They could have had the episodes tie in with Edgerunners. Also, the BDs in the background of one episode implied Edgerunners would have like 33 episodes or at least multiple seasons, so I don't know what happened behind the scenes. Maybe the plan was to have multiple series with different casts of characters all under the Edgerunners label, which would be better than dragging out David's storyline over years like Naruto or some shit
This is one of the few questlines I didn't play in CBP, is this aspect of it a genuinely "challenging" implementation? Does it handle "the option to back away" in a particularly novel and creative manner? Because when I generally think about "the option to back away" from a quest, it tends to boil down to the word "No", optionally followed by either "thanks" or "fuck you."
Miles better than: stand there and do nothing until the PC comes back and advances the quest like every other game.
From what I recall it's one of the quests in that actually gives you several ways in which you can back off of it or keep pushing through with characters on it reacting to it all the way. Then again it also literally cheats you at the start by always killing an NPC you're supposed to escort and making the guy killing him invulnerable until he does so.
Plenty of those in Cyberpunk. And plenty of quests that force you to make on-the-spot decisions in other games. What I'm getting at is that, from what I've heard - and do correct me if I'm wrong - the only real variability in the quest is whether you go through with it or not. So, technically, I've kinda "done" the quest just by opting not to do it altogether. Hell, by that measure, there's a dog across the street that's done this Cyberpunk quest.
The reason I'm picking a bone here is just that I get the impression that it's another instance of writing getting conflated with narrative design. I constantly hear that this quest is very well written and impactful, and that's fair enough, but the agency seems to ultimately come down to "watch movie-game" or "don't watch movie-game", and I'm loath to give credit for that in an RPG. Think of it in contrast to TW3's "star" questline, the Bloody Baron's, where Geralt is afforded some interesting actual agency on the outcome.
The Sinnerman quest is just a cutscene simulator with minimal player interaction, different from many other quests of that nature only in its prolonged duration and the repeated offers for the player to terminate the quest (which would then resolve itself without the presence of the PC).
You'd be correct, it's bad Bioware quest design elevated by engaging subject matter.
wait for dlc, if it delivers then we will get proper character progression?
A lot of the game is like that though. The game relies a lot on showing you an in-game cutscene to tell the story, this isn't exclusive to Sinnerman.
This expansion wont change the nature of the game, it remains being a David Cage movie-game but with less options with some optional Far Cry gameplay on an amazing looking Hollywood set town of a city that makes you wonder what if someone else made a good game with those assets.
Nope, it is absolute shit but it was the last time CDPR was kinda serious at trying making a RPG.
it borders programmer-art with prefabs and AO breaking left&right. It's amazing techno-fetishism and sunk cost fallacy have this much hold on people.
From playing ~300 hours, I'd say wait for the expansion, and then consider what gameplay-affecting mods you still need, after the expansion.
