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RPS: Cyberpunk 2077's E3 demo has weak gunplay and unimaginative stereotypes
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The Witcher had an incredible world but none of the 3 games had compelling gameplay. It seems like it's improved for Cyberpunk but this opinion is somewhat worrying. I don't want to play a dull shooter for 50-100 hours just because of a good story or world, the game has to feel good for me to bother.
I know people want to give them the benefit of the doubt because they've made good games, but, man, all signs point to this game being problematic as *fuck*.
Hope Gamefly is still around next year cause this is a rent at best for me, right now.
Hope Gamefly is still around next year cause this is a rent at best for me, right now.
i can't wait for the endless "gunplay sucks" comments for years after launch. everyone loves doing it for Witcher 3 "combat sucks". lol
I'm getting an idea. Hold... Hold... It's almost like.... People can form a different opinion after learning more about something... WOOOAH
I didn't love the combat in any of the Witcher games. I was hoping they'd be able to get it right here.
Uh oohhhh....
No Sapkowski material to lean on anymore huh....
Sapkowski was pretty progressive in his books for the time.
No Sapkowski material to lean on anymore huh....
Sapkowski was pretty progressive in his books for the time.
I don't suppose a mod could explain why the thread on this was locked for "review" but hasn't been opened after 11 hours?
Well, it's true. The witcher 3 combat system is hot garbage. The modding helped to alleviate that, hell, even a cdproject red employee released a combat related mod because it... sucks.
Look if it works for you, fine. But it's bad. And I love the witcher, not gonna make any excuses for it.
Im surprised theydont team up with the Painkiller devs for the shooting mechanic cause they are also in Poland. Would make it better. With regards to progressiveness and stereotypes. Yee i kinda expected them to mess it up, they dont handle these things to well over there in Poland
Damn. I'd like to give then the benefit of the doubt, but these types of things just keep happening, first the tweets, then the trans ad, and now this, I can't help but feel the game will wind up having terrible representation and treat whatever representation they have poorly.
There's still a chance they could critique society on these matters, but given the way things have been shown, that's getting less and less likely. Plus, even if they do critique modern day discrimination, if they still include things like this, is that really saying much, or simply playing both sides?
There's still a chance they could critique society on these matters, but given the way things have been shown, that's getting less and less likely. Plus, even if they do critique modern day discrimination, if they still include things like this, is that really saying much, or simply playing both sides?
Is there really something wrong with that?
The gunplay is more disappointing but then again the Witcher action wasn't the greatest in the world. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised.
Cyberpunk as a setting has always been pretty crass - the game's motto is literally "style over substance." However, I can understand people's reluctance to extend the benefit of the doubt, especially in the context of last year's tweets.
For now, my mind is undecided, and waiting for the full context of the game.
For now, my mind is undecided, and waiting for the full context of the game.
Gunplay potentially being weak was always a concern for me going into this, Witcher 3 suffered from lackluster combat on top of input lag... it also doesn't help that this is their first big title with a first person perspective.
Hope they can polish and iterate on it from now towards release.
Hope they can polish and iterate on it from now towards release.
This is fine if the medium also uses this opportunity to point out how problematic it is. I love The Office and Michael Scott, so even the fact that Michael demonstrates a clear lack of empathy and pure ignorance, the show points out why it's problematic by showing how ridiculous his racism and homophobia is. I just really question whether CDPR are the type of developer to do this. Especially based on their twitter account statements where "they want to stay out of politics."
