Cyberpunk 2077 - Truly WASTED Potential - Luke Stephens
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
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Time Stamps:
Intro - 0:00
Act 1 - The Press - 00:07:42
Act 2 - The Bugs - 00:17:21
Act 3 - Nota Bene - 00:28:19
Act 4 - The Story - Prologue - 00:56:02
Act 4 - The Story - Main Campaign - 01:57:05
Act 4 - The Story - The Endings - 03:14:51
Act 5 - Closing Thoughts - 4:24:45
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@@LukeStephensTV By any chance are you going to make a critique for AC Valhalla ?
Well said in Act 1. Hats off to you
Nice to see someone call out yong yea lol. He’s always making videos criticizing the integrity of people/businesses so it’s pretty funny stuff
Really stretching to hit that 10 minute mark, huh?
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@@SoFancySoFetusy Nice original reply!
@@maverickay5807 Stop defending that fool! Double standards, eh? What a hypocrite.
(comment I was replying to was deleted)
Who else has waited so long for this game to repair itself that you have literally forgot about it.. already..
Yup. And no one else seems to be be talking about it which makes me feel like I'm not even missing out. Even the people who "loved" it
I said this to a friend the other day. It's as if it never existed. Roll on Witcher 4.
@@themarcshark When I first started hearing about the bugs more than the game itself, I knew it was gonna be subpar.
I was refunded. Was so hyped. Waited late night until it unlocked to play on Xbox but all of that turned out in disappointment
@@dizzyupthefool5180 gonna be a looooong time before that happens lol. Assuming CDPR execs learned from this
CD Project Red giving us Cyberpunk 2077 reminds me of the little boy who really wanted a puppy, and his grandma promised him she would gift him a puppy for his birthday. Then his birthday came and when the little boy opened his gift his grandma had actually hand-knitted him a sweater with a PICTURE of a dog on it. So he began to cry, and then she cried, and nobody was happy and everyone remembered it forever. The End.
What a depressing story, just like what this game did.
But they can still go out and buy a puppy together. The issue and drama can be fixed easily in this example but not in the case of Cyberpunk. It was a real tragedy cause no one cannot fix it and damage has done.
@@deaclavilis6760 Jesus. Jokes dude, ya heard of em?
@@Largentina. You know better than I do.
@@deaclavilis6760 Yes, I know. You honestly thought this was meant to be taken seriously?
Detailed reviews like this are underrated as fuck because there's just no way to do a big game like this justice in 30 minutes. You need to go in depth for these points to have weight and I'm very glad to see you do it. I will gladly share with my gamer friends.
I mean they most definitely aren't underrated when they get millions if views.
Also idk what reviewers you're watching but the best reviewers can easily make a detailed piece on a game in 30 minutes (or even less!)
Certainly, 5 hours allows for more opinions than 30 minutes does but as a wise man once said "if I had more time, I would've written a shorter letter".
@@reio1951 I think it should take as long as it needs. I've seen videos that were 8-10 hours long and they were fantastic and made excellent points with plenty of evidence and detail. Shorter videos tend not to allow that, and i've seen people resort to simply saying things like "It's great" without any kind of backing evidence.
@@theincrediblefella7984 i never implied that shorter videos are always better. I enjoy long reviews all the same, I just pointed out that the OP was wrong in saying it is impossible to do games justice in 30 minutes, that's quite a long time in and of itself actually.
@@theincrediblefella7984 man's really watching 8-10 hour youtube videos. sad.
@@sheevinopalpatino4782 go watch whitelight's death stranding review its great
I’m convinced that this game needed 2 more years ... minimum
So were the developers.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 That's the saddest part about this. From what I understand, it was the stockholders who rushed this game out so they could get their money. The people I feel the worst for are the devs. Imagine working on a game for somewhere around seven years, all to have it released too early and be one of the biggest disappointments in quite a long time. I'm glad I prematurely killed all of the hype for this game myself when I saw it was delayed multiple times in one year. I saw this as them not having a good or finished product, so I lost most interest in the game and treated it like EA was putting it out. As of right now, I have 140 hours on PC and I love to hop on and do my thing for a few hours whenever I have the time. That doesn't mean I think what they did was okay, pure disappointment. But I'm so glad I lowered my expectations low enough to be able to enjoy the game.
Im convinced no amount of time would have made this game live up to the hype. You could have given them 20 years and it still would have failed because the entire execution was flawed and CDPR simply werent good enough to execute it even if it wasnt. This company isnt rockstar. They havent been on top of the indusry for 2 decades. They made one masterpiece in 2015 and then deluded fanbois lost the plot and knighted them as gods gift to gaming.
Playing Cyberpunk I notice 2 things. 1st is brief moments of genuine quality that never get tied together to form a complete package. 2nd is an absolutely insane scattergun approach where they were grasping at everything they could without any thought as to whether they could accomplish it or not. The game clearly got ripped apart and stiched back up several times during development and the final time was a messy rush job to meet final deadline.
They were out their depth, over the top with ideas and out of time in the end. Cyberpunk was NEVER going to be a standout game. If they spend the next couple of years working hard on it and adding to it it at least can end up a half decent game. At least that way they can save some of their reputation and then try again with a more humble and down to earth project afterwards.
and 1,000 more developers
@@jmlaw8888 can’t wait for rockstar to make a cyberpunk esque game
Maybe in a couple decades?
It's funny how this game got the "masterpiece" tag on Steam before it even came out lol
Cyberpunk 2077 is so far from a "masterpiece" it's hilarious
They actually delete critic statements posted by people on Steam.
@@SeriousDragonify Devs can delete reviews on Steam? That's screwed up.
@@VeeTHis i think they just tagg them as slurs or hate speach or something
@@VeeTHis Yeah. My friend bought game on discount on Steam, gave criticism and negative review and 2 hours later got deleted.
He said things like world isnt fully explorable and quests are bleak but also gave positivity about Jackie and that after his early death game story became awful with Johnny and virus chip that decreased Vs lifespan to a week.
I personally don’t have a problem with Jackie being killed … I just have a problem with how quickly in game time it happens. I don’t really like how they yadiyadad like 6 months - give me 3 missions, some down time. Some more emotional beats … then when the death happens it’s even more impactful
When I saw the montage of me and Jackie doing missions together, getting our come up, getting my first car, my first apartment, I was so angry!
I was supposed to do those things with Jackie, what the hell game!
@@HolyReality891 totally man!
Also, Jackie could have just been healthy until reaching the taxi (having slotted in the biochip). Then we could have just had Adam Smasher shoot the shit out of Jackie while both of us were running towards Delamain. This would have cemented Adam Smasher as an actual villain, instead of a dude that just "shows up". Now Jackie got injured while falling from a roof, but then still manages to run after me while I'm looting every corner for 30 minutes, and then suddenly bleeds out in the back of a car?
I completely agree with this, but therefore find it even more incredible that even in so little time they got us so attached to Jackie, the man, the myth, the legend.
For reference, I've started 3 playthroughs (one for each lifepath), and Jackie's Offrenda got me crying 3/3 times
Defo agreed.
That montage we have with Jackie doing gigs should've been entirely playable and is Act 1 of the entire game.
Just a string of gigs where we earn money to buy rent our Megabuilding apartment and our crap Archer Hella, meet all the fixers in the game, and most importantly spend time and bond with best choombata Jackie Welles before shit hits the fan in Act 2 with the Konpeki Plaza heist.
That said. This can only be possible if they focused on making the game a action adventure game with a _linear story_ like Far Cry or GTA.
*Not as an RPG that lets you pick choices and enjoy & suffer the consequences.*
If they focused on making this game an RPG, then they need to get rid of the major and broad strokes of the main quest. Jackie dying *is an option.* And V is not our player character, but a completely custom one who we have near complete control over.
