First playthrough Lifepath?

The stranger in a strange land trope has a lot of appeal, I think. I just really like how this dystopic hyper-capitalist corporatocratic hellscape story can have us start off in a little dinky diet-Mad Max town. 

I'm thinking of doing a male Street Kid next PT. Whenever that is, as I am not near finishing this one, unless I zero down on the main story which I'm kinda feeling like doing as I want to restart and try other stuff.

I've played all 3 now (only streetkid finished) and so far I think streetkid is the best. It has little impact overall. Sometimes a dialogue option pops up but that is pretty much it. You get a couple different turns in convos which adds to the flavour, but it's mostly tied to main story and some side missions.

I felt that Corpo has dialogue options that can alter certain quest, like with Meredith, a Corpo can make her spill her entire plan. Corpo is the only one that start as a friend of Jackie, so the "living together montage" makes more sense then the other two (and they had to make some stupid "how have we never meet shit" for the Street Kid when their hole is Mamma's Wells bar).

But the story is very much a demotion for corpo, from start to finish...and they never raise above it.

Street Kid was the original idea they had, I'm pretty sure. Back when they first announced the game, I remember them talking about starting the game as someone from the street. I think they added the Corpo/Nomad stuff just to have a bit more pnp feels to it.

All the lifepaths work for me. I like that V has dialogue options throughout, lifepaths reminded me of choosing Shepard's service history, just more detailed. They aren't much, but provide a pretty decent start point for roleplaying.

Yeah, its dumb that Jackie and V are not previously acquainted in the Street Kid prologue, kinda weighs it down a bit. I did like the introduction to Night City tho. The Nomad backstory is basically Panam's history only V's family sold out and is now gone. Nomad maybe isn't as jarring as Corpo but it still felt a bit weird having a montage after they just met. There first mission together flamed out spectacularly, so I can at least buy that the experience made them fast chooms, similar to Street Kid and the altercation with the police. I would say that Nomad fits just as well, seeing as a good chunk of the game is set in Mad Max land.

I think CDPR realized that the Corpo intro could be a bit jarring, that's why it is the only lifepath in which Jackie and V are already pals. Because of Jackie's influence and V's own experience in the hell that is the Corpo world, I can accept that V just said, "fuck it" and went headlong into the Merc life. I would've liked it if they explained why they hang out in the first place tho. I assume V must've hired Jackie for a job, and they took a liking to one another. Anyway, I'm playing Corpo now, I'll see what I think as the game progresses. 

Nomad. It seemed like the game was setting up a culture war between the Corpos and the 'Rabble', and I felt like if my character was going to be thrown in the middle and make decisions that affected the way of the world then I'd want them to have strong feelings about what freedom and community and humanity mean, rooted in more than just anarchism and resentment or opportunism and self-preservation.

Am still vaguely toying with the idea of a second playthrough as a more cynical Street Kid looking to play the game and win, but the game's writing and dialogue just don't bear out a Corpo-bred V from what I've seen and heard, even though I agree that that's a cool and interesting narrative.

Personally I’m not a fan of either street kid or corpo, though corpo I care for the least. I thought the Nomad worked best for me because this V is just as new to Night City as the player, and the montage kinda rings hollow when you have Jackie pointing stuff out to V like they’re a tourist, which seems odd for a V that should already be familiar with all of this stuff. I think I would’ve hated to just be stuck with street kid, knowing what the alternatives are now. I guess the idea of this small towner hick getting thrusted into this terrible neon meat grinder just appealed to me a great deal. 

It has a full circle appeal to it, making it my favorite.

My first has been Nomad, I've played all intros so far and is it wrong that I prefer Nomad purely for the vest with goggle attachment that they get? And the fact that I didn't want to wear gold pants? Corpo never appealed but I wanted to see how that started out. I agree that Streetkid makes a lot of sense, but GOLD PANTS!

Just played through the Corpo intro. Preferred it to my initial nomad one and Thought it worked very well in establishing the Jackie friendship.