This trailer reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Playtest" so it's probably more cyberpunk-adjacent than actually cyberpunk but that doesn't mean it'll be bad.
Darksynth is a sub-genre of Synthwave. And within darksynth, there's a sub-sub-genre for cyberpunk synth music. So if synth music feels cyberpunk to you, these recommendations are a good starting point....
It might be hard to tell from this crazy kinetic trailer just what the hell KILLTUBE is. Well, apparently it's a movie with a target release date of 2026. The creators are calling it "Edo-punk" and sure, why not. It still looks cyberpunk-adjacent to me....
Usually when I make these "is it cyberpunk" posts, I try to pick movies that are popular enough that I can assume most people have already seen them. I'm not sure if Summer Wars is at that level but I wanted to ask this question anyway. Because really, there's only one aspect to this movie that could be considered cyberpunk...
I might as well jump on the May the 4th bandwagon and post something Star Wars related too. Here's some test footage from 2005 for a potential Star Wars TV show called Underworld, which would've been set in the lower levels of Coruscant (you know, the cyberpunk part of the Star Wars universe)....
There's a new cyberpunk animated movie releasing today in the US... but it isn't getting a "wide" release. So maybe you'll be able to see it in theaters, maybe not.
Amazon has been trying to recommend this book to me for awhile but I've always ignored it. My main issue is the title of the book, Cyberpunk City. That's so generic the author might as well have called it "My Cyberpunk Story". And while the cover art looks great, it's also your generic "person looking out over a cyberpunk...
This song and video are perfectly cyberpunk, I've always enjoyed it. I really liked the first couple songs from Scandroid (Datastream and Salvation Code) but by the time he made an entire album he leaned too far into the 80s aesthetic and love songs for my taste so I stopped listening. It's a shame too, it's rare for a band to...
Rez Infinite is a modern remake of the game Rez, originally on Playstation 2 and Dreamcast. Rez is about a hacker breaking through firewalls in cyberspace to reach a malfunctioning AI. The gameplay involves flying your character through cyberspace and targeting multiple AI defenses at once to chain your attacks....
While it's possible this SPINE game could be good, there's no way it'll get film and TV adaptations. That seems a bit optimistic for game that isn't released yet, has no release date, and no one has heard of....
I read a lot of random cyberpunk novels from the kindle store and I'm always on the lookout for more. Cyberpunk novels are annoyingly difficult to find since the "cyberpunk" category on amazon is nothing but LitRPG, but that's a different rant altogether....
This was mentioned in our discussion of bad cyberpunk movies but I wanted to bring it to a wider audience. Do you consider the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie to be cyberpunk?...
Samurai Jack was a great show, there's no question about that. But when I watched the first episode and he arrived in that cyberpunk city, I was really excited. A samurai from the past exploring a cyberpunk future? That sounds amazing....
For me, the hard part is how many silly episodes there are. When I think about the series, I think about the amazing action sequences and villains. But when I actually look at a list of episodes, I just skip past a lot of them. The "Jack needs new shoes" episode, the "Jack loses his clothes" episode, the "Jack gets turned into a chicken" episode. There's a lot of weird episodes in the series. When it's good, the show is very good. But not every episode is good in my opinion.
God Complex (2017) is a great comic. My only complaint is it was cancelled after 6 issues. But at least they've released the whole thing as a single volume to make it easy to read....
A couple months ago, it was rumored that Robert Pattinson might play Case in Apple TV+'s Neuromancer. It looks like that rumor fell through because it's now official, Callum Turner will play Case. I'll be honest with you, I have no idea who this guy is. But an official announcement about Neuromancer means this project is...
I can't find the quote now so I'm sure I'm going to butcher this, but i remember seeing some interview with Gibson where he said computer nerds at the time were all laughing at him because the sheer scale of networking speeds he was talking about (up to hundreds of baud!) were physically impossible. Of course, his total ignorance of computers ended up being more accurate than what nerds at the time thought was possible.
Anno: Mutationem is a weird game. First of all, it looks amazing. They totally captured the cyberpunk aesthetic. But in my opinion, the gameplay is just 'ok'. It isn't bad by any means, it's just generic....
I had 10.7 hours of gameplay and HowLongToBeat says the average is ~11 hours for people who don't spend much time in the side quests, so that seems about right.
I've been thinking about Gamer for a while and I've been hesitant to post about it because it really is a bad movie. But I also think it firmly falls into the cyberpunk category. So here we are....
I'll admit as a kid I never watched Phantom 2040 mostly due to his boring purple outfit. If he had a cooler costume I probably would've watched it because otherwise it's crime fighting in a cyberpunk city, which I'm a fan of....
