The Fake Redemption of Cyberpunk 2077

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[@alpas15o]

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[@_xeyth]

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[@NashiXBatsu]

Bro this video was soooo well done kuddos!

[@snapcount321]

Three cardinal rules for enjoying modern gaming 1. Avoid the hype, previews and launch week circus - buy a game if it's good 6 months after launch. Launch day is the first date of the public preview. 2. Don't judge a studio on it's history, a studio is only as good as the people and management making it's latest game 3. No publisher ever is going to be your friend or a nice guy - give them the sale they crave if they have done right by you

[@Proxima_X]

for me, personally, Fromsoftware gets a pass

[@Lex_Nocturna]

May I add , buy a physical copy only😅

[@Doxxy0]

i judged cdpr's (in)ability to release cp2077 properly thanks to the release state of the witcher 3, and i was correct

[@TheJadedJames]

Rule 2 is increasingly important because so many studios traffic in names that are basically meaningless now because so many people behind the scenes have changed. BioWare functionally does not exist anymore after EA got to it. So if you were a fan of 2000s BioWare games, you aren’t getting that same experience from the company in the present

[@Blandy8521]

Yeah the only company I'd consider reliable is FromSoft & even then I don't preorder

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

When I first played 77 I had a genuinely amazing experience. Then I had to realize my genuinely amazing experience was nowhere near intended. See, I got a ton of visual glitches. But only when I got to the moment of having, In Character, glitched out eyes. Its the part where you go see Vik to get new ones. I had people popping in and out of existence and all sorts of visual bullshit going on as I'm walking down the alley to the occult shop, listening to a street preacher rant about how my eyes are not showing me true reality and how the corps are taking control of me through my eyes. I thought it was diagetic. Instead it was my graphics card struggling to deal with being fed spaghetti code.

[@TheJadedJames]

Yeah, I enjoyed played CP2077. But it was a broken unfinished fucking wreck of a game. It was like playing something Early Access

[@3possumsinatrenchcoat]

not gonna lie, that sounds fucking sick as an intended feature. maybe eventually in a better game... :')

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

@@3possumsinatrenchcoat if a game did that shit to me on purpose I'd sing its praises.

[@DrBovdin]

So, in reality it “wasn’t a bug, it was a feature” just by dumb luck.

[@ShadaOfAllThings]

@@DrBovdin a feature of spaghetti code

[@cantbelieveIneedtwousernames]

I do think you could have mentioned how CDPR is increasing in size and dedicating a whole branch the same size as the original company solely to the Cyberpunk IP, as well as them shifting away from their in-house engine to the unreal engine. The message about skepticism towards their promises and marketing is quite a good thing to remember in the future. Personally hope they focus on doing what they originally promised for the first game for Orion when it comes out however many years down the line.

[@Lextorias]

Good point. I would've talked more about what CDPR is doing going forward (they also changed CEOs and lead developers I believe), but didn't fit it in the narrative well enough to include in the video.

[@Hyde1415]

@@bad1080 That's not true, they've added many new DLC features such as new missions, new weapons, new apartments, new vehicles, and new outfits.

[@mistermelancholy7698]

@@Lextorias I wanna make the point that despite Cyberpunks problems I played it on PC AT RELEASE and loved it, I was so hyped for this game I was one of those people out there defending them from all the hate, because the drama was real people either loved it or hated it, no in between.

[@Spit1990]

@@Hyde1415 i think they specifically mean expansions on the game.

[@HillBelichick]

@@Spit1990 they announced not long ago that a dlc expansion is coming next year.

[@ishinomorileon]

"Many will just forget". Which was just how people forgot about how Witcher 3 actually had a disastrous launch too, yet today the gaming community completely forgets about it.

[@gabriel101x]

What? I pre-ordered The Witcher 3 and played it on release day and never ran into any major bugs.

[@guywithinterwebs]

​@gabriel101x this is my experience with Cyberpunk and the Witcher 3 as well. Both ran perfectly on launch for me...

[@cosipurple]

As much as I love the game, the reality is that people are willing to ignore bugs as long as the product underneath is fun and dev know this. The reason people don't let go of 77 is because so much happened in the process of it happening, there is a lot of room to make compelling narratives, end of the day it's simply good gossip, the company that fell from grace, the beloved devs that got greedy, the video game industry crumbling under the pressure of bloated expectations of return of investment, the overly pampered gamers that want everything all at once, the overly exploited video game consumers that are being sold demos in hopes of developing a game with the consumer's money, and so on, and so on.

[@Gadottinho]

@@gabriel101x obviously it was nowhere near as bad as cp2077, it didn't run as bad, but there was a lot of bugs, not that game breaking tho

[@cosipurple]

@kaiserfranzjoseph9311 and that's precisely why AAA games keep delivering alpha state games on launch, it seems the avg consumer truly doesn't care, as long as they like what's underneath

[@andrewvazquez9557]

This Game is not Bad actually, just mediocre but many people love to be un denial, because that would imply CDProject Red cannot be trusted anymore. Pro-Tip: Don't trust in any companies, the very concept of "Cyberpunk" as a whole is built on that premise.

[@CurtTheHero]

Yeah, it is just mediocre - good

[@TheMastojira]

I had some great times with it, even when it was a bit of a mess, but I wouldn't really recommend it like I do other games. It's definitely a game some will really like and some will just not.

[@grafGAMES]

I really enjoy the game.

[@andrewvazquez9557]

@@grafGAMES And that is perfectly fine, just because a Game is Bad or mediocre doesn't mean You can't enjoy it, if you like it that's ok, but that doesn''t make it magically a Masterpiece man.

[@demonking-zm3rs]

​@@andrewvazquez9557 Doesn't really make it bad or mediocre either. In fact this hyperbolic obnoxious attitude that X media is a "Master Piece" has become way to pervasive. Its internet dialect a badge people put on things they like it's all bloated. Something can be seen as universal liked or understood doesn't mean much. Dark Souls is this revelation in gaming that every player is expected to kneel over and kiss to show homage But I don't think it's a masterpiece But ...I'm also not going to tear something down just to prop up Cyberpunk or any franchise. Which is a shame that this the the pervasive attitude towards entertainment.

[@RTR15Glenn]

that edgerunners song still hits omg

[@Starkill12345]

as someone who laughed at the game before playing it, watching edgerunners in october 2023 and playing the game a month after, whenever i hear "I really wanna stay at your house" in the radio i have to shut it off because it hurts. im glad i aint the only one

[@Luke-fb6ee]

@@Starkill12345 i feel all the hope and positivity drain out of me as soon as i hear the song start on the radio. i love it.

