I have said it for a while now, the intro with Jackie should not have been a montage. You should have spent that whole time guiding your character through their early career as a solo. No pressure from ghost Keanu, just a playground to explore before the plot hits like a speeding ton of bricks.

Oh look...ANOTHER kotaku writer bitching about something Hogwarts Legacy related...what happened, were views down now that the game isn’t new anymore...had to drum up some click bait...

With all due respect, who the hell plays an RPG like this? All those quests you mentioned were doable way before the end of the game. I know this because I got to the point where that bodyguard guy said we had to survey a parade route and I did like 40 hours of sidequests instead. Seriously, I’m dumbfounded here that…

As someone who played the game on a PC from the minute it was released, I never had ANY issues with the game. I LOVED the game from the second I booted up until I had finished the game 3 times with each of the different “classes.” I thought everything about Cyberpunk was terrific, except perhaps the character of…

Your review of your initial playthrough reads as painful as when my little brother told me he skipped all the sidequests and cutscenes of Red Dead 2 and ran through the whole map before Chapter 2, essentially both spoiling and avoiding everything. My palm could not be deeper into my skull.

I can’t fathom mainlining the main quest in any game really, I always try and sample everything the game has to offer.

The fact that I instantly felt a lump in my throat at the header image while thinking of Judy and V on that rooftop after (spoiler)‘s suicide, with that incredible musical score, pretty much tells me what Cyberpunk’s legacy is for me personally. I got almost as attached to Judy, Panam, Johnny, Rogue, Jackie, and…

Yep, there’s no saving it now. Luke Plunkett *still* doesn’t like it. It’s a lost cause to the Luke Plunketts of the world.

I played it at launch on PC, and thought it was awesome. I still think it’s awesome. It’s a great game. They built a great, engaging world, with great little stories within it and an interesting main quest.

Yes, I agree pretty agree much whole heartedly with this take. I loved the exploration and the side missions so much more than the main storyline. I guess I made the ‘mistake?’ of completing all of the side missions before hitting that endgame point. Yeah, the narrative was ‘pushing’ me there...but I was having too…

Not surprised. The game was a heavily funded AAA mediocrity. Never worth full price. In a year filled with big AAA titles and fantastic indie titles almost from the get go, you’ve got to make a quality, stand out product. Especially if it’s your first solo game as a studio. At half the price it would have been…

I don’t know what game you are playing, the wife and I have been playing it quite a bit.. she is about 23hrs in and I have about 27hrs in and neither of us have yet to encounter any bugs at all. We both are playing on Xbox so maybe its only platform specific. 

it doubles down on J.K. Rowling’s anti-Semitic goblin characters

Eh. Not really. I’m not Harry Potter fan, but I had a blast with the game. Definitely didn’t find it dull and by the numbers. Yes there was some repetition, but I haven’t played many games recently that are free of it in one sense or another.

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something something JK Rowling but we need ad revenue.

I don’t know, it seems like a pretty blatant rip off of Quidditch. And if they changed the broomsticks to, like, gliders or something it would likely lose a lot of the immediate appeal it has to fans who would only pay attention to it because it’s invoking Harry Potter. I’m no attorney, but I can see the argument.

They can’t help themselves man. 

“kidnap animals under the guise of saving them”

“First, obligatory JKR is a bigot and by playing this game you’re (the general you, not the author here) basically saying you care more about playing a video game than anto-trans bigotry.”