|
CyberPunk 2077, New RPG by CD Projekt Red |
|
|
|
|
Replies
RaderOfTheLostArk |
Dec 15 2020, 11:13 PM
|
Mouth
Joined: 4-May 17
From: Lilmoth, Black Marsh
|
I'm hearing more and more about how horribly the game runs on lower-end consoles. Obviously PS4 and XBox 1 are going to lag behind PS5 and Xbox Series X (or S or whatever it is), but it sounds like it is practically unplayable. From what I hear, it often drops to 15-20 fps. Hell, people are having trouble with the next-gen and PC versions, unless you are absolutely top-of-the-line in PC specs (which, yeah, that should be the case). If that's the case, that's really inexcusable. Now, I don't want to be biased and just hone in on negative reviews. I haven't seen many positive reviews yet that really make a good attempt to explain their reasoning, though I haven't really tried seeking them out. I've just done a cursory scan of store pages and sometimes coming across stuff on Reddit. (For all its issues, Reddit can actually have quite a large amount of good and interesting discussion about things like video games.) It's a natural human bias to put more stock into the negative than the positive, but this review from the front page of Cyberpunk's GOG store page really stuck out. [I thought you could embed pictures in here? I can't find the option for it now. Ugh. I'll just copy-paste the text.]Red text denotes what I added for clarity.QUOTE Reviewer: Vapnik
Games: 170 Reviews: 3 2 out of 5 stars (couldn't actually copy-paste the stars) A disappointment
December 10, 2020 - Verified owner
Cyberpunk 2077 rides on a lot of goodwill from the incredible Witcher 3. Without that goodwill the hype would not be there. Unfortunately, I can't say that it has lived up to the hype.
Everyone has talked the bugs and performance issues to death so I won't repeat them. They're bad, really bad, but probably fixable.
What isn't fixable is the game itself. There's no RPG to this RPG. The story railroads you from one mission to another, the three starting prologues all lead to the same place with the same beats, no matter if you're a Corpo or a Nomad your V will act like the same streetwise edgelord so it doesn't matter. There's no real dialogue choices, you have one dialogue option and some optional chit chat below it.
The characters are all forgettable and it's often unclear why you're supposed to care about the missions. Person X wants item Y but Person Z wants you to screw over Person X etc etc. At no point did I feel any connection to anybody or any sense of why I'm doing what I'm doing. It's all edgy but shallow characterisation. The dialogue is also wooden and gives me no reason to care.
The world is impressive... at first. Then you realise it's all an elaborate shallow stage. You can barely talk to any civilians and they just mindlessly walk straight ahead. No interactions or cool moments like in GTA or RDR. If you shoot your gun dozens of NPCs go into an identical crouching animation forever. The cops can be defeated by standing against a wall as they always spawn behind you. It never feels like you're in a living world, more like a heavily choreographed stage surrounded by lifeless robots.
The gameplay is also unsatisfying. There's a heavy focus on gunplay but none of the guns feel satisfying. Enemies are bullet sponges and you barely react to being shot. Ironically swords break the game by stun locking enemies. Stealth is almost impossible to pull off and hacking is clunky so they're rarely viable options.
It hurts to admit but this is a bad game.
Is this helpful to you? yes no (897 of 1379 users found this helpful)
(Side note: GOG really needs to let you add more characters to your reviews. I've posted four reviews on the site, and 2000 characters just isn't enough to get out everything you want or need to say.) You can read other GOG reviews here: https://www.gog.com/game/cyberpunk_2077This sure sounds pretty bad. Seems like they should've cooked it some more, but at this point they probably had no choice due to investors and rabid, capital-G Gamers. Then again, CDPR could've helped themselves out by not hyping the game for 8 damn years. This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Dec 15 2020, 11:14 PM
--------------------
"[Insert awesome/inspiring/cool/smart/pseudo-intellectual quote here.]" - Me
|
|
|
|
mALX |
Dec 16 2020, 05:29 PM
|
Ancient
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Cyrodiil, the Wastelands, and BFE TN
|
QUOTE(RaderOfTheLostArk @ Dec 15 2020, 05:13 PM) I'm hearing more and more about how horribly the game runs on lower-end consoles. Obviously PS4 and XBox 1 are going to lag behind PS5 and Xbox Series X (or S or whatever it is), but it sounds like it is practically unplayable. From what I hear, it often drops to 15-20 fps. Hell, people are having trouble with the next-gen and PC versions, unless you are absolutely top-of-the-line in PC specs (which, yeah, that should be the case). If that's the case, that's really inexcusable. Now, I don't want to be biased and just hone in on negative reviews. I haven't seen many positive reviews yet that really make a good attempt to explain their reasoning, though I haven't really tried seeking them out. I've just done a cursory scan of store pages and sometimes coming across stuff on Reddit. (For all its issues, Reddit can actually have quite a large amount of good and interesting discussion about things like video games.) It's a natural human bias to put more stock into the negative than the positive, but this review from the front page of Cyberpunk's GOG store page really stuck out. [I thought you could embed pictures in here? I can't find the option for it now. Ugh. I'll just copy-paste the text.]Red text denotes what I added for clarity.QUOTE Reviewer: Vapnik
Games: 170 Reviews: 3 2 out of 5 stars (couldn't actually copy-paste the stars) A disappointment
December 10, 2020 - Verified owner
Cyberpunk 2077 rides on a lot of goodwill from the incredible Witcher 3. Without that goodwill the hype would not be there. Unfortunately, I can't say that it has lived up to the hype.
