Cyberpunk 2077 Pre-Release Thread [GAME RELEASED, GO TO NEW THREAD]

[Infinitron]

https://www.daserste.de/information/wissen-kultur/ttt/videos/sendung-vom-15112020-video-106.html

Is any of this footage new? Also any local Krauts can tell us if anything of worth was said there?

Gameplay footage only:

 

[just]

NEW GAMEPLAY FOOTAGE
>old gameplay footage
>cutscenes
>keanu

 

[Steezus]

I've never been much into rap but in the late 90's, early 2000's we a had "significant" hip-hop scene here in tugalândia

One sentence and you managed to invalidate your opinion on rap music 3 times.

 

[Ol' Willy]

It's true that blacks have been trying to destroy white Christian society for decades with their blues and jazz music

Nor jazz, nor blues would have been possible without Western musical theory. This genres are based on 12-TET and follow the rules of Western musical theory, instrumentation is Western as well. There was no guitars or 12-TET back in Africa.

Rap, on the other hand, is the reincarnation of ancient negro chanting in the modern environment; the "beat" can be replaced with another negro hitting on a leather drum, while the second one with a painted face chants/reads some lyrical pearls as "yo, nigga, motherfucka, suck my dick and eat my shit, nigga this and nigga that"

 

[AwesomeButton]

Regarding the footage, it annoys me how when characters speak the supposedly metal parts of their bodies are stretching and twisting like the real material never would, because it's just a texture.

 

[Peachcurl]

Z-grade fat trolling this is. CDPR gloats about provocation like a high school bully because they know polish government is no Saudi Arabia and won't answer to provocation with shutting down all activity and throwing Marcin from a skyscraper, since their company is a valuable source of reputational and financial capital for Poland. And so, CP2077 needs to be what it is to not flop and the profits high. "Free" market, everyone.

It didn't exactly sound like gloating or trolling. In the end, the focus on that is likely coming from the ARD journalists, rather than the CDP guys. It's pretty much business as usual that they pick up on political issues. More briefly, they also covered the capitalism criticism.

That's just what these kind of TV formats do. They love to cover everything that goes beyond the medium itself, especially if it is likely to raise the interest of a broader audience. (Of course, CDP may have a similar motivation, but I don't think that is visible from that video clip.)

 

[DJOGamer PT]

I've never been much into rap but in the late 90's, early 2000's we a had "significant" hip-hop scene here in tugalândia

One sentence and you managed to invalidate your opinion on rap music 3 times.

I admit that unlike you I am not a connoisseur of zoomer earrape cancer, so perhaps you may very well be right in your assement that these pieces of ''music'' are not bad at all in that particular genre

Besides considering that CDPR are creating here a new sub-genre of Cyberpunk (one which I will refer from now on as Clownpunk), this zoomer cacophony may very well be the best choice for the setting's soundtrack

 

[Gargaune]

Regarding the footage, it annoys me how when characters speak the supposedly metal parts of their bodies are stretching and twisting like the real material never would, because it's just a texture.

Animation technicalities aside, I'm not completely sold on the look of the cybernetic limbs so far. Some of them seem to be fitted to the body in a rather arbitrarily "neat" and abrupt fashion, like interchangeable Lego pieces, rather than following an anatomical rationale for musculature. Consider the following two images from CBP and DX4 and how the prosthetic arm connects to the torso:

As an additional observation, since we've already touched on this kinda gruesome topic, I also don't get why so many NPCs are shown to have unilateral prosthetics, that only makes sense in the case of accidental trauma. Otherwise, if you're talking about "performance enhancement", why would someone only replace their left arm? In all fairness to CDPR, Eidos Montreal made a similar mistake with their NPC design, though their notion of augmentation as a widespread fashion trend was shaky ground to begin with.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Otherwise, if you're talking about "performance enhancement", why would someone only replace their left arm? In all fairness to CDPR, Eidos Montreal made a similar mistake with their NPC design, though their notion of augmentation as a widespread fashion trend was shaky ground to begin with.

