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Cyberpunk 2077 - Review Thread
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Fortress of Regrets
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Hello good people, I am new here. I want to escape the absolute lunacy on Era, where I've been intermittently participating for a few years. I think I've had enough. I don't feel that you can discuss anything in that place anymore. It's always been an issue with their echo-chamber, but now it's just getting worse and worse. The plot is completely lost over there. You can not be a simple, regular human in that place (I was also born male, white and privileged, for which I will never apologize). At this point I hate whatever the fuck Era is as much as I hate right wing racists, incels and other shitheels. Era's brand of fascist wokeness is fucking awful 
Yay Cyberpunk! Looking forward to getting my PC physical box in the mail soon. The game looks awesome... albeit buggy.
Yay Cyberpunk! Looking forward to getting my PC physical box in the mail soon. The game looks awesome... albeit buggy.
TVexperto
Member
what review is thatAfter putting roughly 45 hours into Cyberpunk 2077, I was able to beat it seven different ways, including three drastically different final missions and five wildly different but satisfying endings after them (plus one similar one) – and I still have plenty more to do and lots of mysteries to hunt down. The more time you put in, the richer the payoff you’ll get in the end.
Ivory Blood
Member
IGN
Cyberpunk 2077 PC Review - IGN
Cyberpunk 2077 throws you into a beautiful, dense cityscape and offers a staggering amount of flexibility in how you choose to take it from there.
Martinski43
Member
I would've also given Days Gone a 5 or maybe less, gosh was it a slog.
FunkMiller
Member
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Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
Why would anyone play a game like this like that?
Are there psychos who played Witcher 3 or Skyrim by just gunning through the main story?
captainnapalm
Member
Exactly, it just shows you the world and expects you to be smart enough to draw your own conclusions. But these people like stories that bludgeon you over the head with their politics, which is why they make such bad writers.
You will be surprised by the number of people that do that
Wesleyalucard
Member
So, not 97 like Rockstar and Nintendo? And Less than Witcher 3?
Dusktildawn48
Member
Sadly yes, I have a friend that I guarantee will have it "beaten" by Saturday, maybe Sunday at the latest.
He kinda annoys me with it, seems to think it's a race.
B-universe
Banned
What makes you think I'm not relaxed?
Why is that even relevant? Should I digress about your psychological states when talking about Cyberpunk 2077 or fiction?
I did not say that.
I am talking about the ontology of fiction. There is a reason why Essay and Fiction exist as two distinct categories. Fiction is probably the worst possible medium to rigorously address real-life politics. When it tries it fails at both. It's a disservice both to art and politics.
Philosophy, not fiction, is the realm of serious political discussion. A piece of fiction with no artistic merit which profoundly addresses social issues is nonetheless a failed piece of art.
What's baffling is your inability to carefully consider what's being expressed.
I'm not getting into that here.
I would highly recommend Robert Mckee's seminal "Story", though.
You are smuggling in a lot of ideas with your vague language. There is no successful art without artistic merit. Artistic merit is independent from commentary on real-life contemporary events.
As a side note, it would be hilarious for CDPR, a company which is the poster child for why indeed capitalism absolutely is the morally superior system and a prosperity-generator like no other, it would be hilarious for CDPR to use Cyberpunk 2077 as an anti-capitalist pamphlet, or "commentary", as the euphemism now goes.
The poetic justice outcome would be for their shares on the stock market to plummet overnight.
Says who?
Based on what?
I haven't played the game yet. Until that happens I'm left with the tentative approach of, for the time being at least, trusting Mike Pondsmith when he clearly says CDPR is duly paying tribute to his fictional universe. He praises their work.
Is it the money speaking?
Who here is demanding that?
I certainly am not.
indigo-cyclops
Member
A shorter main campaign is absolutely fine with me. I know the game in total will clock much longer for me. I don't have fucking time for a 60 hour main quest anymore!
Topher
Gold Member
Not going to be until the get the patch out next year, I believe.
John2290
Member
There are none, the game is so buggy they've barred reviewers from using footage other than the footage they've pre-captured.
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
I just got a 15.40gb update for Cyberpunk. Wonder if that's the Day 1 patch
QuantumZebra
Member
After putting roughly 45 hours into Cyberpunk 2077, I was able to beat it seven different ways, including three drastically different final missions and five wildly different but satisfying endings after them (plus one similar one) – and I still have plenty more to do and lots of mysteries to hunt down. The more time you put in, the richer the payoff you’ll get in the end.
in my veins
Had no idea she was in this. I was planning on the Nomad life path, too.
Win.
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Moon Grape Donut
Member
Can you bang Alanah Pearces character? Asking for a friend.
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Kiraly
Member
On PC?
