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Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Buck Wildman posted:

hopefully you'll be better at it this playthrough and can get the secret ending where you and johnny smooch
Well obviously it's not very secret now is it.

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ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

Al! posted:

actually i tried running cyberpunk in vr myself and even in the basically stickman version my computer could handle it was fuckin amazing looking and feeling

I've literally only played an hour and half of it in VR (the opening bit) and it blew my brain outta my skull

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Lostconfused posted:

Well obviously it's not very secret now is it.

it's an open secret much like johnny's luscious lips hubba hubba

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Like I said, Johnny can only love himself.

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



My favorite part of Cyberpunk is how once or twice it is revealed that the more civilized (socialist) parts of the world consider Night City to be something like a zoo that's so bad compared to the living standards of the rest of the world that it's the focus of charity work. Meanwhile in this little snowglobe completely controlled by corporations that act with impunity in every aspect of everybody's life, V is running around feeling like a badass freedom elemental despite 80% of the missions being helping the corpos in some way.

Buck Wildman posted:

caves of qud

This is what I was gonna say

It isn't just indie, it's so niche that no amount of money in the world would make it traditionally popular. A project by and for a very specific kind of gamer that just also happens to be the best of its type released in a long rear end time.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


caves of qud rules and I'm excited for the full release next year

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Yeah Night City is a colonial concession controlled by Japan. You know like how Shanghai used to be a thing.

Cyberpunk 2077 is set in a world where American is going through a century of humiliation.

Lostconfused has issued a correction as of 16:51 on Sep 19, 2023

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

gradenko_2000 posted:

here's a question: what is the most "indie" or low-budget game you know, that is still open-world?

Kenshi? Tales of Maj'Eyal? Guild Wars 1?

noctis

Grey Fox
Jan 5, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

here's a question: what is the most "indie" or low-budget game you know, that is still open-world?

Kenshi? Tales of Maj'Eyal? Guild Wars 1?
Deadly Premonition

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
im not sure youre supposed to think of johnny as anything but a loser, an ai tells you that actually, johnny deeply sucks and the cool adventure stories hes showing you are being made up or embellished by his personality construct

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
unless in poland, johnny would be considered a cool guy in 2023

pink noise
Jun 24, 2022
i played it at the beginning of this year and i thought the melee cp2077 was more fun than most when combined with the bullet-time speedy cyberware stuff

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

ziasquinn posted:

I've literally only played an hour and half of it in VR (the opening bit) and it blew my brain outta my skull

yeah the cybersurgery part at the beginning is so cool and intense in vr

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

DaysBefore posted:

Johnny's Burning Man thread was hype af

Pretzel Rod Serling
Aug 6, 2008



Al! posted:

unless in poland, johnny would be considered a cool guy in 2023

depends, how racist is he

Real hurthling!
Sep 11, 2001




quote:

When Microsoft was considering future release titles to bring to Game Pass last May, Larian’s hit CRPG Baldur’s Gate 3 barely made the list. The game was described as a “Second-run Stadia PC RPG” in leaked emails from the FTC v. Microsoft case.

lol they expected bg3, which has beaten the piss out of starfield at concurrent players on pc, to be worth a mere 5 million dollar partnership in leaked charts

Nonsense
Jan 26, 2007

xbox ends this decade.

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

If you looked at how Solasta did you wouldn't expect much from another dnd RPG on gamepass.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:

depends, how racist is he

hates japanese people

Jon Irenicus
Apr 23, 2008


YO ASSHOLE

I'll play Cyberpunk once this thread assures me it's finished this time

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:
nuking arasaka tower was essentially a hate crime

Ben Nerevarine
Apr 14, 2006

Al! posted:

nuking arasaka tower was essentially a hate crime

racist against C-level execs

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

That's right, those running dogs deserve everything they get.

Third World Reagan
May 19, 2008

Imagine four 'mechs waiting in a queue. Time works the same way.
https://twitter.com/oleivarrudi/status/1702706966974362027

Fried Watermelon
Dec 29, 2008


Lostconfused posted:

If you looked at how Solasta did you wouldn't expect much from another dnd RPG on gamepass.

It was good for a game made by 2 people

Lostconfused
Oct 1, 2008

Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY
Microsoft stays winning

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011
The companions in starfield talk a lot. They don't really say anything interesting but every time I get back to the ship they're all heckling me to listen to their life story.

Al!
Apr 2, 2010

:coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot::coolspot:

great, i wanted to play gotham nights but i didnt want to invest even the time to torrent it

The Chad Jihad
Feb 24, 2007


im excited for payday

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

no surprise that what happened to unity has been happening to every other major game production company. at least some people are starting to realize VC investment matters more than yelling about bad business practices or CEOs or video game journalism.

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


another company ruined by sinister foreigners.

Good Soldier Svejk
Jul 5, 2010

Roelof Botha Deez Nuts

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

my bony fealty posted:

It's got a great aesthetic and art design which hasn't been true of a Bethesda game since Morrowind. I had a lot of fun with Skyrim but it's so goddamn boring looking, with a few exceptions. Oblivion, lol. Fallout, lol.

Having a great time in Starfield exploring the planets and moons of Sol, bouncing around the moon and Mars in low g, sniping pirates and spacers, makes me grin like a child.

also they clearly are capable of making more trad science fantasy stuff as we see with the starborn. Meanwhile I managed to grind up to get an explosive shotgun and am headclicking really fast deleting those snooty shits.

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
lamplighters league looks cool, and i like everything harebrained schemes has done recently

Epic High Five
Jun 5, 2004



As a longtime fan of the genre, I'm sad to say that I'll never actually fault a company for assuming a turned based RPG on the lines of everything that came before BG3 would be a commercial and strategic disaster. I think if Larian had emphasized the incredible amounts of cringey horny in the game earlier on the analysis would've been different because there's no better way to ensure buzz about the game spreads like wildfire across the internet.

Also it's still not out on all consoles, and MS is probably a lot less willing to go out on a limb for a PC-only GamePass release unless like with Death Stranding there literally isn't a universe in which case it comes to their console.

Tankbuster
Oct 1, 2021

Ben Nerevarine posted:

I have yet to run into a random place in Starfield that feels like procedurally generated chaff, I don’t know how they did it but everything feels like little handcrafted mini dungeons all the way down to the clutter

because they are lol.

Buck Wildman
Mar 30, 2010

I am Metango, Galactic Governor


Al! posted:

im not sure youre supposed to think of johnny as anything but a loser, an ai tells you that actually, johnny deeply sucks and the cool adventure stories hes showing you are being made up or embellished by his personality construct

an optimistic reality where the russians didn't really kill his dog

Hatebag
Jun 17, 2008


lol one is israeli, another is a boer, and the other is an american born in germany. all the big apartheid countries at once

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Gumball Gumption
Jan 7, 2012

Epic High Five posted:

As a longtime fan of the genre, I'm sad to say that I'll never actually fault a company for assuming a turned based RPG on the lines of everything that came before BG3 would be a commercial and strategic disaster. I think if Larian had emphasized the incredible amounts of cringey horny in the game earlier on the analysis would've been different because there's no better way to ensure buzz about the game spreads like wildfire across the internet.

Also it's still not out on consoles, and MS is probably a lot less willing to go out on a limb for a PC-only GamePass release unless like with Death Stranding there literally isn't a universe in which case it comes to their console.

I judge them because Larian had been an exception for a bit, crpgs in general have been having a renaissance, and D&D is probably the hottest it's ever been. Just a dumb read of the market.

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