Well, you have to hand it to CDPR they probably have the best public relations of any company ever.
Cyberpunk 2077. THE HYPE TRAIN HAS LEFT THE STATION!
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This. No gameplay = no hype. We need another Spore to kill all hope people had in games. Maybe this will be it but given how people have shifted their brand loyalty from consoles to dev studios I doubt it.Canadamus Prime said:
You know what these ASSHOLES did at the beginning of the trailer? They gave out free codes for The Witcher 3 GOTY. How dare they treat people with free copies of their best selling title? The nerve! THE NERVE!ChupathingyX said:
Cyberpunk means perpetual night and rain to certain people who conflate it with 80s neon wank nostalgia.undeadsuitor said:
Looks neat. Too early to pass judgement but I like the artstyle and I like how it's actually quite colourful and sunny rather than the usual rain, fog, night, muh Blade Runner approach to the setting you usually see. Other than that... well, let's wait for some Gameplay. I trust CD Projekt. They've made the best game of the decade, that earns them some goodwil in my book.
If those were the messages you got from Terminator and The Matrix, you were watching them in reverse or upside down.Samtemdo8 said:
My reaction was that we get a trailer filled to the brim with cool character designs from all walks of like in this cyberpunk city... Then they introduce the most generic gruff 30's something, brown haired, Caucasian guy they could as the narrator. Luckily it seems they are going for a character designer of some sort for the game.Seth Carter said:
At least the music and visual design feels spot on.
It seemed kind of bright. Like I'm not suggesting they need to be Blade Runner nuclear dust storm permanent rain eternal darkness style by default, but literally everything in every scene seemed very clean and sterile and overlit. With Captain Mcgenericpants (wo I think was bald?) narrating about how the city is so crappy and everyone's poor and crimes skyrocketing as we see what looks like generally middle class well groomed people in nice clothes having casual life moments.Gethsemani said:
It just doesn't look over-designed and over-stylized. It looks like a city that could actually exist in the real world in the future. Cyberpunk usually goes too far with changes and they make things look unnecessarily bleak and evil. But humans are attracted to aesthetically pleasing things. This is actually a far more realistic representation of how a cyberpunk city might look like for real.Seth Carter said:
Phoenixmgs said:
The thing it has going against it though is that shooters (if it is one) are arguably the most bland and boring genre in terms of actual gameplay to begin with. It is because there is so little tactical feedback in a shooter if any (only if there?s melee). After so many years of playing them, shooters feel so hands off to me that I often feel like I might as well be watching a Let?s Play.
Most of them are literally laser pointers nowadays.hanselthecaretaker said:
Physics weapons were probably the evolution of shooters, but they just randomly stopped for unclear reasons (though at least partially the MMS trend and "realism"). the guns that required creativity in use and had interesting behaviors and feedbacks vanished to be replaced by a bunch of "Shoots bullet", "Shoots bullet but faster". Then even those had any vague semblance of gameplay past point and click pushed out as almost of them switched to being hitscans instead of actual projectiles. At least partially to faciiatate online play with less intense netcode (it is easier to to do a math calculation of "You pointed here, that guy was travellling in this direction at this speed, do these trajectories intercept?" then to actually add an additional object that needs to be synchronized.
Spore? How about Aliens: Colonial Marines?Here Comes Tomorrow said:
I know this here Cyberpunk 2077 is by CD Project Red who have probably earned a little leeway because of The Witcher 3, which apparently is really good but I haven't played it. However we still only have a pre-rendered trailer which pretty much only tells us what the setting is and that's it. Need I remind people that we're dealing with video games, not movies, we should really require more than a fancy trailer to get excited. And given previous E3's, not even a gameplay trailer should be sufficient.
Destiny with the infamous "You see that area down there, you can go there". Though I guess you could go there, you just didn't survive the trip when the killbox caught you.Canadamus Prime said:
Or the nigh infamous No Mans Sky clearly not procedural generated demo planet.
Also, if I my flex my slight elder status, Final Fantasy 7 with its totally ingame graphics that were splashed through magazines and commercials and literally used to sell the PS1 itself.... which were all in pre-rendered FMVs while you got old cubes for arms for the actual game.
If I recall 2020 properly (and I could probably still run a game from memory), it was pretty much "technology fixes nothing, we're still all a bunch of arseholes". It's way past any human/cybernetic faction conflict, unless for some reason it's taken over 60 years to flare up.Samtemdo8 said:
Of course CDPR could do something different, but that trailer gives me hope. It feels very "tales from the city streets". I dunno, it felt right to me as an old CP2020 player.
Is that really all you saw? In the first scene you can see an actual middle class man getting shaken down by two thugs, in a full train car in broad daylight. I see a lot of disparity of wealth. There are tons of opulent displays of wealth and power contrasted with poverty and depravity. Sure there are casual life moments mixed in, but there is also a lot of casual violence.Seth Carter said:
So i noticed lots of people complain about the trailer being "not dark enough" and i wonder:
a)Are they not taking into considerationg that the game might've a day/night cycle system.
b)Isn't that actually close to how Cyberpunk2020 setting looks? I'm interested in this one especially, because i'm not familiar with Mike Pondsmith's work that much.
a)Are they not taking into considerationg that the game might've a day/night cycle system.
b)Isn't that actually close to how Cyberpunk2020 setting looks? I'm interested in this one especially, because i'm not familiar with Mike Pondsmith's work that much.
So... don't be cyberpunk?Samtemdo8 said:
AFAIK you get character creator this time.undeadsuitor said:
Well, this is what he decided to put on the front of the Night City sourcebook, so I think it's as good a representation as any for the feel he was going for. Not that a single image tells the whole story.MrCalavera said:
Well, the whole "everyone's poor" is countered by murder and theft, in the sense that corpses are no longer considered poor and their wealth is redistributed to those still alive. The trailer shows a lot of violence, but it does seem like the populace is fairly happy about it - the violence seems enthusiastic rather than "a tough choice I need to make to survive".Seth Carter said:
The violence also seems pretty random, rather than systemic. I agree it's very worrying.
I don't understand the aesthetic design. It would seem to fit into any modern urban landscape, rather than a futuristic dystopia.
All in all, a really bad trailer, at least for people who take these games seriously as works of art.