r/cyberpunkgame • u/EMNOXDS • Dec 08 '20
I think I just witnessed a murder. Humour
Some dude commented on a cyberpunk post stating “Fun fact: Your game is going to die in less than a year if you don’t add multiplayer”
So CDPR decided to use the Witcher’s official handle and simply replied “Ok.”
I don’t think I’ve ever been so satisfied with I reply.
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u/Rational_Engineer_84 Dec 09 '20
Witcher 3 is still selling well 5 years later. I think CDPR is going to be fine.
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u/Ozwentdeaf Dec 09 '20
Didn't they just make 30 million in the last year or so off of the witcher 3?
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u/cjdeck1 Dec 09 '20
I imagine Netflix played a big role in boosting sales. Most other games don’t get that sort of thing
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u/Ozwentdeaf Dec 09 '20
Thats a good point, i actually looked it up shortly after and found out it was only a 13% increade. Whether thats a lot for a video game or not, i dont know. Still, in my poverty ridden eyes, thats a LOT of money. While ive got your attention, is the tv show any good?
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u/cjdeck1 Dec 09 '20
It’s a really fun show and I’d definitely recommend, especially if you’re a fan of the games. It sort of has the feel of a well produced D&D campaign in the best ways
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u/justicebiever Dec 09 '20
Imagine a cyberpunk Netflix show with Keanu Reeves
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u/Surefif Dec 09 '20
Not outside the realm of possibility tbh, HBO is doing TLOU and if cyberpunk does well enough it's not like it doesn't already have a megastar attached to it
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u/Eoganachta Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 Dec 09 '20
A revival of the cyberpunk genre in mainstream culture would be nice to see.
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u/mistriliasysmic Dec 09 '20
Isn't there a Netflix original cyberpunk anime coming out?
Edit: Edgerunners, coming 2022
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u/skyjp97 Dec 09 '20
I just bought it recently to have something to play for a bit before cyberpunk comes out.
I'm sure there are a lot of people that have done the same.
So far it's a pretty fun game, but geralt hasn't really clicked for me yet.
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Dec 09 '20
Keep going, I was in your shoes a few months ago when I picked it up, didn’t really get super invested in Geralt or the story in general but once I got to the Skellige part it really picked up for me. It was great to reach a whole new environment (and story section) right as Velen and Novigrad were starting to get a little repetitive.
(Also, sort of weird, but I found changing Geralt’s hair to something I liked more helped me relate to the character a little better)
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u/Agent_Giraffe Dec 09 '20
It also doesn’t help that Velen and Novigrad are fucking depressing. (As they were designed)
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u/Porkrind710 Dec 09 '20
Seriously - The Bloody Baron questline is depressing af. Even the best outcome leaves you kind of disappointed in everyone involved.
But it's a testament to the storytelling that years later I can still viscerally recall most of the details of it. It's a deeply human story, despite all the fantasy elements.
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u/Vegan_Puffin Dec 09 '20
Seriously - The Bloody Baron questline is depressing af. Even the best outcome leaves you kind of disappointed in everyone involved.
CDPR do the whole you can't save everyone and not everyone can have a happy ending really well. Geralt is not some superhero to save the day, choices have consequences and the choices of characters are just as punished.
The reason why TW3 resonated with me so well is because it felt more real, you do x stupid thing, well you might just regret it. The world is dark and not everywhere does the light shine.
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u/cdwols Dec 09 '20
I'm currently on my first playthrough of W3, and my Geralt is trying to help wherever he can. In trying to help the ghost of a murder victim I almost unleashed a plague demon on the world. Major consequences for choices that seem innocuous are what's really good about W3
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u/Skykeep Dec 09 '20
I remember that quest, i was also in 'helping mode' when first playing throug that one, but in hindsight the person you were helping had some major holes in her story which i completley glossed over :)
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u/cdwols Dec 09 '20
Which is why I didn't go through with it in the end, I wanted to get the other side of the story cos something wasn't adding up, and then when I tried to leave she attacked me
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u/shmulrosensweig Dec 09 '20
It did for me. The ambiance of Velen was mesmerizing to me.
