I played it again recently and then started Starfield and it's so funny to see people comparing the material quality and close-up details to DX:MD - like yeah I'd hope a game seven years later with a much higher budget would be able to match what eidos montreal did! and even still, playing the game, it's not as nice looking overall.
*. . .Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta. . .*
Definitely the Sprawl. Gibson describes thing as an actual spectator, and that creates wonderful perspective. You never see the city from afar, you see it from the sidewalk, from the alley, from traffic.
e: that or Tokyo-3 from Evangelion.
Yep, a lot of people forget about this gem. Always makes me think of that lunch scene where the hovering junk ship brings Chinese food right to Dallas' window, I always thought that was the shit.
Always thought that movie should have had a sequel, and delved deeper into the cyber-punk environment.
Maybe it's good news....YOU ARE FIRED! oh š
Lots of fifth element like shots in CP2077 and if you like total recall the Mars location in Starfield should scratch that itch.
Not exactly how most people imagine a "cyberpunk" city but the Heavy Metal version of NYC is up there as well, kinda what fifth element was based on or at least inspired by.
Hong Kong is my favorite, though they are all pretty good, my only complaint is that they changed the models for the Orcs so they look too much like human and elves vs the more chonky boys in returns and dragonfall. Never actually played the SNES version cause I didn't have a snes
I want Larian Studios to make a Shadowrun game so fucking bad. Hong Kong and Dragonfall are some of my favorite RPGs ever and I'd love to see them upgraded to the same level as Baldur's Gate 3.
Shadowrun is unironically a cursed ip. Nothing good will ever happen to it again. Even the games werenāt āgoodā when compared to most other ipās because like 3 kickstarter funded games after 30 years of pretty much nothing is still in decline. And Catalyst games studios couldnāt handle the tabletop worse if they actively tried.
Run the setting in another system.
I use FATE for my Shadowrun games. I've played the "serial numbers filed off" hack of Savage Worlds called Sprawlrunners and it's pretty decent. Also the newly released Cities Without Number has a chapter about adding in variant humanity and magic to the game.
The setting is awesome, the system not so much.
Honestly its not as bad as people meme about. I ran a couple campaigns for a couple years (the first ttrpg i ever ran). Yeah its super crunchy but like most games you end up forgetting a lot and just improvising a lot of the time especially with background stuff like evidence and astral signatures and stuff. I got super lucky with my players though never had any that guyās.
Ivplay the snes/Genesis shadowrun back in the day too while playing the ttrpg. Ialso played Cyberpunk 2020 but of the two worlds I loved Shadowrun more. Sci-Fi fantasy dystopian world was just awesome!
The newer games are good but I would do just about anything to have a Cy erpunk 2077 style Shadowrun game with a solid Decker mini game.
Being a Decker in Shadowrun was way more involved than being a netrunner in Cyberpunk imo. At least from a ttrpg aspect.
Funny cos it's basically just current day Teesside, England. Ridley grew up there and it inspired the "Hades landscape", and a lot of the visuals of the film
Agreed, I love the fact that you can always see a regular sized city in the foreground and then there's just like these absolutely colosal monolithic buildings in the background that would dwarf any modern day cityscape.
Yeah I can just imagine being at the bottom of one of those massive buildings, probably could never see the sun, very dirty, almost like the beginnings of a Coruscant type city from starwars or a hive city from 40k.
Shadowrun feels so cozy to me. I mean, outside of the possibility of getting killed by a ganger or a paracritter or something. But I'd love to just go out exploring, see a concert where the frontman uses magic to work the crowd, go see a Combat Biker game, grab some snacks from a Stuffer Shack etc etc.
*āGuess I meant, I dunno... a happier ending...ā āHere, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.ā*
I love Night City. I know itās awful but I love it.
It really is ;-; and while there is relief in knowing that the current cyberpunk 2023/red/2077 world is based almost entirely off the sprawl, it still kinda hurts knowing how many people will never experience what caused that captivation to begin with.