What are your favorite old-school cyberpunk video games? I’m not convinced there’s anything worth playing from the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 era, but maybe the NES/SNES/N64/PS1 eras had some good cyberpunk games?...
Snatcher is a fantastic choice for a retro cyberpunk game! I'm not going to judge what your favorite retro cyberpunk game is, I only mentioned action-oriented games to try to get people thinking.
Also, I'm more likely to try a game I've never heard of if it's action since point & click adventure games usually demand more dedicated time. You can't just pick up a point & click game and play for 10min to see if you like it.
I know there probably aren't too many metalheads here, and music posts in general never do all that well on this community, but I'm going to post this anyway!...
I don't typically browse kickstarter looking for cyberpunk content but the Almighty Internet Algorithm shoved this video in my face and I gotta admit, it is cyberpunk....
All of Philip K. Dick's writings pre-date cyberpunk as a genre but were very influential in the creation of cyberpunk. So he represents a proto-cyberpunk period in time. Also, most of his books are about drug use and questioning reality....
I understand this novel is practically a diary, but that doesn't mean it has to be a good movie.
I've read a lot of PKD's books and while i won't stop anyone from enjoying them, I personally felt like he had great ideas/worlds but struggled with telling a story in that world. So I'm not confusing the films made from his work with the actual work, I'm specifically only referring to the films. I think when films use his novels as a template for world-building, it turns out great. But attempting to accurately portray his novels on film tends to fall flat.
It's perfectly fine if you to disagree with me, but I wasn't making any comment about the novels or his writing style. I was only making broad generalizations of the film adaptations.
To be fair, this includes all novels and video games too. As far as animation, I see it as: the two movies, Stand Alone Complex anime, Arise anime, and SAC_2045 anime. It isn't too overwhelming in my opinion. Although, Stand Alone Complex is like 52 episodes, which is longer than most anime I watch.
Also, Stand Alone Complex and SAC_2045 both had their episodes pared down into compilation movies (which is what the arrows represent). So you could get through those even faster if you wanted.
It's more GitS, which is always a good thing. With the new character models you can tell this is a new continuity and to not worry about trying to align into earlier stories/plotlines, even though everything is still similar. This is kind of telling the story of how Major joined Section 9, but things are different enough that you wouldn't call it a prequel series.
Arise is probably the easiest to get through because it's only four 50-minute OVAs. Then they re-cut those 4 OVAs into eight 30-min episodes and called the series 'Arise – Alternative Architecture'. Of course, just to complicate things, Alternative Architecture got another "OVA" as the final two 30-min episodes called Pyrophoric Cult. So you could consider the entire series to be 5 OVAs. Oh, and I guess Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie is also part of this continuity. So 5 OVAs and a movie.
You can watch the entire series on Crunchyroll. Note that Crunchyroll shows "season 1" as being all the OVAs, "season 2" is the re-cut OVAs into episodes (Alternative Architecture), and "season 4" is The New Movie. I have no idea why Crunchyroll didn't call that "season 3"...
When making recommendations, I typically try to ensure something is "cyberpunk" rather than ensuring it's "good". After all, this community is for "cyberpunk" content, not "my random list of recommendations"....
I know posting cyberpunk artwork is the quickest way to get those precious upvotes, but I don't like posting random art for no reason. I'd rather find an actual artist's work that happens to be cyberpunk than some AI-generated thing or someone who spent an hour learning Blender and posted the results. Of course, sometimes it's...
There's this movie called Reminiscence that takes place after the ice caps have melted. The world-building is phenomenal as everything is just slightly flooded and all the streets have basically become canals. But the story they decided to tell in this world was so boring I can't remember any of the details. I just remember loving watching Hugh Jackman's character move about the city.
Also, to re-iterate a previous rant, I think Elysium is a great cyberpunk movie which uses the current cultural fears of climate change, wealth gap, and access to healthcare as the backdrop for the story.
It is interesting though how in the 80s we thought the world would be covered in clouds/pollution/smog and we'd never see the sun. Yet it's more likely we'll make the world so hot and dry that it'll become more of a desert wasteland than a dark and gloomy rain-filled world.
The futuristic city with flying cars at the beginning of the movie definitely has all the cyberpunk visuals, and technically Zorg is the head of an evil corporation. But the real villain of the movie is incoming force of evil/darkness. And the plot is resolved through the power of love. Even the President of Earth is actively...
Very true. Just like there's high fantasy vs low fantasy, there's almost a "cyberpunk by aesthetic" and "cyberpunk by themes" distinction in cyberpunk.
