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Your mileage may very. I mean, sure, I've sunk over 50 hours into it since Thursday, so I'm enjoying it. Then again, I'm using a fairly recently zoomed up PC so I don't suffer too much of the glitches. It's atmospheric, it's got a sprawling city, it's got some mixed emotions to some of the side-gigs and assorted ups and downs. It's got a lot to engage in if you like that, but it is very much a first person RPG game, so don't expect a hyped-up shooter feel, or a car driving feel.

Well, that gave me very little information of any relevance, and 20 minutes of him ranting about the harassment of reviewers for daring not to give something a score over 9 out of 10. I'm glad I only had that running in the background while I was doing other things, or I'd feel that was 20 minutes badly spent.

Hm. First game breaking bug I've encountered. The "Lighting Strikes" mission starts, I get in the car with Panam, and then it goes into an infinite loading screen. Guess I'll go try out a few other missions before re-trying it. Edit: I also like that they have an in-game reason for why you're solo-ing the majority of things. A conversation with Rogue where she points out that your first big-leagues mission went catastrophically wrong, your partner died, your fixer died, all the people associated with it died, and you're the last person standing. So either you're a dangerous liability or you have bad luck and no superstitious merc will work with you, hence no fixer will ask a team to include you in it. Of course, this has a slight lack of coherency in that by the time she told me that I've already raised my Street Cred to 50. But then again, there seems to be the Street Cred reputation for access to things, and that "story" reputation that only goes up with certain key missions.

One thing that has been mentioned is that they aren't actually going to try to do a "book a season" type of story arc. Since it's a little unrealistic to try for 14 seasons, there is going to be some mashup and re-ordering of plot-lines and sub-plots for the tv adaption. So no "Eye of the World" season, or "Dragon Reborn" season. Just "Wheel of Time"...

Well, as I recall from a few CyberSecurity things I attended a couple of years back, about 70% of organised cyber-crime in the world traces back to Russian groups, and about 60% of cyber-espionage traces back to Chinese groups. It's surprising how effective and efficient you can be with those tools without having to be a big, rampant, economical giant.

That was pretty much the definition of a high-paid, high-stress Executive deciding to slum it for thrills. The whole thing was somewhat disturbingly sleazy, and a little bit off-putting.

Since it's more game company news than game specific, but did you folks see that CD Project Red have already made back the money they invested in Cyberpunk? Apparently the eight million pre-orders and day one sales earned them over the cost of producing the game. So the company made the decision to actually pay all bonuses rather than hold them to the criteria of critic / metacritic review thresholds. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/cd-projekt-changes-developer-bonus-structure-after-buggy-release

It's the small things. Talking a guy down from rabid cyberpsychosis PTSD, persuading him he shouldn't turn into lone assassin / terrorist as he should remember being an honorable soldier... Then you turn away, walk through a door and suddenly Boom from behind, turn around, and find the guy had decided to instead commit suicide. It's cyberpunk. It's rare to get a clean right/wrong approach to things.

"A more wretched hive of scum and villainy..."

Progress and style choices...

I have to admit, my tendency to try sneaking and hacking through most missions the Fixers ask me to do tend to result in not improving my Asssault/Handguns/Blades skills. So I'm roaming around for the police intervention stuff for the casual violence and get those skill points earned...

I've got it through GOG and haven't had a single issue with Galaxy yet. The pre-load was fine, it had to update about 50 MB when release day happened, and then the big 580 MB patch smoothly updated within a couple of minutes of me exiting the game yesterday. Hm, I have to admit, the Athletics skill feels buggy experience-wise. I'm constantly running / sprinting to places and jumping up and around, and after 30 hours of gameplay involving lots of that I still haven't got my skill up to 4 yet. Compared to the others, which are (for the majority) nearly double that.

Well I had the Friday off work, and now I've managed to sink 34 hours into Cyberpunk since it was released. I still haven't progressed too far beyond Silverhand in my head. I keep getting lost in Gigs, Side Missions, and generally exploring around Night City.

I'm planning on cycling through it. Female Street Kid, Male Nomad, Female Corpo, Male Street Kid, etc.

Yes, but potentially it means we won't get a full Dune made. If they don't feel the first half makes enough money, he won't get the 2nd half produced. So it's not just him venting on the artistic need to see things in full cinematic screen experience.

Off-hand, I can't remember. It was one of those brief things mentioned by the developers when they were talking about it. One of those off the cuff "We might have gotten a bit too lost on some of the details when we were getting to the point of doing x" kind of things.

https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/jason-momoa-josh-brolin-defend-villeneuve-warner-bros-fight-dune-1234604046/ Villenueve's saying that WB's decision to split film releases over stream and cinema could kill any decision to let him film the 2nd part of Dune.