There are more than a few photos of the graphical/performance glitches and it isn't like they were prevented from discussing it. That the game is buggy is not a hidden thing at this point.
It will be interesting to see what the Day 0 patch actually addressed.
Desaccorde
Member
Tom's Hardware has their first performance numbers.
Cyberpunk 2077 Performance Preview and Initial Impressions | Tom's Hardware
MiguelItUp
Member
That's bizarre.. That being said, I definitely trust Laymen and Yong over PCGamer when it comes to stuff like that, haha. They probably got that patch everyone else talked about and didn't research it properly, lmao.
SoggyBiscuit
Banned
On a base level, I can understand why the game has been designated as this "flag bearer" I just disagree with the notion of dedicating the majority of your review over how good of a job it handles stuff surrounding representation
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If you want to make those points about the game, great! Perhaps put it in a more fitting medium such as a blog post or long form critique.
I certainly take no issue with the fact that minorities may find this stuff undercooked, but a review should be strictly about what the game is and not what you want it to be.
I can't stand the gender politic grandstanding that occurs within the medium. No other art form is subject to this much scrutiny.
Bartski
Gold Member
yeah but I mean the embargo is down so it's "legal" to show high res direct feed of both versions side by side as they will run on launch night right? I'll look around
Martinski43
Member
You mean the type of shit woke writers on Vice, Polygon etc?
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
Series X
Night.Ninja
Banned
How are you going to tell us you received an update but not tell us the platform
YoungYea
Every Flamingo
Member
This would push it into true GOTG territory.
Sounds like you would prefer call of duty over a huge expansive RPG
HotPocket69
Banned
FunkMiller
Member
Fuck me, you think any of those cretins have even heard of William Gibson, let alone read Neuromancer?
To them, cyberpunk is this:
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captainnapalm
Member
Yeah, but also the writers you now find at places like Ubisoft or Naughty Dog, or at Disney/Marvel, Star Trek, Dr Who - the list goes on.
midasmulligan
Member
Where’d you order from? Really wanted the collectors edition but alasHello good people, I am new here. I want to escape the absolute lunacy on Era, where I've been intermittently participating for a few years. I think I've had enough. I don't feel that you can discuss anything in that place anymore. It's always been an issue with their echo-chamber, but now it's just getting worse and worse. The plot is completely lost over there. You can not be a simple, regular human in that place (I was also born male, white and privileged, for which I will never apologize). At this point I hate whatever the fuck Era is as much as I hate right wing racists, incels and other shitheels. Era's brand of fascist wokeness is fucking awful
Yay Cyberpunk! Looking forward to getting my PC physical box in the mail soon. The game looks awesome... albeit buggy.
I played AC Valhalla for around 60 hours while I was in quarantine with COVID last month and I’m still not at 50% completion yet and I’m not even doing all of the optional stuff. I’m actually glad 2077 will be a shorter game but with more replayability.
CloudNull
Banned
You and I never see eye to eye over on the politics side but we can agree on this. Crazy that talking about certain games can get people banned.
Reviewers should focus on the product and what's in the game. It sucks that video game journalism has become this. Its all good, more and more people are seeking out untraditional media for their analyzes of games.
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Hawking Radiation
Member
Fuck. Don't have a PS5 yet and next gen patch is god knows when.
Also this game looks nice. FUCK.
Now i have to buy another game and i promised myself i wont do that until i get a PS5.
FUCK!!
Also this game looks nice. FUCK.
Now i have to buy another game and i promised myself i wont do that until i get a PS5.
FUCK!!
Miggytronz
Member
These early reviews were done without a day one patch correct?
showernota
Member
I was going to upgrade my PC for this, but now I might just snag a PS5 (if I can lol) when the next gen patch drops.
Also there's a lot of
in the loony bin.
Also there's a lot of
in the loony bin.
Moon Grape Donut
Member
So since this would be bannable on ERA I have to ask it here: why cant a mature, 18+ game actually have misogynistic, racist or transphobic characters and ads, even more in a cyberpunk universe? They exist in movies. In books. Makes me think that games are still seen as toys for children and the narrative can't have characters with those horrible traits which would be fair game in a narrative.
Also bonus points for cool side quests with them where in the end you can chop their heads off.
Also bonus points for cool side quests with them where in the end you can chop their heads off.
saintjules
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Isa
Member
I found YongYea's review to be quite good. He's quite honest as to how he played the game and the limits on what CD Projekt placed on reviews. Also on how the game plays as well as the bugs he encountered and the mid patch he played with, he said that a floating gun bug persisted but after starting a new character it wasn't there anymore. Could help determine one's desire to either wait or just play through with potential bugs popping up. I've waited to long to wait anymore, and most bugs don't, uh, bug me.