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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 2, 2023 16:20:16 GMT
A lot of these quests you're waiting for, are actually gated behind other "minor" side quests for story progression reasons. I hesitate to spoil which ones, but just be aware that there are multiple missions in game your simply never going to get until you finish pre-requisite missions beforehand. The 2 your speaking of are exactly this situation. You can trigger them a lot sooner, or a lot later, depending on when you get around to clearing the Gigs that trigger those mission chains. Yeah I'm learning this now. Weird quest system. But I guess this is supposed to simulate V getting more and more noticed. Is it actually tied to specific quests as a requirement or is it just street cred that you increase by just doing lots of stuff?I've ignored gigs for the most part so far. Usually clearing yellow question marks in whatever area I'm currently in. The game obviously assumes you play male and get it on with Panam. I just did the second questline where you have a really nice scene around the campfire before the train engine business. And it's so obvious this all is supposed to be a budding love story. You even get a message from Saul being all "don't care what's going on between you two". Yeah there's nothing going on. We're just two girls being best friends now, I guess. Judy calls a lot too but that all feels more like being there for a friend who's going through a really rough time. I do like the nomad helping your new nomad friend with Panam angle though. V told her to go back because Night City kinda sucks. And you can roleplay a bit that V finds a new clan to call family. I'm still really glad I picked the Nomad background. It comes up a lot because the game spends so much time development the relationship with Panam. Judy too but her scenes are way shorter. I just can't imagine the two guys will be like that. Maybe I'll pleasantly surprised. It's both, actually. You only get access to certain Gigs based on Street Cred level, and you unlock the Gigs in order, so for example, you do the first 2 Gigs Wakako gives you, then she says "congrats, you've proven to me your not worthless, here's a couple more" etc. So for example, the male character your waiting for, is gated behind a Gig, which is itself gated behind Street Cred due to the nature of the Client in question. The whole system is as you said, designed to simulate V being a nobody getting crap jobs to slowly getting more famous as the game progresses. I will say, from my naturally biased Male perspective, Panam definitely feels like the most fleshed out Friend character by quite a large margin, but I think that's partly due to her supporting cast of misfits as well who help in certain situations. As for Judy, it's an odd thing, the game chooses really odd times to not be blatantly obvious, like you mentioned before with Takamura. Judy's romance path is also kind of like that, because getting her approval high enough for that is tied to making particular choices during her questline, which is admittedly what CDPR did with Ciri as well in Witcher 3. They do it so infrequently that you're never looking for it, and when they do it, it's technically done correctly because there is no glowing sign saying "We're gonna be uber subtle right now, please turn brain on" which ends up being a double edged sword because you have no reason to suspect they're doing it, cuz they weren't the rest of the time.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 2, 2023 11:26:09 GMT
Honestly, the driving is massively improved from where it use to be imo. Maybe that's why I don't notice how "bad" it is anymore, I spent 200 hours with the older, far crappier driving mechanics. On my Phantom Liberty playthrough I had a much easier time, was able to weave between cars regularly using bigger cars, in first person even. But then again, I wonder how many use M&K and how many use Controller. I play CP exclusively with controller so I feel like I get more precise control over vehicle movement.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 2, 2023 0:45:35 GMT
If it's any consolation a lot of us straight guys wanted to romance Judy upon meeting her. Only to be disappointed to find out male V's can't romance her. WOw! You made it to this point fast! How many hours have you clocked in? I am nearing 100 hours and started the dlc 2 weeks ago right before the quest to meet Hanako. I fleshed out the main quest by taking on many gigs maxing out my street cred. Also I did not know we could save Takemura. I only found out after I did a considerable amount of progress in the game, and did not want to go back to an earlier save. Did Johnny grow on you? Do you sympathize with his cause? He grew on me but that was in part because I couldn't believe how much time Keanu Reeves dedicated to the role. 20 years ago celebrities would only do limited roles in video games. Like Ron Pearlman narrating the intro's for the Fallout games. Video games back then were considered kid's things they were not as mainstream as they are now. I was sitting at 35h when I reloaded to save Takemura. By fast forwarding all dialogue I saw before I only