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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. The big overhaul patch didn't actually do much, so I was a little surprised people were claiming it was "finally good". It added more active skills to the perk tree, made driving better, added vehicle combat, and made police react more like GTA and that's virtually all it did. It didn't address the other problems with the game at all. A lot of people like the story and characters and say it's worth playing for, but none of it clicked with me so I put it down near the end and never looked back. I don't think it's a "terrible" game, even at launch, but it's a big disappointment compared to what it could have been and it doesn't live up to it's potential as anything beyond a linear story based shooter with mediocre gameplay. I can see why people have fun with it but it's definitely not a must-play kind of game. deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 21:50 on Feb 24, 2024 |
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Everyone who hates Cyberpunk is the kinda dingbat who was using guns. Even if you're a gun game lover, still a stupid play style choice to make when there is even one other option. Cyberpunk was great at launch as a first person punching game. If someone has an opinion about Cyberpunk 2077, ask them if they used guns and if they say yes just move on, ignore them.
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Feb 24, 2024 21:52
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was so good that it fooled a ton of people into thinking the video game was finally good.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:18
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I like using a katana and cyberpunk is maybe the only fps game with cool throwing knife skills. They also put guns on the cars which I salute them for
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Feb 24, 2024 22:21
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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. the animations and NPCs of CDPR games are rooted in Witcher 1. They've never gotten rid of the awkward wooden poo poo that makes them look static and lifeless props. Still a very good game though. Especially when played with guns.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:26
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Vandar posted:Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was so good that it fooled a ton of people into thinking the video game was finally good. This is an opinion that I don't get at all. I watched it and thought it was terrible. Like half the entire show is "hey remember this UI element from the game??? Isn't it cool that we put it in the anime too???" And the other half is a really disjointed manic pixie anime waifu story where most of the character development happens off-screen between episodes.
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Feb 24, 2024 22:41
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Khanstant posted:Everyone who hates Cyberpunk is the kinda dingbat who was using guns. Even if you're a gun game lover, still a stupid play style choice to make when there is even one other option. Cyberpunk was great at launch as a first person punching game. I based my character around blunt melee weapons because I wanted to be a cyberbarbarian and it loving sucked. There were like 2 hammer models in the entire game.
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Feb 24, 2024 23:12
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first person melee combat sucks in general. get a real camera thanks
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Devils Affricate posted:I based my character around blunt melee weapons because I wanted to be a cyberbarbarian and it loving sucked. There were like 2 hammer models in the entire game. I used that pervert cyberdoc's enchanted cane for a while but it was mostly just for varieties sake because raw punching was always stronger. Even the big bad boss Adam Savage died in two wind-up punches. It was ridiculously overtuned and a 1 on 1 battle just isn't a good final test for it. Combined with armor making you an unkillable tank, most combats were a frenzied rush into a room to punch someone one, use the slow mo from kills or sliding behind crates to leap across the room to punch out another guy while using quick hacks in between lunges to fry whoever was out of punching and lunging range. Standing around point and clicking at people on screen isn't usually very fun and certainly not when a game gives you other tools to use together. Flying through whatever base encounters was a ton of fun, more fun than they intended since I get the feeling nobody was okay testing non-guns. Which is great considering all the stuff they did intentionally design that didn't work as well. I'm also not sure my play style is even possible anymore, I haven't played it since launch and a lot of the imbalanced perks and broken ones were probably readjusted. Nothing stopping you from playing a launch version though if your hardware can run it. Mine barely could at the time, I had to play at 800x600 if I wanted fancy almost high graphics lol.
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Feb 24, 2024 23:27
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dsf posted:if your more used to DS style combat it takes some adjusting, the game emphasizes blocking and parrying more over dodge rolling thru everything. its in kind of a weird place between Sekiro and DS but it works pretty well once you get used to it. Some of the later bosses are a little over-tuned though, you can tell the devs were looking to challenge people who are already souls veterans. The merging of sekiro and bloodborne inspired combat mechanics coupled with the weapon mix n match system is simply sublime
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Feb 24, 2024 23:42
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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. don't buy triple AAA games. They're terrible because being good requires taking risks and there's too much money being poured into them for the investors (who don't play video games, of course) to allow that.
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Feb 24, 2024 23:57
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MSPain posted:amnesia is kind of scary until the first time a monster catches you and then all of the suspense and mystery is drained from the game. This is why video games are just uniquely unsuited to horror as a genre. The sense of “control”. Even just the fact you as the player can control the character on screen with a button press instead of vainly shouting at the movie screen/book page “no don’t go in there!” is bad enough. But the fact that in the end you can die (or whatever horrible fate) and it just chucks you back to the last checkpoint or save room removes any sense of danger or anxiety. Veni Veni Veni was right that the possibility of losing 1 million runes in Elden Ring or progress in a Roguelike is far scarier than any horror game could ever hope to be.
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You also shouldn't buy them because if the games succeed they might end the company or worse, they make gaas version of the once good thing. There's not an outcome on AAA games where your money translates into the people who made that game getting more money or better treatment at work, many of them will have already been laid off before you can even buy the game.
