complete arc. I think Nomad in particular goes really well if you end up romancing Panam and choosing the Nomad ending. It becomes the story of V losing his clan and being accepted into another one, finding love along the way, but with only a short time left to enjoy it.
I picked the corpo path for my first playthrough, and with high technical ability and intelligence it made for interesting interactions. Plus it made Johnny's beef with Arasaka a bit more personal for V too. And Jackie...[insert meme of 'look at how they massacred by boy'] I always let Takemura die, too. Since he never truly is an ally--just a corpo dog with mutual interests for a while. But after he gets what he wants, he couldn't care less about what happens to you.
Corpo all the way - not only are there a whole bunch of amazing corpo-specific dialogue options, there's also the special side quest related to your life path which I don't believe any of the other life paths ever end up getting? It also turns the game into a full revenge arc like other commenters have said.
But this doesn't has to be about Arasaka. Nomad V lost his family, and he found new (when panam ending) Streetkid V Wanted to become legend, and he/she achieved it specially when secret ending, and rogue ending And, as you told Corpo V took his/her revenge on Arasaka
One thing that really sucks is that the life paths themselves don't really justify another playthrough by themselves. I enjoyed all the life paths I just hope in the next game it's a bit more fleshed out.
My two favorite unique Nomad dialog options are: being able to tell Stroud that it was indeed Abernathy that leaked the convoy info. And talking to the other Nomad chilling in the Kabuki market (right out front that one ripperdoc), and being able to get him to tell you about the cop hiding out in the apartment during one of Regina's side gigs, by chatting with him "Nomad to Nomad."
I know there's a mod which gives you little boosts depending on your background. Corpo gives you slightly better quickhacking stats, Nomad gives you better crafting results or something and Streetkid improves your Cool tree or.. I can't remember specifics, but it does help add a bit more purpose to the backgrounds outside of just some dialogue and a quest
Corpo is definitely the best feeling story, but I think Nomad has the best additional rewards. Pushing the prophet quest early, the tuned arch that looks good, the car that's fairly decent for badlands roaming. I definitely will always do new playthroughs with one of those two options.
Nomad also is the only lifepath that can provide Meredith Stout with the name of the mole IF you know where to look in the All Foods factory. Later in the game there will be a Militech box in your apartment with a couple minor gifts. I guess it's the thought that counts.
@@ceshmate1953 There's a several aspects of the story that doesn't make sense. There is zero chance that Corpo V would not be familiar with the type of espionage/surveillance technology used by Evelyn Parker. An argument could be made that even Street Kid V would be aware of "doll" capabilities. It's likely it would be a common scam in Night City for dolls to capture footage of people in compromising situations for extortion purposes.
I really get the feeling Life paths where originally going to have a bigger impact but was cut back when Keno signed up, similar to Jackie was going to have a bigger impact before the rewrites.
For me without a doubt once a corpo always a corpo I just love that aesthetic and immersive the potential of how Arasaka could re recruit V and him replacing Smasher as Arasaka main operative
It might sound dumb but honestly I feel like each life path should of had their own unique main story. Like act 2 is already split 3 ways(with each one representing each life path). And same with the endings
If you've ever played the Witcher 2 you'd know how bad that would go. That only had essentially two stories as well. It's just not realistic to expect so much content locked behind something that very few people will do.
Witcher 2 had two major story paths based on a major choice. With more resources, etc. You WOULD think CDPR would do something like this. But NOOOOOOOOO they streamline it and made Cyberpunk into an action adventure game and less of an rpg.
Picking a life path changes your perspective on V. It changes whether you think V wants to be the greatest edge runner because they grew up in night city they know the life and how living in night city absolutely sucks and how you want to be remembered forever and not just another worthless citizen. You could be plain as a nomad or a Corpo V as you were kicked out of your previous lifestyle, it might change how you view, and how you play the game like for example, as a nomad, you might be really strong and very good with technology, technically wise, or as a former Arasaka employee, you might have high Cyberware and really focus on stealth, smart weapons and hacking as you might see your V as a more non-confrontational more softer but and also just a more smarter person in general. Or playing as a Strke kid you know the hassle of life and you know what it takes to survive the night city until that might be a life path where you are a master of all things as logically speaking if you were foreign tonight city, you weren’t necessarily know what you need to do to survive as being a Street kid, you know that you can’t necessarily rely on one thing, so you spec into everything . But the different life path equals a new whole experience for each player and it really changes on how you CV has a character where do you play as a quart both for your very first time and you kind of wanna go by the greedy lifestyle or you might go buy a nomad as a tough on kill ball machine or you might play as a street kid a person who understands the hustle in the grind that takes to be a legend in Night City. But this also changes your ending. Maybe your street kid who just wants to be free of night city or nomad who misses their freedom or a Corpo who wants a life outside of business and so you then go to the Aldacadoes ending. Maybe you are a Corvo who wants to stick it to Arasaka as after all you’ve done, you ended up being kicked out until you want to bring your judgment straight to them or your nomad who just hates corporations or you’re just a Street Kid who knows the evil in the corruption of corporations and you just want to go down as a legend, and so you then pick the ending where you attack Arasaka with the rogue. Or maybe you are you a Arasaka Corpo who wants to get back into the good graces of Arasaka, by sucking back up to them, and helping Hanako, you might be a nomad who really has no idea what do you except for folding to Arasaka, or are you just might be a Street Kid who gave up on their aspirations of being a legendary edge runner and see the only way of continuing to live by siding with Arasaka. And for the don’t fear, the reaper ending, you might be angry Ex Corpo who wants their revenge you might be a nomad who is tired of corporations getting their way or you might be a V who knows that the only way that they can go down as the best edge runner of all time is by doing a suicide route and taking on Arasaka all by themselves, not willing to try to get their friends hurt as well. Or finally you might be a who just gave up from being a quart bowl from being a nomad order from being an edge runner, and knows that they don’t have too much to live for anyways as their feet is inevitable, and instead of trying to do something or at least, trying to with their best life with the remaining time they have they just end it short not thinking about how we will fact other people that loved them or people that were friends to them as they were going through their own problem and struggling but he just never thought about other people not being selfish on purpose, but they just were and then V, as of taking their own life on their own accord, which in some ways is respectable as it’s scary to see yourself slowly dying or it’s just too minor. Racking to give up your wife so another person who lived 50 years before you could just continue to live their life fun and it’s not like even asked for this not with your knowledge before hand just happened. But no matter what ending you get you still have to come to terms that V ends up dying whether you like it or not. Because if he ends up dying, either by through ever been stored in Makoshi and one day being freed from it whether it’s dying with your friends and family at your side or whether it’s dying by your own hands or fighting back against Arasaka, and proving yourself to be a legend or you end up surviving the fight against Arasaka and you were just the most legendary edge runner of all times, but you still have to grapple with the fact that not even within a year you’re still going to die. Or a rocker boy takes over V’s body whether we wanted that to happen or whether V try to stop Johnny from doing it, but Johnny still did it. And this proves a point that no matter what night city is everything opposite from a city of dreams everyone who’s in there for long enough and the dying because of the city and there’s only a few people who get lucky because V helped them out.
8:46 - One note on this statement by the store owner right after V thwarts the robbery... When he says, "Order whatever you want, it's on the house", you really can buy out his full inventory of food and beverage for zero eddies.
2 things that would have made this game so much better. First, more time in your life path so it feels like your decision mattered. Plus more time with Jackie and T-Bug so we have time to connect and grieve their loss. Not spoiling their deaths in the trailers would have helped too.
One thing that would have been really fun to see is your life-path choice had a potential effect on the endings. Like if we consider how each of the three 'main' endings clearly tie to one of the lifepaths (The Sun-Streetkid, The Star-Nomad and The Devil-Corpo), I think it would have been cool if you got an expanded or additional options for your ending if you chose one that corresponds to your lifepath. Like I've always loved how The Star ending is a perfect bookend to the Nomad prologue, with V entering Night City having lost everything including their family, and then leaving Night City as part of a new family. Heck, both times they're even smuggling a stolen lizard!
There's another major 'shortcut' for the corpo path when talking to Woodman. Instead of having to navigate the 'speech maze', there is a corpo dialogue option that basically gets him to spill his guts right off the bat.
Basically, it doesn't matter that much, but it adds nice RP elements and dialogue options to make different playthroughs feel different. I like nomad best personally because I like the "ask Panam for help" ending best and it works well with that, but if you want a different story for your character e.g. a "get revenge on the corps who wronged you" story for a corpo, or a kinda tragic rags to riches story for a streetkid, then they're great paths to take too.
In a way it effects the overall story too. With Corpo, it's a revenge plot to take down the corp that tossed you in the trash so easily. For Nomads, they can find their new better nomad family among the Aldecados. But street kids, that's the true story, You and Jackie, just 2 chooms with dreams of being legends! That's Night City baby!
A high Intelligence/Technical corpo female V with a grudge against Arasaka due to how they handled her “termination”, ending with her storming the base with Johnny all by her lonesome cause “fuck it” has been my favorite play through so far.
I think the life paths also line up pretty well with three of the endings. Nomad being very obvious with the Aldecaldos, corpo going with Arasaka and Takemura, and street kid becoming a legend of Night City. Beyond that, I definitely appreciate the dialogue differences, the different outcomes in certain jobs, and the unique jobs you get. You're right, definitely reminiscent of Mass Effect. However, I think it does a little more than Mass Effect did with the military service and background. Those are more for roleplay than anything else, whereas this has more in-game options.
