Cyberpunk, a subgenre of science fiction in the 60’s and 70’s, has grown and evolved as a genre even to this day. Though peaking in the 80’s with cinema, the genre hasn’t stopped and being implemented into video games has caused an influx of more original stories and narratives to be told through the genre. This video takes a strong focus into the video games of cyberpunk and how they’ve evolved and progressed over time.
Games Mentioned:
2064: Read Only Memories
Aeon Flux
Akira
Astral Chain
Beneath A Steel Sky
Bladerunner
Burn: Cycle
Call of Duty: Black Ops 3
Cybermage: Darklight Awakening
Cyberpunk 2077
Delta V
Deus Ex
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Deus Ex: Invisible War
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Deus Ex: The Fall
Dex
Dreamweb
Dystopia
Einhander
Enter The Matrix
Flashback
Gemini Rue
Genocide
Ghost in the Shell
Ghostrunner
Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller
Imitation City
Invisible Inc
Metal Gear
Metal Gear 2
Mirror’s Edge
Mirror’s Edge Catalyst
Neocron
Neuromancer
Observer
Oni
Policenauts
Prey (2006)
Prey (2017)
Remember Me
Rise 2: Resurrection
Rise of the Robots
Ruiner
Satellite Reign
Shadowrun: Dragonfall
Shadowrun: Hong Kong
Shadowrun (1993)
Shadowrun (2007)
Shadowrun Returns
Snatcher
Soma
Syndicate (1993)
Syndicate (2012)
Syndicate Wars
System Shock
System Shock 2
System Shock 3
Technobabylon
The Last Night
The Red Strings Club
The Screamer
Transistor
Uplink
VA-11 HALL-A
Watch Dogs
Watch Dogs 2
Watch Dogs Legion
Xenogears
Introduction to Cyberpunk: 0:00
Cyberpunk Origins in Literature: 02:25
Movies, Anime, Comics & More: 04:25
The First Games: 06:27
A New Dimension: 10:58
Cyber Renaissance: 20:36
What The Future Holds & Conclusion: 29:06
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Music:
~K E N K U R A – Lazy Evenings
~Oni OST- Searching
~Watch Dogs Legion OST- This Little Piggy Went to Camden Market
~Transistor OST- Vanishing Point
~Bladerunner OST- Late Call
~Watch Dogs OST- Aiden Pearce
~Snatcher OST- One Night In Neo Kobe City
~Remember Me OST- Main Menu
~System Shock 2 OST- Engineering
~Soma OST- Subway
~The Red Strings Club OST- Corporate Lawyer
~Ghostrunner OST- Main Theme
~Deus Ex OST- DuClare Chateau
~2064 ROM OST- Turing’s Theme
~Prey OST- Alex Theme
~Cyberpunk 2077 OST- V’s Theme
~Mirror’s Edge Catalyst OST- Main Theme
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Damn that intro was like a TV show intro!! We was not ready for that level of quality.
Check out G-String on steam, it's a korean source cyberpunk game whose gameplay is incredibly reminiscent of the Half Life 2 physics puzzles and gun play. I highly recommend it
Ofcourse you had to choose the "what a rotten way to die" Clip XD
Learning a lot of cool looking games here and some underrated gems that I've know about. Remember me is pretty good so it's good to see it get a shout out.
Cool list, a lot of those games i've never heard of before and they seem interesting as fuck.
turn down the chirpy sound effects they are way too loud, cool stuff otherwise
It’s a shame CYBERPUNK 2077 is such a massive disappointment. Gaming is officially dead
My mans back.
Fucking great video fam, I think you're one of the only people on the platform investing in the history of gaming so that more people might understand it and know where the industry came from and where we're at now.
Top tier shit fam, can't wait for more
Great video mate! Was super interesting and I didn't realise how many fucking cyberpunk games there was. Loved it!
I'll be honest, I never really thought I'd played many Cyberpunk games (didn't really know what defined it though either) but wow… I've played a hell of a lot of these games! I think I love Cyberpunk 😂 Great video mate, the editing on this bad boy is slick as hell and the subject is truly compelling, well done. As for suggestions… I mean you could always stick with the punk theme and maybe take a peak at some Steampunk?
Great Channel!
Happy to see another "A Brief History"! I never read "do androids dream of electric sheep" but the title stuck with me for the longest time, before I found out about Bladerunner, Cyberpunk, Ghost in the Shell and all the games the genre inspired. Such a catchy title, but I was never into Science Fiction novels, I believe it works much better in a visual medium, I played most of the games you included in the "Cyberpunk Renaissance", the indie ones were all great!
Hold up. Mirror's Edge Catalyst was very specifically made to be a reboot/prequel to the first game, it is NOT a sequel
Sega Genesis/MegaDrive version of Shadowrun, which is COMPLETELY different and only the same game in name only, is by far the MOST superior Shadowrun game made but sadly is never mentioned while the great BUT inferior SNES version is always in videos. The Sega version (Not port as its a different game) is most like its pen and paper counterpart and the hacking in cyberspace transforms the game into something else. While the game is a top down, action RPG, when in cyberspace it becomes a 3rd person action strategy. What makes this game so much fun is that outside of doing Johnson Runs (Fixers in Cyberpunk) you can randomly hack into the Net and get into random systems where you can collect random data and sell it or randomly hack into a bank (that you didn't know until the hack was successful) and collect money. You can also hack into closed systems when you do runs that have you enter Corpo buildings and if you choose to, hack into consoles and get into their systems.
For a Genesis/Mega Drive game, this was packed FULL of content. Shadowrun and D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun are easily my two favorite games for the Genesis that are so different from any RPG that is on that system
Great video!
You deserve more subs man, you earned one from me
This is an underrated channel