I also recommend the BBC audio drama of Neuromancer. It’s only 2 hours long.

Oh, and I guess the first 15 pages of the unreleased Volume 2 were leaked onto the internet a while back: http://www.antonraubenweiss.com/gibson/gallery/neuromancer-graphicnovel-lost/index.html

If you enjoyed Kill The Crows, I highly recommend Akane. It’s the same basic gameplay loop (one map area, single hit enemies, every 50 enemies is a boss fight) but Akane has a cyberpunk aesthetic. I don’t understand how these two games were made by different developers given the similarities.

It works beautifully on the deck, it’s primarily how I play this game. I did rebind some controls though. It had reloading the gun set to one of the face buttons, which means you’d need to let go of the joystick to reload. I remapped the reload button to RB (R1) and it’s much better.

If I was forced to say what two things combine to form cyberpunk I’d probably say: corporate greed + dehumanizing technology. I think those two things combined can create a cyberpunk “feel” even if it doesn’t have futuristic neon lights and cyberspace.

Blade Runner, a cyberpunk classic.

I tried reading this one about a decade ago. It never really clicked with me and took years to even finish it. I’ve always wondered if I gave it another try (and didn’t get distracted with other books) if I’d understand it better or enjoy it more. But yeah, my memory of it kinda matches your experience. Wasn’t a fan.

Nice! Let me know what you think!

I believe that black and white photo of the dude’s face half-covered is from Tetsuo: The Iron Man.

Also, BLAME! Is a massive manga but it has an anime movie on Netflix.

Are there any left that haven’t been identified? I think everything else has been mentioned.

I think the meme was going for more of the “weird” examples of cyberpunk rather than the staples of the genre. There isn’t even Blade Runner on there.

I’d say Akira at least starts out cyberpunk with the biker gangs in the first half of the movie before going full-on biopunk in the second half. I get what you’re saying though. That’s why a while back I asked whether people thought eXistenZ was cyberpunk.

Hopefully we can be the exception to the rule!

Yep, this is why posting memes is so tempting. It’s an easy way to get those sweet internet points if that’s all you care about. Not a great way to start discussions though…

That’s a good point. An evil CEO can appear in various different genres but a megacorp so large nothing can stop it is pretty unique to the cyberpunk genre. That doesn’t mean one is more evil or heartless then the other, but one is more uniquely cyberpunk than the other.

You’re thinking of Predator: Killer of Killers, which will be an animated movie on Hulu by the same director. Not saying it’ll be any better, but it’s a different thing.

Oooo, this is a really tough question for me. I don’t tend to re-visit cyberpunk works, partially because there’s so much new content to consume and partially because I don’t want to get burnt out on those works. For example, when I was younger I watched Hackers and The Matrix so often that I have them both memorized, down to the inflection each line is delivered. Now if I try watching either of those movies I’m really just comparing them to my memory, not really watching them.

To answer your question though, I’ve definitely re-visited Tron 2.0 multiple times. That’s one of the few “cozy” games for me where just the act of playing is fun to me; just the basic core gameplay loop. It doesn’t matter what level I play, I enjoy it. I feel like any other video game I revisit always has “that one part” I really don’t want to replay, but Tron 2.0 has so many great visuals I just love being in that world.

Other than that… hmm… maybe Blade Runner 2049 or Elysium. Those are new enough to me that they aren’t stale but I’m also not obsessive about re-watching them. And I find both of them interesting.

I’ve listened to the Neuromancer BBC Audio Drama multiple times since it’s short enough that I can just listen to it randomly. I don’t tend to re-read books or re-watch anime since it takes so long to get through those and like I said, there’s other (newer) content I could be disappointed by instead!

This is a very good point.

I really wasn’t trying to make a “let’s all shit on Matrix Resurrections” post here. I was hoping for more of a discussion about at what point something stops being cyberpunk. I guess I misjudged things…

Now that’s an interesting question… would the movie have been better if the Wachowskis weren’t involved at all? I’d argue the movie would’ve been better if none of the previous cast came back. The story should’ve been some new incarnation of The One (not Keanu Reeves) as the cycle repeats (the Architect talks about it being the 6th iteration). Or they could’ve even moved the world forward by having humans and machines working together but “oh no! the matrix is breaking/failing for some reason and we have to fix it!”

Unfortunately, we all know it was just WB saying “we need a cash cow… Wachowskis! Make us another!” and they had to scramble to come up with a story.

I’d love for you to add a link to this community, thanks!

As for a description, I don’t know what to say. My goal is to make this a place to discuss cyberpunk as a sci-fi genre and not complaining about the current world turning into a cyberpunk dystopia. So the only news items I’ll post will be about upcoming movies/games, not whatever stupid thing Amazon did recently. But that’s just me, it’s not like I enforce it or anything. Lemmy as a whole is so small that any new content at all is preferable to a dead community.