I really would like if they expanded things more, but I swear there are hidden or subtle things with the life paths not talked about. Like how Streetkid gets discounts in the shops compared to Corpo or Nomad. Where Nomad gets more access to vehicle related things, even if some are just cosmetic, and Corpo had easier and faster access to Military-Grade tech than the other life choices.
I had no idea you could talk your way into the parade float hangars. Multiple playthoughs with corpos and I never saw the oppurtunity. So many secrets in this game.
One more interaction that life path changes things. The cops beating down a corpo in an alley, you can talk them out of killing the guy. Talking to the cops has different dialogue per life path. One of the cops has a niece that was drugged in a club and bad things happened to her, and they are out to get revenge. Corpo dialogue you can talk the cops out of killing the guy. Street Kid you can talking the cops out of it, and get that the corpo does that sort of thing often.
Corpo to nomad ending is the best in my opinion. You start out extremely stressed and hating your life to have it all taken away to building yourself back up but being free and manifest that freedom with the nomads. It’s like accepting that there are greater things to life than money
Nomad is the only life path that feels like it was purposeful, that other two feel very rushed and tacked on. The Nomad has you doing more stuff, you get some actual action, and feels like it recalls more of that life path in the jobs you do with Jackie. When you do the Maelstrom job to get the spider-bot, you can find information on a laptop that exposes who the mole in Militech is, and you can let Meredith know. It also references the iguana in Yorinobu's apartment, as you were transporting one earlier. It's the only one that has the feeling of fitting with the other jobs. Nomad is the only job that also has an ending that fits with that lifepath. You can find a new nomad family, and ride off into the sunset with Panam. While there is a sort of corporate ending in The Devil path, there isn't really a Street Kid ending where they become a fixer or something. Maybe you could argue the Rogue ending fits that, but not sure it feels as fleshed out. Really would have been nice if the Street Kid and Corpo had more going on in the start. Especially the Corpo, which feels very bland in comparison to the Nomad.
Streetkid goes perfectly with the Don't Fear The Reaper ending where you solo the entirety of Arasaka tower. V ultimately achieves his dream of becoming an NC legend and defied expectations by still being alive. Corpo is the best lifepath because it gives you insight into the sociopathic and brutal dog eat dog nature of the corporate world, not to mention your friendship with Jackie feels alot more fleshed out and natural since you've already met each other prior to starting the game. The whole setting and vibe of the corpo lifepath is unmatched imo, got so much Bladerunner vibes when playing through it.
well seeing as the 3 "V returns to their body" endings are analogues for each life path... (there's one where you ride off as a free nomad, one where you're the king of the underbelly of NC, and one where you live life out as part of the corpo machine)
I agree, in the description of this Lifepath they already describe exactly what makes V so resistent to Cyberpsychosis which would allow you to use so many implants. The nomad lifetyle is harsh, but also free, it allows you to cultivate qualities that would otherwise never be seen in Night City such as charity and empathy. You can easily see how playing Nomad would justify the more "naive"(not really) choices in which V readily accepts to help people and rejects payment.
I love the Nomad route for the storytelling and thematic part. Drifter coming from the outside, strange man in a strange land, getting in way over their head and having to take on the toughest corporations of 2077. The quintissential Hero's Journey, made even more spectacular with the "Don't fear the reaper" ending.
7:00 Fun Fact, the Guard lets you in Peacefully after he died. His dead Body will look at you and you can initiate the Conversation. You keep the Bribe Money too.
I think it would be nice if you would get more gigs or side quests in certain areas depending on your life path. Like what if during the crimes where someone is being threatened there would be different outcomes whether you save the person or not, and perhaps if they're a fellow Corpo/Street Kid/Nomad.
I personally love Corpo origin the most due to V having a understanding of Corpo life so he has plenty of dialogue that is Corpo related for acting professional, understanding why siding with Corpo is bad, or just being a Corpo jerk. This allowed me to roleplay as a V who has fully understand why Corpo life is bad and V never wants to return to that life. Also, if V is from Corpo origins then Falco will saying that V and David are very similar due to their origins being Corpo related (V being from Corpo job like and David being a student being educated for Corpo life) and how they rise up in fame after their fall from Corpo life.
There is the slim possibility that they could add more lifepath specific dialogue choices in Phantom Liberty. Here’s hoping. Also my first play through was as a corpo and I feel like that the bar for what lifepaths are way too high.
I played Streetkid first, but I personally love how I played my second play through as a corpo, more dialogue, completing gigs and making a name in Night city, revenge on arasaka for both me and Johnny, then being free with the nomads and my baby girl panam
I thought it was fine. Gave some "flavor" to the choice you made. Dragon Age Origins and Witcher 2 both have huge variations based on decisions but that also means the developers spent a lot of time and energy building huge sections of game that most players (those who don't play the game more than once) will never see.
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@@destroyerblackdragon There is no focus, there are no quests I wanted to live in that place i chose example if I were nomad I wanted to play there in those areas do quests in that place. If I chose corporation I wanted to be a rich city do adventures of corporation, have my mansion my flying car
@@giancarloribeirobrito659 Those are your back stories. The point of all of them is you're starting fresh you just have unique experiences even street kid V.
@@destroyerblackdragon Yes I know to be street kid is where we have more experiences , but even so for a gigantic game is pretty shallow when we choose what we want to be in the game as corp, streek kid and nomad
@@giancarloribeirobrito659 No I mean everyone has a different back story but they all start fresh in might city and use their past experiences to solve problems.
In the cyberpunk tabletop game lifepaths were your intro story, i.e. a short blurb that explained how you even got into the mess that was the story you were playing. Frankly I think that the presence of lifepaths in CP77 is grossly overstated and if it hadn't been a playable section at all people would not have been nearly as upset about them being "insignificant" as they ended up being.
Coming from someone who has played through all the life paths I think you get the most out of street kid there are 12 interactions each you can have with every gang through out the city and with street kid you have optional dialogue and there not just neat little voice lines either you can avoid violence most of the time one of my favourite examples of this is getting the scavs to back down from attacking the aldacardos
As a DnD player it feels like playing pre-made campaigns with your own character. More roleplaying, builds and choices revolving around how my character would think rather than absolutely pushing the world around like a typhoon in more lax campaigns like homebrew. I actually like that, and its not like many other open world games stray from that design so I don't particularly mind as much, especially for a character who is essentially made to expire. Its like, this is the bar and I'll only really care if devs manage to fall below or exceed it. We all hope for another New Vegas style game in terms of choices and decisions but I think we'll only ever get there if a team truly decides to have their game revolve around the impact your actions had on multiple groups and the environment rather than individuals and the ending. Many teams would rather have a linear track of events or slight alterations since its easier to focus on a singular goal.
I think an story based on the concept of changing the world around the character would never work on the cyberpunk universe, or in any cyberpunk genre setting. Those are always stories in which main characters are nobodies who find themselves in situations that are way bigger than them, so their overall impact will never be great, that's why those narratives tend to focus on the personal impact, which I think the game portrays really well. V never had the power to save Jackie or Evelyn, never could have join a faction (being a mercenary means you have no loyalties or biases) and if they could join, they wouldn't be an important member nor change anything. What V can do is stablish realtionships, impact the life of the individuals they met, and decide between becoming a puppet on an arasaka political plot or keeping a safe distance
For me, it isn't about being a generic corpo that makes that lifepath my favorite. It's specifically being in corporate counterintelligence. I'm sure the other paths are nice, but Dexter choosing the merc who is former Arasaka counterintel to do a raid on Arasaka has always made the most sense. It's Dex's first gig after a 2 year hiatus, and while T-Bug is solid, he could have found someone else for this job to work with her, but it just so happens she already knew the perfect specimen for such a niche role. Knowledge and experience in infiltration, as well as how Arasaka specifically deals with infiltration attempts, might be worth a dozen skilled streetkids and nomads. It's not about being better in the absolute sense, just that this is perfect role specialization. The other paths may be better in other parts of the game, but The Heist is the foundation of the entire story.
I could imagine CDPR implementing some more backstory-specific stuff in the, lets call it "post game DLC", but considering the scope of what's in the game right now I'm actually glad they didn't do too much with it in the base game, distracting them from making the main story as good as it is.
My V Lifepath Headcanons Nomad V: He had pretty nice life being part of the Bakkers nomad clan. However, he had a plan that majorly backfired once he tried to reclaim their independence from the Snake Nation. To which only hurt them in the process. Corpo V: She grew up a new money family & she had tiger parents that would constantly compare her to her older brother. You’d think this would cause a bit of bad blood between the 2 but their big age difference prevented that from happening. Her brother would share memories of their life living in Heywood, how money changed their parents for the worse & instilled the value to try to look out for the little guy when they can. Sometimes let her hang at his place to get away from the pressure their under or take her to shooting range to blow off some steam. Fast forward V gets hired by Arasaka & sent out to negotiate a deal with another company. Her brother joins her as representative of MaxTac who’s also making a deal & hires Jackie as a bodyguard since the Welles used to be family friends. Negotiations go terribly wrong, resulting in a shootout & her brother gets caught in the crossfire. V bonds with Jackie over the trauma & that’s how their friendship starts. StreetKid V: After the death of their partner their mom/dad leaves them at the Night City orphanage. Becoming a kid of the foster care system V suffered grave abuse ranging from belt beatings to being forced into being a drug mule to families linked to gangs. Clinging to last bit of hope they runaway making it as far as the Coyote Bar. Suffering a panic attack at thought of being caught Mama Welles notices & tries to comfort them. Hearing out their story she introduces them to Padre Ibarra who takes them in. Offering them the opportunity to have them taken out or giving them the ability to defend themselves. They choose the latter. Fastforward, V saves up their merc money after tracking down their mom/dad in Atlanta. Turns out their mom/dad is living it pretty well and has started up a new family. Mom/dad doesn’t want anything to do with V and tries to pay them off as they remind Mom/dad of their painful past. V returns to Night City & vents out their anger through work. Admist the montage meeting of meeting Jackie, Viktor & Misty I like to think they’ve learned to forgive their mom/dad & move on.
