Witcher 3 with something like a Return of the King hack and slash combo system would've been my game of the decade, tbh. I'd say an open world would leech the appeal of those mechanics, but the game isn't shy about throwing nekkers at you ad infinitum so combos would've been a great addition. Whirl/Rend comes close but that's mostly a "push button for things to die" mechanic instead of combos.
They'll have an easier time with a shooter rpg, at least I'd like to think. Complex Sword play is much harder to do well than aiming and shooting.
Well, depends if they are gonna make a shooter RPG, one needs to take into account how the player probably will have to start with say shit accuracy, an upon either putting points into weapons ( which makes me wonder if they are gonna break those down into several slots like in the book) or will them getting specific body mods allow em to gain bonuses in combat for better accuracy and damage.
I mean more that it's easier to make shooting feel good and find different creative ways to do one thing (aim and shoot) than it is to create an in depth melee combat system that feels good. Though I'm probably simplifying it a bit too much.
I really hope the combat in Cyberpunk isn't just bang-bang-rattatatat-kablooey with an optional but unnecessary melee attack. If I can't rush people on hydraulic legs and aerate some jugulars as my primary attack option I'll be very disappointed.
I hope so too. They showed attaching to a wall with your blade arms and stealth killing some fuckers so maybe they're also thinking that.
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"Cyberpunk 2077 is a whole... thing. I've been avoiding the discourse around it intentionally - it's one of Those Games that has an incredibly large vitriolic audience, and anything approaching meaningful discussion tends to just be a sure fire way to just draw their ire. I'll put it this way: It looks big and beautiful and I'm gonna bet the people looking forward to it are going to have a grand time exploring its world, but I've played cyberpunk games and I've played RPG games and I don't know if this is scratching my particular itch on either of those fronts. As for Keanu Reeves - he's currently red hot, and between Johnny Mnemonic and The Matrix he's a cyberpunk staple. But I think that also underscores their surface level implementation of the genre as a "greatest hits" compilation of cyberpunk aesthetics and ideas rather than a game with its own thing to say."
Agree or disagree?
That doesn't explain why the Witcher 3's story just sort of trails off after you find Ciri though.
it doesn't, but i felt that was an issue of the narrative just being very front loaded, i felt kind of spoiled by the time i found Ciri and after you find her there's really nothing that equals the first half in terms of quests at least, after you find Ciri and do the battle at Kaer Morhen the objective is to just do some fan service quests until the next plot development turns up until eventually the Wild Hunt shows up to attack.
EYE Divine Cybermancy, which is a super-jank French Deus Ex with a cult following. MGS also gets dangerously close to Cyberpunk at points. There were a few GitS games but I've only played the Fuchikoma based shooter for the PS1 which is a good game but not a good cyberpunk game. Looking at what Google thinks of as Cyberpunk games System Shock, Snatcher, and Syndicate stand out.
I honestly find being called an Uncle Tom worst. If you're calling me a nigger unironically at least I know where we stand and I can respect that much. People who say Uncle Tom tend to be assholes who like to pretend they're on the right side of history and totally not racist, so it's "okay" when they do it. Fuck off, you're racist.
I'm surprised that a company that keeps releasing games with tons of combat didn't have a team specifically to deal with that, but yeah that explains a lot
Nothing that happens after you find Ciri makes any sense. There's clearly a bunch of cut content. Just "check in with the other zones for a farewell, get Macguffin for...reasons. Bossfight with Eredin." Most of the subplots just abruptly get brushed under the rug or rushed to a nonsensical conclusion for lack of time to justify events (Radovid's death). Even basic character moments suffer. Every relationship but Geralt-Ciri gets very short shrift. Yennefer barely says three lines to her adopted daughter in cutscenes.