[@Starkill12345]

thats why i always turn the radio off or walk by foot @@Luke-fb6ee

[@erikosburn]

​@@Starkill12345 you have to overcome your edgerunners trauma so you can fully enjoy that banger again 💯

[@Starkill12345]

@@erikosburn I have already overcame it, but it still does hit a lot

[@yanky_]

I was already a couple years into a “no pre order” phase when this was announced, due to multiple games letting me down. I figured, CDPR was the ONE company I’d be able to take the chance on. The release of Cyberpunk is inexcusable, I really appreciate all the research you did because it was generally entirely new information to me. I haven’t gone back to the game yet, maybe in the next year or so. But the anime definitely deserves all the love and recognition it got. Even as a stand alone piece of entertainment, it genuinely was top tier.

[@Patrickdaawsome]

Same. Though I didn't preorder, I was surprised that people did. I thought everyone was already on that no more pre-order wagon.

[@Judgementkiryu]

@@Patrickdaawsome Got guys like me who after cyberpunk first released, then pre-ordered battlefield 2042 despite the triple aaa gaming industry showing us not to do that… I think I need professional help…. I pre-ordered call of duty just the other day…

[@SerahBeelzebub]

Same here man even bought a new desktop just to play coz I pre ordered CP2077 as well as Vampires Masquerade 2. Guess they got me good this time. Never again tho, I'm going all the way from no pre-order to I'm gonna buy it when it's patch 2.0 or something. Basically wait till its mostly patched lol

[@chase_h.01]

I personally would feel I'm disrespecting totalbiscuit's memory if i ever preordered. I refuse to on that reason alone.

[@Patrickdaawsome]

@@Judgementkiryu yes, you do sound like you need help. Accepting the problem is step 1

[@bma4372]

"Never trust anyone that is trying to sell you something or might personally benefit from you believing them." It's as basic as that. Great video as always, keep them coming.

[@lrgogo1517]

The casual delivery of this cynical tenet, followed by a generic "amazing video as always" compliment, makes the back of my mouth feel dry

[@gamedrop3262]

says the guy trusting this youtuber who directly benefits from him hahahahaha

[@knowledgeanddefense1054]

That's why I'm a socialist

[@Mike-ou8pd]

Don't trust anyone whos trying to sell you something. Trust guy on Internet who's selling his idea to you. Come on man, be a little more self aware.

[@danielsibrian7559]

Literally anyone selling anything benefits from you believing them lol

[@saimori7372]

Yea, people are already forgetting. Most content creators are already spinning it that Cyberpunk 2077 was unjustly criticized and the backlash was blown out of proportion. I am sure when Phantom Liberty drops the narrative will have completely changed.

[@TheJadedJames]

I wonder if part of this though is just the inevitable reality that people who played the game at launch and experienced its initial hype cycle are an increasingly minority. New people who bought Cyberpunk after Edgerunners or Phantom Liberty are going to have no concept of pre-release hype and they aren’t going to face those performance issues. The Last-Gen versions of this game might be even more of an afterthought now too with more people with PS5s XSXs now than in 2020. It will only get easier to memory hole what it was like to play CP2077 on a PS4 in December 2020.

[@jgamer2228]

You’re right. Now in their eyes cyberpunk is completely redeemed

[@simulify8726]

and you are write about the statement with phantom liberty, almost 2 years later

[@BrandonHeat243]

As a PC player, tbqh I liked it at launch. It was clearly unfinished and buggy but it ran fine on my PC and was a good game i thought. Obviously consoles were a different situation but I'm not gonna pretend like I hated the game when it came out because i didn't.

[@driver7227]

Don't forget that CDPR gaslighted people after edgerunners, saying that people hated the game not because it was a mess on release, but because it was "trendy". Edgerunners is gold, and not thanks to CDPR, in fact CDPR tried to remove Rebecca

[@LemmingMartyr]

It was absolutely trendy, try living in reality.

[@HalfEclipsed]

I love how this essentially repeated itself with starfield. The big marketing campaign, overpromising, underdelivering.

[@bryanm498]

As a fool that play Bethesda games since ever I never understand how people embarked on the hype trainwreck called Starfield. When the first trailer was released I've said to myself "on the best scenario this crap will be a No Man's Fallout without things that made NMS and Fallout good games". Didn't bother to watch reviews until KZbin flooded me.

[@WeedDays]

to be honest i think Starfield is a totally different type of topic since our lord and savior Gab... Tod Howard already fooled us 2 times so if you actually thought Starfield would be any different then fo4/76 and if we brutally honest even Skyrim i think you deserved it. I know it may hurt but the truth will hurt. And i know fo76 defiantly improved alot since release and i know its a taste thing but for my taste Cyperpunk just was a unfinished mess but Starfield just feels so outdated and while Microsoft probably will spend the buck on it i just dont see them really fixing the core issues since i think they exist because of tech debt.

[@brovid-19]

Which is kinda funny when you realize that Bethesda porking the poodle has been the easiest prediction of events ever since the first time they released skyrim

[@Silaan]

Think the main difference between Starfield and Cyberpunk2077 is that, with Cyberpunk, from the get-go, if you could play the game (...which I was lucky to be able to, I literally had zero game-breaking bugs on my system from day 1, somehow) you had at least the shadow of a good game in it. Like, there genuinely were things to like about it, and when it held together, you kinda got lost in it more the longer you played. Hell, I am pretty sure that a not so insignificant amount of my playtime was just me driving around on a bike from one end of the map the other, purposefully taking the furthest apart missions just because I genuinely enjoy... well, enjoying the world. Starfield, meanwhile, tries to woo you at the start with all it has, but, the longer you play, the less it becomes... hell, it reminded me, at points, of a less interesting, more shallow Freelancer... seriously, Freelancer is a better time than Starfield - and the story in the end is... pointless? And not in an artsy way where the pointlessness IS the point, but, just pointless drivel.

[@digitaldruglord1815]

Except there wasn't a large marketing campaign (Least nowhere near the scale of CP77), they didn't promise a single thing that wasn't in the game at launch, literally the smoothest release the devs ever had and the underdelivery is 100% subjective. its disingenuous to even make a comparison

[@rampageblizzard]

As someone who just buys games if they seem cool instead following their development, it’s crazy how much goes on behind the scenes to go from development studio to a disc in your console. What an interesting analysis.

