1 yr. ago • 37%

When do I actually get to PLAY this game?

Or is the whole game traveling from one spot to another to talk to someone and then a thousand phone calls in-between? I have 12 hours in this game and I've only had 3 actual gameplay moments where I got to shoot or fight people. Is this a visual novel pretending to be a shooter? Wtf

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I'd recommend delaying quest competition and just go wandering around town and find some fights to get into, get some leveling done, and upgrade your equipment. I find the open world to be more interesting than most quest plots.

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- See, I was going to do that. I heard act 1 was narrative heavy and to just get through it for the game to open up. Immediately after finishing it, I get in my car and the a.i. taxi service wrecks my car and gives me another quest to do to get it back. Find out after finishing the quest I have to wait for the car to be repaired, so I find online about the quest to get Jackie's motorcycle, but that leads to the funeral quest with even more talking! Maybe that's the break point and after I could finally go off and do my own thing but I just got frustrated and quit.
  
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  Lmao the thing with the car is a pain in the ass but I find it funny you're complaining about talking at a funeral for what was a main character for the first hour or so. If you want more pew pew, do gigs and the ncpd icons.
  
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  “When do I get to play the game?? I haven’t been able to rotate blocky shapes at all yet just been forced to hunt ghosts as a yellow man??” -Moron playing pac-man instead of Tetris c. 198X
  
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  It is.
  
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Minimize traveling. There's always something to do around the corner

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- When I started walking the other day instead of driving my mind was blown at how many little things are going on. I've played through it twice, and been satisfied with the experience, but this time I'm just... Hanging out and it's amazing.
  
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I've been enjoying the game. Didn't do any quest after the first one with the car shootout. I just drove around to find stuff to explore. Found weapons in my car, then went into random encounters. Been doing that for two days straight.

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What part of the game are you in? Still early on?

If you really want more gameplay right now, stop following the quest markers and go do something else.

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Stop checking off quests from your list and just go in another direction and explore the world around you. I don't wanna be that guy and say "You're playing it wrong", but if you're just working off a checklist, then you're definitely playing Cyberpunk wrong. There are things happening all over Night City that aren't given to you by the main quest line. Open your map and look at the icons scattered around, and you'll see tons of side gigs, gang activities, and other missions that aren't tied to the main story at all.

Or just walk down the street and see what's happening near you. See a group of people standing around with yellow triangles over them? Go fight 'em. Sometimes they're random gangoons just standing around on a smoke break, but sometimes there'll be new things to discover by cracking some skulls.

Get drunk with the 6th Street Gang and join in their shooting contest on the rooftops, go climb the ranks in Night City's underground boxing club, talk to the mysterious monk and learn how to meditate, recover Johnny's lost memorabilia, find a gun that talks to you and has a bad attitude, buy some fine designer clothes from the Jinguji store, track down and capture cyberpsychos for psychiatric evaluations, help a former soldier suffering with PTSD, take Jesse Cox to see a doctor about his penis problem, become best friends with a vending machine, help a J-pop star with their stalker problem, pick a fight with the police and see if you can survive until MaxTac gets called, buy some cars and travel in style.

There's a ton of things to do outside the main quest. But if you're just going down the list for the main quest line, then yeah, there's going to be a lot of talking, because Cyberpunk is a very narrative-driven game, especially for the main quest and the side quests for other characters like Judy, Panam, River, Kerry, etc. I'm on my second playthrough of the game with 140 hours logged so far, and I still have undiscovered content to complete. There's plenty to do in Night City, you just gotta look.

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You’re just trolling because what the actual fuck are you complaining about? This isn’t the Pokémon Sun/Moon lemmy community.

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Not sure if you found one already, but you get a free car in the northern part of the city. It helps to talk to Delamain first to get his quest, then do his Northside Epistrophy quest.

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