Man, come on.  Have you played it?  I love this game.  I know it’s fun to shit all over it right now because of the state it’s in and everyone wants to do their “See?  Told you so” hot take.  But it’s a fun game on anything besides a base model last gen console.

And, didn’t say it wasn’t successful. Just that this weird myth getting peddled that this is a fall from grace is that... a myth.

And, didn’t say it wasn’t successful. Just that this weird myth getting peddled that this is a fall from grace is that... a myth.

Yes, that game.  Complain all you want, but don’t pretend the game wasn’t wildly successful and loved by a huge number of people.  

The odd thing is that when you can play it, the game is actually pretty good. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it on PC.

The “mediocre” game that hovers around a 90% critical rating on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S, Series X and Stadia? It’s fine if you don’t like it but your whole premise is based around the ‘fact’ that this is a mediocre game, and for all the Reddit wish lists of what it could/should have been, the fact is that these 13…

The game was first announced in 2012. The PS4/XB1 didn’t come out until 2013. Serious development of the game seems to have only started in 2016 after the completion of the last Witcher 3 dlc. (I assume they were working on the lore and world-building prior to that). The game was initially announced as PC only until…

Many people in the world are afflicted with cyberpsychosis, a mental illness that affects some augmented people due to their implants, a tired trope we’ve seen in games such as Deus Ex: Human Revolution.

In 2019 the movie industry made $41 billion and the music industry made $19 billion.
Video games made $152 billion.

Yeah, gotta echo that Witcher 1 and 2 are resoundingly mediocre.

I find the scenario of Cyberpunk 2077 failing highly unlikely. Unless it’s a steaming pile of crap and everyone cancels their pre-order, it will succeed on first week sales alone.

I am terrified about what may happen to CD Projekt Red if “Cyberpunk 2077" fails.

Same - I think it’s just a byproduct of the kind of bubble you live in when you work in games journalism. Of course it’s oversaturated for these guys. For me, as a reasonably well adjusted person who doesn’t live on Gaming Twitter, it’s just an upcoming game I’d like to play and it’s finally coming out soon, so that’s…

I’ve already stocked up on popcorn for the coming backlash against Cyberpunk 2077. Watching everyone work themselves into a frenzy over this was at first mystifying, but now, as someone who was just a bystander watching it all unfold, I’m ready for the highly entertaining train wreck that is likely to follow.

They also intentionally released before it was ready because they wanted to capitalize on the hype... while Cyberpunk has killed the hype on this game a couple times already with delays, presumably to avoid a NMS type situation.

There’s a Grand Canyon-sized gap between a game made by an established studio who made one of the most acclaimed game of the 2010s promising a very good game versus a small studio that’s only made 2D sidescrollers promising the impossible.

Except NMS was based on outright lies.  So unless we get a different game than the one they’ve been showing us, that is a bad comparison.

While you don’t need to FEEL the hype, it’s absurd to make a claim that you don’t get it. Let’s look at a few of the things.

You’ll never hear me say a positive thing about Trump. But yes, Reagan was worse.

I actually really disliked the AC series until I played Odyssey and Origins. I think them pivoting into a more RPG-type game brought me in in a way the first games never could for some reason.