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(Nth Review #23) It’s been over a decade since CD Projekt Red teased the arrival of Cyberpunk 2077. After a disastrous launch, the game now seems to have its cybernetic ducks in a row with years of patches and a huge expansion: Phantom Liberty… or does it? Nick checks it out!
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0:00 Preamble
4:40 1. Crashing Night City
17:04 2. It’s So Cyberpunk
23:25 3. Lose Yourself
41:32 A Message From Captain Kirby
43:03 4. Johnny Silverhandshake
54:50 5. Other People
1:02:30 6. JC Denton + More Violence
1:23:01 7. The Sides
1:29:48 8. The Phantom Liberty
1:42:34 9. Conclusion - Hry
What are your thoughts on Cyberpunk's redemption? Has it been redeemed? Be sure to also subscribe to Nth City! youtube.com/@thenthcity
Redeemed? Heck no...
Redemption was impossible when the official game guide was released.
It's as broken as Starfield and like that game it will never even be repaired to a decent level because they are fundamentally flawed.
YES!
I waited til a couple weeks ago to pick it up. I bought a PS4 just to play Cyberpunk when it released... and then it released like it did 😂 so I never bought it for PS4.
So now I have a PS5, 2.0 dropped and Phantom Liberty came out so I finally jumped on board.
100% worth the wait. I haven't been sucked in and immersed in a game like this since RDR2. Its all I want to do. 😂
My thoughts are, it never needed to be 'redeemed' because it was an amazing game at launch. It should have never been released on last gen consoles or PCs that were similar hardware as evidenced by the poor performance, this alone lead to people hating the game for what has essentially been the same game.
That being said, the gameplay mechanics and ingame content have changed to the point I have to keep two copies of the game, neither being better than the other, but I prefer some of the gameplay elements in pre-2.0 personally.
My experience as a PS5 player of the PS4 version, it ran very well without hitch, until 5 hours later memory overloaded crash, reload none the wiser from last autosave.
This was fixed with 2nd patch. I never had any of the various issues people had in all the many patch notes.
I spent 100 hours playing the game before the new year had come.
@@crtxdistortion657 Have you even played the game? The bugs have been ironed out near entirely and its performance is pretty decent for its magnitude as well. Sounds to me like you're just forcing yourself to hate like an idiot because you're still mad at its launch.
Bro you dated Panam and didn’t ride off into the sunset with the Caldos?????????
I thought they went with usual buddy cop comedy with Johny untill the flashback with Alts kidnapping... Then I realised they actually flashed out the character. He turned out to be so narcissistic, self important and self centered, he couldn't believe Alt was more important to Arasaka then he was. That they just passed by him, as if he didn't matter, to get some chick he was banging. He was so dilussional, he escaped the reality, convinced himself she was taken because of him, and even acted a hero following that logic. That sold me on the writing.
And you can play through the whole game believing his narrative, have a think about it, then do another playthrough but with a critical eye and see the BS, manipulations and ego-couching hovering in the background in every thing he says or visually remembers.
Johnny was radical version of Reed. Reed is basically Blackhand that is Loyal to a fault. Somy/President Meyers fcked him over so many times yet he doesn't exact his revenge on them. In This way Johnny's hatred of Arasaka was so deep he become Militech Merc that may or may not Nuked the fcking city so these character almost teach us that there are no heroes in this city. You can see it in every character except maybe Judy, that actually want to leave the Night City and live care free life.
Just to hit a nail on your point if you end with Reed ending I love how when you talk to Misty at the end you realize you haven't changed shit and you wont be using chrome ever (not anything from what you have done mattered). And when V asked the Misty what is he going to do she just replies "you will do as the rest of us. One day at a time. Staying out of trouble" and then V disappears into the crowd. Trully profound ending knowing you are same as the rest of the people in the city.
Johnnys character in the game is amazing because of the arasaka tower “flashback”, he plants the bomb runs around one shotting everyone and is a real bad ass. But none of that is what actually happened, he was very unimportant in those events and died being dumb. It’s so good.
A nearly 2 hour long video about Cyberpunk 2077? Count me in!
For me, there was nothing to redeem. I enjoyed the game on day one as much as I enjoyed it last week. Having watched plenty of videos on the game, I'm perplexed on how on my computer I had practically no bugs, not any that I could notice at least, until well over 200 hours into the game and several patches in, when I fell through the map - which hasn't happened since. None of the infamous T-posing, misplaced item models or collisions, or stuff like that. Granted I am playing on a beefy PC, but even so.
i saw the title and said "me too, lol"
Bruhh, totally lol
We shall wait for early access to end, even if it takes 10 years.
