Cyberpunk 2077 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Sentinel]

FPS games have existed for 30 years. It was only yesterday that people started having headaches.

 

[Xeon]

Hopefully in the future Infinitron might be able to convince DU to send someone to next events for interviews.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Why do all people think that cyberpunk=eternal darkness?

Blade Runner did this.

First I winced too but now I like the idea of cyberpunk in a futuristic Southern California town.

I was a little surprised by the generic cyberpunk reactions in the E3 thread. Like I can get someone not liking the direction they've gone with this, but colorful sunny California isn't exactly the setting you usually see in cyberpunk. Cyberpunk is usually dark, dank, and dilapidated.

 

[HansDampf]

Vampire tmb and new vegas shows a proper rpg can be done in first person pov and shootan elements.

I am not extraordinarily worried about the view.

VtMB and F:NV you can play both in first person and third person. Only in dialog are you forced into first person view. CP77 does almost the opposite. It really is more like Deus Ex.
Does it make much of a difference?

 

[KK1001]

Can't believe the sheer number of idiots who want to play a third person shooter in the year of our lord 2018. First-person is the superior choice for a number of reasons that have already been stated (seeing the HUD, detail of things up close, hard to do cramped urban corridors in third person).

First people bitched that it was too much like GTA (you're not going to have as much freedom with the car, thankfully) and now they want it to be played in third person?

 

[AwesomeButton]

TW2 had stealth and it sucked so hard.

Lol, that was scripted for one single segment of the main quest.

Why doesn't Codex have a coverage of this? I mean even a gaming Jurno outlet from my 3rd world country got to make a preview

But it has, has had for a few hours by now

 

[cvv]

FPS games have existed for 30 years. It was only yesterday that people started having headaches.

Incidentally 30 ago there were no women in gaming.

Not sure if related tho...

 

[moon knight]

I'm...curious about one thing, and shocked that no journalist have asked or try this. What happen if you shoot in the crowd and start killing NPCs, creating havok like in GTA? Can you do it or is it like TW3? Is there a police system?

 

[AwesomeButton]

I'm...curious about one thing, and shocked that no journalist have asked or try this. What happen if you shoot in the crowd and start killing NPCs, creating havok like in GTA? Can you do it or is it like TW3? Is there a police system?

I imagine dependng on which district you're in, a big proportion of the crowd may also start shooting back.

 

[cvv]

Cyberpunk is usually dark, dank, and dilapidated.

Well William Gibson lived and wrote in Vancouver, no wonder it's always raining in his cyberpunk.

Maybe we'd have a very different idea what cyberpunk is if he lived in San Diego.

Also if you've been anywhere in Southern Asia you know places can be totally dilapidated and sunny and cheery at the same time. Read Ian McDonald's "River of Gods" set in futuristic India. It's probably the best cyberpunk ever written (better than anything Gibson has created) and it has a very different vibe.

 

[Lacrymas]

Incidentally 30 ago there were no women in gaming.

Not sure if related tho...

Except Roberta Williams and Jane Jensen, and Dona Bailey, and Carol Shaw.

 

[Quillon]

I doubt a lot of people played or even tried first person in GTA5, probably everyone played it like the previous games.

Someone said there was wall walking or something, not sure why implement that other than it helps with stealth or pass security without being seen or something.

I think wall running in video games and stealth isn't exactly the first thing that comes to mind. It's far more prevalent in action games.

Dat is Total Overdose rip off!

 

[ERYFKRAD]

Dat is Total Overdose rip off!

Man that game was FUN.

 

[Suchy]

Some more info in potatospeak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzrRkoAEmt4

Not gonna point everything, just stuff I haven't seen before in this thread:

- Reminds of Deus Ex, but without budget restrictions and no censorship.
- It's possible to shoot through some walls
- Bullets ricochet - this can be used to your advantage; there's an enhancement that calculates and displays the trajectory - for the moles that won't pop
- Bullet time is not really bullet time - you can use a drug that increases reflexes
- You can use implanted mantis blades to attach yourself to a wall
- There are cutscenes when installing implants
- Everyone's a selfish asshole
- There's some kind of crafting
- There was a minor boss fight with a heavy armed dude - the player can destroy power generator of his exoskeleton

 

[ERYFKRAD]

ThatMartyFella it's on gog, give it a whirl someday, will ya?

 

[Jarmaro]

Is this really the case? People have problems when they see world through eyes of character instead from Third Person? How does that exactly work? Do they have problems as they live with moving&running?
Is it actuall disabillity? I find it hard to believe that perspective may cause such problems.

 

[conan_edw]

Why doesn't Codex have a coverage of this? I mean even a gaming Jurno outlet from my 3rd world country got to make a preview

But it has, has had for a few hours by now

No I meant going behind the closed doors, a lot seemed to have seen it not just the major gaming outlets

 

[Infinitron]

Hopefully in the future Infinitron might be able to convince DU to send someone to next events for interviews.

It's not about convincing DU, it's about finding somebody in the Los Angeles area willing and able to visit the hellscape that is the E3 Expo for multiple days in a row and then write a bunch of shit about it, all for free.

I'm not sure that people realize how one of a kind Bubbles was for this type of stuff. His meltdown was a real loss for us.

 

[Perkel]

Run kickstarter for 10k for RPGcodex interview division.
Find whore on craiglist.
Pay whore 9 grands and use random chosen codexer from volunteers living in US.
Give codexer 500$ and promise other 500$ when he comes back and will have interview.

Now is the kicker. The whore will be the one asking questions, written by codexer.

edit: Honestly speaking in era where dudes make thousands of bucks from accesories mods to Sims i think we could come up with few grands for dex raiding party on bigger events.

 

[Goral]

We have our man Chris Avellone there, I'm sure he will write a bit about it if we ask nicely.

it's about finding somebody in the Los Angeles area willing and able to visit the hellscape that is the E3 Expo for multiple days in a row and then write a bunch of shit about it for free.

Not exactly for free, the pass alone costs around 1000$ (for 3 days) AFAIK and you have to live somewhere during that time and eat something.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

His meltdown was a real loss for us.

It's just a matter of time before a Codexer melts down. Particularly a useful one.

We should come up with a name for it. Medical tradition is to name a disease after the first diagnosed patient, so: Drogism

 

[Lacrymas]

I wouldn't pay to be at E3, they'd have to pay me.

 

[a cut of domestic sheep prime]

Find whore on craiglist.

Well, it doesn't need to be an actual whore. There are plenty of people that do this sort of thing.

For example, companies often hire people on Craigslist to be secret shoppers to gather info on competitors.

 

[Infinitron]

Frankly, at the end of the day, it's not all that important. We get the information at the end, one way or another. If the Codex wants to interview devs, we can do that by email. And it's not like if we sent a guy to E3, he would be allowed to post Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay footage here or something.

Going to gaming conventions is only crucial if you're a site that needs to post BREAKING NEWS for the clicks. Otherwise it's purely a prestige thing.

 

[Lacrymas]

We are much more prestigious than all the mainstream gaming journos at E3 anyway.