The Tragedy and Comeback of Cyberpunk 2077
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2022
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Approximately three years ahead of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s May 2015 release, Polish game developer CD Projekt RED announced plans to develop a Triple-A project based on Mike Pondsmith’s Cyberpunk pen-and-paper RPG. Studio Co-Founder Marcin Iwiński promised the then-unnamed game would boast all the “hallmarks” of The Witcher series, its design molded with “mature and demanding players” in mind. The development team and Pondsmith expressed their confidence in the title’s ability to set a “new standard” for futuristic role-playing games, with “high production values” serving as the most significant goal. No one could have anticipated how short the resulting product would fall from expectations.
After a lengthy period of silence, the marketing blitz for Cyberpunk 2077 got off to an incredible start in June 2018, courtesy of an E3 presentation that would fuel years of hype and millions of pre-order purchases. Not even multiple delays and an eventually admitted lack of transparency could curtail interest, not when the neon-drenched streets of Night City and a Keanu Reeves-starring narrative seemed so enticing.
Upon launch, however, the glitz and glamor faded, obscured by missing textures, game-breaking performance issues, and a litany of other glitches that ruined the experience for players on consoles and high-end PCs. Those who spent eight years awaiting Cyberpunk 2077 were gifted a skeleton of CD Projekt RED’s vision, one so marred by mismanagement that the company’s hard-fought reputation seemingly plummeted overnight. Should the team find a way to right its myriad wrongs, many will still remember this once ambitious endeavor for having one of the most disastrous launches in video game history.
This is the tragedy of Cyberpunk 2077.
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Hype is only a phenomenon, quality is a legacy.
And mods are eternal!
This; absolutely this. I made this exact statement in my own comment, but was less eloquent and more verbose.
Either can cause issues, but when the two come together, it almost always causes problems.
100 percent based 👍 you are
@@alexandrep4913 It has a legacy of being a low quality game!
damn that deep
The fact that the narrator actually makes an effort to pronounce the names of the staff correctly is enough to know how much care went into this analysis alone.
Out of all the youtubers who’ve made it their job to cover anything to do with this game and CDPR, it’s insane how unwilling those people are to go the extra mile to learn how to pronounce polish names correctly.
Yet still eberybody pronounce cd project, not projekt like it shoul be ;) (should sound like proyeckt)
He does a great job with Japanese devs too.
Learning how to pronounce foreign names should be basic human decency. No one likes to see their name butchered because someone didn't care to learn properly.
@@MCKZD Literally all 3 things you just typed sound the same.
@@barateza16 Everyone gets my name wrong, I don't care at all.
I never blame developers about these kinds of disaster stories.
They're merely cogs in the machine. It's always the higher ups that fuck things up
pretty much what happened devs said do not release the game it's not ready, higher ups in corporate said release it anyway put out patches later due to the unacceptable threats they got from consumers on top of investors getting worried about the delays, if investors and consumers had just managed themselves and behaved letting the devs do what they knew needed to be done the whole thing could have been avoided, ironic since CP2077 is pretty much a tale on why corporate power is dangerous and the studio that made it fell victim to having their hands forced by corporate power.
Consumers are the worst sometimes. Have some fucking patience. If a game gets delayed deal with it.
I'm mixed... devs don't deserve the blame, but someone also could have whistle blown or leaked the modern state of the game. I think they were drinking just as much kool-aid as we were in thinking that it would be done in time.
@@nicholascowling7052 No, that's very uncharitable towards the devs. First, the devs almost certainly know that accomplishing a gigantic game for several platforms would not be easy but they have no say in it and I don't know if you're aware but whistle-blowers aren't liked or welcomed just about anywhere. Whistle-blowing is a double edged sword for the person and chances are you'll be losing more than the company or persons you're blowing the whistle on. There's no body willing to lose their job and run the risk of ruining their entire career in that field and even run the risk of litigation. The devs did their job with the time frames and tools at their disposal. I wholly believe the only people to blame here are the execs who only have eyes for profits and are blinded to everything else. Hell, I would even put more blame on us, the consumers, for exacerbating the unrealistic expectations and irresponsibly throwing money at the pre order scheme before I put blame on the devs.
Yeah, I place the blame squarely on executives/ marketing. Buried beneath the bugs and performance problems was/ is a great game and with all the patching I feel like it's in a good place right now (but they need to keep going to make this game into what it deserves to be). I personally waited til 1.5 to play (after being disappointed with how the launch went/ was received) and I fell in love with the game. Delaying the game til this year and completely dropping the old-ass and subpar hardware of PS4/ XbOne would have made a huge difference. Hopefully they learned a lesson from this experience though because I'm not sure the company could handle or survive another botch of this magnitude, not to mention all the good will they had earned with the Witcher series being basically flushed down the toilet.
I still love the fact that it's 100% canon that Ciri lived in the Cyberpunk dimension for years.
