so im wondering: what do fedi folks think about Cyberpunk 2077? i really wanna know what the experience is like from yalls eyes, regardless of if youve played it or just seen footage or the news around it
im rly curious to know what you think about the way it approaches subjects like neurodivergence, lgbtq+, disability, and people of colour
@pearshapes it sounds kind of awful politics-wise from what we've heard, and kind of mediocre-at-best game-quality-wise
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@pearshapes like i dunno if this made it to the final game but there was a thing about how you could pick your character's pronouns independently of appearance but then no characters in the game would respect them, instead basing their dialog on how your character looks, and they talked about this as a feature
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Cyberpunk 2077 (some spoilers), long
@pearshapes subject-wise, it seems to be a complete failure; the "attempts" at trans representation end up overall being insulting rather than inclusive (with the possible exception of the NPC with a trans pride flag on their truck), it still has the "does changing your body? mean you're still human??" ableist BS, the cops are framed as the good guys *despite* being explicitly awful, and iirc there's an all-Black gang you interact with in one quest called the Animals (😬) that, for no real reason, end up betraying you in the questline. Sexuality seems to be generally glossed over as a subject, which is probably a blessing.
Gameplay-wise, the core mechanics seem to be... decent, but the game's relentlessly buggy; not any particularly gamebreaking ones afaik, but *heaps* of bizzare visual, NPC behavior, and object-loading/object-interaction bugs, to the point of there being an entire subreddit for CP2077 bugs. Plus, the game's horribly optimized, and the PS4/Xbox One versions are *severely* reduced in visual quality (with LOD models/textures often taking several seconds to load in when right next to objects).
@pearshapes have not yet seen a single positive word about it, especially about things like LGBT stuff