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    Arbitrary limits on information just mean you have something to hide

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      Arbitrary limits on information just mean you have something to hide

      And even if that’s not the case for a specific game, normalizing this shit means that once you have something to hide, it’s no longer raising eyebrows.

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        I agree, but I would say that treating it as a worst case interpretation every time would lead to the best outcome.

        Never normalize hiding info from the people, and only the honest rise to to the top. Radical honesty is good for everyone.

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    Just play the free patch and if its still ass don’t buy phantom liberty. Ez

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    not letting reviewers use their own gameplay footage before release.

    We saw this before…I wonder will this time. It will have the same ending? 🍿

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    This is my experience with Cyberpunk 2077 in 2023:

    this summer, i built a new PC specifically so that I could play the game with good, stable performance. With ray-tracing on, the game would curb-stomp my RTX 3080 (not a cheap card mind) with 30 fps in the inner city. Not great, kind of disappointing.

    What followed was nothing but a never-ending stream of bugs. Feel free to sample from the smorgosbord;

    • night would shift to day in an instant

    • characters would t-pose on reload

    • characters would walk through cars like a tank and blow them up

    • npc driven cars would run through walls and cars and blow them up

    • ragdolls would flip out and fly out of bounds

    • citizens walk in circles through the streets

    • animated objects like cell phones would not disappear when put away and instead float around their bodies

    • npc driven cars would teleport forward when driven

    • lost count of how much clipping issues were present

    All this after about 5 hours of game play. It was brutal until I could take no more. And the game play is just not that fun, even though most of the characters are interesting and the story is good.

    The absolute most damning thing is that the game demands immersion, the world is built around the concept, but with a bug every 15 min throwing you out of the experience, it’s just too much.

    I’m not hopeful for this DLC.

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        Everyone’s experience will be unique, especially considering bugs, but the fact that an experience can be as bad as mine is bad enough.

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              The audacity of your comment. How dare you expect a complete game when they say it’s complete and release a “complete” game. The fuck?

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      The last time I played Cyberpunk, it was actually good fun. Game was a bit empty, and it was pretty obvious they’d been forced to cut a lot of stuff, but I played it for several hundred hours without too many bugs. Pretty and ran well on my budget pc too.

      As always, patience is a virtue.

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        I picked it up on a whim, scoffed at it after a couple of hours and never touched it again. I’ll give it a go once this update drops though.

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          That was how I started. I played less than a couple hours and got pulled away by another game. I picked it up months later, made it through the prologue, get invested in the characters, and ended up really loving it.

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          The intro/prologue is a bit slow and dense. I had to convince a friend who got bored and gave up to slog through it and get to the open game.

          He loved it by the time he finished it.

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      It feels like every corporate entity is out to sabotage themselves these days…

      TBF I don’t trust IGN anyway, they have too much finanicial incentive to do as they’re told. Maybe we need like a megathread of trustworthy reviewers.

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      Since that 1.6x is pretty stable and performant, I’d be shocked if this rollout was bad.

      That said, given 1.0’s monumentally terrible launch, and the press restrictions that hid performance problems, you’d think CDPR would be trying to be transparent AF this time around.

      I just thought it was a fascinatingly bad marketing decision that made this an interesting review worth posting. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      Right? Pre order the DLC to the game that became the poster child for “vote with your wallet or this is your future,” sure.

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    Good job cdpr, I was planning on finally actually buying this game. Now you’ve told me it’s still the same mess it’s always been, and to continue holding off. Maybe in a few more years, when I can get the full game with dlcs for less than $30.

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    A 9/10???

    IGN is such a meme.

    A 5 is average.

    They are saying this game is so good, it’s essentially flawless and beyond comparison in all areas compared to all other games.

    How much does a 9 cost?

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    I don’t understand why IGN submits to this. IGN is an American outlet, so the Fair Use policy of the DMCA applies to them.

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      It has nothing to do with DMCA. It’s not copyright infringement.

      It’s violating an NDA on an unreleased product, and even if they can’t actually get damages, the day they do it they never get a review code from anyone ever again.

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        Yeah like if IGN doesn’t follow their rules. Welp no Witcher 4/whatever its called review copy when that comes around. Even though IGN sucks its probably better to have more voices than less in the review space. Playing these stupid games set out the publishers is the only way to play since I doubt there will be any solidarity done for IGN.

        Hell I’m scheezed out by so many games doing this whole “preorder for early access” and getting around reviews. Look at Payday 3, it has done it and there are basically no critic reviews on it. Not sure if its due to an embargo or they literally didn’t even send out review copies, which isn’t a great look.