A very important, some would say number one rule of interactive storytelling is: Show, don't tell.
And even though they are technically showing it, this still counts as telling as you don't experience it, you just have to take their words for it that they are friends now. It doesn't invoke an emotional connection from the player.
Yes, they shown it as an ARPG, which was my biggest reservation about the game and hoped it wouldn't be true. But it is an ARPG, why do you say it isn't?
Well... I'm only about 10 hours into the game and I'm not seeing the typical ARPG action (I mean.. it's there if I go look for it in forms of the gigs or side quests or if I just want to go on a rampage and start shooting people up), but that's not how I play the game. It allows me role play my character in the way I choose. I look around, shop for items, go to restaurants for ****s and giggle, walk around freely.... if I tried doing that in Just Cause for example, I would be dead within 2 minutes.
As I've said cliché. If this was a perfect game, the number of disappointed people would be in the .1 percentile. I think most folks only expected one thing: A great narrative experience. Including me. And so far from what I've seen it's about 66% of the expected quality. You can't blame me for expecting a great and immersive story.
I dunno what you expected. I also don't know how far into the game you are and what you have experienced. But for me, based on my 10 hours of play so far, I'm satisfied with what I'm seeing and I find the dialogue to be well written. I enjoy the humor they're selling.
No, you can't blame the bugs for anything I've complained about. If anything the game runs much better than typical for me. My disappointment comes from things where I expected it to shine. Like the character creation and the narrative experience. Vanialla fallout4 has a better character creator than this, don't tell me that expecting it to at least match bethesda there was an unreasonable expectation.
CDPR makes their very first character creator.
People's reaction: why isn't it better than character creator from that other company that's been doing character creators for 20+ years?
Again.. this could be because my expectations for this game have been vastly different than yours. And that's fine.
I posted in another thread here about this game, about my level of expectations... and I said I was expecting a Witcher 2 level game. It's the first time for them to be doing a lot of things in here, and I think this game meets those expectations perfectly.
Could it be better and more fleshed out? Sure... anything can always be made better (don't get me started on driving with a mouse/kb.. it's abysmal, IMO). CDPR made one great game in their past... and it took 2 major expansions and numerous patches and overhauls to get it to that level of great. Expecting CP2077 to be same level of great out of the box is expecting a lot, IMO.
What does that mean? For example I had great expectations from Last of Us 2 as well this year, I was more hyped for it than CP2077, and it didn't just live up to my expectations it surpassed them.
It means it's just another entertainment medium for people to enjoy. Doesn't mean everyone will enjoy it, but it really is its only purpose. It's just a game. And just like movies, board games, books... if you don't enjoy it, than why invest time playing it, especially since there are so many other games out there.
