what they want fixed?
At this point, I’d take the game being playable - it’s slowly getting there, but that’s likely the most anyone should realistically expect out of this shitheap. Don’t get me wrong, theres an amount of jank and bugs that alright - hell, see how much Skyrims been milked for exhibit A - but we’re well fucking past that point.
Most people don't think that far ahead; they just assume that if someone "fixes" the game, it'll magically turn into the game they had in their head all along.
It doesn't work in an 80s cyberpunk dystopia. You can't glamorize this life.
I'm aware of that, which is why in my opinion the Nomad ending in 2077 is about the best ending one can have in Cyberpunk where you (metaphorically or not) walk away from it all. Doesn't change the fact that a merc fighting their way to the top (or trying to), is going to do their damnedest to look the best and pack the best heat they can. If you die on the way, at least you'll be a good looking, fashionably dressed corpse. This is the 80's after all, and that means glam for those who make it or can fake it.
to be fair, anyone who ever played that type of game knew what they'd get with NMS, the OMG IT'S GONNA BE STAR CITIZEN TIMES TWO!!!! crowd because they saw 5 seconds of a space fight was being retarded and falling for their own headcanon. being the type of game it is it was much easier to "fix" than a linear heavily story driven game that happens to have a big empty map, and in return the former people now have a "fixed" game in the sense it delivers what they wanted and then some.
minecaft is a billion dollar IP and still going 10 years later. as shallow as it may be, there's a market for it. in the end it all depends how it's used, if you just want to fly around collecting shit while exploring stuff with the right kind of scale it doesn't really need to be "deep" or "innovative" (which is a trap a lot of games fall into when they crawl up their own ass too hard, just look at elite dangerous).
even in that setting you can still end up at the top depending on your morals choices, top usually meaning money and power - but by doing so would require introspection and ask questions you couldn't really do these days in a AAA product. like what would you have to do to get to the top? these days sucking cock for acting roles is apparently a crime against 50% of humanity, even tho it was done between consenting adults that knew exactly what they were getting into for that kind of deal. that stuff would be perfect for a RPG, but that would require talent and actual vision...
I'm not convinced. Every cyberpunk RP I've seen has an oppressive atmosphere of "even if you win, you lose."
no examples, but that's the kind of tradeoff I mean. a heavy-handed example would be "to become kingpin you need to blow up an orphanage, are you gonna do it y/n". might not have much effect for the average mainstream zoomer, but rp-wise makes a big difference. you win by becoming kingpin, but lose yourself in the process, which imo fits perfectly with the whole transhumanist approach. like the more chrome you implant the less human you are asf.
Grand Theft Auto 2? It takes place in a near future dystopian world where criminals and gangs fight for city control. Loosely. It's an open world game where you can tackle missions for each gang in three different districts. Do more for one gang, it'll affect your notoriety for the other.
You're talking about early days. In GTA1 you got run out of every single town by the end. 2 and III are sort of similar. Notoriety wasn't a good thing.
Gaming in 2021 = Don't Believe the Hype
That's literally just creating a new game, but it's also not representative of "cyberpunk". CDPR's release, on its own, lacks fundamentally, which shows they don't fully comprehend the genre/media. They should just refund and chalk it up as an L.
Isn't that just modern day Detroit?
Can you fly, Bobbeh?
