How Cyberpunk 2077 clawed its way back from disaster to complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history
How Cyberpunk 2077 clawed its way back from disaster to complete one of the greatest redemption arcs in gaming history
A 3-year breakdown of Cyberpunk's bugs, lawsuits, and the many, many patches that brought it back.
A 3-year breakdown of Cyberpunk's bugs, lawsuits, and the many, many patches that brought it back.
This reeks of sponsorship. The expansions isn't even out yet
46Impressive, but imo still not as good as No man's Sky redemption.
29Or Final Fantasy XIV
7Great redemption but they did close the servers so I kinda feel like that's a whole new game hahaha
Also, FFXIV has been great for a long time now I think... NMS had more incremental updates with improvements for longer I guess. Maybe that's why that's the first thing on my mind when I think of any game redeemimg themselves.
Nevertheless still an amazing improvement on FFXIV.
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So I actually tried it again last night.
My partner and I had finally gotten around to watching EdgeRunners and had heard that the game had improved quite a bit. Anyway so I have the thing install over dinner and sit down to play for a couple of hours before bed. I start a new game since you can't just jump in after being away for months right. I load up a new character start doing the intro and instantly am reminded of why I disliked the game. The intro is incredibly rushed and all of your choices don't matter. I bugged out in the middle of conversations at least 2 different times where I was unable to move my character and no dialogue was presented. The combat is boring and uninspired. My character would consistently load in T posing to areas. Characters would suddenly stop moving their mouths during conversations. And for a game meant to be open world the game was really really insitent that I play their dumb linear story that is absolutely fucking full of these damn trains-that-look-like-car-rides.
Idk guys I think it's the same game with the same core design flaws. Sure it's probably gotten a face lift but it sure as hell doesn't play any different than it did a year ago
20Sorry but in the recent past, that title goes to No Mans Sky.
19The awesome Internet Historian video on No Man's Sky for those that haven't seen it:
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Redemption? They still lied to the consumer and have done what exactly to get any trust back?
4The article does a good job of summarizing everything they changed and improvements, but I feel like pcgamer's headline is sort of leaving off a "... after reducing scope". For instance, the multiplayer mode that had been announced before launch. I also think I read they planned on multiple DLCs but they reduced that down to just this one? Regardless all my friends seem to enjoy the game so I'm sure it's a fun game to play
2Was fine in the beginning, nerds just love to complain
-19I don't even have to post gifs of how damn broken it was at launch, you already know them, you can see them playing in your brain space right now.
10It's weird how much people's experience varied. There are enough people saying it was very broken and enough that say it was fine that I believe both groups. Hopefully someone figures out what it is about people's machines, play styles, or something else that gave such different experiences.
I waited until early this year to play and it was an awesome experience.
2To me for example was always fine. I got it on launch day and with my PC I experienced very minor issues and almost no crash (maybe one if I remember correctly) and, even if it wasn't the game CD Project Red marketing department had led us to believe, it was a nice and enjoyable experience for me.
I mount an i9-9900k with an Asus motherboard and a 3070 dual fan, I don't recall the precise model right now; not a fancy build as I use a very old case and air cooling, but it gets the job done for a 1440 experience at circa 45 FPS.
Now I'm curious to test this 2.0 patch, I'm watching my brother playing on his PC right now and, with a 1070, he's still getting good performances and the game mechanics look nice! The skill trees are really interesting, I can't wait to try it out myself!
2It was so broken that sony had to remove it from sale. This isn't a "we don't know the situation" thing. This is well documented.
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