Was CP77 the best case of a celebrity being used for a video game?
>>750257741Probably the worst, bum Keanu doesn't fit at all
>>750257741easily the worst lolV/Silverhand story was terrible and the only interesting parts were the ones outside it
>>750257835>>750257864so name better or the best >doja cat at house party
>>750257741Nah he was fucking obnoxious as all shit.
>>750257835his most famous roles were in cyberpunk movies tho
>>750257895aaron paul was easily the best part of dispatchkeith david was great as captain anderson in MEliam neeson in fallout 3 etc
>>750257895 Ricky Gervais in GTA4
>>750257741No
>>750258031>>750257895>>750258039kevin spacey call of duty
>>750258057they patched him out for Tom Hanks
>>750257741It’s fine because Silverhand is supposed to be famous and having Keanu starting at you all game provides some verisimilitude along those lines. But I still prefer when known actors just provide their voice.
>>750257895They could do dozens of different things instead of scanning 60+ old guy
>>750257741Sasha Grey as Viola in Saints Row 3
>>750258404Slash and Izzy Stradlin looks way better than the ridiculous tank top
>>750257982WRONGBill & Ted movies
>>750257741no it would be Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
>>750258834>best skater in the world also turns out to have just enough charisma to be a pleasant voice actor in the later gamesThey couldn't have gotten more lucky. Imagine if it was a situation like this with Tony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2wpIeZDrHE
>Call of Duty series (Gary Oldman)>Castlevania: Lords of Shadow (Jason Isaacs, Patrick Stewart)>Death Stranding (Mads Mikkelsen, Norman Reedus)>Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Patrick Stewart, Sean Bean)>Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow)>Fallout series (Ron Perlman)>Final Fantasy XVI (Ralph Ineson)>Grand Theft Auto series (Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Samuel L. Jackson)>Lego Batman (Matt Berry)All way more memorable than Johnny Silverhand. Nothing against Keanu, he put in the work, but the game/character/story sucks. Can't win 'em all.
>>750257741I think he does a good job, but I think ultimately the game's development was hampered by having him, since I feel like they didn't plan to have the game revolve around Johnny specifically that hard until they got Keanu, and then they pivoted everything towards him.
For me it's ray liotta in vice city
>>750259097>>Lego Batman (Matt Berry)What, that game doesn't use the VAs from the movies? What a waste of time
>>750257835disagreeKenau did well as Johnny, but CDPR gave him fuck all to work withJohnny has no character arc to speak of - he tries to kill you off at the beginning and actively antagonizes you and yet he's your best bud the entire game.Pretty sure Johnny was supposed to be more villainous in the first draft only to be tampered down when they got Kenau on board. Guess they forgot to make him likeable in the first place.
>>750259298He voices Bane, who had a small cameo in the movie which came out almost a decade ago. Also, the Lego Batman video games (and Lego games in general) have existed longer than those generic, semen slurping films. Legacy of the Dark Knight and all but one game (that flopped horribly) in the Lego series are completely unrelated to the that dead film franchise. Thank Christ.
>>750257741No, it was a detriment to pretty much everything in the game. Johnny is a shit character and it should not have been centered around him.
>>750257741Nothing again keanu but johnny ruined the game
>>750259097>way more memorablekek I had no idea Plummer and Sydow were in Skyrim
Wing Commander IV>>Mark Hamill as Christopher 'Maverick' Blair>>John Rhys-Davies as James 'Paladin' Taggart>>Malcolm McDowell as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn>>Jason Bernard as William Eisen>>Tom Wilson as Todd 'Maniac' Marshall>>François Chau as Winston 'Vagabond' Chang>>Mark Dacascos as Troy 'Catscratch' Carter>>John Spencer as Captain Hugh Paulsen>>Richard Riehle as Robert "Pliers" Sykes>>Casper Van Dien as Confed Redshirt #3>>Walton Goggins as Border World PilotOnly just about to be surpassed by Squadron 42.
>>750257895Leonard Nemoy as this guy
>>750260139Are you retarded or am I retarded and missed a joke? Octopus God was voiced by Tony Jay
>>750257741>AI malware is slowly taking over control of your body and destroying your brain>Getting surgery to remove the malware is somehow the bad ending
>>75025774150 Cent had an entire fucking game about him and it was better than this shit
>>750260428because the brain was already fucked by the time you get it out. It's like trying to save a piece of fruit when it already has mold all over it.