The colors being warped at one of the endings is actually something that's in the game for everyone. The doctor actually describes how that is because the chip that was removed caused some damage to neural cortex or something like that.
It seems the glitch you had was the fact that it never faded away as it was suppose to.
Luke Stephens to CD Project Red:" You don't get to rush this"
All gamers to CDPR: 😡🏌️♂️🩸💀
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I want to see Abby in Smash
Nothing makes me happier than watching a 5 hour video on a game I haven’t played and have no intentions of playing
Yikes.
fr after i saw crowbats vid on this game ik imakeep my money in my pocket lol
@@lyriclyric9814 The story is pretty good aswell as the side quests along with the music. Other than that the game is utter garbage. Should just skip this one out
@@L_Lawliet1907 bro youare literally complementing the main part of the game just to have the same outcome lol and naw im boo off the game its like a reskinned borderlands
@@lyriclyric9814 ok? I was just saying if you were interested in the story and music? Gameplay only covers a part of the game
Actually, Yorinobu has a Iguana in his suite, and you can even take an egg from there back to V's apartment which will eventually hatch.
Freeing Brick is important since you can cash in on it later on in the quest that you go to the maelstrom club
They added that in a patch that came out way after this video was posted.
At the end of the heist, if you send Jackie's body home, you have a wake side-quest in which you get to loot his garage and get his bike as a vehicle. If you send him to Vic, Arasaka gets him and uploads him to their network. There is a small impact to the game with either decision.
All i know is i wanted a full fledged rpg, not an action adventure shooter with half baked rpg elements.
The funny thing is that it was marketed as an rpg at first but when the game released then they changed it to action shooter lol
Half-baked RPG... Sounds like Witcher 3 to me.
@@AnimusVolare The witcher 3 is not exclusively an RPG but adopts some of the popular mechanics of an rpg like branching quest lines and consequences that come attached to how you interact with the world and how you approach various stories. For example the whispering hillock questline. The witcher 3 is able to meld action adventure mechanics with rpg mechanics in such a way that it is deeply fun and rewarding, that is what makes it such a good game, and such an immersive game
@@waterdragonsage8460 A game left untouched by the devs since 2018, leaving annoying quest glitches that have existed since launch, or even introducing new bugs like messing up the journal entries which is extremely immersion breaking. Honestly, this game constantly breaks my immersion. For example, when Priscilla gets attacked by a vampire she ends up in the hospital. She will literally be bed-ridden FOREVER because there is no passage of time in this game. Another example is the Novigrad Bathhouse. Once that gets destroyed it will remained closed forever even though that makes zero sense. This game constantly breaks immersion and this is honestly the tip of the iceberg. I still like the game for what it was but it doesn't deserve a 10/10. Poor design IMO
@@AnimusVolare Who said the game deserves a perfect 10? Maybe a 9/10 but definitely not a perfect 10. I can't think of any game on the market that is deserving of a perfect score. And yes the witcher 3 even to this day is full of bugs. Cdpr is clearly not a completely competent company, especially when it comes to play testing and bug fixing their games. They tend to create their games with a start, middle and end mindset. Meaning they don't think much about what's in-between. That is why we need to use this opportunity with cyberpunk 2077 to hold them to a much, much higher standard, and if they don't deliver well...Their reputation will sink their company for good.
Seriously wasted potential with Jackie. You’ve got Jackie, a character who dreams of making it big like the legends of yesteryear, you’ve got Johnny Silverhand, *the* legend of yesteryear. And you, the single line of communication between these 2 characters, they really missed out on this dynamic.
Damn never though about it that way. Makes me even more disappointed they killed off Jackie
the worst one was aving that girl the one who gets you the chip job should been able to save her and have sex with her that peed me off
@@djdarksidejungle559 are you on about evelyn? why would a woman who has just been raped and tortured and humiliated for however long want to have sex with you for saving her? why would you want that?
@@Astaphxios its a story and they fucked it up
@@Astaphxios u think she was the corpo love story had jude the street kid had thingy bob the nomad story evelyn was the corpo love story just they cut that bit out
So you do bring up a lot of good points and I agree with most of what you're saying, but honestly the biggest diverging opinion I have from what you've said is on Keeanus performance.
I've been into Cyberpunk as a tabletop and a setting since I was very young, and Keanu's performance of Johnny Silverhand is spot on with how Johnny was portrayed in Cyberpunk lore. Johnny even as a young rockstar is called jaded, flat, angry and spiteful. I think Keanu really did do a good job, I honestly believe that an energetic Johnny Silverhand would have been out of character.
Other than that I agree with you.
I played a lot of the tabletop game with my friends, and Johnny is a hypocrite, compared to how he is in cp2020.
Johnny in cp2077 is anti corpo to the fullest extent, even to the point of death, yet....they take his storyline from cp2020, which explicitly states that Johnny helps militech by blowing up arasaka tower, and pretty much use it as excuse to rewrite and flanderize Johnny into some edgy 14 year old whos dad refuses to let him play past 10pm.
Where does he get his nukes?lol
@@notjimpickens7928 most terrorists are hypocrites who tout lofty ideals and make deals with devils the same as or similar too the ones they fight
@@notjimpickens7928 also Johnny was always anti corpo but participating in mandatory systems doesn't mean he can't criticize them he still has to eat and militech put food on his table
@@notjimpickens7928 i thought militech gave johnny the nukes and let him blow up arasake tower because it fit in line with what they wanted?
Some people just don't understand anger and alienation or what it means to be "punk"
We live in convenient times where everyone has a platform. They have twitter, reddit, facebook, instagram and tiktok. It is easy to believe you are speaking out
Johnny was made during the 80s/90s era. Speaking out didn't mean just making a post. Speaking out meant acting out. Rebelling
Johnny Silverhand also was a product of this broken world. He felt he had to lash out and fuck the Corps because he believed it was the only way to fight back.
Which is ironically the mindset the Corps want. Be vicious and ambitious, make us money till you can't.
I think Jackie was killed to show the cost of crossing Arasaka. If u look at it you’ll see every single person involved in the heist was assassinated, including V. The only reason he survived to begin with was because of the biochip
I clicked on this and thought "Jeez theres's no way someone watches all 5 hours of this" and then I thought "You know what I'm gonna watch all 5 hours of this"
As if your brain told you „u gonna waste these five hours anyway so why not with this?“ amirite? :D
I was playing another game and all the sudden I though that I´ve passed about 4 videos... no, I had still 4 hours to go
If this was on a talk rant about a game like crysis remastered version yes i could watch a 5 hour But give this guy credit he done really well and how dedicated to this game and how he feels about it and done his research and finding excellent it must of took so much time for him to do this and done a professional job
Once you watch one of Joseph Anderson's long asf videos, any video that length doesn't seem intimidating anymore lol
Ha ha ha same ..exactly the same
Not to mention the young lady from Gamespot who gave it a 6/10 before release caused an uproar. People claimed that she reviewed it without even playing the game. She was the only one to give it that low of a score and she was the closest to being right. Amazing
The probelm with her review is that she stated that she couldn't be bothered playing parts of the game. The score given was not the issue, it was the comments she made about how she came to that score that was the issue.
Yeah to be fair from what she said, it’s clear she didn’t actually play through the game we got. She basically did a speed run
@@aidanr1061 have you PLAYED the game? I don’t blame her, the main quest line and 85% of side missions are so fucking bad that one can’t be bothered to play the actual good stuff, the good side missions
@@romulofigueroadiaz480 yea I have and totally agree with you. But if your job is to review a game then you should be completing all the content to give your review credibility.
@@aidanr1061 I watched the full review. She mostly spot on. The part that gives the impression that she didn't play the game was cherry picked to make her look bad when she complained about the cop side missions, which were totally boring and pointless as she pointed out.
