The trick is to not get caught up in the hype for it
If it's good, cool
If it's shit, oh well, not like i paid for itthis is true of all games
in general AAA games should always be acknowledged for being created under excruciating corporate conditions outside the rare exception
Yep
on a related note I will take this moment to say please support indie game devs - not “indie devs” who actually have enormous corporate backing, but actual indie devs who don’t have a studio attached to their product
I don't pirate indie games as a general rule, barring there not being a demo and being unsure whether it will run on my system, but i buy a copy afterwards if it works
Or in the case of stardew valley, end up with three copies because it's so good
I thought you meant the genre.
The genre has been stagnant for decades, and in an era where the most prolific cyberpunk medium isn't in literature, films, or video games, but tumblr and insta aesthetic accounts, there's very little hope of it transforming on a mass scale unless artists are willing to discard all the bladerunner akira neon stuff, understand the principles that made it relevant for its time, and make worlds grounded in the cyberpunk that "is now," not some 1980s retrofuture dream.
Yeah I really liked Her. It was shot like a long Google or Apple ad, but all the characters were completely alienated and insane.
Ye best be believing in shlocky hypercapitalist cyberpunk literature, yer in one
I’ve yet to see melee combat look good and believable in first person
The old Riddick games did it well IMO. Anything more advanced than that and you get into Chivalry/Kingdom Come territory which is too complicated for most casual player to learn.
I don't understand the hype for Keanu Reeves being in the game. That being revealed set off alarm bells for me, I thought we had gone beyond celebrity cameos as a selling point by now.
And it is CD project, they're physically incapable of not spouting shit.
The Keanu cameo gives me Patrick Stewart in Oblivion or Liam Neeson in FO3 vibes. B-list names that are pretty universally popular among nerds. They end up not giving them any discernable character and they are just kind of there momentarily.
When it comes to Kojima he has all his actor buddies doing weird shit which makes it somewhat entertaining.
Hell, some of those people, he was gonna put into that Silent Hill game that fell through.
Thanks for the reminder to pour one out in remembrance of what could have been.
I’ve yet to see melee combat look good and believable in first person
You've yet to play Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Less a chud but more an edgelord, I think. Eitherway the "free weekend" confirmed that game was shit Czechjank out of the gate with the sword training being cumbersome and unfun.
You kind of need to be some level of chud to love medieval Bohemia enough to faithfully recreate a few miles of it in your video game
melee combat look good and believable in first person
I thought Zeno Clash 1+2 did this well.
If you want excellent first person melee combat definitely give Mordhau a try. Mount and Blade Bannerlord is also solid, however I wouldn't recommend picking it up now while it's still in beta. Also hopefully Chivalry 2 turns out good.
I think melee combat in general basically has 3 genres to be good: grounded medieval style combat like above, combo multiplier games like Batman Arkham, or arcade style fighting games. All these AAA games which try to be everything end up falling through the cracks of meh. With some exceptions though; I think Overwatch has great uses of melee.
warhammer vermintide is very much on the unrealistic fps melee combat but it is so satisfying and some weapons aren't half bad as far as the charaters not breaking their wrists or attacking with the wrong bit of the weapon.
Wowcoolfuture.jpg I think it's gonna be all cyberpunk aesthetic with barely any substance. Even after all the trailers, it feels like it's just gonna be an action rpg shooter with cyber powers. :dem:
I will not pay 70 dollars for a videogame.
I will not buy Cyberpunk 2077.
I will not buy a vr headset.
I will not call smash a fighting game.
I will not spend $3,000 for a graphics card.
I will not play Genshin Impact.
I will not play games just because the female characters are pretty.
I will not give a game a good review just because its japanese.
I will not watch twitch streamers.
I will not buy flavor of the month twitch games.
I will not install games that are over 60 gigabytes
I will not watch v-tubers.
I will not post in roster threads.
I will not call Tekken the hardest fighting game.
I will never buy another pokemon game.
I will not post on reddit.
I will not take arguments about videogames seriously.
I will not applaud big tech companies censoring me.
I will not report another player online just because they made me mad.
I will not play games that have no gameplay.
I will not say a game is good just because its fun with friends.
nah vtubers are like the most cringe thing on the internet
I will not call smash a fighting game.
This pasta must have been designed to piss me off.
With some more delays, it could become the modern day Daikatana. Another game that was massively overhyped and had a stupid ad campaign that really damaged it along with John Romero's name.
Shockingly enough, Daikatana isn't that bad and has aged a lot better than Quake 2, the game it was competing with. It took a while but playing Daikatana today with all the patches and the mod option to turn off the AI side kicks, makes it into an enjoyable game and far more creative than Quake 2.
I don't know if Cyberpunk has a competitor like that game had, but it would be interesting if it aged well over time similar to Daikatana.
Weird thing is, Daikatana some how aged really well. I think there may have been a good game under the surface. But to really play it and enjoy it, you need all the patches and have to turn off the AI side kicks. The first level is really dull, but after you get to the second level set in Greece, that's when the game really opens up and shows there was a level of creativity put into it that Quake 2 absolutely does not have.
If you're into Doom and FPS games, Romero recently did this wad for Doom called Sigil, it's pretty good as long as you aren't playing it on UltraViolence, which has next to impossible difficulty.
If there's on thing gamers hate more than Anita Sarkeesian it's babysitting AI
It's going to be like every other fucking game you've played, except with Keanu Reeves in it.
Instead of keeping their mouth shut, they hyped the fuck out of this thing and are gonna try and run away with the bag afterwards.
I think it'll be fine. I have faith in CD Project given the Witcher 3. But the delays have weakened my hype a bit.
It's about the only AAA Cyberpunk game out there (unless you count "Ghostrunner" I guess) at this time. Which is a genre that is catnip for me. So I'm pretty hyped to actually be able to play.
Weird thing is, Watch Dogs Legion has been kind of "low Cyberpunk", to a degree which suprised me, both in terms of aesthetics and themes. Though it's not perfect, and it can't make a systemic critique to save its life, there's a lot of pawning every bad thing off on the private police, with the "good police" and politicians being good but powerless and the intelligence state actively helping the revolution.
@gwordcountbot @ClassWarhammer40k yeah another g*mer meltdown would be amazing
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I have zero faith in CDPR to make a good combat system after Witcher 3, so it’ll be a nice surprise if that’s decent. Maybe they’ll be better at making an FPS. As long as the world building and story is on par with W3 I’ll be happy, that’s my personal expectation level.
