Cyberpunk 2077
 

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CD Project Red is the new BioWare to me.

BioWare set a new bar in narrative SP experience with KOTOR and then raised it with Mass Effect 1.

CD Project Red set a new bar in open world SP narrative with Witcher 3 and is about to raise it with this masterpiece.

I can't ****ing wait.

Way too pretty for me. I love the overcast rainy dirty cyberpunk full of rampant ecological disasters, nations giving way to enormous multinationals, grime, etc. Its just one trailer, and its CD Projekt Red so I'll give it a chance, but it doesn't appear to be what I was hoping for so far. ****ing palm trees? Come on now.

William Gibson (the father of cyberpunk) summed my feelings up pretty well: "The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey that's just me."

https://www.pcgamer.com/william-gibs...erpunk-enough/

The gritty and grimy everything is grey and washed out cyberpunk aesthetic has been done to death.

I don't expect/want Blade Runner and constant darkness. It just looks too pretty to me from what we saw in the trailer. "Pretty" is most definitely not a major cyberpunk theme. But like I said, the trailer just shows a tiny fraction of the game world. It sounds like its gonna be massive.

I'm interested enough to see where they go with this. I'm intrigued by the non-stereotypical cyberpunk environment.

Has a bit of a Dredd feel to it. Interested.

Holy ****, man.

This looks like a cross between Deus Ex, Fallout and GTA.

IN.

I was familiar with the tabletop RPG this game is based on, and it's been on my radar since they announced it like 5 years ago. Kinda disappointed they still haven't said anything about a release date. Looks cool though. As far as looking too pretty .... why wouldn't there be palm trees? There hasn't been a nuke go off or anything. It's just a corporation controlled government with a large gap between the haves and the have nots. Which probably means lax environmental regulations with pollution getting out of hand, but it also means big leaps in innovation without a bunch of regulation. It's not the damn apocalypse. The game is a little more colorful than I would have maybe guessed, but the real world has color, and it's got a cool vibe.

I think one of the main reasons a few people are wierded out by the look of the game is they are showing it in daylight. Cyberpunk in books has had daytime, but in visual imagery, it is almost exclusively shown at night.

I was reading Cyberpunk back when it first started in the 80's, and Gibson is more or less the father of the genre, but frankly I liked some other authors better. But he does have a somewhat of a point about it giving off a GTA vibe. Mike Pondsmith is obviously on board with it, and I think it works. I'm looking forward to this game more than anything else I've seen. Just take my money and let me play it.

Wow. That's pretty spot on. No better way to describe it.

With that said, i'd love a GTA skinned-over with a generic 80's retro-future.

Yeah, I'm still pumped. I just hope the finished product doesn't look so clean. We're talking about a genre where there's basically no middle-class and multinationals abuse the environment. I'd expect that world to look a little dirtier. I'll reserve judgment until I've seen more. I'll probably love it either way.

I'm excited it will be first-person, too.

I can see how the source material may be important to certain folks, but personally, I am not familiar with it. Therefore, it's not a concern for me at all. Like AT ALL.

People who got to see and experience it behind closed doors, however, are shitting their pants. :)

https://www.techspot.com/news/75058-...llrunning.html

Yeah, I'm heartened after reading up on it some.

Here's a good description of the 50 min demo:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkga...0_minute_long/

"A city with more people below the poverty line.."

Yet everybody has cybernetic implants, laser guns, robot spiders, and holographic pool tables... :D

That shit is cheap when it's built by wage slaves. :D

Hell, look at the phones and TVs people below the poverty line have today.

Yup. Another guy's impressions after the same demo:

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3281...review-e3.html

Exactly how I felt the moment I started watching it. Speaking of which, there should be a game developed as close to that movie as possible.
The movie plays out the way a good game should.
Very little of the plot would need to be changed to make it work...

48 minute walkthrough:

NSFW cartoon boobs!!

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I get motion sickness while playing first-person shooters.
...but I'll be goddamned if I'm going to let this gem get past me. I'll play this beauty with a puke bucket next to me.