The Arasaka ending is actually relatively good as long as Goro lives.
He's a bro and even though the other corpos might have written you off there's still a chance for him to pull out out of the fire later down the line.
He is cool, too bad that he is too loyal worst half of Arasaka dynasty, however without Goro (I think) V would never get new body.
V dies so Goro will live
I really, really, REALLY hate this ending. To me it's the writers saying "Fuck you, you picked wrong. We beat you over the head with the correct choice and you didn't follow it so now you get this depressing ending." This might have been acceptable if you screwed over Arasaka, so obviously they wouldn't save you. Say, however, you did everything right, picked the correct options, sucked Arasaka's dick every chance you got. You were the perfect corporate lackey. What if in that scenario Arasaka threw every resource available to solving your problem and you were cured. Now you become their number 1 fixer. Their new corporate hitman. Adam Smasher 2.0. How much better would that have been? Instead, no matter what you pick you are still fucked.
1:49:10 It actually does come up again as you later realized (which is evidenced by 3:38:40). Sending his body to Vik actually makes sense in terms of decency. V did not want Mama Welles to see Jackie all messed up (look-what-they-did-to-my-boy style). Being conscientious about that is used by the game designers against you, though, as the body gets intercepted by Arasaka.
"Truly wasted potential" is what my boss just said to me after not doing work for 5 hours
no one is the boss of you. its a cringe word that everyone seems ok with. yo bitch ass supervisor is the culprit lol
@@SobeCrunkMonster damn ur so cool
@@SobeCrunkMonster You just outed yourself as never having had a job bucko
I wasn’t on the hype train. My expectations were a working game. Those weren’t even met.
I had a bad feeling about all the hype. Had 0 expectations and they still managed to dissapoint
honestly bro
Yeah I never bought into the hype.. thank god... but I was so excited and obsessed w thenlast of us universe. And naughty dog hurt me. But ATLEAST there is still SO MUCH I LOVE about last of us 2. It had incredible gameplay and graphics. Story had some flaws and had some amazing things. Some filler. Disrespectful of Joel. But the violence, the gameplay. Man time has helped but theres still pain. But man Intel bad for the people who were singled for cyberpunk. That's a whole nother thing. It was unfinished, broken,etc.. but even if it was finished and not buggy it would still be bad because it's not what was promised. This game was a LIE. The bugs and unfinished was the nails in the coffin
I remember reading comments like "oh time to preorder", or "I normally don't preorder, but I'm going to make an exception for CDPR" and being like oh I hope this doesn't blow up.
@@Obyvvatel that was me, but I pre-ordered 2 days before official release and I was able to get a refund
Honestly I don't understand at all the intensity of your hang-up on the Johnny - V genderbender body swap. I suppose it might be weirder if you as an individual feel your sexual identity as a fundamental aspect of your consciousness, but idk man, you've just played an entire game dedicated to the ontological reality of a ghost in the shell, thematically it isn't out of place, and it's only superficially different than the father - son bodyswap that you made no remark on.
In a nutschell: "you can do either this or that. Doesn't really matter."
The game was hyped up to oblivion as the "be-all-end-all" game to rule all other games and now nobody even remembers it after just a few months.
Because a lot of use just want to move on. It’s basically been the same experience as if a significant other cheated on you. We just and to forget and move on.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 I hope people actually learn from this. But I doubt it.
@@giorgialadashvili4771 people wont learn
Skyrim (if you include both the special edition, and og) has over twice the current average player base that cyberpunk has.
They should’ve never announced a release date
"When it's ready" unfortunately...
That’s unrealistic. CDPR took on a lot of capital to develop the game and the investors deserve to know when the most valuable IP will start selling to estimate the return on their money. And before you start crying about “evil capitalism”, consider the fact that money doesn’t grow on trees and that without evil capitalism this game wouldn’t even exist.
@@TheWefikus If the investors wanted to get a return on their money then why didn’t they be patient for the game to release instead of allowing CDPR to release a broken game and then sue them because of it.
@@owenrocque651 investors will only wait so long before applying pressure, humans be like that
@@owenrocque651 they should’ve been good enough at their jobs to make the release date
I'm so glad I tempered my expectations for Cyberpunk 2077. I wasnt disappointed at all, and I tried so hard to warn people to check themselves, but only one person heeded my warnings.
In my humble useless internet opinion, there was never a chance that CDPR would make the game live out to the expectations they themselves had set. Period. They got too carried away, they should have played safe, handled fans expectations much better, worked with realistic ETAs when the pandemic hit. I feel like no matter the shape or form this game would have came, there would have been a huge hate wagon because of the massive hype, a monster that CDPR itself created.
I bought this game recently in a sale and lemme say an unpopular thing: I had decent 65h fun. But it was bittersweet fun because when you truly give the game a chance, you understand it could have been amazing had CDPR been honest to itself and specially with us fans. Spot on analysis.
I love cdpr because of their witcher franchise. I still don't understand why they would create so much hype and advertise it on E3 when it was unfinished...
Though i loved my first playthrough despite playing 100 hrs on a base console, i wouldnt have minded waiting another 3 or 4 months for a more polished release
@@Esoteraeon money
Releasing a game that doesn't live up to the hype in it's story and execution is one thing; but to release a game that doesn't even function and broken to the point beyond fixing at realistic time window, is a whole new low altogether.
Gotta say - I had 70+ crashes from 2 playthroughs. That was roughly 1 an hour - on the PS5, as well.
That's just *awful*.
@Nie wiem Kurde beyond fixing in a reasonable time window. It'll take a long ass time to get the game not only working on a base level, but working well. Years to bring us the vision they promised. If they are even going to try. They already made the money.
Facts
It's not that broken. We need to stop this narrative. The problems with the game are OVERWHELMINGLY related to lack of emergent gameplay, shitty-linear-as-shit campaign, TERRRRRRIBLE NPCs, broken cops, no real gravity of choice, etc.
The bugs is what plebs complain about tbh. I encountered more bugs in Skyrim and it still got over 1000 hours out of me. The bugs aren't rhe problem.
@Nie wiem Kurde no its still a mess and probably will be for months and months
at the 1 hour mark and 4 minutes, luke talks about iguanas and thinking its a bug that theyre not in night city. this is the one thing that is intentional. its a blade runner reference. in that movie, they talk about how rare and expensive it is to find a real iguana. meaning that the majority of animals went extinct and you only see replicants or androids of the animal. that iguana in cyberpunk is supposed to be a blade runnner easter egg
I appreciate a lot of the things he had to say in this review but he missed a TON of references like this and was kind of hindered by lack of knowledge of the Cyberpunk genre as a whole. Again I didn’t have a problem with everything he had to say overall just my critique of the critique lol.
@@donniecampbell1665 yeah also some stuff relating to the cyberpunk 2020 lore. Like, Arasaka is nothing like Tesla, unless Tesla is conducting proxy corporate wars wars and housing private militaries. I think it made sense that Johnny was hell-bent on taking down Arasaka, seemed like he was the lesser of two evils.
@@Joel-ik3sz and also the fact that he was kinda bothered by the Corpo life path intro, like, we’ve seen night city, it’s pretty obvious that assassination attempts between employees at arasaka and other corporations is something that happens on a daily basis, plus they weren’t gonna kill V cuz like Jackie said, those guys were not in their territory, and it’s not out of the question for them to not bother after that cuz what’s the point? Shit like this happens on a daily basis.
Also, he could pay attention to Goro talking during that stakeout. Where you see that only cat in whole city and V and Goro talking about animals being gone.
Hell I didn’t know about Iguana reference. But even then it’s later explained during your conversation with Takemura that most animals in night city are extinct. With Cats being one of the last survivor
9 months late. At 1:08:40 , it does make sense. Its hard to miss lol but, jackie and the cop are childhood friends thats why he let them go.
