God I’m so excited for this game. I felt this way about Deus Ex Human Revolution back before it came out. But I realise my expectations were probably too high for the tech of the time. I have moved those previous expectations onto this game and I really love cdpr and think they can pull it off but it will be so difficult.
For me, the thing that broke the deus ex remakes was the linear nature of the multiple choices. I don’t know how to describe this probably because it’s just going to sound stupid. But they gave us all these paths to choose yet we had to think of the way the developer wanted us to do things and figure out the ideas they had, yet when you have another idea to do something and it’s not incorporated by the devs the engine hadn’t been created to allow for these differences. For example I wanna break a bottle on a table to get a guards attention and I can’t do it. I wanna break down a wall with c4 and go in behind them. I wanna climb walls and buildings from bottom to top so I can take some enemies from the outside rather than going through the whole inside of the building.
I just really hope that everything is fully interactive and I just don’t know if that’s even possible. I felt fully absorbed into RDR2s world and I feel like they really pulled off something incredible there, yet as amazing and incredible as that world was the game was insanely linear. Basically I loved the hunting, the collecting and the overworld but didn’t love the missions they were pretty boring to me (but I don’t like westerns much so that plays a big part in that regard).
CP2077 is based on choice and CDPR are pioneers in that branching choice based gameplay which makes me incredibly excited I just hope the engine and physics are as interactive and complex as the quest and path choices. If I can’t pick up every lose bottle, piece of paper, cardboard box or trash I find in the world I’m probably gonna be disappointed (not fully disappointed as in not love the game just disappointed that the tech hasn’t come far enough for me yet).
I am probably going to love it but I’m bound to be disappointed to some extent because I can’t talk to any random mod in the game and say the words that I wanna say not what the devs choose for me. My expectations are probably too high and it will probably take 10 or 20 years for the AI based path creation gets complex enough for what I want from a game.
This is what I get for listening to all these LITRPG audiobooks I want my experiences to be like those fictional VR worlds. I am just hoping that this game is going to be a huge step in the direction I want and the gameplay will allow me to be free to experiment with missions in many different ways using my own ideas that the devs may not have planned for. So far the only game that has truly come close to what I want in this regard is BOTW but the game is limited by its relatively non complex nature. CP2077 is ridiculously complex in a city with technology and it will be so much more difficult to pull off but I feel like they’ve always come through in the past I hope it will be the same this time as well.
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