https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-cyberpunk-2077-is-so-important-to-the-genre-an/1100-6456059/

Five years ago, Mike Pondsmith, the creator of the Cyberpunk 2020 pen-and-paper role-playing game that forms the basis of Cyberpunk 2077 told me: "As long as the street needs heroes and heroes are willing to throw the dice to beat impossible odds, the world is going to need cyberpunk."