Cyberpunk 2077

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

Half a billion dollars!

A lot of people want to escape

May I just say that I've been on this website for nearly 18 years, and I've never posted a Mr. Bean video before now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3Q4UacBe1A

As someone who has had Twitch on in the background for a while: C77 is less buggy than any Bethesda release upon launch, and in some respects more ambitious. Even on base PS4s. There are more serious issues with gameplay balance, which may never get fixed, but objects glitching out occurs about once every few hours, crashes every several dozen.

Yes, in its best visual form it's really demanding of graphics cards. Under 5% of Steam users have a PC with a graphics card that can do it justice (even at 1080p). I'll likely get vaccinated before I find a Ampere card at MSRP or below (Chinese Etherium miners bought most), or AMD updates its drivers to support ray tracing for lighting effects. But for those who were lucky/rich enough to have bleeding edge PCs, its really graphically stunning.

waiting for the uncut Switch version

bethesda's the real winner here since everyone's now forgotten they had the worst major game launch of the generation

For those of you lamenting there's no means of previewing clothing, a fan-made C77 fashion catalogue and inspiration magazine, as featured in Forbes. Limited to female Vs at the moment.

this is better than saints row 2 but not as good as sleeping dogs, and overall feels like those games--mid/late xbox 360 era GTA clones.

You knew this article was going to come: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/cyberpunk-2077-what-caused-the-video-game-s-disastrous-rollout?sref=P6Q0mxvj

I have finished Cyberpunk 2077 and the game was kind enough to give me one last treat on its way out pic.twitter.com/y5MCR9u625

— Katie Tiedrich (@katietiedrich) February 5, 2021

Def a feature rather than a bug.

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haha Thanks Snoball I was racking my head trying to recall what it was from

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2021/feb/09/makers-of-cyberpunk-2077-game-hit-by-ransomware-hack

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Holding source code for Cyberpunk 77 for ransom:

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“Your [sic] have been EPICALLY pwned!!,” the hackers wrote, according to the note released by CD Projekt.

Indeed.

lol xp

this explains why i started seeing popular downloads of witcher 3 on several sites

leaking your source code so the public can write your patches for you, smdh

foudn this visualization of the code haha

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Whole lotta teal in this game

people on PC would harp on the gameplay but gush about the graphics, i just don't get it

yeah i'd be the opposite. i built a new pc just before this came out (not for this game -- in fact buying it was an impulse decision to "see what my new computer could do") and while i enjoyed the gunplay and the golden path missions and some of the sidequests stuff, the degree to which i needed to turn down my graphics to get even a decent framerate was very annoying and it just didn't look that good. the hud/ui, which at the very least i would have expected to look slick as fuck for a cyberpunk game, barely felt a step above fallout 3? and since the computer i built isn't a multi-thousand-dollar powerhouse or anything, i figured ah its just not that powerful, maybe nothing runs THAT good. then i installed forza horizon 4 and play it on ultra in 1440p (vs cyberpunk which i played on 1080p, didnt have new monitor yet) and consistently get 60-80 frames so uhhh

even when someone can get it running at 4k or whatever, it's all either so drab or sickly bright in such an unappealing way. too much asphalt, and how much better have we gotten at rendering asphalt

It's just not a good game,i think is the issue

You guys have some pretty high standards

Tbf dl's a Witcher fan (as am I), so you'd hope Cyberpunk 2077 tops it.

i tried 2 times to get into the witcher and bounced off hard. i liked 2077 enough to finish it and come close to 100%ing it even. its fun! it has fun parts! im just saying look wise i kinda expected more than "last gen but moreso"

cyberpunk is massively flawed and probably needed at least another six months before it was released

but it's also one of the most exquisitely-realised, real-feeling game worlds i've ever played in and it has a genuine, tender affection for its main characters, who are all unusually well-written

so y'know it's a land of contrasts i guess

I'm not big on the cyberpunk aesthetic (fantasy 4evah) so I expect I'll enjoy this less than The Witcher series, but I still plan on playing it once it'll be fully patched and I'll have built myself a beefier rig. So… in 2022, probably.

I've heard that the cyberpunk aesthetic and world building is a mile wide and an inch deep, and since I was profoundly disappointed by the Witcher, this will be a hard pass.

the genre of cyberpunk is pretty silly at this point, i mean it was always silly, its just kinda antiquated now that were living in the damn cyberpunk, theres just an aesthetic left, a futures past thing, which could be cool... i guess!

i agree, cyberpunk needs to be reinvented

cybertwee

a whole world of neon signs and cyborg prostitutes is not cyberpunk, there also needs to be a farm

getting a computer face implant was always a metaphor, for the iphone

too many cyberpunk games, not enough cyberfunk games

otm

in real cyberpunk 2020 there are rural areas, right? or at least, there are nomads. and i don't know, maybe the cyberpunks don't need farms because they're on soylentX

its important for contrast, to show us what weve lost, thats why you go to michael caines house

Cyberpunk 2077 is a late 80s idea of the future since that's when the board game RPG first came out. All futurism ends up as retrofuturism eventually. Cyberpunk as a genre just seems to have hit that much earlier because the imagined futures it showed us were set, well, now mostly.

there's a solar farm AND a some-kinda-grain-probably-corn farm. you don't have a lot of missions in either tho. there's also a badlands to the east which is yeah nomad country

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