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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by seppin »

aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

> 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game.

Funny I would say the gameplay is much closer to GTA than Deus Ex. But overall closer to Max Payne in terms how how heavy it relies on story.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by machello13 »

aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

> It's a shame that this game now has such a bad reputation for relatively minor & mostly avoidable reasons.

What? You said yourself Xbox and PS4 users are seeing an "inferior experience." PS literally stopped selling the game in their store. What about that is relatively minor?

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Post by vmception »

aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

This is an ambitious game, the problem is that CDPR lied.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by [deleted] »

blhack wrote: post #321
aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

What is a Deus Ex game like? I 100% have assumed this was going to be an RDR/GTA5 style open world game that I could just ignore the story of and go around exploring. The games I've liked have been skyrim, and GTA5 (I hated RDR), and in both of those I didn't really pay any attention to the story (except as a way of getting money to buy more gear). It was just more about driving/riding around and looking at stuff for…

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Post by stu2b50 »

panpanna wrote: post #70
chrisrhoden wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> As someone who's worked on a (digital-only) title for Xbox One, I'm surprised this game got through the certification process in the first place. Something I have learned from watching this saga is that those rules seem not to apply to "AAA" developers (this appears to have been fairly wide industry knowledge, but I was not aware of it). It may also be a relatively new development, but because of how hot games are…

I am fairly sure sony prefers a buggy cyberpunk to a cyberpunk that is available on xbox but not ps4.

Apparently not, since after they pulled Cyberpunk from the PSN store* this effectively the state of things

* yes, I know you can still buy the physical copy from retailers

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by KittenInABox »

jaypeg25 wrote: post #330
aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

I didn't bother to buy it because I hardly ever buy games day 1 (RDR2 being the only exception), but the frustrating thing to me is the pre-release reviews all praised the game and while some casually talked about graphical hiccups and bugs, they really didn't dive deep into the issues and instead just gave it 9s and 10s seemingly across the board. I get part of that is because reviewers didn't have access to console…

Interestingly I think this may have been on certain spheres. For me, I only heard about the dangers of this game to people who are photosensitive or have seizures triggered by flashing lights, and also complaining that Cyberpunk 2077 reviewers without glowing reviews were facing harassment.[0]

However, I'm not a gamer, I'm a science fiction writer who follows a lot of disability advocacy, so my spheres may be very different.

[0] The author who pointed out that the game gave them a seizure later said they were facing harassment for it. https://www.gameinformer.com/2020/12/07/cyberpunk-2077-epile...

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by runevault »

jaypeg25 wrote: post #330
aranelsurion wrote: post #115

I think most of the negative sentiment against Cyberpunk 2077 comes from three sources: 1) Some players expected this to be cyberpunk-themed RDR2/GTA5. It turns out it's nothing like that, it's more like a new Deus Ex game. 2) It just doesn't run on consoles. It's a very inferior experience, unless you're the type who can be happy with 2020 movies in .3gp format in your old Nokia phone. Having watched a video ( https…

I didn't bother to buy it because I hardly ever buy games day 1 (RDR2 being the only exception), but the frustrating thing to me is the pre-release reviews all praised the game and while some casually talked about graphical hiccups and bugs, they really didn't dive deep into the issues and instead just gave it 9s and 10s seemingly across the board. I get part of that is because reviewers didn't have access to console…

Keep in mind console versions were not released to reviewers either at all or not until like the day before release. They only got the PC version which, compared to PS4 and XBox One is not nearly the same order of bad.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by myko »

inerte wrote: post #230
sgift wrote: post #173

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I don’t know why people are being so defensive. Probably cause the experiences differ wildly between people. I'm over 20 hours in, had one relevant bug (couldn't use my weapons anymore, which I found a workaround for), love the story (mainly the side quests so far, since I haven't done much of the main story by now), the world and having a blast with the game.

Dozens of hours here on Stadia. Only one bug, loading the last checkpoint would instantly crash. My workaround was just to load a minute-earlier auto save.

I'm close to 60 hours on the Stadia version now, haven't run into any gamebreaking issues. I have had some hilarious ones though, like when NPCs drive me around they miss a turn and plow pedestrians. I'm able to skip the driving sequences so it hasn't been a big deal.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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Post by myko »

pwthornton wrote: post #307
neaden wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"It's a shame that this game now has such a bad reputation for relatively minor & mostly avoidable reasons." I disagree this adds up to minor reasons. If you bought the game for PS4 based on the advertisements getting a buggy mess isn't minor.

I swear some of the stuff looks like a Dreamcast game. People are seeing textures not load. The lighting looks terrible. Base PS4 and Xbox One owners are getting a game that looks genuinely bad for a last-gen game -- and it is coming out at the end of that generation's lifespan. You would expect this to be one of the best looking games from that generation. This stuff is fixable, and maybe the game will look and run…

> People are seeing textures not load.

I think this only happened in the pre-patched versions of the game (plenty of other last gen console problems though)

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