I am seriously considering picking the game up on steam sale to play on my deck. I haven’t played a “modern” game in a great many years, but love the look of this one.
From everything I see, it looks like it plays a lot like Grand Theft Auto, which is fine in my mind. I’ve spent many a good play through on GTA in the past just messing around.
A first-person shooter interactive and branching movie with compelling characters, both adversaries as of friendlies. Interesting and engaging stories are waiting to be discovered. You think you are in control of your own fate? You are just a mercenary, a disposable gun and a plaything for those that are just above you on the societal ladder. The prospect of fame, infamy and riches (and bitches) await you in Night City!
What a good description
thank you :)
It’s worth mentioning, while there are a lot of parallels to GTA, there are some important differences you should expect. For instance, there’s no ability to steal cars from others in this game. Rather you buy your own vehicles and drive those only. The game is more focused on the story and missions than the vehicle aspect.
You can steal cars, but you can’t own them like in GTA.
Not to mention the driving itself is still nowhere near comparable to the driving in GTA.
The game has little to do with gta. It’s an rpg first and foremost. The focus of the game are an engaging story and characters, and gameplay is action rpg, which means you get to shoot, but what matters is not really how accurate you are but the statistics of your character and the items you gathered and use.
The game is fantastic. But it’s not about the cars.
Thanks for the reply. Videos of the game often show parts where you are driving around and it made me think about GTA and all the fun I had just driving around Liberty City just messing around. This aspect of the game didn’t ever look as polished as GTA and I realized if I wanted that, just pick up GTA!
So in the end, I am sort of glad it’s more or less it’s own thing.
I was very excited for this prior to release. I never played the TTRPG but I did play a lot of the Shadowrun system.
On release I was quite disappointed with it, I couldn’t really put my finger on exactly why (aside from the obvious). I started back up in December and it seemed a lot better, suddenly making the game a top 10 for me. Since then I’ve hit all the endings.
That being said I wouldn’t buy it or start it until the DLC patch releases. Apparently quite a few changes are coming to the base game when the DLC comes out.
Awesome and interesting take. I’ve decided to wait for the DLC based on this and other conversations I’ve had.
Yeah I think it makes sense if you’re fresh. The perks/levelling systems are changing a bunch from what I understand. I think that would be pretty confusing mid playthrough.
It’s really not like GTA. I mean, superficially it might resemble one. But in GTA you drive around doing whacky things that are meaningless and don’t affect anything until you engage in an B-movie script that has interactive elements. In other words, nothing you do really matters, it’s all a one linear story and anything else is a failure state.
Cyberpunk has also some of the random mayhem you can do, but every time you engage with the plot, there is dialogue choices and they matter a lot. There is no one single ending, and the mood is a lot more somber and thoughtful than GTA or RDR ever managed to even dream of.
The actual gameplay is basically a liteFPS with RPG elements, interspersed with minor stealth, problem solving, puzzles, and other mini games. Depending on play style, or level of completionism, the FPS+ is anything from 40 to 80 percent of the gaming time, the rest beign spent agonizing dialogue choices and other plot twists.
It’s fun, but I still experience some graphical errors, bugs, and choppy performance from time to time on my i7-8700k 2080super rig. One of the issues I still face is when you rescue a certain character, you’re holding them in your arms and you are expected to jump from a balcony but doing so freezes them in the air while you land safely on the ground. That’s the level of issues you can expect to still encounter in the game. Aside from performance, the story is compelling if you enjoy Cyberpunk stories like Ghost in the Shell or Blade Runner. And it just gets better with mods, especially the overhaul ones which switch up combat and hacking, like the Time Dilation Overhaul or Vehicle Combat, or the various romance improvement mods like the Romance Enhanced mod which let’s you actually take Characters like Judy or Panam on dates.
All in all, I’d recommend the game if you can get it at a steep discount like the summer games sale, and play around with mods.
