'Cyberpunk 2077' Game Starring Keanu Reeves Demoed at Microsoft Xbox Event (venturebeat.com) 68
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CD Projekt Red showed off a new demo of Cyberpunk 2077 at Microsoft's Xbox press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo, the big game trade show in Los Angeles. And actor Keanu Reeves surprised everyone by coming out on stage to say that he would be in it. The trailer reveals one of the key characters of Cyberpunk 2077, Johnny Silverhand. The legendary rockerboy is played by Reeves (The Matrix trilogy, John Wick series, Johnny Mnemonic). In addition to his appearance and voice, Reeves is also providing full-body motion capture for the character. The game debuts on April 16, 2020...
We all know that CD Projekt Red has a hell of a game in Cyberpunk 2077, which the company revealed in a 48-minute gameplay video last year. The video showed an amazingly detailed open world, as the narrator said the ambition was to create "the most believable city in any open world to date." I interpreted that as a shot across the bow of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption teams, as Cyberpunk 2077 was as incredibly hyper detailed as any Rockstar game I've ever seen. It's the only game I've seen with such density of interaction and the realism integrity of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2....
Last year's demo of the upcoming game promised deeper the details of the open world, with fascinating futuristic touches such as cranial chip implants, robotic body modifications, hyperfast video communications, and surveillance drones. The dystopic city seemed like a living thing, and the choices for getting things done seemed like they had no limits. You could be as peaceful or violent as you wished... It's a mature game, aimed at adults who can deal with subjects like nudity, drugs, and murder.
We all know that CD Projekt Red has a hell of a game in Cyberpunk 2077, which the company revealed in a 48-minute gameplay video last year. The video showed an amazingly detailed open world, as the narrator said the ambition was to create "the most believable city in any open world to date." I interpreted that as a shot across the bow of Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption teams, as Cyberpunk 2077 was as incredibly hyper detailed as any Rockstar game I've ever seen. It's the only game I've seen with such density of interaction and the realism integrity of Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2....
Last year's demo of the upcoming game promised deeper the details of the open world, with fascinating futuristic touches such as cranial chip implants, robotic body modifications, hyperfast video communications, and surveillance drones. The dystopic city seemed like a living thing, and the choices for getting things done seemed like they had no limits. You could be as peaceful or violent as you wished... It's a mature game, aimed at adults who can deal with subjects like nudity, drugs, and murder.
about time an date came for this! (Score:2)
about time an date came for this!
Re:DRM free? (Score:5, Informative)
It's on GOG. It's by CDPR themselves. It's guaranteed.
Witcher3 proved you can triple-A without all the bullshit. All the junk that only the brainwashed defend, that apologists say is necessary yet CDPR topped charts without.
No always-online. No advertising "launcher" required. No DRM, bugging things out (won't launch till you auth, boy) or stuttering in-game performance. No on-disc DLC, or even pre-cut material set aside for it. Full game, and you don't ask permission to use it. The only role performed by the cancer is pacifying shareholders, who demand explanations when they don't see 9000% growth. "Uh, because pirates."
Preordering is an industry practice that we indulged into a parasite of its own, but I'm still tempted to do it as a show of faith.
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And all of the Witcher games were buggy, uninteresting trash.
Sales figures, reviews, fan feedback and personal experience all tell me that you're silly.
Unless you want to play multiplayer you mean.
Oh please. Multiplayer is always possible without a launcher. I just finished a fun hour of flying car football; the only launcher was the rocket engine strapped to the rear wheels.
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Calling it amazing meant a claim to defend. And if we're being honest it was not bug free. But considering the industry it was relatively polished. Witcher in particular got used to ridicule the shitty faces of ME:Andromeda.
Still, plenty of people trying to shoot at the never-raised claim. And if we're being honest that's an uphill shot against a title high on every quantified or standardized metric, nitpicks and True bug-free Scotsmen notwithstanding.
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dutiful little consumer sheep
I'm not going to tell you you have to appreciate a title that defied these plagues...
...but I'd like to hear what you call the advertisingsoftware-indulging DRM-sucking alwaysonline-obeying social-sharing MTX-buying beta-testing masses, if not dutiful little consumer sheep.
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I think those masses are quite real.
If you don't, if you want to claim the bulk of our money *isn't* people in that description, I won't challenge that claim. Only eyeroll.
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Gwent has DRM.
It does? I doubt it. It's part of the game, sold on GOG, and has no DRM. It works fine for me. Except that I don't much care for this "crappy game inside a cool game" gimmick. I'm here to explore a world, not to collect soms crappy cards for an unbalanced card game.
And all of the Witcher games were buggy, uninteresting trash.
Your bias is showing. The Witcher games are incredibly popular because they're deeper and more interesting than most CRPGs these days.
You may disagree with some of their choices (I certainly do), but it's undeniably extremely well executed.