[@rayclay3249]

It's funny how all of this could've been avoided (or at least mitigated) if they released it as an early access release instead of a "full" release. Why? Because Baldur's Gate 3. Seriously, Baldur's Gate 3 went into early access around the same time Cyberpunk 2077 "released" back in 2020 (which was basically an early access release without the disclosure that it was "early access" due to how buggy it was and not fit for launch it was). Being an early access title, BG3's bugs and features weren't criticized as badly because of its "early access" status and Cyberpunk 2077 could've had the same benefit. I mean, the release dates of both games are basically identical. BG3 entered EA in October 2020. CP2077 "released" in December 2020. BG3's full release was in August 2023 while CP2077's 2.0 update (which is basically the state that the game should've been at release) was in September 2023. Like, the release dates lined up pretty much identically (funnily enough both games are about the main character(s) getting a thing lodged in their head that are slowly killing them and now they must find a way to get it out)

[@itagane7288]

I was one of those CDPR hype bois befoer the launch, I thought they just couldn't miss (didn't preorder tho). On launch night I read a lot of disappointing player reports and it killed my excitement for the game completely. After watching Edgerunners, I'm hesitantly interested again but don't want to reward their corpo greed by buying it now. I'll wait and see if they ever catch up to their initial promises, hoping for a No Man's Sky turnaround. PS: Great video essay as always Lex

[@INeedToSeeYourBalls1945]

You should still buy if your still interested, its not broken anymore just rusty. And any glitches are more funny than they are annoying.

[@koldonn1111]

If you haven't yet, trust me, it is fucking worth buying now.

[@deadluke1015]

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[@Bee_Mavrick]

Usually i fast-forward. But for the bro I'll ⌚️

[@Yeshua_is-Cool]

Yeah i still don't know how people can be okay with this i guess consumers dont care aslong as they consume

[@Zaltabar_]

Because phantom liberty is the best dlc since the old hunters

[@xdouche3608]

This game's whole development and release story is terribly fascinating, and I'm glad to see that this video is able to share even more details about it. As always, incredibly well-researched and edited.

[@cthulhupanda36]

I played the game before a lot of the patches (especially the recent big ones) landed. No doubt it had a ton of issues, but I think there's a good game underneath. I think focusing on the chaos and abuse behind the scenes during development is important, not only to improve working conditions in the industry but to show that these practices hurt games and the companies that choose to use them. I really like your concluding statements, they lied before and there's no reason we should believe things have improved or will improve until we see proof. But man, if they can stick the landing on the sequel that will be such a great story.

[@xBINARYGODx]

I disagree, even bug free it was one of the least ambitious games I have ever played - with games sometimes over 10 years older doing something ti did (or many) better. The city we purchased deserves a much better game, but we really won't be getting that till a sequel - but I am sure some will use some updates to lie once again.

[@acev3521]

@@xBINARYGODx This the game is so fucking ass wish we got the og third person game that looked sick like GTA with rpg elements

[@eduardofrances]

As long as they don't break the consumer's trust again by selling a buggy mess at full price... To me that was just a slap on the face of their fans.

[@RedGoner]

can't wait for the Fallout 76 anime

[@Lextorias]

The Fallout live action Amazon Prime series is coming out this year I think lmao

[@RedGoner]

@@Lextorias oh my GOD

[@cookieface80]

F76 makes money from the whales. They don't need to do a PR campaign, because they don't care that the game is shit.

[@فهدالفهيد-ف2غ]

Well… It did it’s work 😂

[@kaelell4697]

@@RedGonerazumanger?

[@daboring1]

people when they install their 100$ preorder game the second it get releases and it turns out to be a very buggy mess (they havent learned anything in the past 10 years or so)

[@bigoof9170]

You're actually one of the few KZbinrs who's videos i watch from start to finish regardless of the video length cuz they're just THAT good

[@DartNoobo]

Why do you even start watching videos that are not good? Genuine question

[@JustinSmith-mh7mi]

@@DartNoobo how do you know it isn't good until you give it a chance?

[@bigoof9170]

@@DartNoobo how am i supposed to know if they're good or not?

[@redstar397]

This question doesn’t make sense

[@DartNoobo]

@@redstar397 his statement implies that there are KZbinrs whom he watches, but not to the end. Why even watch videos you are not interested in?

[@Guackmonster]

Liked and subscribed for the combination of that last line about “promising the moon” and the fade-in of “I Really Want to Stay at Your House.” Extraordinarily clever, A+

[@dohickey7184]

Thank yoy for putting in that end message to always be apprehensive of how the mistakes of these triple A companies keep getting swept under the rug by consumers, that's the one thing that rubs me the wrong way about the monumental success of Edgerunners and how more and more people seem to have just completely forgotten about the shitshow it was un release and the sheer amount of lies that CDPR has thrown at us. If we let them then they absolutely will do it again, and seems like CDPR has already started to forget their lesson after announcing like 5 games back to back. Like Jesus did they learn absolutely nothing about overpromising and overhyping in the past 3 years?

[@FrenchFries2]

40 minutes of Lextorias and Cyberpunk 2077, Am I in heaven right now?

[@johncoppinger2241]

Valuable take. And absolutely important to keep in mind. Yes we're all in a renewed honey-moon-phase with CDPR, but, as consumers its imperative that we maintain some degree of objectivity. Great video. Muchos Gracias choom.

[@technicaljoker2050]

This is a fair outlook on things, and I will be the first to admit Cyberpunk 2077 is still to this day an unfinished game. I guess what makes me love it despite that is I think that CDPR did an amazing job with the atmosphere of Night City. When I first played the game it was on my old ps4 and even though it was one of the most broken games I’ve ever played, I enjoyed the experience a whole lot. One thing I will say though is that the release of Cyberpunk permanently crushed any trust I have for these companies. It was definitely a wake up call. Anyway, good video man!

[@JayDayKay]

But… 30 minutes ago you didn’t even watch the video… Are you a wizard?

[@technicaljoker2050]

@@JayDayKay Perhaps?

[@sandeepsarkar7803]

Lex, you did a great job putting this video together. Hours of research and editing and the final product is engaging from start to finish. No matter what the views are, your videos are top notch imo.

[@TheMastojira]

Your channel has become one of my favorites. Absolute much watch on every video. Just good vibes and good topics. I'm glad you compared it to Far Cry because I think it's a nice mix of that and Grand Theft Auto. I think of it as my favorite Far Cry game lol. As a Ps4, eventual PS5 player, I always held a soft spot and am glad it's doing better. It's not an amazing game, but it sure is a great one now. Great video once again.