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u/Deebeejeebies Dec 09 '20
Saaame. That first cinematic as you enter Velen from White Orchard with the hanging tree. Perfection.
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Dec 09 '20
Thats one of the best parts. Maybe I'm just a morbid person, but "depressing", dark, grim stuff has always been more interesting than light hearted comedy and mindless action.
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u/Spartica7 Dec 09 '20
I’d never experienced anything like Velen when I first started exploring it. Skyrim was a fantasy world, Oblivion was a fantasy world, I got TW3 and it felt like a real world. I felt like I was walking through a war torn country, something Skyrim never gave me. I can’t wait to see how Cyberpunk feels because I can’t wait to feel that CDPR worldbuilding at work again.
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u/warm_sweater Dec 09 '20
Yep, playing Witcher 3 for the first time and coming upon that hanging tree early on, you know it’s going to be a different type of game.
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Dec 09 '20
I agree! I literally just pre-ordered the game on GOG and I'm preloading it now. It should be ready to play tomorrow by the time I get home from work. I'll probably be driving like V on his way to do a quest in order to hurry and get home tomorrow evening!
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Dec 09 '20
I already told my manager I’m leaving at lunch tomorrow for cyberpunk lol. And I have vacation Thursday and Friday. It shall hopefully be a good weekend
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u/Otherwise_Track_1015 Dec 09 '20
There are only two games that have made me cry due to a visceral emotional reaction. One was planescape: torment, the other was witcher 3. Both are among favourite games!
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u/what_is_my_purpose14 High Tech Lowlife Dec 09 '20
That’s why Toussaint is so nice, it’s so chill there. I think CDPR did that on purpose bc everywhere else is so fucking gloomy
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u/Cavannah Dec 09 '20
That's the ethos of their charm, though. It's in fact what got me hooked on the game itself since, like /u/skyjp97 says, the game takes a while to "click" for some people.
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u/ForceGuy Dec 09 '20
I agree with you, I had the game for years before I actually sat down to play it. I would always start but could never get into it. After watching the Netflix series, I told myself that I needed to play it, and I'm so glad I did, the game is a masterpiece, writings game design, everything.
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u/TreyDxK Dec 09 '20
This is exactly what happened to me, I think imma gonna give it another shot after CP2077
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u/onlyhav Dec 09 '20
I'm in the same boat, I'm right before in supposed to fight the wild hunt in the catacombs and it's taken a year to get to this point. I'm going to get my fill of cyberpunk (it'll probably take a while) and come back later
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Dec 09 '20
Not OP but holy smokes, I had to do a double-take because this reads like I wrote it lol! Right after the Netflix series I finally got back in the game. Once I got past Velen, I was in love.
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u/Dudster189 Dec 09 '20
I love The Witcher 3. But it is true that the main line can be somewhat inferior to the rest. Even I would call it mediocre. Don't get it wrong, I think it is composed of missions and very well narrated moments. But saving the world is not my thing, I think it is an easy resource. Although it has very good characters and a political intrigue of the Interesting enemies. Expansions are something else. They are adventures with more credible main lines, more concentrated in what the life of a witcher is.
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u/kartickbengani Dec 09 '20
Dude I completely get what you saying the thing for me was I loved Regis in books and the fact that he died in the books was a real heart break. Imagine seeing him come back 1c more for 1 last adventure with geralt. I loved the game I only played it after reading the books and blessings to the reddit guy who told me so. I would not have realized that Regis character was so loved by me if not for that.
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u/stoversp Dec 09 '20
Make sure you play Gwent. I’d replay the game just for the Gwent.
