The sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 detours from Night City when he returned to Japan and visits a new place that feels a bit like “Chicago was wrong.” Naturally, the news questions how the cyberpunk timeline influenced the most prominent basketball dynasty of the 1990s.
The small nugget of information we gained about this second city comes from Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk TTRPG series, based on CD Projekt’s futuristic RPG. This is the first bit of specific information about the game – beyond just where it is in the production process, we’ve gotten for a while.
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Talked to TVGry at this year’s Digital Dragons Conference, Pondsmith touched on his current relationship with CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk Devs. He said, “While he’s not directly involved in the sequel like the first Cyberpunk, he still looks at the script in the studio and offers his opinion on something like the new cyberware made for Project Orion.
For example, when he was there recently, he revealed that he had spent a lot of time with one of the guys in the environment and described Orion’s new location.
“Night City is still there,” Pond Smith continued, “Yeah, I remember feeling you’re going to this. This really works – it doesn’t feel like a blade runner. It feels like Chicago was wrong.
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This chat starts with the 3 hours and 45 minutes mark on the video embedded above, if you want to check it out yourself. I’m not sure if you’ll do the same, but mentions of cyberpunk cities like Chicago made me wonder what existing cyberpunk lore is saying about the real wind city.
According to the series’ “Fandom Wiki (note that more quotes are needed), Chi-Town was “leaved in absolute devastation” by the collapse of the US that occurred between 1996 and 2008 on the Cyberpunk timeline, and was later destroyed by a “devastating bioplug” created by the federal government itself. By 2077, the Cyberpunk 2077 database described as “now inoperable,” but rumors that it was connected to Night City through the Cyberpunk 2077 database, which is the subject of Night Corp’s revitalization efforts, suggests that the city has undergone some degree of reconstruction.
nice. But it’s here. If Chicago starts to fall apart in 1996 – The year when martial law was declared across America in cyberpunk lore, will Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls win the NBA Championships in 1996, 1997 and 1998, solidifying themselves as the biggest basketball dynasty? It assumes that the Jordan and the Bulls even exist in a cyberpunk universe, but I think it’s worth exploring anyway.
As far as I know, the situation is this – the aforementioned martial law continues from 1996 to 1999, so Jordan and Co are abandoned by the end of 2008, as the collapse has caused so much damage, in addition to the 1998 Midwest drought. Even if he has to dribble past bioplugs and hostile cybernetic aged soldiers to do so, I’m still counting on him to beat jazz.
Do you think his airness still has six rings on his strange cyberfinger? Also, what do you think about visiting this second city in Cyberpunk 2? Please let us know below!