@@DailyFrankPeter only the strong survived the wait.. lol
Keanu Reeves also played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic, based on one of the books that arguably created the Cyberpunk genre. Mike Pondsmith (the creator of the original tabletop game) said he was partly inspired by the book.
Hot take, the game as it is now is not hugely different to what it was at launch. There are polish elements (many of which with minor game play impact like the police not teleporting in as obviously as they used to) and better performance on consoles and low end PCs.
The parts that were good were always good, the parts that were bad are mostly still bad or at best mediocre.
It deserved a lot of criticism at launch and should NEVER have released on the xbone of ps4, that was pure greed. But the major glitches were resolved very soon after launch. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it wasn't a watershed moment of bad game release.
I disagree that it was pure greed, when they announced this game the ps4 wasn’t even out a majority of people expected this to be a 8th gen.
I got it on Xbox one and got free upgrade when I switched to the series … I don’t think they were trying to be greedy… I just think they were overconfident… imo
Nicely done! You got the GLADoS car, differences in combat, oddities about people walking aimlessly, and so much more. Even my oldest loved watching this! We agreed your focus on specifics makes it pop. Loved the look of the game, loved the world, loved the ideas, just couldn't find anything different on a second playthrough. Wish there were more skill check options so it wasn't always "go kill everyone" missions. Maybe in the future? I'm sure Kirby would agree!
I eagerly anticipate the second game!
Stadia customers were the rare segment that could effectively run the early builds of Cyberpunk. Google dropped the ball and handed it to NVidea.
They added a working transit system in a recent update lol
My immediate thought was that you were lying. It can't have been ten years. Damn, I feel old now.
It's been 12 even
Cyberpunk was the first game in a long time that captivated me with its atmosphere/soundscape. The city background ambient sounds are really well done.
Yeah I was playing at my moms when I visited and she commented it sounds like a busy airport downstairs 😂.
I haven't enjoyed a game on such a level since RDR2... which set an impossibly high bar.
Had an experience similar to yours. For the first time in my life I preordered a game (pls no comment on that) because I had jumped on the hype train as many others had, plus cyberpunk is my favorite genre. On release I realized my rig could barely run it on 1080p (low, 30fps). Created a character and jumped into the game, which left me dissapointed and stopped playing the next day. However, I didn't require a refund as most people did because I had hopes a house like CDPR woud eventually fix things.
And it did. Started playing in late 2022, completed it with 3 different playstyle characters and had a blast with the story. Also had a new rig which could run the game properly. It didn't feel like a waste of money anymore AND it was bug-free, from my perspective at least.
Was it Deus Ex worthy? No, but right now it's pretty close and that's a win for me. Still haven't played since 2.0 came out though.
The review was enjoyable and not tiring despite its length, just had to grab a beer after the first 20 mins :)
I ran it fine at launch and played it for over 100 hours in the first week (on PC).
Ima tell you right now that all weapons were op pre 2.0. Melee included.
You should have played on PC. The modding community is absolutely amazing.
I really don’t care about modding
@@NthReview then you are really missing out on what gaming has to offer. Some of the biggest games in the world started out as mods.
I really don’t care. There are plenty of games out there from original designers. It’s cool that it’s for you, I just don’t care in the slightest.
@@NthReview your loss
Not really.
I am always amused when people think CDPR revealed Cyberpunk with the 2013 trailer.
Because they did not. I forget the exact circumstances, but they announced the game in 2012, one year earlier. There was only 1 piece of concept art and the name.
That's not really the same, though. Saying you're working on something in a magazine or an article or whatever or even a press release is one thing, but having a big media debut with their high-end trailer is a whole other thing.
@@NthReviewI remember reading it first on a GameSpot article. Just can't remember the context.
I get it, but again, it’s not really the same
You struggled with the Bosses on Hard Difficulty? Didn't thought I'd find a review that made me feel better about my skills, but I'm thankful nonetheless
It was those couple of boss fights that were the only thing that threw me off.
You can prevent a lot of texture bugs by deleting your direct-x and shader cache before playing a new game. Trust me that works.
I have been waiting for this since I found you.
Like you I waited until they finished it (and I’m glad I did, I only had a PS4 when it launched). I picked it up with 2.0/Phantom Liberty’s release, and I think it’s wound up my favorite game ever. Just an amazing immersive experience.
