Cyberpunk 2077

[scooter]

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2020/09/04/

This has definitely crossed my mind . The flip side is the Witcher 3 was great in spite of its fairly meh combat and action, and was largely carried by its story, structure, characters, and atmosphere. Those seem more replicable to me, but we'll see soon enough I suppose.

[NobleHelium]

All my hype for the apocryphal Half Life 3 transferred to Cyberpunk around seven years ago, so I'm pretty excited; already put in to take a week off from work to play it.  Should be a good distraction from the collapse of society into an actual cyber dystopia (minus the cool implants).

Looks like you're going to need to get that week rescheduled.

[Blake00]

Looks like Night City Wire Episode 4 came out a little while back..



Along with yet ANOTHER delay announcement lol! Doesn't bother me as like I said previously I don't have a computer that can run it anyway haha. Apparently the devs have been getting death threats from impatient wackos out there though which is a bit messed up!

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[Blake00]

Maybe all those impatient ones should check out what I just found... Today I noticed a review in a recent PC Gamer magazine of a small indie game called 'Cloudpunk' that has you piloting a flying taxi around a rainy cyberpunk city at night. Looks and sounds awesome as that cockpit has massive Blade Runner vibes, the taxi reminds me of 5th Element and that creepy stormy sky reminds me of Highlander 2 lol!

Apparently there's not much depth to the gameplay sadly as it's more about immersion. However considering I was more looking forward to driving around Cyberpunk 2077's city at night listening to synth tunes instead of just running around shooting people then I suspect this little game will be right up my alley haha! Apparently you get your own apartment in a sky scraper with a balcony looking over the city that you can decorate and play retro video games in, so hmm yup that's got me written all over it too lol! Although yet again my old computer probably can't even run this one either arrrgh haha!

[Jowy]

I bought the game and started pre-loading. I usually wait longer from launch, but the hype is just too much even for me.

I'll give some first impression when I've played a bit. Reviewers are saying it's buggy. No problem for me as long as the bugs don't impede progress.

[Amicalola]

I've frequently heard that the core systems are good, but affected by bugs to a small or large degree depending on the person. I'd be interested to see which you find!

[sunrise089]

Thanks, interested to hear anyone’s experiences.

[Bobchillingworth]

Anyone play this yet? I'll probably get into it tomorrow; early reviews seem reasonably encouraging, but also do consistently indicate the game is buggy, and more taxing on hardware than I expected. I have a reasonably decent gaming computer, but not top-of-the-line; I replayed Witcher 3 on maxed settings earlier this year, but doesn't sound like I'll manage much better than medium here.

[Bobchillingworth]

Well, this game hasn't exactly gone off to a great start. For some inexplicable reason, you can't rebind the up or down arrow keys, which I always use for movement over WASD, and "F" is for some reason permanently bound for many of the various action prompts.

You can tinker with the game files by editing "inputUserMappings.xml" in Notepad, which I initially did with some success to change movement to my preferred arrow keys and most confirmations to Enter, but when I tried to edit them again to change Enter to the Right Shift I screwed something up, and now I can't even get past the main menu, because all of the prompts show up as "INVALID KEY" or "NONE".

Anyone mind sharing a clean (or at least functional) copy of the aforementioned file? I foolishly neglected to make a copy of mine before editing it.

[Lewwyn]

I'm curious about the reactions, so far I've seen a lot of people with bug and performance issues. I didn't plan on buying it on release and will wait for a while anyway, but I'm wondering if people find the game finished or still in progress.