I see it as an immersive sim due in part to the interconnected player choice, and given how RED has emphasized choices -both in gameplay and story-it’s not far off.

A sim? Nah, it’s a story driven open world RPG, like The Witcher 3, except with a customisable protagonist.

The details are still kept a secret, but everything seems to start when you’re commissioned to steal a mysterious cyberchip that turns out to contain the uploaded consciousness of the legendary rebel rock star Johnny Silverhand, who seems to be eager to carry on his cause using the protagonist V as his pawn.

It was never shown off in third person, ever. The very first mentions of the game said that CDPR planned it for both 3rd and first person, but by the time they had actually any real material to show, it was all 1st person. Most likely they discovered that the 3rd person just didn’t work for what they were trying to…

They’re not mandatory in this game, at least according to CDPR.

There are also, you know, real human minorities in Star Wars? A person in a rubber suit is not minority representation.

Mon Mothma isn’t running a starfighter to assault the Death Star. She makes a little speech in one scene and is never seen again; hell, the film doesn’t even bother to name her until the end credits, or actually tell what her role in the Rebellion even is. All that is later EU addition. 

I meant that the capital ships can hyperdrive into the map once you’ve eliminated the previous batch. 

Restricted? Why not just have the new ships hyperspace in when you’ve completed the previous batch? That’d be a lot simpler way to handle the tiered gameplay. 

The whole start over when killed-thing has gotten very uncommon in modern games. Checkpoints and autosaves have been standard anti-frustration features in most games for years. While games can still be plenty challenging, I’d say that the learning curve for them has only gotten easier over the years. 

The Rebels were also exclusively white men until The Return of the Jedi, and the only black guy then was Lando and the only woman was Leia. Times have changed.

I wouldn’t say it’s too uncommon. And as for the delays, didn’t The Witcher 3 get delayed for more than a year? So this isn’t exactly new for CDPR. CP2077 is still getting off mildly compared to that.

Maybe. But they made it clear at the time that it was nothing more than a preliminary announcement and that they wouldn’t start working on it beyond ideas stage before TW3 was complete. 

The first fully playable version of the game is known as the alpha build, and it’s hardly uncommon for there to be 1-2 years between the alpha and the final release. I’ve gotten the impression that CDPR wasn’t entirely satisfied with their game mechanics in 2018 and wanted to make significant changes, not just…

I’m pretty sure that game developers also need to know when the consoles come out to know what their deadline for the launch titles is going to be. 

Most of that time wasn’t active development. They didn’t properly start working on the game before The Witcher 3 was done in 2015, and didn’t commit their full resources before its DLC was out in 2017.

Or this delay is in part because they do want to sync up the schedules...

The Soviet Union officially had a strong anti-racism policy as one of the several ways they tried to come off as morally superior to America. In practice, however, everyday racism was very common there, and the institutions were very discriminative against any minority group with a strong sense of unity, such as the…

Did you know that the word redneck used to have Communist connotations? It referred to the red scarves worn by coal miners who belonged in worker’s unions. 

Not weird in the long timescale, at all. People tend to forget that a nation state is an 18th century invention that didn’t get any practical applications before the 19th century and didn’t become the dominant global paradigm until after the WWI. It’s a fairly new thing, all things considered, and Andorra is one of…