This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to share it anyway:
Recently I got Cyberpunk 2077. I like the setting, I am a big fan of dystopian future. I am also a little radical about public transport in real life. I love to use it, I hate handling cars, I hate looking for parking.
One of the mayor things I noticed playing CP77 was the lack of public transport. I haven’t played a triple A ever and was surprised by the amount of NPCs. Everything felt so right in Night City. Urgency, dirtiness, people everywhere. Now it is coming with the next update. Thinking about it makes me not want to use the in-game car. It just pops up (hardly any waiting involved, weird) and you cannot really park it anywhere. It is just as useless as real life cars, handling is bad (maybe I am a bad driver but still). I love it. Yes, I can fast travel, but for immersion it is great.
Im curious how the game feels if you completely disable fast travel and navigation paths. Should be quite nice now with the metro system.
IMO the game is much more enjoyable without fast travel and without the navigation paths. You actually have to learn the routes, follow street signs and pay was more attention to the city as you explore. Just like a real city when you don’t have gps.
That said IME it’s better in a motorbike than a car as it’s so much easier to nip about. The metro will be a great addition to open up route choices.
The Ascent had a pretty cool metro loading screen where you actually had to ride in the train with other people and the only other option for fast travel was to pay for a flying taxi.
Public transit in games is kinda weird.
I loved using trains in GTA IV, but in GTA V it sucked. Although I think it maybe has to do with the real life cities those games are based on.
Sadly, none had working buses
Just like most US cities then.
As much as I have been excited about the idea of trains in Night City, as a final-stage capitalist society it makes a fuckton of sense that there was no public transportation.
In a capitalist system an inadequate amount of public transport makes sense. It gets people in the lower classes into the upper class areas to work but it puts them out because they have to get in early or run late and risk their jobs.
The poor have to use a large amount of their own personal time getting in to work and get home late. They have to pay more to live near transit hubs in squalor just to make sure they have less connections to get to work. They have to get food from what little food choices are available close to home or pay more for food near work during their down time.
It is perfect for a dystopian capitalist hellscape.
Riding the monorail was one of my favourite things to do in the original watch dogs. I really hope they actually let you ride it and it’s not just a fast travel mechanic.