2:31:20 You can see Oda again in at least one other occasion (as you realized by 3:39:15) when you are working with Hanako (just an extra gun on your side, not that you need it because you alone can toast all the enemies with ease). But I think Oda only shows up if you went back to save Takemura.
The saddest part about this debacle is that gamers won't learn. They'll be pissed off for a while and swear to never trust a publisher again. But then another big game will get hyped, millions will preorder it because it's a "trustworthy company" and get angry again. Every publisher and developer seems perfect until they screw up. Don't buy a game you know nothing about.
I'm not part of the problem, i never pre order anything
The bigger problem is when the developer hypes it themselves. Sony Santa Monica Studio is quiet about the next God of War. Naughty Dog (despite TLOUII's divisiveness still has a level of care and attention that is nearly unmatched), Rockstar, and Rocksteady let their games speak for themselves.
But CDPR is a master of marketing and rode the hype train themselves.
Gamers learn just fine it’s the fact that hundreds of thousands of new potential gamers are spawned each and every day, kids turn 18, jocks learn what call of duty is, mean girls find Animal Crossing. Gamers like you & I have been doing this thing for a while but don’t underestimate how popular the medium has become and all the new gamers who have yet to learn!!
GTA VI maybe?
Ooo it’ll happen again with Gta 6 but rockstar knows they can’t drop a broken game
"Redefine the open world adventure genre". did everyone just forget that this was supposed to be an rpg?
one inspired from board game. did he mention this in any of his cyber videos? i missed
It is an rpg just not a very well constructed one. A little better now but the way they designed it it leaves a lot to be desired.
1) Too many perks are just passive bonuses, only a handful actually change how you play. Many more are pointless, poorly thought out and a few don't work (many more used to not work) not much reason to go multiple playthroughs with the way it is now.
2) the weapons system is similar to witcher 3 in terms of level matters a lot, so you'll get an iconic and 1hr later a common butter knife does more damage. Constantly switching for higher damage stats since damage is all that matters. The attachments are poorly implemented. Wtf is range good for. Many stats don't really matter.
3) clothing has very little impact besides armour and personal preference. Mod slots and the balance of mods is poorly done. They is no reason for a mod that increase breathing underwater. So long as armour is the most important stat and armour is tied intrinsically to clothing this will be a problem, having a set of clothing does no bonuses.
4) a lot of missed opportunities with argumentation, not just cosmetic but functions, balancing and cost. The best augs are the leg augs that fundamentally change how you play and make the combat way more fun that it shouldn't cost as much honestly. They should've had ranges to it like many of the other mods.
5) food and drinks are pretty pointless, at least in witcher you couldn't spam potions but here I can spam Insta heals while there is no real benefits to food. Why can't they grant +1 or 2 to one of the 5 main skill or sub trees? Not just stamina regen etc. Food is completely pointless.
6) crafting and upgrading is poorly balanced. Ammo is never a problem the system as a whole lacks depth.
7) there are choices but they are either too few, or lack real impact. The most impactful choices in this game pale in comparison to witcher, I can accept that we are a small cog on the machine but the future of clouds or having a different leader of the maelstrom gang really ddint feel or seem that impactful. Your origins also have too little impact, offering only flavor but no real change to outcomes or rewards.
RPG has lost its meaning these days.
@@joeandrew8752 you forgot about their promise of vertical gameplay
Check out Steam and their RPG category lol i was looking for some game to play i never heard of... like 90% of games listed there i wouldn't even think had any elements of RPG at all. I guess its not that theyre all wrong, its just that we're dinosaurs who still use 90s definition while they changed completely with time
tbh, i really liked the ending where johnny takes over v's body, but looking back on it, it pretty much only fits well if you have a super specific playstyle/character you play v as
it pretty much literally only makes sense if you play as a male netrunner who rejects all of the random drugs johnny tries to get you to do, and had a good relationship with him aswell as doing his sidequests and such. although otherwise all of the reactions and choices are just quite weird.
fucking off into the unknown digital landscape is practically just a grand new adventure and possibly a positive in the long run if youre a netrunner, so that makes sense, the body swap is less obviously odd for male characters i suppose, although the whole element of the chip doing body swap shit is pretty well established either way, and johnnys sudden attitude change makes far more sense if v had the same attitudes in your run
It definitely didn't help that it was launched during the height of the pandemic - which in turn made for everyone to just focus on singular things as nothing else was happening outside so the situation was amplified to 11.
I got 4 hours 55 minutes and 10 seconds before my final exam, I know where to spend that time now.
hmm awfully specific *inser think emoji*
Good way to save 60 bucks
@@maxbarkdull875 you're right, but I fell in the trap and pre-ordered it, but it was still a great experience IMO
Dude.... you totally missed the Easter egg in the last second bro 😎
Watch Snydercut
It's sad that the final product feels like an empty husk of what could've been.
Its a huge unique and detailed world that just sets itself as a backdrop to some loot and shoot type of game. The story is cool but feels out of the game play and vice versa
@@stagger9660 yeah hearing the amazing musical score in the background of this vid saddens me because it reminds me of how this game could’ve been
Having gotten the Panem ending of the game when I played, I ended up enjoying the story and being very satisfied with my journey.
Granted I’m also the guy who put 90+ hours in the game and did literally everything I could before finishing the story so that plays a factor for sure.
I feel like its like that “Telltale Games Effect” though where everything you do feels important until you go back and try something else only to ruin the illusion.
Well spoken I feel like none of my choices even matter
That's me. Romanced panam got the Sun ending. Did all the side quests and gigs, (minus Kerry's questline and ncpd hustles) and I almost don't want to see all the other endings right away.
@@ThePhantomKingX the other endings that I’ve seen are all either sad or unsatisfying if I remember correctly lol
@@SwickedOne hmmmmm interesting. Might just let the game sit with me for a while before I go for the Platinum.
Once there were significant updates to the game and it was actually playable, I really enjoyed it. But it’s unfortunate that it was unplayable in the first place.
All we wanted was one of these:
-Fallout with this scale
-Larger scale Deus Ex
-Witcher 3 in a future city with guns
-GTA 5 with RPG dialog choices
-Decent visuals but it runs
I personally felt I got 90% of that and even playing on PS5 (crashes every 2 hours) I felt it belong to my top 25.
My expectations for the game was "Bethesda RPGs", so you could say I didnt overhype the game like most people and to be honest IMO I definitely got a game that's better than most Bethesda RPGs with the exception of New Vegas but even compared to NV it does some stuff better.
and we got a game that tries to do all of these at once while horribly failing at it...
@@Ocean5ix even Bethesda RPGs have more impactful choices than Cyberpunk 2077.
Fallout 4 atleast gives you 4 diverging paths for an ending and makes you commit to it. Cyberpunk just hands all of them to you for complete ing everything.
It is really similar to Witcher 3 and that’s the problem . They should have made a different game , that engages you with dialogue and choice . The best part about the cyberpunk it’s is city and lore but they solely focused on gameplay which is secondary to such a game .
@@controversialgaming1364
-The ai is way worse
-Combat is way worse
- leveling is way worse
-performance is way worse
-city doesn't feel alive
-ai have no simulated life
-AA is way worse
For me it is a night and day difference between the two games.
I expected gear to be more like deus ex: all clothes would be cosmetic, guns would be used based on the uses you found them and not some annoying borderlands weapon BS.
Big Deus-Ex fan myself and i hear you i was expecting the same.
There should have been a deliberate choice between clothes and armor so that each would give you either style points or armor points, both usable in their own interactions (style in conversations through the actual COOL stat - and the other TTRPG version social stats) and armor in combat. It's even written in the original RPG rulebook that sometimes style means more than practicality, going guns blazing into a firefight looking fly with minimal armor, just because you'd rather want to look cool than wear protective, lame-looking gear.
