Quick Look: Cyberpunk 2077

im in a cyber funk.

Another fine CD Projekt Red title launch!

Driving looks completely shit wow

Even watching this, I can’t shake the though in the back of my head saying “this game tried to kill a person.” So many controls at a bunch of different companies have to fail for this to happen. Only in 2020.

HIT ME

Caught the end of this live and am VERY glad this is the thumbnail.

As someone with modest expectations, I'm looking forward to playing this.

wow the combat seems impressively bad.

oblivion with guns.

edit: wow this was even before the oblivion ass boulder fall on head extremely slowly trap happened. Why are games still like this.

I don't know if its the video, the game or the way Vinny is controlling the character/camera but I am only a few minutes in and everything seems to move in a real jerky way. It's really off-putting.

Vinny did a great job leading this quick look, even if the game's map, fast travel and world design all conspired against him to get him to that second ripperdoc. Thank you!

@scottiedo22: Haven't played it but I watched Shroud play it and it seems like he was getting head shots with ease. Vinny was also playing with gamepad that was losing power.

I've been keeping an eye on this game ever since it was announced, but despite that, I was never really excited for it because I couldn't shake the thought that it seemed way overambitious for a company that's really only made a few games since it was started.

Boy, does it show here. Even if they patch out the bugs and jank, a lot of it looked like it could use a full redesign from the ground up.

When Vinny was slicing dudes, it didn't look like the sword was interacting with the character models at all. It was like the animation played and then it did a hit-scan check to see if damage registered. And the driving. Yikes. I'm also not a fan of your armor being determined by your goofy mish-mash outfit. You have weapon mods, why not dress how you like and slot some armor mods into it or something?

I think Witcher 3 is one of the greatest RPGs ever made, but even there a lot of the gameplay was merely passable in order to get to the story, characters, and general writing and world building quality. I'm not really getting the same vibe here. It reminds me a lot of when Bioware put out Mass Effect 1. Hopefully they get to try again with a more refined game, but this went from a day 1 buy to maybe if it's on sale for me.

Jesus Christ this game runs and looks soooo so so bad.

CDPR's reach might have exceeded their grasp with this game. I bet in 6 months it will be in a good place like No Man's Sky, but it looks like a real rough launch.

offtt pop it back in the oven.... am i even watching the same game they've been advertising this whole time....

It's got the graphics of Low settings with the framerate of Ultra settings...

Can't wait to buy this game for $15 on sale in 3 years

I never found this game interesting since it's announcement, so I have zero feelings for it other than what I've seen here and wow this game is broken and it seems like it's terrible.

I am very happy Vinny decided to play jazz in his car most of the stream.

Three cars explode in the center of the street. No one moves. Jeff says "What the fuck is happening?"

Looking forward to playing this in a year or two when I get a PS5...except for the 200gb worth of patches I'll have to download.

Honestly from the first trailers with characters actually speaking I knew this wouldn't be what I wanted it to be... however.... there's still a part of me that wants to jump in on this after some of the bugs are seen to.

Thanks for the quick look. I imagine trying to show this game to someone is a bit of nightmare!

Alex had never been more right when he said "maybe its just because I haven't played this ..." I had no idea what was happening during that first combat sequence

...probably check back on this one after it's had a few months of bug squashing.

Eeeeee, this does look very wonky. My copy is arriving tomorrow, I've been looking forward to this forever... but I don't know if I'm entirely excited by the prospect of it after that quick look. I think I may have finally learned my lesson about preorders. What a fine end to 2020.

No joke, hearing that the main story is maybe 20 hours long is super disappointing. I was expecting something as long as The Witcher 3 (without DLC) hell even The Witcher 2 has a longer main story than this game does.

Right now, this is not a game I would spend $60 on. My decision to refund my pre-order was a good one I suppose.

Fun fact: this game was announced before Far Cry 3 came out... imagine all the open world games since then and yet they still released it in this state?!

Looks like a fitting end to the year, sheesh.

That was nearly two hours of cynicism, negativity, and speaking only of problems with the game

flourished with glaring bugs all over the place laid over top of some janky open-world gameplay

So when they then say it's good..? I guess? -With a questioning tone and they guess they're invested enough to see it through I'm just... Huh?

I think I'll play it some time, just... Later.

This game looks like Perfect Dark Zero to me.

I’m definitely going to wait just like I did with the Witcher 3 as that paid off in spades for me. Seems like there is a lot of stuff that needs to be ironed out still which is fine, plenty of games to play and all that.

One thing that I can’t seem to shake though as I watch this quick look is just how busy everything seems. The UI seems like it’s a bit much to me at least and I don’t know why because it probably conveys the same amount of information as like a Doon 2016 but it’s just more in your face I guess.

