What are your thoughts on Cyberpunk's redemption? Has it been redeemed? Be sure to also subscribe to Nth City! youtube.com/@thenthcity
@crtxdistortion6572 ай бұрын
Redeemed? Heck no... Redemption was impossible when the official game guide was released. It's as broken as Starfield and like that game it will never even be repaired to a decent level because they are fundamentally flawed.
@Kintabl2 ай бұрын
YES!
@gwoody40032 ай бұрын
I waited til a couple weeks ago to pick it up. I bought a PS4 just to play Cyberpunk when it released... and then it released like it did 😂 so I never bought it for PS4. So now I have a PS5, 2.0 dropped and Phantom Liberty came out so I finally jumped on board. 100% worth the wait. I haven't been sucked in and immersed in a game like this since RDR2. Its all I want to do. 😂
@A2theC2 ай бұрын
My thoughts are, it never needed to be 'redeemed' because it was an amazing game at launch. It should have never been released on last gen consoles or PCs that were similar hardware as evidenced by the poor performance, this alone lead to people hating the game for what has essentially been the same game. That being said, the gameplay mechanics and ingame content have changed to the point I have to keep two copies of the game, neither being better than the other, but I prefer some of the gameplay elements in pre-2.0 personally. My experience as a PS5 player of the PS4 version, it ran very well without hitch, until 5 hours later memory overloaded crash, reload none the wiser from last autosave. This was fixed with 2nd patch. I never had any of the various issues people had in all the many patch notes. I spent 100 hours playing the game before the new year had come.
@Blck-Cat2 ай бұрын
@@crtxdistortion657 Have you even played the game? The bugs have been ironed out near entirely and its performance is pretty decent for its magnitude as well. Sounds to me like you're just forcing yourself to hate like an idiot because you're still mad at its launch.
@azraphon2 ай бұрын
Bro you dated Panam and didn’t ride off into the sunset with the Caldos?????????
@DeeznutzyamouthАй бұрын
Panam...... wifey
@jtzimm233Ай бұрын
I did the same because I didn’t want to get any of them killed, especially Panam.
@Crazy09starkillor16 күн бұрын
Panam + legend ending is pretty good despite the split at the end. Very hard to choose between that and the nomad ending
@cimerea2 ай бұрын
I thought they went with usual buddy cop comedy with Johny untill the flashback with Alts kidnapping... Then I realised they actually flashed out the character. He turned out to be so narcissistic, self important and self centered, he couldn't believe Alt was more important to Arasaka then he was. That they just passed by him, as if he didn't matter, to get some chick he was banging. He was so dilussional, he escaped the reality, convinced himself she was taken because of him, and even acted a hero following that logic. That sold me on the writing.
@Cyromantik2 ай бұрын
And you can play through the whole game believing his narrative, have a think about it, then do another playthrough but with a critical eye and see the BS, manipulations and ego-couching hovering in the background in every thing he says or visually remembers.
@kukuricapica2 ай бұрын
Johnny was radical version of Reed. Reed is basically Blackhand that is Loyal to a fault. Somy/President Meyers fcked him over so many times yet he doesn't exact his revenge on them. In This way Johnny's hatred of Arasaka was so deep he become Militech Merc that may or may not Nuked the fcking city so these character almost teach us that there are no heroes in this city. You can see it in every character except maybe Judy, that actually want to leave the Night City and live care free life. Just to hit a nail on your point if you end with Reed ending I love how when you talk to Misty at the end you realize you haven't changed shit and you wont be using chrome ever (not anything from what you have done mattered). And when V asked the Misty what is he going to do she just replies "you will do as the rest of us. One day at a time. Staying out of trouble" and then V disappears into the crowd. Trully profound ending knowing you are same as the rest of the people in the city.
@charyou31672 ай бұрын
Johnnys character in the game is amazing because of the arasaka tower “flashback”, he plants the bomb runs around one shotting everyone and is a real bad ass. But none of that is what actually happened, he was very unimportant in those events and died being dumb. It’s so good.
@552jacki32 ай бұрын
A nearly 2 hour long video about Cyberpunk 2077? Count me in!
@shiva4202 ай бұрын
I'm deep into my first playthorugh in 2024 and it's one of my favorite games I've ever played.
@MrCantBeArsed125 күн бұрын
Same dude , the City is so nice to roam around.