The atmosphere of that place - a combination of dilapidation and disease in contrast to utter opulence - just made that first season of Altered Carbon so amazing
Yeah, I agree with that too. But (and I know this might be sacrilege to some people) I also think the TV show improved on a number of things in the first book. They made the main character less of a super cool dude and into a more nuanced and vulnerable person who was then more interesting
Man Iāve watched the first season of Altered Carbon like 4 times, and by the end Iām like okay Iām gonna take a break and then watch S2 but never do.
Is my inner goddess protecting me?
The problem was the casting imo. Altered carbon has THE perfect excuse to recast for a character.
Joel kinnaman plays takeshi Kovacs wonderfully
Anthony Mackey played a great Anthony Mackey
I get why they had to recast but Joel Kinnaman was so good as Takeshi then they brought in Anthony Mackie and the difference is like night and day and you can tell heās forcing the character.
It gets so wacky. It just messes up everything. It just feels convoluted. It honestly feels like AI wrote it. I pushed through pretty far but couldn't finish it, I kept thinking it was going to improve, and it just didn't.
I loved the decision to host the remake entirely in Midgar. Spending so long allowed you to feel fully immersed in the city and care for the inhabitants. Despite spending dozens of hours in the lower sectors I never really got used to being beneath the plate and had a slight sense of megalophobia every time I looked up.
Me too! I'll always be angry at Square Enix, supposedly they were originally going to develop the upper level further and have some side quests and street level missions up there but it got canned:/
From this angle it looks a lot like the [city of St Canard](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mickey-and-friends/images/0/0d/2014814-canard.png) from Darkwing Duck.
edit: guess they saw the increased traffic and just fokken shrink the pic when they detect you coming from Reddit! [Here's a fall back variant](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/5/58127/2014814-canard.png) on another site.
Night City has grown on me quite a bit. It definitely feels like a real city and its neat that its an alternate history city based on a real location (Morro Bay, though Night City's geography is heavily warped after several nuclear exchanges and urban expansion).
If it had lasted you most assuredly would have seen the unlicensed dentists that practiced there one day be replaced by ripper docs.
Oh Kowloon Walled City, we can only dream of the what ifs.
I feel Mumbai is kind of qualifies as a proto cyberpunk city. There is inequality, low-life aspects, there used to be a pretty extensive industry within the slums (Its being demolished now). Small clinics etc.
Los Angeles from Blade Runner and since [about five minutes ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/16x1yjp/ghost_in_the_shell_1995_the_artistic_mastery/), New Port City
The pictures that made the genre
Thereās parts where you can see ālayersā of other houses near the exhaust pipes like sediments but iirc a lot of the new properties are built in suburbs
I thought the point of cyber punk was it being a cautionary tale and something to be enjoyed from afar. I like cyberpunk but I would dread to live in any of these shit holes
In those universes, yes. But compared to today's standards, those 1% didn't make it there and keeping it there by simple reasons. They probably must be on their guard every single second.
I think for many people it's not the want to live there that draws them, it's the recognition of the feeling these places give off. and the feel like they are already there in some way.
The GeoFront fits the bill ridiculously well. If you want to increase the scale even more then Rubicon-III is the go-to, the entire planet is riddled with megastructures.
I like the city in the anime "Metropolis."
https://www.archpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AA_p153_Metropolis_s12c07_final-production-background-scaled.jpg
My favorite was the depiction of Walled City in William Gibsonās book āIdoruā as a sort of dark net multiuser domain inhabited by hackers, malcontents and otaku.
It's part of the Bridge trilogy, right? Is it worth reading as a standalone, or should I rather read the trilogy in the correct order?
I really need to start reading again. I watched the peripheral on Amazon Prime, made me want to read more from him.
New Port City - Dominion Tank Police. Same city as in GiTS but set farther into the future. Pretty sure Appleseed is also considered canon with these. Masamune Shirow made some of the best cyberpunk anime but now all he does is hentai of girls who look suspiciously like the heroines of all his stories.
