because this mod has been up for almost a year and people still aren’t taking the hint: comments containing unprompted essays on all the various reasons why you think johnny *should* look twice his age will be deleted. it’s not funny anymore and i’m tired of reading them.
I've been using this for a while now. After playing the game so many times, it's inevitable you start looking for ways to improve and enhance certain npc's, and with Johnny, I think this is the ultimate makeover in my humble opinion. We could probably debate why he does or doesn't look his age, we could probably argue to death that the way Night City was in 2023 is in no way how the city is in 2077, but to me, this look matches the feel and the vibe of Johnny Silverhand, someone who has clearly seen a lot of messed up s#*! in his life, someone who has done a lot of clearly messed up s#*! in his life, and someone who's still an unreliable narrator while at the same time showing he doesn't know everything and he can still be surprised despite thinking he knows everything and has seen everything.
This is a thing of beauty, revenantFun, and I'm glad that, despite some feedback and comments that have undoubtedly gone your way, you're still showing what is your vision for Johnny, I for once agree with it and love it. Thank you!
Sadly, even the blessed Keanu starts showing his age a little bit at some point. This work is so flawless, I've honestly forgotten what he looked like before. It's like this was the way he was modeled in the game from the start. This kind of work requires amazing attention to detail and true devotion to the subject matter. It's the subtle changes that often take the most work to pull off perfectly. Impressive work, worthy of a cushy corpo position.
Johnny looks 50 because V keeps sassing him throughout the game lol
Good work! I love that you clean him up a bit. It always feels disgusting seeing vanilla him with all the dirt. It's like he never took a bath inside Mikoshi despite having a pool of cool water just outside it.
i’m still on 2.13 so i haven’t tested it, but it’s just a simple texture replacement so i don’t see any reason for it *not* to work. should be pretty much future-proof.
A bit of a shot in the dark, but I'd really appreciate seeing a beardless, stubble-less variant of this mod to bring it really close to that pre-Keanu Johnny from the concept art. I always felt like Johnny looked off, not because they chose Keanu Reeves, but because of the beard hampering the "aging pretty-boy rockstar" look in my opinion. https://imgur.com/a/EQsYp5b
that would be conjuring up a whole lotta new skin from scratch, which i'm not sure i could pull off and have it look good and
i'm simply too much of a sucker for beards attached to the way he looks with it. keanu without the beard was very pretty... back when he still had the face for it. but on this mesh (as in real life) he's not really got the same full lips/sharp jawline combo he used to have. we joke, but he does age. and an aging man's face is often largely held together by beard, it must be said......
maybe someday i'll be possessed with the urge to see if i could actually achieve this without it looking wack. a personal challenge as a craftsman, if you will. but that day is not today
Fair enough. I tried using that old no beard mod from before Johnny's model got updated, and it didn't look too bad. Problem is; it's the old model, lmao. https://imgur.com/a/kTn2drh
you put me in tears laughing at "32 (ough)" and "they broke every damn one of his blood vessels" and if i hadnt already been won over by the alt looks i think that wouldve done it for me .. thanks!
cool mod, weird to see Keanu looking that old, it's absolutely nuts that he's 60 and we're out here modding him to look like he's not in his 20's anymore
i’m a little confused (and maybe you are too?) but it sounds like you might have the wrong idea. this mod makes him *younger* looking, not older
in the vanilla game, especially after update 2.0, johnny’s face textures are more or less based off of keanu in his mid-to-late 50s (i.e. his age when the game was being developed). my textures are intended to make johnny look more like his canon age when he died, which is 34–so, closer to what keanu looked like in 1998-1999 or thereabouts.
i painted over the originals by hand and i’m not a fan of upscaling. or unnecessarily large textures in general, for that matter! the vanilla game looks beautiful to me as it is ✨
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This is a thing of beauty, revenantFun, and I'm glad that, despite some feedback and comments that have undoubtedly gone your way, you're still showing what is your vision for Johnny, I for once agree with it and love it. Thank you!
(used to dream of being in game dev for art, back when i had dreams! always nice to imagine it though)
Good work! I love that you clean him up a bit. It always feels disgusting seeing vanilla him with all the dirt. It's like he never took a bath inside Mikoshi despite having a pool of cool water just outside it.
much of a sucker for beardsattached to the way he looks with it. keanu without the beard was very pretty... back when he still had the face for it. but on this mesh (as in real life) he's not really got the same full lips/sharp jawline combo he used to have. we joke, but he does age. and an aging man's face is often largely held together by beard, it must be said......maybe someday i'll be possessed with the urge to see if i could actually achieve this without it looking wack. a personal challenge as a craftsman, if you will. but that day is not today
in the vanilla game, especially after update 2.0, johnny’s face textures are more or less based off of keanu in his mid-to-late 50s (i.e. his age when the game was being developed). my textures are intended to make johnny look more like his canon age when he died, which is 34–so,
closer to what keanu looked like in 1998-1999 or thereabouts.
i painted over the originals by hand and i’m not a fan of upscaling. or unnecessarily large textures in general, for that matter! the vanilla game looks beautiful to me as it is ✨