I kinda went the other way on my first run and just wore things I liked the look of, haha. Like not wearing a hat since most of them are pretty bad.
Once I got into crafting I started paying more attention to the bonuses. And then once they redid how mods worked, just slapped the best mods on my favorite items because armor seemed irrelevant.
I was hoping that they would implement a skill to add more mod slots to the crafting tree. I haven't tried crafting stuff again for 1.6, but rerolling for the stats or slots you want is just such a boring game mechanic and I wish more games would drop it entirely. Legendary should have max slots, Epic should have 2, Rare should have 1. Or let you spend materials and crafting skill to add slots or improve stats. Limit the RNG.
Like, for an MMO where they sell you things to alleviate how annoying RNG is, that makes sense. For single player it's just tedious.
The anime is pretty good, almost done with it. I've seen lots of gory stuff but the sheer amount of almost nonstop gore was enough to turn my stomach and take a break from watching it. Not sure why, I'm sure I've seen worse.
Well I hope CDProjek learned their lesson about releasing a flawed game!
Cyberpunk 2077 achieves massive success with 1 million+ playerbase
I think it's a really good game. I'm replaying it again. I played it day one on PC and had no issues. Game looks incredible on 3080 Ti
I also played it on release, and didn't have most of the issues people reported, but I thought it was pretty clear that, with support and DLCs, it was a game that was going to age quite well.
That said, having an apparently quite-good anime released to supplement your game doesn't hurt.
Game looks incredible on 3080 Ti
Hell, it looked and ran great on my 2080Ti.
I played through it on a 3770k and 980Ti (1080p, mostly medium settings) and thought it looked great.
A flawed game but good enough for me to double-dip on PC & Series X versions (deep discount both times). Looks & plays pretty swell on a RTX 3060 (laptop) provided I enable DLSS and don't do ray tracing but even with the fancy lights/shadows switched on I'm able to see 40-45fps.
Hanging the game around the plot structure of the anime would've made for a much more gripping main story campaign, imho. It's also a pain to play through the Jackie/heist prologue. Brain dances are tedious.
Having only played though it once I didn't mind the brain dances. But it felt like it was going to be a bigger part of the game since there was so much detail in it. But how many were there in the entire game? 3 or 4?
Around that many. Certainly not the first "Huh... thought they'd do more with this" game mechanic I've seen.
For me, I quite enjoyed the limited time we got with Jackie at the beginning. I DESPERATELY wanted to skip every single moment I spent inside Johnny Silverhand's memories though. I would've preferred an email.
This game desperately needs a character that isn't V that can be played in a sandbox mode. Wipe out a faction, pit gangs against each other. Do missions for love and/or money. Build a rep and maintain it. And then, if and when you're bored, switch to V and play the depressing hell out of a depressing as hell situation.
I have so much fun with this game until I'm reminded of the story.
This game desperately needs a character that isn't V that can be played in a sandbox mode. Wipe out a faction, pit gangs against each other. Do missions for love and/or money. Build a rep and maintain it. And then, if and when you're bored, switch to V and play the depressing hell out of a depressing as hell situation.
I have so much fun with this game until I'm reminded of the story.
I keep hoping we get a Fallout New Vegas situation, where someone else takes the game and does something amazing with it.
I enjoyed parts of the story.
Like, I hated the ending I got at first....
FemV leaves Night City behind with the Aldecaldos.
I was initially really, really angry, because years of gaming has taught me that if you "Do the Work" you get The Happy Ending, and the ending is, at best, bittersweet, but I quickly turned around on it.
The game doesn't do a ton narratively that impressed me, but I did enjoy how only, in that ending, do you finally step outside of V's perspective and lose control of her. I thought it fit nicely with the entire thing with Johnny taking over her brain, since I, the player, did the same thing. And then at the end, I'm no longer in control and she's on her own again.
That said, as much as I like Panam, I found it a little weird I wasn't sharing these final moments with Judy, who I'd romanced.
...and as I said, literally every Johnny Silverhand interstitial can go in the bin, for me.
I mentioned it somewhere in this thread before, but it's a perfect 7/10 game for me. I could go on, at length, about the things I don't think it did well, and yet I've played it twice and wholly enjoyed the experience both times, and once I have time, will give it a third try.
It's funny because that was viewed as the "good" ending by general consensus when the game first released.
I like all the endings. I think some endings fit better with specific lifepaths, but I did them all and enjoyed them all.
My personal favorite is Don't Fear the Reaper and
SPPPPAAAACCEEEE HEIIIISSSSSTTTTT
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I think the narrative is obviously central to the game they wanted to make, and I don't think sidelining the story even more and having a pure sandbox is something it necessarily needs. The worldbuilding and writing are two of the strongest aspects, imo.