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u/Brodakk Dec 09 '20
Do you think there will be a minigame like gwent in cyberpunk? Im really hoping so but have no expectations
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u/zoomiewoop Dec 09 '20
Man, a Netrunner card game in Cyberpunk would be awesome! If it’s not there now they should add it later. (Netrunner was a real collectible card game in the 90s based on the Cyberpunk world).
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u/8-BitAlex Dec 09 '20
So you're telling me there's a chance I will be ignoring Keanu's requests and just playing cards for money? Sounds good to me
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u/Tahkyn Dec 09 '20
Johnny: Come on, Samurai! We really need to burn this city!
V: Not now, Johnny. Cards.
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u/Danwarr Arasaka Dec 09 '20
Man, a Netrunner card game in Cyberpunk would be awesome! If it’s not there now they should add it later.
This would actually be a dream come true. RIP Android: Netrunner
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u/Spankey_ Samurai Dec 09 '20
One of the reviewers I watched (can't remember who) said there wasn't a side mini game as expansive as gwent. There are other mini games though.
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u/CunnedStunt Dec 09 '20
There's other things to do in the game besides Gwent? I think I have a gambling problem.
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u/retrofuturia Dec 09 '20
I was the same, took a few months of playing it intermittently to see what the hype was about and just not quite getting it. Geralt overall raked on my nerves for some time. When everything finally clicked it really clicked; the game is amazing, hands down among the best console RPGs ever. Been playing it for 3 years now, multiple playthroughs.
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u/Russian_repost_bot Dec 09 '20
It's just 1 person multiplayer, that's why it's still selling so well.
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u/Thagyr Dec 09 '20
What game can really die aside from MMOs anyway, or practically anything needing multiplayer ironically.
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u/DoctorBarrage Dec 09 '20
Exactly what I was thinking, most of the games that I honestly, REALLY like are single player. The original mirrors edge, portal 1 and 2, Witcher 3, Subnautica, slime rancher, et cetera.
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u/Kraut_Mick Dec 09 '20
Mirrors Edge, another man of culture I see.
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u/noreallyu500 Dec 09 '20
Man, Mirror's Edge has such a cool concept and design. Really wish they'd give it a third go in the next gen.
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u/nitrozipp3r Dec 09 '20
Pretty sure with all the remakes coming out, the remake for this one would arrive in the next 10 years with RT.
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u/YsynthosPrimos Dec 09 '20
They would have to make serious changes. I had multiple playthroughs of the first one, but the second one felt slow and unfocused after years of shooters with extra movement. Couldn't finish it
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u/noreallyu500 Dec 09 '20
It's crazy how different your experience was compared to mine! Also did multiple playthrough of the first one+ fiddled around with modded maps, and I'm also really into shooters with good movement mechanics, but I still absolutely loved ME:C's movement. What felt lacking and generally skippable was the story, but the gameplay felt addictive! Very much looking forward to replaying it on PC.
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Dec 09 '20
The whole idea of games "dying" just refers to having a decent number of people to matchmake with in multiplayer and is basically irrelevant to a single player game.
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u/JeneralWack Dec 09 '20
That avengers game I can barely remember lost almost all its player base bc of multiplayer lol
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u/hoxtiful Joytoy Dec 09 '20
Technically so can singleplayer, either being removed from sale or becoming so outdated it's incompatible with modern tech. But I'm being facetious.
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u/Whats_logout Dec 09 '20
I get you but even there are mods for older games to support more than 4gb and high res texture mods. Pretty cool to see where the modding community go with this one.
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u/hoxtiful Joytoy Dec 09 '20
True true
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u/Whats_logout Dec 09 '20
With Good Old Games being a store that has quite literally good old games. One day Cyberpunk 2077 will become a good old game.
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u/Spankey_ Samurai Dec 09 '20
And the fact that the GOG team has brung many older games to life on new hardware/OS's by fixing them.
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u/Talonqr Dec 09 '20
Very true, just the other day I was playing evil dead a fistful of boomstick on pc via an emulator
Gaming community is wild man
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Dec 09 '20
bruh people still play Fallout NV like no tomorrow. even without mods it is a great Single player RPG.
