My mental image for "in direction of desk" has our cyborg player trying to check either into or out of a hotel, and having to do a lot of bobbing and faking to get across the lobby. Evidently the bellhops are trying to bring him down before he can reach the concierge.

>I think there have been video games involving football cyborgs, I
>vaguely recall something of the sort for the old NES (or maybe that
>was baseball, I just remember buying sportsball dudes new body parts
>to wreck opponents with.)

That rings a vague bell. Something kind of like Syndicate, except the meeples were some sort of future sports team instead of megacorp murder minions.

>Sort of hoping Cyberpunk 2077 includes
>enhanced sports in some way (even as background) just because that
>would lead to utter insanity.

Like that hopped-up cyborg roller derby thing that there's a big long chapter of Gunnm/Battle Angel Alita about. I think in the English translation they called it "motorball".

>Meanwhile this swings the imagery from cyborgs to hulking, vaguely
>orc-like cannibals who feast on their defeated opponents.

That's basically Blood Bowl, isn't it? My Games Workshop fu is weak, but ISTR playing it at least once at WPI. The Assistant Dean for Student Life at the time was a huge fan and used to run games of it in the Wedge occasionally. He was a pretty cool dude. Also had a huge Blues Brothers poster in his office.

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