CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.0 + Phantom Liberty Expansion Thread

[AwesomeButton]

Fair enough, but Elden Ring doesn't touch the budget bracket of Cyberpunk, BGIII (the counter example I was thinking of), Witcher 3, the Assassin's Creed almost-RPGs, etc.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Baldur's Gate 3 has so many dialogue scenes and cutscenes that it doesn't seem terribly different from The Witcher III in this regard, as opposed to other aspects such as combat.

 

[moon knight]

i decided to give combat mods a go. After very long 2min research ive settled on hardcore22v2, went with katana.
Its quite surreal. Everyone dies on single quick slash so no finisher is ever going to happen. Red skulls need like 2 slashes.
If you start jedi blocking bullets then enemies will die to their own shoots faster than you run out of stamina. Assuming you keep at it for a while, lower hp pool means that they get staggered after each returned shot.
Grenades kill people.
Since enemies die on single strike, its possible to run very fast and clear room of people without alerting anyone.

As such it makes game easier for experienced player?

I like the concept of killing fast and dying fast, but hardcore is seriously unbalanced. You can achieve the same results with a combination of mods

 

[AwesomeButton]

Baldur's Gate 3 has so many dialogue scenes and cutscenes that it doesn't seem terribly different from The Witcher III in this regard, as opposed to other aspects such as combat.

The sad thing about BG3 is that it's a playable version of the RPG Ages of Man. It starts out like a PnP adventure flawlessly translated to PC in Act 1, then in Act 2 it declines into a long Dragon Age Origins chapter, feeling great in terms of atmosphere, but ultimately too talkative and narrative-heavy, taking away the player's freedom to compose and tell the story in his own style through his roleplaying and interaction with the systems. Finally in Act 3 it declines into an unremarkable, mediocre, overwritten, unpolished and unfinished modern "spiritual successor", which counts mostly on name-dropping household names from the series and the player's completionism urge to get him to the end.

 

[Lord_Potato]

Fair enough, but Elden Ring doesn't touch the budget bracket of Cyberpunk, BGIII (the counter example I was thinking of), Witcher 3, the Assassin's Creed almost-RPGs, etc.

I'm sure Cyberpunk's budget was larger (over 400 million $ with expansion) but Witcher 3? This game was much cheaper

 

[AwesomeButton]

Fair enough, but Elden Ring doesn't touch the budget bracket of Cyberpunk, BGIII (the counter example I was thinking of), Witcher 3, the Assassin's Creed almost-RPGs, etc.

I'm sure Cyberpunk's budget was larger (over 400 million $ with expansion) but Witcher 3? This game was much cheaper

You are right, Witcher 3 seems to have cost around 30-something million USD. Even if you double that for inflation, Elden Ring was.... 200 million?

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Half of that was Keanu's salary though.

 

[Fatberg Slim]

I recently finished this plus Phantom Liberty. The game has already been discussed to death so I thought I’d just share some minor things that I appreciated and that I’ll probably still remember a few years from now:

- Being able to wipe out the Voodoo Boyz after you’re done with them. Given how railroaded the majority of the game was to this point, I was honestly surprised I was allowed to do this
- “Rust in piss, shitbot!”
- Songbird's ass . No wonder she was able to manipulate V so easily after 3 minutes of following her around!
- Finding the shovel that the Caretaker boss used in Witcher 3 HoS. This fight prompted one of my favorite Geralt moments of the entire series
- Panam's consistency as a needy bitch throughout the entire game and ending
- The quest line with the guy who wants to be crucified like Jesus, particularly how it was treated more or less seriously and not just for laughs

 

[Tehdagah]