Technically its not canon at all, because its not part of the Witcher IP. But we know what’s up anyway lol
@@CaptainBlaine well yeah it's CDPR Witcher canon, not real Witcher canon. It's funny to think that sometime in the 80s, Mike Pondsmith was working on his tabletop game, while all the way in Poland, Sapkowski was writing Witcher, not knowing of each other's existence, and that 40 years later their works would converge in a weird way.
This channel is what I love about video game media , takes an analytical approach the a genre which was once disregarded as being for kids or people in their basements.
More like jump bandwagon.
it's still for kids and people in their basements
@@INFILTR8US But it's not ONLY for us anymore ;)
If you are interested in the genre, then you will love this 3 part series from Indigo Gaming. Here is part 1...
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Oh, and here is part one of a 3 part review from my guy 21Kiloton. I hope you like to think and laugh, cause that's what he's got in spades! I hope you enjoy his style as much as I do.
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If you told me a year ago that an anime and weebs would give a game a 2nd chance, I'd call you insane.
Gamers are fickle tho
A year? Try 10 years. Manga and anime consumption in the west have far surpassed cartoon and comic books.
They don't give them a 2nd chance. Its CDPR employees and CDPR bots Playing it. Its marketing
@@exysa2798 lol okay bozo
@@exysa2798 yeah that's why steam engagement is up 130% since the anime came out.......good call lol
I feel I got into this game at the perfect time: once it was fixed. I fell absolutely in love with the world and its characters and have sunk a LOT of time into it
Same here. It just breaks my heart thinking how perfect this game could have been if CDPR slapped shitty managers at the right time.
Shit like that always happens because of morons in suits listening to money and investors instead of engineers.
I agree. I am playing it on my PS4 Pro and can still see many infuriating bugs, but I love Night City and its stories. It is kind of sad because you can clearly see glimpses of what this game could have been if the suits had not decided to do what they did. It is clear the devs and the writers loved this project.
Nah. You missed out on the memes. It was fun to shit on, but then CD Project Red got their act together and pulled a No Mans Sky. We trolled them to do better, and it worked.
Fr, I just started playing it and I'm loving it so far, I got it as a christmas gift when it came out but I didn't have the computer for it and very recently bought a new computer which can play it at max graphics, and i'm honestly glad I wasn't able to play it until now.
Same here. I just started it on Christmas Eve and I'm closing in on 90 hours. It's absolutely fantastic. I'm completely in love with this game despite its history and lingering flaws. I'm still knocking out side content. One final story mission left and I'm hesitant to start it because I'll be a bit sad saying goodbye to this amazingly realized and engrossing world. I held off on playing this game back in 2020 because of all the reported glitches and bugs. Now I'm glad I picked 2 years later to experience this incredible adventure. I can't get enough of it. This game is a remarkable achievement and I always felt there was a great game buried under technical issues.
anyone else unable to watch this video? I’m getting a “No stream tap to retry” on mobile. Idk what this issue is, tried resets and stuff, not working.
Same here
same
Even though I appreciate the efforts to improve the in-game experience from CDPR personally, I wouldn't say it is in the same level as the No Man's Sky "redemption arc", because that game ended up getting all promised features and mechanics that were hyped such as multiplayer and even more, but Cyberpunk 2077 is now at least in a more bearable state that would allow to us to enjoy the story especially if you get the game on clearance.
just wait
Feature promised and stuff like that, were cut off, probably because Quantum Labs had bug quotas.
This lead to an onslaught of content, to hold of bugs that probably wouldn't be much of problem, if the scrap content didn't generated more.
CDPR still were wrong, but theres others guilty.
I believe now, that the updates adding some of this features, are precisly the cut content, some of this were actually found and fixed by modders.
no mans sky is only on another level because they implemented all the promised features and more over the last 6 years. CP77 is incomparable simple because its been out less than 2
@@efxnews4776 as a lead developer these insights are very valuable to me. I've too often seen disconnect between QA and Product teams leading to such issues. The QA lead should know the product as good as the Product manager themselves. Not sure how the game industry handles this
Yeah i really don't understand why everyone is talking about Cyberpunks "redemption". It's pretty much the same game it was on release. It just works better now. They haven't changed anything about it really.
Remember when Cyberpunk was hyped as "Having No DLC, everyone gets the full game"? Funny how that works...
One last thing to note as well is that CDPR has released REDMod which are the modding tools needed for the game, unless I missed it I don't think you mentioned it? Modding has also helped a lot to put new life into this game as it enabled a lot of other fixes and or changes that affect any playthrough. And with REDMod that should go better or be easier
purchased it on release, played 2 hours and left it. Returned after edgerunners, added a mod package from nexus with about 200 mods, most of them bug fixes and quality of life upgrades. 25 hours in, only had one crash, surprisingly very stable. Having a blast so far. Mods are a must.