I guess that an in-lore explanation, at least for the lower classes, would be that prosthetics are quite expensive (both in terms of purchasing them & getting them surgically added and in subsequently maintaining them).

 

[ChildInTime]

Regarding the footage, it annoys me how when characters speak the supposedly metal parts of their bodies are stretching and twisting like the real material never would, because it's just a texture.

Animation technicalities aside, I'm not completely sold on the look of the cybernetic limbs so far. Some of them seem to be fitted to the body in a rather arbitrarily "neat" and abrupt fashion, like interchangeable Lego pieces, rather than following an anatomical rationale for musculature. Consider the following two images from CBP and DX4 and how the prosthetic arm connects to the torso:

As an additional observation, since we've already touched on this kinda gruesome topic, I also don't get why so many NPCs are shown to have unilateral prosthetics, that only makes sense in the case of accidental trauma. Otherwise, if you're talking about "performance enhancement", why would someone only replace their left arm? In all fairness to CDPR, Eidos Montreal made a similar mistake with their NPC design, though their notion of augmentation as a widespread fashion trend was shaky ground to begin with.

You just can't see the metal connecting to the body, it's all hidden under synth skin. But Johnny here has those same things Jensen has.

 

[Quillon]

I also don't get why so many NPCs are shown to have unilateral prosthetics, that only makes sense in the case of accidental trauma. Otherwise, if you're talking about "performance enhancement", why would someone only replace their left arm?

They could only afford 1 arm for now or style reasons? Johnny Silverhand-s doesn't have the same ring to it

 

[Justicar]

 

[Silly Germans]

Talking is still not singing.

Corporations pushing for rap is just another way for them to fuck with whites. Never forget that you are scheduled for genocide.

Hip Hop exists since over four decades now. This genocide seems to be awfully ineffective.

It's true that blacks have been trying to destroy white Christian society for decades with their blues and jazz music, with songs about violence, drinking, and about "shaking that thing", leading astray good white men and women.

Forget listening to black music - playing videogames is enough degeneracy by itself. Deceiving the senses with frivolous images and sounds instead of reading the Gospels.

To every satanic verse of black music, calling us to sinful thoughts or deeds, we should oppose a verse of the Book of Psalms.

True Christians must demand that CP77 is thoroughly vetted for immoral degeneracy, at the very least all music is replaced with church hymns, and all black people are changed to white, because the sight of black people distracts a good Christian from elevating his soul. God has created us in His image, so why would we want to see black people?

Pff, hipl hopl ? Rap ? The real danger lies here,

Spoiler

 

[Gargaune]

I guess that an in-lore explanation, at least for the lower classes, would be that prosthetics are quite expensive (both in terms of purchasing them & getting them surgically added and in subsequently maintaining them).

I suppose. Though, I'm not sure how many occupations would benefit from having one significantly stronger arm, unless Night City's got the world's largest population of tennis players. But I'm probably overthinking that point, it's all sci-fi poetic license anyway.

You just can't see the metal connecting to the body, it's all hidden under synth skin. But Johnny here has those same things Jensen has.

Some of them are better than others. Johnny's has a more natural look, but there are some others I've seen through videos that look very haphazard.

They could only afford 1 arm for now or style reasons? Johnny Silverhand-s doesn't have the same ring to it

The style thing, that's why I mentioned DX3. You've got commentary on technology and labour, people having to resort to these extreme measures to stay competitive, and then you've got consumerism, people choosing to undertake it as status symbol. Need versus vanity in a dehumanised world. Not saying you can't work with the latter, but it's a harder sell.

 

[Comrade Goby]

Rap is not music. Rap is people talking over stolen samples.

Are you one of those people who says rap isn't music but likes black metal?