@justabaldguy2 ай бұрын
Nicely done! You got the GLADoS car, differences in combat, oddities about people walking aimlessly, and so much more. Even my oldest loved watching this! We agreed your focus on specifics makes it pop. Loved the look of the game, loved the world, loved the ideas, just couldn't find anything different on a second playthrough. Wish there were more skill check options so it wasn't always "go kill everyone" missions. Maybe in the future? I'm sure Kirby would agree!
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I eagerly anticipate the second game!
@lostsanityreturned2 ай бұрын
Hot take, the game as it is now is not hugely different to what it was at launch. There are polish elements (many of which with minor game play impact like the police not teleporting in as obviously as they used to) and better performance on consoles and low end PCs. The parts that were good were always good, the parts that were bad are mostly still bad or at best mediocre. It deserved a lot of criticism at launch and should NEVER have released on the xbone of ps4, that was pure greed. But the major glitches were resolved very soon after launch. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it wasn't a watershed moment of bad game release.
@Dentson2 ай бұрын
I disagree that it was pure greed, when they announced this game the ps4 wasn’t even out a majority of people expected this to be a 8th gen.
@SNESfan82 ай бұрын
I got it on Xbox one and got free upgrade when I switched to the series … I don’t think they were trying to be greedy… I just think they were overconfident… imo
@Mogadypopz28 күн бұрын
@@Dentson but that was a different team (witcher). Cd project only got the rights like 10ish years ago.
@Mogadypopz28 күн бұрын
@@SNESfan8they were definitely greedy. They pushed out a product that was overhyped yet not finished at all. I bet you would give 2042 a pass too.
@Dentson28 күн бұрын
@@Mogadypopz actually no CD project red started on it in 2012, the ps4 came out in 2013
@firstname70712 ай бұрын
i saw the title and said "me too, lol"
@AlanTheBest972 ай бұрын
Bruhh, totally lol
@DailyFrankPeter2 ай бұрын
We shall wait for early access to end, even if it takes 10 years.
@firstname70712 ай бұрын
@@DailyFrankPeter only the strong survived the wait.. lol
@perx35612 ай бұрын
For me, there was nothing to redeem. I enjoyed the game on day one as much as I enjoyed it last week. Having watched plenty of videos on the game, I'm perplexed on how on my computer I had practically no bugs, not any that I could notice at least, until well over 200 hours into the game and several patches in, when I fell through the map - which hasn't happened since. None of the infamous T-posing, misplaced item models or collisions, or stuff like that. Granted I am playing on a beefy PC, but even so.
@dakotarock6422Ай бұрын
Same here! The story & the atmosphere/ environment drew me in even when the gameplay was vanilla or sometimes broken. And I had a sh!t ton a bugs but I followed through as this was special, a gaming experience like no other that just grabbed my soul. The Lore you can discover, the Quests and stories in this game I will never, ever forget. Today this game is a masterpiece in many ways. Those who love cyberpunk or dystopian fiction.. or who like Warhammer 40k this game is a one of a kind experience.
@kaushalsuvarna5156Ай бұрын
Same, no bugs, and I was playing on an i7 3770, still do. In fact I preferred when V was weaker and the economy harder, after Phantom Liberty, the OP mechanics take a bit away from the story and the world
@Odder-Being2 ай бұрын
Cyberpunk was the first game in a long time that captivated me with its atmosphere/soundscape. The city background ambient sounds are really well done.
@gwoody40032 ай бұрын
Yeah I was playing at my moms when I visited and she commented it sounds like a busy airport downstairs 😂. I haven't enjoyed a game on such a level since RDR2... which set an impossibly high bar.
@zZiL341yRj736Ай бұрын
Yea but city was boring as dirt, every corner is the same damn signs, billboard, vendors.
@gwoody4003Ай бұрын
@@zZiL341yRj736 yeah its deceptive. If you look really hard, its very simple. There is a lot of nothing, but the detail hides it. Its very complex in the layout, and after like 80 hours, I still have a hard time knowing where I am without looking at the map. The NPCs are super simple and hardly interactive, but it suits then universe, since people in Night City are canonicaly anti-social, aloof and unconcerned with anyone else. Their phones are built into their heads. Everyone is depressed, on drugs and scared of violence. It works. The industrial area is an empty desert, but thats what real dilapidated industrial areas are like. It creeps me out to be out there. The writing, the charachters and the missions are done so well that it covers for the shortcuts on the world. You get immersed and don't notice. And all the little random events give it some depth. The lore is so deep with Cyberpunk. If you are aware of it and enjoy it, the game world is all the better. If you are just 'playing a video game' then I can see being somewhat disappointed in how simple the city is. I can't think of any game world other than RDR2 thats better though.
