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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Sounds like the main issue is bugs, and otherwise it's merely "a good video game". Have CDPR said anything about review copies including bugs that are being patched at launch?

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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sean10mm posted:

Pretty funny to see people who gave Far Cry 5 a 90 crapping on CP2077.

Either they're full of it or the game is dire lmao

Those reviews were written by different humans.

Kallie Plagge has always been pretty good IIRC.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Zaphod42 posted:

That's with ray tracing on relax

I'm starting to think ray tracing is a waste of everyone's time and money. If Nvidia's second generation of RTX cards can still barely handle games that were designed around them then it hardly seems worth the effort.

e: I got a 2080super like a dumb dumb so yes I'm bitter.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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It's broken on purpose! :eng101:

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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TheRat posted:

It's kind of weird how many people desperately want this game to be bad in spite of overwhelming evidence that it's very very good

It's going to be the TLOU2 of 2020. :(

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Endorph posted:

TLOU2's issue was a lot of legitimate criticism being labelled as 'chuds getting mad at it,' just because chuds also happened to get mad at it

Mostly it was the chuds though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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BrotherJayne posted:

TLOU2 spoilers: Your character gets beat to death while your ward is held down watching, screaming and crying

And then you're supposed to some how bond with the killer when you're swapped to playing as them


gently caress that


mod edit: don't spoil things from other games here

edit 2: Sorry mod!

Your character is Ellie, Joel is your character in a different game. You're playing as Ellie when Joel is killed. Also Joel was a piece of poo poo.

And the game doesn't expect you to 'bond' with Abby, it just explores who she is and why she did what she did. Both her and Ellie do brutal, disgusting, hosed up things and lose all sight of who they are or what they're actually fighting for.
It's a real good game.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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BrotherJayne posted:

I've not played any that I can think of, got examples?

Starcraft

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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stev posted:

It's going to be the TLOU2 of 2020. :(

I'm really sorry for this.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Simone Magus posted:

Yeah, would have been cool to have another segment like that later, and weird that it didn't

Agreed - there were a few points in the second half where a slower pace would've been welcome. I wouldn't be surprised if something like that was cut for time considering how long the game ended up being.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Jim Sterling is one of the few truly pro-consumer personalities in the industry, to the point where they've happily turned themselves into a pariah by cutting all ties with major publishers.

Whatever you think of their dress sense they're not a voice that we should want to lose any time soon.

stev fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Dec 8, 2020

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Turin Turambar posted:

LOL

I suspect they will be glad to come back to the Witcher universe with a single protagonist in their next games. So many less headaches with that.

I'm surprised they didn't end up going down the single protagonist route with this. It's clearly where their strengths lie.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Ice Phisherman posted:

Yep. Geralt doesn't really fit the Mary Sue archetype. Mary Sues are generally completely free from weakness and an ideal version of a person who is frequently an author self-insert, which is basically worst of sins you can do as an author.

If Geralt was a Mary Sue character, he could just charge in and slay the poo poo out of big bads by flexing his mighty muscles and swinging his sword around Conan style. Instead he has to do investigative work and consult books and prepare potions. The people who do try to just go in with no investigation and swinging their swords around frequently get owned whenever he runs into some amateur monster hunter. You can get away with going in cold in the Witcher series on normal mode, but you'll frequently get owned by boss monsters or you'll have to hack away at them for ages while being vulnerable in harder difficulties. So both the narrative of the series of the series of monsters being scary along with the ludonarrative of getting owned on harder difficulties for not preparing links up pretty well.

Also Mary Sues tend to be generally loved by everyone. Geralt is almost universally feared, mistrusted, often hated and people occasionally try to skip out on the bill for his monster slaying either by refusing to pay up or by trying to murder him. Your average human from the hamlet of Goatfuck does not like him. He does get dragged into politics and intrigue pretty frequently, but even there he's frequently mistrusted.

He's also not the strongest at anything in particular. He's a better than human specialist who is a great fighter, flexible enough to boost himself with alchemy and knows a little bit of magic and so he can specialize even more to beat certain foes, but unless he's prepared he's in deep poo poo.

Also Mary Sue characters aren't universally bad either. Goku for instance is a Mary Sue style of character and he doesn't get this much hate. You can do a Mary Sue archetype well enough that people with enjoy them.

In my experience almost all negative accusations that a character is a Mary Sue are based on either a misunderstanding of what a Mary Sue actually is or the assumption that every vaguely capable woman in media is a Mary Sue because misogyny I guess.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Orange Crush Rush posted:

Why is less options for what’s gonna be the vast majority of players good again

Why would the vast majority of players play a heterosexual character?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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So is a gameplay footage embargo lifting or are people going to be streaming early console copies?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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So do we know if Steam is going to push a patch through at midnight? I'll only be playing for an hour or so before bed but if I need to download 40GB first I won't bother staying awake.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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MMF Freeway posted:

Wait really? Steam is not showing any additional download for me

The 57GB was the initial download for me, no additional downloads since then.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Grouchio posted:

......Did we get royally hosed over?

