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[II_JumPeR_I]

As a European and German im not surprised of some of the criticism.
I cant wait to play the game and im glad CDPR is doing their thing

 

[FunkMiller]

Buggy and janky as shit. Great story, character and world. Exactly as suspected. Pre-order stands.

 

[Armorian]

Some bits taken from the GamesRadar+ Review

Cyberpunk 2077 review: "What it lacks in length, it makes up for with depth and soul"

What Cyberpunk 2077 lacks in core campaign length, it makes up for with depth and soul, offering a world of intrigue and violence unlike any other.

www.gamesradar.com

As I mentioned in my preview, while Cyberpunk 2077 offers up the more traditional dialogue choices, it also comes the closest to mimicking human interaction. No longer do you need to "press X to interact" with someone, just go up to them and start talking. You can choose to pick up on something else that's happening in the room mid-conversation if you want, speak to someone else for a bit, or simply just walk away. The choices you make may not always cause the story to divert dramatically, but you'll never quite know how far-reaching your decisions are until you've made them.
...
Even after 50+ hours with Cyberpunk 2077, which includes seeing my first ending and completing all the main side quests, I still feel like I have plenty to see in Night City. Gigs still litter the map, fixers still call me for help, and I've not even started my car collection yet.
...
The only bugs I've encountered to date have mostly been visual - like missing vehicles, floating weapons, or random stuck menu bars - and have been easily fixed with a quick save and reload.

I like the pros:

• Most immersive game world to date
• Absolutely gorgeous
• Freedom of choice in story and combat

 

[imsosleepy]

from the ign review: ''It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, ''
I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review? when I read the ign conclusion it sounds like a 10 but they gave it a 9

 

[Bergoglio]

"Just ban all Cyberpunk threads and from now on if X game affects X minority group, said minority group should have veto power on everything related to that game here (general discussion, OT, review thread, etc) or even put them in charge of the OT if they want to."

HAHAHA!

 

[PotatoBoy]

I was ready for bugs, and I was ready for static environments and "waypoint chasing" like in Witcher 3.

What I was hoping CDPR would accomplish, though, was the actual "immersive sim" goal, where you have a wide variety of ways to engage in a situation, like in Deus Ex or even Fallout. Sounds like they just made Witcher 3 "in space."

Too bad. I'll still enjoy it, of course.

 

[AutumnLeaves]

underwhelming? what are you smoking?

The stuff I've read about the story and how to do the mission definitely feels underwhelming.

 

[PotatoBoy]

from the ign review: ''It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, ''
I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review? when I read the ign conclusion it sounds like a 10 but they gave it a 9

That's BS. You can't reward companies for shipping buggy and unpolished products like that. If anything they should be harsher.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Damn, so many people complaining about the main story being shorter. I've only finished The Witcher 3 once despite playing the game a lot in three different playthroughs.

from the ign review: ''It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, ''
I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review? when I read the ign conclusion it sounds like a 10 but they gave it a 9

Bugs should definitely be mentioned and taken under consideration in the review. Ffs don't let the companies ship more and more broken games. Is it so hard to expect to play the game comfortably on day 1 instead of waiting for it to be patched? (and who knows how much will be fixed in the end)

 

[Represent.]

Its an unpolished mess it seems.
TLOU 2 remains the GOTY, this aint it.

Sucks it had to release on current gen - would have been much better off as a next gen/PC only release... But money talks.

 

[Orutisu Furio]

YongYea seems to always review games pretty fairly, I would use him as a good example -- I haven't watch it yet.

 

[spons]

blunder of the century. can't wait to play this.

 

[THEAP99]

underwhelming? what are you smoking?

For a game that was hyped to the sky, you'd expect red dead 2 review scores.

Meanwhile, it's almost as low as horizon zero dawn, the first open world game from guerilla

 

[FunkMiller]

Dude... I didn't read it, remember.

 

[Timeless One]

So not underwhelming but a bit overpromised i think about some aspects like the world it self.

Otherwise it lives up to my expectation and i am happy about the game

 

[CloudNull]

Cant stop, wont stop..... Anyone know if some reviews have day one patch or are all without it?

