Cyberpunk 2077

Nice. 

I agree with all the comments about CP being a flawed experience, and the launch was a heinous debacle, but it's still one of my favourite games of all time. Witcher 1/2 were similarly flawed, and then 3 blew the doors off. 

Picked this up recently, to go with my obscene purchase of a 4090. However, I see from previews of Phantom Liberty that they are doing a big re-jig of the base game along with the new content.

Assume I should just wait the 3 months for the expansion to come out before diving in?

I still think it's one of the best RPGs I've played. I find really care a huge amount about the combat and shit but it's one of the best written games I've played.

Seems a bit like rewriting history to me:

www.gamespot.com/articles/cd-projekt-red-says-cyberpunk-2077s-launch-wasnt-that-bad/1100-6515526/

Sure, there's always a certain amount of mob mentality that goes on in such cases - four billion years of evolution + social media = duh - but let's not act as though that's all it was, or even the main reason, mkay?

Yes, they are trying to write an alternate history. Are they including Sony piling on when they removed it from the store for being so bad?

How bad does it have to be for Sony to take money out of their own pockets

Snap! Dfunk

Even if the sentiments he expressed are commonplace within CDPR, voicing them to the press is an idiotic move from a PR standpoint.

The game came out 2.5 years ago, dude. You took a (deserved) hit, then gradually improved it while slowly clawing back some of the goodwill you'd squandered with that piss-poor launch - now people rate the game and your company, at least to some extent, and the forthcoming DLC is eagerly anticipated. Why break out the world's smallest violin at this juncture?

Oh, and your company didn't create the email address 'helpmerefund@cdprojektred.com' because a bunch of bandwagon-hopping meanies on the internet forced you into it, dumbass.

I agree that GameSpot (and Push Square, who also covered the story) placed additional emphasis upon those particular remarks, perhaps unduly so...

Just started afresh on this, been a while. The sound is oddly muffled and it’s ruining it. It’s like my ears are full of water (they’re not, I checked). Doesn’t seem to matter what I set the PS5 audio settings to, or what I piss about with on my amp. Did anyone have similar and solve it?

There is a mob mentality around gaming, and it was “the thing” to make fun of it. That said, it was the buggiest game I’d played at launch, but it was still a good. I played the PS4 version on PS5. They designed a good game but programmed it terribly, is the real issue. Like they learned about the PS5 and Series X midway through development and decided to optimize it for SSDs. So those big texture bugs everyone laughed at at launch? Word was they were only on last gen and were eliminated if you played on a current gen console. Not exactly true. If you have it installed in the internal SSD (or later a second one, when they allowed for a second drive), you were golden! But if you decided to install the game on an external HDD to make room for native PS5 games, you’d get the same texture bugs as PS4.
There were other bugs too I remember saving and quitting during a key story moment. Coming back the next day, and the car was flipped vertically and a character was impaled on it.
Honestly, it’s still not perfect. Driving is a pain, NPCs will randomly disappear when you get near them, NPC and traffic data suddenly stops processing, the waypoint system is terrible, making you look away from the road to look up at the map.
Really, every time I start thinking about how much I enjoyed the story, I come up with a million things about the game that annoy me too.
Oh, Night City is a cool location though.

Is the dlc free or do we need to fork out for it?

I really enjoyed my time with the game, but traded my discs, so would need to get a hold of some again.

Quite tempted if the story quality is as good.

I still haven't been able to complete it. I got drunk at the wake and the drunk effects never turned off so my only save game has me listing to the left all the time.

I was really enjoying it till then. This was recently too, when the next gen patch came out.

That’s a good alternate name for this forum, to be fair.

I just assumed most people have moved on and the only ones left are the ones who want it to be good. Patching a game that launched in a terrible state should be considered bare minimum, certainly not worthy of any good will