[@kinga.t.242]

great is better than amazing

[@prototypelq8574]

YES, FINALLY PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS PROBLEM, THANK YOU I am very torn about the Cyberpunk "redemption". On one hand - the game had a good story to tell, and there was a lot of work put into the world and the soundtrack of the game, which, some people have found so enjoyable and loved those parts of the game, that they were ready to ignore all the technical issues, and I tend to favor the 'ugly duck' stories about games. Each was made by a lot of people, who put so much effort into making it a reality (especially when the company loves their crunch practise and bleeding staff dry), this should be respected and there Will be aspects that you can enjoy from any experience. HOWEVER Cyberpunk was sold as a lie. The fact that the marketing campaign was able to make an Unfinished and Unreleased product sucessfull even before launch is atrocious. The fact that said launch was a technical disaster, and downright unplayable on console is unaccaptable. These are all very valid reasons to hate on CDPR as a company. The fact that a good anime can 'redeem' Cyberpunk as a game, an experience, a product, is Not the lesson that should be learned from this. Publishers, companies and other big money men should Not learn the lesson that you can promise a lot through marketing, make the circumstances of development hell and then just buy good rep for an unfinished product with some money to anime studios. I am glad Cyberpunk have found it`s audience, and there are people who love this game, the tabletop and the anime. But this story should Not be one of any Redeption, because otherwise this - unfinished, untested, unplayable, will be the only types of AAAA games we will receive in the future. P.S. Congrats on your first sponsor! It was a genuinly fun bit in the video, not many content creator can manage that! Thank you for the quality of your videos and the opinion that should be heard

[@canaldecasta]

There even are figures of V using akimbo pistols like Jaquito yet you can't do that ingame.

[@Aeikon]

CDPR didn't abandon the game and released an anime to "hype" it. The game is currently at the point where it should have been at release. They pulled a "No Man's Sky" and fixed it. I don't think a game in existence could ride a 1 month wave just off of one anime.

[@prototypelq8574]

@@Aeikon True, and developers should be praised for that! Admitting your mistakes and making an effort to fix them is good. The problem with this, however, lies with the publishers. No Man's Sky was made by a small studio with big ambitions and promises, which in the end, made them buckle under the weight. CDPR is not a small studio, and they have big publisher and investor money behind them. Big Money Men TM operate on a very simple program - if it brings money, repeat the process. It is wonderful that Cyberpunk has found it's audience and fanbase, there are things to love about this game. However, the Big Money Men will learn all the worst lessons from this: that they can release an unfinished product, they can have no quality control, they can bleed their developers dry, be Financially Successful on preorders alone Get Away with all of that if they throw enough money on a marketing campaign, and at an animation studio to make an anime after disastrous release

[@Aeikon]

@@prototypelq8574 Yeah, I agree with you there. So far, two companies have shown that you can "redeem" a game in the public eyes. What does this show big publishers? Well, that they can release a overhyped but horribly broken game as long as they work hard on fixing it later. It is a dangerous slope that shouldn't become the norm and hopefully doesn't become the norm.

[@prototypelq8574]

@@Aeikon Honestly, developers should have learned from Bioware, who have thoroughly messed up the development of both DA: Inquisition, and ME:Andromeda. Both games came out alright, in the end (Inquisition much better), but the troublesome development should have been a huge red flag for everyone in the industry. Evidently, it wasn't.

[@pfeilspitze]

34:34 Coming here after your "shorter games with worse graphics" video, this point stood out to me: what's the anime but shorter and with "worse" graphics? Better fleshed-out world and characters you care more about despite that shorter length and less realistic graphics.

[@kallanpowell4781]

Not launching on console would’ve saved this games launch and made it a lot better. Console to this day holds PC games back even with “new gen” consoles (mid tier 5 year old hardware)

[@ReuvelMusic]

While Cyberpunk has one of the best stories, world building and characters in recent years it is a prime example not to be tricked by big corpos no matter how much you loved past projects.

[@vavra222]

True. While i am a Cyberpunk enjoyer since day 1, i guess i got lucky. My old PC was able to get pretty stable 60-ish fps and i had no game-breaking bugs to deal with. So while i understand the issue with pre-ordering and getting shafted in the process, in my purely fanboy view, the game was OK and got a lot better in time. Not many games of this scale and style, so i take what i can get... since Bethesda sh.t the bed with Starfield (i torrented it and it was on my PC for less than a week).

[@Rigel_6]

You know, being a newcomer to the game only after 2.0 + PL released, going back to all the bad history is like looking through a curved mirror, just so bizzare and hard to imagine, because with a freshman perspective, the game is genuinely good currently. The story is the strong point (one of few open world games that made me want to exclusively run main story first just because it was interesting), combat is pretty fun, though a bit outta whack when it comes to balance (by max level you are deep in the Terminator/Neo/Hackerman power fantasy) but yeah, it's that. The only couple bugs I encountered were usually traffic freaking out when out of view or a bartender morphing into his bar counter or odd ragdolls or that one where my shotguns started firing slugs (and were considerably more deadly now, heh). And while the whole story had a lot of stink, when I look then towards other recent games that disappointed and continue doing so, CDPR still gets points for not monetizing the shit outta their games like, say, 343 or Bungie. Oh, and for one thing, no matter how much goodwill I can have for a company, I will never pre-order and hell, the list of devs I will buy games on launch day is very short. Like - From Software and Larian - short

[@Retrospect6969]

lol I played this on drop on ps5(ps4 version at the time) and it was absolute slog to get through just a complete mess

[@agssilv5919]

the problems with cyberpunk wasnt just the performance/bugs before the release of the game they basically advertised it as having an open world the feels as alive as red dead redemtion 2 , having your actions change the world around u with freedom on the lvl of something like baldurs gate 3 and a cooler combat system that what we ended up with they basically told people dont wait for gta 6 this is it but better , cooler , with meaningful choices. the people people who say the game is fixed/it redeemed itself forgot what cdpr said the game would be like and i cannot fathom how some people have the audacity to call this a masterpiece

[@Rigel_6]

@@agssilv5919 I guess I just stopped buying into promised hype gravy trains long time ago, so what they promised doesn't matter much do me, what I care is what I actually get at the time I buy it. And what I got in fall/winter 2023 was a pretty enjoyable game

[@joshhayes3433]

Excellent channel, found it a few days ago and immediately subscribed. Appreciate the lack of cursing, have little kids running around and while they're definitely not going to sit and watch something about Cyberpunk, they can probably hear it. I know I sound old, but from a not-really-that-old-of-a-gamer, thanks. Keep it up, even if I have 0 desire to try Cyberpunk again.

[@Lextorias]

I apologize, as I do swear later in the video, and probably will in the future. I might suggest headphones for other videos of mine

[@joshhayes3433]

@@Lextorias no apologies needed, it’s your channel and you run it how you wish. I’ll use my headphones and keep watching, thanks!

[@ReaperCet]

Sony actually didn't pull the game until AFTER cdpr encouraged people to ask for refunds. It wasn't related to the performance. Sony just hates giving refunds so much that they'd rather not sell the game at all.

[@Lextorias]

Sony gave full refunds to everyone who bought the game on PS4, without exception. They pulled it for new purchases after a private conversation with CDPR *before* the apology announcement that encouraged refunds. So it's less likely to be a situation of them hating refunds, and more likely they pulled the game due to not meeting QA standards.

[@OofieDooples]

My favorite part of youtube is watching people go from joking about having a raid sponsorship to leveling up and actually getting the sponsorship. Good for you homie

[@sadmanmahi2584]

I love your case study type of videos . Every time I start to watch your video I finish it completely, even if I take breaks here and there. The way you comeup with script , I think it is quite amazing. Because like most other people I don,t like to watch long videos because my attention span is small. But some how (with your skills) you manage to hold my attention span for so long time which is very impressive to me.

[@ptlemon1101]

Exactly. People who say the game was always a masterpiece and never was a bad just weren't there day one after waiting years. I can say Cyberpunk now is a good game, but that's it. It's just "good", when it should have been a masterpiece on the level of RDR2. People say the game wasn't bad simply didn't experience: -10 FPS if too much was on screen -Constant crashes -Shit driving mechanics -Falling of the map in the same street -Too many items corrupting your save -Backgrounds being useless -A story that plays on the urgency of your disease and you have to have find a cure of possible while also making side-quests about a talking vending machine, making it very tone deaf -0 customization on your characters, cars or apartment -developers jerking off themselves on Twitter saying "This side quest was so good it made me cry." and "I have save file of over 175h and I'm not even half done!" -the constant lies saying the game was ready and no more delays just to be delayed right on the next day -the crunch that fucked people -wasting more money and time on marketing than the actual game -the constant visual glitches -promised refunds without consulting retailers so a lot of people that tried to refund it couldn't -it was so bad that Sony pulled it out of the store. Never saw that happen before -so much more The game has it's redeeming qualities like the art style is amazing, the music is phenomenal and the characters feel like real people and are tons of fun to hang around with but we simply can't forget what happened because of a good anime or because CDPR made a good game before. If this was EA or Ubisoft, no one would give them any breathing room and CDPR shouldn't be treated differently.

[@roonkolos]

Games like 2077 and plenty of others are why i refuse to get on any hype train anymore There has been SOOO many games even in the last few years that prove why hype culture is such a dangerous double edged sword Cyberpunk, NMS, The Outer Worlds, Starfield, SwordShield, the list grows with every month. And CDPR sadly is the best example of how *NO* company is *ever* above hesitancy or scrutiny Judge a game on what is RELEASED, NOT on what mock up trailers make one think *might* be in it on release

[@triplehelix3207]

Fallout 4 was my first real wake up call and is why i'm incredibly picky about what games i preorder, Cyberpunk was so close to doing it but i held back and now i deeply enjoy post-2.1 Cyberpunk with mods

[@roonkolos]

@triplehelix3207 the sad thing is mods shouldn't be what makes a game great. They should be what elevates them. If a person needs like 20 mods to make a game good, then the game itself fails in several regards and even someone like myself hates saying that

[@triplehelix3207]

@@roonkolos I completely agree and vanilla is just fine

[@killingjoker797]

Stop right there. How could you not mention the shitstorm that was Fallout 76.

[@TheMalkavianPrince]

It's kinda funny that my personal experience of my friend and I streaming 2077 at launch, doing nearly every sidequest I could until I just kinda burned out after meeting Alt, was for the most part less buggy than when I went back through the game after Edgerunners dropped, in the sense that I didn't encounter much buggyness at release, but while it ran a lot smoother in 1.5, I hit a plethora of bugs from mildly annoying/amusing to game breaking bugs, like I had to download a save editor to fix it at one point, that were way worse than anything I had personally encountered in the title..

[@enseventealp]

I dropped CP2077 after 20 hours. Watched Edgerunners. Came back and thoroughly enjoyed it. I really enjoyed the story and the sidestories for random characters are unique enough to me that I explored them. But man, If it wasn't edgerunners idk if I would have given this game another go.

[@Yodalemos]

I think that just goes to show that we have still have a tribe mentality and our perception changes depending on what other people are saying.

[@yourdad5799]

​@@Yodalemos I mean yea the tribe mentality was pretty important in our past as a species. It won't go away in just 1000 or 2000 years

[@martin99110]

Just goes to show you, dont listen to your favorite KZbinr. Sure the game had glitches but it was still one of the best stories there are. Hell the best mission that made my skin crawl was the couple running for office. Finding out what the “ones in control” were doing to them. There was nothing stopping it

[@callumyoung4343]

I love how thought out your videos are and how every piece of information you present is all completely relevant to the story and the point your trying to convey and all that effort realy pays off right at the end with your perfect conclusion

[@OlShammy]

as someone who playsTTRPGS like D&D and Fragged Empire, the whole cyberpunk 2077 situation just makes me want to play the origional Cyberpunk TTRPG (which if you didnt know is what 2077 is based upon and the anime takes alot of elements from the ttrpgs systems including the whole cyberpsychosis mechanic)

[@OlShammy]

also a funny side-note the original TTRPG was set in 2013 and the second edition was set in 2020

[@kinga.t.242]

@@OlShammy the first one is in 1989

[@OlShammy]

@@kinga.t.242 the first edition of cyberpunk was released in 1988 if that's what you're referencing but even a quick look on the cyberpunk wiki would tell you that it's set in 2013

[@tothrichard2708]

Man this video was amazing, not just the content of it, but the way you edited it together.

[@rexr0b0twars80]

cyberpunk 2077 is a good game, it's atmosphere and gameplay hit as hard as it's graphical beauty, it's writing is really high quality for most of the main story, most of the game design is quite good as well, it has a lot of issues but it also has a lot going for it, i still quote V to this day for what he says anytime they have to transition, he always says "so... what now?" no matter the context he says that and i find it funny to say that during any awkward moment. and even though a joke referencing the worst areas of the game in terms of writing i still remember the rage i felt when i couldn't be the one to shoot dex and how immersed i was in the moments that followed, if cd project red followed through with polishing the game to it's brightest form it could have been better than gta 5 in the public eye, the game likely will never reach the same level of hype and respect it had before it launched but it's still a good game and it's worth your time, sooo many people shit on this game and they have good reason to do so but it's important to remember that few things in life are all bad and this game does not fit in with that small group, when looking into a game it's important to consider what people like just as much as what they don't like, if anything I'd say it's more important to find what people like because of how hard that can be and how long negative things remain in your noggin.

[@Dachusttin]

While this has been covered lots of time, I didnt know abything about the "catch a bug" section of the vid. Great job! Overall, quite a solid and just long enough video :)

[@Lextorias]

I watched a lot of the videos on the topic beforehand, since I knew every angle had been covered already, so I just wanted to compile them and be as extensive as possible. If the quantic lab situation was interesting I highly recommend Upper Echelon's video on it that I linked in the description.

[@Dachusttin]

@@Lextorias Well congrats, because it shows! And of course I'll make sure to check it out

[@soplet6121]

I still hate the developer's attitude that the Cyberpunk is a well-made game just not recognized. The Edgerunner is a well-made anime and it's made by a animation company, not by CD Projekt.

[@nimblemonster]

Fantastic video, as somebody that's looked into this topic a lot you still managed to put a fresh perspective on it as always :0

[@CarstenSvendsen]

I started playing it for the first time in 2022 sometime, and it was a great game, I didn't see what all the bad fuzz was about. I guess I never knew how bad it was. Also after watching the anime, I started my 2nd playthrough 1½ year later. It's really is a great game. And some great music as well.

[@CathPaluigi]

Ahh, finally a video to watch while I consume my iskender kebab

[@baziworld]

is there any artoria kebab too?

[@baziworld]

is there any artoria kebab too?

[@someoneelse1534]

I feel like them getting hacked should be refereed to as getting Cyber-punked

[@michaelirwin7258]

This is the 3rd video I've watched from you; I watched the Fan Service one, then Waifu, and now this. The amount of information and how you present is excellent. I pre-ordered Cyberpunk. I played it launch day. Somehow, I did not have all the horrible bugs a lot of people had, I saw some, but nothing as bad as I saw in videos. I found the game enjoyable, though disjointed at times. But I've done 1 and 1/2 replays with. Skyrim keeps calling me back in somehow. I look forward to Starfield. I hope it is not all hype. I also remember the launch of No Man's Sky and that nearly killed me on pre-orders. I went many game cycles ignoring games for weeks to months after release because I couldn't trust the companies. I'm rambling. Keep up the good work!

[@TnupdegSupt]

You know F'd up when even gamestop starts giving out refunds

[@samtron5000]

My bf works for a AAA company as a lead engineer (won’t say which for privacy) but he says QA is incompetent across the board. What happened to CDPR is normal and expected 😞

[@samtron5000]

Also want to add the game actually is very good now. I waited until pretty recently to play it although my bf did play it on launch.. I enjoyed it a lot. No bugs that we could notice on ps5

[@troypowers750]

@@samtron5000 game?

[@josetomascamposrobledano4618]

“Oh yes, my husband owns a company, he says the workers are the reason it’s going bankrupt 😞”. Same energy tbh. Although I admit today’s biggest issue among people is figuring out Responsibility.

[@rayquazzenron3853]

Damn even in an in-depth analysis of the game and its company "I really want to stay at your home" hits right in the feels. Great video btw Lextorias love your work

[@unreal_pictoris]

In case someone else also would have liked a short summary of cyberpunk's reasons to fail: Cyberpunk 2077’s Failure: Real Reasons: 0. Video Games are a very seasonal product 1. Missing out on releasing the game during this very profitable period would mean losing a ton of potential sales 2. Plan of the executives was to release on xBox One and PS4 to “double dib” with release of next gen consoles 1. Delaying further would mean releasing on both generation simultaneously… 1. And also missing out on their biggest sales period 2. Told investors that this case was an impossibility (pressure of investors) -> December 10th was decided to be the final release date, no matter the state of the game Another reason: CDPR didn’t “clean up” internally to the degree they thought they had (at the time). -> Repeating a lot of their old mistakes which they got away with on Witcher III. Because of the so much bigger and more complex project of CP2077, they “fall flat on their face”. Pretended reasons: 1. Wrong focus 1. Putting world building and narration before “technical excellence” 2. Communication problems (CoVid-19 and working from home) 3. Starting development on a demo in 2016 4. Spending only 2 1/2 years on building the real game -> not having enough time for development (--> crunch) 5. Quantic Lab was a miserable quality insurance company

[@vinhnguyen-o5z]

why is the Pretended reasons part not Real reasons? Are those fake?

[@unreal_pictoris]

@@vinhnguyen-o5z Hey, I believe that the time pressure and thereby the lack of time to complete the product, the main reason for the failure. If they had maybe 1 year + of more time, cp2077 would have looked quite different. Of course, the executives and higher ups wouldn't say that (the thing with the double dib and promise to investors) because they would lose even more reliability. At least this is what I pulled out of information from several videos that seriously want to give answers to this debate. I would put it in a pie chart. 40% the true reasons, 30% the other reason and another 30% the "pretended" reasons. So, all play a huge part in this web or cluster of chaos.

[@MrSaviorHD]

If anything, the show reminded me how banger the soundtrack of the game was. I’ve tried going back recently, the games fun. Just wish performance was better and gunplay was less stiff. The sequel could be pretty banging. Thanks for the video. Great work as usual.

[@ad3295]

Well done Lex, you've created a very comprehensive vid that helped me understand the whole situation far more than any 1h+ vid I've watched covering the game!

[@TheCasualChamp-fp7bh]

I'm on my 5th playthrough. No game had me more emotionally engaged than Witcher 3 and cyberpunk. CDPR's management and investors might be evil, but this team is obviously passionate about both gameplay and storytelling. At the end of the day, I just wanna play great games that don't try to turn me or my kid into gambling addicts. That's getting increasingly rare

[@TIOLIOfficial]

27:19 - You glitching out for a second made me have to rewatch that part.

[@itsumayo]

I like to see Cyberpunk as the Strzygoń of video games. The strzygoń is a Polish (very fitting) being that comes back after death.

[@Tentacles_mcgee]

Looking back at this video after the release of Phantom Liberty and patch 2.1, I've got to say, the game has improved A LOT. It fixed practically everything about the game, and It made one of my favourite dlcs of all time, so i have hope that orion could actually end up being pretty good 👍

[@kaynesovereign9372]

"The setting is immaculate"... I've always said that this is the most compelling modern/scifi world and the world alone was almost enough to carry the early game. I would pay full price for 2 or 3 more sequels having CDPR add nothing but a new story/missions and only drip feeding new features via patches. That's how good Mike Pondsmiths world is.

[@vavra222]

Right? Despite the issues and me having a 5 year old PC at the time of the launch, once i booted into Night City, i was hooked. Lore videos on youtube didnt help lmao, i admit to ignoring everything bad because i enjoyed the setting, characters and the story that much. Nowadays i dont even feel bad about it, i know games shouldnt release like this, broken and then slowly being worked on... but im just glad that now we got something akin to the finished game.

[@512TheWolf512]

it's a great game. the story DESERVES to be gone through at least once, without any spoilers. it left me personally, very bitter. just by virtue of questions it raises.

[@rosecity_chris]

I will never get over the amount of hype CDPR created themselves vs what they actually released. I know at this point there's a million nuances and things we could talk about, but just in general it's insane what their management did. That tease felt worse than actual blue balls.

[@froderickalabaster]

i can’t even lie i first played this game about 6-7 months after launch on ps5 and i absolutely loved the game ive been there for almost every major patch and i can’t get enough of this game i 100% completed the game twice on console and pc

[@Sh1ranu1]

I just bought the game for PC and im so excited play the finished repaired product

[@froderickalabaster]

@@Sh1ranu1 the state it’s in today is amazing the metro they added is so dope people will bother you on the train and stuff it’s pretty neat

[@superzapper]

We never got the free Dlc they promised in the road map . They saved it all and sold it as an expansion for $29.99 and nobody Said a thing about it .

[@oicmorez4129]

Studio Trigger has made such a wonderful job that when I heard the song in the outro, I almost forgot what the video was about while goosebumps took over my skin. I love that show.

[@Loeffellux]

Man, my experience with cyberpunk has always made me feel so disconnected from the discourse around it. I played it at launch on a 5 year old PC rocking a r9 390 and an i5-4690. I had almost zero bugs and the performance was pretty much exactly what I would've expected it to be on a (by then) 5 year old PC. If anything, I was positively surprised how close I came to 50 or even 60 fps despite not running it on the lowest settings. And despite being hyped for that game I didn't really watch any of the trailers or events so I couldn't miss any Features that I simply didn't know I should be missing. In other words, I got to play something much closer to what people are able to play now rather than what I kept hearing about around release (and I'm talking about the PC version, the ps4/xb1 versions are an entirely different (horror) Story). Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that CD project Red didn't deserve the backlash they got just because I ended up having a pretty good time with the game at release. I'm just saying that it was a bit annoying that there was so little room for discourse like that because the overall narrative of the launch being an absolute failure was so overpowering. And I think that's part of the reason why the current discourse seems to have shifted so abruptly yet again. like a backlash to the backlash kinda thing *including* a "it was actually always good" narrative that -despite of my subjective experience- we all know to be complicated at best. Either way, I just wrote this long-ass comment for the engagement, shout out to anyone who actually red all of it

[@frysurf8218]

There is no line more annoying and pointless than "worked fine for me" Good for you, doesn't change the fact that the majority had an abysmal performance. Also it pisses me off how quickly gamers are willing to forgive the face that they were straight up sold a lie.

[@dylangrant4457]

Prefect timing, I was having a rough day and this was just the cure. Great work man it was super funny!

[@WEKS87]

I got into it, like really into it, after Edgerunners... and I love it.

[@WogueCompanySniper]

Enshrouded is a good game. cheap too. 30$ for a massive rpg with no bugs on early access launch. thats good. awesome building in that game too

[@dificulttocure]

I played the game as soon as it released and didn't like it at all. Not only it was buggy as hell, I didn't like the gameplay and found it too easy (I just can't play easy games). 1 month ago I joined a family group on steam and one of the other guys had the game, so I could play it for free (I pirated it the first time), so I decided to give it a try, I also downloaded a mod to make it harder on top of the hardest ingame difficulty, because I figured they didn't change the difficulty. I was very pleseantly surprised, I'm really really enjoying it. Played it for about 80 hours and reaching the endgame now. It's completely a different game to what I remember it to be at release. The anime wasn't what redeemed it, CDPR fixing and improving their game did. Maybe they released the anime to encourage people to give it a second chance, knowing the game was much better now.

[@HollywoodFTW]

Hey man, I'm going through your backlog and just got to this video and wanted to say this is one of the better post-mortems for Cyberpunk I've seen. Also, the soundtrack to Edgerunners keeps getting me one iota closer to getting my wife into anime. So, there's that. (On that note, I'll be watching your Bebop and space western videos here soon.) Keep up the good work.

[@benedapal7987]

Who is your editor?? That pre-sting was amazing

[@Lextorias]

me :)

[@benedapal7987]

@@Lextorias well i'll tell ya, that pre-sting was amazing!! awesome vid briliant watch

[@onealjones]

@@benedapal7987 What part was the pre-sting?

[@MetFreak42]

Excellent video. Needs an update though, post-ver. 2.0 and Phantom Liberty.

[@agentcode4576]

he made it, he got sponsored

[@RabidKanid]

28:36 If I remember correctly, news coming out that cyberpunk gave a reviewer a seizure and some cavemen gamers blamed the reviewer for having the seizures and harassed them.

[@fox-fluffl9002]

This is exactly why I feel it should be the norm that games never give out release dates until the game is completely finished and just going through fine tuning and fixing minor bugs. Crunch time and releasing unfinished, buggy monstrocities isn't fun for anyone, and hurts the company as a whole. Most players will gladly wait if it means they get a functional, fun game by the end of it. Hell, my favorite game rn has been in Early Access for just over 4 years (July 2019) after releasing with just one map. But it's in constant development as they flesh out the rest of the game and the devs will release updates as public betas so players can help them to find bugs and twek mechanics to work better. The team never gives release dates for updates, patches, anything unless they're absolutely sure it can be ready in time to go live in public beta.

[@SugarcaneFuturist]

what game is this?

[@fox-fluffl9002]

@@SugarcaneFuturist WolfQuest Anniversary Edition, funnily enough; it's an ecology simulator set in Yellowstone

[@SugarcaneFuturist]

@@fox-fluffl9002 Oh Damn. I remember reading about this online (I had a wolf phase). Is it any fun?

[@fox-fluffl9002]

@@SugarcaneFuturist I may or may not have almost 700 hours in game, so you could say it’s pretty good XD

[@morbid1.]

copyright laws in poland were introduced in 1996 so technically nothing was pirated or illegal... fun fact - in times where software and games were on tapes national radio stations had scheduled programs where they played on air whole tape for you to record it. Same thing was with music albums.

[@kadenjay6207]

Cyberpunk is my favorite game ever made and I'm glad the devs didn't give up on it

[@xboxpenguin8705]

Same, finished it a few weeks ago, and it's one of my favorite games ever, it's flaws don't really bother me. Despite that, Lextorias is right about not trusting companies and being skeptical about future releases

[@negie78000]

Never forgotten, and I never will. For me, the biggest disappointment in Cyberpunk's launch was not the bugs, but just the blatant broken promises of what the game was meant to be versus what they delivered.

[@joshjmilli]

Beneath all the promises and hype, there is actually a really good game under it all. CD Projekt Red know how to make a gripping story, fun gameplay and a beautiful world. My hype for Cyberpunk as a franchise has never been so high, because I have faith that CDPR will make the game that they truly wanted to make with Orion. The foundations are in place, and I cannot wait for more Cyberpunk!

[@nohooligans888]

I played it on last gen and got lucky. Basically experienced no bugs, or none that I noticed, it would only crash after several hours of play, and the only downside was having graphics that were absolutely not to the level you’d get on any other platform. Yet it still captivated me from the start, and now I’m just a fan of the cyberpunk genre as a whole, especially Mike Pondsmith’s work. Getting myself an upgraded gaming pc soon, and I’ll get to experience the game in a much better state (I’ve already been able to run it on my currently massively outdated setup on medium so a good start) and I’m excited for Phantom Liberty (and kinda Orion), simply just because to me it’s more content in a world I love. It’s unfortunate that the launch wasn’t great though, hopefully this stops being a trend.

[@juliandenny5773]

I preordered cybergunk on base ps4 and finished the main story in the first 2 days of launch. I had about 14 hours in by the time I finished the story and kept tally of how many crashes I had in my playthrough. 29. 29 crashes in 14 hours, I literally spent almost as much time looking at my fucking ps4 restart.

[@TypeVertigo]

I work in software QA, having made it my career for 15 years, and the whole working philosophy of Quantic Lab doing their job is just so wrong on a number of levels. Testing is not supposed to be a bug finding contest based on counts; the most important bugs are those that are the most severe, and have impacts on large areas of the application or game. Software QA is literally the Pareto principle put to work: 80% of bugs come from 20% of the code. Thanks for highlighting this. As for Cyberpunk 2077 itself: I was never sold on the game the same way I was with The Witcher 3, and at this point I will never buy into it despite enjoying Edgerunners. Not paying for the game is my way of telling CD Projekt Red to eat a lot of humble pie for this fiasco, and maybe dial down their hubris a little.

[@zUJ7EjVD]

Classic case of the indirect measurement becoming the goal.

[@MrSpartan993]

Okay, between the detailed fact coverage, the jokes mixed throughout that made me smile, and how you want to both see things with the real critical eye and call out their bullshit but also the few positives and hope for the future (but not BLIND hope), I’m going to have to subscribe. See ya, Space Cowboy.

[@InDeathWeLove]

The problem is that Cyberpunk 2077 was marketed to be this amazing revolutionary game at it's core. However at launch the core ended up being pretty mediocre and on top of that the execution was just broken with how buggy it was and a ton of unfinished/unimplemented stuff. Now with all the patches they have managed to take care of a lot of the broken part of that equation, however the core of the game is still not what was promised and I don't think can be fixed since it would require almost starting from scratch again because 2077 just wasn't made to be the game that was promised. It was promised to be an in depth RPG with a highly detailed world, characters and even NPCs while having a GTA style huge open world. It made you think their goal was Deus Ex gameplay and levels of care/detail in a GTA sandbox sizes open world. I suspect this was even their original idea until they realised they didn't have the money, time nor people to ever pull this off. It will never be this and so we end up now that it's not quite as broken just with a pretty mediocre game. It's not awful, it's playable, but it isn't anything groundbreaking.

[@jakubekch.3621]

Playing trough CP77 rn is kinda nice Plots seem a bit... Patchwork like with quests suddenly leading to another Ideas being thrown out at random then at random reappearing It seems like quests are ment to be done in a specific order but there is no "suggested level" type of solution to indicate it Tbh that's my biggest gripe with the game That and lack of cars on the road

[@killingjoker797]

wait what? lack of cars on the road?

[@thelittlegiant273]

For anyone that really likes the setting but doesn't want to support CDPR's business practices I'd highly recommend the TTRPG the game is based on which is very fun plus it is very easy to get a hold of all the rules for free if you want to. plus in addition to the core rules being easy to find R. talsorian has all the supplements they have released for it for free

[@XYDIOT]

I remember being so excited and playing the game at launch on PS5 and felt like I was fighting the game rather than playing it. My save kept getting deleted, visual bugs, and crashes just completely turned me off from going further than the 15-20hrs I had put in. But recently my friends have been hyping up all the updates/fixes and especially now the anime it’s making me think I should give it a second chance.

[@Lextorias]

If bugs were your main issue, I’d give the game another look. It still has a lot missing, but the experience is much less rough than at launch.

[@CayeDaws]

You should be very careful about that kinda hype, it's gonna disappoint you. The game has done the bare minimum to rectify for its horrid launch state and is relying on a spin off anime show they had nearly nothing to do with creatively speaking to get people back into playing it. This is like No Mans Sky adding third person and Multi-player and Fallout 76 adding that Pitt expansions, ie none of the biggest issues of the base game were really fixed. It's still an unexusably buggy and linear [linearity to the far cry degree is bad for self described role playing games] mess on whatever rig you have.

[@ChaosTherum]

The only thing that kept me hoping for CD Projekt Red is GOG with how much they have done for DRM gaming they deserve a ton of credit. I just hope their development arm can redeem itself.

[@TokinTerrapin]

Ive recently played my first playthrough of this game and its definitley in my top 10 of all time. Hasnt been a game in a while i can dump 92 hours into in a few weeks

[@gavo7911]

Considering Phantom Liberty launched relatively bug-free, I’d say at least the Cyberpunk IP is safe moving forward. Cyberpunk 2077 was an incredible game I loved even before the patches, the DLC and 2.0 update only made me love it even more. So I can’t wait to see what a sequel will do for it.

[@iPuls3]

I still believe they should have stuck with third person and they would have delivered a much better product due to no overhauling required.

[@doomgod314]

I still play this game almost exclusively

[@LIONGOD]

i started playing cyberpunk when it was at its lowest... everyone hated it, but it was my favorite game, and still is. i also only got it for $20 so win win

[@kingliquidthe8th776]

After watching the show my friends ended up handing together and buying me the game because I was SUPER depressed, and I really enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun exploring the world after watching the show, and I’m really thankful for my friends who got me into the show as well as the game.

[@MultiCommissar]

CDPR have also recently announced that they're embraced the Orwellian ESG score. So I wouldn't count Edgerunners as a redemption for them, but rather as a testement to Trigger's ability to transmute shit into gold.

[@yemi28983]

Yeah well DLC is out, where is the fake redemption now?

[@bmsuperstar1]

It's still the same basic game. A mediocre game. It's now playable. It looks nice and all(if you can afford it), but it's still just a mediocre game.

[@Sadblin]

​@bmsuperstar1 I agree with you. I was someone who pre-oredered the game. I was so hyped for their next game because I was a huge fan of The Witcher. The disappointment I felt when I played my first 10 hours in 1 day I took off work was something I will never be able to forgive. Of course it was primarily my fault for believing in a company to begin with.

[@bmsuperstar1]

@@Sadblin Damn! It looks like all of us suckers took days off work to play this dumpster fire. 😆 The most highly anticipated game ever. It just had to be a dud. It's our own fault for believing the hype. Never again.