Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

So judging by a lot of gameplay footage I see, it looks like half the time you're a passenger while NPCs are driving. Is this seriously the state of gaming in 2020? Games programmed/scripted so poorly that letting you drive yourself would cause the mission to fall apart? How is sitting in a car listening to people talk a game?
Swiss46 said:
The Panam ending doesn't really have a bad side. V escapes the cycle of night city, his brain is his again, and he has a family looking out for him. Sure his body rejects the brain, but even the beginning mentioned changing a brain is impossible while a body is just a matter of money. The story paints it as this terrible thing as if V isn't a famous merc with tons of connections he would have to be retarded to die.
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It has the bad side that you have to become a hobo and date an annoying ugly chick (judging by CDPR standards this means you have to suck up to her throughout the game). And that you can't continue with side missions after the finale from what I understand.
 
HensKenKline said:
It has the bad side that you have to become a hobo and date an annoying ugly chick (judging by CDPR standards this means you have to suck up to her throughout the game). And that you can't continue with side missions after the finale from what I understand.
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You can get the Panam ending without dating her, all it takes is completing the side quests for the nomads. And yes the game has an ending, it reloads before the final mission if you want to keep doing side quests.
 
Swiss46 said:
You can get the Panam ending without dating her, all it takes is completing the side quests for the nomads. And yes the game has an ending, it reloads before the final mission if you want to keep doing side quests.
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I see. I guess I'll judge for myself some day when I play it.

But reloading before the final mission is dumb, it should just do what W3 does and let you continue playing with everything finished, at least if I recall it correctly. And I heard that it is indeed possible to have that, if you become Keanu Reeves. Why not give the player a choice?
 
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I'm getting hardcore Dragon Age Inquisition vibes. For anyone not familiar with that game it had a long dev cycle, was rebooted several times from the beginning, and literally none of what we saw in the trailers made it into the final build which was mediocre at best.
 
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Swiss46 said:
The final boss is 96% robot V is fine. Going by 2020 rules replacement organs are entirely possible meaning technically V could just buy an identical working body.
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Or just not advance the main plot. Apparently Keanu can only take over your body if you take plot missions, he can't do shit if you're doing side gigs, busting criminals, and hacking every access point on the map.

I understand why they might not put an actual timer in, but not having a countdown really robs a lot of the urgency from the story. In games with time objectives like Majora's Mask or Dead Rising there was a constant motivation to plan your time, get things done, or else bad shit happens. That sense is completely missing here.

Part of that problem is that there isn't a lot of attachment to V before the shard gets dropped on you. You don't really get a chance to define a blank slate, and the character shell offered isn't super compelling.

So when I'm fed a load of plot bullshit about how V will die, I don't really care that much. Then when I exit the cutscenes and the mechanics don't engage me with that fate, I'm even less invested. Add on top of that that the environment of the city isn't super compelling and well....

You're left feeling a bit meh, when the story line and game mechanics get so completely divorced.
 
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Not Really Here said:
The thing that sucks about OT is that between 20 and 30 hours of OT you make zero extra money because of the tax calculations (at least in the US), but then then every hour above 30 OT is excellent, until you hit the 70-80 OT hours mark.

Complaining about a 50-60 total hour work week? Pussies.
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I think it all depends on the country. I think there were reports os the last of us 2s crunch being so bad people were hospitalized for exhaustion. There has been so many stories about crunch this year I can't keep em all straight.
 
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Imagine actually being a snoygger in current year.
 
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Ruin said:
I'm getting hardcore Dragon Age Inquisition vibes. For anyone not familiar with that game it had a long dev cycle, was rebooted several times from the beginning, and literally none of what we saw in the trailers made it into the final build which was mediocre at best.
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Bioware and CD Projekt Red seems to have suffered a lot of the same fate. Both became the go to RPG video game studio and media darlings. Every autist on the internet loved their game and became obsessed about it. Then with popularity at its height the studio sees actual talent leave, and replaced with people who have less skill making games, and more skill being politically active on social media. Quality and quantity in production decreases, managers get frustrated and have to repeatedly scrap projects for being fundamentally broken, time gets spent adding queer side characters rather than spending time on the actual story. In the end you got a minority of the studio working as hard as they can to pull everything home, but it has become a herculean task to shift everything in the right direction.

People should be worried though, if this was CD Projekt Red's Dragon age III then next for them is Andromeda. Whatever comes after this is either going to be a redemption or a studio destroying trainwreck
 
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Imagine actually being a snoygger in current year.
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>order pizza
>only the pizza base gets delivered, as raw dough, and it has a bite mark
>call the hotline
>"where the fuck is my pizza"
>"sorry, we understand your frustration. we do not have electricity to bake, but the city promises to deliver electricity within the next 2 months. just bring your dough to us then and we'll finish it for you. thank you for your understanding"
Kek. This is why you don't preorder. Also, call center drones can be literally worse than government agencies.
 
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HensKenKline said:
>order pizza
>only the pizza base gets delivered, as raw dough, and it has a bite mark
>call the hotline
>"where the fuck is my pizza"
>"sorry, we understand your frustration. we do not have electricity to bake, but the city promises to deliver electricity within the next 2 months. just bring your dough to us then and we'll finish it for you. thank you for your understanding"
Kek. This is why you don't preorder. Also, call center drones can be literally worse than government agencies.
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This why you get a powerful gaming PC. So the heat from your GPU and CPU can cook the pizza dough for you.
 
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I remember reading the source books for Cyberpunk allowing you to be a cop.

On the one hand, it sucks not having that as a background. On the other, could you imagine the sheer shitstorm that would result from the same ""journalists"" and ""fans"" we all know and love?

I want to be a MAX-TAC dammit, or maybe an investigator. Fuck, I bet you could make being a beat cop interesting in the setting. But honestly, even if it was in the plan, it either got cut early, or would be so badly mangled that its better it didn't happen.
 
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RA-5C Vigilante said:
I remember reading the source books for Cyberpunk allowing you to be a cop.

On the one hand, it sucks not having that as a background. On the other, could you imagine the sheer shitstorm that would result from the same ""journalists"" and ""fans"" we all know and love?

I want to be a MAX-TAC dammit, or maybe an investigator. Fuck, I bet you could make being a beat cop interesting in the setting. But honestly, even if it was in the plan, it either got cut early, or would be so badly mangled that its better it didn't happen.
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The Gamespot reviewer already complained that she didn't want to do side missions because you help cops in them.
 
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RA-5C Vigilante said:
I remember reading the source books for Cyberpunk allowing you to be a cop.

On the one hand, it sucks not having that as a background. On the other, could you imagine the sheer shitstorm that would result from the same ""journalists"" and ""fans"" we all know and love?

I want to be a MAX-TAC dammit, or maybe an investigator. Fuck, I bet you could make being a beat cop interesting in the setting. But honestly, even if it was in the plan, it either got cut early, or would be so badly mangled that its better it didn't happen.
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How would that work?
Like have V be a bot storyline and let players choose a side character to play as and either help V, Johnny or collect people to run from the city after finding the nuke?

What the fuck do you think this game is? An RPG?

Damn, now I want to play the better game I just shitposted.
 
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kek: https://archive.li/XODPv
Article from July 2019
Cyberpunk 2077 UI coordinator Alvin Liu has revealed that the game will have a "wanted" system that can catch up to players who terrorize NPCs. However, unlike the wanted system in games such as Grand Theft Auto, in Cyberpunk 2077 the police system is blatantly corrupt and takes bribes.

Speaking to WCCFTech, Liu revealed that in Cyberpunk 2077, the police force is "up for hire" and that "laws exist to take bribes from corporations."
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