@josephlemons2 ай бұрын
They added a working transit system in a recent update lol
@KooYu2 ай бұрын
Had an experience similar to yours. For the first time in my life I preordered a game (pls no comment on that) because I had jumped on the hype train as many others had, plus cyberpunk is my favorite genre. On release I realized my rig could barely run it on 1080p (low, 30fps). Created a character and jumped into the game, which left me dissapointed and stopped playing the next day. However, I didn't require a refund as most people did because I had hopes a house like CDPR woud eventually fix things. And it did. Started playing in late 2022, completed it with 3 different playstyle characters and had a blast with the story. Also had a new rig which could run the game properly. It didn't feel like a waste of money anymore AND it was bug-free, from my perspective at least. Was it Deus Ex worthy? No, but right now it's pretty close and that's a win for me. Still haven't played since 2.0 came out though. The review was enjoyable and not tiring despite its length, just had to grab a beer after the first 20 mins :)
@michaelcondron13042 ай бұрын
Keanu Reeves also played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic, based on one of the books that arguably created the Cyberpunk genre. Mike Pondsmith (the creator of the original tabletop game) said he was partly inspired by the book.
@halycon404Ай бұрын
Cyberpunk TTRPG was wholly inspired by that book. The setting is so much more Gibson than Sterling or Dick. Right down to the story starting out by assembling a crew and planning for an impossible heist. That is the classic cyberpunk story, and Gibson made it so. Edgerunners are always doing heists, it is the central goal of any game of the TTRPG. The big score. Pondsmith modeled the entire thing around Neuromancer. He liberally stol..., borrowed, terminology and mechanics.
@DefaultFlame2 ай бұрын
My immediate thought was that you were lying. It can't have been ten years. Damn, I feel old now.
@raresmacovei83822 ай бұрын
It's been 12 even
@D0CI87PCАй бұрын
I started waiting in 1991 when I GM'd Cyberpunk 2020 & read The Sprawl Trilogy.
@christianokami22202 ай бұрын
Stadia customers were the rare segment that could effectively run the early builds of Cyberpunk. Google dropped the ball and handed it to NVidea.
@Tom_KowalczukАй бұрын
And game on Stadia was (at least for me) free of bugs. I've played it daily from CB'77 release till last day Stadia was online.
@Kaylakaze2 ай бұрын
I ran it fine at launch and played it for over 100 hours in the first week (on PC).
@IncursorVerde2 ай бұрын
You struggled with the Bosses on Hard Difficulty? Didn't thought I'd find a review that made me feel better about my skills, but I'm thankful nonetheless
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
It was those couple of boss fights that were the only thing that threw me off.
@Newrad19902 ай бұрын
the only thing i would add to this is game music in the right places to add to the weight and feel
@antonvoloshin98332 ай бұрын
I'd say that on PC the game is waaay more stable. I've played it on release without any major issues, and I'm revisiting it right now and the experience is pretty smooth even on Linux system.
@kukuricapica2 ай бұрын
If you play with Path Tracing it's trully transformative. Everything except opague reflexions looks better. Don't get me wrong, the game is beautifull either way but that Path Traced Global Illumination just makes certain scene looks photorealistic so I often enjoyed "role" playing riding to a checkpoint. You can even ride without map and just use signs like in real live. This City is truly a masterpiece.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
It truly is a masterpiece.
@Netist_29 күн бұрын
2.0 and Phantom Liberty were so incredible, it only makes me wish even more that things turned out different. I always thought the multiplayer mode sounded stupid (GTAO is dumb), but I just wonder what things could have been like in a timeline where we got the second expansion instead of just PL.
@Estmaraver21 сағат бұрын
I stumbled upon the monster review you made on the Thief franchise, one of my most beloved franchises ever, and when I check out your vids there's this ode to Cyberpunk 2077. Consider me subscribed, loving these deep takes/documentaries.
@NthReview21 сағат бұрын
Thank you!
@Estmaraver19 сағат бұрын
@@NthReview Loved the Interstate 76 reference. I never played it but it always felt weird how that franchise just... vanished.
@SayMy_User_Name2 ай бұрын
Also, wanted to say in a different post, this is my favorite game of all time and you’re probably my favorite KZbin video game essayist, that’s why I was so pumped for this video
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Awww, thank you! Enjoy!
@SayMy_User_Name2 ай бұрын
@@NthReview lol ur welcome pal, keep doing ur thing
@Odder-Being2 ай бұрын
You can prevent a lot of texture bugs by deleting your direct-x and shader cache before playing a new game. Trust me that works.
@Bee_Mavrick2 ай бұрын
Ima tell you right now that all weapons were op pre 2.0. Melee included.
@noanyobiseniss7462Ай бұрын
I am going to finally try it today or tomorrow depending on the download. :)
@FigmentHFАй бұрын
I’m a massive apologist for CyberPunk, I feel that day one, unpatched, on a base ps4, the game is still better than most games, TV shows and movies. As well as paintings and sculptures and operas and albums. And I feel that in its current form, with the DLC, both Cyberpunk and Elden Ring are two of the best pieces of art that the universe has yet produced.
@picahudsoniaunflocked54262 ай бұрын
Agh I'm just having to leave for the day but I KNOW this will be good & will watch later. It's funny; I was just rewatching some fave Nth & I wonder if YT deigned to show this to me after hiding Nth for months from my fyi & I think it unsubbed me? I was sure I was subbed. No matter I'm re-subbed now, & this was on my fyi, & this is exactly the kind of CyPk77 review I wanted to see --- someone who waited for it to come around. Many videos are comparisons from release to now. But I'm super interested in this from a fresh perspective. Thanks in advance. Looking forward.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Thank you!! Keep me posted on your thoughts!
@zenoslime20 күн бұрын
it's nice to hear someone just go ahead and say that this game is in fact 'a bit of an immersive sim' even though so many gatekeepers of that gametype will shit themselves screaming at such a suggestion. it may not accomplish quite as much as a game like deus ex does in that regard, but considering the scale of the game and the expense of its production it actually offers a considerable depth of option to your approach in navigating spaces or taking out enemies. i'm so glad that cdpr put all that work into fixing/improving their game post-release, because i think it really is something special and that people will realize this as time passes and it becomes clearer just how exceptional it was (you know, kinda like deus ex).
@nothingelse15202 ай бұрын
You should have played on PC. The modding community is absolutely amazing.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I really don’t care about modding
@nothingelse15202 ай бұрын
@@NthReview then you are really missing out on what gaming has to offer. Some of the biggest games in the world started out as mods.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I really don’t care. There are plenty of games out there from original designers. It’s cool that it’s for you, I just don’t care in the slightest.
@nothingelse15202 ай бұрын
@@NthReview your loss
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Not really.
@NikiWilliams-rj9qi2 ай бұрын
I waited 10 years to play this , once I got out of prison I got , let me tell you I've been gaming for years and grew up pc gaming with crappy vga cards no sound blaster card and blue screens of death and you know what I love this game! Anyway
@Cyromantik2 ай бұрын
FYI Oda goes down quickly if you use melee, especially your fists or blunt weapons. I tried hacking at first but he's shielded. I tried guns but he's tanky and heals. I swapped points into melee under the Body tree and I actually had to save-scum because I accidentally unalived him a couple times.
@Nightmerica2 ай бұрын
Like you I waited until they finished it (and I’m glad I did, I only had a PS4 when it launched). I picked it up with 2.0/Phantom Liberty’s release, and I think it’s wound up my favorite game ever. Just an amazing immersive experience.
@epis8613Ай бұрын
Have been playing recently. So psyched they finally finished this game.
@nnnneeeeuuuu15 күн бұрын
Cyberpunk came out the way it did because of all the brand deal contracts, not because of the company wanting to trick the costumer. It's crazy to me that the normal gamer doesn't see this. The new Halo game was supposed to ship with a Monster ad campaign but Microsoft at the time didn't finish the game yet, so they payed Monster the fine and they ran the ads anyway. Now CDPR back then? They had Grimes, Run The Jewels, Microsoft Xbox, Adidas deals, every twitcher in every country known to man making a cameo. No way in hell they could have paid legal fees. Still a shame though. They didn't need the brand deals. They didn't need the twitch streamers. Keanu certainly brought interest. The rest? Idk man, I can't think of someone buying this game because Alanah Pearce has a cameo
@markjackson19892 ай бұрын
This game seems to have meant a lot to you, the same way it meant a lot to me. I have been following this game since 2016 or 2017, and I find this franchise important, and have a deep personal connection. Cyberpunk 2077 was pitched as a highly professional, state-of-the-art, almost AAAA tier game. However, what they delivered was far less than that. What was there on launch wasn't terrible, but it wasn't what it was supposed to be. Even if you had a top of the line PC. On base consoles, the HDD and cpu limit even core functionality. I thought for sure it was going to be a next-gen only title, even public development roadmaps hinted at such. Even now, the game isn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it isn't special. It's presented in a much more professional light, but it is forever scarred by poor management.
@wonderbreadusa2 ай бұрын
I have been waiting for this since I found you.
@gustavgustav26702 ай бұрын
I dunno how you didn’t get a high police rating, ive had five stars then Maxtec do turn up and clean your clock pretty quickly. Also, in my opinion, female V VA is better than the male VA, and that goes a long way to creating more immersion.
@sillylittlesheepjax60092 ай бұрын
why do beta males like you just cant accept that men with test scores not in an negative want to play a man not a lesbian
@panpawe97382 ай бұрын
"You won't run into Max Tac" - yes you will, you just need to step up your game and move from 3 stars to 5 :)
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Yuck, I’m good lol
@panpawe97382 ай бұрын
@@NthReview Try it, it's a great experience.
@Megascream792 ай бұрын
LOL, I picked the game up at launch, and actually got to play all the way through 1.0. It wasn't great. I was just playing Cyberpunk last night, and I was thinking that they should have released the game into Early Access.
@Wyatt_o7Ай бұрын
I remember when it launched i only had a ps4 and man it was like playing in 140p. I still decided to keep playing and beat it several times over even tho playstation offered full refunds and removed it from their store. Despite all the bugs and horrendous performance on old gen consoles it was an actual good game. It definently qualified as unplayable on consoles. Phantom liberty really does add so much to the game overall. I envy someone not having played it till now.
@VoidstriderLucatielАй бұрын
26:50 What do you mean it's a one-time deal? If you have the chip, you can use it any time to replay the tutorial.
@VoidstriderLucatielАй бұрын
Phantom Liberty is about Agency and Responsibility.
@MattsFreeChannel12 ай бұрын
"When it's ready." Lol.
@snafubar447Ай бұрын
Jesus, I haven't heard about Interstate '76 in...two decades.
@Crazy_Diamond_75Ай бұрын
1:09:47 Wait, that's not true. You can't switch out your quickhacks in combat, but otherwise you can absolutely change them without a ripperdoc on hand. You just can't replace the implant itself without the ripperdoc. Also, you switch them out in the inventory menu. I don't really understand how that's a confusing place to change... combat equipment. Like, isn't it the place you change out all your other combat equipment, too?
@NthReviewАй бұрын
True on both counts! I think what's confusing about it is that such a critical piece of gameplay is tucked away in the options of a single item in your inventory. Your quickhack deck can sit along a pair of other options that don't do much of anything at all and the interface doesn't communicate that that's where you switch out such vital powers. When you're at a ripperdoc, they're more visible, probably because you're having to weigh your cyberware more carefully. They could've had submenu option somewhere instead of a non-discrete piece of equipment.
@amazanta1605Ай бұрын
W to everyone who stuck around since before the patches and being on last gen like me we can all be glad phantom liberty was as great as it was
@WrenPhoenixАй бұрын
50:00 in "Matrix, a single movie" .... denial of reality I guess is a coping mechanism.
@NthReviewАй бұрын
It was a joke.
@Netist_29 күн бұрын
I think I might have to call skill issue on the segment about the boss fights... I never had that issue with them, and I played on Very Hard. I thought most of them were very fairly balanced, challenging while not being tedious or frustrating.
@NthReview28 күн бұрын
A commenter did point out that I could actually switch out quick hacks in real time, but even when properly equipped, it still feels like a bad case of “bad boss design-it’s”, which is unfortunately common to imsims and RPGs like this.
@azraphon2 ай бұрын
You had a LOT of glitches by the sound of it. You listed more following the holographic fish glitch than I've experienced in 80+ hours of my latest playthrough! God's dice, man. Frustratingly, one of my only major glitches took place while I was showing a friend how glitch-free the 2.x version is >_
@Mandingy242 ай бұрын
My first thought is this has to be either a console issue or a low end cpu issue. Im on a 3700x and even with an older low end gpu at the time i played through CP 2.0 (GTX 1060), i experienced none of these
@azraphon2 ай бұрын
@@Mandingy24Nah I play on a Series X. I think it’s just weird that way.
@gwoody40032 ай бұрын
I play on PS5 and the only glitches I have gotten were NPCs spawing 3 feet off the ground and the very occasional car that just appears in front if me. Nothing game breaking or frustrating. I thought I had an NPC spawn way up in the air and fall to their death, but then I found out there are jumpers and thats deliberate.
@ScottTemplerАй бұрын
My only issue is Very Hard doesn't seem very hard once V is maxed out in a proper build
@tgr3423Ай бұрын
I think that's just endemic to RPGs. The hardest part of the game is usually the beginning, and your reward for mastery over the systems, numbers and builds is blowing the game apart. It happens in Morrowind and hell, even Dark Souls. It depends on whether or not you find that "break point" satisfying, where you've become so powerful nothing can no longer threaten you. Reaching that point just happens faster on easier difficulties.
@sargonsblackgrandfather2072Ай бұрын
Sadly we’ll probably have to wait ten years until the sequel is out and all fixed
@KarolisZvirgzdasАй бұрын
Top 10 list for sure.
@raresmacovei83822 ай бұрын
I am always amused when people think CDPR revealed Cyberpunk with the 2013 trailer. Because they did not. I forget the exact circumstances, but they announced the game in 2012, one year earlier. There was only 1 piece of concept art and the name.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
That's not really the same, though. Saying you're working on something in a magazine or an article or whatever or even a press release is one thing, but having a big media debut with their high-end trailer is a whole other thing.
@raresmacovei83822 ай бұрын
@@NthReviewI remember reading it first on a GameSpot article. Just can't remember the context.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I get it, but again, it’s not really the same
@BigBoneESBАй бұрын
Open world games always give the illusion of a living world outside of the player but even in RDR2, the most awesomely interactive sandbox title you still live in a bubble. And that world is scarcely populated with talking humans compared to the desperate density of Night City so it's beyond console / PC resources and budget to make such a city fully interactive on random encounters tho that's where generative AI could help. What I've realized since CP2.0 is the hundreds of conversations between NPCs, areas packed with BD & drug addicts, homeless, street kinds, soulless ppl. wandering about, underground shelters, rave clubs, gangs banging ppl. up, vomiting, doing graffiti, playing guitar, banging on doors etc. You mostly can't interact but these make Night City very lived in and my consciousness does show up walking past despair and human trash toward my condo or next big gig. Social structures were and remains CDPR's forte on random encounters and in story. You just know where you and everybody's at in the ladder and the hopelessly tangled world of lawlessness, innocents, crooked cops and ineptness creates a truly living experience.
@dodonpa-12 ай бұрын
ok man this is a great review but some of the parts with you complaining about the gameplay or basic mechanics makes you sound like the ign journalist who couldn’t beat the cuphead tutorial. are you unfamiliar with fps games?(not hating but sliding is literally just pressing circle while sprinting. this applies to all fps games that have this mechanic)
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
If you aren’t exposed to or use certain mechanics, you forget they’re there or never develop that muscle memory. That’s just a fact of life, especially in a game as big as this one.
@vashsunglasses2 ай бұрын
My computer is a potato and I could run it just fine at launch, I have a GTX1650. You probably could have played it sooner. Yeah I don't have fancy ray tracing etc but the game itself works fine for me with only a handful of glitches since launch. The only real consistant bug is that my character T poses during the cinematic where V and Jackie are becoming friends and I have to skip. Other than that there's been a handful of crashes to desktop and one time my car suddenly shot up into orbit while I was driving around.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I have a pair of 970s and a 6700K, I knew I could run it, but I didn't want to spend $60 to run it in potato mode lol.
@vashsunglasses2 ай бұрын
@@NthReview Ok! Sometimes when people say that the game won't run on weaker computers they mean that it actually won't run or that it'll be so loaded with glitches as to be unplayable. My experience is that the gitches seem to be pretty random and they aren't tied to how powerful the computer is. There's people like me that don't have a lot of problems playing on a potato and people with the most bleeding edge gaming pc's who have a load of problems. It's all over the map. Obviously the biggest issue was with console ports, which I honestly found quite funny because usually it's the other way around with games being broken when they're ported to PC. I've noticed that console gamers generally don't care when the shoe is on the other foot.
@oxringoxo2 ай бұрын
Masterpiece is a bit much. I love it don't get me wrong. But no. Orion will in my estimation, be a masterpiece. This was a rough draft thrown together in a global pandemic and slowly ironed out overtime. But even today it is wildly unstable and full of bugs. That said, it is IMO, the best example of gaming story writing and character building in all of gaming history. I been around cyberpunk since my first 2020 TTRPG playthrough since 1992, so to finally get to play this in a digital world, was amazing. Then immeadiately it wast. Worst realease in all of gaming history. But now, i really is leaps and bounds better. But it doesn't excuse the facts of the release. I think much was learned, mostly the fullest extents and limits of the trash heap that is/was RedEngine. Now on to U5 for W4 and Cyberpunk Orion. Lets hope they get it right on both fronts.
