But I think this is were there is a huge difference in how people understand or accept these things.
Imagine this, I make a game showing a really cool trailer with bullets flying, explosions and all the right stuff. And then in the trailer, say that this is going to be a FPS with all kinds of cool stuff. Then when you get the game, there is one mission where you play in FP and shoot stuff. Technically I didn't lie, because there is one mission in the game where you do this. And I think this is the issue people have with what CDPR said, they made it sound like the game contained all these cool features and that they were part of the game mechanics.
But to me, that doesn't fly, its sort of like them saying that you can drive tanks and dive etc. And then its one mission each, otherwise its just pointless. It becomes more of a checklist of how many things can we tell people are in the game and just do a one off so we can use it as a marketing scam. Exactly the same with the penis size, why on Earth would they show that and promote it as being an option if it have absolutely nothing to do with the game. Why not let V customize each individual toe and highlight that as a feature, showing how detailed the customization is? As the guy said in the video, you have more customization options for your private parts than you have for the general look of your body, like fat, height etc. Yet it have absolutely no impact in the game, but sure we can check that box and promote it as an illusion of how in depth the customization is and fool people into thinking that it matters.
That there are no wall climbing is fair enough, if they believe that it would ruin the game.
The promises are in all the content CDPR released, you don't have to listen to any YTer or anyone else, simply watch their own content and listen to what they are saying.
But CP have even less than most game, yet they promoted it as one of the hottest feature of CP, shape your own future, no two games are alike, the dev saying that he could talk 50 minutes about how much of an impact lifepath have in the game, when it has nothing at all, there is nothing to talk about. To me, it seems that people that defend CDPR, don't care or even listen to what they themselves said about the game and how they promoted and promised these things. Again, if all these things were just what they thought would be cool, make it 100% clear, that they were simply talking about a dream, but that these things would have nothing to do with the game they were working on.
Lots of games have linear stories and still have more branching than CP have, but they don't promote their games as something that it is not. And a linear story can be fine, lots of games have huge success with it.
It makes a huge difference, this is exactly why NC is a city filled with zombies, and it makes it less believable. The moment you interact with it, the illusion crumbles. The city looks believable, but all life in it, is not. NPC are zombies, the traffic completely unbelievable, the police. Nothing in NC except how it looks are believable, because of the poor AI.
Agree, the difference is that this is a Cyberpunk game, where we know that people can modifier their bodies, so armor could be linked to this, rather than the clothing. And make the clothing have its own system that relate to the original RPG game, where style is hugely important.
But it is based on a RPG where stats are important. That doesn't mean that they have to completely copy/paste it, but it does make sense to at least make use of it in some meaningful way. And no one say that you have to min/max, especially in CP, because you are going to be a God regardless of what stats you have. As long as you can use a smart rifle, tech rifle or quick hacks, rest doesn't matter. My character were not min/maxed at all, had almost all skill points in crafting and still I could kill everything with ease, skull or no skull didn't matter, and I played on Very hard.While a 'costume' bar that takes priority (so you can wear whatever you want for stats), like in many MMOs, might be interesting, you can certainly have nice stats and looking good currently. Not everyone is all about mix/maxing
Well you didn't really have the option to care about him.
Nothing in the story is about V.
V screws up in the heist and is forced into the story, you have nothing invested in Smasher which is hired to defend against criminals like V. You decided to break in at Arasaka and on the way out, decide to kill lots of people. You happen to throw the chip in your head, which forces you into a story by which you know you are already going to end up dying. Silverhand is just a terrorist that hate corporations, got caught after killing thousands of people and punished for it and for some reason blame Smasher for something he did, and now he want revenge. He is a complete lunatic. V have no reason to help Silverhand, except in some "never going to work" plan which we already know fairly quickly is not going to work. So then V want to take it out on Arasaka, despite it being V that is the criminal.
It is bold of CDPR to make you play as one, that is for sure. But V have absolutely no justification for doing what they do, you are a scumbag as V. But nicely packed in as if you are the good guy.
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