I'm not big on the cyberpunk aesthetic (fantasy 4evah) so I expect I'll enjoy this less than The Witcher series, but I still plan on playing it once it'll be fully patched and I'll have built myself a beefier rig. So… in 2022, probably.
― pomenitul, Friday, 19 February 2021 14:59 (three years ago) link
I've heard that the cyberpunk aesthetic and world building is a mile wide and an inch deep, and since I was profoundly disappointed by the Witcher, this will be a hard pass.
― RZA Minnelli (Leee), Friday, 19 February 2021 15:44 (three years ago) link
the genre of cyberpunk is pretty silly at this point, i mean it was always silly, its just kinda antiquated now that were living in the damn cyberpunk, theres just an aesthetic left, a futures past thing, which could be cool... i guess!
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 February 2021 15:52 (three years ago) link
i agree, cyberpunk needs to be reinvented
cybertwee
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 February 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
a whole world of neon signs and cyborg prostitutes is not cyberpunk, there also needs to be a farm
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 February 2021 15:59 (three years ago) link
getting a computer face implant was always a metaphor, for the iphone
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:00 (three years ago) link
too many cyberpunk games, not enough cyberfunk games
― na (NA), Friday, 19 February 2021 16:01 (three years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:02 (three years ago) link
in real cyberpunk 2020 there are rural areas, right? or at least, there are nomads. and i don't know, maybe the cyberpunks don't need farms because they're on soylentX
― Zach_TBD (Karl Malone), Friday, 19 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
its important for contrast, to show us what weve lost, thats why you go to michael caines house
― lag∞n, Friday, 19 February 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
Cyberpunk 2077 is a late 80s idea of the future since that's when the board game RPG first came out. All futurism ends up as retrofuturism eventually. Cyberpunk as a genre just seems to have hit that much earlier because the imagined futures it showed us were set, well, now mostly.
― Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Friday, 19 February 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
there's a solar farm AND a some-kinda-grain-probably-corn farm. you don't have a lot of missions in either tho. there's also a badlands to the east which is yeah nomad country
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Friday, 19 February 2021 19:59 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/p5iWNEg.jpg
― pplains, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/U1D6Vc6.png
― calstars, Friday, 19 February 2021 21:35 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/UP03Hpq.png
― calstars, Saturday, 20 February 2021 05:21 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/DvbHMdg.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
^ ok. I'm still not convinced, but you're proving your point.
― pplains, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:46 (three years ago) link
Yeh. Sorry I just can’t get over how beautiful this game looks.
― calstars, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 13:55 (three years ago) link
is this w/ a big fancy rtx rig? mine looked p good but that looks REAL good(btw most of my graphics complaints are directed at hud and menus. rly feel like they'd have benefitted from more... something)
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
Speaking of which, I’m kind of tempted to get a new GPU as I’ve had my GTX 1070 for four years now but the ongoing shortage is more of an impediment than I expected. And it looks like there’s no end in sight.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:10 (three years ago) link
This game runs fine on my 1070
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:46 (three years ago) link
I was so lucky to get a 2060 before the miners went crazy and the scalpers got organised.
This game is very RTX ON with all the puddles and wotnot but I'm not sure I'm into the design of the world at all. Outside of the metal on everyone's face I'm not sure its even a well imagined future city/world. The last Deus Ex game had way better world design, and its not even that good! And even in terms of GRAPHIX, I'm playing RDR2 right now and it looks way better, as well as having significantly better gameplay. I know it's nor fair to compare, but if you're an open world game in 202x you're either gotta beat RDR2/BotW/H:ZD or come with something new, and I just don't think CP77 does on either front.
― I have no couch and I must stream (NotEnough), Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:52 (three years ago) link
Oh I’m sure it’s fine at mid-settings. Truth be told, even if I had an RTX 3080, I’d probably hold off until the game is fully patched anyway.