lost about 30min. So that's cool. I have done a bunch of minor side quests and hunted cyberpsychos but focused on the main story for the most part. Did Panam's quest and had the moment where male V could have romanced her. You can go for it as a woman as well pretty boldly. I was curious how she'd react. I must have missed how to initiate interest in Judy. I wasn't going to romance her anyway but I was curious how it happens. Was told I'm beyond that point already. Huh. I find it super weird that I haven't met either of the male romance options yet. How late game are they??Well, my V will just continue to quietly pine for Takemura... Btw are smart sniper rifles bugged? I almost never hit the target. My other smart weapons work by just aiming in the general direction and everything dies. Even if I aim dead center at the chest it misses. Totally useless. So, funny story... A lot of these quests you're waiting for, are actually gated behind other "minor" side quests for story progression reasons. I hesitate to spoil which ones, but just be aware that there are multiple missions in game your simply never going to get until you finish pre-requisite missions beforehand. The 2 your speaking of are exactly this situation. You can trigger them a lot sooner, or a lot later, depending on when you get around to clearing the Gigs that trigger those mission chains.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Dec 2, 2023 0:29:19 GMT
Man...I'm mildly annoyed. I didn't expect another big update from them. I'm glad there is, but now I'm like "damn, I gotta play this again" after having just recently finished my big Phantom Liberty playthrough like a month ago lol. However I am glad they're finally fulfilling their pre-release promise of the Metro, despite telling folks it wasn't going to happen a late last year. Also, thank god for Adam Smasher Rework. He does not live up to the legend at all. I recommend all of you playing for the first time to not trigger the ending until this drops so you hopefully don't get to experience the same disappointment lol.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 10, 2023 0:29:33 GMT
I disagree, many of his criticisms stem from flawed thinking. I disagree with the idea that once "progressing" to democratic nation states we would never again return to a different government type. Human progress is by no means guaranteed or irreversible. It’s a very fundamentally Western view of Time/History that everything is forward progress forever. It’s just that most people eventually notice that’s not how anything has ever worked with Humanity. We change our minds a lot... usually violently. This point feels a bit “end-of-history”-ey. If the two decades since the 1990s have proven anything, it’s that fascism and authoritarianism are not necessarily destroyed simply by having a democracy. Democratic governments like Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and the Philippines have all seen the rise of authoritarian governments after the failures of neoliberalism. These might function differently than other more overtly fascistic or authoritarian states in their bureaucratic systems, but they are just as fascist and authoritarian. Even nations with strong democracies like America have seen their democratic systems challenged and weakened, by it by losing faith in the legitimacy of elections or giving excess power to corporations. All in all, history is a complicated and fickle thing, and the idea that democracies are somehow its end goal is an outdated and disproved philosophy. "If the pollution is so bad as to melt concrete, why would they deal with the symptom instead of the root problem" I'm sorry but if I'm honest that's probably the most realistic part of the setting 😂 If humans have any special ability it's that they are very good at delaying problems instead of fixing them until it's the next generations problem. I think where people are having problems with the setting, is SC takes a fairly harsh, pessimistic view of human society, where Matt is kind of naively optimistic and thus thinks it does not make a lot of sense. I agree. I haven't watched the entire video yet but a lot of the points made there, that I have heard so far are reductionist and frankly reveal a way of thinking that assumes today's socio-political structure represents some sort of pinnacle to human development. Take for example his issue with just the name "Empire" and how he asserts that it is unrealistic that a future political entity would - especially a democratic one - would assume such a name because of its negative connotations today. Well, according to the timeline, the UEE was founded in 2546, right after the first human war with another species. Many humans probably wondered about the future of their species. Yet in the end, humanity wins. One charismatic leader is using this fearful and at the same time empowered state of mind of the populous to rise to power. The term "Empire" in this time can now be applied to humanity in the context of other non-human species. That is already an entirely different situation as human imperialism applied against other humans on earth, 600 years before. The context of the terminology has changed according to the time