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Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by _asummers »

BadassFractal wrote: post #14

The Witcher 3 and its expansions are probably my favorite game of all times, and I've been gaming voraciously since the late 80s. The story, the connection to the characters, the feeling of immersion into the world, and the character of Geralt himself are not something I've seen in many other titles. Somewhat reminiscent of Final Fantasy 7 in terms of its impact on me as a participant to the experience. The pressure…

Its NPCs having real backstories that didn't feel like fetch quests provided a very nice level of depth, and made you care about what happened to them. I got the bad ending, and my jaw was legitimately agape for a few minutes as I processed what just happened, after playing through for as many hours as I did.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by davidjnelson »

fetus8 wrote: post #19
davidjnelson wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> it'd be nice to have another Skyrim or two some day Starfield is likely roughly a year out. So that’s pretty exciting.

I'm sorry but what is this based on? Bethesda showed a logo and a pre-rendered video of a planet. I have a feeling we're far more than roughly a year out from Starfield releasing.

Pete Hines said it needed “some time and attention after this year”, “it’s playable”, and (in so many words) “it’s next after fallout 76”. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XA6YHeaOO-Y So that sounds like 1, maybe 2 years.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by fsloth »

norswap wrote: post #7

Unless these myriad of dialog options lead somewhere meaningful, it's not much different from Mass Effect or the even older Knights of the Old Republic and other precursors.

I'd take reskinned KOTOR in a heartbeat. If the quality of writing is consistent with Witcher 3 that would be even more awesome.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by frockington »

DragonBourne wrote: post #16
dwc wrote: post #13

"The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey, that's just me." --William Gibson[1] It's mentioned (and little more) in the article at the end, but it still seems odd to invoke Gibson's name and not talk about this more. 1. https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1005958197654351872

He's not half wrong - too little cyberspace internals in the trailer. Makes me wonder how this will be resolved, given that the game is based on Cyberpunk 2020, a tabletop rpg game written well before the mobile and blockchain revolutions.

Before blockchain revolutions? I don't see how the blockchain would impact 2020/2077 in any way

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by Kiro »

BadassFractal wrote: post #14

The Witcher 3 and its expansions are probably my favorite game of all times, and I've been gaming voraciously since the late 80s. The story, the connection to the characters, the feeling of immersion into the world, and the character of Geralt himself are not something I've seen in many other titles. Somewhat reminiscent of Final Fantasy 7 in terms of its impact on me as a participant to the experience. The pressure…

Do I need to play Witcher 1 and 2 first?

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by stevenwoo »

dismal2 wrote: post #17
dwc wrote: post #13

"The trailer for Cyberpunk 2077 strikes me as GTA skinned-over with a generic 80s retro-future, but hey, that's just me." --William Gibson[1] It's mentioned (and little more) in the article at the end, but it still seems odd to invoke Gibson's name and not talk about this more. 1. https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/1005958197654351872

Is this really a criticisms though? I would buy that in a heartbeat, heh

Deus Ex was there in 2000, no big, open spaces and vehicles like modern open world games but political intrigue over and beyond Neuromancer and the hacking and body modification were integral parts of gameplay, System Shock 2 had those hacking/body mod gameplay features as well in 1999 but in space, so there are some great ones out there if you don't mind older games and if they run on a system you have.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by BadassFractal »

Kiro wrote: post #27
BadassFractal wrote: post #14

The Witcher 3 and its expansions are probably my favorite game of all times, and I've been gaming voraciously since the late 80s. The story, the connection to the characters, the feeling of immersion into the world, and the character of Geralt himself are not something I've seen in many other titles. Somewhat reminiscent of Final Fantasy 7 in terms of its impact on me as a participant to the experience. The pressure…

Do I need to play Witcher 1 and 2 first?

Not at all, I tried to get into 1 and couldn't, it was too rough around the edges for me. 2 was much better, but I got distracted a few hours in. 3 felt like a completely different universe quality-wise.

Re: Cyberpunk 2077 world premiere: 50 minutes of William Gibson-level insanity

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Post by BadassFractal »

_asummers wrote: post #21
BadassFractal wrote: post #14

The Witcher 3 and its expansions are probably my favorite game of all times, and I've been gaming voraciously since the late 80s. The story, the connection to the characters, the feeling of immersion into the world, and the character of Geralt himself are not something I've seen in many other titles. Somewhat reminiscent of Final Fantasy 7 in terms of its impact on me as a participant to the experience. The pressure…

Its NPCs having real backstories that didn't feel like fetch quests provided a very nice level of depth, and made you care about what happened to them. I got the bad ending, and my jaw was legitimately agape for a few minutes as I processed what just happened, after playing through for as many hours as I did.

Same, that ending messed me up for a little while, but I was fine with it. The expansions helped me forget about it more or less.
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