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I didn't figure Keanu Reeves of all people would sit down and deliberately play an unfinished busted ass game especially while it was still being developed, but I'm going to be charitable and say someone maybe handed him a controller for like two minutes one time to let him spin the camera around his model or something.

If you want to count that as "playing" or not, that up to you, but it's an easy thing to make true on a semantic level.
This is where I'm at. Polygon reaching out for comment feels needlessly petty, even if it's meant just as a joke.
 

HellofaMouse

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For the two people who havent realised this yet, CD projekt will lie to you.

In other news, water is wet.
 

PeskyToaster

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turns out the stars haven't actually read the stupid ass comic books or played the dumb ass games who knew!?
 

Chucker

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The interview is a fun watch, saw it the other day. It turns to UE5 likenesses and being used for porn which he is all about and Carrie Ann Moss is like No, no thank you.
 

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Messofanego

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Neither have I, yay!

Here is the interview where he talks about never having played it, in case anyone wants to watch it.
Keanu Matrix Interview
Haha, he would have loved Johnny Silverhand to be a canon romantic pursuit. The more hilarious thing is Keanu trying to sell Carrie Ann Moss on people having virtual sex with your digital characters.

Alex Heath: "You were the most requested hack to make a character that you could have sex with, be your character."

Keanu: "Yes!"

Alex: "And it got to a point where the game developer said, 'No, you can't do this, 'cause we're not sure if we have permission to do this.'"

Keanu: "Oh! Oh my God, it's always nice when it's nice."

Alex: "Yeah, it was affection."

Carrie: "I on the other hand say, 'No, thank you.'" (chuckles)

Keanu: "Think of how much money is in porn, right? So you could not even have to be there, and people could have digital sex with your digital avatar. What's that, what's it called right now? For a members-only, you could do a whole thing. Oh my God, and then you get the suit that's probably made in Sweden or some German thing. Oh my God, and then you got the VR thing."

Carrie: "I hope that I do not live to see this."

Keanu: "Oh my God, and then they've got the data on you with your arousal metrics. Oh my gosh!"

Alex: "I did not see this conversation going here, but--"

Keanu: "Right, so then you're in the suit where the arousal metrics through your members-only metaverse X."

Carrie: "God help us, that's all I'm gonna say."
 

ShinUltramanJ

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He probably saw the game during development, pursed around with it a few minutes, and said it was cool.

That translated to he played the game and loved it.
 

Alienous

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In legal speak what they mean is they handed him the controller, he pressed the trigger while fumbling with it, said "That's rad" when the gun fired, then held the controller out towards the nearest person.
 

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Can't imagine them trying to get him to play a broken game. Probably just saw a tiny section and some cutscenes
 

Jroc

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In legal speak what they mean is they handed him the controller, he pressed the trigger while fumbling with it, said "That's rad" when the gun fired, then held the controller out towards the nearest person.

It was definitely something like this. If it was a complete lie then he wouldn't have specified that Keanu hadn't finished it.
 

IMCaprica

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That's now three things Keanu and I have in common, alongside hating NFTs and thinking Meta is dumb and unoriginal. We should be friends.
 

Fisty

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"I'm not sure he finished it" knowing goddamn well what state the game would have been in at that time
 

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In legal speak what they mean is they handed him the controller, he pressed the trigger while fumbling with it, said "That's rad" when the gun fired, then held the controller out towards the nearest person.
Yeah this is basically what happened.

Even on forums having "played" the game means many different things. Crit path? 100%? Couple of hours to understand the core loop etc etc
 
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I just can't believe CD Projekt Red would just go out there and publicly lie like that. Just cannot believe they would lie, publicly, about something that did not occur. I just hope they never lie, in public, about features one of their games will have, only to not have a large number of those features, and fundamentally misrepresent the scope or implementation of other features.

I can't imagine how little they could be trusted if they just lied about things in their games that weren't there. It would be a bigger betrayal of trust than lying about Keanu playing their game.
 

Kyle Cross

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Reminds me of that one thread we had awhile back that had a bunch of people saying "You can't lie to investors, it's illegal!" Companies totally can. They totally do.
 

Donepalace

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I also firmly believe that the whole Henry cavill and being a pc gamer geek thing is all just clever marketing he knows his target audiences and is working it
 

nath999

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Media has been relentless on Cyberpunk. This is like a non-story, AAA actor got paid for some voice work and to use his likeliness. Why would he care to play the game?

 
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She also played the PS3 version:

www.youtube.com

Final Fantasy XIII Leona Lewis Message To PlayStation Gamers

Final Fantasy XIII Leona Lewis Message To PlayStation Gamers

Oh my god this is even funnier that there are two versions. She was probably like "What the hell, why do I have to film this stupid commercial twice."

Happy to be proven wrong if Leona Lewis is a leet gamer btw. Freddie Prinze and Henry Cavill knew their shit so you never know!
 
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