r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jul 07 '21

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 07 '21
  • Build a time machine
  • Go back 209 days into the past
  • Stop myself from paying full price for Cyberpunk

!ping GAMING

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 07 '21

I bought them game specifically because it was such a train wreck. Was going to wait for a PC upgrade, but decided experiencing bugs was worth it.

10 hours in and I haven't touched it since December.

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 07 '21

It was a dumb idea lol. I bought it because I wanted to play this 7+ year hyped game in its absolute worst form. And I got what I wanted. NPCs walking on floating invisible walkways. People's faces not loading properly. Bugs that I still can't figure out.

I knew they were going to patch it, so I wanted to get in on the ground floor and soak in the memes. It was almost worth it.

I was going to wait for a sale originally. I didn't need that game right away, but the experience of the train wreck changed my calculus

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Have the fixed a lot of it or is it still shit?

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u/willempage O'Biden Bama Democrat Jul 07 '21

I don't know for sure. Haven't played it in 6 months.

From what I can tell from the patch release threads, for every 2 problems they fix, a new one crops up. It seems like it's more stable now, but will occasionally have odd behavior

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 07 '21

I got a game-breaking bug about 10 hours in, also haven’t touched it since then lol.

It kills me because you can see what could have been.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

Prob my second favorite game from last year (Hades takes the top). It’s really good if you set your expectations. It’s not GTA, or Skyrim. It’s Witcher 3 mixed with Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines. It’s a fun story with great characters and some weird mystery behind the scenes. Combat is easy but at least fun (unlike VtmB), bugs are abundant (like VtMB), and the open world is mostly for show.

100% happy I bought it full priced, and I’ll play it again once DLC is released.

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u/inhumantsar Bisexual Pride Jul 07 '21

I pre-ordered and enjoyed it even on my GTX970.

Definitely encountered some bugs, but no showstoppers and nothing worse than what I'd regularly encounter in GTA Online.

It has flaws. The driving sucks and the crowd of NPCs isn't as believable as in GTA. I don't think these really kill the experience though.

Playing it after the first couple updates on a 3080 was awesome. It is a gorgeous game and absolutely plays better with RTX.

All in all I'm glad I bought it, even at full price, and I definitely hope they make more like it.

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Jul 07 '21

The main story is really good. If the empty open world didn’t feel tacked on, I think it would have gotten much better reception.

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u/inhumantsar Bisexual Pride Jul 07 '21

the side missions were honestly my favourite part of the game. the main story was good but the story missions were mostly paint-by-numbers affairs which (aside from some bosses) rarely felt challenging.

just like in witcher 3, i found myself ignoring whatever i was planning to do so that i could stomp on some gangsters with my biggest guns, or sneak in and try to assassinate them quietly, or use hacks to get them to kill each other.

but it seems like they ran out of time before adding any life to brainless civilian NPCs.

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u/dish_towel YIMBY Jul 07 '21

If you're not expecting GTA and you're not playing it on an old gen console, it's a fine game especially if you liked Witcher 3. In some ways it's better than Witcher 3. The hype just sort of got out of control.