I'd say that on PC the game is waaay more stable. I've played it on release without any major issues, and I'm revisiting it right now and the experience is pretty smooth even on Linux system.
I don’t think you can call it a sponsor if that sponsor is yourself lol 😂
If you play with Path Tracing it's trully transformative. Everything except opague reflexions looks better. Don't get me wrong, the game is beautifull either way but that Path Traced Global Illumination just makes certain scene looks photorealistic so I often enjoyed "role" playing riding to a checkpoint. You can even ride without map and just use signs like in real live. This City is truly a masterpiece.
It truly is a masterpiece.
Agh I'm just having to leave for the day but I KNOW this will be good & will watch later.
It's funny; I was just rewatching some fave Nth & I wonder if YT deigned to show this to me after hiding Nth for months from my fyi & I think it unsubbed me? I was sure I was subbed. No matter I'm re-subbed now, & this was on my fyi, & this is exactly the kind of CyPk77 review I wanted to see --- someone who waited for it to come around. Many videos are comparisons from release to now. But I'm super interested in this from a fresh perspective. Thanks in advance. Looking forward.
Thank you!! Keep me posted on your thoughts!
the only thing i would add to this is game music in the right places to add to the weight and feel
I dunno how you didn’t get a high police rating, ive had five stars then Maxtec do turn up and clean your clock pretty quickly.
Also, in my opinion, female V VA is better than the male VA, and that goes a long way to creating more immersion.
why do beta males like you just cant accept that men with test scores not in an negative want to play a man not a lesbian
This game seems to have meant a lot to you, the same way it meant a lot to me. I have been following this game since 2016 or 2017, and I find this franchise important, and have a deep personal connection.
Cyberpunk 2077 was pitched as a highly professional, state-of-the-art, almost AAAA tier game. However, what they delivered was far less than that. What was there on launch wasn't terrible, but it wasn't what it was supposed to be. Even if you had a top of the line PC. On base consoles, the HDD and cpu limit even core functionality. I thought for sure it was going to be a next-gen only title, even public development roadmaps hinted at such.
Even now, the game isn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it isn't special. It's presented in a much more professional light, but it is forever scarred by poor management.
when you said "overwhelming" i was saying "that's what I said" when this game came out!!🤣
My computer is a potato and I could run it just fine at launch, I have a GTX1650. You probably could have played it sooner. Yeah I don't have fancy ray tracing etc but the game itself works fine for me with only a handful of glitches since launch. The only real consistant bug is that my character T poses during the cinematic where V and Jackie are becoming friends and I have to skip. Other than that there's been a handful of crashes to desktop and one time my car suddenly shot up into orbit while I was driving around.
I have a pair of 970s and a 6700K, I knew I could run it, but I didn't want to spend $60 to run it in potato mode lol.
@@NthReview Ok! Sometimes when people say that the game won't run on weaker computers they mean that it actually won't run or that it'll be so loaded with glitches as to be unplayable. My experience is that the gitches seem to be pretty random and they aren't tied to how powerful the computer is. There's people like me that don't have a lot of problems playing on a potato and people with the most bleeding edge gaming pc's who have a load of problems. It's all over the map. Obviously the biggest issue was with console ports, which I honestly found quite funny because usually it's the other way around with games being broken when they're ported to PC. I've noticed that console gamers generally don't care when the shoe is on the other foot.
"When it's ready." Lol.
FYI Oda goes down quickly if you use melee, especially your fists or blunt weapons. I tried hacking at first but he's shielded. I tried guns but he's tanky and heals. I swapped points into melee under the Body tree and I actually had to save-scum because I accidentally unalived him a couple times.
Also, wanted to say in a different post, this is my favorite game of all time and you’re probably my favorite CZcams video game essayist, that’s why I was so pumped for this video
Awww, thank you! Enjoy!
@@NthReview lol ur welcome pal, keep doing ur thing
I'm deep into my first playthorugh in 2024 and it's one of my favorite games I've ever played.
I waited 10 years to play this , once I got out of prison I got , let me tell you I've been gaming for years and grew up pc gaming with crappy vga cards no sound blaster card and blue screens of death and you know what I love this game! Anyway
LOL, I picked the game up at launch, and actually got to play all the way through 1.0. It wasn't great. I was just playing Cyberpunk last night, and I was thinking that they should have released the game into Early Access.
