Cyberpunk 2077 Pulled From The PS Store / Sony, MS & CDPR Expand Refund Policy

Having actually played the game, this interpretation is fairly off-base. There’s no plot to save the world or overthrow the government, and there’s no sex scenes beyond what the player wants to happen, and even then, can just be exclusively with a character that has a full-fledged romantic subplot, in a scene that I’d say is no more explicit than Scott and Cora’s scene in Andromeda.

But, I guess it doesn’t matter; you’ve already decided to hate something you know little about. Heck, you believe there’s transphobic messages in the game, perhaps because one of those hack clowns on Kotaku probably said so, or some other echo chamber ready to be content with their misinformation.

You’re right, my mistake. However, point stands though that these things are not used to gratuitous effect, and there’s plenty of story to support it. 

I’m not sure if that’s supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing, because despite that game’s issues, the writing isn’t something I’d consider to be particularly bad, at least until it goes off the rails in the end (something Cyberpunk doesn’t really do btw). I’d say Mass Effect 3’s writing is considerably worse than that game, with vastly inferior character interactions. Even 2, in my mind, doesn’t fare that much better. BioWare’s problem is that they can nail down small stories, but too often fail hard when trying to make those broader strokes. If it weren’t for all the lovable characters, the games would collapse on top of the shaky internal logic. Dragon Age typically fares a bit better on those fronts. 

I thought it was interesting that religious iconography as another example of corpo exploitation kind of went unnoticed. Maybe they didn’t bother to really pay attention to the Sinnerman quest line. They also didn’t pay attention to the fact that Claire, aside from being transgender in the game, is also voiced by Maddie Taylor, an actress that came out as a trans woman in 2016. 

Kinda wild that they’d pay more attention to the Manticore ad more than Milfguard, even though the latter moans so loud it’s awkward to play in front of other people lol

Milfguard is also a joke reference to Nilfgaard, which may or may not have something to do with Conan's Clueless Gamer review of The Witcher 3.

Anyway, just thought that was fun.
Which is funny, if it was a TV show, I'd be all Barry White level of cool, "its a part of life, what of it?" But since its a game, the urge to be embarrassed get to me easier. LOL. I suppose because a lot of people don't really understand gaming as a medium.

"It's not her first rodeo. Thirty new mares to choose from"...

Possibly the most noticeable advertisement in the whole game as it also comes with an unmistakable sound effect out of nowhere.

There is also a dog food commercial that is just so wrong on so many levels...

You are right for The Witcher 3 doesn't define CDPR.  The mismanagement of Cyberpunk 2077 does.

The Witcher 3 wound up in a good place, but its launch wasn't the smoothest and that was what I was expecting from Cyberpunk 2077.  Watch a few patch notes while waiting a couple of months and then buy the game and see if the FPS aspect makes me puke or not.  The "free DLC" was overhyped and minor things at best and would be things BioWare as put into their patches for games and just didn't blow their own horn about how awesome their free content is.  BioWare added a Golden Nug to move crafting recipes between characters and four legendary items you had to find I think there were one or two more things to Inquisition, but I don't remember for its been years.  I cannot comment on the expansions for I got bored of The Witcher 3 and Gerald and moved on.

As mentioned above Cyberpunk for an outside view is a train wreck.  Now is that on the game or the PR around the game its hard to tell, but plenty of CDPs words have been throw back at them and claiming they are no better then any other publisher which is a mighty blow to what their reputation was built on.  BioWare took a hit with Dragon Age 2 and its slid from there, but this to me is magnitudes worse I would say even worse the Andromeda's launch.  I am not sure the reputation that CDP as damaged with Cyberpunk would even be able to come back fully especially since a lot of it doesn't deal with a bad game, but how people seem to feel the game was misrepresented to them.  They talked about certain things in the game and then those things disappeared during development they even removed claiming the game fell into the role playing category after hyping up choice and roleplaying for years.

CDPR themselves have changed it.  They had "role playing game" as a description on Twitter and then it disappeared from there with no other changes replaced with open world action game. (my bad I needed a refresher).  That is why people are making the claim because the company is no longer advertising it as such.

Here is a video posted by another where they show the difference. 

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Well then they better stop referring to themselves as, "the developer of critically acclaimed RPGs" then, because apparently they don't make them. That is unless they switched production to making Witcher and Cyberpunk themed rocket-propelled grenades instead. LOL.

I get that it’s easy to get hung up on the language of the official site, which curiously has a review blurb pop up that specifically calls it an “RPG”, but that doesn’t change how it functions. Playing V has offered me a great deal more flexibility than I’ve gotten playing Shepard, particularly in 2 and 3, with 3 being the most egregious offender thanks to huge chunks of dialogue being automatic (likely due to the inclusion of action mode). One primary complaint I’ve seen is about overall consequence and how one action affects another throughout the game world, but I always felt this was a secondary concern, especially if you’re just a lone wolf character in a city. If I kicked some rando in the shins and ran away in a neighborhod I’ll never revisit, it’s not as if the other “NPC’s” in my personal story are going to divine that I attacked someone, but I’ll know what I did. 

In any case, I guess it’s official: Mass Effect 2 and 3 are not RPG’s. Forget about Fallout 4 with its baked in find-my-baby story. “Sarcastic” is not a dialogue choice, you goons. Easily some of the worst dialogue options I’ve ever seen.