The mission structure is shallow. No room for creativity at all. There’s only one way to finish most quests. If you step outside the path the developers created for you at all, instant fail.

The fact you unironically use this to detract from GTAV, a game released during the PS3 era, while ignoring the exact SAME issue for Cyberpunk, a modern RPG advertised as the epitome of choice, should inform anyone to the validity of any of the opinions you hold in this matter. The only staying power of Cyberpunk is people benchmarking with it.

You literally contradict yourself trying to defend Cyberpunk…

I didn’t play Cyberpunk for the police and NPC AI. I don’t give a fuck about that. I played it for the story, world-building, characters, dystopian themes, and shoot em up style hacker gameplay.

So you play it like a linear shooter, which is the exact opposite of what was advertised. Mayhap you are part of the population Kojima also mentioned as fundamentally unable to process anything that isn’t “shoot the baddies”.

On that subject, the story of Cyberpunk is pretty shallow. There’s one good arc, the tutorial, after that it reads like it was written by a completely different team and the original writing team was relegated to one or two side quests.

Edit:

maybe you’re just a cunt

Very classy, one can Tell Cyberpunk is one of your favourite games.

All of this is true. I neglected to mention that because I didn’t think you could survive with 150€ a day in Paris as a tourist

Please explain to me how GTAV was shallow. One can absolutely dislike the caricature like style of world building however, calling it shallow borderlines illiteracy. Especially when defending cyberpunk, there’s no underlying message of any sort in Cyberpunk. It’s like, shoot the baddies, corpos bad, mohawk and neon good.

I can tell you from the top of my head Cyberpunk issues that haven’t been solved to today or promises that haven’t been addressed:

Ai of NPCs Ai of police - both still much worse than even sleeping dogs… The promised branching narrative never happened, it’s wildly linear. No functional karma system. The writing of the main characters, the beginning is promising with the

The world is basically a ubisoft map minus interesting, organic things to do in the open world The driving is horrendous in cars, unbelievably bad in motorbikes The characters are wildly one-dimensional and villains are absolute moustache twirling levels of bad.

They failed on over half of the promised features to this day. It’s not a bad game, it’s just mid.

Cyberpunk is still utter shait when compared to GTAV and still delivers on less than half of what they promised. If they hadn’t become the de facto hardware showcase for NVIDIA the game would have long been abandoned. NVIDIA’s marketing development funds sponsoring half of “gaming” youtubers did more for CDPR’s reputation than anything they added to the game. It was never going to be better than mid, and it’s still mid. Ai is still worse than GTA3.

150€ will net you a stay in most countries in the EU except scandinavia and too big cities.

For 150€ a day, Budapest, Warsaw, Split, Prague, Vilnius, Salamanca, etc.

Be mindful of where you rent, make sure to have travellers insurance, don’t get scammed for BS reasons (like peeps trying to make you believe you need to pay high money to use the autobahn in Czechia). Be mindful of pickpockets anywhere southwest of Paris and enjoy the food and locals.

Cool, shit is bad for you if you eat it, 100%.

Go try that now.

No, Apple bent the knee for concessions on tarifs. If you live in the US the chance your comms are backdoored on iOs is 100%.

Ars doing an advertorial. Nothing to see here.

Ye, that shit is everywhere, also gaming indian sites that recycle and produce AI slop are popping everywhere like mushrooms. Perhaps the dead internet theory is closer than expected.

The joke that keeps on giving

Oh no

I just want more hollow knight with tight gameplay. Gimme more insect metroidvania and I’ll be happy to participate. I honestly don’t know what the hype is about, it’s a good metroidvania, they just have to deliver more of the same. What are people expecting? What hype are we even talking about? It’s been a long wait, that’s it.

Edit: If they make it a Switch 2 exclusive I’ll never buy it out of spite, fuck Nintendo, long live FOSS and Linux gaming.

Looks at my 15y old WERA… Ok…

I think Millenials and zoomers forgot about the oldest, most important axiom of Youtube: If it’s being advertised or sold by Youtubers, it’s likely a scam!

Or Microsoft. Not only do you not own games, you can’t choose or vote with your wallet anymore if you get into a subscription model, MS will develop whatever costs them less and makes them more and double down on AI slop.

If I didn’t want to play on console and had a tight budget, I’d look into AMD apus or steam deck, yes, or used if that were an option in the market I were in.

My point was, for the price, you’ll be hard pressed to get better perf/visuals out of a game like the guy in the article said. Surprisingly enough, consoles still deliver an impressive presentation. Even more so if Jimbo RyRy hadn’t poured over 2bn in developing live service trash instead of core gaming experiences like Returnal, which is likely my game of this gen (together with BG3).

M8, that’s the wrong argument, you CANNOT do it for 400€-500€. I get that a PC is much more versatile, but as a turnkey solution, the console or steamdeck are downright unbeatable in value right now. GPUs cost stupid money and the PS5 still holds its own against a 6700XT(7700)/4060ti, plus it has resume play like the deck…

I use a PC (9070XT is a wonderful card) but I’m privileged. If I weren’t, I’d be buying a PS5 or a Steamdeck. You can get used PS5 disks for 10-20€, you don’t need to pay to play FTP games online and don’t need internet to play your used disks. It’s overall a far superior option unless your budget is above 1000€ or you have some kind of malformation that only let’s you play with KBM.

The PS5+used games or a Steamdeck in case you already have a library on steam are downright the only smart money options nowadays in the EU.

If you have 1000€ to burn, then you can get a pretty good machine with AM4 and RDNA3 for a reasonable price (7800xt are going for not stupid money normally). I’d still wait for the 9060 to get FSR4 and slap bazzite on a HTPC build and call it a day.

This type of PCMR regarded takes is what lets NVIDIA charge 950€ for what should essentially be a 5060 card.

Get a steamdeck instead of a PS5 every day of the week but arguing you can build a PC for the price of a PS5 (now selling as low as 400€) is downright regarded…

Oh, I’ve seen this one. where’s scientology Tom in this episode?

Fair enough, silk road was pretty wild.