Black metal has instruments in it

The human voice is an instrument

Rap doesn't use it though. They use the beep boop machine and auto tuning, they aren't singers

 

[Avarize]

Rap, on the other hand, is the reincarnation of ancient negro chanting in the modern environment; the "beat" can be replaced with another negro hitting on a leather drum, while the second one with a painted face chants/reads some lyrical pearls as "yo, nigga, motherfucka, suck my dick and eat my shit, nigga this and nigga that"

Yes. Rap just never has any complexity to it and its lyrical content is just about vice and violence.
Exhibit A

Spoiler

In eternal blackness, in the midst of the darkest night
Proteins and minerals, exist within specks of light
Solids liquids and gases, and sparks of light within
infinite lengths and widths and depths and heights
No beginning or ending, the seven dimensions
Enough space for more than a million words and inventions
To travel through time within enough room to be the womb
of the most high's great mind which he will soon make shine
With intelligent elements in sight that he will gather
In the realms of relativity electricity struck matter
Energies explode he below to keep releasin
Atoms by the millions, til the numbers increasin
Til it was burnin he kept returnin itself to the source
The hotter his thoughts it gave the center more force
He gave birth to the sun which would follow his laws
All caused by his mental intercourse, who is God

Not that I agree with his cosmology but it's a beautiful description.

 

[Kem0sabe]

Ps4 case, Two disks... Also it's described as an action adventure game and not an RPG.

 

[Avarize]

Rap is not music. Rap is people talking over stolen samples.

Are you one of those people who says rap isn't music but likes black metal?

Black metal has instruments in it

The human voice is an instrument

Rap doesn't use it though. They use the beep boop machine and auto tuning, they aren't singers

Would you say drums are not an instrument? They purely provide percussion after all, just like a rapper.

 

[Heroic Liberator]

Rap, on the other hand, is the reincarnation of ancient negro chanting in the modern environment; the "beat" can be replaced with another negro hitting on a leather drum, while the second one with a painted face chants/reads some lyrical pearls as "yo, nigga, motherfucka, suck my dick and eat my shit, nigga this and nigga that"

Yes. Rap just never has any complexity to it and its lyrical content is just about vice and violence.
Exhibit A

Spoiler

In eternal blackness, in the midst of the darkest night
Proteins and minerals, exist within specks of light
Solids liquids and gases, and sparks of light within
infinite lengths and widths and depths and heights
No beginning or ending, the seven dimensions
Enough space for more than a million words and inventions
To travel through time within enough room to be the womb
of the most high's great mind which he will soon make shine
With intelligent elements in sight that he will gather
In the realms of relativity electricity struck matter
Energies explode he below to keep releasin
Atoms by the millions, til the numbers increasin
Til it was burnin he kept returnin itself to the source
The hotter his thoughts it gave the center more force
He gave birth to the sun which would follow his laws
All caused by his mental intercourse, who is God

Not that I agree with his cosmology but it's a beautiful description.

Quoting your post as an excuse to post one of my favorite rap songs which criticizes the aforementioned vice and violence which is often glorified in 'gangsta rap':


Video has the English translation of the lyrics in the YT captions.

 

[TemplarGR]

I am amazed people still haven't figured out this game is not an rpg. I repeat, Far Cry New Dawn was way more of a proper bonefide CRPG than Cyberpunk 2077 is. Yet my thread about it was moved to general gaming, while this thread is allowed still in the General RPG section. I suppose the zlotys are too many for the moderators to do the right thing.

In other news, i am disgusted by the Nshitia's physx on the box. Does it mean that performance on AMD is gonna be crippled on purpose on PC? Again? Like they did initially with Witcher 3 and later patched it out?

 

[Quillon]

it's described as an action adventure game and not an RPG.

enough with this shit, are you expecting a linear story without any choices, character stats/progression etc just cos they call it akshun adventure to appease whomever?

 

[Dishonoredbr]

Ps4 case, Two disks... Also it's described as an action adventure game and not an RPG.

So when the mods gonna move this thread to General Gaming.

 

[Morgoth]

Only major title this year I'm willing to shell out full price.... only if the Codex approves though.

But how can one know if the Codex approves when it has become so divided and toxic?

 

[Alienman]

Can you get cyberboobs?

 

[Naraya]

Pure logic: