Nice job. CDPR's depiction of Night City is fantastic but I am curious, where's the combat zone?
It kinda pains me to find this thread now, after almost 60 hours of playing the game, and see how strong of a vibe this concept art is giving, compared to what the game actually gives you.
There are many issues with the game, on which almost everyone is focusing right now, but I hope that once these are being dealt with, we'll start diving into the environment, and how it sadly fails to make you feel that cyberpunk world is alive.
The concept art, while being simple static images, make me feel this world more than walking through these neighbourhoods in the game. I keep trying, but I struggle to feel the environment, the atmosphere/the vibe of these neighbourhood. Everything seems too static, NPCs and their routines are dull, weather effects and changes are too. There is something missing, this city has no soul.
I won't direclty compare it to WItcher 3 because the environment is really different, but in the latter I loved just walking through a town or a village, through a field, a forest etc... you could hear the winds through the leaves, see the trees bend when it gets gusty, admire sunrise and/or sunset, building appearing out of the fog, weather effects were great and I was hoping to get the same pleasure walking through Night City, I was hoping they'd manage to create an environment that would feel as alive, albeit completely different.
And where are the creative side quests CDPR got us used to with The Witcher 3?!!!
I intend to do them all before the final main mission, but apart from "Helping the Peralez" so far I feel all I'm doing is neutralising or stealing targets, there is no interesting side story, no development... Can't believe I'm saying this but I end up quitting the game after a few of these sides quests/jobs because I'm bored.
Bugs will be fixed, don't know how long it will take but they surely will be. How Night City feels though, I don't think anything will/can be done there anymore...
There are many issues with the game, on which almost everyone is focusing right now, but I hope that once these are being dealt with, we'll start diving into the environment, and how it sadly fails to make you feel that cyberpunk world is alive.
The concept art, while being simple static images, make me feel this world more than walking through these neighbourhoods in the game. I keep trying, but I struggle to feel the environment, the atmosphere/the vibe of these neighbourhood. Everything seems too static, NPCs and their routines are dull, weather effects and changes are too. There is something missing, this city has no soul.
I won't direclty compare it to WItcher 3 because the environment is really different, but in the latter I loved just walking through a town or a village, through a field, a forest etc... you could hear the winds through the leaves, see the trees bend when it gets gusty, admire sunrise and/or sunset, building appearing out of the fog, weather effects were great and I was hoping to get the same pleasure walking through Night City, I was hoping they'd manage to create an environment that would feel as alive, albeit completely different.
And where are the creative side quests CDPR got us used to with The Witcher 3?!!!
I intend to do them all before the final main mission, but apart from "Helping the Peralez" so far I feel all I'm doing is neutralising or stealing targets, there is no interesting side story, no development... Can't believe I'm saying this but I end up quitting the game after a few of these sides quests/jobs because I'm bored.
Bugs will be fixed, don't know how long it will take but they surely will be. How Night City feels though, I don't think anything will/can be done there anymore...
If you don't want to get even more disappointed in this game, NEVER OPEN THE IN-GAME ENCYCLOPEDIA! Don't look there, don't read anything there. Because when you start doing this, you begin to understand how much of the game has been cut.
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY! Why did you leave this in the encyclopedia? Why did you give us the opportunity to read this? What would give players even more phantom pain from the cut content? It's just one line of text, why did you leave it in the game?
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
>You don't realy know the city until you've taken a ride on the NCART
ARE YOU SERIOUSLY! Why did you leave this in the encyclopedia? Why did you give us the opportunity to read this? What would give players even more phantom pain from the cut content? It's just one line of text, why did you leave it in the game?
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Here's a real "nice-to-know" detail: YOU CAN'T DRAW YOUR WEAPONS IN THE DEWDROP INN! (Serious Side Effects Side Gig). I made a change to my control scheme before entering and lost my mind trying to figure out what I had done wrong. I get why, given a very small and insignificant thing you can discover there, but if you're going to prohibit weapons in any area, the player needs to be informed in their HUD, not just have the ability to draw weapons completely disappear without explanation!
I was randomly double jumping around the Kabuki overpass area, when I managed to climb up on the NCART tracks and saw an actual NCART train go by. For a second I thought it would kill me on impact, but then I realized I was on the 'safer' side of the track. I also think it might be interesting if these carts become active at some point to allow players to jump around on the tracks, and...well...get electrocuted as superconductive mag-rail devices tend to do.
Its in the game, but not as an interactive element. Try looking around a little? -w
It seems every area is the Combat Zone these days.
But I must admit I am stunned at how different they made all of the districts. I remember when I entered the suburbs and after so much wandering through Night City, I was like, "What the hell is this? HOUSES? In Night City? Who the hell paid for all of this?"