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[–] 92 points 3 years ago (11 children)

We'll need to wait for the release. Before launch cyberpunk was also getting good reviews ;)

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  • [–] 20 points 3 years ago (10 children)

    Honestly this is what pissed me off about the reaction to cyberpunk bugs. I remember how the fallout games were at launch. And I think even now trying to play new Vegas on Xbox (360 I think?) Has an issue if your save file gets too big where the save will corrupt.

    CDPR definitely over promised. But every business does. They probably should've not released on last gen consoles at all, but that is tricky as fuck. I mean when they started to dev cp2077, I doubt Sony and MS even had dev units for next gen. Probably should've delayed last gen release only, made a transparent explanation and apology, and did what they ended up doing after release. But I had a low mid tier PC that played it at a solid 60 fps without major issue at launch. And it was exactly what I had hoped.

    I'll probably also really like starfield, warts and all, when it drops. These are just my type of game.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    People defending CDPR when they completely lied about the product aha, consumers be crazy these days.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    To be honest, half the stuff people claim they lied about was always entirely speculation hype that never had any backing.

    Otherwise, for some people the game worked just fine. For others the game was nearly or entirely unplayable, and everything in between. Cdpr certainly lied and should have delayed their game's release, probably upwards of a couple years, but the situation is rarely portrayed accurately.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    I guess we just imagined their trailers and dev interviews then aha

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    I'm not saying they didn't lie, there are many of features which were at best skeletons of the features that were expected. But I'm just saying a lot of the hype around the game was so out of control you had people on the sub reddit talking about how cool the car customization will be, or how they can't wait to play, what would've amounted to essentially, gtav but with arasaka. Talking any l about features which actively were never even slightly implied to exist.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (3 children)

    People get way too excited for any game, should always expect a pile of shit these days and just be pleasantly surprised instead. People are die hard fans of games like CP2077 before they even release, it's not good.

    But expectations don't come from nowhere, a lot of the city stuff they were selling was like GTA, but the AI didn't even release at a 2004 San Andreas level, it's still not as good as GTA AI and that's just people walking/driving around convincingly. GTA V itself was 7 years old when CP2077 released, it's not surprising people were expecting a simulation of the world to be at least as good as that. I think their scope was too big, there was probs a lot of mismanagement behind the scenes. I don't know how they spent 8 years on it and it still turned out like it did, I guess we will never know what happened. The story is the only saving grace, they should have just delayed it and tried to make it a more linear story game and just abandon any RPG-esque/open world elements that were left.

    Being critical of games is good, especially ones that completely shit the bed, defending it just leads to more of that in the future. I love BG3 for example, but it has it's fair share of issues that I can point out every time I play it. Why would I not want better products? Why settle for less? There's too much submissive consumerism these days.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Honestly this is what pissed me off about the reaction to cyberpunk bugs. I remember how the fallout games were at launch

    I bought the fallout games at launch. I bought Cyberpunk months after launch when I found it on clearance. Cyberpunk was still far less playable for me than the fallout games were at launch.

    This was due to:

    • The game crashing at least once per hour
    • Falling through the ground at least one per hour
    • Dying suddenly though nothing was attacking me at least once per hour
    • Questlines breaking and being un-repairable

    Additionally, CP2077 had all the same bugs in Fallout/Elder Scrolls releases.

    I usually power through buggy RPG releases, but I waited to give CP a couple more patches before actually trying to play through it.

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  • [+] 77 points 3 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 72 points 3 years ago

    Even if it is true, the bar is embedded somewhere on Earth's inner core.

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  • [–] 40 points 3 years ago

    To be fair, Bethesda games are a fucking train wreck at launch so this is like an article saying this is the dryest water they've ever made.

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  • [–] 38 points 3 years ago

    Careful the devil doesn't trip over that bar.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    That's a pretty low bar to cross.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You know, I don't remember Morrowind actually being that bad, but I played on the GotY version so maybe they actually fixed their shit in those days.

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  • The GotY version of Morrowind feels less buggy than the original release. For example, some older PC versions frequently crashed because of some pointer error in the UI. The game detected this and created crash-recovery savegames like what MS Office does for your documents.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    If the best praise their PR people have to put forward is that it's not quite as horrifically buggy as previous Bethesda games, that's... not a great sign; Microsoft paid $7.5B for ZeniMax in large part so that this specific game would be an Xbox exclusive, if it's not the level of masterpiece that gets people to buy Xboxes just to run it then it'll be one of their biggest fails since Clippy.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    Eh, I'd say that's pretty good in context. Bethesda has, for the most part, put out very successful games. Bugs and Bethesda are pretty synonymous though, and that this is on the less buggy side is something to quell hot takes of "Bugfield" before people even touch it. And I think the embargo restricts deeper comments on the game, so these may he the only comments we get for a few more days.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    "least buggiest"? Hmm, I know what "least buggy" would mean, not sure how to parse this one. On the bottom end of the buggiest bunch?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago

    How far did they dig to find that bar?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 years ago

    Take the mask off, Todd, we know it's you!

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  • [–] 19 points 3 years ago

    Yeah I call bullshit. Plus the least buggy game release ever for Bethesda really isn't setting the bar high.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It only has 69,419 bugs this time instead of the usual 69,420+.

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    [–] 16 points 3 years ago

    Starfield tastes like shit the least amount of any other Bethesda game!

    This almost reads like an Onion headline.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago

    /c/nottheonion@lemmy.world is that way, Todd, please don't trip on the low bar you set while you leave

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    As long as they're not game breaking, that's the best we can hope for. Or at least that they are entertaining bugs. With Skyrim, I admit after the patches I missed seeing flying mammoths and cows.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I remember encountering those giants outside whiterun on launch and having one yet me practically to dawnstar. It was hilarious and I wasn't mad at all.

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    [–] 14 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Which means nothing and I will still wait for actual reviews after the release

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    [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Can't tell if this is damning with faint praise, or just an incredible self own

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  • [–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I still couldn't limbo under the bar that sets. The bugs in Bethesda games are usually not game-breaking (in my experience), but they are legion.

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    [–] 10 points 3 years ago

    That is really not a high bar to cross, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago

    It just works!

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  • [+] 8 points 3 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    theres no way bethesda could make a game that was as buggy as new vegas was at launch (and still is to this day)

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    "and the award for the tallest dwarf goes to...."

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    But does it have 16x the textures?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    That's not saying much

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    When sky's the limit, that's not really reassuring.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    My brain auto-corrected the word "least" out of it and I just thought that was to be expected.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Such a great article full of absolutely nothing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    new tesla model least likely to spontaneously catch fire and explode to date, say sources

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I will wait till the videogamedonkey breaks the game then I will decide

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