Probably the best gta4 thing about this game is your ability to engage in extreme, vicious violence with very few consequences. I was laughing my ass off earlier cuz a fixer hired me to go steal some shit from a Chinese restaurant, and there were a bunch of gangoons standing in the main room so I tossed in some grenades and blew everyone to shit, then took my time walking around executing all the roasted goons slowly dying on the floor with headshots before looting the place. Some chromed up lady in the back tried to take me in a fist fight so I just drew my handgun and blew half her head off, but she kept comingā¦ I unloaded the rest of my mag into her and her head vaporized. As Iām walking out of the place I see some tyger claw slapping up some gal on the street, and as Iām battling my SMGās halo 3 battle rifle ass muzzle climb dumping 45 rounds into him Regina calls me up to scold me for doing mild war crimes on local gangsters but you know hey job well done hereās your eddies lol. I am what I am lady, itās called wetwork, donāt hire me to go into a room full of armed bad men unless you want me to measure up their lives, realize they come out to nothing and start cleaning up
Past Veronica was incorrect. Use a controller and itās all perfectly fine.
thinking about the idris elba dj set radio station
This is the only game Iāve ever installed a mod to see my pussy in because I was extremely annoyed that my character had a breakdown in the shower tits out but still in her underwear for some reason, like what the fuck, why did you even let me choose my genitals if youāre only ever allowed to see your cock in menus, itās not like the game doesnāt have graphic nudity already??
THANK YOU, it was so obnoxious that they made a big deal of being able to choose your genitals only for them to be little more than an inventory screen easter egg
Baldurās Gate 3 did it better by letting you go all nude all the time
I have a feeling penis 2 was added late in development which is why itās a weird compromise between you went into photo mode and it takes like a whole two seconds for your clothes to load so dicks out and bethesda never nude bullshit, like god at least let me pick my underwear if youāre gonna force me to be stuck in it.
Other funny thing Iāve been thinking about: at least one person I know doesnāt like Evelyn Parker and Iāve seen people kind of talk about her as if sheās some perfidious woman for asking you to help her fuck Dex over for a bigger cut, but literally everyone you ask about Dex says he only came back to NC recently because of some bad shit he did in Pacifica. Dex is also taking a 70% cut and giving you and Jackie 30%, which doesnāt really leave shit for T-Bug, so the whole thing just has bad vibes and makes me think Vās initial assessment that he was gonna zero us and landfill our asses immediately after delivery was right. Kinda seems to me like he blew back into town to bankroll some heavy shit just to leave again. Meanwhile Evelyn is totally up front with you and offers you 50%, which if sheās paying T-Bug means everyone would have gotten equal shares and Dex literally shoots you in the fucking head before dumping you in a landfill like you said he would lmfao. I ended up protecting her to the end cuz the second I saw dexās hired goon at the hotel I knew it was over for my ass and lying to that gonk was a matter of professional and personal pride at that point
fun fact nobody will give a shit about: the Nomads in cp2020 et al are based on the panzerboys from Hardwired, which are in turn based on real Dutch butter smugglers from the 1960s who drove armored wagons everyone called panzers.
From the December 16th 1962 issue of the Chicago tribune:
I havenāt even mentioned the worst thing about this game somehow, which is that all the manhole covers in Night City, Southern California are to European spec and not American. Mike, please explain what cataclysmic event led to this occurring, because itās the most unrealistic thing ever portrayed in cyberpunk fiction, we would never bow to the Germans on this issue
Since this is my fiefdom now I will post as I please.
Now that Iām in the johnny silverhand zone all the quests have song names and I canāt help but feel like they coulda got some real appropriate licensed music for their cyberpunk game, i mean come on, there isnāt even a single KMFDM song in this game. one of the disadvantages of making it cyberpunk 2077 instead of cyberpunk 2020! iāve been called a cunt so many times in this game i actually was unable to continue keeping track so really this song shouldāve been in imo
you fuckin tell em brother
Thereās a custom radio station mod though and Iām just going to put shit like this on it when I feel like putting in the effort. itās literally the kind of game where theyād play stigmata (remix) by ministry on the radio while you drive to crucify some gonk and yet that never happens, smh, at least completely dedicate to being cornball. Itās really funny to me that my best friend, god rest her cp2020 loving soul, would be mad that the unit:187 cover of planet claireās by the b-52ās is not in the game on a radio station.
