I want more than some basic game of the year edition. Gomorrah looks like you should be able to go inside, yet it is closed and guarded by a bouncer. In some promo material, a braindance option is seen in V's apartment. In another trailer, we see a man leaving V's apartment after she had a one night stand. We cannot call escorts to the apartment in the final game. We can actually buy braindances, but they are just junk items. The devs mentioned acid rain and other things they never incorporated in the final release. So much in the final game and in the marketing material screams cut content. I want all of the additional content that they planned but were not able to incorporate due to a tight schedule. Not saying the game isn't good, because it is at a fundamental level, but at the moment it feels like there is a lot of wasted potential here.
I wish we had the option for one night stands. Why can't we meet Meredith again? Why can't we just be fuck buddies with River? Why not have the option to pick up randos instead of joytoys? Not everyone wants to settle down, especially being a mercenary where death can come in any mission.
This. A game belonging of this setting should have that feature. Hell, The Witcher games had their fair share of one night stands.
Honestly, I doubt you'll see any new content, or major changes, they sort of already offered a "Complete Edition" because they have/had a preorder/purchase bundle that is the base game plus PL, which was even on sale at one point during preorder, so it was both for like $60,
IF they do put out an official or separate GOTY/Complete/Ultimate edition. I'd assume anything they add as bonus content would be pretty small, something like a new car, a unique cosmetic item/outfit, and maybe one or 2 side gigs, just to add a little something.
Having said that knowing that TW3 got a next gen upgrade years after release and it added a significant amount of content and changes, IF they really go all out on a special edition of some sort things I'd like to see considered are:
1. New apartment or House,
2. More immersive side interactions, similar to what mods have added, have a drink with a friend, actually have interactions with partner not just the same 3 dialogue options after you get the key to their apartment, things like that.
3. A decently interesting side quest chain, like 3-5 small scale missions that all tell one story. Maybe an interesting new character, or something that references the larger CP world (Edgerunners, Tabletop Games, Books Etc...)
4. Better Mod integration, on console I know it's never gonna be full mod support, but maybe add some optional mods/features/settings like they did with TW3 next gen update.
5. Functional Metro/Cab/AV system, more dense/realistic pedestrians something a bit more interesting than just fast travel points. The lore supports it so it just about implementation. Just overall making the city a bit more alive, Maybe even opening up some businesses for some simple interactions like bar/clubs/stores....
6. Brain Dances that are just for entertainment, honestly could be just a few short funny 3-5 min clips, or a short anime, anything that isn't directly mission related. I'm sure some people would want more "Adult" BDs, but I'd personally be happy with just anything that adds a bit of flavor or lore.
Those would be my top list, and for what it's worth I would still expect the other more "Realistic expectations" I had listed above, I'd expect them way before the rest of my list, but my list would be a really nice bonus. But knowing they're going to be opening 2 new studios/offices and working on at least 1 Witcher game and CP Orion simultaneously, as well as any other projects going on, I doubt we'll see much more work on CP2077.
IF they do put out an official or separate GOTY/Complete/Ultimate edition. I'd assume anything they add as bonus content would be pretty small, something like a new car, a unique cosmetic item/outfit, and maybe one or 2 side gigs, just to add a little something.
Having said that knowing that TW3 got a next gen upgrade years after release and it added a significant amount of content and changes, IF they really go all out on a special edition of some sort things I'd like to see considered are:
1. New apartment or House,
2. More immersive side interactions, similar to what mods have added, have a drink with a friend, actually have interactions with partner not just the same 3 dialogue options after you get the key to their apartment, things like that.
3. A decently interesting side quest chain, like 3-5 small scale missions that all tell one story. Maybe an interesting new character, or something that references the larger CP world (Edgerunners, Tabletop Games, Books Etc...)
4. Better Mod integration, on console I know it's never gonna be full mod support, but maybe add some optional mods/features/settings like they did with TW3 next gen update.
5. Functional Metro/Cab/AV system, more dense/realistic pedestrians something a bit more interesting than just fast travel points. The lore supports it so it just about implementation. Just overall making the city a bit more alive, Maybe even opening up some businesses for some simple interactions like bar/clubs/stores....
6. Brain Dances that are just for entertainment, honestly could be just a few short funny 3-5 min clips, or a short anime, anything that isn't directly mission related. I'm sure some people would want more "Adult" BDs, but I'd personally be happy with just anything that adds a bit of flavor or lore.
