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Those are no-no words. We like to use Surprise Mechanics.

Nope, not interested. They're here to stay a they are much easier to produce than in game/engine footage.

Cinematic trailer - hand your design document and expectations to an outside studio (to name one example, BLUR Studios). It's a controlled environment where the animation studio fully controls the scene, camera, furniture placement, light, interactions, animations.

In game/engine trailer - can the engine handle a free roaming camera? How does texture quality behave when camera moves around? Is that walking NPC going to block the camera, do the characters look remotely good from up close? Many variables to consider and deal with which is more time consuming.

I can't help by seeing the numerous bugs and issues (like the traffic you mentioned a handful of posts above this one) and think "maybe you should have focused more on polishing mechanics instead of spending resources on three different intro sequences". But hey, each to their own. Fun game regardless, looking forward to Cyberpunk 2078: Vendetta for V.

1 hour ago, ZOK said:

Yes, but what you are saying here makes no sense. Fleshing out your ‘role’ by offering different interactions based on that role is meaning related to your background, as this is an rpg - a role-playing game. So there is no pretending at all.

I disagree with that slightly.

Take Mass Effect 3. Your chosen background is used by NPC's. It's nice to hear your choice is acknowledged by the game. Cyberpunk went much further by creating 3 completely different intro/tutorial sequences which took months to develop. Animation, sound design, voice lines, QA, camera direction. And for nothing more but a lengthy introduction sequence. After that's done it's dropped and your background only comes up when you choose it as an conversation option.

It seems like such a waste of time and effort.

That's some replaying there @K

This is the part of the conversation where you can choose the NOMAD answer because you chose the NOMAD background. And from my experience, it’s never the answer that progresses the conversation, it’s offered as an option sometimes to prentend your background has meaning.

Sony needs to implement some sort of automated filter options so I do not have to squint my eyes to notice quality games through all this Coffee Run, Oktober Fest Run, Jumping Taco, Jumping Donut Turbo trash. Right now there's SIX carbon copy Flappy Bird games, each one the exact same game but with a different color scheme.

Go for it, tis surprisingly good (and also not).

And finished. That’s enough, not interested in the other endings. Not sure what ending I got, the emotional vibe did not work on me at all.

Big spoiler for ending choice:

Yup, very playable on PS5. Looks significantly worse than Horizon 2 for obvious reasons and is definitely not big free. Still fun, worth your time.

Nearing the end of this - just passed the Point on no Return - and am torn. Not sure what to make of this. The modern Deus EX games do cyber implants much better, Night City is rich in detail yet incredibly dull (reminded me a lot of L.A. Noire), the story grinds to a halt and that tickling clock element is ignored for the longest time. My biggest complaint is that my V. does not feel like a person with cybernetic implants. I'm James Bond with a tech device that can hack cameras.

Back to the modern Deus EX, those games embrace implants and you can play around with different approaches. Every skill is valuable and adds something worth while. Right now in Cyberpunk 2077 I've like 6 skill points and about 20 talents points waiting to be spend. But nothing seems worth it at this point when all I ever really need is my sniper rifle (and shotgun during boss fights) and the camera hacking.

V. has one cybernetic implant and it's the one from the tutorial. I don't even know where two find more implants. Also, I have not bothered with gear in the longest time, it seems a complete after thought. Same for the ridiculous amount of weapons and attachments. I swear I've like 8 weapon scopes that give like 0.4% zoom... Then there's the apartments that seem useless, the many cars you can collect for no good reason (there's no garage to display em in).

I had a fun time with it for sure and will never play this again. One Nomad run is good enough. Completed all the gigs and side quests (apart from the NCPD ones, far too many of those).

Overall, I enjoyed myself with it. Would not recommend it though, it's such a weird beast.

Kain deserves a lot of love.

I think it’s neat they gave important characters you meet closure. Just finished River’s story. There’s no actual need to go through all the effort of animating, voice acting etc when they could have settled for a simple “Thanks for everything V. Farewell.” text.

In the span on five minutes I found Skippy and watched a dope anime.

Oh 100%.

I'd recommend Horizon 2 over Cyberpunk 2, Horizon 2 is Ubi-bloat bland but man if you're on the market for that it's absolutely perfect. Cyberpunk is never perfect for anything really, there's so much wrong with it and I like sometimes even love it.

Gonna rinse the hell out of my first play through, highly doubt I'll do a second and third.

Ah. That's good and bad to know. Solid quest that.

4 minutes ago, Festoon said:

 

The political couple is a high point of the game. I wanted DLC about that.

I do think I botched that one prematurely.

It's such a weird product. I completed Horizon 2 shortly after it launched and thought it was extremely bland: suffering from open-world bingo and sequel-itus. Highly polished but my goodness was I bored. I don't think I ever felt any sort of reaction to any of it, just sat through it all looking like 😐

Cyberpunk 2077 is much less polished, filled with bugs and general clumsiness, has content you can skip (crafting, the whole cyber implants thing) yet I am much more invested in it all. I think I prefer emotional peaks and valleys over a flat plain.

Clothing? Dick/tits out all the way.
 

You know, some of the side quests and gigs are more captivating than the main story. Some excellent stuff in there including the political couple and the prisoner.

I'm loving these Gigs. Short and simple quests each with a neat little backstory, in other words there's a (good) reason why you're doing what you're doing. Makes an experience-vendor quest just that little bit more personal and substantial.

Both are unlikable but I much prefer Saul because he kept his distance. That entire clan deserves to be wiped out though, literally nothing of value will be lost.

Hated it.

Everybody else is cool so far so there's that.

Is she though?

Ah whatever, I hope she chokes on a sandstorm. Thanks for the sniper rifle though, that's proper good for that low a level.

Thank goodness the Panam Story trophy just popped. Hope I never have to interact with her and that band of losers ever again.