@@TheKurtkapan34 They aren't necessary, haven't gotten any crash on PS5 either since patch 1.5 and have played over 200 hours
@@TheKurtkapan34 played it ( edgerunners update ) and never had a single crash, a couple of visuals bugs that's it, has nothing to do with the mod package you installed
@@TheKurtkapan34 It took me 50 hours into my 1.6 playthrough to get my first crash and I had no mods installed
I've actually been crashing constantly. I think it has to do with 3080tis not having a big enough heatsink. I have to use dlss at 1080p to not get a gpu related crash.
what did we learn?
if your game bombs so hard it almost bankrups you
make an anime with a cute loli
And some female producer at CDPR wanted the "loli" removed. My expectations of CDPR are in the damn gutter.
The detail & research you put into these videos goes a long way! Very appreciated.
The 20 million copies sold were expected to be the exact number of copies sold in the first month of launch. They achieved that 2 years later.
Still, this game will be a cautious tale to any game dev about overhype and troubled dev cycle.
Cautionary tale
Cyberpunk was made by inexperienced amateurs. Thats why Cyberpunk is so trash. CDPR released Cyberpunk broken and unfinished 3-4 years earlier INTENTIONAL. And they Sold 20 million copies in under 2 years. With a Game that released 3-4 years earlier.
Anthem, Mass Effect Andromeda, No Mans Sky, AC Unity, Marvels Avengers, Fallout 76, Marvels Avengers, Warcraft 3 Reforged, Outriders, eFootball GTA Trilogy, Battlefield 5, Battlefield Hardline, Battlefront 2, Battlefield 2042, etc. are also cautionary tales and No one is learning
there's no such thing as a "cautionary tale" in gaming industry made up of morons who sell games broken and either abandon them or fix them to a point where the devs themselves deem it playable and just move on
Either a cautionary tale or a guideline on how to hype a title up through press and PR and get away with millions after releasing a broken game which even when fixed is mediocre at best.
Also.
Never forget that cdpr threw their QA dept, the most underpaid depart there, under the bus to save the CEO's reputation.
Evil bastards.
Umm... Isn't that what will always happen? Not an excuse but you said like this was the 'first time ever'. Vice versa, i have never heard of an instance where company would throw the CEO to save the QA dept under the bus. Not ok but just saying that how it always goes.
@@alaric_I think the core of the lies and betrayal was that CD project red fed into its own propaganda by trying to act like that. They were the not EA and activisions of the world that there was somehow different when this told the completely different story.
I bought and played Cyberpunk on launch on PC, and while I thoroughly enjoyed it, I definitely felt like something was missing. Playing it again now (with mods) truly unleashed the vision of what the game should’ve been at launch. I for one welcome Phantom Liberty with open arms in 2023 although I do hope some more patches and free dlc get deployed before then…
Yes most definitely. I just got back on the game and it plays so much better than it used to. I’m loving every moment and I can’t wait for the dlc. They definitely need a couple more big patches to get rid of as many bugs as possible and add more content. If they do that I’ll be hooked on this game for years.
What's different about the game? The bug never bothered me, but the terrible AI, tedious looting and inventory management, lackluster story, and lifeless open world are what kept me from enjoying it. Has any of that been improved significantly? Or is it just less buggy?
@@thedopeson I played about 8 hours of the game at launch until I just couldn't deal with it anymore. The bugs were really bad, yes, but, just like you, my main gripes were with fundemental gameplay mechanics. I tried it again a few days ago. I'm only about 3-4 hours in on this new playthrough, and it's definitely less buggy. Gameplay wise it's still... awkward so far and I don't feel that the gripes we seem to both have had with it at launch are improved on that much. But I'm still only a few hours in, so it wouldn't be entirely fair of me to write it off just yet - I hope I'll get some time to play a few more hours of it this weekend. I'm not too optimistic so far though.
What mods did you use while playing it? Thinking of playing it for the first time
I'm just blown away by their guts for releasing paid DLC after barely fixing anything in the game. like they've added some appartments, transmog and some quests right?
Anyone else having trouble seeing this video?
It works in my browser for me but not in the app. It’s bizarre.
Woah, you’re right. Weird they gotta fix that
@@MahoganyBlack it’s likely a transcoding issue on RUclips’s end since it’s only available in 360p. The problem is getting RUclips’s attention so they can fix it lol
I keep on getting the message “No Stream” so I can’t watch this video.
It’s only with this video…
And now after a few days it suddenly works… what the f…?
I don’t know why I can watch this. I keep seeing the comments updating, but the video won’t load. Says there is no stream. Anyone else having this issue?
As a person who was very skeptical of the game at lunch, who avoided it until now... I have to say, I got into it because of how good the anime was. And not going to lie, in its present state I'm having a lot of fun. It definitely has quirks and some things I think should change but I legit hope that they keep developing more for it. I like this universe a lot and I want more. I'm just barely into the main game and already having such a great time.
