Originally Posted by ArvGuy
Originally Posted by Boblawblah
what exactly are you worried about? This is a crpg. Larian has a history of completing their games. What else do you want? This doesn't have to have a large playerbase at all for anyone to enjoy themselves.
That's what people said about CDPR before Cyberpunk 77 turned out to be fucking awful from start to finish. Some good ideas here and there, but nothing was actually executed properly, and the game is probably the most schizophrenic experience I've ever had. Can't make up its damn mind if it wants to be a looter-shooter or an RPG or a story game, and it essentially fails at all three.

Larian has a history of not being that damn incompetent but so far all they've managed is a decent first act. They haven't managed to get the ruleset sorted out, their approach has some tangible problems, their user interface is making naughties games look good, and their communication about what they want to do and how they want to do it and when they want to do it is pretty much zilch.

So am I worried? Do I have any bad tingling in my gut that the company that gave us toilet chain movement and drag-to-group and frustrating camp mechanics and incredibly unreliable party dialogue triggers and origin nonsense and three-quarterlings with giant heads and an aggressively cramped map that doesn't convey adventure or exploration or really any care or effort to build a nice word is going to phone it in a little too much? Yeah, I do.

Hmm. So, what's the difference between "drag to group" and "draw a square around party members to group select"? Where you have to click with the mouse? How is it much different from having to select a single character, and then click a button to make the party stay where they are?

Why even mention anything beyond Act 1? Did you read something that said we'd be getting more than that in EA? I certainly never did. Can you provide some links to that, before I start a bonfire, and start sharpening my pitchfork? Most of us weren't expecting more than what we were promised on the store page when we bought in to the EA. What was it that you were expecting?

CDPR released CP 2077 as a complete game, not an Early Access alpha, although it seems like that may be what we got, by and large. This, however, came with a clear warning that if you were expecting a polished experience, you should skip it until release. So being surprised that we're not getting any information about anything past Act 1 is unsurprising. In fact, it's what most of us were expecting. I say "most of us" because it's becoming increasingly clear that not everyone understood that. Just reading this post leaves me believing that you expected more than what was offered, and it's not leaving me with a poor impression of Larian, or the game...

Knowing that WotC et al have a very hands on approach to handling licenses in this IP, I'm not concerned about "rules not being sorted". If it's in game, the "higher ups" approved it, for better or worse. I mean, it's not like there was a lawsuit filed against them for breach of contract or anything by the original creators of the Dragon Lance series. Oh, wait, there was one, because of their "hands on" approach.

So I'm not all that fussed, at this stage in development. I have walked away from the EA, but it's got a lot more to do with not wanting to be burnt out on the game when it actually releases, than disappointment at getting an Alpha version of the game to play around with while bug hunting. As I said, that's exactly what it was implied to be on the various store pages, expecting it to be anything else would be my problem, not a problem with the game.

Last edited by robertthebard; 10/10/21 02:18 PM.