Was this even advertised as a sci fi life sim?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Gonna play some FF14 instead.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Come on Gaben, press the button.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Starting to think it would've been faster to just download it from scratch.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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ErrEff posted:

Okay, I'll bite, what i-

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How is this possible when everyone staring at a progress bar?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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I've only been able to play an hour but it seems cool so far. At the moment I'm constantly pausing to tweak the settings. I'm in that annoying spot where it hovers around 55 but dips to 45 in places. I might just bite the bullet and turn off RT entirely.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Also whatever settings I've tried, my character model looks like blurry poo poo in the menus. No other models look like that.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Mode 7 posted:

Played and enjoyed all three openings but I think Corpo gets the nicest scenery with the (not even really a spoiler) flying car ride through the city ala Blade Runner

She just chugs down a whole glass of Prosecco the second she gets in the car. Love it.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:

Considering I'm getting 60-70fps consistently on a 2070s at 1440p with everything on high/ultra but no RT (DLSS quality). If it runs like poo poo without RT on a 3080 then you've got hardware problems.

That card should handle RT fine with DLSS.

The reported performance is wildly inconsistent, even within this thread in similar hardware. It's more likely a software issue that's only affecting certain setups.

For reference I have a 2080S at 1440p and I'm averaging low 50s with most settings on ultra, RT medium and balanced DLSS.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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peter gabriel posted:

Choosing your junk and pubes when making my character just made me feel a bit odd, I didn't even click the options

I got a nice red heart shaped bush. :love:

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Well gently caress, disabling ray tracing, setting DLSS to quality and disabling chromatic abberation makes it look and run perfect on ultra. Nice.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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SnoochtotheNooch posted:

I asked this a few pages back but got missed. I feel like it’s important enough to reassert my question.

Will there be full penetration? Does my dick being big ever come up as a plot element? Tia

What does your big penetrating dick have to do with Cyberpunk 2077?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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No Mods No Masters posted:

Say what you will about the skillup guy, but he is right that there needs to be an option to zoom out the minimap

Or at least have a big map of the area you're in. I keep hitting M forgetting that it'll just give me a big blob of red city streets.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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I'm guessing there's no way to glam different clothes/armor sets? The GOG rewards are utterly useless if not..

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Wait, am I still in the prologue or not? I just saw 'Act 1' but I haven't seen a title card yet and it's only been like 90 minutes.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Yeah I don't really think of Keanu as a top tier capital A Actor, but a really chill, decent seeming dude with enough charisma to carry some fun roles like sad shooty dog owner.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Jeff Fatwood posted:

Thanks!

It's funny how they ignored so many major command rebinds for keyboard and quality of life things on PC just to deliver a 15fps experience on the consoles they originally targeted.

CDPR's priorities are so hosed and I'm not seeing here anything that necessitated death marching their employees for this bullshit. Sheer loving incompetence on their managements part.

All the art, assets and work is just so top notch but the game itself is such a loving mess. There was no reason for the crunch and it was obviously just massive incompetence in time management.

Yeah what I'm getting so far is that the game is really great, and in many ways an achievement, but it has to be one of the most mismanaged projects of the decade and it really shows. This should have released three years ago at least.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Ihmemies posted:

I strongly dislike grumpu characters like that Jensen guy from Deus Ex, Geralt etc. V feels like an actual living person.

Hey now, Geralt isn't a grump - he just reserves his personality for people he actually likes (mostly naked witches).


e: Is the bathroom mirror bug something that's happened to everyone rather than based on random chance? It's still happening to me after multiple restarts, leaving and returning etc.

Also lol I got a bug where my main quest objective was to talk to a guy even after I'd already spoken to him and exhausted all of the options. I had to restart to get the game to figure out the actual objective.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Is there a reason I keep getting a quest marker on that street preacher guy that disappears after I speak to him?

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Comte de Saint-Germain posted:

His quest is to interact with him a handful of times and his story will continue. Some parts are more active than others. We have a few characters like that.

Thanks! I thought that might be the case but wanted to make sure it wasn't bugged.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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mcbexx posted:

I assume you mean the guy close to Viktor's clinic? The one going on about reptilian overlords from Antartica?

For those who don't know, dude's modeled after and voiced by Twitch streamer CohhCarnage. Pretty neat if you ask me.

Yeah I imagine there's going to be a whole lot of cameos I don't recognise! I have my eyes out for Alanah and Kojima though.

stev
Jan 22, 2013

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Junkenstein posted:

Why do they insist on putting chromatic aberration into games? Has anyone ever wanted that? We're used to seeing lens flares being used artistically in films and photos, so they kinda make sense in games, but chromatic aberration? It's got 'aberration' in the name ffs!

It looks good in some very specific circumstances but not most games. I like it in Bloodborne - it adds to the nightmarish ambiance.

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stev
Jan 22, 2013

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It probably would've been crazy time consuming to implement but I'd have liked a codex system similar to W3's. I loved how detailed the information was about the quests and characters and how it updated as the story went on. It's really easy to miss a few snippets of dialogue and be left feeling like you're missing some context.

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