Why Night City's Founder's Vision of Utopia Failed
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Richard Night had a vision of Utopia instead he created a dystopian nightmare we explain what went wrong.
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Richard Night = Walt Disney. Don't believe me? Back in the 60's Walt Disney tried to build his own Utopian city, that would be corporately owned and governed, would be built using state of the art technology and materials would have been a center for commerce and scientific research. Basically, the EPCOT Center at Disney World, is the last remnant of Walt Disney's attempt to build a city and had he not been foiled by California legislature who objected to the legal and ethical ramification of a private corporation governing a city, it would have been eerily similar to Night City, in concept if not in execution.
@elperrodelautumo7511
3 жыл бұрын
weldonwin are you glad that California legislature prevented Walt Disney from creating Night City.
@weldonwin
3 жыл бұрын
@@elperrodelautumo7511 Walt Disney wasn't the first to create a corporately owned Company Town, Henry Ford had a town in South America to house the workers for a rubber plantation that he ran as his own personal fiefdom, but no one had tried to create one on this scale and not in the mainland United States. In some ways, Disney's EPCOT project was incredible and was an amazing exercise in city planning, but in others it was kinda scary, with restrictions placed on who could and couldn't live there, all leisure activities being regulated by city authorities (Which are corporately controlled remember) and likewise all children's education would be run by the Disney corporation and there would have been strict controls on moral conduct. Walt Disney's city would probably been less like Night City and more like San Angeles from Demolition Man.
@elperrodelautumo7511
3 жыл бұрын
@@weldonwin so to live in a crime ridden dystopia or a politically correct dystopia? What’s safer? Neither because you’re dictated either way.
@weldonwin
3 жыл бұрын
@@elperrodelautumo7511 "Be well and have a Joy-Joy Day... OR ELSE!"
@drakevaliance3536
3 жыл бұрын
You are wrong. He built in Florida first my guy. Disregard google, the truth is Florida was first as it was cheaper and more amenable to his plans.
Wonder how many people still think Night City is named after the time of day
Richard Night vs Andrew Ryan on Celebrity Deathmatch
@weldonwin
3 жыл бұрын
Andrew Ryan comes out swinging with a Golf Putter
@Bruced82
3 жыл бұрын
Cybernetics vs plasmids.
@republiccommando6104
3 жыл бұрын
Cyberpsychos vs Splicers
@weldonwin
3 жыл бұрын
@@republiccommando6104 Gawddam Sploicers VS Gangoons
I love how Alan doesn't edit his mistakes.... He just leaves them in.
Should have called it day city if he wanted a nice city
@gergelyfulop2406
3 жыл бұрын
Why not Nice City?
@AhmadWahelsa
3 жыл бұрын
Nice
@pendragon0905
3 жыл бұрын
San Angeles 👼
@poTato_777
3 жыл бұрын
Bukake city
@mubassirzaman7202
2 жыл бұрын
Too canadian
His name was Richard knight and he wanted to ask us a question, who owns the sweat of your brow
@skarlock5257
3 жыл бұрын
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No!' says the man in the NUSA, 'It belongs to the government.'
this game is the future of the US is heading into. Corporations doing the job of the government, what could go wrong?
@baconboi4482
3 жыл бұрын
Idk about that, the government can just do what it wants on a whim right now. Many just just like the corps
@RealengoPrimordialDemon
3 жыл бұрын
@@baconboi4482 if you think a company doing the job of the government is in any way better then you should move to one of those countries, look what's happening to Chile or Russia.
@puffpuffpass3214
3 жыл бұрын
@@baconboi4482 the government is a Corp now ;)
I love the video game, bugs and all
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
Buy some taste. Cyberbunk 2076 is testicular cancer.
@GeekyMagpie
3 жыл бұрын
@@realhamonwry8620 wow FFS let people enjoy what they like
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
@@GeekyMagpie - By the looks of it, Junior, it appears as though you enjoy soft cheese. Donk.
