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Cyberpunk 2077 released in December 2020. Almost 4 years later, what is your opinion on it? (lemmy.cafe)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

It's pretty good. I don't think it's $30 good. But it's pretty good, I would put it in the class of interactive fiction, an in-depth visual novel.

As far as role-playing goes, it's good for LARPing, but you don't really get to craft your own story. There's lots of rails, there are narrative branches but they all come back to the same place.

Kind of like a very well done Bethesda narrative environment, some okay storylines, some amazing storylines. It's all on rails, you can do it in different orders. It's a good immersion game.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I’m not quite sure you know what LARP means hahaha

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Its kind of live action, and you do roleplay whatever you want to be. But yeah I agree it's not the perfect use of the word.

Cyberpunk is a role-playing game in that you have a role to play, but it is not a role-playing game where you determine your own destiny and have significant impact on the outcome.

I don't know if there's better ways to express that thinking, ARPG versus CRPG? But that lacks nuance as well