This is just with my XBox Series S, so I can’t say if it’s true for other systems, but when it does that weird “catch up with itself” thing on a save I found that, if I use the X button to kick out to main XBox menu then go back into
The game it resolves it. Why? No clue.
Yep, I mention that in the review. It’s strange
I was able to run it at launch (And streamed it) and I only encountered 4 noticeable bugs in my entire gameplay. Only one was gamebreaking, and it was in a secondary mission.
In PC it wasn't so broken as in console.
My only real problem were the broken police system. They teleported wherever you were, even inside buildings.
Nicely done, my friend!
Thank you!
The boi is baaaack 👌
I'm still waiting. Once the ultimate edition is about $30 I might bite. I need to buy a new laptop anyway, not for this game, but for Kingdom Come 2.
This game is well worth full price. It’s probably one of the only games that I would buy at full price without hesitation. I own it on PS5 and PC and paid full price both times. I’ve got over 1600 hours in game since launch. I can’t recommend this game enough. It runs amazing on PC (at has since launch for the most part) and I’ve had literally no issues on PS5.
Holy heck it's here.
I been and still play on last gen. I been playing since launch and kept my game. the bug that wouldnt let takamura call to progress in the mission got fixed but then it was happening to a different missions. Or one time i finished a mission and an elevator menu wouldnt pop up. I had to wait 3 weeks for it to get fixed. Months where the audio wasnt working or not properly syncing with the lips. and up till 1.6 the radio was always hit and miss where it would be one but wouldnt play. Alot of the major issues were very early one. And every patch an old major bug would pop up somewhere else. Not being able to finish a mission no matter how major or minor still sucks. And it was like that till 1.3. I think about a year and a half later 1.6 dropped and alot of the small bugs thats been in the game were still in. I've enjoyed the game on day one as much as i enjoy it now.
Man I been waiting for this for like 3 months, ever since u posted that it was ur next video lol flaws and all cyberpunk is my favorite game of all time and I have damn near 1000 hours in it between the ps4 and PS5 versions.. I know rhe ps4 version was busted but man, I fell in love with this game almost instantly even with the tech issues I was dealing with.. once I upgraded to the PS5 though? Boy, like night and day.. ir should’ve never released on last gen consoles
zero crash for me playing last build on PC, after I make sure there is virtual memory in my SSD and installed the game there. Looks like you are on console? That is a tough...
Cyberpunk is still a thing damn... good to know people never get tired of listening abt the game... Cyberpunk the best game I have ever played
You had a LOT of glitches by the sound of it. You listed more following the holographic fish glitch than I've experienced in 80+ hours of my latest playthrough! God's dice, man.
Frustratingly, one of my only major glitches took place while I was showing a friend how glitch-free the 2.x version is >_
My first thought is this has to be either a console issue or a low end cpu issue. Im on a 3700x and even with an older low end gpu at the time i played through CP 2.0 (GTX 1060), i experienced none of these
@@Mandingy24Nah I play on a Series X. I think it’s just weird that way.
I play on PS5 and the only glitches I have gotten were NPCs spawing 3 feet off the ground and the very occasional car that just appears in front if me.
Nothing game breaking or frustrating.
I thought I had an NPC spawn way up in the air and fall to their death, but then I found out there are jumpers and thats deliberate.
I was lucky with the launch of this one. I only had one bug my whole play thru and it ran pretty well for me. However Im upset that I played it then and not now, because I struggle to bring myself to replay it.
Just like PT they're gonna do case studies on this game for years to come.
When the game released, most of the critics were focused on the bugs, but it was NOT the main problem. The problem was that the game was absolutely not what they promized and showed in advertisement. A lot of features were missing and the bugs were just the cherry on top of the sh.t pie!
Now the game has got a lot of improvements, but there are still a lot of bugs and various problems. The game is still not what it should have been, well a lot of youtubers have clearly been hired to convice us that now it's perfect but it is NOT.
Don't misunderstand me, i loved the game even at start, i got mad when i see all that was missing but i still enjoyed playing it as i had a high end PC and i did not experience many bugs. Bugs were more some fun experience than a drama, i laughed a lot at that time.
I replayed it recently with the DLC and all fixes but i did not noticed a big change, yes you have a better police driving cars or trying to at least, my god this feature is still so horribly bugged.
I don't like the new perk system, it's worse than before and makes the game less enjoyable.
So well it's in a better shape but still crippled and incomplete with some changes i don't like. It's still a good game but certainly not a masterpiece like TW3.