Everyone has talked the bugs and performance issues to death so I won't repeat them. They're bad, really bad, but probably fixable.
What isn't fixable is the game itself. There's no RPG to this RPG. The story railroads you from one mission to another, the three starting prologues all lead to the same place with the same beats, no matter if you're a Corpo or a Nomad your V will act like the same streetwise edgelord so it doesn't matter. There's no real dialogue choices, you have one dialogue option and some optional chit chat below it.
The characters are all forgettable and it's often unclear why you're supposed to care about the missions. Person X wants item Y but Person Z wants you to screw over Person X etc etc. At no point did I feel any connection to anybody or any sense of why I'm doing what I'm doing. It's all edgy but shallow characterisation. The dialogue is also wooden and gives me no reason to care.
The world is impressive... at first. Then you realise it's all an elaborate shallow stage. You can barely talk to any civilians and they just mindlessly walk straight ahead. No interactions or cool moments like in GTA or RDR. If you shoot your gun dozens of NPCs go into an identical crouching animation forever. The cops can be defeated by standing against a wall as they always spawn behind you. It never feels like you're in a living world, more like a heavily choreographed stage surrounded by lifeless robots.
The gameplay is also unsatisfying. There's a heavy focus on gunplay but none of the guns feel satisfying. Enemies are bullet sponges and you barely react to being shot. Ironically swords break the game by stun locking enemies. Stealth is almost impossible to pull off and hacking is clunky so they're rarely viable options.
It hurts to admit but this is a bad game.
Is this helpful to you? yes no (897 of 1379 users found this helpful)
(Side note: GOG really needs to let you add more characters to your reviews. I've posted four reviews on the site, and 2000 characters just isn't enough to get out everything you want or need to say.) You can read other GOG reviews here: https://www.gog.com/game/cyberpunk_2077This sure sounds pretty bad. Seems like they should've cooked it some more, but at this point they probably had no choice due to investors and rabid, capital-G Gamers. Then again, CDPR could've helped themselves out by not hyping the game for 8 damn years. Everything that interview said was exactly what that first "bad" interview said in the first three interviews posted above; and was what I noticed in the gameplay vid. This game will probably not be satisfying as a good RPG; it is more set up like a Shooter with a few RPG aspects added. And yeah; them hyping it for so long is what cooked their own witch's cauldron on them. My son said they were getting death threats if they didn't release it! Makes you leery of the gamers you might meet on the Cyberpunk 2077 Discord channels; QUOTE(SubRosa @ Dec 15 2020, 09:11 PM) This might be better than the gameToo bad for Keanu, that he hitched himself to this. He deserved a better game to be associated with, like Red Dead 2. Holy Cow, that would make me run out and buy the game!!!!! Awesome ad; did they ever use it? (and yeah; better than what I saw in the game, lol).
--------------------
|
|
|
|
Posts in this topic
TheCheshireKhajiit CyberPunk 2077 Jun 17 2018, 03:51 AM SubRosa It does sound interesting. I have always liked cyb... Jun 17 2018, 04:51 AM Uleni Athram Hoi there, chummer. Always geek the mage first and... Jun 17 2018, 05:33 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
Hoi there, chummer. Always geek the mage first an... Jun 17 2018, 02:03 PM SubRosa
Hoi there, chummer. Always geek the mage first an... Jun 17 2018, 03:55 PM mALX
[quote name='Uleni Athram' post='302620' date='Ju... Dec 16 2020, 03:20 PM Uleni Athram An adventure where you have to willingly cut a dea... Jun 17 2018, 04:09 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
An adventure where you have to willingly cut a de... Jun 17 2018, 04:11 PM SubRosa
An adventure where you have to willingly cut a de... Jun 17 2018, 06:23 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Hmm, Khajiit got this Shadowrun Returns for free w... Jun 17 2018, 10:40 PM TheCheshireKhajiit They dropped a 48 min gameplay vid for Cyberpunk t... Aug 28 2018, 02:16 AM Renee Isn't this where yet another shooting occurred... Aug 28 2018, 01:07 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
Isn't this where yet another shooting occurre... Aug 28 2018, 03:31 PM Kane CDPR off to a fast start with boobs and the c-word... Aug 28 2018, 04:35 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
CDPR off to a fast start with boobs and the c-wor... Aug 28 2018, 04:41 PM Kane
CDPR off to a fast start with boobs and the c-wo... Aug 28 2018, 04:43 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
[quote name='TheCheshireKhajiit' post='305553' da... Aug 28 2018, 05:04 PM mALX
[quote name='Kane' post='305552' date='Aug 28 201... Dec 16 2020, 03:55 PM monkeyemoness On one hand I'm wary of giving CDPR any money,... Aug 29 2018, 02:56 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
I'm wary of giving CDPR any money
Oh? Khajii... Aug 29 2018, 05:19 AM monkeyemoness
I'm wary of giving CDPR any money
Oh? Khaji... Aug 29 2018, 08:34 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
[quote name='TheCheshireKhajiit' post='305567' da... Aug 29 2018, 11:15 PM Kane I probably won't play it, TBH. I've grown ... Aug 29 2018, 01:34 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Khajiit just watched the gameplay vid last night. ... Aug 29 2018, 03:48 PM TheCheshireKhajiit So has anyone here played this game yet? Dec 10 2020, 05:26 PM RaderOfTheLostArk
So has anyone here played this game yet?