Still waiting for you to do a video about how Johnny's flashbacks/ memories are mostly not what REALLY happened. That Blackhand was the one who run the operation against Arasaka and the one who ACTUALLY fought Smasher since Johnny was instantly killed and NEVER even made it to the top of the tower.
That is a lie. Yes Blackhand ran the operation, but this is mentioned in the game itself, you can see this in their dialogues while they were arriving at the tower by helicopter, however Johnny didn't instantly die, Johnny and his crew were in charge of placing the bomb and leaving, while Morgan fought most of the troops himself as diversion. Johnny was stopped right when he did in the game, he placed the bomb and was intercepted by Adam Smasher who captured him. So, what's different? Shaitan was never taken down, Shaitan was actually slaughtering Arasaka soldiers while Rogue and Johnny went to plant the bomb, on return Shaitan saw what happened to Johnny and fought Adam Smasher directly, Shaitan was already a full borg back then, while Adam Smasher was still just a cyborg in a Dai-Oni suit. Shaitan kept fighting and pushing Adam Smasher back until Morgan Blackhand arrived. Shaitan failed to recover Johnny, but he took Rogue and the rest of the crew to the helicopter and they left the scene. Meanwhile Morgan kept fighting Adam Smasher until the bomb went of. RIght before the explosion however, Morgan left these cryptic lines. "Let us test what Adam Smasher keeps talking about"(the lines may differ a bit from this cause I'm writing from memory, but the meaning is exactly this) Which may imply that Morgan may have been using a more advanced implant setup for that specific fight, and that may have saved his ass from the explosion. Adam Smasher became a full borg because of the explosion, he lost almost the entirety of the human parts he had left. And Morgan was never confirmed dead, much on the contrary, there are many rumors of someone still completing missions with a black Projectile System arm.
@@bloody4558 Actually you're wrong. The entire op was a Militech run op led by Morgan Blackhand. There were three teams, two bomb teams and a distraction team. Johnny led the distraction team. Him and his friends were busy fighting all the guards and leading them around while the two other teams were planting bombs. Smasher showed up at Johnny's location, Johnny unloaded his entire arsenal into Smasher with no effect who then blasted him in half. Johnny died there. When Smasher made it to the roof, Morgan intercepted and the two had a fight where the winner is unknown. Someone on one of the two bomb teams f'd up and that's how the Night City Holocaust happened. Also it was Spider Murphy who made the Johnny engram. She pulled a data plug that was downloaded to her by Alt and inserted it into Johnny's head. As an aside Silverhand and gang didn't know they were a diversion. It literally only lasted seconds between Johnny and Smasher.
They actually do in my opinion.. see, all the outcomes of any decisions u make in this game r all very subtle, rhe game doesn’t ever choose a right or wrong decision, none of the things u do majorly changes the world, but it does change ur character n the other characters in game, and it changes the way ur play through plays out in very subtle ways .. rhere r many subtle things throughout the game that r specific to ur life path, specific interactions or choices that can only be made if u chose a certain life path.. I kinda love the way they want about decision making in this game, unlike most other rpgs where the right n wrong choices r very obvious and have major obvious consequences
Great video but you did miss a few details like lifepath specific weapons and vehicles. One example would be when you meet up with Jackie outside of maelstrom he will be on his bike. If your a nomad with a high enough technical ability level you get a dialogue about some changes he could make to his bike. Later on after the Heros side quest you get his bike only to find that he took your advice and tuned it up. The bike then has alternate visual parts and is much nicer to ride then the normal varient.
This is what made me pissed at this game. They told us it mattered, bugs aside. This is what made me dislike this game the most once I beat it. Was disappointed
Third playthrough I started out as a Corpo and ended up as a Nomad. Loved the hidden knowledge I could stun people with. Fourth playthrough I'm a Nomad seduced by the glitz and glamour of the Corpo life. But role-playing as a caring person so some gradual descent into corruption has to happen there. They may do rigid lifepaths for the sequel, but this dynamic approach is still great for replayability.
- I went Corpo, I think its pretty good. I feel like the story arc makes a lot of sense when you are corpo and you can relate to johnnys issues with them.
From what I hear the only way to save that cop in Kabuki looking into gangs and corruption is as a nomad. Otherwise she starts going punisher on the corrupt cops who tried to have her killed and eventually dies charging a police precinct.
CDPR really missed a key feature that they included in the 40 min gameplay trailer, but not in the actual game, and that was one of the many, many things that contributed to Cyberpunk 2077’s now infamous legacy.
IMO it doesn’t matter what life path you choose, what matters is what feels more like a compelling story to each person that plays it. I played the street kid in my original run of the game when it first came out. And I loved it, I’m about to start a new run and going to start as a Corpo.
Honestly, I'm thinking about going Corpo. You're a street kid/thug in multiple GTA style games already. You're a nomadic/cowboy character in many post apocolyptic games already. But in this, it seems to make sense to go full corpo. Having access to the best tech, lying and scheming your way through shady companies, killing and stealing, all because it's simply your job; that's an extremely cool way to introduce yourself to this world. At first glance, it's also the most mysterious of the trio and that hs a certain allure all on it's own.
Nomad is the best if you wanna metaplay, you get a free car, can upgrade Jackie's bike (6 tech required), making it the second fastest bike in the game with smooth handling (my personal favourite bike), if you're male V you also get tons of unique conversations to have with Panam if you're going for the romance (making it impossible to fail the romance), pre-cyberware update you also got free unique ripper upgrades. Corpo is the best if you want cash, since a lot of in-world events and such you can just use your corpo convo instead of cool skill to pass checks. However the money for such events and quests sucks, it was good pre-PL update since you didn't earn a lot of money from selling weapons and cyberware. But now you can sell a common weapon for 1.5k ED (used to only be 50-150ED), which is basically the same as additional rewards from cash-quests and gigs. So you might as well just horde weapons and sell instead of choosing the corpo lifepath. Plus you start with a lower relationship with Johnny cause he hates corpos. Street-kid doesn't come with any benefits but it seems like the most lore-accurate and it does have a lot of flavor dialogue in almost all main quests (blue options), but nothing that can earn you more or alter outcome
My favourite is the Nomad lifepath. There is a Gig given by Regina, involving the last honest cop in NC. As a Nomad, you can convince her to join the Aldecados annd latter you can find her at the camp. Some fixers also metion you are a Nomad when they first contact you, not only Dakota Smith.
Based on how I created my v and the clothing I love to use on her, street kid is the most fitting, especially when you get that admittedly very sweet looking jacket from the kirk quest in act 2
One reason I like the Corpo life path best is that it is heavily implied that V and Jackie have been friends for a lot longer than the other two life paths. Their conversations make it seem like they are very close friends already. This makes Jackie's help at the start more realistic, and his death has a deeper meaning.
I wished the entire first act up until the heist was defined by your Lifepath. If you're Streetkid it goes like usual. If you're Corpo, you actually go on the quest to kill Abernathy and fail horribly, leading to you and Jackie having to do her bidding in order to not be executed, leading to the heist she wants you to do in order for her to get an edge over her bosses and climb the social ladder. Then for the Nomad I wished you had some time with your clan until getting banned and understanding why that happened, then smuggling the Iguana as usual, and then maybe being blackmailed by that Militech gal to do the job or something (I think this is the only path where things would have to be severely altered to fit, I couldn't think of someone good to hire V into the heist here). There could be two ways to handle it: either Evelyn is behind all those plans as she is in the regular game, then whoever hired you does the job of Dexter to shoot you later and get screwed by Takemura, or Evelyn is only important in the StreetKid path, with you bonding with different yet equally important characters in each route, while all routes eventually lead you to professional idiot De'Shaun who always gets "De'Shauned" at the end.
I like starting as a corpo and getting the Nomad ending. It feels special when someone who just tries to avoid backstabs constantly and is perpetualy guided by greed suddenly feels freedom from all of those things and embraces the uncertainty of it
I love the idea of Corpo V getting unceremoniously kicked from his job, then one day coming back with the “don’t fear the reaper” ending and wreaking havoc to your old employer.
The old employer and the third counterintelligence department got cut (killed) even the women who betrayed your boss Abernathy got killed too so technically you can just not your direct one
That's partly when I did the Devil ending the first time round haha. So much poetic justice with a Corpo V.
You missed a talking about a unique interaction for the Nomad lifepath. When stealing the relic with Johnny on it, there is an Iguana to the left of the elevator. If you approach it V and Jackie will have a conversation about whether on not THIS Iguana is the one they smuggled into NC.
It was mentioned in a previous video
There's also the interaction with Jackie before talking to the Maelstrom about modification to his Bike. If you are on Nomad, you can get him to modify it slightly (with I think 6 tech rating).
@@christophermurphy7417 yeah but not in this one
@@DMSour V mentions this to Misty when they go into Jackies's garage
@@DMSour it's just a cosmetic change, unfortunately. The extra exhausts don't do anything
Corpo is the best imo. It has the strongest arc, you're actually already close to Jackie instead of just meeting him & it has the best dialogue options.
