There are a few valuable lessons you can learn from Red Dead Redemption 2 as you explore its world. One of the most important is something every mother has told us for years: be careful when dealing with strangers. Rockstar Games put us to the test during the Aberdeen Pig Farm event, and let’s face it, most of us didn’t make it.
In case you don’t remember, accepting the Aberdeen’s invitation ends with our character waking up in a mass grave with no idea how he got there. Many of us later returned to shoot the couple and get our money back, but the deception is already in our history. I should have learned my lesson, but I didn’t.
I can’t get up in Cyberpunk 2077 today
The world of Red Dead Redemption 2 It may be dangerous and savage, but it’s a small thing compared to how deceitful and cruel Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City can be. Completing all the main and side quests led to dozens of misdeeds and hardships. I remember some harsh lessons, but few left me feeling as humiliated as this one.
I can’t get up today is a side quest of Cyberpunk 2077It’s absurdly short, so short that it lasted me 10 minutes. And yes, it’s clearly a reference to the Mecano song, although in terms of story they have nothing to do with each other. Or so I think. Maybe I missed some important connection.
The thing is, it just came up as a random event. I was walking along and a man named Stefan caught my eye. He was a street vendor selling Nurodanzas, which are sensory experiences based on other people’s memories. And yes, this includes erotic and violent content, as we saw in Edgerunners. I was curious.
Stefan promised me that he had the “most modified, tricked out, geeky” neuro I’d ever seen. That’s saying a lot in a city like Night City. My gut alarm bells went off after he said “This shit is too legal to be legal,” but you know how curiosity works… all it takes is a little push. I paid 16,000 Eurodollars for the neuro and 4,000 more for his player. I settled in to enjoy the show after sitting down on his couch.
“Typical. I end up trapped inside the brain of the dumbest merc in Night City,” Johnny Silverhand tells me after waking up naked in a room. “Look around and connect the dots,” he answers my question about what happened. I felt humiliated. Not because Stefan managed to pull it off, but because he did it despite having the experience of Red Dead Redemption 2I’m usually very intuitive, but I admit I didn’t see this one coming. I was expecting some kind of easter egg with a retro game.
- Note of vital importance for the plot: I always play Cyberpunk 2077 or any other RPG, I try to be myself and avoid doing stupid things like stealing, hurting or killing for free. I like to be diplomatic and solve problems quickly and elegantly.
I had no clothes on and all my money was gone, I had lost -40,725 Eurodollars to be exact. The feeling of humiliation turned into real anger when I realized that the gang of thieves was still in the building. I opened the moral barriers and went into John Wick mode.
I snapped the neck of the first one, who was graffitiing a wall. I used the Short Circuit and Reset Systems quick hacks on the two gang members who were chatting on the balcony of the flat. This last hack is not lethal, although the bastard died after I used Contagion on the next thug. He died and passed the virus on to the previous one, who turned into a corpse in a couple of seconds.
There were five more gang members in the next room. I forgot about stealth a bit to cause them some panic. First I used Short Circuit to take out the first one and let the rest see their buddy fall dead from a 2 million volt shock. They freaked out.
The next ones fell with Contagion and another Short Circuit. Fast enough that I wasn’t spotted, but slow enough to see them circling the room. The second to last one tried to leave, but suffered the same fate as the third to last one. I decided to prey on the last one for a few seconds and finally snapped its neck.
I continued through the apartment. Johnny kept giving me a hard time while I snapped his neck and short-circuited the rest of the gang members. There were five or six more. The important thing is that I didn’t leave a single one alive. I was out of the building and all that was left to do was tie up a loose end. I abandoned all subtlety and ran through the streets of Night City naked, like a thermonuclear rocket headed straight for its target.
I ran into a group of thugs on my way to meet Stefan. They wanted a fight, so I used the Contagion quickhack and finished them off with the Monowire. There were five of them and they were down in a matter of seconds. I was really pissed off about everything that had happened and I just wanted to get back to where it all started.
Stefan was on the same corner, trying to sweet-talk another moron. He made a few excuses, but it took a couple of threats to get my money back and a little more, since I stole all the gangsters’ money and left Stefan high and dry. My plan was to kill him, but Cyberpunk 2077 He only gave me two options: “I’ll let you go, this time” or “Get out of Night City and don’t come back.” I chose the latter.
“If I ever see your face again, I’ll gut you and hang you by your own boots,” V said before ending the argument with Stefan. And you might think that was the end of the adventure, but no. I followed him into an alley and shot him in the head with my revolver. I put my gun away and went back to being the negotiator I always was. But no one has ever slipped me any more in Night City.
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