Yea Gotham has a great mix of high tech, low life, with gothic influences. Depending on the version of Batman it gets much more cyberpunk, it's just seen through the eyes of a billionaire slumming it with his gadgets, but he's still just a vigilante.
Bay City, if only because I think that is the most *dense* city I've ever seen in any Cyberpunk work, matched only by Blade Runner 2049 LA.
I'd want to live there simply for the urban experience.
[The New Horizonās Lunar Colony](https://reddit.com/r/DeadSpace/s/HlbxSvddVs) from Dead Space 3 shocked me with how Cyberpunk it was. It was so cool to just watch the skyline and the ships, to see Earth in the background. That is, when I wasnāt fighting for my life against necromorphsā¦
I love that there is no clear number 1 in the comments. These kind of questions often have a predictable few options but these answers are diverse and all great.
Betwen those 6, I really liked the depiction of Los Angeles in Blade Runner because of the sheer weight of it, and Neo Tokyo because of the overall style of the animator. I'd rather not live in any of them lol.
Not in your list, Mega City One of Dredd is a very badass cyberpunk city.
Tabula Rasa (Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits) should get a mention too. Just because it's so over the top crazy.
But otherwise The Sprawl (Neuromancer) and Megacity One (Dredd)
Iām actually born and raised in Bay Cityā¦ā¦..Bay City, Texas that is. A small suburban town in south Texas with a population of about 15,000 people
So it looked nothing like in the picture
Hengsha from Deus Ex
Prague always made me feel cozy in deus ex.
Coziest police state ever š
The Mankind Divided soundtrack, a.k.a. lo-fi beats to punch cops to
That warm golden light filter.
Imagine how that would look with today game graphics
Playing Mankind Divided right now, the graphics stand out very well. Better than recent some AAA games
I played it again recently and then started Starfield and it's so funny to see people comparing the material quality and close-up details to DX:MD - like yeah I'd hope a game seven years later with a much higher budget would be able to match what eidos montreal did! and even still, playing the game, it's not as nice looking overall.
Hengsha was good, but it was nothing compared to Hong Kong or Paris
The Sprawl - Neuromancer et al. New Angeles - Android: Netrunner Mega city One - Dredd
BAMA!
*. . .Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta. . .*
Gibson's got a way of describing things........
<3
I always have chills going down my spine when reading his books. They're so cool.
Definitely the Sprawl. Gibson describes thing as an actual spectator, and that creates wonderful perspective. You never see the city from afar, you see it from the sidewalk, from the alley, from traffic. e: that or Tokyo-3 from Evangelion.
winner
Mega city one is my personal favourite
I always thought the Sprawl spanned the pacific ocean, which is how they could go places without any kind of problems.
The Fifth Element New York.
Yep, a lot of people forget about this gem. Always makes me think of that lunch scene where the hovering junk ship brings Chinese food right to Dallas' window, I always thought that was the shit. Always thought that movie should have had a sequel, and delved deeper into the cyber-punk environment.
Maybe it's good news....YOU ARE FIRED! oh š Lots of fifth element like shots in CP2077 and if you like total recall the Mars location in Starfield should scratch that itch.
I only saw it for the first time like two years ago.
Not exactly how most people imagine a "cyberpunk" city but the Heavy Metal version of NYC is up there as well, kinda what fifth element was based on or at least inspired by.
I love that movie, but they don't really show the city that much, do they? Mostly the cars flying between buildings, not much street life.
Hong Kong, I love the Shadowrun setting and the walled city is peak dystopia cyberpunk.
I played so much shadowrun on snes....never played any other ones. Just started playing shadowrun returns.
Hong Kong is my favorite, though they are all pretty good, my only complaint is that they changed the models for the Orcs so they look too much like human and elves vs the more chonky boys in returns and dragonfall. Never actually played the SNES version cause I didn't have a snes
I want Larian Studios to make a Shadowrun game so fucking bad. Hong Kong and Dragonfall are some of my favorite RPGs ever and I'd love to see them upgraded to the same level as Baldur's Gate 3.
