So, no subway or fast travel?
Hey! Boston has a subway! The oldest and worst one in America! So yes, no fast travel
They better not switch date to MM-DD-YYYY format.
Totally, but maybe we don’t need that year right up at the front, since most readers already know the year. Maybe we can bump just that part to the back to make it a little more readable.
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.
Does it have to be set in America? I’d think the genre could work almost anywhere with technological cities.
It doesn’t have to, but it’s based on the Cyberpunk tabletop rpg which is mostly centered around Night City. So most of the existing lore is focused on America. Personally I’d prefer more games/movies/… outside the US in general, I’ve seen enough fictional versions of NYC and LA.
We had a great movie scene in Berlin and then the Nazis happened. Now almost every German film is the same low-tier trash
Cyberpunk 2020 TTRPG had a shit ton of source books for outside of Night City and outside America, including space and even one for the very beginnings of deep space exploration in the cyberpunk world… the source material has a lot of legs outside of Night City.
If not outside of America at least less common areas Chicago, Nasheville, Atlanta hell even rural regions like West Virginia. Hell if you are gonna do it in California or New York do it in less known areas, like Albany or San Bernardino yes I know Albany is the capital of New York but well New Yor, New york gets all the attention.
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.