frame. Even democracy was not lways viewed as a favorable form of government since its inception in ancient Greece. So I think the scenario is entirely plausible. Also, I completely agree with your point therevanchist25 . I think it is absolute hubris to assume that political structures cannot revert. Just like biological evolution, I think political evolution is often mistaken for some force, striving towards a rather abstract idea of perfection when in reality, it is merely constant adaptation to the surrounding circumstances. I mean, history certainly has shown us that under the appropriate conditions "reversion" is absolutely possible. Just two famous examples out f many more are the Roman Republic and the Weimar Republic. Heck, I think the whole story about the UEE and its history is a very poignant comment about what's going on all around the world these days with democracies being weakened all over the place by populists and exploiters. Now, I am not saying this HAS to be the trajectory we are taking, I am also a huge Star Trek fan precisely because that franchise let's us imagine another way things can go. But I also don't think it's entirely implausible. And that's the point IMO. The definition of "good lore" to me is not about the actual content of the lore so much as the skill with which it's been put together. Causality chains must make sense to to me and consistency and coherence is important. Weird things can happen for sure but they need to be explained. Or if there is no explanation, at least the characters in universe have to acknowladge the weirdness (and it should be part of the plot or something, so it should probably be explained eventually).If you follow these guidelines (and at least to my - admittedly limited - knowladge of Star Citizen lore, they do that pretty well), you can do whatever you want. Star Trek, Stargate, Babylon 5, Alien, Foundation, The Expanse, Mass Effect (1*), The Hyperion Cantos, Heck, even Farscape or the very young Starfield. They are all vastly different in their approach and imagination of the future (also because they take place at very different points in time) but I think all of them do a fairly decent job of keeping their lore together. Some more so than others and of course, the bigger the franchise tha harder it is to keep consistency going, but given their individual parameters I think they all do a decent job there. And I haven't seen SC screwing up massively in the lore department yet, when comparing it to these giants, so I don't see a problem. * ) Would have loved to just say Mass Effect and leave it at that but IMO, the writers introduced a lot of consistency issues starting with ME2, so as much as I love the franchise, when it comes to the quality of the lore, ME1 is just a few steps above the rest. That's the biggest thing for me. Write whatever you want, I don't care if the writer wants Master Chief flying through space with an WW2 Era MG42 on a Pink Unicorn with rainbows shooting out its ass. Go ahead, but that shit better make sense by the time I reach that chapter of the story, or at least plausibly explain why this objectively weird shit is happening. You mentioned Mass Effect, EZO and Biotics is Weird. It's Pixy Dust and Magic in a very literal sense, but the first game explained it away in a convincing enough manner to where I don't think to myself "okay wtf is this man". As you said, from ME2 onwards Bioware gave up on that approach entirely, just inserting whatever "Rule of Cool" BS into the narrative they whimsically decided and basically never bothered to explain any of it. They utterly failed trying to explain why "Limited Ammo is technologically superior to Unlimited Ammo" because of course they did. You can't logically justify that kind of change no matter how many fans try to claim otherwise about rates of fire or whatever. That was the one thing after ME1 they even bothered trying to explain. Legion has your chestplate, why? because fuck you we thought it was cool, basically. Shepard was a literal pile of meat, how are they alive? Because fuck you we think it's cool. There's like 5 Black Holes in the galactic Core, and not Sagittarius A, the Super Black Hole that is actually there, why? Because fuck you this looks cooler. Granted they got what Black Holes look like correct, probably by accident since the first photo was only last year. How was Normandy SR1 even detected by the Collector Ship when their Stealth System was engaged instantly once they left FTL? Who cares watching Normandy die is a cool cutscene. etc etc. I know the Defenders around here are tired of having the Shamus Thesis paper thrown in their face, but the man truly nailed it when describing the trilogy and people really need to accept that, because if Shamus was wrong, the Series wouldn't be in the position it's in. Too many fans of Entertainment think their own made up Fan Theories that explain narrative plot holes or inconsistencies is a valid counter to said plot holes, and they're just not.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 4, 2023 20:50:01 GMT
