Comment on Cyberpunk 2 is now in preproduction, CD Projekt says

• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Could you remind me what features people were upset about? I stayed away from most of the drama since CDPR has a long history of releasing a free major upgrade a year or two after release that fixes everything people complained about.

  I remember the dev diaries being pretty open about dropping features during development, like the RC drone turning from a staple of your kit into something shown off once in a mission and immediately forgotten.

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  • LandedGentry@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    As the other two mentioned, brain dances and NPC behavior both were unbelievably exaggerated. It wasn’t just being a little too ambitious, they never dialed it back and it didn’t resemble at all what they promised.

    Famously they didn’t have any of the parkour/traversal mechanics they promised. The skills tree was so bad they had to completely rebuild it.

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  • 474D@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well for one, they had the whole thing about how every NPC would have a full dynamic daily routine to make the city feel alive, and the actual result was, for example, them just walking to and from the metro for 24 hours straight lol

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    • SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s still like that though, the city just feels like it’s just a bunch of npcs standing around. 3am? Same people just wandering around or sitting/leaning somewhere. I really don’t know of a game that has any dynamic npc systems. It’s all just scripted a to b and that’s it.

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      • nogooduser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I don’t think that the NPC behaviour was the problem but the fact that they promised more. The NPCs didn’t feel significantly different to those in other games for me.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        RDR2 is probably the best-feeling in terms of NPC behaviour in the open world.

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  • Ushmel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    braindances being shoehorned into a weird detective bit was a big one. they were supposed to be their own things

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They lied about almost everything

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  • vivendi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is a HUGE compilation on the subreddit for cyberpunk2077, but basically we got promised a vast, in depth RPG and instead got something mechanically on part with GTA Vice City and Call of Duty

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