That coupled with the tone of the game is kind of off putting. I know it’s Cyberpunk and I’m assuming this is what the pen and paper stuff was like maybe? I’m not sure as I never read or played that at all. The whole IN YOUR FACE ALL THE TIME tone seems to be a bit much. For me of course.

Adjacent to that is I wonder what kind of FOV setting Vinny had because I actually got a little nauseous watching this at times. Doesn’t help that the video was very choppy. I know they gave the preface that new drivers were installed which lowered performance so this is a minor complaint.

I’m honestly surprised that for as long as this game has been in production that it looks so half baked. It’s probably wayyy better than this video portrayed though. However I’m still super happy that I decided to wait a long while to play this.

im ready to Jacked

If youve never played Perfect Dark Zero sure

@topcyclist: Wasn't just Jeff, Vinny seemed pretty meh about it as well. And, ya know, my own perceptions watching it.

Dunno how much is just the glitches and jank marring the rest, or the hype setting impossible expectations, but... Yeah. Looks fine I guess.

1 million concurrent players on steam. WOW.

Also.....this looks awesome.

LOL overhyped junk

Deus Ex made by dickheads.

Ooooof this looks rough. A 2020-ass game.

@chummy8: They said they had a shorter campaign ostensibly because they claim most people didnt finish Witcher 3. The cynical part of me says that may be cover for them having to cut things short due to budget/time constraints and mismanagement, etc.

@armcommander: I'm glad my backlog is so large. I'm constantly playing games 1-3 years after they come out. This game should be okay in 2022.

This game's pretty great so far after playing a few hours.

The thumbnail creation at the end was the piece de resistance. Cyberpunk 2077 is a perfect circle. The whole episode is just a time paradox.

In true Cyberpunk 2077 fashion, some people in the comments here are tripping over themselves to be the biggest edgelord.

Anyways this sure is a buggy mess. I’m just glad this thing is more of an actual shooter than Deus Ex ever was. From what little I’ve played of it the music has been the biggest disappointment for me.

loving it so far playing it on rtx ultra 3440X1440 quality dlss, getting between 60~30.

Cyberpunk has that persistent feeling I get in some games where it just feels like a collection of parts rather than a finished product. Like a bunch of talented and hard working people dumped tons of time and energy into creating assets, tuning the feel of something, or working on some sub-system and then just tossed it over a wall for someone else to worry about. I can't put my finger on it, but there's not one particular piece that feels polished enough to cover up the flaws of anything else. Or maybe it's just what happens when ambition meets hard reality, deadlines, budgets, and the need to support 5 platforms.

Regardless, if this was someone's first experience with a CDPR game, I wouldn't be surprised if they said "fuck this" and never bought another game from the studio. It's not a particularly amazing game on its own, it doesn't run that well, and it must look and run like dogshit on the previous generation of consoles.

This needed to be in the oven longer. Whew boy.

Something about this QL feels like it could be an ad for Giant Bomb. Hilarious antics, genuinely informative criticism, Vinny goofin in an open world, and everyone doing their part to keep things moving along. They made covering this beast of a game look easy.

Going to wait for the PS5 version of this one, maybe by then it will be in a better place.

Well, so far this is pretty much the best gaming experience I've ever had in my life. Completely living up to all the hype I had for the game times 1000...just unbelievable and I can't wait to see how they expand the game with patches and additional DLC. And mod support. Oh please give us mod support.

Anyways, I'm getting 60 FPS at 4k ray tracing 'psycho' (max) film grain off (because its bad) and DLSS set to "quality" if I change DLSS to off my FPS drops to around 25-27ish. Comparing the two well you just can't really because you aren't losing any texture data with DLSS off, and with DLSS on you are losing texture data since it's essentially using AI mip mapping.

This game is just a visual masterpiece. An absolute feast on the eyes. I can't believe it. My heart races every second I play this game. The animations, the lighting, the environmental design, the level of detail, the sound effects, the impact of the weapons, the grittiness of the city, the absolute majesty of everything wrapped up into this beautiful amazing game Cyberpunk 2077.

I don't see how this game will be topped, but I can't wait to see a developer try. Wow.

I really don't know what the reviews are saying bout this game not having any systems, or needing to use the items you find. I guess they were not playing on Hard. I would recommend first tip play the game on Hard. Also if you are playing on PC press caps lock instead of tab to use the sensor.

Here are two pics just to show the lighting with psycho ray tracing and dlss off. The DLSS technology is out of this world to be able to make the RTX accessible on current pcs. There is going to be very few machines that can run this game at psycho with DLSS off. I'm only on a 8700k so that is my main bottleneck.