I fucking love the Streetkid meeting jackie though
Get jumped by him, get your asses beat, then just go get some lunch together.
Weirdly fitting for some reason
Even though I like Nomad, I kinda agree, having Jackie already a good friend makes a bit more sense
especially with the whole story being tied with saka it makes more sense that V worked there and was nearly killed gives the real main villain vibes and fits better overall
I feel like they must've mixed the two up or something. it always struck me as odd that Corpo V is buds with Jackie, an ex-Valentino. But yet Street kid V who has a lot more in common with Jackie doens't cross paths with him until later.
@@sarougeau It's bc Corpo V is the canon V 😉 Also it's the only one w an exclusive Iconic weapon
My first completed playthrough was Corpo but got the "happy" Nomad ending leaving Night City with Panam and it felt like such a satisfying way to end the game. Starting out as a Corpo enjoying all the luxury, then in the end just leaving it all behind to live a more free and simple life with the nomads.
I'm really glad I found your comment, been trying to find out if it's possible to do the other endings from different playthroughs
Wow I got this exact ending too from the Corpo lifepath. Really glad how it turns out
same here, started corpo because i tought it was a more natural story to get revenge on Arasaka, everything had a meaning. Didn't chosed the ending on purpose but im glad with it
i chose suicide lol
@@somethingsomeoneovertherebruh
What makes the Nomad lifepath the best is when you choose to join the Aldecaldos after romancing Panam. Your story basically comes around full circle.
yeah but i can't accept the fact of V just comes to NC 1 year , dying and go back to nomad life. that look stupid
This is exactly my mindset!! V leaves his clan to make a name for himself, but ultimately learns that he needs a family, much like you teach Panam yourself. It's poetic and imo perfect
Or Corpo V going nomad to seek family and peace after being both Corpo and street Merc and realizing NC is a fucked up place
@@valravn0728 I don't think it's stupid though. Nomad's just aren't used to city life since they are used to living with one family, and one family only. But in Night City you are surrounded by outsiders and strangers. Nomad's don't trust strangers very easily (apart from Panam I guess since you can romance her like 3 days after meeting her for the first time lol.)
@@valravn0728It makes total sense lmfao. V enters NC after leaving Nomad life to make a name for himself, turns out NC is a fucking dump and he needs to topple some of the heavy hitters. In the very end he decided City Life just isn’t worth it, and finds peace with Panam and Nomad Life. Makes perfect sense
Corpo has the best dialouge options, but honestly I wish they'd give you diffeent start of the game vehicles and weapons, your clothes do change but in the end it really doesn't make a difference
Nomad's get their car back, and Corpo can get an exclusive Iconic Pistol from their quest. Sadly Streetkids don't get anything that I know of.
@@NEEDbacon You get the SEMURAI crystaljock bomber, a knock off jacket from the guy that gives you the job that has you meet Jackie. Edited to fix some spelling.
@@Demortra I think I know the jacket you're talking about. Having it means nothing once you get the replica of Johnny's jacket tho lol.
But in the end, it doesn't really matter...
@@NEEDbacon I'm not sure if this is still the case, but I'm decently sure there was a fixer armor set and one of the pieces required you to be a Streetkid. Pretty small thing, but at that point in time the fixer set was the second best armor in the game I think.
Ideally the lifepath should effect how "happy" your chosen ending is
CorpoV should get an option to return to work as a special operative. This is the only way to remain with Goro if that's important to you
NomadV should be able to rally the Aldacaldos w/o completing Panam's entire quest line though it goes badly if you do
SteeetKidV should.enjoy becoming Prince of the Afterlife. Your meeting is with bunch of rookies and V is putting together their own version of The Heist
That would be cool but I think cdpr wanted to make numerous expansions of of the endings of the game that's why every ending is a bit of a cliff hanger but obviously there not doing that anymore because of the bad launch but we don't know anything about fantom Liberty yet other than its 40 to 60 hours long so who knows maby they find some way to tie in all the endings but Johnny silverhand retuning as much as I love his character could shoot that theory down before it's even taken of.
I love this idea. Each life path should have a happy ending. I would like to see corpo v get back into arasaka. I would like to see a more impactful ending with the aldecados as a nomad. Street kid needs a chance to really celebrate living out jackie's dream.
They all feel so generic.
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Technically they are all happy endings depending on you look at it. A male V who romances Kerry or a Female who stays with River has a sort of happy ending in Blaze of Glory. A male or female who romanced Panam or Judy get to ride off into the sunset. Devil's Ending is the only one that's unquestionably bad since Johnny treats it as a betrayal and Hanko and Goro essentially abandoned V after they served their purpose. V is left alone without even the biochip to remember Johnny and Jackie by
I agree with these options, but I have a few more. corpo path aldecado ending is V learning what actually makes him happy, and it's not the endless rat race of the city. Streetkid V aldecaldo ending, basically the same thing.
Afterlife ending to me feels happy no matter what. Corpo V may not have risen to the top of the corpo world, but he's the top of the merchant world, and that's arguably better. Streetkid V became king of the city he knows and loves. Bonus points if you get your hands on a Rayfield during the course of your playthrough. Nomad V risked it all to find success in NC, and they got it in spades.
And let's not forget: Jackie dreamed of the major leagues. In this ending, you ARE the major leagues. You fulfilled your promise to your best choom.
Actually I see the happy endings being a little more mixed up. Street kid B who’s known only Night City finding love with Panam and family in the Aldercaldos and leaving with them. Nomad V who’s known family and the struggle to survive desiring the comfort of the corpo life. Finally corpo V who’s been suffering and living unfulfilled seeking the glory and freedom of becoming a Night City legend and going out with a bang and a middle finger.
Long story short.... No it doesn't matter much. But Corpo probably has some of the most extra dialogue.
finally doing a corpo guy and its crazy how much more dialogue they get. Makes sense since most interactions are business related
There r many gigs n side jobs that can be completed differently if u chose a certain life path, it’s very subtle but it’s there, u could easily miss it but in my opinion that kinda makes the game better, and def adds to its replay value
I think the planned story is that corpo who was nomad before becoming a corpo in nc. Then he was fired, and he became streetkid
@@SayMy_User_Name yup there are missions that usually ends end on violence no matter what but with a certain lifepath it can end peacefully
@@SayMy_User_Name Only one for each path.
Love the Nomad path along with the Nomad ending. You begin the game entering Night City for the first time and end the game leaving Night City for the last time. Full circle.
also you make off like a bandit with arasaka tech. It's satisfying in more ways than one.
@@microqueen69 It's arguably the most "happy" one aswell, of course depends what you consider happy but. yk
and if you dated Judy she leaves with you (female only)
This is my favorite too. A close second is Corpo V giving the man who blew up their former employer's tower a second chance at life after bonding with him.
And then Phantom Liberty came out and all of your love interests leave you and most of your friends except for Vik wants nothing to do with you.
Doing the Corpo bow to Hanako and watching Johnny facepalming is priceless...
I like the StreetKid life path more. I like the idea of my V trying to become the best in Night City. However, after the horrible job and Jackie dying, V is totally lost and feels like they don’t wanna be in the top now since they know how horrible the life of a merc is now and just wants to leave
Thanks for spoiling douchebag
Streetkid has a few of them and they’re actually really funny like V pretending to be a drug dealer to get to the Soviet fixer, or V saying they’re an XBD star talent scout to get into the club for Dino . Streetkid getting Wakako to help them by mentioning her son so there’s more beyond the diner one
Corpo has just been the best story so far for me, how you are able to twist so many corpo arms to get a better deal and get into places much easier lol. Plus the whole aspect with Johnny just seems a lot more organic since you started off as a Corpo as opposed to the other choices.
The nomad side mission where the girl is after your car actually sits really well with the character. You're dying or you're not going to be leaving NC any time soon, so it almost feels like passing the torch to a new generation.
She was voiced by Alanah Pearce, I think.
bruh I took my car back who did that broad think she was stealing my car smh
@@derekk2666 true and real
As much as I loved that car I did this too. V is super rich at that point and has plenty of cars so why not give someone a chance at a fresh start?
@@derekk2666 bro, it's a shitty car. At least let her have it so she can drive away from NC.
You already got Jackie's car, The Tiger claw bike from that sidemission, that one car with guns you find at a warehouse that johnny is excited about, johnny's car if you do his sidemissions. And you got enough cash to buy better cars.
There's a really great one if you're a Nomad.
When you do the gig Guinnea Pigs stealthily, and by talking to the man at the desk first. If you then do the gig Olive Branch, and then proceed to talk to the corpo in the trunk, you can ask if he knows the woman from Guinnea Pigs, and feel a little less remorseful about handing him over to the Tyger Claws.
I loved that little detail, but I wish there was more for a Nomad as it is my favourite life path.
Shit I didn't know that. There's so many secrets in this game.
Huh, I'd missed that one too and I've never handed that guy over to the Tygers so I guess I know what I'm doing next play through! Another nice Nomad one is being able to actually confirm to Meredith that Gilchrist was the mole for Maelstrom.
I can think of at least five good reasons to choose either Corpo or Nomad (StreetKid would have been better for second playthroughs with advanced knowledge). But if lifepaths had exclusive content, people would condemn CDPR for locking them out of content in the full experience. Each lifepath has major contributions to the themes of the game. Corpos in particular lose "their" wealth to illustrate a major point: your prosperity belongs to your employer, and they will revoke it the minute it inconveniences them.
