Cyberpunk 2077 Grieving Thread

I've now gone through all the endings, and it's hilarious how blatant it is that you are supposed to pick the Panam one.

The endings you can choose from are

The dystopian/depressing one

Literally have the role of protagonist stolen from you and have it so the entire story is actually about johnny.

Win, but you're still fucked, Judy leaves you no matter what and you decide to just go out in a suicidal blaze of glory.

and then you have Panam which
you only get if you follow the longest story chain in the game to its conclusion, which stars the straight male, and thus surely the most chosen, romance character. Has you welcomed into the most friendly and un-moraly ambiguous group in the game with open arms and walk round an impromptu party in your honour. Has a unique gameplay mechanic, while all the others are just walking, talking and standard combat.

Then the epilogue offers clear hope that you will find a solution to V dying, Judy happily joins you, then surrounded by friends you leave the poisonous world of night city behind, with clear optimism for the future. And the final third person shot unlike all the others which has a close up of V being angry, scared or depressed, instead has a wider shot of V and Panam sitting together looking at the horizon in hope and even dialogue about them finally being home.

I made a post a couple of days ago about how great I think the "devil" ending is and I happly stand by that, and dont think that the Panam ending is near as thought provoking or interesting to play through, but as the conclusion to a 100 hour play-though of a story whose protagonist and characters I have grown to like, clearly you will want the positive and dare I say happy ending over any of the others.
 
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So since this game's a piece of shit, I guess I'll give OG Deus Ex another go. I remember dropping it though because I hated the detection AI. Is there a mod that deals with this?
 
April Ryan said:
I've now gone through all the endings, and it's hilarious how blatant it is that you are supposed to pick the Panam one.
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I don't blame them for having a "focus group" ending. I bet that lesbian female is the number 2 most played character behind straight male and it makes sense to have the best ending throw a bone to both groups.

More cynically, having V leave night city means that any post story dlc will be cheaper and faster to develop, it's not hard to populate a desert compared to making the assets required for the space station from the suicide mission/afterlife legend ending.

Considering how they treated their staff and lied during development, I think being cynical about it is more appropriate.
 
I look at normies responding to the Crowbcat with the usual "it was overhyped" and "if it wasn't rushed then all those billion bugs would have been solved", and this shit is just depressing. New games will continue to be shit because most people are stuck at a reinforced positivity/consoom mindset, where being pissed on by multi million companies is not just good, but needs to be defended from any criticism.
 
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>people who don't like the game are getting upboats!
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Geena Davis said:
Its Andromeda, AC Unity, and Sonic 06 all over again. They fucked up big time and released an incredibly subpar game that had potential but then got greedy and tried damage control with that whole review footage only bullshit to try and save their cowardly asses.

I feel like this is a curse that will hit all the major companies. Who's next? Nintendo Attorneys at Law? Crapcom? Squeenix?
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I haven't played Andromeda and Sonic 06.
But I can tell you, at least Unity has a standard working AI, and cops don't teleport behind you.
 
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I look at normies responding to the Crowbcat with the usual "it was overhyped" and "if it wasn't rushed then all those billion bugs would have been solved", and this shit is just depressing. New games will continue to be shit because most people are stuck at a reinforced positivity/consoom mindset, where being pissed on by multi million companies is not just good, but needs to be defended from any criticism.
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That's what gets me. It is probably the buggiest game I've played in years with mechanics so simple that games a decade+ old outclass it. To me, there is no defense to 2077. CD Projekt outright lied, they didn't even overhype. The game is completely different from what was shown, because what was shown was not the game or even a slice of it. What they basically did were animate story-board mock-ups. They pulled an Alien's Colonial Marines, and did the same fraudulent shit. Except they committed fraud on their investors and customers. Obviously fanboy fags won't hold them accountable, but I hope their shareholders do. I don't see how you can look at the demo and the previews and go 'oh it was overhyped' when they were filled with outright fucking lies. Customizing cars and buying apartments have been in dozens upon dozens of games. You can't overhype basic features you dumb cunts.

Honestly, CD Projekt should be held over the fire even more than others because they used that 'good guy' reputation and manipulated people with it. Anyone who still thinks that nonsense is a fucking retarded faggot. Now, they can't even be trusted to put out a fucking modern game with basic bitch features.

Crowbcat fucked them into oblivion. His video has 2 million views. In one fucking day. He just put their teeth on the curb and stomped until there was nothing left, and they deserved every kick of it. The fact that they're still defending this featureless, empty game by just foisting 'oh only the consoles are bad' is clear they don't acknowledge or care about the massive amount of issues that they have with the base game beyond bugs.

The lack of customization, lack of meaningful world interaction, lack of features that have been basic for 10+ years, lack of any real RPG elements...this is what can be expected from them from now on. They do not care about these problems and are just using the illusion of 'optimization' problems to throw off just how mediocre and featurless the main game is. I'm so glad Crowbcat focused on these lying fucking polaks.
 