Amen to this! I hate the gear system with a capital H.
exactly. If i want to play borderlands i buy borderlands. (Never played any borderlands game)
Game is nothing like borderlands and you can't even use the special fire modes of certain guns unless you have a specific cyber ware installed.Did you actually play the game or just assume based on videos you've watched or seen.
This game genuinely broke my heart, I supported CDPR because both the Witcher 2 and 3 had become so personal for me that it kept me busy when I was in a serious state of depression. I met Doug Cockle and he autographed my game and a statue of his and apparently I'm the first person he ever did that for. I put several hundred hours into these games several times. I even changed my PSN gamer tag to CDProjektBlue and made a custom blue logo for my account and got an Igni and Aard tattoo. I was a major fan boy for them so to see how little love and care they gave this game they had hyped for years since I was little was enough to make me not trust any other games they publish unless they decide to finally fix their game. Cringe I know but still the company and their Witcher franchise helped me through a lot so I saw them as a company who could do no wrong 😤
Well, this didn't age well.
Just like another guy in the comments said: It needed 2 more years of development
I had the guitar loop, but I also had a cyber psycho heavy breathing loop. Luckily, I never had to reset the game because the game regularly reset itself. So kind.
Two negatives make a positive *thinking black guy meme*
Ah! Yesterday I had to reboot the game because after about an hour when I realized that the strange "breath" was out of place.
I had the guitar loop too and it was infuriating
"There's just no justice. This experience has changed me. It's made me more cynical, more bitter, more jaded." -George Costanza
Over the course od 3 days, I watched and then finished this video. An incledible and as grounded video as it can be, filled with insightful info. Awesome work.
There was definitely a huge missed opportunity on the secret ending. Totally agree that having the exact same ending is fucking stupid. I would have loved to have seen the secret ending give you the opportunity to catch up to Panam and go with the Aldecaldos for that shot at perhaps something other than the guaranteed 6 months and you are gone routine plus it not getting anyone else killed in the process of getting to Mikoshi. THAT would have made the extra invested time worth it to not kill innocents and still get the job done.
I think that third person was removed purely because they couldn’t make it look good at all
yea that was the first big "huh" moment for me. when it was confirmed with no flinch that this "insanely customizable rpg adventure" didnt have a third person option
Witcher has good 3rd person view so that cant be the point. They removed it because 3rd person view takes much money, effort and time
True, animations are horrible when you look at your shadow, now imagine them in 3rd person. It'd be a pure joke. Plus via mods you can take a look at your functional model and it's disproportional af.
Look at all this vharictor customization you can't see. Also you can't customize colors on clothes and vehicle's even though games in freaken ps2 era allowed you to do that.
Pretty much. It takes alot of time, money and effort to get games/character models moving smoothly and looking good in first person and third person. There's only a handful of games that do it successfully as well.
With the amount of videos I've watched on this game, I've basically played it without playing it.
same, i did play it but damn what a boring game it was for me
Dude same we saved $60
Same. Had to watch enough Let's Plays and reviews to understand the controversy. It was only when I went on to play The Witcher 3 that I realized just how bad Cyberpunk was. What a dip in quality!
And yet your opinion about cyberpunk has no value because of that.
@@Frank-kq4te False. You can easily make an educated criticism of the graphics, story, voice-acting, animations, and to an extent even the gameplay of Cyberpunk itself without playing it.
Look, we're NOT sorry we weren't in the trenches of Night City with you guys. Actually experiencing the shitty Fallout 4 style game-play doesn't change a fella's opinion on how much of an objective mess the game is.
This video was amazing, i genuinely got sad as he was talking at the end, i know this is almost a year later but my god this is a masterpiece.
What got me the most enjoyment out of this game was the fact that I just happened first time around to do the select side quests that I felt contributed to V and Johnny’s story, so I actually really enjoy the narrative and found myself really moved by V and Johnny’s convo at the end. However, after watching this, I can see just how some players didn’t like the narrative because half the endings suck and if you don’t wind up by chance doing to right amount of content, a lot of the story beats don’t make sense. No matter what you do though, this game is not an RPG. CyberPunk, from a structural standpoint, was just doomed to fail by not knowing what it wanted to be.
I feel like a lot of the side jobs should be part of the main story. For example, helping Judy free/condemn Clouds, or finding Johnny's car, or the SAMURAI gig, or helping the Aldecaldos...
There's so much that should have taken place at a certain spot in the plot but was instead a missable side quest.
Would've developed the characters better.
Its definitely an RPG. Not as deep as other RPG's but its an RPG nonetheless.
I think it depends the angle you aproach it from. I will bring the state of VTMB when it launched and fixed by modders afterwards. Yes we can argue indefinitely about how that game has better writing and this and that. At the end of the day, video games, movies, music, media in general is subjective. In my honest opinion, in the 20+ years of gaming, I came to the conclusion that reviews and scores hurt games more than rushed releases or bugs.
@@reredrumuoydefinitely an RPG. Just a shit one.
In terms of being an open world action adventure game like Far Cry, its an 8/10 due to the build variety it offers.
As an RPG with choices and unique consequences, its a 2/10.
I still hear people to this day blame the hardware.
If COD Black Ops can be played on a Wii and The Witcher 3 can be played on a Switch, you can't blame the hardware. It's incompetence, which CDPR have admitted it is.
It’s not as if a better graphics card is going to fix the sheer amount of bugs of the lackluster writing and story.
@@MrSoopSA it's more about how it performed poorly on console and thus they decided to blame the hardware and consumers. Yeah how dare I expect a game to run on the hardware I bought it for
Though your point shows the idea that even if performance isn't the problem, there's more issues than that
Its sad when Activision does something better than you.
Yeah exactly, there's these idiots blaming consoles and their players. As if it's PS4's and Xbox One's fault that the game is so broken.
i despise the people who keep defending this
There is The Lord of the rings trilogy extended version, and there is this ... *aggressively grabs a popcorn*
I never rated LOTR. I rated this though.
And here I thought Snyder’s Cut was the longest release this March!
@@whoiscuriousgeorge Are you serious? Each of the individual Lord of the Rings films are amongst the greatest films ever made. The entire trilogy combined is a contender for the greatest cinematic achievement in history.
hello, may i interest you in some Morrowind?
@@criert135 Yeah dude I'm entitled to my opinion not to like something, no need to react as if I've personally insulted you. 😂
3:41:50 I think Yorinobu simply wanted to destroy Arasaka because he knew of Saboru's plans (to use his body). He was always a sort of rebel it seems, judging by the dialogue you have you Jackie in the hotel room during the heist. The proof Yorinobu's intentions is the chip with Johnny, which he intended to hand over to Arasaka's enemies so they would reach Alt and destroy Arasaka.
In closing, you say certain endings don't make sense yet also admit you rushed through the main plot while ignoring heavy prompts and hints throughout the game that would give clarity to certain actions.
I remember when this was coming out I said to myself "easily gonna be game of the year, but I bet you there will be that one dude who makes a really long 5 hour video about how the games bad , just to hate".....and now months later the game disappoints me and collects dust while I watch said 5 hour video and agree with it :(
LMAO same :(
Fucking fan boy
Honey I'll be back in 5 hours, Luke Stephens just posted
Is that your boyfriend, honey?
Best secret affair.
I have said this in the few weeks after the release and I still believe it:
The side quests could have been planned out and written way prior to the launch, maybe even written over years.
Just the single quest of SPOILER
mind controlling politicians alone is absolute gold! It lingers and plays with the setting. Same can be said for the crucifixion. (Yes, I have forgotten all the titles 😅)
Crucification one didn't hit me too hard. I was just like bruh you killed those ppl idc if your crazy gets exploited for views, left him for double pay
I wish there was a game company that just came out and said "look, this could be great, but it could really not turn out. But we are gonna try"
That's a game I could get hyped for.