As long as missions or choices are not behind a paywall, I doubt people would complain. Though there were complaints about who you could romance with the gender you chose.
I wouldn't mind having content locked by choice of lifepath, or choices in game (like some gangs become more or less aggro or give quests depending on if you're on good terms).
And for the romances, i think the problem stems more from the fact there's so few of them. If there were à ton of them, i wouldn't mind having most being locked by gender or even lifepath and in game choice. But right now there is only 4 of them which is one by each gender/sexuality combination (granted you can choose between two if you play bi but it's still only one option of each gender).
No, they wouldn’t complain
Dragon age origins have different life paths that entirely lock you out of other life path prologue. It’s a feature
What kind of ultra-casual zoomer gamer would you have to be to complain about *individual, different story paths*? Get outta here.
They took out a great little bonus of going Streetkid. You used to get the El Coyote Quick Travel location unlocked before you could normally leave the lockdown.
I was kind of hoping that Act 1 would have been unique to your life path.
That would have been a nice compromise. Act 1 *should* have been your path to solvency, similar in each route but personally tailored by your origin as to how you all get to The Rescue. Gives *much* needed time actually investing the player in Jackie's character and giving enough time for V to default into the pseudo Street Kid shtick the majority of the game shoves you into.
Dragon Age origins is the only game that does this unfortunatly and it came out in fucking 2009
@@t.t6294 Yes and no. Yes, as far as mainstream games are concerned. No, as far as indie passion projects that gamedev by their own rules and don't have a publisher breathing down their necks.
I just want another mainstream RPG that does it again. Many big studios seem absolutely *terrified* of making such engaging narratives for some reason. Too fucking proud of their stories possibly having "missable" content exclusive to player selected origins.
Ho.
@@t.t6294 nahh each origin is only like 30-60 mins long
I like Nomad, I am fairly sure it's the only one where you can specifically tell Meredith Stout that Gilchrist is the mole in the 'Pickup' mission... (dependant on how the mission plays out).
nomad is a pretty unique intro too
it's not like it changes a lot.
To answer the question: the choices don’t have many long term effects. You get a unique prologue, and for the rest of the game you’ll get dialogue options relating to your background. They change how V’s personality feels a little, but V is pretty much always going to be snarky, loyal, and ballsy.
I went with Nomad for my first run through and Corpo for my second. With the first, he felt unsurprisingly like a wanderer. He’d interject conversations with bits and pieces of nomad trivia or stuff like that. Admittedly I don’t remember much. With corpo, he’s almost kinda like Jack Reacher from the Jack reacher movies. It only applies when he’s talking to corporate people, but those options were always pretty neat. He knew the game they were playing and would just tell them how they were doing it or what they wanted. He speaks much more confidently with those options, occasionally being more aggressive as well. It’s a nice difference from his usually dry responses to stuff.
I loved the streetkid flavor during the missions. Our dude knows all the players.
Yea me to there are so many gang interactions but so little nomad and corp ones that's why I prefer it
What I like about Streetkid their mannerisms seem the most consistent in the prologue to Act 1. Corpo felt more stressed and timid (to be fair cant blame them) and Nomad felt a bit more neutral. Streetkid felt badass while having some audacity due to knowing Night City like the back of their hands
@@kobrax0341 yea i agree i also feel like that in the corpo path it breaks that narrative a bit like v will start ranting about how much he hates the corps ( which even corpo V has a good reason to) but then he starts going on about how much he loves arasaka it's weird.
Also as street kid I love starting from starting from the very bottom of society and climbing to the very top and you just don't get that same feeling when you play as corpo. It's one of the reasons when I do a play through of Cp I always do every single gig to really feel like your becoming a NC legend
As a Nomad you can critique Jackie's motorcycle before the drone pickup mission and he will later upgrade it from dual exhaust to quad exhaust.
The lifepaths honestly just make things for my own stories feel better. A nomad finding his clan with the aldercados, a streetkid leaving the city behind, a nomad finding himself on top of the big city, a corpo being ousted from corporate but still ruling the city on his own terms etc. these are narratives I make myself vs the game making them for me
I am halfway through my initial play through and I chose Corpo. I feel that it’s a fine choice, I’m not into 2 hour prologues. It was the only choice that seemed to fit my idea for an InT 20 and Tech 20 build. I’ve gotten a bunch of well flavored dialogue options so far, so I’m happy!
I want to see ACTUAL corpo jobs. Even if the corporation is a new one we never heard of, something small. Just being able to climb the corporate ladder, dirty tricks, etc.
Night City is huge and I would welcome playing as other people. As cool as V is, there's so many more opportunities out there, from Maxtac to Trauma team to Maelstrom smuggler.
@inboxmeontelegramnerdrotic9088 Some corpo bot tries to scam us again
Play cyberpunk red
@@vicentemuerte5640 bro it's 2023, almost no one wants to sit down and play a pen and paper game.
@@vodkadotka I don’t think that’s true at all? On UA-cam alone there’s a large amount of table top play groups. And with the success they have it’s quite obvious people do have interest table top playing.
@@vicentemuerte5640 your average person doesn't wanna sit and look at people's faces while they sit there and imagine things. That's for DnD basement dwelling virgins.
I played like nomad and corpo... I have to say that I like nomad much more - I really like the options of nomad dialogs and I feel like it's more fillfull... it's my feeling :) and then when Panam and her family take you like their own... so nice and I love that nomad's ending choice with nomad V.
DAO had a good use of the origin system and its influence was felt relatively throughout the game when characters address you or the dialogue options you had.
Star Wars The Old Republic also from bioware, took it way further where the origin you pick (bounty hunter, sith, jedi etc) influences your whole story arc, voice, companions, ship and personality. All 8 origins feel different and separate from the others... Until you do the expansion where everything is streamlined into one path
SWTOR is a hard comparison, given how they damn near bankrupted themselves on the project while it consistently nosedived until F2P. Millions were crammed into it, while pennies were spent on the creaky engine never meant for such a project, so much so that it had to be frankensteined into something entirely different just to keep it afloat.
CP2077 would have been the time to try something crazy like that, but after the disastrous initial launch, I can't imagine there was any scenario in which they could have made it work without tacking on another couple of years of development. And I don't think they're going to get to play around with fuck-you-money development blank checks next time around.
@@thant0s you aren't wrong 😂 was just using swtor origins as a comparison for what I thought was a good use of the origin system in a game and that I personally prefer going through the origin stories rather than the expansions
@@NormandySR16 Yeah, as far as RPGs where there's a clear distinction as to where you're from and what brought you into the conflict, *and* how people behave towards you, SWTOR is like, *the* standout, even when compared to DAO. Nothing else comes to mind that handles that so significantly at that scale of production.
Not even the likes of the Pathfinder games or Baldur's Gate III really dig into it to that degree.
There is a street kid interaction during an aldecaldos side quest, where some of the members are trying to do an arms deal with either scavs or maelstrom, and as street kid you can talk the scavs out of the conflict entirely with a pretty cool dialogue choice
I started as Nomad because I wanted to be a badass outlaw/ cowboy revolver user.
Then I did streetkid and liked it because when we get David's jacket, there is actual meaning when Falco says we are similar to David.
I just started Corpo but as one of the comments mentioned, we go on a revenge quest and I feel like we bond with Silverhand a bit more because we both hate Arasaka on this life choice.
I'm still on the beginning with Corpo playthrough but yeah, it really doesn't matter what you pick, only offers dialog options and a few life choice specific quests.
It mostly adds a little flavor to the game and can make your story feel more like a complete arc. I think Nomad in particular goes really well if you end up romancing Panam and choosing the Nomad ending. It becomes the story of V losing his clan and being accepted into another one, finding love along the way, but with only a short time left to enjoy it.
I picked the corpo path for my first playthrough, and with high technical ability and intelligence it made for interesting interactions. Plus it made Johnny's beef with Arasaka a bit more personal for V too. And Jackie...[insert meme of 'look at how they massacred by boy']
I always let Takemura die, too. Since he never truly is an ally--just a corpo dog with mutual interests for a while. But after he gets what he wants, he couldn't care less about what happens to you.
Corpo all the way - not only are there a whole bunch of amazing corpo-specific dialogue options, there's also the special side quest related to your life path which I don't believe any of the other life paths ever end up getting? It also turns the game into a full revenge arc like other commenters have said.
But this doesn't has to be about Arasaka.
Nomad V lost his family, and he found new (when panam ending)
Streetkid V Wanted to become legend, and he/she achieved it specially when secret ending, and rogue ending
And, as you told Corpo V took his/her revenge on Arasaka
@@Mistrz-mw4db corpo V taking the nomad ending is also something special.
@@ceshmate1953 Yeah, that's right. He just found better life. Damn I just love this game
One thing that really sucks is that the life paths themselves don't really justify another playthrough by themselves. I enjoyed all the life paths I just hope in the next game it's a bit more fleshed out.
My two favorite unique Nomad dialog options are: being able to tell Stroud that it was indeed Abernathy that leaked the convoy info. And talking to the other Nomad chilling in the Kabuki market (right out front that one ripperdoc), and being able to get him to tell you about the cop hiding out in the apartment during one of Regina's side gigs, by chatting with him "Nomad to Nomad."
