Cyberpunk 2077

[Yel]

We’ve got it on PC and bar the odd few bugs it plays fine and is an incredible game. Really feeling for all of those who bought it for consoles, it’s an absolute shambles on the devs part and I really hope refunds are issued as promised!

Finally got round to playing it a fair bit and I really didn't notice many bugs on stadia. The game is missing a lot of polish, but it's still great. It's mostly dialogue and on screen boxes messing up. I doubt the two major fixes will bring it up to the standard of rockstar games - but they did spend double the amount of time for red dead 2 compared to cyberpunk. Shame as it could have been amazing.

Spoiler: Endings

The suicide ending was rubbish, going back to earth for 6 months is the best ending I've got so far.

 

[Yel]

Kinda a dead thread, but did anyone watch the anime show? Not usually my kind of thing but it is brilliant.

CDPR have turned this mess around a lot and made me want to play it all again and rediscover the soundtrack.

 

[JodieGreen123]

My bf is obsessed with this game. I genuinely think he’s having an affair with it

 

[RaveChampion]

I tried it when it first came out on PC and it was all an over the place unoptimised buggy mess.One of the worst releases I've seen in years of gaming. I uninstalled it after a few hours. It was shockingly ropey.

Retried it a couple of months ago fully patched up to 2.02 and it's now outstanding IMO. I've sung it's praises on the video game topic in a couple of posts.

I'm not big on RPG's and dislike the aesthetics of the Cyberpunk genre and had low expectations. It's surpassed these and is a retroactive GOTY for me. I dislike sexual content in games though obviously it's fine to kill and maim in said games for me as I'm kind of hypocritical that way. Still I didn't find the sexual content problematic here. I did avoid it wherever possible though out of sheer Puritanism. I avoided completing one side quest entirely as I could see where it was heading and couildn't face the sexy time.

I'm currently playing the Liberty add on which is solid but not worth a 9 or 10/10. There appears to be some graft going on with certain game reviews these days IMO. It's always gone on but it's looking blatant at the min.

Devs are under so much pressure to ship games on time this "half finished"issue plagues many releases that need a few more months polish.
From past experience it's unwise to expect a game to ship in a reasonable state on day one. Hang on and give it 6 months till they iron out the kinks. I'm not condoning releasing games in the Alpha stage but it's a reality for many on PC as there are so many hardware variables also.

 

[kazizzle]

I've also been chatting about it a bit on the video game thread.
We got it on the PS4 when it first came out and didn't find it too buggy so OH managed to play through it and then never touched it again. We have a gaming PC now and got it on sale a few months back. He's done a full playthrough and I'm just up to the start of act 3. I love RPGs but never usually play shooter style ones or first person style games so it's been a bit of a learning curve for me but honestly I've loved it. Just playing on the easiest mode as I'm enjoying the story mostly and not overly bothered about combat being a challenge. Been taking a break now mostly to complete gigs and side jobs but thinking I'll hop back to the story soon and get it completed. We don't have the expansion yet but will probably pick it up soon.

 

[Snippysnips]

I keep starting this, playing some then stopping lol, is it worth getting liberty city an starting from beginning? Or is liberty city something all on its own?

 

[RaveChampion]

I keep starting this, playing some then stopping lol, is it worth getting liberty city an starting from beginning? Or is liberty city something all on its own?

The Liberty expansion just unlocks another part of the existing map from the base game that was blocked off prior. You can start it whenever you like. It turns up in your mission list as a side quest to meet a certain character at a certain location near the level entrance. I nearly started it early doors by accident till I realised it was part of the expansion and not a base game quest. You can travel between base game and expansion anytime between missions just by using the entrance between maps.

It also apparently gives you another ending to the original base game. I want to try this as I reckon I messed up my game ending as someone distracted me at a key point and I lost the thread at the finale.

Everything in the game levels up with you so it's always balanced. Theres also a new skill tree called "the relic" or something which gives you various character boosts esp in melee which is of no interest to me personally.

It's generous with various fairly high powered unique weaponry you can loot/find.

New vehicles not so certain tbh. I just bought the best bike available and stuck with that. It's far nippier in heavy traffic.

It's worth checking out and you can dip in and out of it. I just find it kind of underwhelming after reading various 10/10 "perfect" reviews of it. It's not.
I'm in no hurry to finish it and keep putting it off.

 

[Snippysnips]

Thanks, I might get it if it goes on sale if it's something that can be unlocked at anytime an isn't too important to the main storyline, just didn't want to start a game then realise that liberty completely changes the entire game

 

[RaveChampion]

I read somewhere that the debacle of the initial release cost CDPR over a billion dollars.
That can't be right can it?
I can understand a few hundred million.
I used to know coders who designed games on the c64 who were my age doing it all from a back bed room in their teens. Some of these were big titles/ US Gold ports. If you got really stuck on a game and contacted them the actual game designer would sometimes phone you up to give advice on how to progress. This happened with my brother a couple of times. The designer/coder was gobsmacked he'd progressed so far.
It's staggering to see how this stuff has progressed financially. The industy has also lost it's soul in many ways though.
I only post this "there used to be fields here" spiel because I can't get my head round the billion dollar bit.

 

[kazizzle]

Thanks, I might get it if it goes on sale if it's something that can be unlocked at anytime an isn't too important to the main storyline, just didn't want to start a game then realise that liberty completely changes the entire game

Yeah I think it's just an expansion and gives you a new ending, but once you've got any ending the game takes you back to before your "endgame" save so you can do more jobs/try for a different ending etc so there's plenty opportunity to do the new Phantom Liberty stuff even if you've already played the game through. The main changes for gameplay were applied for everyone with the expansion patch even if you don't have Liberty. I logged in after the expansion came out and all my character perk points had been reset because the skill tree is totally different now so had to go and spend ages reassigning everything and coming up with a good build in the new design.

 

[RaveChampion]

How many endings are there? Did I get the "right" one?
I don't want to look for sake of spoilers tbh.
I always play as a goody two shoes in RPG's and try to do the right thing. Freinds think I'm a fool for this.
I wasn't satisifed with my ending as I'd been careful prior but feel like I misssed something big because I was distracted and just ending up speed reading dialogue forks and button mashing through responses which was a shame after all the effort I'd put in.
I'm tempted to start from scratch but I don't have the time now.