Bro I wish they added 3rd person literally the only reason I'm not playing it
@@schemar17 it definitely feels like it's in the pipeline
@@NiGHTSChao689 they won’t like bro the game is still an mediocre game!!! XD
@@RavenL1337 compared to all the other mainstream crap the industry puts out, it's not as bad as it was at launch. I think it was well worth $30
@@schemar17 i think they are doing it but currently they are reworking the police system and hopefully the gang system
The video isn’t playing
Does this video not work for anyone else? I can watch other videos just fine but this one fails to load.
I want to thank everyone who worked and is working to improve Cyberpunk. May you be in good health.
The games disastrous launch lies with Marcin Iwiński and upper leadership giving devs impossible deadlines to meet. Marcin also lied and was deceitful on how well the game performed and they also refused to give out review copies.
Or pushing stupid shit like Keanu in the story way to late in development, thus fucking up the project so bad they had to rewrite the whole story and change the game.
Anyone having trouble with watching the video? It says “No stream” on my screen.
Edgerunners got me to give 2077 a chance after the launch disappointed me. Glad I gave it a second chance because I got an insanely engaging crime thriller and exploration of mortality. The gameplay could be better, but shit, the voice acting, characters, and writing it all top notch.
i heard cd projects will give adam smasher more challenging just like the anime
cuz they know adam smasher sucks right now
and give improvements
@@joshuagraham2843 he is much better after 1.5 especially if you puted the game on very hard
You and millions of other weebs apparently
Game is dogshit it was supposed to be an rpg and what we got was a shitty gta clone in FPP
@@Walamonga1313 it’s pretty cringe tbh. Anime saved this game? lmfao
There's that one subquest that involved a couple and some "people" that were secretly "monitoring" them behind the walls of their own house. That one quest was creepy beyond almost anything i've ever experienced and really wished there were more of it. The main quest was cool, but that subquest man... That was some lovecraftian cyberpunk stuff.
The peralez quest was wicked, learning about the mind control and secret society aspect was so cool. Sad that nothing came of it and the concept dropped off after those couple missions
I really liked that mission too. I always thought it was bugged for me, as it seemed the story just cut off and never concluded. I got to the stage where I informed the husband, he got angry and...I never heard from him again.
For the rest of the game I was waiting for a call that never came from him/his wife, which would trigger the final chapter of the side quest.
@@Alex_Hoss In my playtrough I got message from husband talking about it that his wife shown him this room, after V answered you get message that this number is no longer existing.
Yea man, that quest was one of the most disturbing and amazing quests in gaming.
Everything is sooo well written about it, you can feel the dread of all the implications.
Sinnerman. Thats all I gotta say.
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Hey anyone having problems watching the video? Currently shows no steam- tap to retry on moblie
No stream tap to retry?????
Dude should be a narrator at cbs 60 minutes
Why can’t we watch this video?
Comeback? No I don't think so. I've seen videos of the latest patch 1.6. They are still years off from delivering the game they promised during all the marketing hype they did
It literally surpassed Witcher 3, one of the most successful games ever, in player numbers. That's what they mean by comeback.
@@SMJSmoK Clickbait title of course
The only tragedy here is that your video won’t play
Hey why i cant watch this video:(
The "comeback" of Cyberpunk 2077 is a very powerful exaggeration. After 2 years of the release, the game still lack basic features and fixes...
Anyone else unable to watch this? It just says ‘no stream’
Did it really comeback though? I think it still has some ways
The only channel i actually wanted to subscribe. Delivers it again.
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I bought Cyberpunk in beginning of 2024 - so over 3 years after release. I knew about the launch disaster but never really though of the game. So i started the game in 2024 with the Version 2.0 (or above?) on the xbox series x and what can i say: the best game i ever played! and i will continue to play it as it is just massive.
This game will forever disapoint me
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I finished the game just before 1.6 on 1.5 and I gotta say that despite some bugs, it's a damn good game! I'm looking forward to the DLC and I hope we see a new Cyberpunk sooner rather that later.
Snap and do agree bits did feel missing from game. I've completed numerous times and think the game is really underated just glad people get to see what it truely is now
@@magregory1985 I play the game about a week after lunch, and it was mediocre at best. I'm not going to replay just because some patches came out. I had very little bugs throughout my gameplay and I never crash because I have a good pc. However, the story was mediocre at best and wasn't really memorable to me. The side quests were more interesting than the main quest at times and that's kind of a bad thing, because a good story should have good side quests as well and be balanced like the old assassin's Creed. On top of that, some of the models didn't really look spectacular and looked old and basic.
The anime show edge runners was phenomenal, visually and well written. If only this game were like that.
Unfortunately the devs were pretty much forced to send it out. I do think they have made it one of my favorite games now. It has slick gameplay, an intriguing story, sidemissions that were actually interesting, and some cool as shit clothes and cars.
