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This just in: The US is freaking Huge.

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Eurogamer published impressions after 40 hours or so.

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2020-12-07-cyberpunk-2077-review-impressions

The title also can’t help but mention the bugs: “Beyond the bombast and the bugs, Cyberpunk 2077 has a very human heart”

Lots of reading to do after work tonight.

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From the Gamespot review:

Then I’d get out of the car and hear one of the oft-repeated advertisements blaring out onto the street and quickly snap out of the reverie of driving. There’s one ad that’s just a man making a long, exaggerated orgasm sound that tended to pierce through any conversation I was having.

0.o

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Ouch…

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I tried reading that article but couldn’t get through the 6-7 opening paragraphs obsessing about transgenders. No disrespect and all but WTF kind of game review is that?

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If Polygon hated it, we can all breathe a sigh of relief.

So I guess plenty of reviewers got copies? Maybe they didn’t send them to randos due to the bugs. Established reviewers might be easier to sweet talk? Not to fudge the number but to cut them some slack.

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My opinion is the trans stuff should be kept out of the reviews for a game, same as crunch and other corporate level issues. Reviews for the game should be about the game.

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My buddy just sent me the pic of the headline, I don’t think I’ve ever read a Polygon review. Are they uniquely awful in some way?

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Hmm.

" It also bears a mention: Cyberpunk 2077 is phenomenally buggy. I played a pre-release build that was updated during the review period, and there’s a day-one patch planned as well, but the scale of technical issues is too large to reasonably expect immediate fixes. I encountered some kind of bug on every mission I went on, from more common, funnier ones like characters randomly T-posing to several complete crashes. I didn’t notice much of an improvement after the update, either. In a very late-game, very important fight, the game froze on me–twice. I ended up taking a break out of frustration before attempting, and finally succeeding, the third time."

I’m not sure I DO want to play this at release. It’s going be about impossible not to but I really think I need to wait a few weeks for patching least I get too annoyed. Every mission? Uggh. This may get ugly.

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A lot of chatter about the bugs - a lot of which came through in the leaks of course - followed up with a lot of confusion about this large 50gig patch that dropped during the review period and whether or not there will be an additional “Day 1” patch on release day.

Via PCGamer:

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Too bad, really. It is a surprisingly positive review of the game.

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My favorite part from the Eurogamer feature (the only one I’ve read so far):

This is where Cyberpunk gets messy again, and where its objectives become less clear: does it want to be the back-alley techno pimp, the one that’s proud of its vulgarity, out to sell you on the sordidness of the world, full of base and low-brow pleasures; or does it want to tell a story in that world, pitting you against it? After a few days with it I’m still holding out for the latter, but I’m still not entirely sure if I know - and still not sure if CD Projekt really does, either.

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For fucks sake, that Polygon reviewer has 2 articles:

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Agenda much?

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I think there is room to mention it if you feel it wasn’t an accurate representation or a non believable character/what not but to go and on for 7 paragraphs in an opening game “review”. No thanks.

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That is not a complete list of Carolyn’s work at Polygon, in case anyone cares.

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Oops my mistake. I was on the ‘recent’ tab.

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Sounds like I should give this a couple more post-release patches before firing it up. Gives me time to play Yakuza 7 and wait for an RTX 30X0 to become available.

2952

Well the reviews worked. I pre-ordered the game, something I haven’t done in about a decade.

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I mean… that’s cyberpunk. Stuck in the 90s. Like dad rock.

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I think of it like this:

I have a toddler, and like lots of new parents I am incredibly sensitive to narratives where children are in danger. If I was playing a game that at every turn was about toddlers getting abused, it would take up a lot more of my review space than it might for someone else.

If it effects your enjoyment of the game, it makes sense to be in your review. Someone can always go to IGN for a review that tells you the graphics are 9.5/10 and the sound is 7.5/10.