Megazone 23 is a 3-part OVA (each episode being over an hour) made in 1985-89. I've seen it included in cyberpunk anime lists as being a classic 80s cyberpunk, along with Cyber City Oedo 808. But I don't see it. I guess it's somewhat cyberpunk, but nothing compared to Cyber City Oedo 808....
Megazone 23 was conceived as a 12-episode television series set to air on Fuji TV, but it was changed to a direct-to-video project after the sponsors withdrew their support mid-production. According to Noboru Ishiguro, the end result was a "compilation movie" of already produced episodes.
That might explain why so many plot threads are randomly dropped and ignored.
24 years later, Warren Spector offers more details about Deus Ex's cut 'Denver airport conspiracy' mission that was 'so crazy no one would believe it' ( www.pcgamer.com )
Latency trailer - horror movie about virtual reality ( www.youtube.com )
This trailer reminds me of the Black Mirror episode "Playtest" so it's probably more cyberpunk-adjacent than actually cyberpunk but that doesn't mean it'll be bad.
Michelle Yeoh To Star In ‘Blade Runner 2099’ Sequel Series For Prime Video ( deadline.com )
[Music] Darksynth recommendation guide ( lemmy.zip )
Darksynth is a sub-genre of Synthwave. And within darksynth, there's a sub-sub-genre for cyberpunk synth music. So if synth music feels cyberpunk to you, these recommendations are a good starting point....
KILLTUBE trailer ( www.youtube.com )
It might be hard to tell from this crazy kinetic trailer just what the hell KILLTUBE is. Well, apparently it's a movie with a target release date of 2026. The creators are calling it "Edo-punk" and sure, why not. It still looks cyberpunk-adjacent to me....
Do you consider Summer Wars to be cyberpunk? ( lemmy.zip )
Usually when I make these "is it cyberpunk" posts, I try to pick movies that are popular enough that I can assume most people have already seen them. I'm not sure if Summer Wars is at that level but I wanted to ask this question anyway. Because really, there's only one aspect to this movie that could be considered cyberpunk...
[Video] "Star Wars: Underworld" test footage + Making Of (cancelled cyberpunk Star Wars TV show) ( www.youtube.com )
I might as well jump on the May the 4th bandwagon and post something Star Wars related too. Here's some test footage from 2005 for a potential Star Wars TV show called Underworld, which would've been set in the lower levels of Coruscant (you know, the cyberpunk part of the Star Wars universe)....
Mars Express trailer (out now in select US theaters) ( www.youtube.com )
There's a new cyberpunk animated movie releasing today in the US... but it isn't getting a "wide" release. So maybe you'll be able to see it in theaters, maybe not.
[Book] Cyberpunk City: The Machine Killer ( lemmy.zip )
Amazon has been trying to recommend this book to me for awhile but I've always ignored it. My main issue is the title of the book, Cyberpunk City. That's so generic the author might as well have called it "My Cyberpunk Story". And while the cover art looks great, it's also your generic "person looking out over a cyberpunk...
Keylocker - Official Announcement Trailer | ID@Xbox April 2024 ( www.youtube.com )
[Video] Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages ( www.youtube.com )
[Music] Scandroid - Empty Streets ( www.youtube.com )
This song and video are perfectly cyberpunk, I've always enjoyed it. I really liked the first couple songs from Scandroid (Datastream and Salvation Code) but by the time he made an entire album he leaned too far into the 80s aesthetic and love songs for my taste so I stopped listening. It's a shame too, it's rare for a band to...
[Game] Rez Infinite - cruising through cyberspace ( lemmy.zip )
Rez Infinite is a modern remake of the game Rez, originally on Playstation 2 and Dreamcast. Rez is about a hacker breaking through firewalls in cyberspace to reach a malfunctioning AI. The gameplay involves flying your character through cyberspace and targeting multiple AI defenses at once to chain your attacks....
The Upcoming Cyberpunk Gun Fu Video Game SPINE Is Also Getting Film and TV Adaptations ( geektyrant.com )
While it's possible this SPINE game could be good, there's no way it'll get film and TV adaptations. That seems a bit optimistic for game that isn't released yet, has no release date, and no one has heard of....
[Book] Cyberpunk novels with trans characters ( lemmy.zip )
I read a lot of random cyberpunk novels from the kindle store and I'm always on the lookout for more. Cyberpunk novels are annoyingly difficult to find since the "cyberpunk" category on amazon is nothing but LitRPG, but that's a different rant altogether....
Do you consider Super Mario Bros (1993) to be cyberpunk? ( lemmy.zip )
This was mentioned in our discussion of bad cyberpunk movies but I wanted to bring it to a wider audience. Do you consider the 1993 Super Mario Bros movie to be cyberpunk?...