I know there's a mod which gives you little boosts depending on your background. Corpo gives you slightly better quickhacking stats, Nomad gives you better crafting results or something and Streetkid improves your Cool tree or.. I can't remember specifics, but it does help add a bit more purpose to the backgrounds outside of just some dialogue and a quest
Corpo is definitely the best feeling story, but I think Nomad has the best additional rewards. Pushing the prophet quest early, the tuned arch that looks good, the car that's fairly decent for badlands roaming. I definitely will always do new playthroughs with one of those two options.
Nomad also is the only lifepath that can provide Meredith Stout with the name of the mole IF you know where to look in the All Foods factory.
Later in the game there will be a Militech box in your apartment with a couple minor gifts. I guess it's the thought that counts.
@@MrVvulf That's actually really cool and I didn't find it in my Nomad playthrough. Good to know for when I eventually replay Nomad!
@@MrVvulf i honestly don't even care about the mole. It's funny how corpo (counter-intel) V or street smarts V can't figure it out.
@@ceshmate1953 There's a several aspects of the story that doesn't make sense. There is zero chance that Corpo V would not be familiar with the type of espionage/surveillance technology used by Evelyn Parker.
An argument could be made that even Street Kid V would be aware of "doll" capabilities. It's likely it would be a common scam in Night City for dolls to capture footage of people in compromising situations for extortion purposes.
I really get the feeling Life paths where originally going to have a bigger impact but was cut back when Keno signed up, similar to Jackie was going to have a bigger impact before the rewrites.
For me without a doubt once a corpo always a corpo I just love that aesthetic and immersive the potential of how Arasaka could re recruit V and him replacing Smasher as Arasaka main operative
@Jalen King Oh interesting tell me more
@Jalen King Bro thinks hes in cyberpunk ☠
It might sound dumb but honestly I feel like each life path should of had their own unique main story. Like act 2 is already split 3 ways(with each one representing each life path). And same with the endings
If you've ever played the Witcher 2 you'd know how bad that would go. That only had essentially two stories as well. It's just not realistic to expect so much content locked behind something that very few people will do.
Witcher 2 had two major story paths based on a major choice. With more resources, etc. You WOULD think CDPR would do something like this. But NOOOOOOOOO they streamline it and made Cyberpunk into an action adventure game and less of an rpg.
They weren’t going to make 3 different games
Picking a life path changes your perspective on V. It changes whether you think V wants to be the greatest edge runner because they grew up in night city they know the life and how living in night city absolutely sucks and how you want to be remembered forever and not just another worthless citizen. You could be plain as a nomad or a Corpo V as you were kicked out of your previous lifestyle, it might change how you view, and how you play the game like for example, as a nomad, you might be really strong and very good with technology, technically wise, or as a former Arasaka employee, you might have high Cyberware and really focus on stealth, smart weapons and hacking as you might see your V as a more non-confrontational more softer but and also just a more smarter person in general. Or playing as a Strke kid you know the hassle of life and you know what it takes to survive the night city until that might be a life path where you are a master of all things as logically speaking if you were foreign tonight city, you weren’t necessarily know what you need to do to survive as being a Street kid, you know that you can’t necessarily rely on one thing, so you spec into everything . But the different life path equals a new whole experience for each player and it really changes on how you CV has a character where do you play as a quart both for your very first time and you kind of wanna go by the greedy lifestyle or you might go buy a nomad as a tough on kill ball machine or you might play as a street kid a person who understands the hustle in the grind that takes to be a legend in Night City. But this also changes your ending. Maybe your street kid who just wants to be free of night city or nomad who misses their freedom or a Corpo who wants a life outside of business and so you then go to the Aldacadoes ending. Maybe you are a Corvo who wants to stick it to Arasaka as after all you’ve done, you ended up being kicked out until you want to bring your judgment straight to them or your nomad who just hates corporations or you’re just a Street Kid who knows the evil in the corruption of corporations and you just want to go down as a legend, and so you then pick the ending where you attack Arasaka with the rogue. Or maybe you are you a Arasaka Corpo who wants to get back into the good graces of Arasaka, by sucking back up to them, and helping Hanako, you might be a nomad who really has no idea what do you except for folding to Arasaka, or are you just might be a Street Kid who gave up on their aspirations of being a legendary edge runner and see the only way of continuing to live by siding with Arasaka. And for the don’t fear, the reaper ending, you might be angry Ex Corpo who wants their revenge you might be a nomad who is tired of corporations getting their way or you might be a V who knows that the only way that they can go down as the best edge runner of all time is by doing a suicide route and taking on Arasaka all by themselves, not willing to try to get their friends hurt as well. Or finally you might be a who just gave up from being a quart bowl from being a nomad order from being an edge runner, and knows that they don’t have too much to live for anyways as their feet is inevitable, and instead of trying to do something or at least, trying to with their best life with the remaining time they have they just end it short not thinking about how we will fact other people that loved them or people that were friends to them as they were going through their own problem and struggling but he just never thought about other people not being selfish on purpose, but they just were and then V, as of taking their own life on their own accord, which in some ways is respectable as it’s scary to see yourself slowly dying or it’s just too minor. Racking to give up your wife so another person who lived 50 years before you could just continue to live their life fun and it’s not like even asked for this not with your knowledge before hand just happened. But no matter what ending you get you still have to come to terms that V ends up dying whether you like it or not. Because if he ends up dying, either by through ever been stored in Makoshi and one day being freed from it whether it’s dying with your friends and family at your side or whether it’s dying by your own hands or fighting back against Arasaka, and proving yourself to be a legend or you end up surviving the fight against Arasaka and you were just the most legendary edge runner of all times, but you still have to grapple with the fact that not even within a year you’re still going to die. Or a rocker boy takes over V’s body whether we wanted that to happen or whether V try to stop Johnny from doing it, but Johnny still did it. And this proves a point that no matter what night city is everything opposite from a city of dreams everyone who’s in there for long enough and the dying because of the city and there’s only a few people who get lucky because V helped them out.
8:46 - One note on this statement by the store owner right after V thwarts the robbery...
When he says, "Order whatever you want, it's on the house", you really can buy out his full inventory of food and beverage for zero eddies.
Forgot to mention the Corpo quest gives an Iconic weapon - a tech pistol!
@@kepler77 meant to say the guy involved with the corpo quest x.x will edit after posting this
Still true, but with the latest patch, you can also buy the gun in Dogtown.
2 things that would have made this game so much better. First, more time in your life path so it feels like your decision mattered. Plus more time with Jackie and T-Bug so we have time to connect and grieve their loss. Not spoiling their deaths in the trailers would have helped too.
One thing that would have been really fun to see is your life-path choice had a potential effect on the endings. Like if we consider how each of the three 'main' endings clearly tie to one of the lifepaths (The Sun-Streetkid, The Star-Nomad and The Devil-Corpo), I think it would have been cool if you got an expanded or additional options for your ending if you chose one that corresponds to your lifepath. Like I've always loved how The Star ending is a perfect bookend to the Nomad prologue, with V entering Night City having lost everything including their family, and then leaving Night City as part of a new family. Heck, both times they're even smuggling a stolen lizard!
I agree with this, and there are a lot of impactful Nomad dialog options throughout the whole Pan Am quest line that could have been brought up.
And getting a high corpo job after the devil ending
There's another major 'shortcut' for the corpo path when talking to Woodman. Instead of having to navigate the 'speech maze', there is a corpo dialogue option that basically gets him to spill his guts right off the bat.
Basically, it doesn't matter that much, but it adds nice RP elements and dialogue options to make different playthroughs feel different. I like nomad best personally because I like the "ask Panam for help" ending best and it works well with that, but if you want a different story for your character e.g. a "get revenge on the corps who wronged you" story for a corpo, or a kinda tragic rags to riches story for a streetkid, then they're great paths to take too.
In a way it effects the overall story too. With Corpo, it's a revenge plot to take down the corp that tossed you in the trash so easily. For Nomads, they can find their new better nomad family among the Aldecados. But street kids, that's the true story, You and Jackie, just 2 chooms with dreams of being legends! That's Night City baby!
To me streetkid always made the most sense for the constant goal of becoming night city legend
A high Intelligence/Technical corpo female V with a grudge against Arasaka due to how they handled her “termination”, ending with her storming the base with Johnny all by her lonesome cause “fuck it” has been my favorite play through so far.
I think the life paths also line up pretty well with three of the endings. Nomad being very obvious with the Aldecaldos, corpo going with Arasaka and Takemura, and street kid becoming a legend of Night City. Beyond that, I definitely appreciate the dialogue differences, the different outcomes in certain jobs, and the unique jobs you get. You're right, definitely reminiscent of Mass Effect. However, I think it does a little more than Mass Effect did with the military service and background. Those are more for roleplay than anything else, whereas this has more in-game options.
I really would like if they expanded things more, but I swear there are hidden or subtle things with the life paths not talked about. Like how Streetkid gets discounts in the shops compared to Corpo or Nomad. Where Nomad gets more access to vehicle related things, even if some are just cosmetic, and Corpo had easier and faster access to Military-Grade tech than the other life choices.
I use the lifepaths to roleplay how I build my character and react in dialogues. I do wish it had more actual impact on the game though.
I had no idea you could talk your way into the parade float hangars. Multiple playthoughs with corpos and I never saw the oppurtunity. So many secrets in this game.
My favorite is Nomad, I love the dialogue you can have with Panam & the Aldacaldos
One more interaction that life path changes things. The cops beating down a corpo in an alley, you can talk them out of killing the guy. Talking to the cops has different dialogue per life path. One of the cops has a niece that was drugged in a club and bad things happened to her, and they are out to get revenge. Corpo dialogue you can talk the cops out of killing the guy. Street Kid you can talking the cops out of it, and get that the corpo does that sort of thing often.
