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NoxObscuras posted...

Nah, a lot of people noticed that pre-release, Jackie was only shown in the early parts of the game, before Johnny was with V. That combined with the fact that we had a literal trailer showing Jackie being shot and killed... We knew he wasn't going to be a major part of the story.

At best that's like half true. Some people went with the assumption that he would die early (which to be fair, did happen to be correct), but many others speculated you could either save him or that was just a "bad ending" from choices during an edgerunner job gone wrong. Spin the narrative however you want, just like with everything else they made him out to be more than he actually was in the game.

But the issue is not really about Jackie himself. The main story of the game is a rushed, badly paced, and criminally short mess that the devs clearly weren't given enough time to flesh out. All because of CDPR's "muhhh 2020, this is the year it has to happen" shit. The Jackie montage is just the prime example that makes the issue obvious.