Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says
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I can't not read AV as ΔV. Damn you, KSP!
wrote on 29 May 2025, 10:42 last edited byYou're gonna need a lot more than 2!
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And so the endless cycle of the borderline CD projekt games continues. Everything is hyped beyond realistic expectations a decade before launch, the masses whipped in anticipation. The game developers are kneecapped by suits making technical changes and demands they don't understand. The game is launched after sorely felt apologies for delays, as a messy distasteful buggy disaster. Then the devs get to finish the game during thn next five unars after sorely felt apologies for the buggy mess at launch. 5 more years later the game is hailed as a creative masterpiece, despite being held by bubblegum and paperclips under the hood and still being a subpar experience. Then CDPR announces a new game, and the cycle repeats.
We didn't learn anything from "Bethesda's magic". What a mismanaged company.
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I'm really not sure what you mean by this. Are you talking about the game at release, or after they patched in all the intended content?
Outside of what I assume you mean by the "scripted gameplay" of the main story there are dozens upon dozens of side quests and weird little points of interest to discover (well over a hundred, easily). A lot of them help to elaborate on the setting in interesting ways. What exactly were you expecting that the game didn't deliver on?
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:02 last edited byGo play Deus Ex in the same genre, or some cyberpunk based CRPGs. Those games lots of mechanics that play into the game, DXMD's Augment system wipes it's ass with Cyberpunk's Chrome for one.
Also it would help if they didn't rush the story so much, it was a product of crunch and it shows. You can fix the bugs but you can't fix fundamental problems with pacing
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Which one was the most recent? I always mix up the last two. But yes, generally. The last one is still a buggy mess, sadly. Cyberpunk is not btw.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:17 last edited byBuggy mess ? Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ?
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But I’m still one hour into the first one!
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:21 last edited byI think I got to the part where they show Johnny Sins doing mischief? I can never get past the fucking vision tutorials after getting the crawling toenail thumb or what ever that fucking bot is called. It's a slog.
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RDR2 is probably the best-feeling in terms of NPC behaviour in the open world.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:24 last edited byAgreed, even then though, it's still got the npc feel. Gta6 is supposed to fix this, but I'm not holding my breath.
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Buggy mess ? Deus Ex: Mankind Divided ?
Really ‽wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:26 last edited byYeah, sadly. It has big crashing issues. feel free to check.
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I don’t think that the NPC behaviour was the problem but the fact that they promised more. The NPCs didn’t feel significantly different to those in other games for me.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:26 last edited byThat's true, I think those who didn't follow the dev cycle and ate into the hype probably enjoyed the game a ton more than those of us who did and then got the absolute trash day one launch.
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Have you tried Deus Ex ?
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:26 last edited byYes, all of them. Wouldn't hurt to fit more Deus Ex DNA in the game either.
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And so the endless cycle of the borderline CD projekt games continues. Everything is hyped beyond realistic expectations a decade before launch, the masses whipped in anticipation. The game developers are kneecapped by suits making technical changes and demands they don't understand. The game is launched after sorely felt apologies for delays, as a messy distasteful buggy disaster. Then the devs get to finish the game during thn next five unars after sorely felt apologies for the buggy mess at launch. 5 more years later the game is hailed as a creative masterpiece, despite being held by bubblegum and paperclips under the hood and still being a subpar experience. Then CDPR announces a new game, and the cycle repeats.
We didn't learn anything from "Bethesda's magic". What a mismanaged company.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:35 last edited byEndless cycle? Wasn't everything you described just cyberpunk? Did I miss something about their previous title releases?
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Endless cycle? Wasn't everything you described just cyberpunk? Did I miss something about their previous title releases?
wrote on 29 May 2025, 11:45 last edited byYes, you did. The last step of the cycle is that everyone forgets that this already happened before. The witcher, then the witcher 2, then witcher 3, then cyberpunk. Each was such a mess at launch that the press at the time thought the games would flop. Each time devs, not suits, pulled the games out of PR hell after the fact.
People forget that the console port of the first witcher game nearly bankrupted them.
Just look at this thread people are talking like cyberpunk was always a perfect masterpiece since launch and negative comments are being buried in down votes.
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Yes, you did. The last step of the cycle is that everyone forgets that this already happened before. The witcher, then the witcher 2, then witcher 3, then cyberpunk. Each was such a mess at launch that the press at the time thought the games would flop. Each time devs, not suits, pulled the games out of PR hell after the fact.
People forget that the console port of the first witcher game nearly bankrupted them.
Just look at this thread people are talking like cyberpunk was always a perfect masterpiece since launch and negative comments are being buried in down votes.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:05 last edited byThe difference between CDPR and Bethesda is CDPR games always end up being all time greats though. That's why I don't get influenced by the hype, and keep faith in them as developers, as well as their move to unreal engine
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I hope that if this game is open world then the story at least matches it, unlike the first one.
There were just so many pointless distractions, and hardly any of them lead to anything interesting.
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I also had it on launch day, on PC, and it worked great for me as well. If anything, performance got worse after they patched the game.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:24 last edited by landedgentry@lemmy.zip 6 Feb 2025, 20:17::: spoiler spoiler
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That's true, I think those who didn't follow the dev cycle and ate into the hype probably enjoyed the game a ton more than those of us who did and then got the absolute trash day one launch.
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:31 last edited byI don’t follow games before release so I wasn’t disappointed by missed promises and really enjoyed it.
The first that I heard of it was how buggy it was so I left it until people were saying the bugs were mostly fixed before getting it on sale.
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The difference between CDPR and Bethesda is CDPR games always end up being all time greats though. That's why I don't get influenced by the hype, and keep faith in them as developers, as well as their move to unreal engine
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:39 last edited by dustydata@lemmy.worldBethesda's games are also celebrated as all time greats.
Games are good, eventually, in spite of the mismanagement, not because of it. At one point they will run out of magic, just like Bethesda did. For said magic is just a ton of good writing and developers putting up with crunch.
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Maybe about time for me so start the first.
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You're gonna need a lot more than 2!
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:47 last edited by2km/s Δv can get you a mun roundtrip at least, once you're in orbit
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Looking forward to playing this in 10 years
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It has a LOT of content cut from the board game, and the world is still incredibly shallow outside scripted gameplay
If you consider this anything more than a FPS game with cyberpunk aesthetics, I weep for your perception of quality
Fucking Ubislop Watch Dogs 2 had a more interactive world, for crying out loud
wrote on 29 May 2025, 12:57 last edited byIf you consider this anything more than a FPS game with cyberpunk aesthetics, I weep for your perception of quality
Way to show your opinion is less than worthless. If you're too stupid to admit CP2077 is an RPG: that's on you