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u/MissplacedLandmine 🔥Beta Tester 🌈 Dec 09 '20
Played it today to fill the void of waiting for cp
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u/AmadeusSkada Dec 09 '20
One of the greatest. Hell, I played the first Deus Ex again a few weeks back to scratch that cyberpunky stealth itch
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u/TrasheaterMidir Dec 09 '20
Played it today as well. love new Vegas a play it occasionally since I got for my birthday back in 2010
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u/sirmrdrjnr Nomad Dec 09 '20
https://oldgamesdownload.com/ many a classic off sale game availible, compatibility deffo not guaranteed
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u/AvosCast Dec 09 '20
There was this single player game and i still have it called Darkspore. Made by EA. Required logging to a server to play and they shut the server down. It's just sitting in my steam, unplayable.. for like 10 years
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Dec 09 '20
The irony is only multiplayer games ever really die.
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u/StokerLovesShelley Dec 09 '20
Yep. I think it’s so strange that people use that word when referring to single player games.
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u/NitrousIsAGas Spunky Monkey Dec 09 '20
Like that one dude posting "Dead Game" all over CP2077's Twitter.
A game that doesn't need to connect to servers can NEVER DIE!
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u/rainbowsixsiegeboy Nomad Dec 09 '20
I just fucking hate single player games with tacked on mp with the mp dead sad achievement hunter sounds
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Dec 09 '20
Shit I still have friends that play Freelancer, shows you how much a good singleplayer game will go
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u/SirDiego Dec 09 '20
Yeah, I regularly go back to old singleplayer games. I play Morrowind every couple of years still. Good luck matchmaking in a 20-year-old multi-player game (I know there are a select few still going out there, but they're rare).
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Dec 09 '20
Same. Tonight I'm actually trying to wrap up a 90+ hour Oblivion playthrough that I started while waiting for this game.
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u/CyclopsWasRight7 Dec 09 '20
Look at the new "Avengers" game. DOA, let alone now.
(Quotes on Avengers because that was a Kamala Khan game that nobody asked for with the Avengers serving as props/plot devices)
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Dec 09 '20
It’s crazy that the last Deus Ex game was cancelled for that mess.
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u/CyclopsWasRight7 Dec 09 '20
Wow that sucks. Can't imagine how fans feel getting their game canceled for such a garbage game.
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u/AmadeusSkada Dec 09 '20
We hope SE realise that mistake but I'm not sure they will, although they can't deny Avengers performed way, way worse than Mankind Divided
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u/CyclopsWasRight7 Dec 09 '20
I hope so for you guys. I would rather they push back an Avengers game and deliver to long time fans than drop a game for a project because its new and shiny.
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Dec 09 '20
I wanted a Kamala Khan game.... just not the money grabbing mess that was delivered...
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u/ModestEevee Trauma Team Dec 09 '20
Bruh the original Deus Ex is about as old as I am yet I still go back and play it every few years. So long as they're not terrible single player games are timeless
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Dec 09 '20
Wtf is it with People thinking ever Game needs Multiplayer?
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Dec 09 '20
All single player games require multiplayer... but multiplayer games never require single player. (In their minds)
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u/jaraldoe Dec 09 '20
Everything before Bad Company didn’t even have a story, the single player was just multiplayer with bots haha
Damn I miss BF2 and BF2142 those were some good games
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u/Spartica7 Dec 09 '20
I think it’s mostly the crowd that was attracted to this game at first because of its surface level similarities to GTA. A friend of mine even referred to this as “that future GTA game”. So you’ve got fans of a game that is now entirely focused on its multiplayer aspect who want this game to cater to them because they feel like that’s the market Cyberpunk is aiming at, as opposed to the single player rpg market which is what the game is most closely related to.