The background lore is a bit weak though. I disagree, many of his criticisms stem from flawed thinking. I disagree with the idea that once "progressing" to democratic nation states we would never again return to a different government type. Human progress is by no means guaranteed or irreversible. It’s a very fundamentally Western view of Time/History that everything is forward progress forever. It’s just that most people eventually notice that’s not how anything has ever worked with Humanity. We change our minds a lot... usually violently. This point feels a bit “end-of-history”-ey. If the two decades since the 1990s have proven anything, it’s that fascism and authoritarianism are not necessarily destroyed simply by having a democracy. Democratic governments like Russia, Brazil, Turkey, and the Philippines have all seen the rise of authoritarian governments after the failures of neoliberalism. These might function differently than other more overtly fascistic or authoritarian states in their bureaucratic systems, but they are just as fascist and authoritarian. Even nations with strong democracies like America have seen their democratic systems challenged and weakened, by it by losing faith in the legitimacy of elections or giving excess power to corporations. All in all, history is a complicated and fickle thing, and the idea that democracies are somehow its end goal is an outdated and disproved philosophy. "If the pollution is so bad as to melt concrete, why would they deal with the symptom instead of the root problem" I'm sorry but if I'm honest that's probably the most realistic part of the setting 😂 If humans have any special ability it's that they are very good at delaying problems instead of fixing them until it's the next generations problem. I think where people are having problems with the setting, is SC takes a fairly harsh, pessimistic view of human society, where Matt is kind of naively optimistic and thus thinks it does not make a lot of sense.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Nov 4, 2023 20:28:16 GMT
Their technology is very impressive.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 29, 2023 0:10:30 GMT
Looks like we know why Meredith never really showed up again. All the quests relating to her got cut obviously, still cool to see.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 29, 2023 0:02:20 GMT
Hm, I read that with a cheeky smile I admit. Taking too much pleasure in seeing newbie speculations lol. Are you not aware you can change clothing at will? O.o Yeah I know I changed my look. Also at the apartments I can set up clothing presets. Like you said I'm just speculating that Johnny was slowly taking over. Oh yeah a couple of days ago I did a quest for a female singer she was covered from head to toe in chrome. Doesn't that type of procedure hurt? Also last night V went to a club looking for a reporter. She was interviewing the leader of Maelstrom, Royce. Looking at his augmentations and his gang's especially his facial ones they look like they hurt implanting them. Also went to Judy's apartment and met Tim and Roxanne. They laid out their plan and V agreed to help. Ah Lizzy Wizzy (aka Grimes) Yea, so funny story that. She was organic, and decided in order to separate herself from the competition she would pull the most ludicrous stunt of all time in the middle of a concert. She literally blew herself up mid song, and when Trauma Team arrived they had to give her the full body conversion chrome body you see now as they performed the surgery right there on the spot in order to save her. She then got up and finished the show....yea, womans a bit weird lol As for Maelstrom, a side gig you do in Watson shows the first surgery a new Maelstrom member gets is slicing their optic nerve to prepare you for the 5 flash lights they shove in your face lol.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 28, 2023 20:30:51 GMT
dagless Thank you for the hints. For the Grayson hint was he the guard at the facility V and Rogue infiltrated? If so he's dead. Or was he the netrunner in the Voodoo boys questline involving Alt? If so V knocked him out. He's still alive as far as I know. As for the secret Johnny has. You mentioned the dlc I have not bought the dlc yet but I will before I complete the game. Members here told me it's best to tackle it when in act 3. As far as I am aware of I am still in act 2. Trying to do as much as possible if my instincts are right and V has a Shepard style ending. Then I want V to be a Night City legend. The only guy who will probably piss on his grave so far is Coach Fred. Also I forgot to mention this before I really enjoyed Panam and her clan's missions. When I replay the game I am picking the Nomad background. Lastly Johnny is slowly beginning to take over V's body it seems. Now V is wearing his jacket and sunglasses. I know I can take them off I think?
Edit: Forgot about Takemura I don't recall Johnny saying let's go back for him. As V I told Johnny about going back for Goro during the attack, but Johnny just said let's get the hell out of here. Hm, I read that with a cheeky smile I admit. Taking too much pleasure in seeing newbie speculations lol. Are you not aware you can change clothing at will? O.o
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 28, 2023 20:28:05 GMT
Since this is the Spoiler section, I'll just leave this here for people to mull over...
