Reminds me of last May, no pedestrians, no cars, maybe they’re in a pandemic.
On the plus side, PS4 players won’t see 3 identical NPCs walking together and miming each other’s actions.
Funny thing is that the city is equally empty on the PS4 Pro and PS5. It’s like they said “OK, turn everything off for PS4 version regardless of where it runs”. Which is pretty sad.
But now it runs a solid 60fps on PS5!
I think it’s a decent idea. Not that I’ve played the game myself yet, but just from all the impressions of it over the course of this thread, I feel like getting rid of pedestrians and cars would not take away much from the core game, and since those things are underdeveloped anyway, it might actually add to it by having less immersion-breaking behavior on display.
They could have leant into the pandemic storyline too. Cybervirus empties streets!
Indeed, virus affects people’s neural mods, and causes them to T-pose.
And all the bugs and glitches in the game are actually the virus messing up with your sensory input. There, fixed!
On the flip side, the ghost-town population now breaks immersion of the regular city design. Like, why are there so many sidewalk food stalls? Why so many pedestrian bridges and walkways? Who lives in the shack villages butted against the bigger buildings? Why so many highways and overpasses?
Having finished Witcher 3 for the 3rd time, I’m finding myself really, really wanting to buy this game today. Looked around first for sales, and then reviews, and the latter still seem very mixed. What does the Qt3 hive have to say?
rei
6137
It’s not worth more than half price. How much is it presently and for what platform do you plan on getting it for?
Synth
6138
I bought it and played through it recently. I thought it was fine really. Not coming into it with any expectations, I found it easier to appreciate what it tried to do rather than what it didn’t. There were bugs and glitches aplenty. Nothing that was game breaking for me, just reminders it could probably have done with more development time.
Dejin
6139
I put in about 40 hours in on the Xbox Series X right after it came out and quite enjoyed my time in Night City.
I think a lot depends on your platform and how high your expectations are. My understanding is that it still plays pretty poorly on PS4 and Xbox One and I assume you’ll want a fairly beefy PC for it.
The game is more let down by what it could have been than what it is. It’s a bit of a tragedy.
It’s not nearly as great as the marketing hyped it to be but I still enjoyed it a lot.
rei
6142
It’s a strictly linear unambitious RPG with many bugs still.
I plan on playing it on PC. Sounds like snag it for $30 and don’t expect too much is the consensus here.
rei
6145
What’s your problem? I’m not bagging on it. I’m being realistic. Fuck you with your personal attacks on me.
To be fair, I’ve enjoyed quite a few linear unambitious RPGs in my lifetime. The bugs part is quite unfortunate but I think they got most of the bad ones.