As much as edgerunners was a blast to watch, I will never forget how notorious the release was, while they may have fixed the bugs now, it still does not include the things people were promised, such as choices having large impacts and etc
You are right, but there are a lot of updates and an expansion still coming that will really change and overhaul the game. At least CD Projekt never abandoned the game..
@@Tahmaysu Not sure of that... 1.7 is coming with police system improved (maybe fixed) and then what? Phantom liberty will bring more missions/quests. But what about all the rest?
@@riton1112 We all know Phantom Liberty is their biggest shot of redeeming Cyberpunk, so I am expecting significant changes besides just the story/quests.
Waaaaah
@@Tahmaysu let's gather here after phantom liberty is released, and the game is still largely mediocre, just with more content :)
I feel like your channel is large enough to court important interviews w/ the people involved in the stories you tell. You should totally try reaching out to these companies and see if anyone is willing to answer a couple of questions.
They've never done it. It's not part of their style to interview. It never has been and it probably never will.
Coming: When it's ready. March 2023: It's still not done.
Great video!
This game shouldve come out at minimum 5 years after it did.
It's 2022 and it's still no where close to what we were promised at E3, it's not even the fault of the developers as corporate pushed the game out waaaaaaaay to early.
It's a good game in its current state, better than many other AAA titles, the only company which could deliver on those E3 promises is Rockstar (or at least Rockstar before Dan Houser left the company), nobody else could, it doesn't have to be fully promised game to be good.
@@kdscool1536 Let's not over rate Rockstar like they're the Jesus of video game companies, they make their own little fuck ups as was seen with those gta remasters which were absolutely terrible.
Cd Projekt red is good at making video games considering they made the Witcher 3 which is one of the best rpgs ever made. If corporate allowed the game to be worked on for another half decade I have no doubts it would've been a very good game.
The issue with 2077 was that it was hyped up with all the promises we were given along side it, promises that probably would not have happened regardless as if they did it would've made Cyberpunk one of the most in depth and "full" games ever made, that just wasn't happening for old Gen consoles or maybe even new ones.
Considering they just announced a sequel to 2077 then I'd assume this game is just dead in the water, since it's finally in a playable state I'm assuming they're going to just move on from this game and devote all attention to the sequel and Witcher 4
@@gibbygibbstein7858 GTA remasters weren't developed by Rockstar, so I wouldn't say it's their fuck up. But only Rockstar can do what they do with their big in-house titles.
Cyberpunk is getting a big expansion early 2023 along with another big update of the main game, so it's not "dead in the water" either.
Do you remember Mafia 2? It was also overpromised and underdelivered title with tons of cut content and also pushed too early by its publisher. But I'd argue that Cyberpunk today is in far better shape than Mafia 2 because Mafia 2 in its final form is barely a game, they cut it to the teeth, even melee weapons and secondary missions.
@@gibbygibbstein7858 They made 1 good game with mediocre combat. CD projekt is overrated too
@@Walamonga1313 I wouldn't call Witcher 3's combat mediocre at all considering it has more depth to it than most rpgs do.
I have played through most of the main game play and 95% of the secondary content to the point that i have very little to discover from this point besides some surprise weapon drops. I am very satisfied with the potential of multiple end of game narratives. Now that I have seen 4 different outcomes some of which is slight variations of the dominant outcome. I was very pleased and personally annoyed at the slight change of the ending based on small choices i had made through game play. In the end i was excited to replay the ending with different logic too consume even more potential multidimensional possibilities of all of my previous choices. The fact that i could receive benefit for completing the story line and then be set back in time at the main logic branch where i could now see each possible ending and even hidden endings pretty rapidly became a precursor to several more hours of game play to explore the lore even further and see what other edge cases the developers have thought of.... it was very entertaining / engaging to have the characters taunt me about previous decisions and mistakes i had made that now made story-line even more complex. almost as if the characters were annoyed to need to take this event into account of the story. There were of course quirks that i had dealt with and dejavu moments of past experiences that were broken previously in earlier builds of the game. Although i felt manipulated by the mystery of all the nuances that i was very pleased in the end... i am even convinced that there is more to uncover.
Man I Love your videos!!!
Nice work!
Video was clearly made just for views game got some people back and its called a come back we dont even have the big dlc coming yet I really felt yall should have waited a little bit on this one.
I am happy the anime did well, but all I want is the original Cyberpunk from that E3 demo, which I don't think we'll ever get...
The biggest slap in the face was them adding the E3 mission in full, while basically leaving all interactability displayed in said mission out of the rest of the game. I genuinely would like to know the thought process behind that
I hope it will be leaked like the nintendo gigaleak
@@theanonymspysandwich " I genuinely would like to know the thought process behind that" - as a person who learned game development I can tell - publisher just didn't give them enough time, so cuts were made. Why there wasn't much time? Publisher wanted to cash on last gen consoles and on Christmas sales ;-)
great video also your voice reminded me of mass effect codex narrator 🤣👌
Thank you for another awesome video
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Even without all the issues, the game wasn't some "revolution," or game changer in the RPG space. It was a fairly standard way point chaser with limited dialogue options and decent story.