― pomenitul, Thursday, 25 February 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
― calstars, Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:41 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/ylyg4Jz.pngVirtual dream plaza
― calstars, Thursday, 25 February 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
Are the Johnny sightings around town pre determined or based on your current path? He was critiquing this busker’s guitar skills and I was like nah
― calstars, Sunday, 28 February 2021 19:56 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/W6uu9Yx.pngKowloon vibez
― calstars, Saturday, 6 March 2021 03:37 (three years ago) link
how far through are you? i just shook down Fingers
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 6 March 2021 13:36 (three years ago) link
2nd act I guess (garbage dump loading screen) with Keanu popping up now and thenI’ve been grinding on contract missions to get some better gear and level up before I continue with the storyLot of places to explore and get familiar with I like the idea of just hanging on a street corner for a couple hours
― calstars, Saturday, 6 March 2021 13:52 (three years ago) link
ha, does anything happen or you're just taking it in? i have to take some time off the story next playi get reminded of Hong Kong a lot too. Wife is from there
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 6 March 2021 13:53 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/OvOKUiC.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/JQQq0pK.pngOn the roller coaster with Johnny
― calstars, Sunday, 7 March 2021 21:06 (three years ago) link
The modders are having fun with this.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvK_7Ohk16khttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP6cRCYYff4
Another playthrough in (on Stadia, as a new GPU has been on order since December). I don't get the lovely ray-traced reflections/shadows, but also very few bugs (mostly audio looping requiring a reload), none of which are game breakers.
The good is pretty obvious: Night City looks great, especially some neighborhoods like Kabuki and Japantown; fine story & dialogue, good voice acting (Keanu and male V are actually the weakest, here), great character animation (and in 10 languages), good original score and diagetic music, quest design permitting multiple playstyles. And the bad is pretty obvious: poor NPC AI; poor game balance, wherein if one engages with much open world ("side") content, there's no challenge at the highest difficulty; a paucity of meaningful player decisions; and non-immersive presentation of open world content.
Aside from the poor performance on last-gen consoles and most PCs, the pros and cons are pretty similar to those for Witcher III at launch. I think this game will get sorted, and may attract an audience as more migrate to current systems. But CD PR isn't as modder friendly as Bethesda, and the NPCs don't have the rich characterization of a golden age Bioware game. So I'm not sure this will have legs.
― A Like Supreme (Sanpaku), Tuesday, 9 March 2021 21:37 (three years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/gOEh3jb.jpg
― calstars, Wednesday, 17 March 2021 12:38 (three years ago) link
Haven't had much chance to look into this one just yet, but even with ps1 graphics I'm very interested from what this trailer is showing us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDA3RQpSqEw
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Thursday, 12 August 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link
"Without Judgement" is the name of the game btw
― Diggin Holes (Ste), Thursday, 12 August 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link
Was hoping this would be the Action Button vid for this finally going up, back to waiting I guess :(
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Thursday, 12 August 2021 20:02 (two years ago) link
I have been playing the Cyberpunk game
mixed feelings, but it's definitely visually dense
― mh, Friday, 13 August 2021 15:41 (two years ago) link
https://kotaku.com/cyberpunk-2077-patch-1-5-combat-perks-traffic-ai-ps5-xb-1848537538#repliesGuess now is the time to give it a shot if you’re on next gen. Free 5 hour trial.
― circa1916, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 01:51 (two years ago) link
Now that the patch is released (and I have a dozen or so “quality of life" mods installed), I’ve picked this up and am having a blast playing it like an action game with open-world elements rather than the "next gen open world game" the developers pitched it as. I’m playing a "hack and slash" build (i.e., weaken with quickhacks then go in with my katana) and it’s pretty satisfying when the combat music kicks in and I’m leaping out of stealth with sword swinging.
