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Yes, I did, but I find that it's one of the dumber things in the game. Most of the sexualized stuff I don't mind, but some of it I just think is dumb, not in an 'I'm offended by this' kind of way, but in the 'Was this necessary? That's just silly'. I just went basic. I made a normal size and circumcised with normal hair. I 'customized' it, but I didn't go deep into it.

Sorry, that is longer than I was expecting. For those that don't care about reading it, it's just answering the question, but also my thoughts on the game so far since I just got it yesterday. Long story short, I like it, but there are some (negligible I'm finding so far) issues. Happy Holidays!

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No. I think a lot of it is silly, and not in the 'oh, haha, CDPR, you are so funny'. I mean, it's not really offensive compared to other stuff, but walking into a room and a simple painting of two dicks on the wall? Yeah. I just find it silly, but do I care that much? Not really. Some of it is additive for the atmosphere, some of it I just don't feel anything for, while other aspects I can understand why some are offended.

I want to add, even though I don't think this is the right forum to do it, so if anything else comes up, I'll post elsewhere, but I got it yesterday on the Xbox One X, and honestly, I'm liking it more than I expected coming off of all the negative talk about it. I haven't had any major issues. And I hate to jinx it, but so far I've only had one guy sitting in midair at the beginning of my nomad playthrough (also, the intro is disappointingly short/seemingly superfluous). He was on my way to the main missions so I hit him.

In the training where it wants you to defeat a foe hand-to-hand by using everything you've learned, the dummy just fell on the ground and I punched him once to finish it. There were a few instances where I couldn't pick up an item for some reason. There was a moment where, and I don't know if it's a bug or someone holding a phone camera and flashing it (as I had seen that when I thought it was a bug), but sometimes the screen flashes white really quickly.

There may have been another, but I don't remember off the top of my head anything as 'bad'. The frame rate holds up well enough. It does dip into the 20s, but it's not ruining the experience. The create a character wasn't great... Trying to get out the things I dislike so far. I can't say that I'm that involved in the story just yet (still early on), but voice work is good and I can see myself taking to some characters. Aw, HDR is seemingly broken and that is unfortunate. That said, I am conflicted about it because in a way, I kind of like some of what it adds to the atmosphere. I've opted to play with it off though.

In simplest terms, I really like the sights and sounds, even on the Xbox One X, I actually think it looks great. The way sound envelops you in Atmos is really nice. It does remind me of Blade Runner even if that's not entirely what they were going for. I'm playing on very hard as I've heard normal is a cakewalk, and combat is enjoyable because shooting I find satisfying enough, and I'm not just running in their faces and taking them out. I'm using cover. The auto-lean is nice.

As said, technically I haven't made a lot of progress but I did play it for (probably?) seven or so hours now, but what I feel so far is that there's not going to be a lot of upgrading for weaponry. To me, it feels like a looter-shooter where you pick a weapon up and if its stats are good, I take it and use it. I'm not sure if that'll be the case further in, but it's what it feels like now. Um, yeah! I like it so far. I find it immersive when I had not thought it would, expecting little things to bother me. Fingers crossed, I'm hoping nothing completely breaks further in.

When it comes to the higher-ups of the company, yes, but when it comes to every individual that makes the game, not necessarily. I still think the majority of the developers working on Cyberpunk 2077 wanted a game put out that everyone would enjoy with little issue, but sometimes the people that want to make the big money make bad decisions.

I'm not sure I could even make a list there are just too many bosses. I can only say my least favorites as that's just easier, and I'd probably choose Bed of Chaos as the worst. It's simultaneously very easy, and yet very annoying.

Despite its issues, I am still excited to jump into it and experience that world (I hope I am getting it for Christmas...) They've just put out a 1.4 patch, which seems to have changed some stuff up. It'll be interesting to see how fast things turn around.

Seeing the way things are, I feel like they should have just scrapped last-gen versions and just focused on PC and new-gen systems. I know people wanted to and expected to play them on the PS4 and Xbox One, but seeing how it came out, it's pretty unacceptable as is and I kind of doubt CDPR will focus that much on the last-gen versions, especially base consoles with multiple patches.

I'll refrain from saying 'best', but the most recent example would be that a month before Demon's Souls came out on PS5, I played some Dark Souls Remastered, then when it came out I went back and played some DS2/3 and beat Bloodborne again (and finally beating Kos [on my third attempt too, which was weirdly easier than I thought it was going to be]).

I wonder, if people were like 'wow, this looks amazing!' when they showed it off, would they have released it already? Or do you think they internally knew it needed work? And yeah, it's weird to see Monster Energy cans have Halo XP stuff on them. I am interested to know what the full soundtrack sounds like though because Gareth Coker is helping out on it.

I don't have the game yet. I get the feeling I'm going to be conflicted about it, where the bugs and a few other aspects take away from the immersion of a beautiful environment and a potentially great story and characters (as long as dialogue/VO doesn't bother me).

I might get it as a Christmas present, I'm hoping. I was hoping to first play it on Xbox Series X or PS5, but that's not going to happen I assume so maybe the Xbox One X version (which from what I understand is the only decent last-gen version).

Anyway, what I actually came on to say is that for those that have an HDR screen and aren't aware, it's best to turn HDR off because it's reportedly broken, which is a huge, huge shame as this kind of game is made for HDR.

Read here and watch here.

By the looks of it, it seems your TV isn't great at doing HDR, so it might be worth just turning off. I mean, you can keep it on and get a brighter image than SDR, but the nits it's reaching aren't going much beyond what SDR can do. It's in what some call 'fake-HDR' range. Plus, the blacks look to be closer to a dark gray than black. It should also be noted, getting HDR to look optimal is tricky just in terms of layers needed to get there if you don't know what goes into making it a good image. The TV needs to be calibrated; it needs to be done in a way that's for your specific room lighting (mainly gamma). Then when it comes to HGIG which is the system level auto-HDR, you need to set those correctly (which isn't actually what it recommends on the consoles always).

Finally, the in-game settings have to be set, and often, they are not good at giving you accuracy from the get-go, so you have to do some research. I find EvilBorisHDR is best at giving the information for that. Add on top of that, some games just don't do HDR well. Hopefully, at some point, it'll just be system level and it does away with sliders in games. Honestly, with your TV I wouldn't worry too much about HDR, nor the local dimming. Set that to medium for best results. Yes though, HDR is meant to be viewed in a dark environment and does produce dimmer yet brighter images. I don't know if this is the TV, but searching a little this is what came up. Go to this page to calibrate; just know that they generally calibrate in dim viewing conditions. If you're in a brighter room, you might want to make it brighter.

HERE.