I still don't understand why people expect so much from this game and CDPR, Witcher 3 wasn't anything revolution either, it was a game done good by the book. Not to mention they never had any experience from developing third person shooter. They only made one remarkable game, yet people praised them like the best developers ever existed, not even Bioware --- their mentor, receive that kind of recognition.
And the leveling up system sucked. Like I 100%d the game. 100 hours total play time. Only ever used hand guns. My pistol level is still 19. Couldn't even max that Stat out in 100 hours of play.
@@GHOSTRIDER373737 It wasnt You right But What witcher 3 did was have long side quests that were well written and there was so many of them. There were other games before it that had great side quests but Witcher 3 pushed the bar in terms of amount of high quality side quests. It was Not a GTA3 game but Do not think we will ever see a game like that again, RDR2 pushed the bar for level detial in and open world and how alive, Interactive and reactive NPCs are. BOTW pushed the bar for environment interaction. Non these were Like GTA3. But they pushed the bar while also Giving the player sense of discovery that few games do now in days as everything is marked on the map.
Playing this really felt like CDPR set out to make a GTA/RDR kind of experience but they just didn't know how to stray from their rigid RPG roots.
I remember CDPR saying, literally, that they are striving for Cyberpunk to have the same polish as Red Dead Redemption 2. Even with all these updates the game is nowhere near even close to that kind of polish.
What's crazy to me is that the source code that leaked had a full multiplayer mode in it with very barebones assets and UI. It was very easy to get into the mode but took some work to actually build a class. It seemed like CDPR just needed to polish it a little as it felt almost done.
And there was also meant to be a playable area on the Moon as there's also a ton of untextured models with "moon_level_" in the title.
The moon is probably either a full dlcs or a part of the phantom liberty
They need an online game like GTA online so they can afford to keep these ambitious games in devlopment for a long period of time.
You can spawn together but that's it. There's nothing to actually do.
@@kinga.t.242 the moon was supposed to be expansion 2 but that has been scrapped, unless the expansion does well, they might reconsider
@@jesseomollo9405 I'm sure they will the game now is the top playing and selling single player game on steam
Great job!
It’s saying this isn’t working for me. Anyone else getting that?
I mean, as somebody who went through the launch in the worst way possible on base ps4, the game is in a much better state. It's still NOWHERE near the game they promised at this point. The RPG aspects are very minimal, the choices feel unimportant, they never added vehicle customization, the vehicles still handle like shit, and there's STILL graphical bugs to this day. Even after the changes coming in the patch with the DLC these promises still remain unfulfilled and they're dropping support for the game after the DLC so it's never gonna be the game we were promised.
Finally, I’ve been anticipating this subject for the longest time. Thank you gvmers.
I love this channel so much
Having Gabriel Amatangelo as lead director for Phantom Liberty, was a tremendous blessing. So glad to know he's also on project Orion too. The mans got so much enthusiasm to create a great experience with infectious positivity and the chops to pull it off.
This was an excellent video. Everything right down to the point with no unnecessary incendiary stuff.
I’m unable to watch, I’ve tried since yesterday but it keeps saying “No stream, tap to retry”. Is there a way to fix this?
Issue playing g video: “no stream tap to retry”
Did video get taken down?
the narrator of these videos sound very professional, great job.
amazing as usual.
I always see these game breaking bugs and glitches in videos but I haven't experienced any of them myself, played it close after launch in december 2020, on a mediocre PC with a GTX 1070, not the greatest performance. It ran good enough and I could finish it without any problems.
I once, (in my 10+ playthroughs) had characters T-Pose temporarily, but UN-posed once I looked away from them and then turned back. Other than that, I have experienced the total disdain for everyone in the game wanting V's help with some inane task.
When i play that opening sequence of the game -up to where it displays the title- I always think that they mustve built that out first..and then just didnt really know where to go, because that whole opening bit is the best part of the whole game.
I recently bought it in the Winter Sale on steam but I'm gonna start it probably in next 2 months as I have a couple of other games in the backlog.
Night Buddy... First ad I actually like! Funny as hell.
I bought this game for Xbox one day one edition when was released. Even bought the book the World of Cyberpunk and really like the concept.
Installed but never played it because of the bugs and all the bad reviews.
I was waiting for the patch to the next gen. Already came out few months ago.
Now i think is time to finally play it and really enjoy the world of Cyberpunk 2077!
Why is EVERYONE claiming Cyberpunk 2077 is what they initially promised now? It still has no car customisation, no extra story paths and a ton more- yet suddenly a Netflix anime comes out and everyone forgets that they promised you could become part of Trauma Team...
Absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah bro people are easy to forgive
Thank you dude! This game is still not what they advertised it would be
If you got on the hype train based on a trailer and market speak then you're a silly sausage mate.
