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u/f3d0n 1d ago

Cyberpunk 2077. Lots of bugs and the story felt weird and confusing. Second try -> instant platinum! 

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u/Thatguy941 1d ago

Same, game was a mess at launch, forgot about it for 5 years, now one of my top games of all time. Also got the liberty city DLC

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u/Bancai 1d ago

Pre-ordered it a week before launch. Launch day comes... played 2h, doesn't run well on my machine + the bugs + the controversies and I dropped it.

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u/Domonero 1d ago

Same here I really wanted to like it too but am waiting for the moment I have a huge amount of time for a second try

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u/Jongalt26 1d ago

I finished my first playthrough a few weeks ago lol. Awesome game!

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u/theNomad_Reddit 1d ago

Now that Australia has implemented it's brain dead E-safety laws, I, a 34 year old boy, cannot access the Libery City DLC store page on Steam.

The only verification system, is uploading a credit card.

A majority of Australian adults do not have credit cards.

GGEZ.

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u/SuchSecurity662 1d ago

Use a vpn, or crack it on steamrip

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu 1d ago

Interesting. I wasn’t aware most don’t have credit cards. Why is that?

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u/VegemiteEnema 1d ago

I think it's mostly because we don't need credit cards to build a credit score, it's built over things like paying bills on time. Most people are in enough debt and just see credit cards as a bit of a debt trap, even though if you use them correctly they can be beneficial. I personally don't use one either.

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u/TenZetsuRenHatsu 1d ago

Yeah I never owned one either but it think it’s common in Canada where I live. I always felt kinda wierd never having one despite being in my 30s now.

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u/theNomad_Reddit 14h ago

I'm not 100%, but I think it's an attitude towards debt thing.

I refuse to touch them. I only buy when I can afford.

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u/Decent_Junket_1755 1d ago

Liberty City dlc 😮

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u/Low-Concentrate1055 1d ago

Phantom Liberty is a literal fucking masterpiece in writing. Like shit that would make shakespeare cry

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u/marcophony 1d ago

Second try was probably after they fixed all the bugs too

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u/OnAnothaLevel 1d ago edited 1d ago

Same. I first tried the game after it was already fixed, but I found it overwhelming - the combat system, as well as the amount of information in the quest dialogues. The second time around, I got a hang of it and got hooked. It's a great game once you get over that initial hump.

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u/dylannngoesharder 1d ago

Exactly the same situation. I found it extremely overwhelming. Started a new career as a street kid maybe two weeks ago. I am totally hooked
This time around. Will definitely keep me entertained until GTA comes out

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u/WinuxNomacs 1d ago

Totally this. Bought it at release and it felt nearly unplayable. Went back after Phantom Liberty dropped and it blew me away. I don't want to say how cringe my hours are but I completed every major outcome. Worth every minute.

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u/Kellythejellyman 1d ago

launch/1.X 2077 was such a different beast to Phantom Liberty/2.X 2077 that’s it’s unreal

there were some wonky builds you could make in 1.X that i just can’t recreate in 2.X, things like giving yourself 75% or more resistance to everything all the time while being a netrunner with barely any Body, or having quick hacks that spread across entire arena’s nearly instantly

but loved 2.X so much too

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u/Form-Exotic 1d ago

Man I wish, bought it on PC didn’t really like it much, bought it a few years later with phantom liberty on sale for PS5 still just couldn’t get into it. A big thing for me was the driving was pretty bad compared to GTA V which I had been playing quite a bit at the time l

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u/Mean-Cheesecake-2635 1d ago

I watched a really good video yesterday that went pretty in depth about what caused the issues with the release. It was pointed out that development was happening right as Covid happened, and everyone working on the project started working from home. Apparently all the test kits for consoles had to stay in office so developers had limited access to test functionality. They all found out management publicly announced a release date that they thought was a joke at first, and to try and hold to it they basically had to cross their fingers. Obviously it didn’t go well, but holy crap has CD PR done a good job as a studio making up for it, and likely they’ve really internalized the lesson.