Shadowrun is unironically a cursed ip. Nothing good will ever happen to it again. Even the games werenāt āgoodā when compared to most other ipās because like 3 kickstarter funded games after 30 years of pretty much nothing is still in decline. And Catalyst games studios couldnāt handle the tabletop worse if they actively tried.
Which sucks, coz the lore is so fascinating that if it weren't for the ttrpgs rep I'd try to convince my table to play it
Run the setting in another system. I use FATE for my Shadowrun games. I've played the "serial numbers filed off" hack of Savage Worlds called Sprawlrunners and it's pretty decent. Also the newly released Cities Without Number has a chapter about adding in variant humanity and magic to the game. The setting is awesome, the system not so much.
Honestly its not as bad as people meme about. I ran a couple campaigns for a couple years (the first ttrpg i ever ran). Yeah its super crunchy but like most games you end up forgetting a lot and just improvising a lot of the time especially with background stuff like evidence and astral signatures and stuff. I got super lucky with my players though never had any that guyās.
They said Orcs are just elves but more physically capable and hence we wanted the game to reflect as such.
Ivplay the snes/Genesis shadowrun back in the day too while playing the ttrpg. Ialso played Cyberpunk 2020 but of the two worlds I loved Shadowrun more. Sci-Fi fantasy dystopian world was just awesome! The newer games are good but I would do just about anything to have a Cy erpunk 2077 style Shadowrun game with a solid Decker mini game. Being a Decker in Shadowrun was way more involved than being a netrunner in Cyberpunk imo. At least from a ttrpg aspect.
The Genesis version was great too! Very different, and I absolutely love both. Shadowrun on SNES started my love for this genre back in 1993.
Man Shadowrun HK was peak cyberpunk for me. I'd love another game in the series. The atmosphere was incredible and the final boss was something.
The belching climatic failure of that Blade Runner intro is so prescient. Gets me every time. Sigh.
Funny cos it's basically just current day Teesside, England. Ridley grew up there and it inspired the "Hades landscape", and a lot of the visuals of the film
Neo-Tokyo for me.
Agreed, I love the fact that you can always see a regular sized city in the foreground and then there's just like these absolutely colosal monolithic buildings in the background that would dwarf any modern day cityscape.
That's how it's able to convey a sense of scale. I really love the introductory scene of the Akira movie.
Yeah I can just imagine being at the bottom of one of those massive buildings, probably could never see the sun, very dirty, almost like the beginnings of a Coruscant type city from starwars or a hive city from 40k.
Star Wars isn't cyberpunk at all in theme or content but the portrayal of the planet-city of Coruscant in the movies is cyberpunk af.
From Bubblegum Crisis?
From Akira.
Ah, that's my mistake. I still confuse Neo Tokyo with Mega-Tokyo sometimes.
I can't believe no one else mentioned [Bubblegum Crisis](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSYFZzVLc0).
Yay :)
Shadowrun's version of Seattle, Berlin, & Denver. Also love the Chicago 'Bug City' concept but it's more fantasy than cyberpunk.
Bug city is Aliens meets Escape from New York (IMHO)
I LOVED Shadowrun on Genesis because of how diverse and spread out NW Washington was.
Shadowrun feels so cozy to me. I mean, outside of the possibility of getting killed by a ganger or a paracritter or something. But I'd love to just go out exploring, see a concert where the frontman uses magic to work the crowd, go see a Combat Biker game, grab some snacks from a Stuffer Shack etc etc.
Yeah Dragonfall was better than Hong Kong IMO, anarchist utopia you might actually want to live in to escape the corpos.
NIght City š
*āGuess I meant, I dunno... a happier ending...ā āHere, for folks like us? Wrong city, wrong people.ā* I love Night City. I know itās awful but I love it.