I love how everyones V looks like they've just been spat out of a thrift shop tornado
Testament to how much we need a transmog feature.
That's because they're chasing trivial armor stat increases that don't mean squat gameplay wise. Just a learned habit of RPG players. In Act I, once one gets $14k (2 maybe 3 side jobs (pay+loot+access point hacks), or scrapping the inventory of a couple dozen beverage dispensers), one can get cyberware that adds 200 armor, dwarfing anything low level clothing can offer. Looking like a hobo is entirely optional.
And once one gets the Armadillo blueprint later in the game, the only characteristic of clothing with any gameplay import is the number of mod slots. One can just go shopping a lot, or craft, or pick up static legendary sets through exploration, and its actually pretty easy chasing armore to overlevel for the game. I walked around firefights like Robert Duvall in "Apocalypse Now" with 3000 armor, and evidently about 6000 armor is possible.
Cant look like shit if you dont give a damn about armor ratings my v looking like a biker from hotline miami
The character creator highly encouraged the "17 year old rebellious teen with access to a plastic surgeon" look. I remember creating my character and thinking "Yeah, this if fine for now. I'll fine tune it later". FeelsBadMan.
Not mine, I never found it necessary to stress over armour points once you get the legendary subdermal armour. Just focused on making my female v look as sexy as possible lol
Love how many times you showed young yea on screen when talking about reviewers riding the wave lol 😂
I could never pinpoint why I unsubbed from Yong until recently. The dood only has two setting, either discourse about obviously negative things, or praise for obvious positive things, all padded out to 10+ minutes. It's just him droning on and on about nothing for forever with maybe 3 minutes of actual content presented
I wheezed my ass off when he put the cp2077 figurine in the box 😅😅
He's also very cringe, yooooooooooong out
Yong yea is always on top of any hype wave then the moment the general public thinks a thing sucks he's leading the hate bandwagon with the none offensive "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed" and "there's a good game buried here" lines
He's a snake oil salesman,his job is mostly to shill you for the next overhyped games and excuse garbage gaming journalist of obvious paid reviews and cover ups.
That first glitch with the guitar is so funny. That was your jam, like it or not
Amazing video!!! Cyberpunk came at the right time in my life. I had just lost my father to Covid and the game served as welcome escapism and relevant contemplation. The themes of self, life, death, regret, friendship, companionship, the afterlife, immortality, social nihilism, and hope in the face of death really helped me process the loss of my father. The story and characters were top tier even if the game was nothing special.
Sorry for your loss and that you went through that. I agree, this game touches on a lot of themes that are crucial to what makes us human and alive. I truly enjoyed it, and will for years.
The story is done so fucking beautifully when done with the right side quests the exposition and characters are actually decent and god the themes explored I pray you met the old monk who teaches V to meditate that was such a wild side quest yet so damn simple
@@jonathancasais6491 I did fund the monk quest you mentioned. Agreed. Very meaningful. Like I stated, I found so much spirituality, philosophy, ideology, and religious reflection in the game that really helped me through the valley of death with the loss of my father. Right game, right time, right person.
8:45 “We’re talking about gaming journalists,if you can call them that”*Shows YongYea* lmaoooooo
I’ll see you guysss next time
Yong was hyping for years and then, after the release, cashing out on the misery CD Projekt was in. (By making a lot of video's about the drama)
@@AscendanceMedia A shill gotta do what he has to do to pay rent. Game amazing and public perception positive = game good, masterpiece, game bad and perception is negative = game bad.
It's basically Far Cry but in the future.
Funniest part for me was when after taking blockers on 1st meeting with Johnny, I took some side quest when Johnny was acting like a best friend. Even Vi asked "Hey Johnny are you seeing this?" This was so freaking odd because literally 2 minutes ago he was trying to kill Vi xDDD
Yea went through the same. I guess you had to do the next main missions first until you work things out with Johnny some more before you actually earn that kind of banter between them. For some reason the devs didn’t do anything to block out any of those banters before you do more main missions, and that made it like we missed some things which we did
There's no "I" in V. It's just the letter V
They expected you to walk to the diner before picking up your car because right after it Johnny changes his mind.
First video I've ever seen of yours. This was great. I used it as a podcast and listened to it while at work!
My experience on the armour system on PC and in patch 1.23: After I couldn't stand the weird clothes, I bought some Matrix-esque pieces with multiple mod slots. But when preparing for the ending (normal difficulty) and getting a 1,100 total armour rating and 320hp, I'd still flatline after accidentally blowing up a gas tank with my katana
Yeah, I'm kinda convinced that explosions are basically an instant death.
In another timeline, this game was everything we wanted.
In another timeline covid hasn't happened as well
I wish I was in that one
@@guilhermehank4938 Covid its the best thing that has ever happend wdym
@@miguelmalvina5200 hopefully you are joking
@@guilhermehank4938 It was positive for me tbh, No s c h o o l
@@miguelmalvina5200 the thousands and thousands of people whove died from covid: 👉🏾😎👉🏾 youre welcome kid
The "Johnny gives the kid a guitar" ending feels weird for me because what do you think it's gonna happen after that kid goes back home and his abusive father sees him with a really nice and expensive guitar? Yeah that would not end the way the game seems to think it would end.
Whilst I agree I think the idea behind that ending is the kind doesn't go home, follows his dreams and becomes a rockstar. But.. Well that's not how reality works.
@@Juwce_86 Yeah that's how I interpreted it as well, I didn't really have an issue with that ending. It's one of the better one's with the Panam one being the best imo.
Lol this comment was just a repeat of Noah Caldwell's criticism
Lol you think he fucking survive coming home with it? He will probably be killed by some gangers in next corner and sold for organs.
@@Jimoshi1 In an actual GAME with a realistic world yeah. The gangers in this game just stand in the same spot and do nothing unless you get super close to them.
The fact Jackie already knows you and you’re already best buds right at the start of the corpo life path doesn’t make any sense at all. The street kid lifepath where you’re at his moms bar in Heywood and somehow for whatever baffling reason you and Jackie have never met. I guess they tried to justify this plothole with you returning from Atlanta but still you would think V and Jackie would be lifelong bffs cause they’re both street kids. It’s really weird how they handled that.
Regarding the endings: I think the suicide is handled the way it is because it's aim is to show the void a person leaves once they kill themselves, and it works perfectly. There is no glory or nobility, it might be in your head but ultimately you just leave all those people who cared about you devastated. This was actually handled well in my opinion.
Regarding killing innocents - well, like in GTA, you're not an upstanding citizen. You might have a code but you did plenty of jobs where you had to eliminate someone, sometimes innocent. Luckily game gives us, unlike in GTA, a ton of options to avoid killing anyone. Early on I got a PAX mod that made my gun non-leathal. Additionally the highest dps hacks in the game are non-lethal as well. So I essentially cleared the whole 'Saka tower without killing a single soul. So if you feel bad about it, you have an option not to kill.
The bugs initially distracted the players from the fact it's a mediocre game.
And yet casuals be like: "The game is great. I don't know what you're talking about." Sigh.
Exactly. Besides all the glitches, the game itself is kind of boring and is so easy to get OP without even trying.
@@MarkaNgamer let ppl like what they like nerd
Nothing is cutting edge.
Driving, mediocre, shooting and weapons, mediocre, rpg elements, disappointing.
@@nicholaslargent1449 It's easy to get op in most games I'm just saying
The non existent AI killed the game for me and I considered myself a huge CDPR fan. I learned never to get hyped for anything ever again.
Rockstar still holds that soft spot in my heart.