So a redemption? No it looks more like an old pair of pants full of patches that your momma sewed on it to cover the holes.
Masterpiece is a bit much. I love it don't get me wrong. But no. Orion will in my estimation, be a masterpiece. This was a rough draft thrown together in a global pandemic and slowly ironed out overtime. But even today it is wildly unstable and full of bugs. That said, it is IMO, the best example of gaming story writing and character building in all of gaming history. I been around cyberpunk since my first 2020 TTRPG playthrough since 1992, so to finally get to play this in a digital world, was amazing. Then immeadiately it wast. Worst realease in all of gaming history. But now, i really is leaps and bounds better. But it doesn't excuse the facts of the release. I think much was learned, mostly the fullest extents and limits of the trash heap that is/was RedEngine. Now on to U5 for W4 and Cyberpunk Orion. Lets hope they get it right on both fronts.
For anyone watching this...I've played nearly 1000 hours (on Steam) and never had a crash, and only a few goofy glitches.
*I think the games biggest mistake was being completely open world. had it been structured more like Deus Ex or Life Is Strange, they could've put a lot more attention into the characters and story choices....would've made for a deeper experience* 👌
I can see that, but also, we already have plenty of games in that "narrower but deeper" perspective, like the games you mentioned, and none on this scale because of the work demanded by it. I think they did a tremendous job with this. Deus Ex is always ready to go.
Play only on PC: not consoles, you're missing out on Raytracing and mods
I don’t care about either.
bfd....rt only looks "better" in certain areas and isnt even worth the performance hit. mods for cyberpunk are good at best but mostly pretty meh.
I play on PC and I miss out on RayTracing. :) But it's not by accident. I use RT for photo mode, but play with it off, I play with 300+ mods and w/o RT I can play smooth and stable.
500+ hours on pc with no major crashes outside of me fucking up my drivers at one point......anyway....
ive had more bugs and game crashes with gta 5 tbh....hell even to this day i can load up gta 5 and get more crashes and bugs
Killer thumbnail
Which one did you see? It's running a test with three of them right now lol
@@NthReview twas that one with the classic freeze frame from 2013 and the new art
"It looked like it would be a fun enough adventure to justify the abuse of workers, who had to sacrifice their health, family life, and sanity for this product." - Nth Review
I definitely do not endorse how CD PROJEKT RED treated their workers in the creation of this game, or any other developer who exploits their workers, which is unfortunately far too prevalent and standard in this industry.
ok man this is a great review but some of the parts with you complaining about the gameplay or basic mechanics makes you sound like the ign journalist who couldn’t beat the cuphead tutorial. are you unfamiliar with fps games?(not hating but sliding is literally just pressing circle while sprinting. this applies to all fps games that have this mechanic)
If you aren’t exposed to or use certain mechanics, you forget they’re there or never develop that muscle memory. That’s just a fact of life, especially in a game as big as this one.
I love this game. I had fun on release even though it was a objectively broken mess. I just love genre. Most of the cyberpunk games we got previously were the deus ex style. I like this dirty sordid blade runner style more.
great video but i did have to skip over the cat bit coz..cats :D
WHAT.
babe wake up, new cyberpunk video dropped :) Awesome video man, subbed!
Thank you!
Same here
The GlaDOS cab is voiced by the same VA from the Portal games, just FYI. :)
Edit: you mentioned melee but only mentioned the Blades tree. Blunt Weapons is a diamond, especially compared to how it used to be, and hammers, pipes and bats you can also use your fists, augmented with elemental Gorilla Arms are amazing. Paired with the Tech Tree you can become a Hulk-Smash lightning god. For your stealth plays, if you use a sonar grenade enemies will move to where it dropped and be distracted there. This is great when you go Sandy or Berserk, as you can no longer hack cameras or use quickhacks with these OS modules.
"You won't run into Max Tac" - yes you will, you just need to step up your game and move from 3 stars to 5 :)
Yuck, I’m good lol
@@NthReview Try it, it's a great experience.
I can certainly appreciate the work that went into the game, and even having Keanu Reeves around, but once again, I'm not big on the cyberpunk genre. I appreciate you playing this so I don't have to.
I said the same about tw series. I still havnt finished tw3. I'm waiting to upgrade my pc and that might be another few years or more.
Still no new game plus.
Was waiting for this. I played the game when it launched. I haven't played it since. So yes. Just like Fallout 76. If it didn't work from the get go. I won't play it two years later.
You REALLY should.
