So the next city iteration will be a few buildings between massive parking lots and barely any pedestrian crossings or even sidewalks while all the streets are congested as fuck and it takes you ages to get anywhere because everything is so far apart?
It’s set in 2077. Why the F does it need to feel American? There’s enough Americana in media already.
Because the Cyberpunk 2077 setting which is based on the original TTRPG is set in Night City which is in America.
I don’t need a game that’s set in a fictional future and world to be ‘authentically American’.
Well, the author of the Cyberpunk universe is Mike Pondsmith, who’s American and the game setting is in the US.
So be authentic to the universe. Be authentic to the lore. Nobody knows what ‘authentically American’ will look like in fifty plus years. And it’s still a fictitious city. There is no need for details to conform with any particular city of today, American or not.
Is that something people were asking for?
Wow… What a dumb article… When I read “more authentically American” I thought “makes sense, show the consequences of hard-core capitalism even more clearly and boldly” but what he understands as American culture is manhole covers and the position of waste bins?!