Great news that they delayed it. By the time it’s released I may have an opening to play and need a game for my PS5. But wow, I just realized that it’d hit when I already have GT released. Different types of games, for sure, but GT is a time sink.
morlac
6392
They can’t get out next gen Witcher 3.5 (they delayed the nex gen version of it as well) apparently the old girls still has some milk so Witcher 4 is a ways off I would guess.
MrTibbs
6393
Tim Rogers returns after a nine month absence with a seven-part Cyberpunk review.
That seems like a lot of parts. What’s the tl;dr?
MrTibbs
6395
It’s been out for about 30 minutes, so no one knows yet.
stusser
6396
Seven parts, obviously one video was insufficient to express the degree to which he loved the game.
MrTibbs
6397
I was mistaken. There’s a hidden, unlisted eighth part for the conclusion. No wonder it took forever to finish this project.
Edit: I’m making my way through the intro video and his long detours into his personal history, hoping for a Blade Runner GTA game since 2001, and the absurd/wholly unnecessary background research he put into making this long-form essay is quite entertaining. The framing device he’s applied to the structure is quite novel. Rogers has set it up as a choose your own path-style adventure, similar to Cyberpunk’s multiple choice endings, so you’re encouraged to pick one of the key features below and then jump to the bottom line.
“I don’t want to hear any complaints that this video is longer than the last one. If you watch it correctly, it’s not!”
At first, I was like, “oh, it’s just over an hour. I guess Tim is slipping.”
Then I saw the playlist.
Q: Didn’t you test old-gen consoles to keep tabs on the experience?
A: We did. As it turned out, our testing did not show many of the crashes you experienced while playing the game. As we got closer to launch, we saw significant improvements each and every day, and we really believed we’d deliver in the final day zero update.
Sorry, CDPR. I will never believe the bolded bit. There is no way you played the pre or launch version on the last-gen consoles and didn’t run into a ton of bugs right out of the gate.
In theory, I could understand in-house devs and testers sticking closely to a critical path and only fixing things that were noticed on that path… But that would still be unconscionable for an open-world game.
Yes, this part had made me laugh.
stusser
6403
If you replace “believed” with “fervently hoped and prayed and halfway-convinced ourselves it would happen”, I’d buy that.
jpinard
6404
What’s next gen version? Special for PS5?
I wouldn’t. They’re lying through their teeth.
If they were talking about PC it’d be slightly more believable, but with consoles they’re using the same hardware everyone else is using, so yeah, I’m not buying it either. I rarely say this about a dev, but they certainly do seem to be lying in this case.
Dejin
6407
Yes. PS5 and Series X|S specific versions.
There’s a new roadmap out today which is less specific than any we’ve seen previously. It basically says “see you sometime next year”. So don’t hold out any hope of patches or content until the next gen version is released. I think it’s fair to infer they are going for a re-release / director’s apology edition.
Jazar
6409
Still better than Star Citizen’s roadmap!
