RPG component of the game: are you a mercenary or a mercenary? (Cyberpunk 2077)
Hello everyone! remember - earlier there was news that cyberpunk "sort of changed the genre of the game to an action shooter? then the developers themselves denied it. After playing 35 hours, the thought arose that you can still argue on this score. Animportant note, I like the game, but there is some criticism reasons.the
witcher as an argument to her that she is not an RPG, they said that you can play only one role in the game - Geralt.whatever you choose, it all came down to the character of the witcher, it was impossible to make a ballerina out of him.You can bet that you you can be a good deliverer, saving ladies from trouble, etc. and an evil butcher from blaviken who gets a weapon anyway, but there were frames.
As an RPG component, I consider an important criterion to role-play - the plot can be the same. You need to deliver water (conditionally), but how to do this is at your discretion. You may not deliver it at all and will also be an option. It is important that your character is an instrument in this, you act out, since it is variable.
There are three whole roles in cyberpunk - a walking farmer with a cudgel, Vasya from your entrance and a jacket. It affects the beginning of the game and options in the dialogue. I don’t know whether there will be an adjustment in the plot for roleplaying, I haven’t met, but an important point that saddened me. You as a character will be considered a hirer by everyone. No one addresses you for a role after the prologue. are not perceived as a character trait. Johnny Silvinhand, who hates corpses (and I chose corp), talks to V like an ordinary guy in a diner. Our past, and it matters, does not bother him at all. it's generally pointless to talk about others in this context, maybe something will come up in the future, but by the middle of the second act, forget about the corpse, you are a chumba who did not fulfill the order well and that's it. the only thing that gives your role, a die, with additional info.
the second is the linearity of additional tasks. On my 35 H, I met few additional quests - but I understood the essence of such a part as orders. is perceived by most as an extended question mark. here's a sandbox and backstory. final one. I love doing them, but again, this is not an RPG component. There are such nuggets as Sergei's order, where there is a choice, branching, but there are not so many of them.
These are the first impressions of the RPG part of the game and my criticism. it is interesting to hear your opinion, your pros and cons of role play games. just share your impression
I will also write separately what would diversify the game of the group. they seem to be there, but not as a musket for your machine gun, but interactions, reputation, a kind of "entry" into the organization. in the witcher 1 and 2 for this there were Blue Stripes, Rose and Scoyataeli. in the 3 part it is more blurry, but Nilfgard and Sever, Keris and Hjalmar. there was sympathy and antipathy - you could support a philosophy that is closer to you as a player.
Another important part of RPGs, it seems to me, is novels. here cyberpunk, as for me, runs into a dead end. the novel is not here as a choice, but as an ending. the player is asked to either choose a novel or refuse. changing the orientation for the game is not a choice, you just get on the rails. what would solve this problem? either adding new characters, or unbinding to gender, let everyone be bi, otherwise the choice of gender in the game becomes a limitation. however, as a plus, the floor plays out well here. when a man - you feel like a man, a girl is a girl. novels complement this
I personally started doing additional quests before the plot ones, I liked them. the quality is just like the main plot. I do not know if they are intertwined with the base, but some events are mentioned. additional quests are with Zhudi, Panama, Claire, a candidate for mayor, for example, I shield, but you did not like the "orders" of fixers, so you are sad.
About the prologue I agree not so often your background affects the game. In the same Dragon age, the choice of race somehow influenced the dialogues, but here, well, you play as a corp, well, they give you dialogues purely so that he shows off what an expert in corpse he is, it's funny. BUT about Joni I disagree after the quest when V gets into the network with Johnny after the quest if gg corp then Joni gives some comment on this (kill me, but I don't remember) so at least some forks give xd
Stalker608 The
developers also focused on the most basic, that this is a story-driven EKSHN with RPG elements in the open world and nothing more.
A resident of South Park wrote:
after the quest when V gets into the network with Johnny after the quest if gg corp then Johnny gives some comment on this (kill, but I don't remember)
"I understand what your problem is. You have always been a cog in a corporate car. " I think there is such a comment for every backstory.
NoneOne2010
So there are different orders too.
There are rails, and there are deeper ones, such as an olive branch. Small quest, but how alive. Damn, really, as if you yourself live it. There are several options to go through it and no one pushes you to just choose another phrase in the dialogue, namely, you need to interact with the quest. I do not want to spoil those who have not seen the quest yet. And after all, this is not even a quest, a fixer order, if not mistaken.
And there are not one or two.
Stalker608
There are story rails like any RPG game of the genre. You just need a start and an end. Take at least a fallout or skyrim there, too, you quickly forget the main plot and go to see what and how. In The Witcher, there was simply a choice between a mage, a warrior, an alchemist, or a hybrid of that for the play style. Although there was a series of books that gave a big plus to understanding the character and the world. In fact, VI does not have a registered personality and here the roleplaying comes from the player (that is, what the player himself thinks about the situation). In fact, before stories affect an additional line in dialogues and a mini-task, depending on the background. Additional yellow tasks are. interesting. The blue ones are monotonously boring, but there you have to read all the notes and watch the computers, and then they have a mini plot. Then the most important thing was that there were no major additions yet, and this can greatly pump the game as a massefect 3 for example
Rigel star wrote:
and this can greatly improve the game as masseffect 3 for example,
I still hope that this is sacrasm.
RPG with complete freedom in my lifetime was only Vegas where you could do anything. And here you are a mercenary, but at least the difference from Geralt is not a book character. There is a little more freedom.
There is no variability here in this regard, and it seems that this is where it is not particularly needed. This is the story of a mercenary, and career jumps from a prisoner to the head of all possible guilds, as in the scrolls, are not and are not needed.
On the other hand, the development of the character has not yet harmed any game, but here it is also not. There is nothing that would motivate for many hours of grind, he still remains a bum mercenary living in a shack, but with a bunch of unnecessary wheelbarrows, and without a garage. Although, if we consider that an adequate ending was not brought into the game, and he will have to glue the fins - it is also not necessary.
According to healthy logic, with this scenario, the game does not need anything at all. And what is - some piece cut out of a full-fledged product, and this is how it is played, like a demo. And in a demo you usually don't get tired of such things. So what's the difference.
Angelica04
I am also surprised that in the game of 2010 you can even play slot machines, blackjack or roulette, and in the night city of 2020, you can only interact with the bartender))
Upd: even in GTA sa, you could play in the casino, change your hairstyle or tattoos , and she is generally 2003.
The RPG component is there that there is a quality in the strength of the power and look for something there. mechanics in my opinion. And you can open different passages with these skills and use different weapons, or you can kill everyone with a fist, throw a grenade or hack, pick up and break in. variable gameplay in favor of the decentralized class in general.
MunchkiN 616
Not a modest question: how old are you? Game 18+. You write shamefully even for a second grader, let alone an adult