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comment by Kaius
Kaius  ·  902 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077

OK, see now that helps. This changes the context from "Unaware youtuber generating low-effort low-value stream-of-conscious nonsense interminably" (of which there are thousands others) to "Fully-aware artist intentionally creating interminable review as expression of their regard for the game being reviewed". Which elevates the entire thing a lot.

So that's cool.

I'm not gonna watch it though, cos its 10 hours and I get the sense that most of the message is "Hey this thing is 10 hours long!!!!", which you can get without having to actually watch it.

I haven't played Cyberpunk 2077 yet, but the fact someone created a 10 hour saga about it is making me want to...





kleinbl00  ·  902 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My wife pointed out years ago that there are movies that I think are good that are good, and there are movies that I think are good because they perfectly align with my lived experience. River's Edge is an okay movie but it's a goddamn masterpiece if you were smarter than your burnout friends who committed crimes for fun and Ione Skye is your platonic ideal of womanhood.

Cyberpunk 2077 is certainly the latter for me. But it's also what Witcher 3 would have been if everyone who worked on it had been waiting 30 years to show everyone how awesome these little-noticed Polish novels that got them all into game development in the first place are.

If you haven't played Witcher 3, play Witcher 3. It's not at all essential but it's also an acknowledged masterpiece. The only reason I bring it up is that Cyberpunk 2077s basic mechanics and gameplay are Witcher 3's, perfected. Yet the former is a masterpiece while the latter is a cautionary tale.

Reviewers hated Empire Strikes Back, too.