BeatEmUps is a fucking grifting HACK. When you've got merch to sell and bandcamp links to pimp, you lose all credibility as an honest, credible reviewer. Seriously, that dude is a painfully perfect example of everything that is wrong with Youtuber gaming coverage. Sensationalistic, clickbait takes purposefully designed to garner as many hits as possible for his
monetized video and (
fingers crossed!) people stumble onto his merch links. As far as I'm concerned, he completely lacks qualifications to be taken seriously and made a review that
didn't even discuss or glossed over the most crucial, important parts and biggest selling points of the game yet somehow, someway his voice is considered credible? If that's what passes for a good review...Jesus fucking christ. I guess standards have greatly fallen over the years. The 1,000 NPCs thing is from a mistranslated quote posted on Reddit of all places. Why did no Youtuber contact CDPR to confirm it? Right, because they aren't journalists in any way shape or form, want to act like them whenever it fits their wallet needs and don't know proper procedures or have any kind of ethics. He sources footage from other platforms yet he himself didn't even play on that platform. How is that acceptable? If you can't be bothered to actually source your own footage, you've got no foot to stand on at all and why should I listen to him if he's half-assing it? Counterpoint: I disagree with ACG/Karak's reviews, who also lit into CP2077, but I respect his opinion because that dude puts in
fucking work and covers just about every facet there is to cover in a game. Even a meme heavy, very unserious channel like Laymen Gaming, run by a big goofy but lovable joker, put out a better review.
Skill upgrades most certainly aren't all percentage increases so stop lying. Funny how everyone loves those in Dark Souls yet they're bad here? It's an rpg! Stats have always been part of them! What a weird criticism. Implants is where you get your new interactive combat options yet you didn't mention them for some reason...
I really don't want to keep arguing in circles about this in the OT because it's getting tiring. No matter what I say, I get called a shill or "unhinged" as a now Ignored poster described me instead of actually participating in the discussion or my points ignored. For the last time, the year(s) old gameplay reveals had giant (word for word here) WORK IN PROGRESS - DOES NOT REPRESENT THE FINAL LOOK OF THE GAME watermarks the entire time and everyone was told by the narrator the same. If that hour long watermark doesn't mean anything to you or you are unable to understand it, then I don't know what to tell you...read a book? Study more?
Understand that everything about a game is a work in progress until you download it/have it in your hands. The other trailers were
purely CGI trailers aimed at selling Night City, the lore of the world, but not the content of the actual game because it's CGI. We've seen these for decades. This is nothing new yet all of a sudden it's a massive lie put forth by the devs. Look at the comments on the videos, "CDPR implied" or "CDPR infer" you can buy houses, customize cars, etc etc. That's people making shit up. None of that is official confirmation thus it is irrelevant to any real discussion of the game. They also announced features as never being in the game (car customization) or were cut for various reasons (wall running). Before you go, "Bbut what about the NPC AI or the police system!" I
know. I've never denied that and no one else has either. But I've always questioned the motivation behind that...really? That's what's important in an rpg? Sure, it'd add more to "mah immersion!" but it's superfluous at best. The world is absolutely jampacked with details, lore and world building but "liar" crowd seem to be outright ignoring that. This is really starting to feel like baby's first AAA game release for a significant portion of those calling CDPR liars or writing off the game as shit. Roast the bugs but also roast every other game that comes out for bugs. Be consistent.
Name names then. I've asked for those "better" games in multiple places and have always been met with cricket chirps. I'll be more than happy to point out the flaws of those PS4/Xbone and previous gen games, tell you how many of those games contain the very same flaws of CP2077 and how it bests them in a myriad of ways because discussion is fun and maybe we'll both learn a thing or two that we missed or overlooked. Join it here:
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/worst-open-world-game-of-all-time.1585422/