Cyberpunk 2077: What if the Heist Worked?

15:26 I don't appreciate that Shamus

A while back I was going to play Cyberpunk, even after the disaster launch, but then I found out Jackie died, and that killed any desire to play the game. I would have stomached all the bugs if 2077 was 'The adventures of Jackie and V"

Don't matter this game is bad

The heist was actually fun to play through then after the story goes down hill

Great video mate

Nice. I like your theorycrafting here. But I do want to add one more possibility. As you said, Evelyn was smart and ambitious. It's possible she had lined up another buyer for the chip. Probably wouldn't have changed much for her since the Voodoo Boys would likely have found out anyways. But in this scenario, V & crew still get paid. And the game lasts all of about 10 minutes.

I wish we could save Jackie, and Ev, both didn't get enough time in the game

Never liked Brigitte, or Dex either, them plus Bug seemed like the three jerks

At the start of this video I thought I was going to really dislike it, but… I'm glad I stuck around.

I agree with your analysis of Dexter, and of what would have happened if Evelyn had gone back to the Voodoo Boys on her own with the chip. The Voodoo Boys are seriously bad juju. I think they probably could have delivered the money that Evelyn hoped for, because there is at least the implication they can hack more or less anything; but I agree with you that it's really unlikely that they would have felt any need to pay her, since they clearly didn't see any need to pay V for getting rid of the NetWatch agent.

But, assuming the chip is in V's head, then V and Evelyn going back to the Voodoo Boys together yields two possibilities:

1. The Voodoo Boys do attempt to kill V (and perhaps Evelyn) to get the Relic, but that triggers the chip's resurrection function, and the game plays out from there more or less as it would from the end of "I Walk the Line" (except you'd have to do something different to contact Alt – and that means finding someone else with access to the Black Wall);

2. The Voodoo Boys don't attempt to kill either V or Evelyn (at least not yet), in which case you go straight into Transmission (and maybe do I Walk the Line later, or skip it altogether).

But @Levaris is right that Evelyn wasn't planning to go back to the Voodoo Boys. She was planning to go to NetWatch, who do have the money, and who also have access to the Black Wall through which you can reach Alt – but who definitely would not aid you to get through it, so there would have to be interesting new plot there. On this path, NetWatch would probably take the Voodoo Boys out.

So after The Heist (if successful) you could have a meeting with Evelyn at which you could persuade her to go to the Voodoo Boys with the Relic, or accept her plan to go to NetWatch with it. Either way you get to the Black Wall and the encounter with Alt, but on the NetWatch path you need someone other than Brigitte to get you through the Black Wall – which could be T-Bug, but she'd have to be a much better hacker, but it could also be Spider Murphy who might still be alive and still be in touch with Rogue. Murphy would be an interesting character, I think.

This gives you a lot more interesting branching in the middle of the plot without making any major changes to the final end paths, so it plausibly could be retrofitted into the game as an expansion.

I don't think the 'Relic is in Jackie's head' idea works, from a game/narrative point of view, because then the player would never see Johnny, so even if you could get Jackie through The Heist alive – and I'd really liked that, when I first played I redid The Heist three times before I realised there was no way to save him – you'd need to get the Relic into V's head.

I disagree with you about T-Bug. She's obviously not the uber-hacker that Dexter claims she is (but neither are is V the uber-merc who Dexter pretends to Evelyn that V is), but I think she's an interesting character who could have been developed further.

It would be good to be able to save Jackie, T-Bug and Evelyn. It should probably be pretty hard to manage all three, so you get a real feeling of accomplishment if you pull it off, but it would be good and I don't see that it would hurt the rest of the game that much.

There are a lot more badly underused characters in this game. Victor Vector, Lizzie Wizzie, Regina Jones (the whole 'save the cyberpsychos' thing just fades out in a completely unresolved way. It's really broken that you can't pass Rose Horrigan on to Regina's scheme, and it's frustrating that you never find out what happens to all those cyberpsychos you kept alive), loads more.

9:05 plus V is considerably wealthy by the time he reaches Placide!!! At least my V anyway.

Jackie is very reminiscent of Minsc from the original Baldur's Gate, which made me just love him as the best character other than V in the game.

Really wish Jackie had lived

Man, this video is so well done, but is so worthless in the end, because of few poorly informed assumptions.

First, why the hell do you think Evelyn was going to sell the chip back to VDBs that hired her to scroll the suite? Doesn't make any sense? She was negotiating to sell Relic to NetWatch, and those wanted it to use it in the same way VDBs did – as a lure to capture Alt Cunningham. Something you deemed to be non-relevant detail to mention. And believe me, NetWatch, being a corporation, did have those money to pay for Relic. It is evident from few Evelyn's emails with them. Initially, it was Yorinobu who negotiated to sell it to NetWatch, but Evelyn decided to beat him to it. This is also why Silverhand, of all engrams was present on the chip – because NetWatch asked for Silverhand, not for Relic itself.

Second, Jackie would never survive with a wound like that just because he had Relic in. I mean, V himself isn't immortal, despite having Relic in his head at all time. It isn't some magic resurrector, it's not how it works. Jackie simply bled out, and there was no way for Biochip to prevent that. Biochip is equipped with nanomachines, whose purpose is to reconfigure your synaptic connections of your neurons to house engram stored on the chip. Just so that you could "talk" to it, just like you talk to yourself in your soughts. Alternatively, they are able to "overwrite" your brain with engram copy completely, as was intended by "Secure you Soul" program, and what Saburo does to his son in The Devil ending. This is what basically happened, when V got shot to his/her head. Nanomachines started to repair neuron damage, but they did so by writing Silverhand's psyche over V's intact brain cells.

Third, yes, Arasaka would catch up on Dexter anyway, because he tried to leave the city via Orbital Air Space Center and booked a ticket on his name, as he talked about it in your presence (you've paid so much attention to the game, did you?). He was careless and underestimated Goro Takemura's ability to connect the dots and trace him quickly.

So best case scenario whould be to steal Relic in time, leave the Hotel before lockdown, ditch Dexter and deliver chip directly to Evelyn, lay low as Arasaka searches for thieves, while Evelyn is selling the chip to NetWatch, then get paid and retire. Yorinobu didn't even had a strong need to search for missing biochip after killing his father, so it would probably be even relatively safe to stay in NC afterwards.

The real question is, what if V didn’t take the shard and left it in Jackie. Would Jackie then reboot and the point of the story is to try and save Jackie or decide you love the rocker boy life and want Johnny to take over. Now there is a fun story.

RIP Shaun. You were one of the best!

bro what I really wanna is what would happen if General grievous was their, like think about it He would fit Right in. Or someone like say Neo was in their universe.