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Punished Miku
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More interested in this than the game honestly.
Mozzarella
Member
Kill La Kill was fantastic, i hope this one lives up to it.
Netflix (obviously the french studio deserves the credit) did well with Arcane, i wonder how will this one compare.
Netflix (obviously the french studio deserves the credit) did well with Arcane, i wonder how will this one compare.
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Little Mac
Gold Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Looks kinda boring, needs more sex and violence for my tastes.
Saiyan-Rox
Member
I know I'm gonna get hate for this but here goes
Dubbed?
Dubbed?
anthony2690
Member
This looks awesome 
anothertech
Member
That looks incredible. I hope the incoming dlc gets me this hype!!
Party McHardy
Member
Looks wild. It may even inspire me to revisit the game.
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balls of snow
Member
Way too many stuff to watch this month so saving this for next month. Hope its good.
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playsaves3
Banned
I disagree-colress
op22
Member
It's in English. Dark and edgy too. D's age looks to be about half of what I thought V's was. Other than that pretty good so far.
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HoodWinked
Member
Watched 3 episodes and really enjoying it. I started out subbed but there is too much slang early on and switched to dubbed.
existensmaximum
Member
Not gonna say that I love english dubs but man, japanese anime voice acting is always extremely cringey to me. Makes me annoyed, I've tried to appreciate that stuff for 25 years but I just can't.
Pasta la Vista
Member
I agree for everything except DBZ, I much prefer the English voice acting. Goku is wayyy too high pitched (every other character is good though). Too bad the English versions got butchered with censorship.
nightmare-slain
Gold Member
Only watched a couple episodes but I'm liking it so far! I'm listening to the english voice. It's really well done. I don't like the japanese voices.
Ironman_Bad
Member
Learn to mind your business and let people enjoy stuff how they like, some people work hard and wanna relax after a long day and watch something without reading a bunch of subtitles
Justin9mm
Member
It's my opinion and you have yours.
But judging from your comment and reaction, it just goes to show how narrow minded you are!
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Coming from the person who can't imagine other people having preferences different from his.
I too like to consume content in its original language, but come on dude...
Justin9mm
Member
How ironic!
kondorBonk
Member
First few episodes in, I'm super impressed. The animation quality was always going to be top notch with Studio Trigger but they have been picking some boring narratives lately. Luckily this was not the case.
Jokes about the jank of the game aside, they captured they world aesthetic perfectly. It doesn't feel like a fan service slideshow of locations that are in the game, everything is incredibly organic and feels very grounded. The lingo/culture having already played/experienced it felt like viewing a very familiar world where you know the rules and the different factions that exist in that world. The first episode also does a great job of highlighting key Cyberpunk themes really well with everything going to shit as soon as you lose income.
- Rent subscription Frozen, electronically locked.
- Washing machine subscription frozen, locked
- Ambulance arrives on seen. "Not a customer. Ignore"
- Surgery "Successful surgery but since your not on our medical plan we didn't keep up with post op medication"
The Story so far I have to say I'm also really enjoying. Anime trope of having a high-school aged protagonist might be a turn off to some but I like seeing that side of Night City as well. A person a little more sheltered who becomes increasingly ,more corrupt although that corruptness is really the everyday norm for that world. To be blunt, I think it's so far a much more engaging story that the main story of the game.
Animation, again top notch as one of the better japanese animation studios. There was one interesting segment where the subtitles began to be hard baked into the animation. A mix of visual effects like the holographic text to speech calls over someones head in game. Normally even if something is written out in animation, even in English, as long as it's being spoken there will still be subtitles for no reason. That wasn't the case and that segment flowed in a nice way and was something I don't really think I ever see.
Anyway, a few episodes in and I look forward to the rest. It does make me want to play Cyberpunk more and even more so makes me want to see that world expanded/more realized. Hopefully CD Project Red is honest in their commitment to it as a franchise. A rocky start but so much potential.
Jokes about the jank of the game aside, they captured they world aesthetic perfectly. It doesn't feel like a fan service slideshow of locations that are in the game, everything is incredibly organic and feels very grounded. The lingo/culture having already played/experienced it felt like viewing a very familiar world where you know the rules and the different factions that exist in that world. The first episode also does a great job of highlighting key Cyberpunk themes really well with everything going to shit as soon as you lose income.
- Rent subscription Frozen, electronically locked.
- Washing machine subscription frozen, locked
- Ambulance arrives on seen. "Not a customer. Ignore"
- Surgery "Successful surgery but since your not on our medical plan we didn't keep up with post op medication"
The Story so far I have to say I'm also really enjoying. Anime trope of having a high-school aged protagonist might be a turn off to some but I like seeing that side of Night City as well. A person a little more sheltered who becomes increasingly ,more corrupt although that corruptness is really the everyday norm for that world. To be blunt, I think it's so far a much more engaging story that the main story of the game.
Animation, again top notch as one of the better japanese animation studios. There was one interesting segment where the subtitles began to be hard baked into the animation. A mix of visual effects like the holographic text to speech calls over someones head in game. Normally even if something is written out in animation, even in English, as long as it's being spoken there will still be subtitles for no reason. That wasn't the case and that segment flowed in a nice way and was something I don't really think I ever see.
Anyway, a few episodes in and I look forward to the rest. It does make me want to play Cyberpunk more and even more so makes me want to see that world expanded/more realized. Hopefully CD Project Red is honest in their commitment to it as a franchise. A rocky start but so much potential.
You're right but does reading translated text deliver better emotional intention? I'm not so sure.
Irobot82
Member
Cyberpsychosis seems to be a major thread in the anime, the more chrome you wear, the more likely you are to go all gonked out. I think I am pretty far into the game, but the game never really seems to mention it other than your side mission from that fixer. You yourself and be fully decked out and suffer no consequences. Seems like a missed opportunity.
Irobot82
Member
Emotion is a universal language and can be felt in any spoken word.
Justin9mm
Member
The emotion and conversation language comes from the voice acting. I grew up watching foreign movies and tv shows from all around the world and I can read subtitles and watch what is going on at the same time. People that don't watch much foreign content won't be able to do that so easily or truly understand the difference. People can do what they want but with voice dubs, the conversation and language does not come across the same way and it's not conveyed the same.
I know what I'm talking about and all these comments from people commenting against me have no fucking clue.
Hugare
Member
The main character in the game, V, doesn't suffer from it for 2 reasons, i think:
* The chip in his head is able to regenerate his brain (the reason why he survives a shot in the head).
* V has a limited time to live, and cyberpsychosis takes some time for the symptons to show up.
But during the game you see many cases of cyberpsychosis despite the sidequest (in logs to read, television and etc., not actual gameplay)
Due to the limited runtime, the series had to pick one subject to focus on and that was cyberpsychosis, while the game tried to go big with a much more ambitious story
I preffer the anime approach. The better parts of Cyberpunk were the calm ones with Judy, Panam, River, Kerry and etc.
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Not doubting that but I think with a good dub a person can pick up on that emotion and convey it in another language. It's only poor quality dubs that fail to do this. The bigger issue for me is that the animations don't match the sound though and I hate that. It's especially bad for non-anime or non-CGI media because they almost mute the sound entirely to replace the voices so you almost get no ambient sound effects.
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