Short lived memories and the willingness to accept anything - even cardboard - just to eat. Just like Johnny said, " Mindless f**kin' consumerism wins the day again."
@@Reese_Calloway this is honestly the truth. People have been fooled to being damn near soldiers for the products they purchase. It’s almost like they are defending themselves.
16:02 nice editing! 😄
Still can’t watch the video - says no stream
Few things missing from this video.
- The lie: "This game runs surprisingly well on old gen."
- All the nonsense that their PR team posted with one statement being: "We'll leave the greed to others."
- The fact that the studio went public in the middle of the hype to sell their stocks at a high.
- The game is missing many, many features that they advertised was in the game over the years.
- The review embargo used to mislead customers. Forcing them to show highly cherry picked footage as gameplay.
Exactly it doesn't feel like a redemption to me, yet.
Yeah the review embargo never gets talked about because people know it'll make them look bad. When leakers are actually needed they never arise oof
Bah, Repent!
@@Rinocapz Its Not a Redemption for 99.9% of people. Almost everyone hates Cyberpunk and CDPR. CDPR will even go bankrupt soon because almost everyone refunded Cyberpunk
Cyberpunk was made by inexperienced amateurs and scammers. Thats why Cyberpunk is so trash
I'll never get tired of saying that this is one of the best RUclips channels around.
Agreed! Although, i cannot distinguish if the narrator is a really good bot or a actual human being??
@@MrSmokincodz HAHAHAHA 🤣 That is the exact thing i was thinking about the last 2 or 3 years. Is he a state of the art voice AI... or just some monotoon human being?
this channel is too good.
How does this channel not have for subscribers?!
Anyone else getting no stream?
Yeah, so strange.
A game may get "better" after release, but it doesn't change the past and it doesn't make things right. It's just wrong when this becomes the norm.
No Man's Sky did the same thing, and everything started praising them.
You are objectively wrong. No mans sky is one of the only games to rise from the ashes.
Most people who dont respect what hello have done with NMS just wouldnt have liked a space adventure sim.
@@drunkpaulocosta I don't think teams should be praised for delivering on what they promised 2 years later.
@@A7XKoRnRocks1 Exactly
You are correct, it shouldn't be the norm. However, you should also forgive if the developer does their due diligence to fix what was broken. People make mistakes, and that often sucks, but if they actively try to fix the mistakes, then that should be forgiven and we should trust they won't do it again. If they THEN do it again, then obviously it's a different situation.
I mean, look at Anthem. You can be mad about that situation all you want because Anthem got abandoned by EA.
I'm really glad to see the game's redemption arc come full circle and people finally appreciating this awesome game. I'm one of the few that actually enjoyed Cyberpunk at launch despite all the optimization issues, and I envy everyone playing it for the first time right now in its most polished state. I cannot wait to return to the game once the expansion comes out 🙌🏻
@@alexandrep4913 It’s on you to expected an 11/10 game of the century shit. That’s literally never going to happen. Cyberpunk is a good game, not the best thing ever made, but better than most AAA shit out there and that’s good enough for the majority of people. The only people who are still salty about Cyberpunk are the ones who had an unreasonable level of expectations and will be disappointed regardless.
Also the “8 years” is total bs. Cyberpunk was revealed before Witcher 3. Remember that CDPR was a fairly small dev before Witcher 3 became a mega hit. They didn’t have enough resources to develop 2 AAA games at the same time. Cyberpunk was most likely being worked on after all the Witcher 3 expansions were done, which means around 3 - 4 years, and COVID was hitting as well.
@@alexandrep4913 lol it is one of the best game I've ever play, you probably carried by hate train , tho I only played 2 months ago almost 2 years after it initial released. The story, gameplay and atmosphere is amazing. Sometimes i just wandering/driving around the city without doing anything is so immersive. Btw my pc is 3060 not really a powerful gpu and it can run the game fine
@@alexandrep4913 If you never followed the hype train and just saw it for what it was (like me got it for $15 after next gen update) it’s a pretty fun action rpg game with a great story and world sure it’s not the quintessential masterpiece that cures cancer people were expecting but still a fun game
Nah, they lied to all of us, won't forgive or forget until i see everything they promised in game
@@alexandrep4913 still more enjoyable than most open world games that has came out recently.
This comes highly, highly anticipated - there are very few Channels and Creators that I feel approach gaming from the angle so many of us see the 'industry' (not my word haha ugh) from - I sense that the team here was likely playing the same games I did (Random game : Myth ? 🤤)....
...and have felt the landscape tilt underfoot, felt the slime gather around their feet and regularly shake their head at the disparity between the excitement of picking out a new game then, and doing so today.
I'm rambling. But only because I feel so strongly about a form of art that was once a healthier, more varied and creative environment.
Then came the spreadsheets, the share prices and the clueless legions of arrogant middle managers.
