probably this and PC Gamer are the only honest reviews of this game, rightfully calling it out for being a buggy mess and also shallow depth of gameplay/bloated content
do not become addicted to hype, my friends, it will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
imagine abusing your workers for months on end and the game is still a buggy mess
almost as if productivity drops through the floor when you burn your staff outit's possible it's just that the review builds were like pre-bugtesting ie not with the 45GB day one patch. There might be some legal shit where they can't give the updated version bc it has to have parity to the console disks that were being printed? idfk
The time leading up to launch is mostly behind-the-scenes shit to prepare for launch day, all but the most egregious bugs will probably still be in the gold version.
the comments are so funny, let the butthurt flow
remember when Jim Sterling gave BOTW a 7 and had his website DDOS attacked?
My bad. Of course I miss that on the person who's very open about their gender in a space that's generally very hostile to that sort of thing :sadness:
a long anticipated, repeatedly delayed game that gamers talked about like the second coming of christ was a disappointment? who could have possibly predicted this?
Never happened before in my life!
(Shoves copies of Duke Nukem Forever behind a grandfather clock)
Polygon's review seems pretty honest too.
It has a lot of criticism and doesn't give any score. It is of course getting absolutely brigaded by Gamer TM types because I believe the reviewer is trans and makes very vocal points in the review about how dogshit the trans representation is. I very much like this point:
I get that Cyberpunk’s dark future is intended not as a goal, but as something for humanity to avoid. As Mike Pondsmith, creator of the Cyberpunk tabletop game, has put it, “The Cyberpunk future is a warning; not an aspiration.” There’s real potential for a grim world like the one Cyberpunk 2077 offers to serve as a lens through which our own world is critiqued, but the developers at CD Projekt Red failed to do anything with the trans options and identities they incorporated into the game to make them function in this way, and as V, you never have the option to say or do anything about it. The objectification of trans people is just background texture, nothing more.
For elements like the inescapable dehumanization of trans people on imagery throughout the city to function as any kind of critique of transphobia, the game itself would need to create tension around those images by showing us humanized trans people navigating that world. But it doesn’t. The result is a game in which transphobic players (of which there will be many) can just laugh at us by using the character creator to generate models they consider worthy of mockery and derision and by gagging at the Chromanticure ads they see everywhere, or perhaps by fetishizing the model while continuing to see trans people as objects of desire but not as full human beings. Meanwhile, we trans players are left wanting in its world for depictions that humanize us.
This is it really. If you're going to create incredible objectification that basically functions as transphobia in your world then you need to show an actual trans character navigating that world and how it affects them. If you do not, you're not creating anything interesting that the audience is forced to learn anything from, you're creating something that reinforces their shit.
Yes, I fully expect a cyberpunk world to have rainbow capitalism, but the game is not just about corporate ads at the time, it also involves people, who would have to navigate that world.
I hope that maybe that, since this is supposed to be a sidequest heavy game, they may explore that in big storyline outside of the main story.
But yeah, I really only want this game for the atmosphere. MAYBE some sidequest line will be a brilliant part of the game, which is not uncommon, but I expect to drive and run around and occasionally cause mayhem in a neon soaked world, with silly fashion, and I don't think I'll be disappointed there.
This is where I am with it too.
I'm expecting to enjoy the gameplay but really dislike some of their decisions when it comes to writing and worldbuilding. Mostly because they are probably all shitlibs in the team.
Before the game releases and this site becomes filled with discourse, a reminder:
Hand-wringing over media consumption is the 69th form of liberalism.
thank you. we can't just assume bc two people gave it a bad review that "has" to be the correct take.
My disdain is based entirely around the aesthetic differences between the teaser trailer and everything put out since then. The teaser looked like like a reimagined Deus Ex, the screenshots I have seen all simply look like a retro neon GTA (and not GTA 4 either!)
The change probably happened due to the whole vaporwave thing.
Personally I'm okay with it. I've already seen Deus Ex gritty
brownyellow cyberpunk. Now show me bright neon cyberpunk.
r u triggered Witcher fanboy?
if a dev crunches staff to rush a game and its buggy they deserve to be reviewed accordingly
certain fanboy magnet AAA devs/publishers are always given special treatment where flaws are ignored because they’ll presumably be fixed later, which is never the standard for indies
and as you can see in the other review thread most reviewers are giving it high marks when the actual content of the reviews read like a 7
lol why would I play such shallow, buggy dogshit?? didn’t you read the review?
lol nah I’m just trolling fanboys/bootlickers like you who feel the need to leap to the game’s defense
I was always having fun with a funny shitpost, are you talking to yourself?
this you?
oh for fuck’s sake. if you haven’t played it, you have no clue whether their reviews are more honest than the others this is just a whinier form of gamertrash posting
sounds like u totally harshed my thread, brah, chill out pls lmao
we need to put an age limit on signing up for this thrice damned website
stop trying to steal valor from real victims, gamer, you are not oppressed because gamer girl gave your precious game a 7
sounds like you're projecting again, I've been completely level headed and calm in my shitposting
this still you?
oh for fuck’s sake. if you haven’t played it, you have no clue whether their reviews are more honest than the others this is just a whinier form of gamertrash posting
lol imagine caring about downvotes
all I see is a bunch of salty gamer fanboys too cowardly to leave a comment outing themselves as stans for a corporation and being butthurt enough to follow this comment chain just to downvote
It clearly needed to be delayed for longer but marketing stupidly created too much early hype for it so whoops sorry developers we're going to overwork you and not give you enough time to finish it, enjoy taking the fall for us when people point out the unfinished buggy mess!
The suits wanted it out in time for Xmas, so here it is, bugs and all.
Oh yeah, that is the one good thing about CDPR: GOG.com, because that means no DRM(hope it still does?), which leads to it usually being easier to pirate.
Someone already bought it for me for a gift over a year ago so I have a legit copy.
Just thought I'd bring that up in case anyone sees me playing it. I don't want to lose comrade points.
i can play the game with these "preload files"? id never heard of this term before.
how can this girl be called a "gamer" when she hasn't even said the n word???
It's fascinating watching Gamers react to this game. On one hand, they're CPR fanboys, on the other, from what it seems, it's a fairly "woke" game, so I feel like they don't quite know how to react in some instances.
Apparently some of the vehicles have various pride stickers on theme. I can't wait for the meltdown.
Look, don't get me wrong, I respect the gays, but only if they shut the fuck up and pretend they don't exist.
-G*mers
god gamers are so fucking stupid. basically the entire article is full of valid criticism, but 2 lines about how cultures are misrepresented and these neanderthals scream SJW
Do they know Kotaku wasn’t shut down with Gawker? Their parent company just got sold a couple of times. It’s true the current owner is terrible so I guess it’s a wash.
Since when has being buggy or having janky gameplay prevented a game from being a classic? Kotor 2, VTMB, Deadly Premonition are all great
CD Projekt are still dicks though