 

[rofif]

I'm all for trans representation, but surely this cannot be the deciding factor in a review? At least 18 mentions on Polygon's review.

lol wtf is wrong with the world. Nobody cares if there are trans in game or elfes or whoever, whatever...
It's a product of a company. YOu can't please everyone in every game. YOu can take any game and say not enough gay, straight etc...
it's just idiotic thing to judge a game lower because it does not represent your feelings, ethnicity or what You have in pants. By that standard, I should be mad at Tomb Raider because I don't play at 31yo nerd so this means nerds are missrepresented...
Fuck this trend of having to make everyone happy. It is truly impossible and would ruin the narrative of every game.

Also - cdpr is a polish company. Polish people kinda barely tolerate gays. Trans are also barely a go and the unicorn weirdos are laughed at. I know, I am polish.
This does not mean that cdpr/poland hates gay or trans people. NOT AT ALL. this just means they are not going out of their way to represent them because they don't know personally probably any people like that, it's not in the family, in media here, nowhere.
I am 31, work in a big company in poland(hiring over 1000 people) and believe me. There are no obvious gay or trans people. no black people... it's a slavic backwards country. Again - I don't mind/care. It's everyones personal preference who they are of course... But they cannot demand a wide representation just like that.

 

[Mochilador]

Day one, I guess. I'm somehow hyped for this game.

 

[correofake333]

I read that too, my brother, fucking insane.

 

[Kuranghi]

Too much water and not enough blacks, i still don't understand if she talk about videogames or coffee reviews...

Won't it be funny when the races are way more mixed 150 years from now and there will still be some fringe lunatics like these people arguing whether a game has enough hexadecaroon japegroes in it.

Spoiler

I got that word from this chart, which made me laugh too much:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFxjK4DUwAAJxgp.jpg

 

[MadYarpen]

from the ign review: ''It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, ''
I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review? when I read the ign conclusion it sounds like a 10 but they gave it a 9

Noo, I don't think developers should get a pass when it comes to bugs on the release date. As much as I love CDPR, they deserve lowered scores. How much, I cant tell but a game in which bugs kill the pleasure of playing doesnt deserve 10/10 score IMO.

Witcher III got a lot of shit for the state it was released on, and personally I had 0 issues with it. I mean nothing serious happened, mostly performance problems in some areas. It doesn't look like this will be the case here.

 

[GymWolf]

Wait a fucking moment, all the reviewers are playing ths game WITHOUT the gigantic day one patch??

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

I'm glad CDPR stood their ground and didn't bend the knee to those with mental disorders. Can't wait for Wednesday night!

 

[GaviotaGrande]

You can't cock block this hype train. Sorry, Era.

 

[Freeman76]

Cyberpunk 2077 reviews that highlight the transphobia issues

Cyberpunk 2077 Kallie Plagge at Gamespot: Carolyn Petite at Polygon: Gene Park at The Washington Post: Rob Zacny at Waypoint: Metacritic: think for yourself and engage critically with your entertainment instead of caring about an arbitrary aggregate score for once in your life Please...

www.resetera.com

These cunts are a danger to themselves and society....seriously fucking disturbed set of individuals

 

[Qudrat Rabbi]

People, please do not forget they had to wrap it up under a global pandemic. I think they did pretty well all things considered.

 

[harmny]

i'm starting to think progressive reviewers hate cpdr because they are polish and white. they think they are the moral beacon of the world

 

[Goro Majima]

For a game that was hyped to the sky, you'd expect red dead 2 review scores.

Meanwhile, it's almost as low as horizon zero dawn, the first open world game from guerilla

If that's the comparison I can live with that.

I liked HZD more than RDR2!

 

[THEAP99]

Seems like a great game but not the goat like people were thinking. Anyways, not sure if I want to buy it for ps5 yet. Wanna hear review impressions for that

 

[CloudNull]

Wait a fucking moment, all the reviewers are playing ths game WITHOUT the gigantic day one patch??

I would also like to know this. Any reviews specifically state they have the day one patch?

 

[Dampf]

https://imgsli.com/MzIzMDg from PC Games Hardware

Holy moly, even without looking for RT Reflections, the difference with RTX is staggering. Everything looks much more grounded and believable.

 

[spons]

Wait a fucking moment, all the reviewers are playing ths game WITHOUT the gigantic day one patch??

correct, unless they have some magical future-patch applied days ago to their copies.

 

[cromofo]

For a game that was hyped to the sky, you'd expect red dead 2 review scores.