@GeekyMagpie
3 жыл бұрын
@@realhamonwry8620 I'm confused you're calling me junior while acting like a fucking 12 year old
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
@@GeekyMagpie - 'Cos your hairline looks like a Junior Whopper that's been picked over and discarded by a Gremlin. Donk.
“Whenever humans are involved, you can never get 100% perfection.” Umm, can someone check if Alan’s been replaced with a synthezoid?
Love the cyberpunk videos dude! Keep up the great work
A utopia would have at least 30fps
So, after the corporations abandoned the city to it's own demise and it fell they thought of moving in to clean the mess? So, if they had done something about sooner the city would not have collapsed.
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
So this is why Mom kept telling me to clean my room...
Loving these CyberPunk vids, keep it up!
Can you do a lore video on cybernetics in cyberpunk?
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
*This.*
*An extraordinary person wants to create something amazing for the betterment of mankind* Talentless masses: How Many Times Do We Have to Teach You This Lesson, Old Man?
@CBRN-115
3 жыл бұрын
"Reject populism, embrace elitism"
@Bidmartinlo
3 жыл бұрын
I'd say "The stupid masses", because they all have a talent: Being so dumb that it makes others even dumber.
@ThePowerthatbeMe
3 жыл бұрын
There lies no great man on earth, but a devoted collective.
@nobleman9393
3 жыл бұрын
@@Bidmartinlo Stupidity isn't a Talent
@PKM1010
3 жыл бұрын
Well, it was literally just a "don't tread on me guy". Letting companies do whatever they want lead to Nestle orchestrating a plan to make mothers depend on their baby food, by giving them large enough samples to be able to stop them producing breast milk, leading to dead babies if they don't keep buying their formula afterwards. This being poor African nations, many of them could not afford more, resulting in their babies dying. I understand if you critisize a specific regulation and a discussion can be had about it, but when someone tells you all of them are bad, then well, they aren't doing that to make your life better, but their own.
You can create your own utopia all you want. Your utopia will be massively myopic and only include your own vision. The issue is when you're preventing others from creating their own utopias.
The only major issue I have with cyberpunk 2077 is that, having lived within 15 minutes of Morro Bay for most of my life, Joshua trees don't grow on the west side of the Sierra Madres and wouldn't be in the badlands outside the city.
@luxborealis
3 жыл бұрын
There also isn’t a desert there, in case you have forgotten. California climate in Cyberpunk is messed up.
@literalsarcasm1830
3 жыл бұрын
@@luxborealis climate change doesn't cause plants that don't exist in a certain locale to just spontaneously appear there. Especially when that locale is hundred of miles away across 2 mountain ranges.
It's still nicer than the *CHAZ...*
@elperrodelautumo7511
3 жыл бұрын
Nagger Night City > CHAZ
Maybe because he doesn't aim to utopia in our represent... Maybe he want place where - mayhem, criminal activity, illegal things to be just usual things?
But can we get a video on Mr. Blue Eyes. I legit didnt sleep last night playing the Parelez quest in every way i could figure out. That questline is honestly probably the best ive ever seen in videogames
@InsomniacTC
3 жыл бұрын
@Stella Hohenheim I try. What can i say?
On the cyberpunk 2077 website it calls out that night city was built in Coronado bay. So night city is built where San Diego stands.
@slavicfixer8438
2 жыл бұрын
Nope, name was "borrowed" or took inspiration and that's all. Real life place is Morro Bay and Los Osos.
Night City just repeats Rapture failure. Richard Knight is just a cyberpunk version of Andrew Ryan!!
@puffpuffpass3214
3 жыл бұрын
Fuck I love video games
They really making a ben shapiro cyber punk character for this thumbnail
@elperrodelautumo7511
3 жыл бұрын
You mean an alternative timeline Ben Shapiro. Yes. The corporate cyberpunk timeline is an alternative where maybe the business plot of 1933 succeeded and made the corporations so deregulated that they already become powerful as the nations if not greater than these first world nations. So yeah it makes sense that technological and commercial innovation is more advanced there than in our real world.
Disney World was originally based on a similar corporate super utopia concept.
Isn't 100% perfection a bit redundant. Perfection is the apex of something so it would 100% or max value.