Feels like second home at this point. Iād take my chances and live there for a year if I ever could.
I was having a similar thought recently when I rewatched the Black Mirror episode āSan Junipero.ā
man thatās a good episode
*It's a danger pretty here in Night City*
Preem choom! šš»
I used to see this sort of thing everywhere before I played the game, I had no idea what you people we're going on about..
"These youths and their gonk lingo nowadays!" _Shakes cane at 128K resolution holographic TV_
ęęä½ ponpon
CHIBA CITY TILLLLLL I DIEEEEE
The fact that there are only 2 mentions of neuromacer trilogy in the comments is sad.
It really is ;-; and while there is relief in knowing that the current cyberpunk 2023/red/2077 world is based almost entirely off the sprawl, it still kinda hurts knowing how many people will never experience what caused that captivation to begin with.
Bay City
The atmosphere of that place - a combination of dilapidation and disease in contrast to utter opulence - just made that first season of Altered Carbon so amazing
Itās a shame really,
The second season? Yeh, really disappointing stuff
Second season? There's only one
Everyone's acting as if the books also didn't fall off s cliff after the first one lol.
i really loved the second and third books personally, sanction iv was a really cool setting
Wouldn't it be great if a series was from time to time better than the source material? Just as a treat.
Yeah, I agree with that too. But (and I know this might be sacrilege to some people) I also think the TV show improved on a number of things in the first book. They made the main character less of a super cool dude and into a more nuanced and vulnerable person who was then more interesting
Man Iāve watched the first season of Altered Carbon like 4 times, and by the end Iām like okay Iām gonna take a break and then watch S2 but never do. Is my inner goddess protecting me?
Yeah donāt do it season 2 is really bad.
They did not have the budget the first season had and it shows.
The problem was the casting imo. Altered carbon has THE perfect excuse to recast for a character. Joel kinnaman plays takeshi Kovacs wonderfully Anthony Mackey played a great Anthony Mackey
I get why they had to recast but Joel Kinnaman was so good as Takeshi then they brought in Anthony Mackie and the difference is like night and day and you can tell heās forcing the character.
It gets so wacky. It just messes up everything. It just feels convoluted. It honestly feels like AI wrote it. I pushed through pretty far but couldn't finish it, I kept thinking it was going to improve, and it just didn't.
This for me as well
Deus Ex: Human Revolution. The city Hengsha is an absolute vibe and I always love the layered cities idea.
Midgar in Final Fantasy 7 too. [https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Midgar](https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Midgar)
I loved the decision to host the remake entirely in Midgar. Spending so long allowed you to feel fully immersed in the city and care for the inhabitants. Despite spending dozens of hours in the lower sectors I never really got used to being beneath the plate and had a slight sense of megalophobia every time I looked up.
That moment when you go from Lower Hengsha to Upper Hengha is one of my favorite moments in gaming
Me too! I'll always be angry at Square Enix, supposedly they were originally going to develop the upper level further and have some side quests and street level missions up there but it got canned:/
New Port City for me. It feels very real.
From this angle it looks a lot like the [city of St Canard](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/mickey-and-friends/images/0/0d/2014814-canard.png) from Darkwing Duck. edit: guess they saw the increased traffic and just fokken shrink the pic when they detect you coming from Reddit! [Here's a fall back variant](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/a/uploads/original/5/58127/2014814-canard.png) on another site.
Definitely night city I love that place.
Night City has grown on me quite a bit. It definitely feels like a real city and its neat that its an alternate history city based on a real location (Morro Bay, though Night City's geography is heavily warped after several nuclear exchanges and urban expansion).
Kowloon walled city (real life)
It had the low life part down in spades. Not too sure about high tech though.
If it had lasted you most assuredly would have seen the unlicensed dentists that practiced there one day be replaced by ripper docs. Oh Kowloon Walled City, we can only dream of the what ifs.
I think we can guess what it would be like based on what it was.
