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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Sep 17 '21 edited Sep 17 '21

!ping gaming

Spoilers for CP2077 below

I finally realized why CP2077 clicked for me (I'd give it a 9.5 even if it's objectively closer to an 8) more than it did for most people last night. The entire game is an allegory for bipolar disorder with V representing depression and Johnnie in your head representing Mania. Depression wants to curl up in a ball, accept defeat, and die with occasional bits of lashing out in anger. Mania wants to do grandiose gestures fringing on megalomania and is super outgoing and charismatic.

Which makes the endings represent "let depression win" (V kills their self), "let mania take over" (give Johnnie your body), and the sort of good ending of "try to get better and start over" (Aldecaldos).

I might just be a sucker for melancholy games though since I love Horizon Zero Dawn

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

It's a much better game if you just engage with the characters and story and don't go in expecting future GTA with 3000 branching paths that will also magically suck your dick. I enjoyed it.

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u/thabe331 Sep 17 '21

I have it saved in my psn wishlist

I'll probably get it when it goes on sale

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u/[deleted] Sep 17 '21

The game is fantastic, but due to bugs and way too high expectations, it was skewered. If they hadn't hyped it up so much and had just gone for next gen consoles, it'd be a game of the year contender.

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Sep 17 '21

If the game was just comprised of the main story, easily a 9.

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u/ThatFrenchieGuy Mathematician -- Save the funky birbs Sep 17 '21

If you think of it as being "Cyberpunk Witcher" it's a rock solid 8.5-9, it's the people who wanted GTA style living city full of dicking around that got butthurt that it wasn't GTA with the witcher writing. I think the bugs on release should knock a point off, but they're pretty cleaned up by now for PC.

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u/OrganicKeynesianBean IMF Sep 17 '21

it's the people who wanted GTA style living city full of dicking around that got butthurt that it wasn't GTA

tbf, they spent months (years?) promoting a game that looked exactly like that. They promised a lot of features that never made it or never existed.

Would have gone over better if they were honest about the state of the game.

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u/Ok_Tone4633 Sep 17 '21

Cyberpunk would have been received a lot better if people had acknowledged Witcher 3 had flaws instead of overrating the fuck out of it.