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 20, 2023 23:49:56 GMT
Lol yeah I thought Goro meant corporate rat or something in Japanese . While the thought of that is somewhat amusing, based on what you know of Goro so far, does he seem like the type of person who would let V speak Slurs to him without comment, when he nearly attacked Tom from the diner for merely changing the channel from Hanako-sama and saying "no one but you wants to hear from that corpo-cunt"? I know, easy for me to say having known him for 600 hours now, but just food for thought
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 20, 2023 21:14:30 GMT
Okay I'm an idiot I did not realize that Takemura's first name is Goro. I thought when V called him Goro it was some derogatory Japanese slang lol. Anyway last night Met up with Takemura and had to scout a location with him for the parade with Hanoko. During that quest Takemura and V spoke about their upbringing. A really good scene and bonding moment. Hope he doesn't betray V, and V has to kill him. It's very fascinating to see the reactions of a first time player as they progress. I've got like 600 hours into the game at this point so it's nice to see fresh impressions again, although it is quite funny that you thought Goro was a slur or something, I can't say I've ever seen that one before lol
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 20, 2023 13:39:41 GMT
I have to say male V has grown on me. At first I was turned off by his street thug voice, I grew up in the ghetto and fought my whole life to get out of there. But it wasn't until the second act when V is talking with Vik that I was blown away. Also that scene where V speaks to the female doll in the hotel and she immediately knows his dilemma. That was another great performance, also I saw two interviews one with the voice actor who played Jackie, and the other with the VA who played male V and was impressed. I definitely prefer Male V. No offense to Fem V but honestly most of the time she kinda sounds like shes over-acting for me. I really don't want to be a sassy smart ass for 100 hours. If it was like Bioware and I could choose the tone on a per conversation basis that's a different story. But V's tone is basically set based on the VA, and Male V just suits a wider range of situations imo.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 16, 2023 20:45:41 GMT
CDPR teasing the big conspiracy again. Driving me nuts how little they let us dive into it in game lol. Honestly, this kinda re-contextualizes the Star and Sun endings quite a bit. Before Phantom Liberty, we had no reason to think a literal "Cure" was even physically possible. Afterall, if Arasaka couldn't undo the damage of their own invention, who possibly could? But how Mr Blue Eyes offering "help" with V's "problem" seems like a legitimate possibility now. Before, I honestly just saw it as a shady guy making BS promises to a dead V walking with nothing to lose to get them to do something. Of course, that might still be the case, but before there was no other realistic perspective to have. The same now applies to the Star ending. Panam saying they "know people who might be able to help" rang very hollow, just hopeful platitudes for V to cling to. Again, that could be the case, but now it's also possible they really might find someone with an answer. Agree with the Sun ending since we think at least So Mi makes some level of recovery since she texts us later and gives us a couple things. The only question is whether that’s really So Mi. After all Mr. Blue Eyes is involved with things like mind manipulating people such as the Peralez family, so same could be with her where it’s no longer actually her. And of course where does he sit among the AIs? The Sun ending I still don’t think is possible. Arasaka couldn’t, the NUSA only could because they had the neural matrix with the trapped AI in it, so maybe Mr. Blue Eyes or his group track the Aldecaldos down? Now the question is will the Aldecaldos abandon V again like in the Tower ending. It's a fair point, we really don't know if that message was even from So Mi. It felt like a very sterile tone to the message. Something Alt would write. But at the same time, I doubt an AI would see any value in placing a commemorative coin inside the cylinder, that's a sentiment that I strongly doubt the AI's possess. As for the Aldecadoes not having much to go off of. That's very true, however, I never expected to walk up to a random Gig in Dogtown and stumble on a secret Blackwall AI research bunker that Militech made either. I highly doubt So Mi was the only person in North America delving into places of the Net they got no business being in. Before this Expansion I would have never imagined someone was using the Blackwall like So Mi was. That's so hilariously stupid of an idea to meddle with that I would have never wrapped my head around it. Who knows what else is out there now? Blackwall hacking just kinda blows the lid off expectations here lol.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 16, 2023 18:51:49 GMT
Also I gotta say, I know Idris said he hopes to be the new Bond. I gotta say, if this whole experience for him was one long Audition for that, man done convinced me. He's got ruthless special agent down to a T. Whole expansion was basically the best Bond movie we never had.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 16, 2023 17:51:10 GMT
CDPR teasing the big conspiracy again. Driving me nuts how little they let us dive into it in game lol.