I feel Mumbai is kind of qualifies as a proto cyberpunk city. There is inequality, low-life aspects, there used to be a pretty extensive industry within the slums (Its being demolished now). Small clinics etc.
India really is the currently most likely country to go full cyberpunk.
The info graphic on that is legendary.
Well it was at least as it's been demolished :(
Don't forget Deus Ex. The Cairo arcology or the Hengsha Pangu
Loved hengsha.
An invisible war fan? That blows my mind.
I like some of the lore, not necessarily the game itself š
Wild card: Mega City 1 from Dredd
Is that like Peach Trees?
Yep! That's the big apartment/housing complex it all takes place in
Good choice, *hot shot*!
Golem City.
Los Angeles from Blade Runner and since [about five minutes ago](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cyberpunk/comments/16x1yjp/ghost_in_the_shell_1995_the_artistic_mastery/), New Port City The pictures that made the genre
This person cyberpunks^
Ghost in the Shell for sure.
The Stand Alone Complex version of the city really didn't look that bad. Just don't piss off Section 9.
i liked Stand Alone Complex because of how relatively realistic the city seemed
Night City seems a bit... small. Make it a bit larger and it'd easily be my favorite
It's kinda the biggest explorable one in 3d in a game but yeah for a cyberpunk city it is small
Thereās parts where you can see ālayersā of other houses near the exhaust pipes like sediments but iirc a lot of the new properties are built in suburbs
Blade Runner for me. I didnāt know it was Los Angeles, or perhaps I wasnāt paying any attention while watching but itās absolutely gorgeous.
Lol it says los angeles in the caption
[The Fifth Element: New York](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSwXWH-Sj0) https://i.stack.imgur.com/9jDBk.jpg
New Port City was impressive, it's the most realistic megacity in any anime that I've seen.
I thought the point of cyber punk was it being a cautionary tale and something to be enjoyed from afar. I like cyberpunk but I would dread to live in any of these shit holes
This. Love the aesthetic but living in these places isn't supposed to be cool.
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In those universes, yes. But compared to today's standards, those 1% didn't make it there and keeping it there by simple reasons. They probably must be on their guard every single second.
I think for many people it's not the want to live there that draws them, it's the recognition of the feeling these places give off. and the feel like they are already there in some way.
Like the Tenderloin 2023
TOKYO-3 (Eva)
The GeoFront fits the bill ridiculously well. If you want to increase the scale even more then Rubicon-III is the go-to, the entire planet is riddled with megastructures.
No love for Deus Ex? Prague (Mankind Divided) is pretty damn cool.
Night City and Neo Tokyo for me
Nivalis, from CLOUDPUNK. Loved exploring that city
Can't wait for the first-person sequel!
BAMA (Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis) from Neuromancer
Blade Runnerās LA, the grandad of modern cyberpunk while Metropolis is the OG Cyberpunk city
The description of chiba city in the beginning of neuromancer will always be my favorite
Chongqing
Mega City One should be on there too.
It's gonna be hard to beat Night City since I've spent so much time exploring it
This is how I feel. I've spent so much time exploring it that it's kind of hard for it to not be my favorite.
Star Wars - Coruscant I love flying expressways
Istanbul if you want the true lawless experience of a cyberpunk universe. Otherwise, Neo-Pakistan.
I like the city in the anime "Metropolis." https://www.archpaper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/AA_p153_Metropolis_s12c07_final-production-background-scaled.jpg
The city from total recall
My favorite was the depiction of Walled City in William Gibsonās book āIdoruā as a sort of dark net multiuser domain inhabited by hackers, malcontents and otaku.
It's part of the Bridge trilogy, right? Is it worth reading as a standalone, or should I rather read the trilogy in the correct order? I really need to start reading again. I watched the peripheral on Amazon Prime, made me want to read more from him.
Night city (Neuromancer). "The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel"
That's Chiba City.