I played it the moment it release and dropped 60+ hours over the following 4 days. I was so immersed that I didn't even know about all the backlash until a week later when a friend mentioned it to me.
I experienced some bugs, but they didn't feel particularly exceptional for a game at release. I remember only 1 that prevented me from completing a small side quest(a cyberpsycho sighting).
I did play on PC, but it was a pretty low end PC. RX470 and Ryzen 2600.
I was also aware of how much of the hyped up features were never promised, and just hyped up from random reddit posts and mistranslated articles. Some features were cut from the game, ie wall running, but that was explained and made since to me. The police system was broken, but I just don't care for that. I'm just not into breaking my immersion by running around and murdering people randomly, only time I liked that was when I was a kid taking turns with my friends seeing how long we could survive in GTA San Andreas.
The skill trees were rough before 2.0, but I was still able to build a variety of different builds which were effective in my several playthroughs before 2.0.
The storytelling, significantly enhanced by the first person perspective, immersive cutscenes, and outrageously good mocap just overshadowed all of the flaws to an incredible degree for me.
You really think games will simulate every NPC with 24 hour life cycle. LOL!
Go play Bethesda games where you have 20 NPC in one ''town''.
Nah, more like just provide broad rules for NPC formation
I honestly adore this game, I recently played all the way through it all, did every mission including all the smaller ones.
And the story plus characters story lines are just amazing.
The only games that will come close to Cyberpunk is The Last Of Us part 1 & 2.
It's emotional, heartwarming at most times and thrilling exciting, plus even scary at certain points.
This is what full emmersion is supposed to be and what good games with stories can do.
Al and all a briliant game.
I don’t think I’ll ever get around to playing this game after my ps4 purchase and return so I’m excited to hear about your take of the game
You're missing out on an excellent experience.
1:32:09 ?? Tf? 😂 You can slide pretty easily.
I had forgotten how :(
Yeh. Illusion of living city. These games are not about programming anymore. Only a visuals.
Saying no one cares about the launch anymore is a bit of a exaggeration. These kinds of things are always in the back of the minds of people who care about game companies not being shitheads. You can bet that people who saw cyberpunks launch will be making sure to wait for legitimate reviewers to share their experiences when the witcher 4 drops before buying the game.
Just the other day someone called me a revisionist. All I said was the games story was great day 1.
But Witcher 3 launched super buggy and glitchy.
@@ripzecruiter4928 I do not remember it launching buggy at all, and I bought it like a month after release. I also basically only had 2 bugs during my entire playthrough of the game. Kind of two very different launch experiences.
Great review... Cyberpunk 2077 is vendicated indeed..
Good thing that they worked on the unfinished game and finally finished it. I have no problem with leaving the game for even a year or two.
Can we all just agree that the 1.0 version of this game was hilarious with all the bugs??🤣🤣🤣
It put me off the game completely
It put off a lot of people, definitely.
The game is a graphical and audio technical marvel, the first truly next gen game I have played. However it still feels like a missed opportunity, in focusing on making the city huge they have neglected more meaningful quality interactions with NPCs and more unique consequential arcs for your actions.
I wish they just made it the size of Watson and Kabuki, so that immersion breaking events such as the endlessly repeating conversation between the 2 police officers at the bottom of Vs apartment or the guy being told off by his girlfriend in JigJig street never happens. Or a woman not beating the shit out of me as I crawl around looking up her skirt.
I guess according to you Witcher is a bad game because your POS PC cant run it without crashes either or that you have to roleplay as Garualt rather than as yourself.
Wtf? That’s not what I said at all.
Bro is complaining about stealth play in cyberpunk, if you set the skills and cyberware to play a cyberninja, no one will see you coming. Two words for your commentary "skill issue"
Wasn't actually even complaining about stealth play. If it takes a couple of perks to turn stealth play from "decades old design" to "decades old design, but you're an OP badass", that's not a skill issue at all. Same goes with the blade skill. Then it just becomes preference, because I would rather be slashing down a dozen dudes and reflecting bullets at my enemies than sneaking.
I will never understand how people are praising CDPR for "fixing" this game.
If I buy a car and when I get it delivered it's missing 3 wheels, the airbags and half the engine I wouldn't praise the dealership for finishing it 3 years later.
The game is as shallow as a puddle and the main plot is very limiting and poorly managed (you're dying but you can go and waste time for months on end doing side gigs and shit). It ended up being a decent game, but Deus Ex is still king.