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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    That’s true, I think those who didn’t follow the dev cycle and ate into the hype probably enjoyed the game a ton more than those of us who did and then got the absolute trash day one launch.
    
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  - Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    RDR2 is probably the best-feeling in terms of NPC behaviour in the open world.
    
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    SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Agreed, even then though, it’s still got the npc feel. Gta6 is supposed to fix this, but I’m not holding my breath.
    
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Ushmel@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
They lied about almost everything

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vivendi@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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