In hindsight their game hypes were rarely met with great disappointment. I wish I could say that about another studio
Respawn entertainment hasn't disappointed yet!!
For me it was Rockstar and CDPR I thought I could always count on to make quality games that deserve the hype, but apparently it’s always Rockstar. They really hold a special place in my heart as I still play RDR2 and being in awe and impressed even after I spent 100 days counting down the release back in 2018.
Glad i didnt buy this. Witcher 3 is not that great for me, liked the world/story/lore/quests but everything else feels meh and feel more as action adventure more than RPG. When CDPR announce CP2077 to be a heavy RPG, i was interested but not hyped. Always go for reviews before buying a game, especially AAA games. Larian studio is my go to for RPG genre.
@@Doubleaa500 True but they are a Subsidiary of Satan so just give them time look at Bioware.
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen 5 hours well worth it
I still managed to really enjoy it. But my experiemce was 99% clean with no crashes. It could have been more but im not upset with what I got. Loved the characters and sidequests even if the main story was underwhelming in terms of player choice.
Love how in the scene in the diner with Takemura, the waitress behind Takemura stands there taking notes for “an order” when the guy at that booth is sitting there constantly drinking his coffee.....nice immersion lol.
There is also an often bug, where at the end of dialogue a dude spawns out of thin air. Then he slides to the exit whilst T posing
There's tons of bugs. The game sucks.
Taking orders from dude who eats the biggest burger ever that never gets smaller, so what else this psycho wants to order? For five minutes.
@@tabernaclejones6115 Skyrim has tons of bugs too and people don't complain as much.
@@Teuwufel yeah bc basic things like animations and questing aren't completely broken ljke they are in cyberpunk,,and skyrims world actually feels alive. Cyberpunk is hauntingly lonely feeling.
5 hours of glory, can’t bloody wait to watch this.
You gotta do it man
@@orangeporridge1553 I am watching it
@@orangeporridge1553 no offence mate but you’re a bit weird.
It's a garbage clickbait
@@orangeporridge1553 there you go again with another weird comment.
The Ascent is a much better, livelier, more colorful and more fascinating cyberpunk experience than Cyberpunk will ever be
when i look back and think of my biggest disappointment, it is this.
i remember sitting at the computer thinking "imagine what the cop chases are going to be like".
i had it in my head that huge mechs and flying drones would hunt me down. maybe even fully automated ground troops coming after me. tanks and hover cars. i knew the wanted system in this game would deliver hours and hours of fun. long after the story was finished. i couldn't wait to see how far i could push it and how long i could survive.
all i got was some cops teleporting behind me.
second was the lack of destructible environment. i couldn't wait to blow the shit out of all the walls matrix style just like in the trailer.
Personally, my main contributor for hype were people like Yong, SkillUp or Alanah Pierce who were behind closed doors and played the game cumulatively for pretty much a full day months before the release date. ALL of them have said that the city is incredible, NPCs convincing and generally praising the game to high heavens declaring it deserved all the hype in the world. I REALLY want to know what they played because watching back all of their videos it just sounds like they were straight up lying. They lost all of my respect and trust after that. Especially people who gave this game 9s and 10s when emarbos lifted. So incredibly hypocritical of them to make fun of sites like IGN or Gamespot only to pull the same shit. And the worst part is, they got no flak whatsoever. Nobody is questioning them at all. They hyped up a broken product, got lots of views off that and then when the public reception shifted they jumped the bandwagon again. If any one of those people who were mentioned is reading this, sincerely, fuck you.
SkillUp shilling the game surprised me, especially when you consider how much of a dump he took on the Last of us Part II ( which I agreed with) I don't understand the need to defend this game just because its CDPR, they outright lied about the condition of the game when it “went gold”
@@blitzofwar5435 he’s just another pretentious youtube “journalist” who shills for CDPR so people think he’s an intellectual
Well they didn't have access to the console version before the embargo was lifted and I don't recall Yong or ShillUp giving it unreasonably high praises. Most people who played it on a high end pc were quite happy afaik.
@@HejLala the game is ass no matter what it’s played on. It just runs better on pc but the cut content, awful ai and broken mechanics are still alive and well
@@jamesgratz4771 oh well, glad I didn't buy into the hype then
The thing is, gamers as a whole will not learn anything from this; they never have. Publishers will have yet another confirmation that gamers never learn their lesson. And everyone will do the same thing over and over, worse and worse each time. That's how we got where we are today, and that's how we'll get wherever we end up 10 years from now, when we'll all be pining for the good old days of 2020.
Lmao, just don't only play AAA and you're fine - Indie scene/AA is getting better and better
Your not wrong. Thing is, the whole fifa, madden, and NBA 2k have been doing this for a while now and the only people who don't seem to learn a damn thing is, the same people who buy it annually. They will bitch and moan, but once a year they forget about it and they repeat it all over again.
@@ALL_that_ENDS seriously tho, who likes games about sports you can actually play in real life? Lol
@@Salieri01 That's wrong in many ways... COD is cool but why play it if you can enlist in the army and live the real thing? Dumbass
I think the problem is that gamers ask too much of every studio. For me, there are only 3 or 4 studios capable of producing AAA excellent games one after the other. Then you have the exclusives. Then you have the studios like CDProject, with a fanbase that thinks they are an AAA studio, while the only masterpiece they released was the 3rd iteration of The Witcher. Cyberpunk was doomed from the start
After 1.6 Patch it’s Gotten so much better and smoother 1.7 looks to change and add a huge amount of Things can’t wait for it
Okay, I appreciate the amount of detail you put into this review. A lot, actually. But there were some critiques in there that felt like they were just there to have another negative thing to say about the game.
Especially the point of "Johnny Silverhands is a terrorist, so how can they expect us to root for him?". I mean, I don't know your history of gaming, but I've played a few that weren't all black and white in their narrative regarding morality. Especially when it comes to the main character, who, by the way, kills for a living.
Yes, Silverhand is a terrorist. Yes, he is an asshole. But those things don't eradicate the things that he did well or his reasonings just as his reasonings and positive deeds don't eradicate the terrible stuff he did.
Same thing with every other character, like V. They are a merc. Killing people for a living. Stealing stuff. Getting rid of corpses. We only sympathize with them so much because they're the playable character. This game is not about "Corporations bad, Silverhand and V good" but about "In this world, everyone is corrupt in their own way. You decide on which side you're on." Especially since you can decide in the game if you trust Johnny or not.
That being said, this game is a buggy mess with lots of wasted potential and even more flaws, but this specific critique I felt was just kinda unfair.
See, I realized early on that there wasn’t a death timer and did all the side quests and finished Johnny’s quest line and the way Johnny acts towards you at the end makes a whole lot more sense and feels genuine.
I did 90% of the side stuff roughly at the same time, before the point of no return. It should be noted that only precious few of them are actually worth it: Kerry Eurodyne, River Ward, Panam, Judy, that convict preacher, the monk, to some extent Delamain... but most of the rest is just the same stuff over and over, either cyberpsychos with Regina or just sneaking into a building and pressing F. Very tedious and not nearly meriting bothering with. And all you ever learn from them is backstories of some randoms (and most of it in plain text to boot), nothing that would further your understanding of the lore.
Plot twist: the glitches are just Johnny Silverhand messing with you.
cyberjunk 1977
@@Concise_Parakeet cybertrash 2077
@@billwilliamson8780 you just showed how to ruin a pun, thanks
Sunken Cost Fallacy is more damaging to a player's brain than Johnny
@@billwilliamson8780 that's why Hosea always pick on you, Bill
Love these long format reviews. Like a balm for the soul.
btb, I really enjoyed the game, warts and all. Was genuinely sad when I ran out of quests and things to do.
By the time I got the mantis blades I realized that no matter how much i upgraded it my Katana was already doing 4x's it's damage with a higher attack speed, the katana ended up being my greatest weapon.
