I am seriously considering picking the game up on steam sale to play on my deck. I haven’t played a “modern” game in a great many years, but love the look of this one.

From everything I see, it looks like it plays a lot like Grand Theft Auto, which is fine in my mind. I’ve spent many a good play through on GTA in the past just messing around.

  • NoMoreCocaine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s really not like GTA. I mean, superficially it might resemble one. But in GTA you drive around doing whacky things that are meaningless and don’t affect anything until you engage in an B-movie script that has interactive elements. In other words, nothing you do really matters, it’s all a one linear story and anything else is a failure state.

    Cyberpunk has also some of the random mayhem you can do, but every time you engage with the plot, there is dialogue choices and they matter a lot. There is no one single ending, and the mood is a lot more somber and thoughtful than GTA or RDR ever managed to even dream of.

    The actual gameplay is basically a liteFPS with RPG elements, interspersed with minor stealth, problem solving, puzzles, and other mini games. Depending on play style, or level of completionism, the FPS+ is anything from 40 to 80 percent of the gaming time, the rest beign spent agonizing dialogue choices and other plot twists.

  • crowebear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s worth mentioning, while there are a lot of parallels to GTA, there are some important differences you should expect. For instance, there’s no ability to steal cars from others in this game. Rather you buy your own vehicles and drive those only. The game is more focused on the story and missions than the vehicle aspect.