Unless you want to play multiplayer you mean
Do you
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Preordering is an industry practice that we indulged into a parasite of its own, but I'm still tempted to do it as a show of faith.
Ouya cured me of preordering.
Could someone explain these reels to me? (Score:1)
I don't play video games. I don't understand what these little mini movies are all about. You can't do anything with them, just watch. And what happens in them isn't the evolutions and actions you controll in a game. And, at least in the past, these things were of a much higher graphics and rendering level than actual game play. Thus they aren't demos. They just seem like some back story.
What's their purpose? If just segment connector then why these feature length.
If you are a game player arent these
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Important takeaway points are: it will be unashamedly violent and it will also be kinda gritty, though not 90's levels of gritty since this is actually an 80's property they're basing a video game on.
Yeah, but it's a pretty inherently violent property. The combat system has its own fancy name, Friday Night Fire Fight ("FNFF"), and like rollmaster it's big on instant kills and the like. The dark future is unforgiving of poor decisions, or inadequate armor.
Do unto others, but cover your butt.
Re:Could someone explain these reels to me? (Score:4, Informative)
In CD Projekts case, these mini movies only exist for two cases: Build hype and/or show possible outcomes that may or maynot actually happen in the game. Or events that will only be superficially referenced in the game itself, or to introduce specific characters where people are "invested in the existing lore" to pick up on. Give you an example from The Witcher 3, This cinematic called 'killing monsters' [youtu.be] is never played in the game, the game itself uses cut scenes with actor rigging behind movement/speech/etc. It's only referenced once in this cut scene [youtu.be]. The person that Kenau plays, is a character mentioned in the 45min pre-release demo. Not to spoil if for those that don't know the Cyberpunk universe or anything else. Whether or not they actually play a key part? Nobody knows, because the guy(Mike Pondsmith) who wrote the original Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook is saying nothing and the 2077 update and new table-top modules aren't being released until the game is.
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thanks!
Mature game (Score:3, Funny)
.. It's a mature game, aimed at adults who can deal with subjects like nudity, drugs, and murder.
So basically it's a game about being a nurse at a hospital?
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What "they" do you think you're talking about? Because no matter who it is, you're definitely wrong.
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And here I thought it was a reasonably interesting movie, followed by two sequels for money's sake.
Not 'starring' - featuring. (Score:2)
If it starred him, he'd either be the main character, or some weird pseudo-protagonist you'd be sidelining with the whole game.
This will likely be more than Patrick Stewart's character in Oblivion, but much less than some movie game trying to follow a fixed storyline. He's a strongly featured NPC in the game with a quest/plotline, not some major focus of the game.
At least if any of the other news on the game development so far, and any of the previous demos mean anything.
Ryan Fenton
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Patrick Stewart was in Oblivion for all of 15 minutes depending on how slow you took the starting dungeon. Kind of a waste of a big name IMO. I think Keanu will have a role more like Sean Bean's in Oblivion, a more important NPC that sticks around through the majority of the story. Stitching together what has been shown so far, the gameplay demo from last year and the trailer from this year seem to both happen in close chronological order. Keep in mind that in this game you can either play as male or female
Whoa. (Score:5, Insightful)
Whoa.
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That was honestly my reaction. I watched the trailer on YouTube and wasn't sure if it was a movie or a game at first. Not only are the graphics that realistic, but the animation of the character's doesn't have the usual artificial awkwardness that games do.
Of course I'm sure they carefully selected that cut-scene and that the full game will be less convincing, especially when the player is directing their character. But you never know, maybe they have solved the issue of how to make them realistically move
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If you watched the trailer released during 2019-E3, then you watched a movie. If you watched the 45min demo, or the 2018 E3 release you watched a game. Much like with the Witcher 2 and Witcher 3, they use motion capture and mapping to make it more realistic for cut-scenes which are rendered in real time, otherwise you'd see pre-rendered cut-scenes. Doesn't mean though that CD Projekt doesn't do some mighty fine cinematography either, see the previous Witcher 3 cinematic teasers that were never used in th
What do I care about Reeves? (Score:2)
I am really looking forward to this game, but it is, you know, a game. It is not a movie.
He's not 'metal' enough either. (Score:1)
Iggy Pop, Ozzy Osbourne, FFDP(Former Pantera?)'s new frontman, Billy Idol, any of them would have been near perfect. They're all excellent showmen, they know how to work a crowd, and they all make excellent frontmen.
Reeves? Not so much. I'm sure there are tons of other characters in the game he could have made a Cameo in, but THIS one? Ugh. Just hope he's who the Cyberpunk creator envisioned. If he is, then more power to him.
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Made for controllers (Score:2)
So don't expect some stellar gameplay or usable UI system. Also the 'choices matter' in these kinds of games has always been a development nightmare to actually write. The impact of your choice goes as far as the dollar it costs for the other choice you didn't take because thats just become a giant dead end.