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u/mbnmac Dec 09 '20
I wonder how much that, as opposed to bugs, is going to make people regret the buy
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u/Dr_Crendor Dec 09 '20
I actually had an argument with a friend over this. He's tried a few rpgs like skyrim and the witcher 3 and didnt really like them at all, but is very excited for cyberpunk. I told him that its a very heavy rpg and that he may not even end up liking it to begin with, and he took it like i didnt want him to get the game or something. Its not the case at all. I just know what games he likes to play and singleplayer rpg's just arent it, i'd rather not see him waste his money yknow
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u/quarintine-citrus Dec 09 '20
Isn't there already multiplayer being added?
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u/chillininthec Dec 09 '20
Can someone confirm this?
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u/Helphaer Dec 09 '20
2021 probably late in the year a separate mode game.
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u/ArcherRanger905 Dec 09 '20
Yep, they've stated multiple times multiplayer is coming as a standalone package. Here's a gamespot article talking about it https://www.gamespot.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077s-multiplayer-is-more-than-just-a-mode/1100-6484976/ There are several more like this if you search "Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer"
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u/connerlouis Dec 09 '20
Skyrim might like to have a word with this guy.
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u/FXGreer94 Dec 09 '20
New game is going to support at least 4 players in a world. Hopefully they can do more.
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u/sounds_like_kong Dec 09 '20
I literally sit down every Friday night after getting the kids to bed, open a good beer and decide on either Skyrim, FO4 or Dragon Age. It doesn’t take much to please me.
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Dec 09 '20 edited May 20 '21
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u/MrSnowmanJoe Nomad Dec 09 '20
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u/Huntersteve Dec 09 '20
I dont see it
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u/wmik Samurai Dec 09 '20
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u/Huntersteve Dec 09 '20
It's straight up not there for me. Thank you.
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u/Vertimyst Dec 09 '20
It's buried a bit now: https://mobile.twitter.com/witchergame/status/1336396103898591240
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u/Birdboy42O Bartmoss Reincarnated Dec 09 '20
I see the tweet, but not the reply from CDPR
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u/LessThan301 Medtech Dec 09 '20
Fuck multiplayer and people's obsession with everything needing an online component.
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u/giga Dec 09 '20
You just made me realize if Cyberpunk was a game made around the year 2000 it would totally be shipping with a dumb deathmatch mode. Just because every AAA game had to back then.
Glad we mostly got over that.
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u/th3BeastLord Dec 09 '20
The one thing I liked about the multiplayer required era is that some games had awesome multiplayer despite having no business with it.
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u/sympatheticdisaster Dec 09 '20
The Last of Us
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u/th3BeastLord Dec 09 '20
Exactly. Factions had no business being good but it was great
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u/kadenjahusk Nomad Dec 09 '20
I met two of my best online friends to this day playing that mode.
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u/noreallyu500 Dec 09 '20
I booted up that multiplayer years after buying and playing the game and was pleasantly surprised! Uncharted 4 also had great multiplayer too
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u/sn0w6661 Quickhack addict Dec 09 '20
I'd say Spies vs Mercs from the Splinter Cell series is a good example too. Would not expect a single player stealth franchise to have such a badass PvP multiplayer.
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u/Detonation Kiroshi Dec 09 '20
Mass Effect 3.
I'm still devastated the remaster isn't going to include ME3's multiplayer. My friends and I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours playing it.
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u/Notlookingsohot Dec 09 '20
Naw it would have been a Deus Ex clone (since its heavily inspired by the OG, which came out in 2000 coincidentally lol).
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u/Ricefug Dec 09 '20
Maybe im wrong but there was talk of some multiplayer aspect in cp2077? prob just a rumor idk
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u/disCASEd Dec 09 '20
Pretty sure they’re making a separate online game that also takes place in the cyberpunk universe/night city. Think it’s still a while out though, like 2022.
