Cyberpunk 2077

I would probably play a video game based on the Fantasy Flight Android world.

playing cyberpunk2020 on a ms pac-man-style tabletop unit in a pizza parlor in 1990 would have been so sick though

yakuza 28 minigame

Pplains I made the same mistake

https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/cyberpunk-2077-refunds/

Sony are issuing full refunds for everyone who bought it on Playstation. I was quite enjoying it on PS4 despite it being an unfinished mess, happy to get £50 back before xmas tbf. Wonder if they can force an uninstall from user accounts.

lol

I asked for my money back and received a short no-reply boilerplate saying they were fixing the game, but nothing else

Didn't expect this game to be an ET on the Atari 2600 level disaster, quite spectacular.

oh man it's vaporwaring. #aesthetic!

wowwwww what a fustercluck

The link to the refund page came up as a 404 on my first try. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

this release is a meta cyberpunk ARG

It just gets worse:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/cd-projekt-could-face-investor-legal-action-over-cyberpunk-misrepresentation/

lol love to see it

current gen console QA: 200 zloty
tasteful marketing: 150 zloty
transphobic community managers: 50000 zloty
dick slider engineering team: 90000000 zloty

someone who is good etc

Definitely not pulling the trigger on this one any time soon from what I've seen, but I have to admit that I really do like the look of the details in the city environment.

lol, i got a push notice from the NYT telling me how badly this failed; not a good sign

took me 100 tries to beat first boss Royce. Got to hit those glitchy streets harder!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNqWPtcXk5w

can't actually tell the difference

Take my money!

Lol!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stlfQNzKdbc

The actual Cyberpunk one he made actually made me feel bad for the programmers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPW6fkcM-14

I’ve kinda gotten a kick out of corny gamer dorks seeing their lord and savior fuck up in spectacular fashion, but yeah, sympathies to the folks who had to grind this out for this result. Spectacular mismanagement.

Hoping we get some Fyre Fest exposes on wtf happened behind the scenes here.

Same here, except I wouldn't call them corny.

Have you not seem “Good Guy CDPR” memes that have flooded Reddit and such these past few years? Oof.

My adjective of choice would be noxious.

Also acceptable. It’s an array.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/style/cyberpunk-2077-video-game-disaster.html

On Glassdoor, a site where people can rate their previous employers, current and former CD Projekt Red workers said there was chaos behind the scenes: Office rumors spreading on Discord servers, misleading deadlines set by managers, infighting among the company’s top brass, and incompetence and poor planning leading to unnecessary “crunch,” a term for overworking employees to produce games under a tight deadline. Longtime engineering staff left the company as a result of overwork.

“The owners treat the company as a machine to earn money, and do not see employees as people but more like data in the table,” one former employee wrote on the site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tJthUWc13Y

If you're not on a legacy console, this is running pretty well. Malcontents will push the glitch narrative, but that's not what I'm seeing on PC. I'm seeing a remarkably fluid game engine, great art, modeling and music, and serviceable but sometimes great writing. The voice actor for female V will be in demand, the male, not so much.

The more serious complaints should be with the issues that will be much harder to iron out: Railbound narratives. Lousy enemy AI. Scaling via bullet sponges. Domino effects in the underlying RPG maths such that some character builds just steamroll through without effort (or replayability). Pervasive environmental misogyny.

My guess, as it gets sorted, and more play on current consoles, this will viewed as technically (over)ambitious, but not captivating.

Iirc in the Dunkey video says he was playing on a generally solid PC rig, too, and still ran into tons of frame rate issues, really dramatic dips. As he says, if you can get Mario Odyssey running at 60fps on a Switch, and stuff like God of War and Red Dead running stable on a base console, then there is no excuse.

There isn't any excuse for the state of it on base model last gen consoles. They done em dirty.

Just recently found out that PlayStation straight up removed it from their online store a few days ago? Damn.

imagine if this came out in april as originally planned

I just started playing GTA V on my Base PS4, a game that came out in 2014, and yeah, there is no excuse at all

you'd need to play GTA V on PS3 for the proper comparison

and also without the 5 years of patches its gotten

GTA V on 360 was pretty smooth iirc

I played GTA 5 on PS3 like first week of release. It was pretty flawless? It was released on PS3 and 360 exclusively, so it was pretty laser focused to run well on those systems. Online was jacked up, of course.

Rockstar actually a company that does this remarkably well. Read Dead 2 is still jaw dropping.

Gta v was good on xbox 360. Was the last new console game I bought 😭

yeah it was astounding what they managed to push the ps3/xbox360 into doing for gta5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3isCdVVPbk

Good commentary-free playthriugh

thanks, i think i am into that idea

Got the disc version of this as a xmas present. So far, at least with the latest patch, the game has been running decently on my base PS4. There’s some occasional frame rate dropping and stuttering (especially with vehicles) but it’s not at all unplayable.

(Of course that’s not to excuse any issues others are experiencing or the developer’s obvious greed and mismanagement of their launch.)

Gameplay-wise its nothing revolutionary but it’s a solid sandbox action RPG. The story’s pretty cliche but I’m enjoying it. Very GTA.

oh yeah i wasnt saying that GTAV was bad on release just that the PS4 version isn't the right comparison

rockstar probably also under less pressure to ship their games a year before they're finished

yeah rockstar won't announce a game until it's on a solid finish path.

i imagine one of the big factors in not delaying it again was console generation timing - 6 months from now there still isn't going to be a huge PS5/XBSX install base but the 150 million+ PS4s/XB1s in the wild are going to start collecting dust, and people would put off buying it until they can get a next gen console. despite the terrible optimization this game was always supposed to take advantage of that massive late-generation install base. most studios probably would've done the same thing if they were scared of missing that window.

seems to have worked out well enough for their bottom line anyway, in spite of everything

yeah 8 million preorders is a mindboggling number