I would agree, but I'm still frantically thinking whether I actually agree and whether I should be expressing that publicly!
Carighan
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Oh yeah definitely. The expansion was such a cool thing, and the limited scope really helps it rather than hurting it.
one of the greatest stories in this medium
I mean admittedly I don't read cyberpunk as a genre, but as an avid reader I find that hard to believe. My two standout sub-stories are the intro heist and the expansion's main story, and while those are awesome, they're not exactly literary masterpieces. The rest of the game's story is... amateurish? But not in a bad way? Like, it's servicable as the thin motivational veneer you expect from an open world game, and doesn't stand out either way, which is more or less what you want from your open world story: To not get in the way. The last few parts are quite bad though and show how much the story must have been cut apart and pieced together to fit a release date.
Is it really outstandingly good comparing other cyberpunk works?
My opinion is... so and so?
I gave up on it initially, annoyed by it's deluge of bugs coupled with the overall tepid and empty-feeling design.
I gave it a serious go a year ago after also getting the expansion. I wanted to not use any mods but ended up having to use one anyways, as CDPR still couldn't be arsed to fix some keys being hardcoded so changing your keyboard layout is annoying as stuff gets in the way. Luckily, fans fixed that issue and made all keys rebindable. <3
I will say... I enjoyed it. It's nothing superb to me, but it was a thoroughly enjoyable romp. It's big upside were the visual design, in particular during the expansion and its high points like the top floor of the tower or the sequence at the space port, the great voicework and Songbird and when you meet her really is a standout in both visual and scene design. I also liked the expansion and the tutorial stories a lot.
It's weak points to me were the open world itself which feels pointless and a thin, lifeless, facade plus the main story itself. Character progression was also super broken back in the days but by the time I played felt a lot better, so I'm not really holding it against the game. That being said, there were still quite a lot of bugs and glitches. Nothing major a reload here or there could not fix, but still annoying, considering how long the game has been out.
So yeah, solid 7/10 for me. The expansion is fantastic, wish the whole game were like that!
So not all Doomsday prophecies were wrong! 😮
I think you misunderstood my first sentence if you think that was my point. Although that might have been on me, English is not my primary language. I meant it say it as an allusion to the fact that sometimes, neither of 3 options (vote red, vote blue, vote not) can change a specific thing. Even though you would like it to change. Sometimes things are like that.
Yeah and due to it being FPTP, you officially now like Trump, since that's how your voting system works. You don't get to pick "neither", your name is automatically under the winning candidate as the winner takes all. I understand the reasoning, but it doesn't work for this system, you have to actively vote for the less-bad option to avoid the more-bad going into office.
Even if you very much do not like less-bad in office, either. That would take an actual system reform to fix though. But hey don't worry, you're getting that soon. Just in a very monkey-paw-curls way.
It's almost as if, and I know this is wild to americans, neither choice would have fixed that you're a country in north america, either. Maybe some things should not be used as a decisionmaker between these two candidates.
What I will say is that I can very much understand the urge to then not go vote (seems the democrates are missing ~20 mil votes that did not go to the republicans), and it takes actual knowledge of the voting system to know that this is not a useful thing to do in a first-past-the-post system, though it can be in other types. Hence the need to restrain oneself and still vote, just for the least bad option if no good one is available.
Yeah I would say active shunning is an understandable way to go about this. We tried educating people to not guzzle the kool-aid, they clearly personally desired to do it anyways.
And in fact, wanting candidates to show conviction could be seen as problematic element, as conviction is really not what we need right now in regards to getting elected. Anyone thinking even remotely rationally about the world their children will live in ought to figure that out for themselves.
The big problem is though that vast voting blocks including their candidates are:
a) the ones who fucked it up in the first place. b) too old to care how much things go to shit after them.
Imagine >80 million fascists in a single country like the US. Ouff.
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Someone owned a patent for minigames on the loading screen which is why we did not get thise after Broken Sword. At least that expired, so now for example we got Mario Party Jamboree doing it again.