@TheGregoryoddАй бұрын
As far as random ass children roaming around in the city, my fav are the ones who walk around like tiny little badasses 😂
@PureEvil1138Ай бұрын
I did a 90 hour play through on Xbox series at launch with very few bugs. I am glad they added more though
@theguyinthere2 ай бұрын
when you said "overwhelming" i was saying "that's what I said" when this game came out!!🤣
@mrserious42Ай бұрын
You do actually get a chance to fight MaxTac. They are called in at max wanted level. You can beat them but they're tough. Unfortunately there's no reward, they just send more.
@doboi812110 күн бұрын
Played on a laptop at launch, game ran fine.
@Turbiales2 ай бұрын
I was able to run it at launch (And streamed it) and I only encountered 4 noticeable bugs in my entire gameplay. Only one was gamebreaking, and it was in a secondary mission. In PC it wasn't so broken as in console.
@Turbiales2 ай бұрын
My only real problem were the broken police system. They teleported wherever you were, even inside buildings.
@konradmastalerz7621Ай бұрын
Seems you missed Sinnerman Questline since you haven’t mentioned it in this essay
@NthReviewАй бұрын
No, I get that one and you see a couple clips throughout the review, but I struggled to find a place to talk about it more since other essays have covered it in-depth and this review was by no means meant to be exhaustive
@Ratsixtyfour-ls5jjАй бұрын
Great vid, instant sub.
@NthReviewАй бұрын
Awesome, thank you!
@eglspl425Ай бұрын
Oda has the same strategy as all the other bosses. Have a katana and a sandevistan, stand perfectly still, and click on him until he's dead. Melee isn't just the optimal strategy in this 7/10 game, it's the only really viable strategy.
@BrainBeats420Ай бұрын
I waited for this game since the beginning but I finally just bought the game a couple days ago on sale for $29 it’s so awesome I’m glad I waited until now so much to get to be discovered!
@matttactics82752 ай бұрын
I was lucky with the launch of this one. I only had one bug my whole play thru and it ran pretty well for me. However Im upset that I played it then and not now, because I struggle to bring myself to replay it.
@emmanuelwolfmusic410Ай бұрын
Ive gone through this 4 times , i wish there was more , 😪
@robotstronghold6195Ай бұрын
We are dwelling on who they just hired to write the next one.
@-JC_Denton-Ай бұрын
... and I waited 3 weeks to get this video in my KZbin recommendations feed, apparently, even being a subscriber... The future sure is weird.
@NthReviewАй бұрын
I have been wondering why traffic on this has been so slow out of the gate, but I'm so glad you're getting to watch it!
@olafwarnecke8356Ай бұрын
Crashes? Not on my "ancient " Hardware. Or are you on Windows 11 by any chance?
@RoseDragoness2 ай бұрын
zero crash for me playing last build on PC, after I make sure there is virtual memory in my SSD and installed the game there. Looks like you are on console? That is a tough...
@Torigraves954Ай бұрын
Picked it up in 2020 i forgave the launch a long time ago, this game came a long way
@ThousandairesClub2 ай бұрын
*I think the games biggest mistake was being completely open world. had it been structured more like Deus Ex or Life Is Strange, they could've put a lot more attention into the characters and story choices....would've made for a deeper experience* 👌
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I can see that, but also, we already have plenty of games in that "narrower but deeper" perspective, like the games you mentioned, and none on this scale because of the work demanded by it. I think they did a tremendous job with this. Deus Ex is always ready to go.
@Tom_KowalczukАй бұрын
01:25:15 - C'mon did you let Barry to die?
@NthReviewАй бұрын
I tried talking to him!
@Tom_KowalczukАй бұрын
Trying is not enough. I need detox from CP'77. Across Stadia and GeforceNow have around 2k hours played.
@NthReviewАй бұрын
That’s so many hours
@landothemantho14 күн бұрын
It’s been 10 years already?
@zZiL341yRj736Ай бұрын
Didn't redeem shit, the city is great to look at but boring to interact with, every corner is the same damn signs, billboard, vendors. Quests are given thru text messages, so basically an actual checklist.
