Re:CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf...
by Pfhreak on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @10:20AM
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Some additional context-- you have to engage in a system where you get paid to kill people for the police. And then there's this, https://twitter.com/TurboBurpo/status/1338945708200656896?s=...
Remember that Night City evolved out of LA and imagine that description applied to the LAPD.
Re:CD Projekt Conference Call with the Management Board [pdf...
by arugulum on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:11PM
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That tweet looks to be deleted, so I don't know what you're referencing.
But back to the point: you work with all sorts of terrible people in the game. That's sort of one conclusion of the Cyberpunk genre: every level of society is rotten has decayed even as technology progressed. The police are no better (and no worse) than any other faction of human traffickers, politicians, crime syndicates, drug dealers, fixers - everyone is simply looking out for their own interests. You regularly get gigs with orders to kidnap or kill people with no questions asked. So it seems unnatural for you to single out the police as being the one faction where it is unforgivable for the game to have you side with at any point.
IIRC this comment was made when you're on a quest and partnered with probably the one good cop on the force, who was also suspended for doing his job. The quest started based on the incompetence of the police leading to him needing to ask V for help to pursue the case. And the comment was made in reference to this one guy you're trying to help out. Meanwhile the next quest V will matter-of-factly state that the cops can't be trusted to handle so-and-so issue.
So please don't take lines out of their context.