like they already rip off strange days (the test BD judy gives you is literally the fucking robbery from the start of that movie, V even says āYou could have warned meā like lenny lmfao) and every other 90s cyberpunk movie in the game multiple times, you might as well start lifting shit that sounds like itād be on those soundtracks like tin omen by skinny puppy etc lol or like at that point just literally use the song from hardware
doing some extreme dweeb posting in this thread, itās more than cdpr deserves, this is for my boy maximum mike
Iām trying to muddle through phantom liberty because the presentation is genuinely impressive but the problem is that both the dialog and the gunplay are so bad that every time the game forces me into an action sequence or a narrative sequence that isnāt just āexplore this new areaā I want to quit
idris was not giving his best and i honestly think the song mi thing is a retread of the anime in a lot of ways but lesser cuz yāknow we just saw something like this lol but his dj set rips so Iām glad he forced them to let him do it and the game doesnāt suck dick anymore plus we got the fucking trains so pl seems like it was a net positive
yeah, it was worth them having a big milestone to commemorate that the game is actually kind of good now! it just (much like gta, the similarities here are really uncanny) only really works for me as a world to fuck off in, because the gameplay and the writing donāt really serve like 80% of the scenario design
yeah, it has the problem people always accused gta4 of having, which is that like ohhh you kill a million people doesnāt that undercut the narrative, except like actually yes it does undercut the narrative that V is a fucking murder machine and i have to do an alien isolation level with an instant kill robot chasing me when i killed a bigger more heavily armored version of it earlier in the game, like it cracks me up that the way they introduce idris is by having him stick a gun under your ribs, ooooh scary buddy, please magdump into my subdermal plates while i stick my mantis blade through your fucking stupid gonk face
V, you are a terminally ill patient. You have maybe months, likely weeks to live. Iām sorry buddy [Vik looks like he wants to put a gun in his mouth]
15 mins later
I am bathing in the blood of gangoons, resting upon my laurels on a pile of 300 dead tyger claws, it is good to be queen of Night City, my eternal palace of carnage
and even the very start of phantom liberty makes such poor use of the shooting and stealth options they give you!
itās likeā¦ hereā¦ crouch around this parking lot like youāre playing deus ex 24 years ago except with somehow fewer options outside of combatā¦ now you and the president are trapped in a shooting gallery sequence that lasts way too long and forces you to take down a mech with small arms fire and feels like it would be better as a knockoff cover shooter 15 years ago because at least then theyād give you like, grenades and flanking options.
except noā¦ instead thereās a ton of recoil on your guns and your only indication that youāre hitting anything is all the damage numbers like youāre playing destinyā¦ because this is supposed to still feel like an RPGā¦
which is so fucking stupid because even the dumbass side gigs have multiple entries of approach and allow you to implement whatever strategy you want!!! at least it made sense to fuck up my usual strategy of screaming yeehaw and kerenzikov dashing people into last century with my double barrel during the heist because idk we had to be ~professional~ or whatever, Iām not sure why the feds give a fuck about my methods when they should be happy I didnāt just zero the president immediately for being a fascist
my pulsar smg had worse recoil than my lmg, which just locks onto peoples heads and delivers an 80 round burst for no reason like a daikatana reject weapon. game owns sometimes
if they somehow couldāve combined this with the good parts of deus ex mankind divided (which arguably succeeded in every other way apart from world/scope) then they would have had something. or maybe Iām just thinking along those lines because I put down alan wake 2 to play this since it and control also had frustratingly opposite weaknesses
the best way to engage with the stealth mechanics are to just sandevistan past everything like david martinez imo. Sometimes I do people a favor for roleplay reasons, like being non lethal on the cyberpsychos for regina, or not killing maelstrom for the buddhist guy, for the most part that shit seems totally fine but a waste of time when i have gorilla arms. Also I will probably never let anyone live again after what they done to my best choom Jackie Welles.
remember when everyone got really mad that they made the voodoo boys all haitian fellas like some sorta william gibson bullshit knockoff? apparently itās supposed to be people being racist to the refugees in pacifica by labeling them after the white poserboy gang from the 2020s, but then all the haitians in the game for a lack of a better terminology to describe them as a unit say well the real thing we call ourselves is a secret 
so it feels like cdpr covering their tracks for that one e3 vid of V wasting a bunch of black gang members from the animals that everyone got really mad about too with some last minute social commentarys that never ever gets fleshed out further. either way i feel like the change from posers to literal voodoo practitioners was probably motivated by a desire to make things easier to understand for a wide audience than anything else. the animals also have a diminished presence in the game, you kill em in a couple gigs but for the most part i havenāt seen them around much. you donāt really get to ever shoot at the mox either, not that iād really want to because theyāre the sex worker self defense gang but it is interesting considering the gameās general approach to gangs is making them mainly defined along ethnic lines and extremely treacherous so you walk around thinking totally normal shit like āIf I hear russian japanese or creole itās kill on sightā which again tracks with making shit easy to understand because most people are racist. it would explain why you donāt interact with the gangs that are more complicated than that much
Look on the bright side, right, at least they made the scavs russian instead of chinese, imagine the world in which Iām dejectedly posting about shen yun in this thread instead though if I start thinking about the claims that the neo-soviet union has the bestest health care ever and that the largely russian scavs are tied to them we might be getting dangerously close to needing to talk about how some polish men have got to stop believing everything they read