[STEAM] Cyberpunk 2077 has finally made me the corpo baddie of my dreams, even if this RPG makes me think hard about being selfish

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Standing in front of a cracked, bloodied mirror in the No Tell Motel, I know what comes next. My latest

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run is off to a depressing start already. V has done nothing but roll her eyes at Jackie Welles and mourn the loss of her Arasaka status since I wrapped the game's prologue. But much like ******* George, at least she looks as fabulous as she is evil.

She's cold. She's calculated. She's a corpo through and through, and I'm so in-character it's scary. But being snarky to her Valentino bestie and signing him up for literal soul prison are two different things, and as my first ever ******** Cyberpunk playthrough goes from bad to worse, I am seriously questioning everything that led me to do this to myself.

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The most important thing going into any of the

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is to have a clear character in mind to roleplay as, but that gets a little trickier with each replay. I've explored all three

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already, as well as tested out all the playstyle-dictating operating systems the game has to offer (Sandevistan forever, by the way). But there's really only one combo that screams "what a bastard" in my eyes, and that's corpo netrunner V.

Just to be clear, my first playthrough was a fem corpo V, non-******** variety. She was just a cool slick city chick who used her knowledge of Arasaka to stick it to the man and destroy it from the outside. Things panned out a little bittersweet that time, though; I never got the secret ending where you and Johnny storm the corp by yourselves, sparing your friends in the process, so I saved that for my street kid playthrough immediately after. This time, I am approaching my corpo playthrough with much firmer parameters in mind: I'm not trying to be anyone's friend. I'm trying to get my job, my title, and my life back, and I'll manipulate my way there if I have to.

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(Image credit: CD Projekt Red) But I'm getting ahead of myself. I'm still in the motel, remember? None of that has happened yet. My V hasn't even met Johnny Silverhand, and nor does she know that the chip in her head is going to be the death of them both – or maybe just one, if they're lucky. The only problem is that I didn't expect to feel so bad about my handful of choices so far already, even in the name of playing one of my favorite games in a brand new light.

As I head out to meet Dexter DeShawn and seal V's fate, I make one last promise to myself. Being an ******** doesn't mean my V needs to be a bad person – just a person who does bad things. Man, I'm sorry, Jackie. I wish I'd told you I'd see you in the major leagues.

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(and yes, I know it's not an RPG)

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