If you kill kill frank while his gun is out, you can pick it up. It's a unique handgun.
Corpo to nomad ending is the best in my opinion. You start out extremely stressed and hating your life to have it all taken away to building yourself back up but being free and manifest that freedom with the nomads.
It’s like accepting that there are greater things to life than money
Nomad is the only life path that feels like it was purposeful, that other two feel very rushed and tacked on. The Nomad has you doing more stuff, you get some actual action, and feels like it recalls more of that life path in the jobs you do with Jackie. When you do the Maelstrom job to get the spider-bot, you can find information on a laptop that exposes who the mole in Militech is, and you can let Meredith know. It also references the iguana in Yorinobu's apartment, as you were transporting one earlier. It's the only one that has the feeling of fitting with the other jobs.
Nomad is the only job that also has an ending that fits with that lifepath. You can find a new nomad family, and ride off into the sunset with Panam. While there is a sort of corporate ending in The Devil path, there isn't really a Street Kid ending where they become a fixer or something. Maybe you could argue the Rogue ending fits that, but not sure it feels as fleshed out.
Really would have been nice if the Street Kid and Corpo had more going on in the start. Especially the Corpo, which feels very bland in comparison to the Nomad.
Streetkid goes perfectly with the Don't Fear The Reaper ending where you solo the entirety of Arasaka tower. V ultimately achieves his dream of becoming an NC legend and defied expectations by still being alive.
Corpo is the best lifepath because it gives you insight into the sociopathic and brutal dog eat dog nature of the corporate world, not to mention your friendship with Jackie feels alot more fleshed out and natural since you've already met each other prior to starting the game.
The whole setting and vibe of the corpo lifepath is unmatched imo, got so much Bladerunner vibes when playing through it.
well seeing as the 3 "V returns to their body" endings are analogues for each life path... (there's one where you ride off as a free nomad, one where you're the king of the underbelly of NC, and one where you live life out as part of the corpo machine)
Nomad is the best starting and makes more sense for all story
I agree, in the description of this Lifepath they already describe exactly what makes V so resistent to Cyberpsychosis which would allow you to use so many implants.
The nomad lifetyle is harsh, but also free, it allows you to cultivate qualities that would otherwise never be seen in Night City such as charity and empathy. You can easily see how playing Nomad would justify the more "naive"(not really) choices in which V readily accepts to help people and rejects payment.
I love the Nomad route for the storytelling and thematic part.
Drifter coming from the outside, strange man in a strange land, getting in way over their head and having to take on the toughest corporations of 2077. The quintissential Hero's Journey, made even more spectacular with the "Don't fear the reaper" ending.
Don't fear the reaper is the one with the one with V's death?
I'm totally new so I just completed and got an ending of V's demise in nomad
I wish each life path would have had its own unique main storyline. That way the game would have had even more replay ability.
7:00 Fun Fact, the Guard lets you in Peacefully after he died.
His dead Body will look at you and you can initiate the Conversation.
You keep the Bribe Money too.
I think it would be nice if you would get more gigs or side quests in certain areas depending on your life path.
Like what if during the crimes where someone is being threatened there would be different outcomes whether you save the person or not, and perhaps if they're a fellow Corpo/Street Kid/Nomad.
I personally love Corpo origin the most due to V having a understanding of Corpo life so he has plenty of dialogue that is Corpo related for acting professional, understanding why siding with Corpo is bad, or just being a Corpo jerk. This allowed me to roleplay as a V who has fully understand why Corpo life is bad and V never wants to return to that life.
Also, if V is from Corpo origins then Falco will saying that V and David are very similar due to their origins being Corpo related (V being from Corpo job like and David being a student being educated for Corpo life) and how they rise up in fame after their fall from Corpo life.
There is the slim possibility that they could add more lifepath specific dialogue choices in Phantom Liberty. Here’s hoping. Also my first play through was as a corpo and I feel like that the bar for what lifepaths are way too high.
I played Streetkid first, but I personally love how I played my second play through as a corpo, more dialogue, completing gigs and making a name in Night city, revenge on arasaka for both me and Johnny, then being free with the nomads and my baby girl panam
I thought it was fine. Gave some "flavor" to the choice you made. Dragon Age Origins and Witcher 2 both have huge variations based on decisions but that also means the developers spent a lot of time and energy building huge sections of game that most players (those who don't play the game more than once) will never see.
Thats ok. Mak8ng such quest is not for that player neway, its for the real no life gerk like us that have to see everything.
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One of the giant mistakes of this game was not to give quests to our choice of body, street or nomad, it makes no difference to our choices
What do you mean?
@@destroyerblackdragon There is no focus, there are no quests I wanted to live in that place i chose example if I were nomad I wanted to play there in those areas do quests in that place.
If I chose corporation I wanted to be a rich city do adventures of corporation, have my mansion my flying car
@@giancarloribeirobrito659 Those are your back stories. The point of all of them is you're starting fresh you just have unique experiences even street kid V.
@@destroyerblackdragon Yes I know to be street kid is where we have more experiences , but even so for a gigantic game is pretty shallow when we choose what we want to be in the game as corp, streek kid and nomad
@@giancarloribeirobrito659 No I mean everyone has a different back story but they all start fresh in might city and use their past experiences to solve problems.
In the cyberpunk tabletop game lifepaths were your intro story, i.e. a short blurb that explained how you even got into the mess that was the story you were playing.
Frankly I think that the presence of lifepaths in CP77 is grossly overstated and if it hadn't been a playable section at all people would not have been nearly as upset about them being "insignificant" as they ended up being.
Coming from someone who has played through all the life paths I think you get the most out of street kid there are 12 interactions each you can have with every gang through out the city and with street kid you have optional dialogue and there not just neat little voice lines either you can avoid violence most of the time one of my favourite examples of this is getting the scavs to back down from attacking the aldacardos
As a DnD player it feels like playing pre-made campaigns with your own character. More roleplaying, builds and choices revolving around how my character would think rather than absolutely pushing the world around like a typhoon in more lax campaigns like homebrew. I actually like that, and its not like many other open world games stray from that design so I don't particularly mind as much, especially for a character who is essentially made to expire. Its like, this is the bar and I'll only really care if devs manage to fall below or exceed it. We all hope for another New Vegas style game in terms of choices and decisions but I think we'll only ever get there if a team truly decides to have their game revolve around the impact your actions had on multiple groups and the environment rather than individuals and the ending. Many teams would rather have a linear track of events or slight alterations since its easier to focus on a singular goal.
I think an story based on the concept of changing the world around the character would never work on the cyberpunk universe, or in any cyberpunk genre setting. Those are always stories in which main characters are nobodies who find themselves in situations that are way bigger than them, so their overall impact will never be great, that's why those narratives tend to focus on the personal impact, which I think the game portrays really well.
V never had the power to save Jackie or Evelyn, never could have join a faction (being a mercenary means you have no loyalties or biases) and if they could join, they wouldn't be an important member nor change anything. What V can do is stablish realtionships, impact the life of the individuals they met, and decide between becoming a puppet on an arasaka political plot or keeping a safe distance
For me, it isn't about being a generic corpo that makes that lifepath my favorite. It's specifically being in corporate counterintelligence.
I'm sure the other paths are nice, but Dexter choosing the merc who is former Arasaka counterintel to do a raid on Arasaka has always made the most sense. It's Dex's first gig after a 2 year hiatus, and while T-Bug is solid, he could have found someone else for this job to work with her, but it just so happens she already knew the perfect specimen for such a niche role. Knowledge and experience in infiltration, as well as how Arasaka specifically deals with infiltration attempts, might be worth a dozen skilled streetkids and nomads. It's not about being better in the absolute sense, just that this is perfect role specialization. The other paths may be better in other parts of the game, but The Heist is the foundation of the entire story.
A really thoughtful comment
Figure I should write this while it can still be seen lol but I just found the channel and its top tier for Cyberpunk information, great format.
I could imagine CDPR implementing some more backstory-specific stuff in the, lets call it "post game DLC", but considering the scope of what's in the game right now I'm actually glad they didn't do too much with it in the base game, distracting them from making the main story as good as it is.
My V Lifepath Headcanons
Nomad V: He had pretty nice life being part of the Bakkers nomad clan. However, he had a plan that majorly backfired once he tried to reclaim their independence from the Snake Nation. To which only hurt them in the process.
Corpo V: She grew up a new money family & she had tiger parents that would constantly compare her to her older brother. You’d think this would cause a bit of bad blood between the 2 but their big age difference prevented that from happening. Her brother would share memories of their life living in Heywood, how money changed their parents for the worse & instilled the value to try to look out for the little guy when they can. Sometimes let her hang at his place to get away from the pressure their under or take her to shooting range to blow off some steam.
Fast forward V gets hired by Arasaka & sent out to negotiate a deal with another company. Her brother joins her as representative of MaxTac who’s also making a deal & hires Jackie as a bodyguard since the Welles used to be family friends. Negotiations go terribly wrong, resulting in a shootout & her brother gets caught in the crossfire. V bonds with Jackie over the trauma & that’s how their friendship starts.
StreetKid V: After the death of their partner their mom/dad leaves them at the Night City orphanage. Becoming a kid of the foster care system V suffered grave abuse ranging from belt beatings to being forced into being a drug mule to families linked to gangs. Clinging to last bit of hope they runaway making it as far as the Coyote Bar. Suffering a panic attack at thought of being caught Mama Welles notices & tries to comfort them. Hearing out their story she introduces them to Padre Ibarra who takes them in. Offering them the opportunity to have them taken out or giving them the ability to defend themselves. They choose the latter.