Never fade away
I already loved your star wars videos. But now it's cyberpunk time let's go
Maybe if it wasnt based off of the concept of coporations running the city/cities which littrally only gaf about money then it could have been a utopia.
Andrew Ryan: First time?
Video Idea: Do best Punks series!
how the hell does anyone in the 1990s economic turmoil outlined in your previous video get enough resources together to build an entire city of this size? you're telling me the architecture in 2077 is nearly 90 years old?
@poTato_777
3 жыл бұрын
He didnt corpos did
Its basically gta after you enter too many cheats 😂😂
Been playing as a nomad I tried some of streetkid but had problems not long after meeting pamam but with nomad I have a lot less problems most was just funny as hell
Night City needs some Judge Dredd...Oh wait that's us.
@exploatores
3 жыл бұрын
most things would be solved by a few CCT and a AH-64 wing. maybe a few A-10. if nothingelse works B-52
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
*WE ARE THE LAW!*
@dariustiapula
3 жыл бұрын
@Stella Hohenheim Every lives matter. Except scavs, I exterminate their filthy lives whenever we cross paths.
@exploatores
3 жыл бұрын
@Stella Hohenheim for what is that a argument. Most pepole don´t matter they live and die with out puting a mark on history.
@flowgangsemaudamartoz7062
3 жыл бұрын
@@exploatores All people do, if you pull the timeline long enough. Try again.
Hey I think.....CD project Red make a huge mistake ik terms of romance options, I wish it was like mass effect where you can choose anyone to be your romance partner
@doppelkammertoaster
3 жыл бұрын
I think the opposite. NPCs in Bioware usually revolve around the player which makes them gamy and non realistic as characters go. I prefer the idea of not everyone wanting you, it is realistic and makes the game better in terms of immersion. That Night City does not revolve around the player is one of the biggest plus points in my head.
@weldonwin
3 жыл бұрын
Not everyone in Mass Effect was bisexual, there were exclusively hetero or homosexual characters, especially in Mass Effect three
@doppelkammertoaster
3 жыл бұрын
@@weldonwin true, Inquisition also was more restrictive and the chars reacted to what you did but it was still easy to cheese and they all lead to some sexy time and ended there.
Crap, I was born in the dark ages
How Marvel 2099 cyberpunk future can work as a adaptation there many versions of it. I want to go with Robert Kirkman’s Marvel 2099
Hope they do a patch to give us third person, but I doubt it
would have been cool if you could visit morro rock, a real landmark to tie in the world
The glitches as if Cyberpunk exists in matrix, we can see it as if its not normal however for the NPC it's normal for them
No wonder
You'll beat it before me then I keep getting distracted by side missions
@Bruced82
3 жыл бұрын
Some of the best content of the game is in the side missions, people who just do main quests miss out big time.
I wonder if there can be a video on Africa in the Cyberpunk universe
Oh I thought you were reviewing the game I didn’t even read the title
Saw the thumbnail and thought Amos
He died on my birthday same year and everything lol even tho it’s fake I’m still shook
Wait doesn't the costal highway run though Camp Pendleton, or is Night City built on or near San Clemente or Oceanside
@beairmann
3 жыл бұрын
There are two major coastal highways in california, the 101 and the 1, and the 1 runs near morro bay and goes north to big sur and south to Santa Barbara. I go to morro bay often lol
@beairmann
3 жыл бұрын
The 1 will eventually intersect with the 101, but the 1 runs along most of the central california coast
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
I dunno, but there'll be a cop there and he'll give you a ticket. Welcome to California!
The game corruption is a metaphor the more copies you make the further from the original you get or something duh! This game isn’t perfect but we’re not perfect life isn’t
do you guys think the save your soul project kills you like the star trek transporter? im pointing at the tail of two rikers ep.
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
I dunno. Watching "Star Trek" depletes testosterone levels, though.
@Bruced82
3 жыл бұрын
The way it's normally set up, it makes a copy of your psyche and then kills the original, to avoid making it possible to make additional copies. The whole thing is messed up, since the engrams become property of Arasaka, they can delete them at any time.
