For a second, I thought you were talking about our Romanian commentator but then I remembered that's the actual name of the MC of this game..
What saved Cyberpunk was Edgerunners, that reinvigorated attention to it and the timing for was good as it had been patched a lot by then. That game just promised too much and didn't meet the high expectations set, like No man's sky or Fallout 76. They aren't bad games NOW but first impressions matter.
Cyberpunk’s biggest problem is actually its story. It’s garbage. The plot is garbage. The characters are garbage. The dialogue is garbage. This was obscured by all of the bugs and unfinished mechanics. Now that the game is mostly fixed, it still has a bad story. No fixing that.
That's one of the things I've heard, it has the same problem as Fallout 4 (very lackluster story but fun gameplay especially if you like building) which is probably why people latched onto Edgerunners so had because that WAS a good story.
They should've probably done the GTA online thing of being a mute character that is in the places where shit happens.
The playable prologue in cyberpunk 2077 has you “becoming a criminal”, but then the game takes control away from you and shows a cinematic montage of all the shit you did to first establish yourself as a criminal. Making friends and enemies, learning the city and the culture, earning your reputation, years of grinding - all that fun foundational storytelling is delivered to you passively in an in-engine cutscene. It’s one of the dumbest story decisions I’ve ever seen. That shit should have been the game. Instead, there’s a massive time jump paving over the most important part of the story, and then you have no proper investment in the characters when the “real story” begins.
Not to mention that they also take away your choice in cybernetics/humanity.
There is no story to be told about staying a pure flesh suit, or developing psychosis as a chrome-head. That should have been the main crux of the story, like it was in Edgerunners.
Everyone jumped on Keanu Reeves' nuts but not only is he as wooden and lifeless when voice acting as he is when regular acting, but Johnny Silverhand is also just a shitty, cringy character.
Even if they wanted to expand on it hardcore as you say, do they even have the skill to fix it? We know that they want the ESG fun money since they are starting to make those reports, which is another indication that the profits are not enough.
This is what normies like, they like standing in a fucking static box watching stuff go by and getting distracted by the pretty shinies which explains why game devs like them as customers so much more than gamers. The joke is with the transit system you can't even poke around inside the tram itself, they're being amazed by your character
This reminds me of Deus Ex Human Revolution and its subway but it had atleast a event happening on the sub xD.
The joke is with the transit system you can't even poke around inside the tram itself, they're being amazed by your character being completely static and switching to different positions with an animation sequence.
They're also four years too late to a system that actually lets you move around in the tram in real-time, and doesn't take any of the gameplay mechanics away from you... you can even get killed by it if you stand on the tracks:
https://youtu.be/8l4_brSbdRE
For a second, I thought you were talking about our Romanian commentator but then I remembered that's the actual name of the MC of this game..
What saved Cyberpunk was Edgerunners, that reinvigorated attention to it and the timing for was good as it had been patched a lot by then. That game just promised too much and didn't meet the high expectations set, like No man's sky or Fallout 76. They aren't bad games NOW but first impressions matter.
Cyberpunk’s biggest problem is actually its story. It’s garbage. The plot is garbage. The characters are garbage. The dialogue is garbage. This was obscured by all of the bugs and unfinished mechanics. Now that the game is mostly fixed, it still has a bad story. No fixing that.
That's one of the things I've heard, it has the same problem as Fallout 4 (very lackluster story but fun gameplay especially if you like building) which is probably why people latched onto Edgerunners so had because that WAS a good story.
They should've probably done the GTA online thing of being a mute character that is in the places where shit happens.
The playable prologue in cyberpunk 2077 has you “becoming a criminal”, but then the game takes control away from you and shows a cinematic montage of all the shit you did to first establish yourself as a criminal. Making friends and enemies, learning the city and the culture, earning your reputation, years of grinding - all that fun foundational storytelling is delivered to you passively in an in-engine cutscene. It’s one of the dumbest story decisions I’ve ever seen. That shit should have been the game. Instead, there’s a massive time jump paving over the most important part of the story, and then you have no proper investment in the characters when the “real story” begins.
This is narrative 101.
Not to mention that they also take away your choice in cybernetics/humanity.
There is no story to be told about staying a pure flesh suit, or developing psychosis as a chrome-head. That should have been the main crux of the story, like it was in Edgerunners.
Everyone jumped on Keanu Reeves' nuts but not only is he as wooden and lifeless when voice acting as he is when regular acting, but Johnny Silverhand is also just a shitty, cringy character.
No Man's Sky, with a catastrophic release, was totally fixed by the devs over the months, and then some.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e55R72et5ec
Skip to 5:45 to pass the ''pre-context'' and dive into the meat of the subject.
Even if they wanted to expand on it hardcore as you say, do they even have the skill to fix it? We know that they want the ESG fun money since they are starting to make those reports, which is another indication that the profits are not enough.
This reminds me of Deus Ex Human Revolution and its subway but it had atleast a event happening on the sub xD.
They're also four years too late to a system that actually lets you move around in the tram in real-time, and doesn't take any of the gameplay mechanics away from you... you can even get killed by it if you stand on the tracks: https://youtu.be/8l4_brSbdRE
Exact same thought.
I might buy it with him as the protagonist, gotta say.