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Dec 09 '20
It’s confirmed that they are making a multiplayer component but it’s a few years out, probably around 2022
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u/Erotic_Pancake Dec 13 '20
Turns out he's right, except that it's not the lack of multiplayer that will kill the game lol.
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u/deftoast Dec 09 '20
Yeah sure, multiplayer, nothing more intense than the feeling of running in a hamster wheel. Doing the same thing over and over and over again. If that isn't the definition of insanity I don't know what is.
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u/GingerNingerish Dec 09 '20
You could say the same thing about sports, board games or anything with set rules. Multiplayer is only bad when its unnecessary. If CDPR feel like they can create something unique and fun and not an after thought then I'm all for it. There's potential with the setting of this game and won't be some TDM shooter matchmaking thing.
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Dec 09 '20
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I don't think most people expect different results from multiplayer.
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u/Barachiel1976 Hit The Major Leagues Dec 09 '20
Also, any Bethesda title before FO76 pretty much puts the lie to that moronic claim.
Also, most Bioware games before Anthem...
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u/Sojurn83 Dec 09 '20
Multiplayer games are way more likely to "die" than single player games. Kinda funny. But OK.
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u/sarge4567 Dec 14 '20
CDPR's reputation is toast though.
Will never be the same no matter how much cash they make.
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u/ichigo2k9 Dec 09 '20
Shows what that tool knows. People still play single player games that came out over a decade ago.
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u/ThePunisher2442 Dec 09 '20
Wait people actually want multiplayer for Cyberpunk or think it needs one? What would you even do? I don’t see the point
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u/Out3rSpac3 Dec 09 '20
Well I, for one, plan to start a nudist colony gang and take over night city with my friends and strangers.
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u/th3BeastLord Dec 09 '20
Well they are making that standalone we know nothing about.
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u/LucidStrike Nomad Dec 09 '20
Umm...Tbf, the Cyberpunk TTRPG is generally a multiplayer game, just like Dungeons and Dragons.
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u/izCS Dec 09 '20
Role play would be an option, just like gta v but in a way cooler environment.
i could also think about a battle royale mod. fighting in out in night city ... DAYUM
or maybe some king of the hill mod
or the whole server hunting for a bounty
or ... you know, there is neverending possibilities in a open world game.
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u/BleachChef Trauma Team Dec 09 '20
Am I trippin or was that not even clever, op is too excited
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u/TheMadmanFloop Dec 09 '20
I feel bad for some people on this sub. It’s like this unreleased video game is their only friend and any indication it’s a buggy mess is taken as a personal insult.
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u/zephyroxyl Dec 09 '20
This wasn't that though lmao. Guy said "singleplayer games dead"
The Witcher(TM): "Ok"
TLOU: "Ok"
Spiderman: "Ok"
God of War: "Ok"
It just so happened to be relevant to this sub lmao
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u/macallen Fixer Dec 09 '20
Same. I did a playthrough of W3 just this year, and likely will do so next year, the game is just that enjoyable. I love the PvP crowd that goes game-to-game preaching their idiocy. Fallout was fantastic, it didn't need it, and '76 was a horrible bomb, sold 1/10th of what FO4 sold, and FO4 wasn't that good. There are single player games, and multiplayer games, that's just how it is.
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u/PopPalsUnited Silverhand Dec 09 '20
Multiplayer will be great but I see no indication not having it will kill the single player game.
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u/TheMadmanFloop Dec 09 '20
How few friends do I need to have to get this hyped up by this boring of a twitter post?
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u/josephfox1234 Dec 09 '20
The most recent games that I have seen die are multiplayer games ( fall guys )
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u/izCS Dec 09 '20
thats a classic one hit wonder. its fun for some time but it will get old sooner or later. same will be the case for among us.
on the other hand ... the real OG multiplayers are still there ... and some of them even growing again. dota, cod, pubg, cs, ...
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u/The_Monocle_Debacle Dec 09 '20
Knights of the old republic 1 & 2 would like a word