I've gotten bitter 🙃
If anything edgerunners anime made the game look even more underwhelming. edgerunners told a way more interesting story
Yeah this
Keep the good content flowing 👌
They really did PS4/XB1 owners dirty. Really dirty. They should never think of releasing CP77 anywhere near full price. Half price is too much. I got it at 75% off and parts of me are still salty enough to think I overpaid.
1 - CP77 was initially developed for PS4/XB1 generation in mind. They abandoned it halfway through but neglected to actually tell PS4/XB1 owners.
2 - Neglected to tell us? They fucking lied to us telling us that the game "ran surprisingly well" on last gen when they knew full fucking well it didn't.
3 - TO THIS DAY there are a lot of cool things in the game that's still not available on the Last Gen versions because of their fucking "Last Gen is hard" excuse. They may be little things, like the gecko egg you get from Arasaka tower will never hatch on PS4/XB1 because V's apartment will never get that little net you can hatch it in, but this is an RPG. The little stuff matters.
4 - And now only PS4/XB1 owners WONT be able to expand the story with the DLC. In a way I'm glad they took this decision out of my hands.
I strongly suggest anyone who's not a PC player think thrice before purchasing any CDPR game again. Yeah, PS5 might be current gen now, but it'll be last gen someday, and if CDPR abandoned a game they developed for current game and lied about it once, they can do it again. No honestly fuck CDPR. Their only good choice was Edgerunners but unfortunately for them I think people will eventually figure out that it's not a good showcase for CP77 but what CP77 could've been if they stuck more to the whole RPGness of it all.
For fucks sake, centering the entire game around Johnny Silverhand when his memory of crucial events can't even be trusted. The whole bombing of Arasaka tower flashback was 90% bullshit according to the actual lore of CP20. But if you're not a tabletop player or if you didn't watch a ton of lore videos, you'd never know. They derailed the original rpg-rich story of the game for a game centering around a character whose own recollection of the lore is tenuous at best just cuz they got Keanu Reeves to play him...
Guess I can't blame them. Keannu is awesome tho.
No stream, tap to retry
I played the game at launch. To see people start to love it is a nice feeling. I played it and beat it at its most broken.
Mate, you have a very smooth voice
The Phoenix rises from the ashes :) Thank you for making these videos! Attempt nr 10 How about The rise and fall of Mechwarrior series? :)
Part of the problem was the hype. Before the game even came out, my brother was saying it's the best game ever made. No, you can't say things like that. Peoples hopes and expectations were unrealistically high.
CD Project did not help that.
@@John-996 yeah cdpr just kept adding fuel to the fire when they were marketing cyberpunk
@@mobya80 Yes But If you Look At marking for Witcher 3. Or Look at Rockstars Marketing for Games like RDR1, LA Noire, Maxpayne 3, GTA5 and RDR2 all these tell you what the games are what the main focus and goal of the games are. They do this without over selling the game. Not like Todd Howard 16 times the detail. I was hyped for Cyberpunk ,but after replaying witcher 3 I saw quite flaws. I Set my expectations lower After this. But Marketing needs to get the right Mix of hype but not hype to the point its to good to be true.
@@mobya80
Most people don't complete their games. They aren't going to play long enough to collect a damn thing and whine about any generic template. They pay a lot of money for these shinny new toys then toss them aside.
Hype and marketing sell the games, not the actual quality.
The psychotic toxic gamers on internet communities are clearly a vocal minority, and they do not represent the silent majority at the slightest.
Sure, hype can lead to disappointment but the game was literally broken when they released it and alot of the shit they marketed was not actually in the game. Thats a VERY different thing.
I'm pissed off about said come back. Game is still fucked beyond the point of being acceptable but everyone has decided that's OK. Great now broken games is all we'll ever get.
Hurry my friend, thank you for watching, hit me up you have w.on a P.S.5 for yourself ☝️🎮
They captured the lightning in the bottle with their over hype (specially from that yapping dev streaming) but the bottle broke on launch. Now every AAA games wants to avoid being in the same category of *cyberpunk 2077 launch disaster*
I was fortunately able to get back into playing it. I'm happy with what they were able to fix. It's been a lot of fun, tbh.
Hearing they profit share with their employees makes them a little bit cooler.
I'm finally about to play this, for the first time, on PS5. I've heard nothing but good things now the game has been fixed. It's a shame CPR felt they had to release it when they did, across both generations. I don't think anybody would have really been that angry had they pushed it back as a next-gen only game.
People would have gone ballistic if it was a next-gen and PC only game. There was, and still is, a shortage of components which makes PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Graphics Cards very expensive. Too many people now, two years later, don't own a PC or next-gen console. Just look at the preorders for PS4 and Xbox One to see how wrong you are.
They could have at least delayed the previous gen launch, that would have given them more time to fix the previous gen versions.
Why doesn’t this video work for me??
Why is there “No stream” when I try and load the video?
Anyone’s video keep saying “tap to retry, no stream” ?