Honestly, this kinda re-contextualizes the Star and Sun endings quite a bit. Before Phantom Liberty, we had no reason to think a literal "Cure" was even physically possible. Afterall, if Arasaka couldn't undo the damage of their own invention, who possibly could? But how Mr Blue Eyes offering "help" with V's "problem" seems like a legitimate possibility now. Before, I honestly just saw it as a shady guy making BS promises to a dead V walking with nothing to lose to get them to do something. Of course, that might still be the case, but before there was no other realistic perspective to have.
The same now applies to the Star ending. Panam saying they "know people who might be able to help" rang very hollow, just hopeful platitudes for V to cling to. Again, that could be the case, but now it's also possible they really might find someone with an answer.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 16, 2023 17:44:45 GMT
Without spoilers what is everyone's opinion on Phantom Liberty? Is it any good or worth the price? I am going mainly by what people say here and the verified owner reviews @ GOG.com, since that's where I bought Cyberpunk 2077. So yeah did it improve gameplay? Is the story any good? I never finished Cyberpunk 2077 so I don't know, but does the expansion take place after the main story, before, or during? How does it run for you? I know the system requirements have been increased, I do meet them but my card while capable of some of the fancy graphic options is not strong enough to enable all of the options. I just don't want the expansion to burn a hole through my PC. Are there any game breaking bugs or glitches? To answer when you should play it, most people say it fits best during Act 3 so after you pursue the three leads of Act 2. So mid to late game. It fits better there since it kinda of feels like this is V’s last shot. Also do plenty of side quests since some NPCs from those can appear and be involved in certain parts. It's worth noting that if you do the Expansion sooner, as I did this first time, the rest of the game is littered with Phantom Liberty references afterwards. Just as an example, when first meeting a certain celebrity in "Violence" V mentions seeing them before in Black Sapphire.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Oct 12, 2023 1:54:58 GMT
Well I gotta say, I have officially finished the Expansion, and I must confess I am quit annoyed because the quality was so good that knowing there won't be a second Expansion, as was originally promised, is just agonizing.
They addressed the biggest ending complaint people had with the endings which I respect. But they also refused to address it in the unrealistic, genre breaking way many of the fans wanted them to do. For some reason people just can't seem to accept that "happy endings" do not exist in this genre.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 28, 2023 22:17:33 GMT
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 26, 2023 21:14:38 GMT
For what it's worth, playing this game got me interested in the genre. I had zero interest in this type of genre before I played it. I personally would say the narrative quality of the game is 10/10, not a score I've given since Origins. As for the length, yea that really depends. The main quest was purposefully made shorter than Witcher 3 because CD said most people never finished Witcher 3 (I guess they don't realize most people never finish any game period lol). However, doing only the main quest will have a drastic impact on the ending. The more side content you do, the more options you'll have, like Mass Effect 3, except not shitty. I read Neuromancer recently to get me immersed in the genre and that novel suffered a little from super boring protagonist syndrome. I found all the cyberpunk speak really exhausting and confusing. A decent no El but not particularly emotionally engaging. So not off to a good start. I keep hearing though that the narrative is really good in this game so I hope that will be enough. Mass Effect was my gateway to scifi. Didn't care at all about sci-fi and almost didn't buy the game because of it. Sure glad I did! My ex boyfriend kept saying this game won't be for me, too brutal and dingy and all, and he's usually right about these things. But we'll see. He's not wrong about this. Cyberpunk as a genre is very much a warning to the audience consuming it, it is dark and brutal by nature in an attempt to get you "wake the fuck up samurai" and try to do whatever you can to prevent society from going down that path. It's very much so not a setting you would want to live in, as it's a sad dystopian shit hole by design. Not everyone can handle that, obviously. Mass Effect is definitely more light-hearted (which is strange to say about a series about war, brainwashing and genocide) Basically just imagine ME3's Sanctuary level of disgust for 80 hours and you'll get the idea. If anything. I would watch the Edgerunners anime first (if you haven't yet) to see if you find it even remotely interesting.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 26, 2023 8:16:24 GMT