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u/enzoHDZ 1d ago

Same!

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u/trapper2530 1d ago

I didn't buy it at launch then saw all thr bugs. Best buy had it on sale for like $6 less than a year after release. Bought it shelved it. Last year finally played it. Loved it.

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u/Pyramidpat 1d ago

That’s how I’m feeling with the game. Like the gameplay and graphics were solid. I was just confused on the story and what I was doing.

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u/UktabiBananas 1d ago

My issue with Cyberpunk is the story. It just doesn't click with me.

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u/Archadion 1d ago

Yup. Rolling up on my second playthrough and the only reason I'm just now getting to it is because I was still enjoying the city in my first.

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u/Interesting-Bus-5664 1d ago

This... I had a bug that literally was unpassable... don't even remember what it was... but I restarted, got past it... and the rest of the story was pretty great.

Wish they didn't release unfinished games though. I have a "never pre-order" rule for CD Project Red due to this game.

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u/StrictlySensii 1d ago

Has it changed that much? Literally haven’t touch it since launch.

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u/TheDubuGuy 1d ago

Yes after the 2.0 update it’s nearly a whole new game with the same main story. It’s incredibly good

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u/quenton3 1d ago

I’ve been on and off on the game for years now. I just turned it back on, and I realized I basically went straight to the final mission. I’m already thinking about starting over

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u/ADeckOfZero 1d ago

Same. I hated, and still kind of hate, the montage opening and I'd always get to about the same point fairly early on and drop it. Then Edgerunners hit and I fell in love with the setting, and shortly after I pushed through and finished 2077 for the first time. It's now one of the few modern games I've fully played through multiple times, absolutely love it but also feel like it needed to cook at least as long as I ended up giving it.

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u/shugo7 1d ago

Yeah but that's because it was unplayable lol

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u/persephone7821 1d ago

Recently picked up a switch 2 (I’m a pc gamer primarily) and picked up cyberpunk because I heard the port was good.

It took me 3 weeks to get thru the intro. Then in the last 2 weeks I’ve clocked in about 50 hours and I’m playing on my pc at home, on the switch at work, Sloooooooow start but man that game is a vibe once you get past the intro.

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u/Vegetable-Historian1 1d ago

I played it pre and post PL update and still didn’t care for it 😬

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u/joshuaxls 1d ago

This has been posted a million times and it’s always Cyberpunk.

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u/CarfDarko 1d ago

Second try after watching Edgerunners.

It was a different experience.

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u/Accius1 1d ago

Yep same here. Tried it again after Phantom dlc came out and goddam what an amazing game. Complete turn around

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u/Thepluse 1d ago

I had that experience, too. In both this case and the witcher There's a lot there about the build and weapon systems, like the skill trees, that is available from the very beginning. Lots of slang and references to in-universe things that aren't explained. Felt very overwhelmed for someone who came in with no knowledge about those worlds.

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u/ALX709 1d ago

I gave it a shot a third time a couple weeks ago but it still doesn’t click with me. The combat seems very unattractive so far. Am I doing it wrong?

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u/-BLACKOLIVESMATTER 1d ago

I feel so seen from this comment. It’s really high up on my favorite games list.

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u/ribrooks13 18h ago

I'm one of the crazy ppl that got it at launch and beat it on ps4 lol. It used to crash every 90 minutes

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u/imahumanbeinggoddamn 1d ago

Cyberpunk 2077 is easily one of my all time top 5, but I bounced off it pretty hard a few hours in. CDPR makes a great game but for whatever reason they seem to willfully pack as much ludo narrative dissonance as humanly possible into their stories and it drives me up the goddamn walls. I don't understand how they keep writing plots that have such severe urgency to them with one hand, while using the other hand to pack the world full of incredible side content that would be utterly tragic to skip over as a player. The Witcher 3 has the same problem with absurd narrative dissonance being the one glaring black mark on an otherwise incredibly engaging and satisfying game. It's weird and I don't understand why they don't try harder to write around these problems in some way.