i gave cyberpunk2077 another shot after hating it at launch because multiple people pestered me about it for two years. i was repeatedly told of my lengthy list of criticisms, “they fixed all that, it’s like a totally different game now”.

10 hours later it’s clear that they’re either:

a) delusional b) liars c) literally cannot hear criticism of the game being spoken aloud

because that shit was 99% identical to at launch, bugs included. the difference between the game that people keep describing to me and the game in front of me is so stark that i’m fucking baffled. it’s like it’s a cult or something.

  • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    69·
    2 days ago

    i played it at launch with all the bugs and stopped in the same place that i did this week for the same reason, playing it feels like begrudgingly doing a bunch of chores for several different assholes who harass you the entire time (sure wish i could put the phone on silent, or at least choose if i answer it) and the reward is putting up with keanu reeves’ godawful performance and the story being about his cringey edgelord nonsense character, presumably for the next 20 hours. the gameplay is bad, the mechanics are bad, the dialog is bad, and the story is bad. the graphics are secretly bad too, turn off the stupid amount of post processing that’s left on even on “low” settings and it looks like hot fucking garbage. 9 is fucking ridiculous, if this game is a 9 to you that’s fucking tragic you deserve better games to play. shit should have been a 10-hour on rails shooter instead.

    • Hadriscus@jlai.luEnglish
      121·
      2 days ago

      If you turn down the graphics settings, it starts looking like shit

      Who would have known ? lol

    • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      2 days ago

      (sure wish i could put the phone on silent, or at least choose if i answer it)

      You can do either of those. They’re both options. You can even choose which calls to send to text automatically.

      Are you sure you updated the game?

      • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        14·
        2 days ago

        Are you sure you updated the game?

        i literally downloaded and installed it entire thing less than 24 hours before playing. what you think i let that tripe take up hard drive space for five years?

        • Gamma@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Nice deflection

          I think a lot of your complaints in the other comment are subjectivity valid though

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      141·
      2 days ago

      See, you’re using inflammatory language. You’re framing your subjective experience as objective fact by using such definitive language. If you softened this up just a touch by saying things like “I didn’t like the dialog”, “I thought Keanu Reeves performance was cringe”, “I think a 9 is too high of a score for this game”, your thoughts would not only be more well received, you’d invite follow up questions like “what made you dislike Reeves’ performance?” and then we could have an actual discussion about it, instead of just collectively shouting at walls.

    • GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io
      15·
      2 days ago

      It’s perfectly fine not liking this game, but on steam it has ~90% positive reviews, so it kinda fits my rating. What similar game would you recommend instead?

      • 1ostA5tro6yne@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
        13·
        2 days ago

        first off, nickelback is the most popular band in the world, and there’s a million and ten valid reasons their music sucks.

        second, all of my experience having hot takes about popular video games tells me that question actually means “it hurts my feelings you said bad things about a thing i like, tell me a thing you like so i can say bad things about it to get back at you”.