* Cyberpunk 2077 *

SS-89 · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:33

Don't care about reviews, all I care about is actually playing it and judging for myself! Going in with decent expectations but never got the massive hype, I would have if it was witcher 4 but CP2077 is a new genre and style for CDPR so I'm expecting some teething issues.

TurtleTwo · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:35

Frubeling said:
By all accounts, day 1 patch clears most of them and day 0 leaves it at a level where any bugs remaining will be nigh unnoticeable by all but the most anal players

The IGN review above doesn't sound too good regarding the bugs.

Kelt · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:37

SS-89 said:
Don't care about reviews, all I care about is actually playing it and judging for myself! Going in with decent expectations but never got the massive hype, I would have if it was witcher 4 but CP2077 is a new genre and style for CDPR so I'm expecting some teething issues.

Teething issues can be applied to any modern game.

I can't think of one that hasn't required multiple patches.

And some still aren't fixed, months after their release, example being Horizon New Dawn which has an awful memory leak, requiring me to restart my PC after a couple of hours playtime to free up memory.

Frubeling · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:37

TurtleTwo said:
The IGN review above doesn't sound too good regarding the bugs.

I dunno about the day 0 but I know for a fact that reviewer didn't have the day 1 patch implemented. Regardless, he made it sound like the bugs are occasionally mildly aggravating as opposed to game breaking or literally unplayable

Rroff · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:39

Tek81 said:
Just read a review. Sounds like it's going to be more than a little clunky. Still, very much looking forward to it.

I can't stand clunky games - no excuse for it in this day and age.

Gray2233 · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:39

I'm not particularly fussed over the opinions of mainstream urianalists for the most part.

I'll be going into this mostly blind myself.

Frubeling · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:41

PC Gamer's review is a lot more specific about the bugs than the IGN one was, and by the same token makes it sound way worse

Still don't see any of it being enough to completely ruin the game for me. If somehow it IS that bad, I guess I'll just shelf it until some time next year

Gray2233 said:
I'm not particularly fussed over the opinions of mainstream urianalists for the most part.

There's also this. I can't remember the last time I read anything by a journalist and didn't pick up on stuff that is clearly just a them issue and other things like that. Never mind that PC Gamer gave the latest AssCreed a 92/100 despite being absolutely riddled with bugs itself and not getting anywhere near as much gushing about how incredible it was despite it

Like why the hell would I give two hoots what someone described like the following thinks

James is PC Gamer’s bad boy, staying up late to cover Fortnite while cooking up radical ideas for the weekly livestream. He can still kickflip and swears a lot. You’ll find him somewhere in the west growing mushrooms and playing Dark Souls.

How cringeworthy

breathe3asy · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:44

Kelt said:
Teething issues can be applied to any modern game.

I can't think of one that hasn't required multiple patches.

And some still aren't fixed, months after their release, example being Horizon New Dawn which has an awful memory leak, requiring me to restart my PC after a couple of hours playtime to free up memory.

Can't you just use ISLC

CostaBunny74 · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:46

pre-loading

happy Bunny

Frubeling · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:52

Also worth noting that people will hyperfixate on negative or less than perfect reviews while ignoring the fact that if you go to metacritic you'll see the majority of reviews are nigh flawless

chroniclard · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:57

Frubeling said:
If a story is good enough to COMPLETELY mask a bad game then the game either isn't as bad as you're making out or you can just enjoy the game for the story

Nah, games are about gameplay. Story is secondary.

Frubeling · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:58

chroniclard said:
Nah, games are about gameplay. Story is secondary.

Yes of course, but if you can "mask" that with story as you said then does it really matter? Do you really care all that much if you can be so heavily distracted from less than ideal gameplay that you literally forget about it?

Poneros · 7 Dec 2020 at 17:59

Raytracing on vs off! Let's see if it was money well spent

https://imgsli.com/MzIzMDg

StrongSad · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:01

Any mention of DLSS working well?

Frubeling · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:02

Poneros said:
Raytracing on vs off! Let's see if it was money well spent

https://imgsli.com/MzIzMDg

Looks way better with it

chroniclard · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:04

Frubeling said:
Yes of course, but if you can "mask" that with story as you said then does it really matter? Do you really care all that much if you can be so heavily distracted from less than ideal gameplay that you literally forget about it?

May as well watch a movie though if the gameplay is trash.

chrismscotland · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:04

Pre-loaded successfully on Gog; didn't take as long as I expected

Zenduri · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:10

Anyone else ordered this on Amazon? I did due to me having a amazon code i needed to burn before it ran out and the order is complete however no idea if they are physically shipping me a boxed copy with a GOG code or if they will email me one? Quite keen to preload but if i hjave to do that on launch day it doesnt really matter as i have balling internet.

Kelt · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:13

ceaton88 said:
Can't you just use ISLC

I've used it but doesn't seem to work for me, will try it again.

Buddy · 7 Dec 2020 at 18:17

Metacritic

91% from 40 reviews.

*** Cyberpunk 2077 ***

* Cyberpunk 2077 *