>>750260532Only someone that was 10 when it came out could say this. Game was ridiculed for years on /v/ for not only being a ridiculous muttoid brainwashing scheme but also a shit game in general.
>>750260540neither you nor the writers for this game understand how the human brain fucking works
nope
>>750260540I'm sure they make brain prosthetics. I would just slap a few claude modules in and be on my merry way.
>>750260586and cyberpunk isn't?
>>750257741His yapping is fucking annoying
>>750259346Johnny doesn't have an arc because he isn't a real person, as the game makes a point of saying. He's a digital imprint made out of a brainscan of a guy who died half a century earlier, he isn't actually growing or changing, and he softens up to V because they share the same living quarters for a long period of time. It's sort of like sharing a college dorm with a shitty roommate, when you see enough of each other you eventually develop some sort of rapport and can get along, it's just that Johnny makes a particularly harsh first impression that then softens considerably
>>750261039>he isn't actually growing or changing, and he softens up to V
>>750257835I don't even like Keanu but he was great as Johnny, he sounds like a washed up tryhard, which might be due to Reeves wooden acting, but it totally fits for the role
>>750257741no, johnny sucked dickgame would've been improved without him
>>750257741Yeah, actually. Having a famous face you recognize makes the character feel more important.
>>750259346>Johnny has no character arc to speak ofYou kidding me? He literally re-evaluates his life in front of you and learns to let go. I kinda agree with you that sometimes it's implemented wonky - he's with you for the whole game including side quests, so interactions with him don't change that much whenever you antagonize or go buddy-buddy with him, but he still has an ark. By the end he really feels like a bro.
>>750257835I dont really care about the actor hype of the west but i think he was great in cp
>>750257741no, celebrity appearances ruined video games. That said, I love this game despite flaws like this.
>>750260596it's a fucking fiction set in a dystopian future. I'll make up all the bullshit I want.
>>750257741I liked when Jon Snow was in Call of Duty
>>750257741He ruined the game. Imagine if all that budget came towards improving the base game, and for Silverhad they would hire some rando who could do a competent voice acting(and would cost tens of millions less).
>>750261628me tooso much wasted fucking potential in that game, wasted on a CoD.
>>750261686How many 40 million selling games did you make?
>>7502621236
>>750262123nta but how many did you?
>>750262338nta but how many did you?
>>750257741>Was CP77 the best case of a celebrity being used for a video game?give that it's keanu's best role in his entire life, probablyalso had idris elba in the DLC... one may say yes/nah for both separately, but both being in one game? it's obvious10/10 for effort (7/10 game)>>750257835that wasn't the question thoand besides, he kinda fit, as the in-game world was just as cringe and artificially superficial as he was
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>>7502626266 million
The irony is that Kenau's meme-bike (not built IRL beside a prototype if I remember correctly) was the best handling, best sounding, most enjoyable bike in the game. Much better than the Akira meme-bike etc.
>>750257741No, the worst. His inclusion caused drastic revision of the game's story and structure and the result is what feels like two very different games mashed together: the open world sunny merc action-rpg, and the dark linear story about johnny silverhand. They don't fit together well in tone or in structure and the transition between them is always jarring. Even the way that the main quests regularly feature V coughing and keeling over with his Relic attacks (which then go away as soon as the main story stuff is over until you do the next main story quest) feel completely at odds with the rest of the game where the Relic never causes problems.Phantom Liberty worked a lot better because even if Idris Elba was obviously the Keanu of that DLC, it was planned like that from the beginning so the whole thing fit together a lot more coherently.I really do hope that in Orion if they go the celebrity cameo route again (which I would prefer they don't) they actually have the celeb locked in from the start and we can get something that's tonally consistent.
>>750257741>best case of a celebrity being used for a video game
>self esteem (pride) always under attack>"rub your pain" says the game>game pronounced your irl name>real name can be translated as "earth bird">logo actually has a planet in its logo and wingsV I D E O G A M E S
>>750257741>>750257835Johnny Silverhand is supposed to be David Bowie, blonde hair gelled upwards.
>>750263430why would you cast Lea and not have her make out with all the other girls
>>750263523that's kind gay.. but i like it!
>>750257741For me, it's Iron Mike.
I don't usually like celebrities in video games and thought it was cringe when Keanu was announced as Silverhand, but now that I've played the game I thought he was amazing, probably his best role desu.