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Feb 25, 2024 00:21
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The day that we eat the rich can't come soon enough
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Aramis posted:I recently grabbed Cyberpunk 2077 on sale because I was assured that it's good now. I really like it, it's ok if you don't though
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Feb 25, 2024 01:02
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Pre pandemic I got an airbrushed dolphin shirt at Texas State Fair and the lady didn't even blink when I asked for it to say "kill the rich." Thought they'd tell me no or make me do "eat the rich" but they seemed enthused by the original request. Not a perfect litmus test, but I took it as a good sign for the sentiment to foment so close to Big Tex. Legend has it if enough people believe he will come to life and crush the rich himself, Attack on Titan style.
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:don't buy triple AAA games. They're terrible because being good requires taking risks and there's too much money being poured into them for the investors (who don't play video games, of course) to allow that. Too true. I started playing Ghosts of Tsushima the other day. It looks nice, but it plays so awful. Yes, I wanted to stay locked onto the enemy that was ten feet away and backing off and not the one that was two feet away, attacking, and that I was pushing the joystick toward. And so many deaths where I just couldn't see what was going on because the game has to be super tight on you all the time even when there's things in the way. And why did the game open with a lengthy sequence where the arrogance of the samurai led to their defeat by the Mongols followed by another lengthy sequence where the arrogance of the samurai led to their defeat by the Mongols. The writing is consistently awful; the most surprising thing about it is that every time you think they're going to go for the obvious twist, they don't even twist and everything is exactly as surface level as first appearances make it out to be.
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sebmojo posted:I really like it, it's ok if you don't though Is it possible for an opinion to be too unpopular for this thread?
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Random Stranger posted:Too true. I started playing Ghosts of Tsushima the other day. It looks nice, but it plays so awful. Yes, I wanted to stay locked onto the enemy that was ten feet away and backing off and not the one that was two feet away, attacking, and that I was pushing the joystick toward. And so many deaths where I just couldn't see what was going on because the game has to be super tight on you all the time even when there's things in the way. And why did the game open with a lengthy sequence where the arrogance of the samurai led to their defeat by the Mongols followed by another lengthy sequence where the arrogance of the samurai led to their defeat by the Mongols. The writing is consistently awful; the most surprising thing about it is that every time you think they're going to go for the obvious twist, they don't even twist and everything is exactly as surface level as first appearances make it out to be. Yeah, but hot springs and foxes.
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QuarkJets posted:The day that we eat the rich can't come soon enough don't eat the rich. they're full of benzos
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Ghost of Tsushima is best when you're a ninja sneaking around and clearing out settlements tenchu style.
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Tenchu fuckin owns
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maybe i'm just bad at video games, but I finished Lies of P the other day and it really is hard as gently caress and if you haven't played much Souls in the past I feel like it'd be a pretty brutal entry into that kind of game
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And Sekiro is like negative practice because I always flutter tap block instead of block and hold and I just can't unlearn it.
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Caesar Saladin posted:maybe i'm just bad at video games, but I finished Lies of P the other day and it really is hard as gently caress and if you haven't played much Souls in the past I feel like it'd be a pretty brutal entry into that kind of game The freely available summons are geared appropriately and their AI strong enough to help you through the whole game. The final boss then has a critical flaw of being insanely easy to blow up with the auto-parry item. That said without that I do think the bosses are trickier than souls games in general.
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there's a block button?
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Caesar Saladin posted:maybe i'm just bad at video games, but I finished Lies of P the other day and it really is hard as gently caress and if you haven't played much Souls in the past I feel like it'd be a pretty brutal entry into that kind of game The final boss is a sekiro boss not a Souls boss Nice Van My Man posted:And Sekiro is like negative practice because I always flutter tap block instead of block and hold and I just can't unlearn it. I feel like you may have been playing sekiro wrong cuz I was so much better at that game when I stopped flutter tapping L1 and learned to hold it until the next parry. Anyway I beat the final boss in Lies of P on my second attempt, no parry grindstone, no cube heals just straight up channeled my inner sekiro with the two dragons sword
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I think it's really funny we call the things videogames. These aren't the things that are chewing up your VHS tapes grandpa! I think they should be called button games.
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"Interactive digital experiences" doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, so I think we're stuck with "videogames" for the time being.
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Loser markers.
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Feb 25, 2024 22:54
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Videogames already have a better general term and it's Souls-like
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Feb 25, 2024 22:59
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Sometimes I call them computer games because they're games that I play on my computer
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Feb 25, 2024 23:33
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I only play computer games. Video games are for kids.
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Feb 25, 2024 23:37
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I refer to them as interactive digital entertainments just as Alfred Atari intended.
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QuarkJets posted:Videogames already have a better general term and it's Souls-like
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QuarkJets posted:Videogames already have a better general term and it's Souls-like What genre of souls-like are soulslike, then?
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I mean if we're going for brevity we could just call them TV games. Memory mineral games aka smart rock games. There must be something better than "I CAN SEE THE GAME"s
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they are called nintendos
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fridge corn posted:The final boss is a sekiro boss not a Souls boss No way man, I'm not taking the debuff block damage. Hit it once at the start of an attack in case it's fast, then hit it again when you think the attack will land if it was a windup or fakeout. The perfect block window shortens with each tap but if you just tap twice it's still pretty generous.
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MSPain posted:the last time i was afraid of a video game it was doom 2, and I was nine. For a different kind of scare, Eternal Darkness got me several times with the sanity gimmicks. I remember throwing my controller when it did the fake save screen wipe, and then again when it faked the controller disconnect while monsters attacked you.
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