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This Week in Games - That's Not Very Cyberpunk of You

Cyberpunk 2077: the Gundress of video games.

Games like Cyberpunk,are why I go into them as blind as possible. So I have little chance if being disappointed! I do find it weird how people were acting like CD Projekt Red could do no wrong,when they only made one fantastic game,in Witcher 3 (1 was mediocre and 2 was pretty good until the rushed end).

It's just another sandbox RPG, its only unique points really being the setting and Keanu Reeves. All that work and hype for nothing.

-Cyberpunk: This is probably the worst fiasco seen since at least Fallout 76 which was also a buggy mess. But whereas 76 was just boring, Cyberpunk is genuinely unplayable on entire platforms. It really is a crystallization of AAA gaming's worst habits: unrealistic expectations, incompetent management, hype overload, etc. Heck, the game isn't problem-free on the PC either as it requires a really good rid so we can act "power obsession" to the list as well.

And the funny thing is, the game was NOT the genre-redefining moment touted by its creators. It's just another sandbox RPG, its only unique points really being the setting and Keanu Reeves. All that work and hype for nothing.

-DNF Duel: Huh, okay. I'm always up for ArcSys doing new licenses out of nowhere

Personally I’ve loved Cyberpunk, Stayed away from the hype and my knowledge was mainly sci-fi/cyberpunk ascetic with great graphics and Keanu for some reason and was absolutely amazed by just how deep and detailed the city and side missions were (and how well they integrated Keanu into the story).

Turns out, if Cyberpunk does end up changing the industry it'll be by serving as a warning to publishers considering rushing games out the door.

Games like Cyberpunk,are why I go into them as blind as possible. So I have little chance if being disappointed! I do find it weird how people were acting like CD Projekt Red could do no wrong,when they only made one fantastic game,in Witcher 3 (1 was mediocre and 2 was pretty good until the rushed end).

The industry has seen the problem of this numerous times over the last 40 years. They're never going to get this lesson also keep in mind CyberPunk has been in development since at least 2012/2013 all that time and the game wasn't even finished when they started Crunch.

Don't forget Fallout New Vegas. It's still unplayable without anti-crashing mods and preferable bug fixing patches, yet people still love that game.

Come release week, the Online Cyberpunk 2077 Defense Force was mobilized and ready to destroy. Much shit was lost over a handful of more negative reviews. Liana at Game Informer pointed out that there were seizure-inducing light patterns in the game – one of those really important things that you would think would be caught during QA analysis. She was rewarded for her reporting by a bunch of asshats trying to send her flashing GIFs and telling her that people prone to seizures simply shouldn't play games at all. Totally cool and normal fan reaction, and not at all completely terrible behavior!

Unfortunately, yeah. As much as people wanted to believe otherwise, CDPR ended up behaving like the big publishers that are synonymous with scummy behavior. In some ways, they were worse. Not even EA or Activision have pulled a move restricting reviewers from using their own footage.

I also agree with your second point. Even if things were working correctly, it still would not have reached what they said. Somebody at CDPR decided that they would claim to have the most advanced crowd AI in gaming history. I doubt it's an accidental bug that NPCs will do things like react to explosions in the exact same way in sync with each other, or that stopping your car in the road will cause all other cars to just sit there and wait. GTA figured out how to make cars go around a long time ago.