CD Projekt Red is A+ super awesome fun-time and I love Cyberpunk environments (Deus Ex, Blade Runner...etc.).
This is an absolute must-buy on Day One and the only other game I'm looking forward to purchasing (the other is Mega Man 11).

Animations are crazy cool...

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Gonna need a new video card...

Is this just PC?

Also PS4 and XBox One.

But PC is going to look so much better....

Video is clearly on a console.

I'm a huge CD Projekt Red fanboy and have been waiting for this game ever since I heard about it. The Witcher series are some of my favorite.

Having said all that, does anyone else feel like maybe the shooting and the animation feel... somehow... unsatisfying? Like there's not enough crunch or "oomph" to it. It's all kind of floaty and flimsy?

I don't need the crispiness and heft of something like MGS 5 or Doom but maybe somewhere in the middle? I may be crazy.

This gameplay trailer is somehow falling flat for me. :(

Saw this today:

https://i.imgur.com/uQGRk4X.jpg

That's ****ing badass.

I'll never forget playing through the first Witcher in complete awe.

"Welcome back, Mr. Wick"

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Very cool. I had no idea that Reeves was involved in this.

So it looks like I'll be buying two games, this and Fallen Order.

And I know I sound like an old fart for saying this, but the animation and graphics on these games are insane now. That LOOKS like Keanu. I remember when Sonic on the original Sega looked like cutting edge graphics, lol. :skip:

people are really worked up over the cover, I might have to buy

https://twitter.com/machineiv/status...OwsI3lxhgTPxG4

Holy shit. That chick is looking for absolutely anything to be pissed about.

Radical leftist trans.

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/UnhappyFri...tor-poster.jpg

I'm not fluent in twitter, but it appears she either has almost nobody replying to her, or she's gone through and deleted everyone's tweet that she didn't agree with.

Whatever, **** her. I'm buying this day (or weekend) 1.

OH haha, good grief what a loser. It's a friggin' videogame. There was a huge uproar in the fallout series because you could no longer kill children, lighten up these peeps. :D

Well, she'll be the lone person on Earth to not play this game.
Enjoy the library, neeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrddddddddddddddddddd!

Cyberpunk 2077's character creation options won't be limited by gender


CD Projekt Red has given more details about Cyberpunk 2077's character creator and the game's depiction of transgender characters. This follows criticism over an in-game advert that uses a sexualised trans model to sell a drink with the slogan "Mix it up". It's the only depiction of trans characters we've seen so far, so it raised some red flags.

The ad's artist has defended it by saying it's an example of the sort of exploitation that's normal in Cyberpunk's world and exactly the sort of thing you're fighting against. It's context that would have been handy when CD Projekt Red first put it on display.

We've not seen much of the character creator, but apparently it will eventually give players more options to make a version of V that's more representative of themselves.

"It's a very sensitive and important subject I believe," quest director Mateusz Tomaszkiewicz told Gamasutra. "We have put a lot of thought into this. One of the things we want to do in the final game (which we couldn't show in the demo yet, because as you mentioned it's a work in progress) is to give the players as many options of customization in the beginning of the game as we can."

This is something that CD Projekt Red "wants to do" rather than something that's currently implemented. An example of the options it wants to offer player is that they can sculpt V's face with physical traits that could be assigned to to any gender.

"The idea is to mix all of those up, to give them to the players, as they would like to build it," said Tomaszkiewicz "Same goes for the voice. We wanted to separate this out, so the players can choose it freely. This is something we are still working on, it's not as easy as it sounds."

CD Projekt Red is also "paying a lot of attention" to how it portrays trans characters beyond customisation options for V. "We do not want anyone to feel like we are neglecting this," said Tomaszkiewicz, "or treating it wrongly."

https://www.pcgamer.com/cyberpunk-20...ted-by-gender/

Pretty sure this is the first CDProject Red game I'll play since Witcher 2. Just looks amazing, like a game-changer.

You played Witcher 2 but missed out on playing the masterpiece that is Witcher 3?

WTF?