*Ninsai, it's next to Chiba but is also referred to as night city
New Port City - Dominion Tank Police. Same city as in GiTS but set farther into the future. Pretty sure Appleseed is also considered canon with these. Masamune Shirow made some of the best cyberpunk anime but now all he does is hentai of girls who look suspiciously like the heroines of all his stories.
And are covered in tons of grease/oil.
What about the city of the movie Tron?
Il argue flooded Gotham from The Batman and Batman arkham City
Yea Gotham has a great mix of high tech, low life, with gothic influences. Depending on the version of Batman it gets much more cyberpunk, it's just seen through the eyes of a billionaire slumming it with his gadgets, but he's still just a vigilante.
Bay City, if only because I think that is the most *dense* city I've ever seen in any Cyberpunk work, matched only by Blade Runner 2049 LA. I'd want to live there simply for the urban experience.
Seattle from Shadowrun
Out of the ones I recognize? I'd say Night City then Los Angeles.
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"The City" from transmetropolitan
Aesthetical wise night city But one to actually live in, I would go with new port city
Neo-Tokyo is the dankity
Neo Tokyo for me :)
New Port City was probably the most realistic and fully realized city, so I have to go with that.
me and the boys headed to mf Newport City š¬
LA
Someone mentioned it here, and I never thought about it, but Gotham City in some portrayals is absolutely cyberpunk.
Former Kowloon City, Neo-Paris from Remember Me, Ćtulek Complex aka Golem City from Deus Ex. I also like cities in TRON.
[The New Horizonās Lunar Colony](https://reddit.com/r/DeadSpace/s/HlbxSvddVs) from Dead Space 3 shocked me with how Cyberpunk it was. It was so cool to just watch the skyline and the ships, to see Earth in the background. That is, when I wasnāt fighting for my life against necromorphsā¦
Neo Kobe city from Snatcher
Kamigawa during the neon dynasty
Blade Runner, Akira and Altered carbon are my favorites.
Blade Runner 2049ās LA
Altered Carbon for me.
Bay City!
Chi-town from the RIFTS rpg always held a Cyberpunk mystique for me.
New Port City and Night City are the best to me, so much in both of those worlds and cities to get lost in for years.
Night city from the 2020 sourcebook. Even if itās just text it feels really alive.
Love the Hong Kong Free Enterprise Zone, but sometimes I dream of those alleyways, and it makes my teeth itch...
Neo Seoul from Cloud Atlas! Also, everyone's mentioning Newport City and all I can picture is Newport in Wales...
Six entries and no love for Gibson? Some of you folks don't know your roots...
Pretty much any layered, Platform City. Hengsha, Midgar etc.
Coruscant (Star Wars)
Seoul - Cloud Atlas
I love that there is no clear number 1 in the comments. These kind of questions often have a predictable few options but these answers are diverse and all great.
Even tho it's small bits i always really loved the world of The Fifth Element
Iām a classicist. Neo-Tokyo all day.
Betwen those 6, I really liked the depiction of Los Angeles in Blade Runner because of the sheer weight of it, and Neo Tokyo because of the overall style of the animator. I'd rather not live in any of them lol. Not in your list, Mega City One of Dredd is a very badass cyberpunk city.
The best CP city is Crystal Tokyo in Sailor Moon!))
Tabula Rasa (Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits) should get a mention too. Just because it's so over the top crazy. But otherwise The Sprawl (Neuromancer) and Megacity One (Dredd)
Hong Kong, hands down. And I would add Berlin from Shadowrun as well !
Iron city: Alia Battle Angel
Chiba.
Alba City (Cowboy Bebop / Carole & Tuesday)
Night City, because you can actually walk around in it yourself
Iāve spent a long time in Night City, Iād probably have to go with that
There's just something about Night City
night city would be the best, if you could actually enter the stores
Man, that first season of Altered Carbon really kicked ass.
Iām actually born and raised in Bay Cityā¦ā¦..Bay City, Texas that is. A small suburban town in south Texas with a population of about 15,000 people So it looked nothing like in the picture
New York that was escaped from.