It's a passable game, but it's basically just Fallout 4 with the bugs turned way up and cars. The story is kinda bland and generic, the world looks cool, but feels empty, the combat is repetitive and makes a serious gameworld feel more like a goofy combat arena (like you're constantly just murdering cops, gang members, etc. with no real ramifications. You can mow down 100 cops and still do missions for them like nothing happened).
The cyberpunk themes are kinda just tangential at best, all it really takes on is the aesthetic. They chose to make a game from intensely political source material and basically just ignores politics for a bland "I'm just a guy/girl, man!" main character (why the fuck did they even add the genitals if it doesn't even matter...pronouns being tied to voice is some dumb shit, literally just make all those options toggleable).
I can forgive people giving meh or average/slightly above for this game because some people just like grindy loot'n'shooters, but anyone that's praising it with 10/10 and shit is either paid or a certified Gamer™
For real. There was one mission that actually had me somewhat engaged and it was the Johnny memory sequence when he was recruiting mercs to nuke Arasaka. The entire time I was playing that level I was just dreading it ending because I knew I would have to go back to the bland overworld where my dying character that only cares about themselves would go talk to a car that sounds like Glados from Portal.
It's a joke that's 10 years too late lol. Which is probably how they were able to swing it. A lot of the side missions are Ready Player One levels of pandering.
Definitely. It at least ran on everything. They're just very comparable in terms of how much they under delivered. I think 76 is actually a better comparison, but that one didn't even have a story when it came out so I don't know.
Fallout 76 did have a story though. Hell, it's probably top 3 in the series and the villain, though he's dead, is probably the most interesting and fully realised one since the Master.
What it lacked was human NPCs and the interactions within.
It's a passable game, but it's basically just Fallout 4 with the bugs turned way up and cars. The story is kinda bland and generic, the world looks cool, but feels empty, the combat is repetitive and makes a serious gameworld feel more like a goofy combat arena (like you're constantly just murdering cops, gang members, etc. with no real ramifications. You can mow down 100 cops and still do missions for them like nothing happened).
The cyberpunk themes are kinda just tangential at best, all it really takes on is the aesthetic. They chose to make a game from intensely political source material and basically just ignores politics for a bland "I'm just a guy/girl, man!" main character (why the fuck did they even add the genitals if it doesn't even matter...pronouns being tied to voice is some dumb shit, literally just make all those options toggleable).
I can forgive people giving meh or average/slightly above for this game because some people just like grindy loot'n'shooters, but anyone that's praising it with 10/10 and shit is either paid or a certified Gamer™
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For real. There was one mission that actually had me somewhat engaged and it was the Johnny memory sequence when he was recruiting mercs to nuke Arasaka. The entire time I was playing that level I was just dreading it ending because I knew I would have to go back to the bland overworld where my dying character that only cares about themselves would go talk to a car that sounds like Glados from Portal.
The GLADOS section sounds so funny to me because at this point it's not even an annoying meme anymore, it's like if they put Limp Bizkit in the game.
It's a joke that's 10 years too late lol. Which is probably how they were able to swing it. A lot of the side missions are Ready Player One levels of pandering.
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Insanely detailed as in it's insane what details they chose to focus on.
FO4>CP77
Definitely. It at least ran on everything. They're just very comparable in terms of how much they under delivered. I think 76 is actually a better comparison, but that one didn't even have a story when it came out so I don't know.
Fallout 76 did have a story though. Hell, it's probably top 3 in the series and the villain, though he's dead, is probably the most interesting and fully realised one since the Master.
What it lacked was human NPCs and the interactions within.