Hmm, did Bioshock ripoff Cyberpunk?
Sounds like parts of current day Chicago
Yooooooo I’ve been to morrow bat
Hello there
@addisonchow9798
3 жыл бұрын
*GENERAL KENOBI!*
The Beast Mothership from Homeworld Cataclysm.
Bugs and crashes are basically standard with games at this point sad as that is. So taking that into account I've been enjoying the game
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
No, the fuck they're not "standard." Stop is the perpetuating this vacant stupidity as a fact.
1 hour late 😓
Andrew Ryan tried
"Always be careful of people who promise utopias." great advice for today's youth who have become fascinated with failed economic ideologies like socialism and communism.
Idk if this is a bit of recency bias but having just finished cyberpunk with 98 hours and I gotta say it’s in my top 5 games all time for sure
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
Buy some taste.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a damn good game once you get over the bugs
@realhamonwry8620
3 жыл бұрын
The game is testicular cancer and an insult to anyone with a functional frontal lobe. Cyberpunk 2077 is a game that lowers your IQ one standard deviation upon cross-examination.
@Bruced82
3 жыл бұрын
I like the game a lot when it shines, but it's clear it's more than just bugs that went wong, too much cut content and story/mechanic changes.
Y’all should do the history of Panam from the hunger games
666 like and 6 dislike.........................................damn
Lmao Facebook, Google, Microsoft are all making their own cities
37th
Utopia means no where literally. Look into the book Utopia, original title is stupid long. It talks of a society that the author believes would be impossible that is why it's called Utopia. A nice ideal world that is ultimately impossible due to human nature.
How to make a *False Utopia* like Psycho-Pass. Tv tropes considered it as Post-Cyberpunk
@foxhound963
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting.
i wonder if this is how an actual capitalist system would work. you know, one that wasn't designed by people who don't know economics, power balancing, or bug-fixing enough to save the most hyped game of the year from scrutiny. no offense, as the game is awesome, and i would love to play it at some point, but you can literally make resources out of thin air, so of course corporations will end up getting impossible amounts of money and power without the need to grovel at their consumer's feet, which is exactly what capitalism requires and, according to both theory and practice, exactly what it results in. expecting people who believe in socialism to fairly represent capitalism is a sure fire way to get disappointed, we can enjoy the game, but don't take everything it says seriously, especially on philosophy.
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
Capitalism is better than socialism because capitalism actually provides goods and services according to supply and demand. Socialism always fails because it's distribution of goods and services is according to bureaucracy.
@davidlewis6728
3 жыл бұрын
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 i appreciate the comment, but i guess you are just preaching to part of the choir.
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
@@davidlewis6728, just backing you up. Give it some time and some Kool-Aid drinking commie who's capable of comprehending your comment will complain about capitalism and corporate greed and never stop to wonder why communism isn't portrayed in the media as the ultimate evil it is. At this point the brainwashed li'l comrades are self censoring, they don't need Facebook, KZread or the CCP to do it for them anymore.
@davidlewis6728
3 жыл бұрын
@@warpartyattheoutpost4987 i guess. thank you then.
Utopia is Dystopia.
So you don't support Utopia. You fixin to be banned by Twitter. Lol
Games too EASY, it needs balancing and the stories, quests need patching and the content that was cut needs to be finished. I'm not playing until it's done. I got a free copy as a gift 2 days after it came out. I have the super human ability to not play a unfinished game or pre order. If only other players had the intelligence to do the same, then we wouldn't have so many beta games released as gold finished messes. Money talks. So if you bought it you have no one to blame but yourself.
Or in short terms, Richard Night was a "modern" day republican :D
@warpartyattheoutpost4987
3 жыл бұрын
That could explain why Night City is nicer than the CHAZ and why there's a lack of homeless camps like in Democrat run San Francisco and L.A. ... I'm a registered Independent but I was down there last year and I just gotta call it like I see it.
@AwankO
3 жыл бұрын
Maybe don't bring politics into such videos? 👀. Richard Night was too optimistic and tired of the same tired bs by government.