Fastforward, V saves up their merc money after tracking down their mom/dad in Atlanta. Turns out their mom/dad is living it pretty well and has started up a new family. Mom/dad doesn’t want anything to do with V and tries to pay them off as they remind Mom/dad of their painful past. V returns to Night City & vents out their anger through work. Admist the montage meeting of meeting Jackie, Viktor & Misty I like to think they’ve learned to forgive their mom/dad & move on.
Still waiting for you to do a video about how Johnny's flashbacks/ memories are mostly not what REALLY happened. That Blackhand was the one who run the operation against Arasaka and the one who ACTUALLY fought Smasher since Johnny was instantly killed and NEVER even made it to the top of the tower.
where did you get this from?
@@fefnireindraer144 the game (shards and dialogues) and probably tabletop games
That is a lie. Yes Blackhand ran the operation, but this is mentioned in the game itself, you can see this in their dialogues while they were arriving at the tower by helicopter, however Johnny didn't instantly die, Johnny and his crew were in charge of placing the bomb and leaving, while Morgan fought most of the troops himself as diversion.
Johnny was stopped right when he did in the game, he placed the bomb and was intercepted by Adam Smasher who captured him. So, what's different?
Shaitan was never taken down, Shaitan was actually slaughtering Arasaka soldiers while Rogue and Johnny went to plant the bomb, on return Shaitan saw what happened to Johnny and fought Adam Smasher directly, Shaitan was already a full borg back then, while Adam Smasher was still just a cyborg in a Dai-Oni suit. Shaitan kept fighting and pushing Adam Smasher back until Morgan Blackhand arrived. Shaitan failed to recover Johnny, but he took Rogue and the rest of the crew to the helicopter and they left the scene. Meanwhile Morgan kept fighting Adam Smasher until the bomb went of.
RIght before the explosion however, Morgan left these cryptic lines. "Let us test what Adam Smasher keeps talking about"(the lines may differ a bit from this cause I'm writing from memory, but the meaning is exactly this) Which may imply that Morgan may have been using a more advanced implant setup for that specific fight, and that may have saved his ass from the explosion.
Adam Smasher became a full borg because of the explosion, he lost almost the entirety of the human parts he had left. And Morgan was never confirmed dead, much on the contrary, there are many rumors of someone still completing missions with a black Projectile System arm.
@@bloody4558 Actually you're wrong. The entire op was a Militech run op led by Morgan Blackhand. There were three teams, two bomb teams and a distraction team. Johnny led the distraction team. Him and his friends were busy fighting all the guards and leading them around while the two other teams were planting bombs. Smasher showed up at Johnny's location, Johnny unloaded his entire arsenal into Smasher with no effect who then blasted him in half. Johnny died there. When Smasher made it to the roof, Morgan intercepted and the two had a fight where the winner is unknown. Someone on one of the two bomb teams f'd up and that's how the Night City Holocaust happened. Also it was Spider Murphy who made the Johnny engram. She pulled a data plug that was downloaded to her by Alt and inserted it into Johnny's head. As an aside Silverhand and gang didn't know they were a diversion. It literally only lasted seconds between Johnny and Smasher.
@@bloody4558 ok but who the fuck cares and who the fuck asked...
9:33 Necromancers from Space... That is actually what is going to happen in this game especially by the end of it.
They actually do in my opinion.. see, all the outcomes of any decisions u make in this game r all very subtle, rhe game doesn’t ever choose a right or wrong decision, none of the things u do majorly changes the world, but it does change ur character n the other characters in game, and it changes the way ur play through plays out in very subtle ways .. rhere r many subtle things throughout the game that r specific to ur life path, specific interactions or choices that can only be made if u chose a certain life path.. I kinda love the way they want about decision making in this game, unlike most other rpgs where the right n wrong choices r very obvious and have major obvious consequences
Great video but you did miss a few details like lifepath specific weapons and vehicles. One example would be when you meet up with Jackie outside of maelstrom he will be on his bike. If your a nomad with a high enough technical ability level you get a dialogue about some changes he could make to his bike. Later on after the Heros side quest you get his bike only to find that he took your advice and tuned it up. The bike then has alternate visual parts and is much nicer to ride then the normal varient.
Lifepath is still the biggest lie in cyberpunk 2077. Its good that Cyberpunk had fixes but its shoudnt be praised because of many lies like lifepaths
Nice commentary :) just did my second play and in cyberpunk so at least I know what I'll be expecting when I try nomad mode
This is what made me pissed at this game. They told us it mattered, bugs aside. This is what made me dislike this game the most once I beat it. Was disappointed
Third playthrough I started out as a Corpo and ended up as a Nomad. Loved the hidden knowledge I could stun people with. Fourth playthrough I'm a Nomad seduced by the glitz and glamour of the Corpo life. But role-playing as a caring person so some gradual descent into corruption has to happen there.
They may do rigid lifepaths for the sequel, but this dynamic approach is still great for replayability.
I've mainly liked Nomad for the "family" kind of dialog. But Corpo has so much more to give. One being it has the fastest intro.
- I went Corpo, I think its pretty good. I feel like the story arc makes a lot of sense when you are corpo and you can relate to johnnys issues with them.
Street Kids can also get past the guys outside of Fingers' place, by convincing them you have a message from the Tyger Claws.
Street kid, to me, always had that tone of “Merc who got caught reaching too far and is now way in over their heads because of it”
Incidental side note: the character your Nomad interacts with over your old car is based on Alanah Pearce.
From what I hear the only way to save that cop in Kabuki looking into gangs and corruption is as a nomad. Otherwise she starts going punisher on the corrupt cops who tried to have her killed and eventually dies charging a police precinct.
CDPR really missed a key feature that they included in the 40 min gameplay trailer, but not in the actual game, and that was one of the many, many things that contributed to Cyberpunk 2077’s now infamous legacy.
IMO it doesn’t matter what life path you choose, what matters is what feels more like a compelling story to each person that plays it. I played the street kid in my original run of the game when it first came out. And I loved it, I’m about to start a new run and going to start as a Corpo.
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Honestly, I'm thinking about going Corpo. You're a street kid/thug in multiple GTA style games already. You're a nomadic/cowboy character in many post apocolyptic games already. But in this, it seems to make sense to go full corpo. Having access to the best tech, lying and scheming your way through shady companies, killing and stealing, all because it's simply your job; that's an extremely cool way to introduce yourself to this world. At first glance, it's also the most mysterious of the trio and that hs a certain allure all on it's own.
Nomad is the best if you wanna metaplay, you get a free car, can upgrade Jackie's bike (6 tech required), making it the second fastest bike in the game with smooth handling (my personal favourite bike), if you're male V you also get tons of unique conversations to have with Panam if you're going for the romance (making it impossible to fail the romance), pre-cyberware update you also got free unique ripper upgrades.
Corpo is the best if you want cash, since a lot of in-world events and such you can just use your corpo convo instead of cool skill to pass checks. However the money for such events and quests sucks, it was good pre-PL update since you didn't earn a lot of money from selling weapons and cyberware. But now you can sell a common weapon for 1.5k ED (used to only be 50-150ED), which is basically the same as additional rewards from cash-quests and gigs. So you might as well just horde weapons and sell instead of choosing the corpo lifepath. Plus you start with a lower relationship with Johnny cause he hates corpos.
Street-kid doesn't come with any benefits but it seems like the most lore-accurate and it does have a lot of flavor dialogue in almost all main quests (blue options), but nothing that can earn you more or alter outcome
My favourite is the Nomad lifepath.
There is a Gig given by Regina, involving the last honest cop in NC.
As a Nomad, you can convince her to join the Aldecados annd latter you can find her at the camp.
Some fixers also metion you are a Nomad when they first contact you, not only Dakota Smith.
Based on how I created my v and the clothing I love to use on her, street kid is the most fitting, especially when you get that admittedly very sweet looking jacket from the kirk quest in act 2
One reason I like the Corpo life path best is that it is heavily implied that V and Jackie have been friends for a lot longer than the other two life paths. Their conversations make it seem like they are very close friends already. This makes Jackie's help at the start more realistic, and his death has a deeper meaning.
I wished the entire first act up until the heist was defined by your Lifepath.
If you're Streetkid it goes like usual. If you're Corpo, you actually go on the quest to kill Abernathy and fail horribly, leading to you and Jackie having to do her bidding in order to not be executed, leading to the heist she wants you to do in order for her to get an edge over her bosses and climb the social ladder. Then for the Nomad I wished you had some time with your clan until getting banned and understanding why that happened, then smuggling the Iguana as usual, and then maybe being blackmailed by that Militech gal to do the job or something (I think this is the only path where things would have to be severely altered to fit, I couldn't think of someone good to hire V into the heist here).
There could be two ways to handle it: either Evelyn is behind all those plans as she is in the regular game, then whoever hired you does the job of Dexter to shoot you later and get screwed by Takemura, or Evelyn is only important in the StreetKid path, with you bonding with different yet equally important characters in each route, while all routes eventually lead you to professional idiot De'Shaun who always gets "De'Shauned" at the end.
9:44 (10:36 PM) "That was close. They're not as dangerous in the daylight".
I like starting as a corpo and getting the Nomad ending. It feels special when someone who just tries to avoid backstabs constantly and is perpetualy guided by greed suddenly feels freedom from all of those things and embraces the uncertainty of it