Comment on What is a game you can’t understand why its so popular ?
dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
CyberPunk 2077
Seems easy to see why it sold well - The Witcher 3 was very successful and then they attached Keanu Reeves to it.
As for the game itself, it told some petty good stories, had some excellent characters, and managed to do this while still feeling like a game, not an interactive movie. It delivered well enough on the setting as well.
See, I feel like it’s more movie than game. That’s what bothers me. It doesn’t have the same feel as GTA V for example.
It doesn’t have the same feeling as GTA V
How is that supposed to be a bad thing?
Fantastic setting (I could spend days just playing tourist around Night City), great story and characters (and the characters don’t just stand there talking to you like in Bethesda’s games, there’s actual acting in there), enjoyable gameplay, beautiful graphics…
Sure, it got a bit of flak when it released due to the console cartels forcing it to run on highly inadequate ancient hardware, but I’ve been playing it from day one on an even older but properly specced PC and I could count the bugs I’ve experienced on the fingers of one hand, with fingers to spare.
And CD Projekt kept improving and expanding it for years after release, so it’s even better now.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I disagree here. The side quests and atmosphere are great. FemV nailed the voice acting. It has a lot of fun, bitingly memorable characters I still think of, sometumes.
The gameplay is satisfying… if, and only if, you mod it to not be bullet spongey and so grindy.
I’m not a 2077 apologist. Does it run well? Nope. Was it absolutely unacceptable at launch? An understatement.
But (in 2025/2026), it finally deserves the praise it gets, IMO. There’s a very good game in there.
dalekirkwood@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The mods sound interesting - any you recommend? I find the whole thing a grind to be honest. And I hate watching a 40 minute cut scene to play for 5 minutes with guns that feel like they don’t actually do anything.