Hype is an addictive drug. People want to be excited at all costs and view these kinds of games as a moment of history that they'll miss out on otherwise.
Oh, for sure. Mechanically it's a lot of fun, and the scale and density of the world is incredible. But it's also so insanely awful with how it handles ad boards that I can't bring myself to play it if I'm not home alone. It's just indefensibly transphobic and sexist, and from what I've played so far has made no attempt to create any discussion about it. You could literally change all the ads to non-sexual images, and nothing would be lost, because as much as they claimed it's important to the world building... it's really not. They did nothing with it. The ads are just there to provoke, titillate, and shock for the sake of it. It's never factored into any quest or discussion or personality trait of the characters I've interacted with even once so far.
Yep my thought too. There goes the immersion lol
Of course, so far I'm a little baffled by the 90 MC, but don't think it is a bad game mechanically.
Even if such a mod were to appear, you'd still need to give your money to CDPR to play the game, though.
Yep, definitely. I'm not saying it solves the issue. I'm saying the fact that you could mod the ads out of the game entirely and not create an issue where the story or characters are now referencing things that you've modded out goes to show how baseless CDPR's claims that they're important for world building are.
Yeh, all of this exists. Shit AI, terrible UI with poor readability, bog standard open world format, low quality side quest dialogue, mindless NPCs, etc... but then I have found quite a few technically lacking games to elevate beyond the sum of their parts because something about how it all clicks together just works for me.
This isn't the thread for questions like this, Praxis. You can ask people in the PC gaming thread though, they are discussing stiff like this there!
Wow, you weren't lying. Can't feel too bad for all the flak they're getting, since they actively cultivated this audience. Reap what you sow and all that.
Usually I wouldn't hold out much hope here, gamers are fickle and easily appeased with apologies and patches fixing stuff.
The thing is I don't know if they can fix the technical issues anytime soon, their poor devs have been in brutal crunch mode for a long time and gotten delay after delay, can they really keep them still working and get good work out of them when they must be at their limits?
Yep, it's good to see. I think a lot of gamers dismissed the sexism and transphobia concerns because their desire for a futuristic GTA was more important to them. But now that they've played the game and realized this is how bad its systems are:
That's my point.
Sorry for some reason my brain skipped right over the first word "usually" on your post, :p
I think you're right, these things tend to have a kind of inertia. We'll just have to see.
At this point fucking Animal Crossing is more punk than Cyberpunk.
And the sad part is, nothing will change. The next mega-hype will come, the press will give 90+ meta, the publisher will do everything they can to only show the good things before release. Everyone will buy again, another record will be broken. It is just the sick FOMO culture we live in today. The best thing is always to wait for a launch and THEN decide on getting hyped or buy the game. I mean there is nothing wrong about getting hyped about a game, but it should never be as unhealthy like with CP2077.
Lol, that's as gangster as Will Smith's rap. Imagine making helping the cops cool in 2020... In a "cyberpunk" game. Have they actually experienced any other cyberpunk media?
At this point it seems like their message was basically to just say how big corporations are the big bad guys, but not really go any deeper than that.
I find it kind of hilarious that they only have one scored review for the PS4 version, myself. It's... not really full of praise, tho.
Nice (but not really). What a complete fuck up of a company and game.