>>750263523>why1. walled2. we have already seen her butthole
>>750263587>probably his best role desu.Yeah I wish he had more balls IRL, he would have been a cool Che Guevara type semi-autistic terrorist. Excellent for the role.
>>750257741Yes, only people with low emotional intelligence hate Johnny.
>>750263587>shit opinion>says desuYep your credentials check out
>>750263875desu, onion, please
>>750263875T B H gets auto'd into desu
>>750263672>low emotional intelligenceYou're goddamn right.
>you don't actually get to meet King in game>only Mr Krabs voice on holocallfucking bush league
>>750263672i will contradict you, not all straight white males hate johnny
>>750257741CP sucks ass. The story was the worst part and that's saying a lot. I can't make it through the junkyard chase scene before I quit everytime.
>>750264180>you don't get meet falco in game>only over text messagesthey did the same with the first edgerunners update
>>750263517Insane terrorist David Bowie stuck in you head sounds like it would have been more fun than depressed Keanu Reeves desu. Though that's more the writing teams fault than Keanu's
>>750258509I'd say I think this is the only time I've seen Keanu actually act at all but he probably was just young.
>>750260093Wing commander having hamill is funny but I prefer Privateer II: Darkening (real title name) for having fucking Christopher Walken and John hurt, and fucking Clive Owen before he actually had a career. I had about 5 seconds to yell something at Clive Owen once in London and all I could do was say "PRIVATEER 2 WAS SHIT" and he either didn't hear me or know how to react. I doubt he even remembers.
>>750264180so king talks to you, v, the guy with the soul killer chip inside, the legend of night city, and yet this guy has absolutely no fucking idea of either v, the legendary mercenary nor the soulkiller tech during the animehow fucking conveniant. just another fucking plothole these hacks of a writers left while speedrunning their disater of an anime
>>750257741Yes, but it was Idris Elba. I grew to enjoy Keanu but Johnny doesn't hold a candle to Reed
>>750265031V having the soulkiller biochip in his head isn't exactly common knowledge, how would King know about that?
No
>>750265031Soulkiller was just rumors to most people and why would he mention V during the anime? As far as Weak is concerned, V is just another Afterlife merc with a reputation.
>>750258509B&T movies aren't international blockbusters Matrix and JW
>>750264367True but the latest update had an actual quest inside a prison with a boss. The one with Falco was just wait for a call and pick up your gift.
>>750264526>Insane terrorist David Bowie stuck in you head sounds like it would have been more fun than depressed Keanu Reeves desu.maybe if u'r a dead horse
>>750261293It's not wonky. It's non-existent. After the first fight there isn't really a point where he antagonizes you. By player option you can antagonize him for a bit, but then you go to the next mission only to be buddy buddy again. At worst you won't get the Don't Fear The Reaper ending.And the scene where he cries about his life comes as abruptly as it goes never to be really mentioned again.
>>750257835absolutely correct, he was the worst part of the game by a significant margin. Not only due to the attempt at edgy writing for his character but the lack of acting range made his delivery of the bad writing come off even worse than it should have. I can't reply the game and enjoy it because of how he ruins the experience.
>>750267723>he was the worst part of the game by a significant margin.He's the the only character who really works and has a coherent arc. The other characters that V encounters are shallow and fleeting, his relationships with them don't amount to much, he helps them with a few errands then they tell V to fuck off in the ending . Johnny's the only character who you really form a bond with.
>>750267913The difference being that the story has nothing to do with the actor. They easily could have brought in someone actually talented at voice acting and it would have made everything substantially better. Instead we get the same 1-dimensional neo for muh-nostalgia retards who are obsessed with celebrity worship ruining an otherwise competent story
>>750257741Keanu was dogshit in this.
>>750261039>he softens up to Vthe issue is that this doesn't fucking happen. one of the first accessible missions after this is delamain and the dialogue in it is like you two are buddies.
>>750257741It's his best role
>>750269134>and the dialogue in it is like you two are buddies.not catching sarcasm in text is one thing, but he's clearly being sarcastic early on.
>>750269692He always puts on a sarcastic bitch front.It's still massively out of character compared to him trying you crack your skull just moments prior.
Not that it really matter, but everytime I see Johnny, I think it's Adam Driver as Keanu Reeves playing him.
>>750265205Oh yeah...!