I didn't like Witcher 2 at all, even though I played the first more than once. To the point that I could not make it out of the intro. So I never played 3, and don't ever intend to. Cyberpunk being from the makers of that series was not a point in its favor to me.

This looks awesome though. And I'm definitely ready for a deep, non-fantasy RPG.

I tried all 3 Witchers many times but never got into them and yes I think i'll enjoy the cyberpunk setting more than the fantasy stuff.

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I was the same way with Witcher 2, and quit in the exact same spot. Hated it. But seriously, Kyle, Witcher 3 is my favorite game of all time. It's better than the Fallout games; it's better than Skyrim. You know how in the Bethesda games the main quest generally sucks and the world exploring and side stuff is far more interesting? In Witcher 3, everything is interesting. The voice acting and story are superb. The combat takes some getting used to, as does gathering components for crafting (which your character cannot do, since he's a witcher, not a blacksmith), but it's much better and more realistic. And the decisions you make absolutely affect the outcome of the story.

I cannot recommend Witcher 3 highly enough. Forget the second one. You're doing a disservice to yourself by not playing it. I built a brand new computer to specifically play Fallout 4, and ended up not starting it for a couple of weeks because I was too busy playing Witcher 3.

I think this game won't be as good as people think. I think they don't do as well without source material.

PSN has it for $14 as part of a flash sale. If I don't like it, I'm blaming you! :harumph:

Watched the latest Cyberpunk vid, and it continues to look crazy good.

See you in a month or so. :D

They do have Mike Pondsmith's source material. He's been pretty involved with development. I am kinda feeling this might be a letdown, though. Not sure why. I suppose I think people were just a little quick to crown CDPR king of the hill. I've heard rumors on youtube that some Bioware-esque stuff is going on with the company. Don't know if there's any truth to it.

Yup. Hard to pass up.

Thanks for the tip Keg.

"Bioware stuff" isn't just BioWare stuff, unfortunately. There are industry-wide problems with regards to the pressures and influences that publishers are putting on the studios under their particular umbrellas. Some places aren't as bad as others, but EA is just one of several corps doing it.

Hmm...maybe. I'm with you about a letdown. I think they are really trying to get in good graces with consumers so they they'll be more accepting.

****.

https://i.imgur.com/sel7Yid.png

Interesting. They saw FF7R was competing with their game and said NOPE. Guess it isn't as good as they thought. :hmmm:

Better to be pushed back instead of rushed.

Correct. Same with Doom: Eternal

RE3, FF7, and this were all coming out within weeks of each other

lol no

My guess is that FF7 publishers had some inside word that 2077 was going to delay and the window it left was good timing for their own game's delay.

Thought for sure somebody would have posted some of the media from a couple days ago...

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Great reviews across the board with consistent minor issues with time to fix. I'm gettin it.

Those graphics, though. Damn.

Looks like eDave and I will be camping out at Best Buy for this one.

The original Deus Ex blew me away. I played that sucker every way one could play it. Over and over. The follow ups never really expanded on the original. This, from what I'm hearing, is Deus Ex on a grand scale. What we've seen is the standard intro/tutorial level. Then you are on your own.

I am so down for this.

my god

so it's like six cities from deus ex crammed together surrounded by a desert environment from mad max

****ing LIT

Yeah. This is going to be Pat Mahomes of games.

I'm really hoping part of the narrative is you get stranded in the desert without a set of wheels.

I want to have to WALK back to Night City.

Through RIVERS of blood.

It's a definite download.

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LMAO... the **** did I get a thumbs down for? Like it was my decision...

This.

Is.

Sparta.

For the record: I did not give you thumbs down, but I find it hilarious. LMAO

GOTY

There's some gameplay of it on twitch. Gotta watch who you watch it around though. I opened it around some kids not knowing what it was about. Within 30 seconds the character was carrying a very graphic naked chick. Whoops!

They stated recently they will be adding multiplayer, really hope it's some badass coop campaign stuff and not some BR shit.

shits gonna slap

You understand that board rules dictated I had to give you a thumbs down for this post.

**** this place.... :D

I got you.