@Nightmerica2 ай бұрын
This is just with my XBox Series S, so I can’t say if it’s true for other systems, but when it does that weird “catch up with itself” thing on a save I found that, if I use the X button to kick out to main XBox menu then go back into The game it resolves it. Why? No clue.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Yep, I mention that in the review. It’s strange
@josephlemons2 ай бұрын
I don’t think you can call it a sponsor if that sponsor is yourself lol 😂
@theguyinthere2 ай бұрын
Just like PT they're gonna do case studies on this game for years to come.
@erikahuxley2 ай бұрын
I'm still waiting. Once the ultimate edition is about $30 I might bite. I need to buy a new laptop anyway, not for this game, but for Kingdom Come 2.
@Nightc1tyronin2 ай бұрын
This game is well worth full price. It’s probably one of the only games that I would buy at full price without hesitation. I own it on PS5 and PC and paid full price both times. I’ve got over 1600 hours in game since launch. I can’t recommend this game enough. It runs amazing on PC (at has since launch for the most part) and I’ve had literally no issues on PS5.
@hekmoglu90Ай бұрын
never buy a game day one if it is not a playstation studios game, at least they make sure game is ready to launch
@SayMy_User_Name2 ай бұрын
Man I been waiting for this for like 3 months, ever since u posted that it was ur next video lol flaws and all cyberpunk is my favorite game of all time and I have damn near 1000 hours in it between the ps4 and PS5 versions.. I know rhe ps4 version was busted but man, I fell in love with this game almost instantly even with the tech issues I was dealing with.. once I upgraded to the PS5 though? Boy, like night and day.. ir should’ve never released on last gen consoles
@Cyromantik2 ай бұрын
The GlaDOS cab is voiced by the same VA from the Portal games, just FYI. :) Edit: you mentioned melee but only mentioned the Blades tree. Blunt Weapons is a diamond, especially compared to how it used to be, and hammers, pipes and bats you can also use your fists, augmented with elemental Gorilla Arms are amazing. Paired with the Tech Tree you can become a Hulk-Smash lightning god. For your stealth plays, if you use a sonar grenade enemies will move to where it dropped and be distracted there. This is great when you go Sandy or Berserk, as you can no longer hack cameras or use quickhacks with these OS modules.
@Kintabl2 ай бұрын
You really think games will simulate every NPC with 24 hour life cycle. LOL! Go play Bethesda games where you have 20 NPC in one ''town''.
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Nah, more like just provide broad rules for NPC formation
@hasanmirАй бұрын
Brilliant video!
@NthReviewАй бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@MagnitudePerson2 ай бұрын
Play only on PC: not consoles, you're missing out on Raytracing and mods
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
I don’t care about either.
@megadeth85922 ай бұрын
bfd....rt only looks "better" in certain areas and isnt even worth the performance hit. mods for cyberpunk are good at best but mostly pretty meh.
@Cyromantik2 ай бұрын
I play on PC and I miss out on RayTracing. :) But it's not by accident. I use RT for photo mode, but play with it off, I play with 300+ mods and w/o RT I can play smooth and stable.
@ramireza6904Ай бұрын
I played it right after release (on PC) and it was a fine game, imo better then TW3.
@MrCantBeArsed125 күн бұрын
I wish it had multiplayer 😞
@megadeth85922 ай бұрын
500+ hours on pc with no major crashes outside of me fucking up my drivers at one point......anyway....
@TechPrezz2 ай бұрын
Cyberpunk is still a thing damn... good to know people never get tired of listening abt the game... Cyberpunk the best game I have ever played
@grichard15852 ай бұрын
For anyone watching this...I've played nearly 1000 hours (on Steam) and never had a crash, and only a few goofy glitches.
@SilvermanYahoo2 ай бұрын
Nicely done, my friend!
@NthReview2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Rhomega2 ай бұрын
I can certainly appreciate the work that went into the game, and even having Keanu Reeves around, but once again, I'm not big on the cyberpunk genre. I appreciate you playing this so I don't have to.
@Bee_Mavrick2 ай бұрын
I said the same about tw series. I still havnt finished tw3. I'm waiting to upgrade my pc and that might be another few years or more.
@SnakeyOshioАй бұрын
great video but i did have to skip over the cat bit coz..cats :D
@NthReviewАй бұрын
WHAT.
@gotd4m2 ай бұрын
I love this game. I had fun on release even though it was a objectively broken mess. I just love genre. Most of the cyberpunk games we got previously were the deus ex style. I like this dirty sordid blade runner style more.
@PlotistLOLАй бұрын
What a load of ChatGPT?? I mean listening to this is like reading ChatGPT