Cyberpunk 2077 Review
www.gamespot.com
Cyberpunk 2077 has standout side quests and strong main characters, though its buggy, superficial world and lack of purpose bring it down.

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!

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    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.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        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.

    • CthulhusIntern [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      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.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        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.