I... Dec 10 2020, 06:29 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
So has anyone here played this game yet?
I... Dec 10 2020, 07:30 PM SubRosa
Yeah I’m probably going to wait a bit to get it... Dec 10 2020, 11:39 PM RaderOfTheLostArk Looking on Steam, I currently only see two good, l... Dec 11 2020, 06:27 AM mALX
Looking on Steam, I currently only see two good, ... Dec 16 2020, 04:50 PM SubRosa One reviewer mentioned being sent back to a checkp... Dec 11 2020, 06:43 AM TheCheshireKhajiit I’ve decided to wait for things to settle down f... Dec 13 2020, 11:22 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Well, at least they seem to be trying to do the ri... Dec 16 2020, 12:38 AM SubRosa This might be better than the game
Too bad for Ke... Dec 16 2020, 03:11 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
This might be better than the game
Too bad for K... Dec 16 2020, 03:17 AM SubRosa
[quote name='SubRosa' post='332215' date='Dec 15 ... Dec 16 2020, 04:05 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
Yeah, but he's a really cool guy. He deserves... Dec 16 2020, 05:59 AM SubRosa
Yeah, but he's a really cool guy. He deserve... Dec 16 2020, 06:52 AM mALX
[quote name='SubRosa' post='332218' date='Dec 15... Dec 16 2020, 06:01 PM Renee Right, I know nothing at all about this game or it... Dec 16 2020, 02:11 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
[quote name='TheCheshireKhajiit' post='332219' da... Dec 16 2020, 03:10 PM RaderOfTheLostArk
[url=https://imgur.com/gallery/UcIIatf]This might... Dec 16 2020, 07:25 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
*snip*
Yeah I’m pretty much going to do the sa... Dec 16 2020, 07:36 PM mALX If I get it, it will def be at a Steam sale. I... Dec 16 2020, 08:36 PM TheCheshireKhajiit Sony has pulled CP2077 from its digital storefront... Dec 18 2020, 05:10 AM mALX
Sony has pulled CP2077 from its digital storefron... Dec 18 2020, 05:29 AM RaderOfTheLostArk As much as I can't stand the cult of sycophant... Dec 18 2020, 10:51 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
As much as I can't stand the cult of sycophan... Dec 19 2020, 12:07 AM mALX
As much as I can't stand the cult of sycopha... Dec 19 2020, 12:24 AM hazmick I've been enjoying the game on the whole (play... Dec 19 2020, 02:37 PM TheCheshireKhajiit
I've been enjoying the game on the whole (pla... Dec 19 2020, 11:33 PM mALX
I've been enjoying the game on the whole (pla... Dec 20 2020, 03:39 PM RaderOfTheLostArk
I've been enjoying the game on the whole (pla... Dec 22 2020, 12:58 AM hazmick
snip
Linearity of the story and lack of real ch... Dec 22 2020, 05:14 PM Uleni Athram This is why I’m gonna wait a year on major relea... Dec 20 2020, 08:23 PM mALX
This is why I’m gonna wait a year on major rele... Dec 20 2020, 08:26 PM SubRosa I did see a video of an NPC in a wheelchair. The P... Dec 22 2020, 07:11 AM TheCheshireKhajiit
I did see a video of an NPC in a wheelchair. The ... Dec 22 2020, 01:17 PM mALX
I did see a video of an NPC in a wheelchair. The ... Dec 22 2020, 04:40 PM Uleni Athram Yikes. Dec 23 2020, 08:23 AM
2 User(s) are reading this topic (2 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
|