Also the mantis blades didn’t even have the wall climbing ability that was shown in the promotional material
Take a shot everytime he says "Actually, it doesn't matter."
take a shot everytime he says "maybe it's just a bug"
I guess alcohol poisoning it is, but what else is there to do during the pandemic with your friends
One thing I never understood was that you’re this badass cyborg mercenary and out of ALLLL the animations they could have used for healing they chose to make the character use an inhaler...
That’s just reaching
The healing animations in Far Cry were actually good jajaja, a shame that Far Cry 5 got rid of that...
@@Red-ev8ls what’s reaching?
@@alfredoamendez4299 imagine the far cry blood dragon healing animations in cyberpunk
ngl as someone with asthma i found it hilarious and pretty fun ahaha it reminded me of running an unimpressive distance and pausing like “one second guys let me just get my inhaler”, i thought it was because of V dying until i picked up an airhypo and was just like “oh the medicine is all just lame in this”
HOLY SHIT I had this exact same strange colour filter- glitch at the end of the Arasaka- path. I thought it was on purpose to show that V's body and brain are just messed up from the surgery to remove the chip and need to adjust again.
I never questioned it and it never occured to me that it's a glitch 😫
It’s crazy how much this game was hyped up for years and talked about like it’d be the biggest game changer but now that its been out for a few months no ones really talking about it anymore and the hype and excitement is gone. People still talk about Witcher 3 as the best rpg ever and that came out years ago.
Witcher 3 is a great game and I love it a lot for what it is but I never understood the "best RPG" label to be honest. I feel like there are far more in-depth RPG experiences out there.
It's a game changer, we will have less pre orders down the line.
Thats because you understand what an rpg actually is. The Witcher 3 is an action game with choice and consequences and some light RPG elements. You dont roleplay, you control Geralt who is a faithful adaptation of his novel persona. Youre just allowed to make many in character and some very out of character decisions for him.
Anyone who claims The Witcher 3 is the greatest RPG ever is an idiot and should be forced to play through Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas or Baldurs Gate 1 and 2 or other such titles vastly more deserving of "Greatest RPG".
Calling The Witcher 3 the greatest RPG ever is like calling Call of Duty the greatest RTS ever.
Or to be more generous The Witcher 3 cannot be the greatest RPG ever because otherwise it would have to best RDR2 or Zelda Breath of the Wild for that title.
@oof In order to demonstrate what went wrong and how to avoid it in the future? Making videos on a topic has nothing to do with hype.
@@jmlaw8888 Totally, I see Witcher 3 more akin to a very well written interactive movie with a lot of charming characters and some interesting choices similar to Telltale games and I think it's a great experience when you view it that way but in terms of RPG mechanics there's just not a lot there.
got 100% achievements on very hard, and it's not any more difficult to be honest - you get more experience and street cred, leveling you REALLY fast after the first 2-3 hours of fighting bullet sponge enemies, it's more fun than playing on normal, but the headshot multiplier "bug" on bosses is a feature, I'm pretty sure. I did 140k+ Damage with my Overwatch, but ALWAYS damaged the main bosses for 5% of their health - Most likely it's just a cap, so crit focussed builds can't just oneshot lore-important enemies, for obvious reasons
Damn, Enemies now have plot armor
Ya it's rediculous easy just get a revolver and spec out the pistol skill tree seriously you'll 1 hit kill any and everything just don't get hit by a car you will instantly fall through the map and drown to death
A bit late response, i know, but at least for melee there's no cap. I was able to damage smasher by 20% of his health with each hit of my mantis blades. If there's a cap, it has to only work for range weapons
@@adeven4775 yeah I used a katana and that fight went about the same. Melee is op.
The balance of this game is so shit that people were breaking it within a week of playing by just leveling up and spending points. They couldn't figure out anything interesting to do with the skill tree so they just added a bunch of game breaking damage multipliers. It's very lazy, and boring
I honestly enjoyed this game. On pc it ran not great with my 2080 super and I feel really bad for people who got it on console l, but other than bugs which I had few of, the game was really atmospheric, beautiful, and the world building was top tier. I genuinely enjoyed the narrative and every single side quest which I completed and i can only hope for more from the developers if they ever choose to release dlc. It also made me cry at the end when I chose the suicide ending and it was the first game to do so. The music is also phenomenal. Great video regardless of my feelings tho:)
The most frustrating thing about this game is that most of your choices actually don’t matter, which means they lied to us pre-release
They lied about a lot of things. I remember both Pawel Sasko and Miles Tost in a Q&A before release saying that "yeah, there will be a lot of verticality" (verticality my ass), that "choices would have huge consequences and no playthrough would be the same" (non-linearity blah-blah-blah).
50:00 I never had any trouble getting incredibly immersed into the Witcher 3 or the Mass Effect trilogy, despite the 3rd person camera. Strange choice to make it 1st person.
I’m more immersed in third person. Your character is immersed into and part of the world instead of just looking in at the world from a super static angle.
The now leaked early builds and footage show that it resembled Mass Effect quite a lot, but in a positive way. It was a bad call to do it in first person, it doesn’t add anything special.
I just question why they put a decent effort into the character customizer or cosmetics if 99% of the time you can't even see your character.
Honestly this immersed me more. Being in a car in a back alley and getting the call for another job with rain hitting the windshield and slow jazz playing took it to another level. I got immersed heavily in the witcher 3 but I’m not sure hit cyberpunk levels
Most of the time. Maybe blood and wine did but thats because having incentive to return to base and rest/reflect always ups immersion for any game. Cyberpunk somehow dropped that lesson hard.
@@ThatBlakeCampbell 1st person is not why this game failed. Metro Exodus is one of the most immersive games ever made. ua-cam.com/video/8geGHbWIMXA/v-deo.html
I’m pretty sure Arasaka copies Jackie’s engram and you can meet a broken copy of our beloved Jackie depending on where you send him
Yeah that shit sucked hurt my heart quite a bit
Yup depending on your decision on where you send the body , you either get a funeral or see Jackie's broken engram at Arasaka.
Yep we also meet the head of arrasaka as an engram explaining his plan to take over his sons body and thus be effectively immortal.
That would be one way to kick off the Jackie DLC. We all deserved more Jackie in the game, CDPR can still deliver on that by giving us either a prequel DLC that covers the period of time between the Prologue and the game proper or by expanding on the Jackie Engram Theory.
@@dansanga that's actually a good idea
My only real issue with anything you said here is around the "longshot" in the story. Like sure when you first tell someone you have this chip in your head that has Johnny Silverhand's personality on it they would probably be disbelieving and laugh. But consider the setting, this is the future, it's a setting where they were already far in advance of where we are in real life now at the same time. With the extreme cybernetics you can get I don't think it's really that much of a stretch to suggest someone's personality and memories can be downloaded onto a chip, and that chip can then be downloaded into someone else's head. There are companies right now in real life that are working on a way to be able to store a dead person's memories onto a hard drive, it's really not so far beyond the realms of possibility that it would be that difficult, for people in the Cyberpunk world, to be convinced it was happening. I really can't see why you had such an issue with that.
3:47:34 you do also have a little back and forth with a guard on the way, and the music and direction of the scene where you're uploaded to mikoshi is more noteworthy than this little aside it's given here. The look on V's face, the uncertainty, the fleeting hope and terrible dread of what this might mean for them, is truly remarkable when you find yourself immersed and in-touch with the emotions CDPR wanted to convey through their directing here.
Little nitpick of this incredible review on my part, just felt this needed said, and I'm sure I'm not alone. 🤣 Love your work Luke.
Also, the amount of times characters say the word 'Altecaldos' makes it frustrating to hear Luke say 'Altecardos' so many times. 🤣