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That's what gets me. It is probably the buggiest game I've played in years with mechanics so simple that games a decade+ old outclass it. To me, there is no defense to 2077. CD Projekt outright lied, they didn't even overhype. The game is completely different from what was shown, because what was shown was not the game or even a slice of it. What they basically did were animate story-board mock-ups. They pulled an Alien's Colonial Marines, and did the same fraudulent shit. Except they committed fraud on their investors and customers. Obviously fanboy fags won't hold them accountable, but I hope their shareholders do. I don't see how you can look at the demo and the previews and go 'oh it was overhyped' when they were filled with outright fucking lies. Customizing cars and buying apartments have been in dozens upon dozens of games. You can't overhype basic features you dumb cunts.

Honestly, CD Projekt should be held over the fire even more than others because they used that 'good guy' reputation and manipulated people with it. Anyone who still thinks that nonsense is a fucking retarded faggot. Now, they can't even be trusted to put out a fucking modern game with basic bitch features.

Crowbcat fucked them into oblivion. His video has 2 million views. In one fucking day. He just put their teeth on the curb and stomped until there was nothing left, and they deserved every kick of it. The fact that they're still defending this featureless, empty game by just foisting 'oh only the consoles are bad' is clear they don't acknowledge or care about the massive amount of issues that they have with the base game beyond bugs.

The lack of customization, lack of meaningful world interaction, lack of features that have been basic for 10+ years, lack of any real RPG elements...this is what can be expected from them from now on. They do not care about these problems and are just using the illusion of 'optimization' problems to throw off just how mediocre and featurless the main game is. I'm so glad Crowbcat focused on these lying fucking polaks.
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Crowbcat's footage of all the horrendous bugs has ray tracing, shadow filtering, and other advanced post processing effects not available in the console version. He's clearly playing the PC version and CDP's garbage excuse that only the console version is broken has been conclusively proven to be grade A bullshit.
 
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Ruin said:
Crowbcat's footage of all the horrendous bugs has ray tracing, shadow filtering, and other advanced post processing effects not available in the console version. He's clearly playing the PC version and CDP's garbage excuse that only the console version is broken has been conclusively proven to be grade A bullshit.
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Oh absolutely. All versions are broken and bug filled and I have experienced a lot of Crowbcats bugs (and others). I've had a ton of model and UI issues, which has nothing to do with hardware (models folding in on themselves becoming a torso and elongated head due to explosion physics).

It's just that the console versions are tied to limited hardware which can't handle it at all. Because in addition to the bugs it is NOT optimized and just optimizing it will just make it playable on console. Not bug free.
 
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So anyone heard anything much about the Polish government investigating CD projekt red criminally? I've seen a few articles about UOKiK investigating them, but nothing that says they're being investigated for _____ crime.

www.thegamer.com

Polish Government Monitoring CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 Progress

Future patches and bug-fixes to Cyberpunk 2077 will be monitored by Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.
www.thegamer.com www.thegamer.com
 
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Dark Edea said:
Nah Twilight Princess was a shit sandwich and took years to make.
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Twilight princess was the third best-selling game of all Zelda games, by about 2.5 million copies over A Link to the Past. Some characters are regarded as some of the best in the entire series, including Midna, who was both more dynamic against Link and more directly helpful than most proxy speakers for link. To say nothing of her having a much bigger role in the plot than 'some fairy a tree asked to assist link'. And as much as it's mocked for it's aesthetic falling for those 2000s browns and greys, it still stands out among titles with that aesthetic.

It's by no means perfect, but it's also not a shit sandwich.
 
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Takayuki Yagami said:
And I’d argue that that game only works because of how strongly it leaned into its stupid premise. This game doesn’t have that luxury.
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True, but Saints Row IV was still ridiculously fun not just from them embracing their silliness, but also the gameplay, the characters, the story, everything. Zinyak is still one of my favourite vidya villains of all time.
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(...) and cops don't teleport behind you.
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"Nothin personel, choom." 👮‍♂️ (police car spontaneously explodes)
 
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Twilight princess was the third best-selling game of all Zelda games, by about 2.5 million copies over A Link to the Past. Some characters are regarded as some of the best in the entire series, including Midna, who was both more dynamic against Link and more directly helpful than most proxy speakers for link. To say nothing of her having a much bigger role in the plot than 'some fairy a tree asked to assist link'. And as much as it's mocked for it's aesthetic falling for those 2000s browns and greys, it still stands out among titles with that aesthetic.

It's by no means perfect, but it's also not a shit sandwich.
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Twilight Princess doesn't deserve all the hate it gets.

It has great characters, a fantastic soundtrack, incredibly interesting, and creative settings and dungeons, a great plot, excellent controls (at least on the GameCube), and is just a really good game, Yeah, it has that sort of edgy 2000s realistic/anime aesthetic to it, but it works, and its graphics still hold up to this day.

Also, and not to be that guy, but if Twilight Princess was so bad, and hated by the fanbase, would Nintendo still be using Twilight Princess Link as the default Link for icons on the Switch and stuff?
 
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Secret Asshole said:
Oh absolutely. All versions are broken and bug filled and I have experienced a lot of Crowbcats bugs (and others). I've had a ton of model and UI issues, which has nothing to do with hardware (models folding in on themselves becoming a torso and elongated head due to explosion physics).
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The truth is the game is absolutey mismanaged Rawpocalypse
 
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