Those would be my top list, and for what it's worth I would still expect the other more "Realistic expectations" I had listed above, I'd expect them way before the rest of my list, but my list would be a really nice bonus. But knowing they're going to be opening 2 new studios/offices and working on at least 1 Witcher game and CP Orion simultaneously, as well as any other projects going on, I doubt we'll see much more work on CP2077.
It wouldn't hurt CDPR to make more quality of life features. This has been talked about for a while. It wouldn't take them too long to do because they've already integrated some pf these features for missions. It would just take some fine tuning to make it playable.
GAMBLING: Roulette was fun. but how about a full game of poker, blackjack, Texas Hold' em or Baccarat? It would be fun to see CDPR fine tune a decent computer gambling AI, that cannot be guessed as easy as the roulette table in the Black Sapphire. Actually taking time to consider what's in your hand vs what's in the deck would be fun. Neat way to earn passive income outside of doing side missions. If V doesn't want to go to the casino, there would be an online website where V signs in to play people around the country. Some of these players could be characters that were referenced in the lore or NPCs we've met in Night City.
APARTMENTS: Better apartments are probably the top of the list. For high price eddies, there should have been better apartments and quality of life inside of them. Each apartment needed it's own feel. Let's consider playstyles when it comes to the design and interactable items. A Japanese style apartment, should have aided towards V's mitigation. Therefore, a JAPANESE-ZEN APARTMENT, would have had sliding doors and a meditation feature. This gives your apartment greater purpose to your preferred playstyle. Other themes may cater towards crafting perks or netrunning.
CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION: There is still an opportunity for ripperdocs to have quality of life purposes. I'd consider it immersive if additional customization features were added specifically for their shops. As we know, V starts off rather vanilla in the base game character customization. Once V escapes the apartment with Takemura, ripperdocs will now provide additional customization options that were not available in the mirror or start of the game. Some of these options may include many of the enhanced appearance options that are included in VTK, spawn00000 body mod 2.0 and xBaebsae. Additional tattoos, hairstyles and etc would also be available at ripperdoc locations.
BRAINDANCES: We all expect this feature to be in the next game, but why not give us a little taste. I'd introduce this feature to the current by allowing gamers to use the BD feature as a IN-GAME RECORDING FEATURE. The lore mentions that braindances were introduced for the military for training exercises. Similar to the IN-GAME PHOTO MODE, braindances could work similar. Capture unique in game action without having to activate your computer's graphics card capture would be rather cool.
GAMBLING: Roulette was fun. but how about a full game of poker, blackjack, Texas Hold' em or Baccarat? It would be fun to see CDPR fine tune a decent computer gambling AI, that cannot be guessed as easy as the roulette table in the Black Sapphire. Actually taking time to consider what's in your hand vs what's in the deck would be fun. Neat way to earn passive income outside of doing side missions. If V doesn't want to go to the casino, there would be an online website where V signs in to play people around the country. Some of these players could be characters that were referenced in the lore or NPCs we've met in Night City.
APARTMENTS: Better apartments are probably the top of the list. For high price eddies, there should have been better apartments and quality of life inside of them. Each apartment needed it's own feel. Let's consider playstyles when it comes to the design and interactable items. A Japanese style apartment, should have aided towards V's mitigation. Therefore, a JAPANESE-ZEN APARTMENT, would have had sliding doors and a meditation feature. This gives your apartment greater purpose to your preferred playstyle. Other themes may cater towards crafting perks or netrunning.
CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION: There is still an opportunity for ripperdocs to have quality of life purposes. I'd consider it immersive if additional customization features were added specifically for their shops. As we know, V starts off rather vanilla in the base game character customization. Once V escapes the apartment with Takemura, ripperdocs will now provide additional customization options that were not available in the mirror or start of the game. Some of these options may include many of the enhanced appearance options that are included in VTK, spawn00000 body mod 2.0 and xBaebsae. Additional tattoos, hairstyles and etc would also be available at ripperdoc locations.
BRAINDANCES: We all expect this feature to be in the next game, but why not give us a little taste. I'd introduce this feature to the current by allowing gamers to use the BD feature as a IN-GAME RECORDING FEATURE. The lore mentions that braindances were introduced for the military for training exercises. Similar to the IN-GAME PHOTO MODE, braindances could work similar. Capture unique in game action without having to activate your computer's graphics card capture would be rather cool.
Not having the "summon vehicle" button randomly stop working forcing me to save/reload the game would be a good start.
