![]() ![]() The protagonist would have the kind of name that even Elon Musk would think was stupid, and their job would be the general overseer of the RAM transmogrification field in Sector XVIII of the Quadrangle Universe, and their world would be turned upside down when they discover a plot by the… Gnosticene Ancients to infiltrate the… mainframe initiative and… bypass the firewall of… I’m already too bored to finish this hypothetical scenario.Īnd while I wholeheartedly acknowledge that it’s completely unreasonable for me to be wary of a genre because I pre-emptively think that it has the potential to suck, it is true that most cyberpunk stories deal with futuristic societies and technology so advanced that it’s basically indistinguishable from magic. ![]() It might be because I’ve just generally never been into sci-fi stories or futuristic settings, and I think it would be extremely easy to write a cyberpunk story badly. ![]() I’ve never had a particularly bad experience with a cyberpunk anything, other than not really enjoying The Fifth Element very much, so I can’t really explain why I’m so apprehensive of the genre, but for whatever reason, I am. I don’t know why, because I’ve never had a particularly bad experience with any cyberpunk games. You might expect from the gushing about Technobabylon that I’m a big fan of the cyberpunk genre, and weirdly enough, the reason I’m so eager to recommend the game is that I’m not. But from what I have played, which, again, are all excellent games that come highly recommended, Technobabylon is definitely the greatest that I’ve played so far. But whether they’re developing or publishing, the Wadjet Eye Games library is one of the most impressive collections of point and click games you could find in the industry, and I haven’t even played their latest entry Unavowed yet. I should point out, because I frequently lump them all together in my head, that Wadjet Eye Games were the developers of the Blackwell series and The Shivah, and the publishers of Gemini Rue (developed by Joshua Nuernberger,) A Golden Wake (developed by Francisco González,) and Technobabylon (developed by Technocrat Games). I also played Kathy Rain, which is actually by the completely different company Clifftop Games, but is very much in the same vein and is likewise a really excellent point and click adventure. Technobabylon was my introduction to the works of Wadjet Eye Games, and since then, I’ve played the entire Blackwell series – five traditional but very well-made games starring Rosangela Blackwell, a spirit medium and her guide, Joey Malone, the wisecracking ghost of a 1930s New Yorker – A Golden Wake – which is to estate agents what Phoenix Wright is to defence attorneys – The Shivah – in which you are a rabbi investigating the recent death of a former member of your congregation who left you a substantial amount of money – and Gemini Rue – a game so Blade Runner-y that I knew it was Blade Runner-y despite having never seen Blade Runner. ![]() It might be fantastic and silence everyone who ever criticized it, it might be a critical and commercial failure that tanks the company, or it might never be released at all, and it would have no effect on me.īut that’s a bit of a selfish attitude just because I don’t have a horse in the race doesn’t mean that there aren’t hundreds of thousands of fans desperate to play an engaging cyberpunk thriller that blends realistic and well-developed characters with human conflicts, based in an exciting futuristic setting where technology has advanced but attitudes have largely remained the same, leading to a world where qualities like compassion and empathy feel ideologically opposed to cold, logical, machine-like efficiency.īut then, maybe I can still afford to be blasé about Cyberpunk 2077, because if that sounds like your kind of thing, you could just play Technobabylon instead. Since it’s too big for the home computer I mainly use to play late-90s Sierra city-building games, and it’s not coming to the GameCube any time soon, I haven’t been paying attention at all to Cyberpunk 2077 other than occasionally seeing people make fun of their repeated PR blunders on Twitter. ![]()
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