With the main quest, the side quests, the anime, and the world in general happy endings are supposed to be few and far between. Especially if you read a lot of the shards/emails that fill in extra context. Even Legends get beaten down and some get fairly mundane ends.
Not something I'd want in every game, but I think it's fitting in this one.
I’m really enjoying it still. Have probably spent the last 15ish hours outside of the city. Really like how different the two settings feel. Working a Panam romance but haven’t seen any other actual options.
I am enjoying it as well again. Still looks incredible. Love the details indoors.
Cyberpunk 2077 Fans Are Dying To Take Revenge On Edgerunners’ Cruelest Villain
..........is he though?
I mean, maybe my memory is fuzzy, but Smasher appears... what... 3, maybe 4 times, briefly, throughout the game before you encounter him at the end (a boss fight I actually found fairly easy, to my immense shock).
Honestly, I remember finishing the game and definitely thinking that, in a lot of ways, the game totally lacked any traditional "villains" at all. The only real villain was V's impending death, but I never got the feeling there was a single, real antagonist in the story, certainly not one who like, seriously, meaningfully cared about capturing/killing me.
EDIT: Ohhhhhhhhh, Smasher kills the Waifu from the anime everybody's horny for atm. I get it now.
On Steam - $60.
On PS5 (used) - $15.99
On Xbox (used) - $12.98
I was thinking about getting it again and since I have a new Steam Deck I thought it might be fun. Not for that much.
Used games never go on sale tho...
So if you're willing to pay 30 for a Steam copy, GOG will take your money right now.
It's regularly on sale at that price over the various storefronts.
Yeah, until the recent Steam and GoG sales ended it was 50% off at both.
I snagged my PC copy off eBay during the, uh, backlash period. It's basically just a GoG code but you get some extras like the soundtrack.
Probably still sealed "physical" copies available if you wanted to go that route.
I've been messing around with it on my Deck and I played through The Pickup.
It's playable but definitely not the optimal experience. The Steam Deck setting is like 20-25 FPS. You can tweak settings to gain some FPS but then it starts to look really potato.
Curious how FSR 2.0 might improve things on the Deck.
Still had fun, and might be my stuck at an airport game of choice next week.
EDIT:
Should spoiler that last line
Whoop! Somehow, I didn't realize that's a spoiler!
Whoop! Somehow, I didn't realize that's a spoiler!
*Sniff* You can find her shotgun near where she dies
in the game.
I played a corpo and got the worst ending. Fitting.
I put 10 hours or so into this at launch, and was having a decent enough time with it (disappointing compared to the lofty expectations, but it was still feeling like a solid Bethesda-knockoff in a neat cyberpunk world), but when I started seeing some reports of saves breaking and the endings not working properly, I decided to wait for the game to get fixed. I re-installed the game when the Series X version came out, but never found the motivation to get into it. I've been watching Edgerunners this week, though, and really liking it, and that plus the recent buzz around the game convinced me to finally return. But I just cannot pick up my old save -- I have no recollection of what was happening, I don't remember the mechanics, and all my perks seem to have been unallocated (I'm guessing they changed how that system works, I assume I did not just decline to spend a dozen perk points). So, reluctant as I am to replay that many hours, I'm starting a fresh character. At least this time I'm changing backgrounds (I was a corpo, this time I'm a street kid). It looks really pretty still, and I'll be interested to get back into it.
i've been replaying as a a street kid, fists and blunt weapons primarily. it's been really fun wading into a gun battle with a pipe wrench and coming out victorious. just got to street cred 20 and got my first pair of gorilla arms *chef's kiss* so much fun punching out heavily armed chromed up idiots while their bullets ping off my armored skin 
So I've begun playing this and am now ten hours in and very much enjoying it. Sure it can be tropey as hell but it's a lovely world they've built and I've been really enjoying the random NCPD callouts I find as I go around the map. I've been doing that more than any of the actual quests at this point.
So I've begun playing this and am now ten hours in and very much enjoying it. Sure it can be tropey as hell but it's a lovely world they've built and I've been really enjoying the random NCPD callouts I find as I go around the map. I've been doing that more than any of the actual quests at this point.
Glad you are enjoying it Veloxi. I personally think it's an excellent game. I never had any issues even at launch. The environments are amazing and I think the gameplay is fun. I am having more fun with Cyberpunk than Horizon Forbidden West.
Just blows my mind walking around the game. I got almost 100 hours in it.
Yeah the world they've built is very impressive to be sure. I'm really enjoying just driving around and finding NCPD scrapes to get involved with.
Out of curiosity, what playstyles have you dipped into so far?
Out of curiosity, what playstyles have you dipped into so far?
My first playthrough was a netrunner build. I didnt get a chance to finish it. But now that I've restarted. Netrunner again. I just tried out the Mantis blades. Super cool.
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