As an open-world game, I don’t find it as satisfying as Red Dead Redemption 2; the world doesn’t feel as “alive”. That’s a vague descriptor, since I don’t really know how to articulate it; it’s more of a feeling, I suppose. For example, the people on the street in Cyberpunk feel more obviously like bots, whereas I was content to stand on a balcony in RDR2 and just watch folks go about their day, or follow a random walking merchant in The Witcher 3 as they wandered the roads. Or I’d stumble into little scripted events when traveling in RDR2 happening in the background. I imagine that’s easier to script in a more sparsely populated setting like RDR2 than Night City, though. (Granted, I’m one of those nerds who appreciates unnecessary, mundane things in RPGs, so wish V could sit at a noodle counter to pass the time before a mission, rather than just “using” from the inventory etc.)
That aside, it looks gorgeous, and I dig driving around at night a lot. I find the side content more engaging than, say, Ghost of Tsushima. There’s valid criticism that it doesn’t feel “new/futuristic” enough in its expression of cyberpunk, but I don’t mind that at all. I read all Gibson et al in high school, and even played a session of the tabletop game back then (around 2001 or so), so it suits me find that it still feels rooted in 80s/90s. I even leaned into it by installing a mod that switches one of the radio station to play stuff like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHMzCpy0fXc
― blatherskite, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 15:32 (two years ago) link
excellent thoughts, thanks blatherskite
good music choice
― mh, Thursday, 10 March 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
Thanks. Perfect example: I was cruising around yesterday just to explore, and stumbled on this protest at a brain dance studio:
https://i.imgur.com/lp4YocY.png
I walk up to it and… nothing. There’s no dialog from the protest leader or any of the crowd members. Not even crowd noise. They’re just mutely pumping their arms. By contrast, I think of a time I was playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and stumbled across a little event as I passed by a clearing: three KKK members were arguing about how to light a cross, which then fell on them and set them on fire. It was a neat little moment that felt like the world was happening beyond my character.
(I think the worst offender I’ve encountered is L.A. Noire, which I should have loved due to its subject matter, but was completely dead: nothing ever happened in the open world outside of missions, despite how beautifully rendered the city was.)
― blatherskite, Friday, 11 March 2022 17:03 (two years ago) link
there’s a quest related to the protest you can do, but it starts elsewhere
― mh, Friday, 11 March 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
Finally finished this after beginning in February. Opinion didn’t waver much from the above: a blast to play, but some frustration that I could see a better game peeking through if some of it had been fleshed out a bit more. (For instance, after finishing their side jobs, the romance partners don’t really have much to say or do, beyond some texts.)
For those who finished, what ending did you all get, and were you happy with it?
I originally started going for the ending where V joins the nomads, since it seemed a closest to a happy ending. As it progressed, though, I felt dissatisfied. I always played V as lusting after Night City fame, so it didn’t feel right the my level 45 badass would chuck it all to live a dusty tent, even if Judy joined her. I opted for the secret ending, instead, so I could storm Arasaka with Johnny at my side and become queen of the Afterlife. Plus, the final scene approaching the space casino gave me heavy Neuromancer vibes. A shame about being dumped by Judy but, hey, I bet the DLC will include whoever the player romances, even in passing. And if not, well, we only knew each other a few in-game weeks at most, right?
― blatherskite, Monday, 9 May 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
The game uses these blue and green windows a lothttps://i.imgur.com/YE64JDk.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/w4qIVqn.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/Dv3m1gw.jpg
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 15:55 (one year ago) link
they should make a sequel called naturepunk, not sure what it would entail
― lag∞n, Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
I'm not sure why walking around night city is so boring
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
I watched Strange Days for the first time last night—that whole braindance tutorial with the robbery has to be a homage to the film.
― blatherskite, Saturday, 26 November 2022 18:45 (one year ago) link
@lag00n
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
― the late great, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:00 (one year ago) link
https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/album/solarpunk-a-possible-future
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
Maybe the best thing about this game is that it saved rockstar from having to do it (badly)
― calstars, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:51 (one year ago) link