ToadMan
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The game mechanics are all stuff we've seen before? What game has mechanics that you've never seen before in any other game? And is that really a prerequisite for you to enjoy a game? You can't enjoy a game unless it has mechanics you've NEVER seen before? You must not play many games.
And what about the world building is incomplete?
Why not say something instead of saying nothing?
Then what's the problem with this game?
Explain in detail.
A game that’s been in development for 8 years from the studio that made Witcher 3.
Yeah I was expecting innovation.
If they couldn’t manage innovation, I was expecting a deep and detailed world, many choices, good writing and a coherent gameplay loop.
Ya know, an evolution of what they did with W3.
This ain’t any of those - it neither innovates nor evolves previous work. This is what I might expect as a first game from a new studio.
I think right now this game is like an alpha with the main story and side story implemented, but all the other stuff still waiting to be activated. This may as well have been a story game and remove the RPG bits.
There’s no customisation of your character, no proper emergent gameplay (unless collecting funny bug gifs counts), no interactivity at all outside of the main and side quests, a small world with not much to explore and most stuff is easily done as a straight shooter. The RPG options are limited to 3 back stories and while the character customisation is ok if you like to snicker at genitalia, all those options mean nothing in the gameplay and you can’t even go get a haircut.
On top of that this cyberpunk version of the future doesn’t capture many of the elements it should. Visit the afterlife bar and there’s an emergency going on that seems to never get solved lol. The player doesn’t get to do any netrunning. The “detective” work is a waste of time. Even the breach mode “hacking” is a joke of a mini game.
I could have understood a game that was breaking new ground ending up being rushed out broken. But this is a by the numbers effort and is still incomplete and buggy.
I will say that I like the Johnny character and those interactions are keeping me playing - or were, I actually fell asleep playing it last night so I’ll move on to something else for a while.
EDIT: Oh and the main story introduces time pressure and then the designers thought the player would ignore that and just go do side quests - thematically it doesn’t make sense for the character to do that stuff given the scenario.
Maybe in a few years it will be decent - by then it’ll have taken 10 or 11 years to produce.
There’s too many genuinely good, innovative and deep games competing with this - I can’t give it a pass when other studios got major releases out this year that are complete and better.
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