Look, dodgy Eastern European dev aside, this looks like Deus Ex, only fun. CD Projekt Red have never been any good at combat systems. But if they can build a seemless world fully explorable by car and on foot with a load of side missions to uncover, I'll be well happy! What would rather play, Watchdogs?, you slaaaaaag!
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I'm just thinking back to reading Burning Chrome and all the weird and wonderful stuff in that, and also the absolute lethality of guns in Cyberpunk in general. Mods that make people near invulnerable cyborg transhumans should be black market/military spec stuff, rotting the users mind whilst turning them into stim and enhancement fuelled beasts. Guns should utterly fuck people up, and be full of shennanigans like fingerprint scanners that blow up people's arms when they are used wrong. The RPS bit about hacking people's bodies to cause them to go wrong sounds good, but the weak gunplay seems to betray the whole idea. The reasons mods and hacking are so sought after is because they circumvent the brute force spending Corps can throw at their private armies and their ICE networks. If it just ends up making you an impossibly cool virtuoso killer then they'll have missed a trick. The setting totally allows for some real monstrous violence, but it needs tempering with actual Cyberpunk shit.
I haven't played many games in the last 6 years. The last time I bought a new game was GTA V on the PS3. Since then I've played Warthunder and Kerbal Space Program, with the occasional dip into older strategy games . But I've played nothing 'current' in 6 years. Never even held a controller of the current lot and wouldn't be able to identify them without logos.
I did see the Keanu thing though which got me looking at the game to see what it was and I was kinda surprised at how little it did differently. Visually, It looks great but the gameplay and interaction of it seems no different to games I was playing before I stopped. I dunno what I was expecting but there was nothing there that made me think that I've been missing out all this time.
Man Burning Chrome. If you look even at how Altered Carbon went, although they toned down the shit in that book, they hit so much of the mod anything aesthetic that CD Projekt Red seems to be afraid of.
This game is based on the boardgame of the similar name yes?, so I'm sure it's cyberpunk credentials are intact. Nobody seemed to give Deus Ex similar flack for not being a pure interpretation of the cyberpunk world. I am just grateful that CD Projekt Red are running the cyber show now after the last poor showing from Eidos.
It wasn't until I hit my thirties that I realised you could unlock rewards by exploring the map
I guess the bigger issues are that 2077 is an existing THING as a role-playing game that this is licensing; there are certain expectations that come with that that none of this seems to be projecting.
The CP 2077 trailer does seem to have some Hollywood influences. First things first, the protagonist and scene reminded me of...... Breaking Bad. Aaron Paul's Jesse Pinkman to be exact. Dunno if this was intentional but, not a bad influence imho. Then there's Keanu's involvement. Still have hope this will be a groundbreaking open world title.
The Witcher trilogy was fantastic so cdpr does have some skills. Let's hope they don't fuck this up.
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