I'll probably get round to playing this game for the first time during the Christmas break. Maybe there's a discount bundle with the DLC by then. I hope that overall the new gameplay tweaks make for a better experience. I still worry the game isn't for me because I'm not a big fan of the setting. And I don't care about driving in games. This is not going to be the next Witcher for me. I hope the narrative is good at least. As long as I'm immersed in the story and characters I'll be fine even if the gameplay/combat isn't my cup of tea. I did enjoy Deus Ex Human Revolution even though I HATED the gameplay. Definitely waiting on another discount in any case. I'll be keeping an eye on this threat and your opinions on the changes and DLC. Btw how long is the game approximately? Witcher 3 was looong. Especially with all the DLC. For what it's worth, playing this game got me interested in the genre. I had zero interest in this type of genre before I played it. I personally would say the narrative quality of the game is 10/10, not a score I've given since Origins. As for the length, yea that really depends. The main quest was purposefully made shorter than Witcher 3 because CD said most people never finished Witcher 3 (I guess they don't realize most people never finish any game period lol). However, doing only the main quest will have a drastic impact on the ending. The more side content you do, the more options you'll have, like Mass Effect 3, except not shitty.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 23, 2023 1:31:21 GMT
Some of the changes are just silly, honestly. Grenade timers? what kind of gamey, artificial change is that? What purpose does that even serve? Stopping grenade spam? If so, why is that a problem, in a single player game? Just give grenades a weight so you can't carry 500 grenades if you think that's a problem for some stupid reason.
I don't need it to be a win button, I want it to make sense where it should, like for example, aiming down sights, you're clutched against the gun and controlling the kick but firing from the hip consumes stamina? Why? and even on small caliber guns too. On heavy guns it makes sense. You're already inaccurate because its hip-fire and you even need a perk for handguns so it doesn't consume stamina when firing from the hip when it doesn't need to be in the first place, I understand if you're strapped with a revolver or Conrad's Hammer but those two types of guns should be the outlier.
Mods on weapons being permanent...why? especially since you remove the ability to upgrade all weapons that aren't iconic. These two changes fundamentally feel at odds with each other imo.
Removing now entirely cosmetic clothing drops from enemies? This was a questionable change and I don't see how removing clothing from enemy drop tables does anything other than inconvenience the player. What are you balancing exactly by removing cosmetic drops?
Never mind that the entire concept of "BALANCE" in a single player game is honestly just really stupid to me. If you think something is too OP, just don't do that thing, Your not ruining someone's day by spamming some broken nonsense in Multiplayer.
The Skill Trees are great, the cops are...well the cops, at least they actually patrol the road now. Vehicle combat is good, the AI is good. The update has a lot of good changes...but good grief...some of these changes are just ludacris.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 22, 2023 9:38:08 GMT
So utterly disappointed they added mandatory level scaling. Why do developers keep doing this? I get some people like it, but a lot of people don't. Witcher 3 gave you a toggle, but no, now their just gonna force you to use it. SMH.
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Post by therevanchist25 on Sept 11, 2023 8:48:36 GMT
No, sorry, it's not an invented scandal. I looked into it and saw the trend before it became "a trend". Yeah, there was that one indie studio guy, fine (although I don't even agree with his assertions). The rest were AAA devs, not only that, but Evolve PR which handles review codes and media outreach for most game studios was putting out statements about how it's unfair to expect BG3's quality from other games, coupled with some really blatant lies (like claiming Dungeons & Dragons paid for development–no they didn't, in fact you have to pay WotC for the license–and that anything D&D branded is a guaranteed success–okay, tell that to the A-list actor and writer D&D film that just flopped). N.b. I'm a journalist myself who's worked with Evolve lol. It's all corporate culture gaslighting, as usual. We the players are just uneducated rubes who don't know anything. This has been frankly going on for at least a decade, going all the way back to the ME3 scandal where the entire industry just kept saying how fans are just spoiled whiny babies who should just shut up and accept whatever Studios deign to give us and just be grateful. Now obviously yes there's the occasional moron who's a psychopath that sends death threats to developers, but that does not justify in my mind this decades long Elitist attitude most of these companies, including the so called media, seem to cling to.
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