I basically didn't follow CP2077 development at all, other than hearing vaguely about the game's existence and something about choosing your own genitals. One day I learned that it came out and I bought it on Stadia and thought it was beautiful and really playable. I went maybe a good ten years since I last played a 3D FPS game and the magnitude of the production value that went into the game completely blew me away.
In addition to being visually stunning it has some pretty great storytelling and although some of it is cheesy and cringe (feels like 190% too PC at times), some of it's really clever and edgy and original. Like crucifying that guy. Wtf lol.
That was 2 years ago. Stadia announced it was shutting down recently, and I was reminded that the game exists. Now I have a beefy Windows PC with a respectable GPU so I bought the game again, last week, just because it felt right to have it. I even played it for a bit, and thought "huh, yup. still remarkable".
I assume all of the complaints about CP2077 are from very online types who are impossible to please. But perhaps I'm a simpleton and there are much better games out there I should spend my time on.
Oh well. Can't wait for the expansion packs and sequel.
Yeah, I was blissfully unaware. I did notice some glitches but they went away after exit/restart. Like some Johnny Silverhand flashback guitar riff never stopped playing and was still going on 20 minutes later. Minor stuff.
Kind of a tangent but I feel like I have to tell this to someone: the only part of the game that seems far-fetched to me was that they managed to build so many more skyscrapers in an American city by the year 2077.
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I basically didn't follow CP2077 development at all, other than hearing vaguely about the game's existence and something about choosing your own genitals. One day I learned that it came out and I bought it on Stadia and thought it was beautiful and really playable. I went maybe a good ten years since I last played a 3D FPS game and the magnitude of the production value that went into the game completely blew me away.
In addition to being visually stunning it has some pretty great storytelling and although some of it is cheesy and cringe (feels like 190% too PC at times), some of it's really clever and edgy and original. Like crucifying that guy. Wtf lol.
That was 2 years ago. Stadia announced it was shutting down recently, and I was reminded that the game exists. Now I have a beefy Windows PC with a respectable GPU so I bought the game again, last week, just because it felt right to have it. I even played it for a bit, and thought "huh, yup. still remarkable".
I assume all of the complaints about CP2077 are from very online types who are impossible to please. But perhaps I'm a simpleton and there are much better games out there I should spend my time on.
Oh well. Can't wait for the expansion packs and sequel.
Yeah, I was blissfully unaware. I did notice some glitches but they went away after exit/restart. Like some Johnny Silverhand flashback guitar riff never stopped playing and was still going on 20 minutes later. Minor stuff.
Kind of a tangent but I feel like I have to tell this to someone: the only part of the game that seems far-fetched to me was that they managed to build so many more skyscrapers in an American city by the year 2077.
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