Meanwhile, it's almost as low as horizon zero dawn, the first open world game from guerilla

For a game that couldn't live up to the insane hype no matter how good it is and for a game that is riddled with bugs and glitches, scoring 90 is great.

 

[WiseguyMVP]

77 Metacritic Confirmed!1!1!

 

[LOLCats]

Yep, no matter how good a game is, releasing a buggy mess shouldn’t be fine, Fallout 76 wasn’t that long ago and that game got destroyed.

Yeah that game got destroyed for other reasons

 

[TintoConCasera]

Any word on mission design? Can you take missions on different ways Deus Ex style?

 

[FastyMar7]

I'm so hyped man, I expected 80-85 becasue of the bugs, 91 is a dream, once the bugs get ironed out which they inevitably will be, it might be one of the best games ever made

 

[ComputerBlue]

GTA6 is going to lose all parody and extremes that GTA5 had, going by these loonies in the review and social media sphere, innit?

It was a few years ago now that Dan Houser said making a new GTA game right now would be tough because of how easily everyone is offended by everything and said "Both intense liberal progression and intense conservatism are both very militant, and very angry. " and REEEE were calling him a coward and saying they were over him etc because he called out liberals when he said both sides, lol. Basically just proving his point, even though what he said wasn't at all offensive, but factual.

You really can't say shit these days without these fools literally shaking and having meltdowns and tantrums. Just look at the Polygon CP2077 review.

South Park seems to be the only last remaining piece of media that hasn't stopped doing what they've always done, make fun of everyone.

 

[Nikana]

Wait a fucking moment, all the reviewers are playing ths game WITHOUT the gigantic day one patch??

There was a patch midway in the time frame from codes released to embargo but the day 1 patch will be even larger and fix more things.

 

[Karunamon]

I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review?

A reviewer's job is to review what's in front of them, not what may be in front of them days, weeks, or months in the future. If you deliver a buggy thing to a reviewer, those bugs can and should be counted against it.

Keep in mind this game was delayed 3 times this year already for polishing, so there's little excuse.

Also keep in mind that most of the game's sales will happen very shortly after release, so regular people can be expected to run into bugs.

 

[The New Guy]

God damn it, I peeked the reviews.

I can handle a bit of jank and glitches, as long as the game is good. After Fallout, I'm used to buggy ass RPG games. Thanks Todd.

 

[Mobile Suit Gooch]

" fuck you white male"

That avatar is too good for him.

 

[LOLCats]

Any word on mission design? Can you take missions on different ways Deus Ex style?

with optional stealth aspects, guessing so

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

@ the people that thought this game would flop on MC. It’s one of the most anticipated games in recent memory. No way it was going to flop.

 

[FastyMar7]

Cyberpunk 2077 Review (PC) – Superlative - PowerUp!

When the credits rolled on my playthrough of Cyberpunk 2077, I'd spent 45 or so hours in Night City. Having received the code only three days before the review embargo, I seriously doubted I'd finish in time. However, forgoing sleep and playing up to 18-hours a day, I saw V's journey through to...

powerup-gaming.com

Calls it the best game he has ever played

 

[Endless Fluff]

Interesting, according to Gamestar the review copy on PC had Denuvo.

/edit
which is obviously not in the retail version

 

[The Elite]

from the ign review: ''It’s a shame that frustratingly frequent bugs can occasionally kill an otherwise well-set mood, ''
I dont get it, you are a god dam reviewer, you know it wil get patched out just like the witcher. Why weigh it in your review? when I read the ign conclusion it sounds like a 10 but they gave it a 9

You don’t weigh your reviews on future patches. They made the right decision.

 

[CloudNull]

A reviewer's job is to review what's in front of them, not what may be in front of them days, weeks, or months in the future. If you deliver a buggy thing to a reviewer, those bugs can and should be counted against it.

And yet we are sitting around a 90 aggregate, kind of wild. I dont get all the doomers in here but whatever. Game is going to be one for the books.... I never even played Witcher 3 so I am extra stoked.

 

[Infested Goblin]

Why some reviews mention that there are occiasional glitches and some like gamespot etc said that game is swimming in glitches? Pretty strange

 

[chris121580]

I'm so excited to see such positive reviews. Currently pre-loading. This discussion between Bloodworth and Ben Moore is incredibly informative and and seems very positive. They are raving about how great Keanu is in the game which is good to hear!