Would love if it made it possible to do all the content without helping cops 😑

You didn't found reasons to hate corps in cp77, because this game was made by corp and released with biggest gamedev corporation flip flop the cp77 devs could do.

I got the big sad on Judy's diving quest, she goes on about how tha one corpo inundated the whole place for profits.

Or even the El'Captain quest where you need to go steal a medical truck because the corpos where poisoning his whole neighborhood real bad for years.

I can find more examples of these "small" atrocities, I think they are meant to infuriate you over time, problem by problem, and not display a big single thing you'll hate forever

All that stuff you talked about in the tabletop lore is literally talked about in the game. It’s not hitting you in the face in the main quest line, but if you play the side quests you find tons of fucked up shit that the corps are doing.

The cyberpsycho hunts are where you find most of the evil corporation stuff. But that's all told through notes and environmental storytelling. So it's there if you're willing to search for it, but it's definitely not as big a part of the overall narrative as I expected it to be.

Yeah, I'm mid way through my first play through and the lack of birds and animals just feels lazy / a tech limitation covered up by lazy writing, not a real thing to care about that corpos did.

Otherwise the corpos in the story so far don't seem that crazy bad or evil. Most of the time they enter the story it's just you stealing something from them and then trying to get it back.

Honestly, GTA V had far more pointed social / political commentary thus far, even if this is a much better overall story.

I think the cat wasn't real Takemura talks about it.

I dont think it did enough to make me hate corporations

Counterpoint: Biotechnica. Those bastards are almost as bad as scavs. Some of them are worse.

Also, maybe it looks normal for Americans, but what Militech are doing in the badlands definitely ain't right. (Phantom Liberty kind of ruins it by treating Militech's puppet president like one of the good guys, though. Night City ain't part of the NUSA, and it doesn't want to be!)

And, besides all the relic stuff, Saburo was also seriously considering nuking Night City (properly, not like Silverhand's half assed job), so there's that, too.

No, this is just cynical and mean-spirited.

It was an individual developer talking on the podcast about what he wants the game to be, there's no reason to think he doesn't feel exactly the same way you do.

If you're going to be cynical, be cynical about whether or not that messaging would make it through the layers of corporate beurocracy until it's published, not whether the individual wants to do something meaningful, most do.

Imagine if they made a survival game in Night City where you were homeless and had to get food, water, shelter, avoid gangs and police, and treating combat the way Tabletop does. Having it fast, brutal and very easy to die in.