[TV] Samurai Jack - I wish he'd spent more time in the cyberpunk city ( lemmy.zip )
Samurai Jack was a great show, there's no question about that. But when I watched the first episode and he arrived in that cyberpunk city, I was really excited. A samurai from the past exploring a cyberpunk future? That sounds amazing....
[Comic] God Complex - Greek Gods accessing cyberspace ( lemmy.zip )
God Complex (2017) is a great comic. My only complaint is it was cancelled after 6 issues. But at least they've released the whole thing as a single volume to make it easy to read....
[Art] From ER to VR ( lemmy.ml )
Callum Turner to Star in ‘Neuromancer’ Series at Apple TV+ ( variety.com )
A couple months ago, it was rumored that Robert Pattinson might play Case in Apple TV+'s Neuromancer. It looks like that rumor fell through because it's now official, Callum Turner will play Case. I'll be honest with you, I have no idea who this guy is. But an official announcement about Neuromancer means this project is...
[Game] Anno Mutationem - drenched in cyberpunk aesthetic, ok gameplay ( lemmy.zip )
Anno: Mutationem is a weird game. First of all, it looks amazing. They totally captured the cyberpunk aesthetic. But in my opinion, the gameplay is just 'ok'. It isn't bad by any means, it's just generic....
[Movie] Gamer - not exactly "subtle" social commentary ( lemmy.zip )
I've been thinking about Gamer for a while and I've been hesitant to post about it because it really is a bad movie. But I also think it firmly falls into the cyberpunk category. So here we are....
[TV] Phantom 2040 - have any of you watched this? ( lemmy.zip )
I'll admit as a kid I never watched Phantom 2040 mostly due to his boring purple outfit. If he had a cooler costume I probably would've watched it because otherwise it's crime fighting in a cyberpunk city, which I'm a fan of....
What are the best *retro* cyberpunk video games (20+ years old)? ( lemmy.zip )
What are your favorite old-school cyberpunk video games? I’m not convinced there’s anything worth playing from the ZX Spectrum/Commodore 64 era, but maybe the NES/SNES/N64/PS1 eras had some good cyberpunk games?...
[Music] Burton C Bell - Anti-Droid (ex-Fear Factory singer) ( www.youtube.com )
I know there probably aren't too many metalheads here, and music posts in general never do all that well on this community, but I'm going to post this anyway!...
[Game] Moon Samurai - Official Kickstarter Trailer ( www.youtube.com )
I don't typically browse kickstarter looking for cyberpunk content but the Almighty Internet Algorithm shoved this video in my face and I gotta admit, it is cyberpunk....
[Movie] A Scanner Darkly - proto-cyberpunk, maybe? ( lemmy.zip )
All of Philip K. Dick's writings pre-date cyberpunk as a genre but were very influential in the creation of cyberpunk. So he represents a proto-cyberpunk period in time. Also, most of his books are about drug use and questioning reality....
[Art] Ghost in the Shell timelines/continuities ( lemmy.zip )
I have no idea who made this but I found it on reddit and decided to share. Here's the full-size image for those who want to zoom in....
[Anime] Redline - cyberpunk-adjacent anime movie ( lemmy.zip )
When making recommendations, I typically try to ensure something is "cyberpunk" rather than ensuring it's "good". After all, this community is for "cyberpunk" content, not "my random list of recommendations"....
What are songs about the music industry that you like?
[Art] Cyberpunk City by Artur Sadlos ( lemmy.zip )
I know posting cyberpunk artwork is the quickest way to get those precious upvotes, but I don't like posting random art for no reason. I'd rather find an actual artist's work that happens to be cyberpunk than some AI-generated thing or someone who spent an hour learning Blender and posted the results. Of course, sometimes it's...
What do dystopias look like in 2024?
What's the next wave of dystopia in popular culture?...
Do you consider The Fifth Element to be cyberpunk? ( lemmy.zip )
The futuristic city with flying cars at the beginning of the movie definitely has all the cyberpunk visuals, and technically Zorg is the head of an evil corporation. But the real villain of the movie is incoming force of evil/darkness. And the plot is resolved through the power of love. Even the President of Earth is actively...
[Anime] Megazone 23 - I'm not sure about this one... ( lemmy.zip )
Megazone 23 is a 3-part OVA (each episode being over an hour) made in 1985-89. I've seen it included in cyberpunk anime lists as being a classic 80s cyberpunk, along with Cyber City Oedo 808. But I don't see it. I guess it's somewhat cyberpunk, but nothing compared to Cyber City Oedo 808....