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Re:The Missing Middle in Game Development by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 01, 2023 @09:07AM (#37725581)
Look, they had me at Keanu Reeves. Still loved the game. It was pretty decent. I think maybe they overpromised before release, if you didn't expect nothing more than "oh cool Keanu Reeves is on this thing!" then you would have enjoyed it like I did.

I think gamers keep expecting groundbreaking games, but there's only so much "new" most games come up with. The really creative games are made by Nintendo I feel like, every other one is once in a blue moon from different studios.

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Re:The Missing Middle in Game Development by bobthepanda on Sunday October 01, 2023 @07:28PM (#37732052)
I mean it was also very buggy on release to the point that it got delisted on Playstation, which is not a thing that has happened to a major release before.
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Re:The Missing Middle in Game Development by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Monday October 02, 2023 @07:02PM (#37745626)
I don't think it was that, it was how amazing their announcement video was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs

I still watch that thing sometimes because it was so good. I think people reacted to the potential of the ideas put forth in that trailer.

in hindsight, I'm pretty sure that video was used to gauge interest before they started building the game, but for many of us it was a sign of what could be. And I think a large part of the response to Cyberpunk's release was what it wasn't.

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