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[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This goal is laid out in one of the job descriptions the publisher's just put out as it seeks to recruit folks to beef up the team working on the Cyberpunk sequel - codenamed Project Orion - at the CD Projekt's relatively new Boston studio.

It's not like they said that in a marketing context; they set it as a goal. Scraping job postings seems a little disingenuous. Job postings always sound like that.

[–] aciDC14@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, nah. Not falling for it.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

The PC Parts industry basically stopped making new hardware for games so we should pretty much give up on the notion of things improving substantially past this point.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

It’ll move in the direction of local rendering, with cloud “AI” powered elements

[–] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Look, cyberpunk ended up (after some years) being a good game, but that doesn't mean I'll ever trust them again

[–] Croquette@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I will wait to buy it a few years after release. Not getting burned this time around.

[–] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Yeah i'll believe that claim when i see it.

Sorry but the 2077 release had it's consequences.

[–] Superheavy@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I'll believe it when I see it this time.

[–] Lootboblin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

It’s going to be fun to watch 20 same looking NPCs with same looking clothes living their daily lives with schedules, again.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 9 points 1 day ago

This announcement changes everything! I'm gonna send them my money right now

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 87 points 2 days ago
[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 73 points 2 days ago

This is exactly what they said about the OG game and they even spoofed a gameplay trailer to lie about it.

[–] Jumi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Here we go again...

[–] Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 day ago (18 children)

Coming from the team behind the least realistic/reactive crowd system in any game to date

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Yeah I don't believe a single thing CDPR says anymore. I'm still waiting for them to release the patch that makes your decisions in Cyberpunk actually matter. Fool me once.

[–] darkkite@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

they didn't really boast it as the title would imply. it's a job posting so my take is that it's more aspirational or setting a target.

patch that makes your decisions in Cyberpunk actually matter

I would like more consequences like the pickup mission where you have to think of actual factions but the game offers a lot of choice.

Most choice is gameplay and build related where you have multiple methods of completing an objective and many times you can go out of order. This is in stark contrast to gta which has better sandboxes but much less gameplay choice is missions.

Even still there are things like taking out Jotaro in the one gig affects the dialog with Woodman later, playing as corpo allows you to skip the infiltration for the arasaka float, judy or maiko for clouds, and the endings are all as powerful as they are varied. I would still say your choices matter as even your chosen sex affects romance options. Phantom liberty expansion elevate the gigs and choices a bit more. For example the sphere hunter gig where you infiltrate the ncpd headquarters adds a check at the end if you went lethal or not. If the main boss can't detect their biomonitors then you can't leave without a fight (though i also encountered a bug here).

For the sequel i definitely want more reacting NPCs more dynamic open world behavior vs map icon hunting, and more consequences that are also faction-based like maelstrom vs militech

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[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago

i need to buy a computer one day so i can play all these games everyone spends money on and hates

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 55 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Cool, now it's just 8 years of waiting for release and then just 4 more until they make it playable

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Which validates the point that buying a game on pre-sale or Day 1 is a terrible idea.

[–] k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 days ago (6 children)

With PC reviews pretty much lying about the game's performance and CDPR not allowing console reviews prior to launch, i was misled into buying it on PC day 1. IGN gave it a 9/10 and most other big reviewers werent far off.

It was pretty much a coordinated false advertisement until CDPR could get their hype money... I mean yeah they fixed it but it did take 4 years and i did already get burnt out on an inferior version of the game.

I learned my lesson then that i can only trust community reviews and that any media outlet always has an agenda.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They didn't fix it. There's some interesting writing there but other than that, none of the original promises came to fruition. The cops still teleport (just a little further away), the crowds are still dumb as shit (worse than GTA3) and react inconsistently and erratically. Your choices don't really matter till the last mission. The game's image has been rehabilitated because NVIDIA spent millions to use it as benchmark for its tech and owners of NV cards need to post-hoc rationalise having sold that kidney to buy a GPU. The game is still meh, a bastardisation of cyberpunk mythos. It's very pretty but, shallow as fuck. Play KCD, that's an RPG series that deserves the name RPG.

[–] CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no clue how people have been convinced that cyberpunk is the game that was promised. Its a good game from what I understand but it is not anything close to the game that was promised pre-launch. I actually think that it was the anime more than NVIDIA that helped rehabilitate its image.

[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Very likely the anime helped. I wouldn't even say cyberpunk is good. I played the GTA V campaign recently and with all its idiosyncratic choices it plays and is a much more advanced game than cyberpunk in everything but the graphical tech. Trevor, Michael, Frank, Lester, Lamar, Norton, just to name a few from the top of my head. I remember Jackie because he dies and Johnny because he's an annoyance, but there's very little there that's worth remembering. Misty, misty I remember too. People hate on ubisoft open worlds and then hail cyberpunk, I can't even.

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[–] Wolfram@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 day ago

Yeah yeah

Fool me once

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Did they hire Peter Molyneux?

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[–] MoogMuskie@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
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[–] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

All I want to know is how I can secondarily profit on a bunch of rubes opening their wallets again.

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 21 points 2 days ago

Where have a I heard this before? It sounds really familiar

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago

Yeah maybe just release your game without the hype this time.

[–] Belgdore@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assumed we wouldn’t be getting a sequel. I hope they are able to get one out there eventually. 2077 is has the coolest aesthetics I’ve ever seen in a game.

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Because we all know how well their promises played out for the first one...

It did get finished, eventually. Hope they stop hyping their games up like this. Just release a trailer like Witcher 4 and keep your heads down and work on it.

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