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Comment by gogopuppygogo | Hacker News Reader

It’s like No Mans Sky all over again, except with more human genitalia customization...

funny how cyberpunk's woes are basically the inverse of NMS lol... no man's sky's tech was mostly there, but there was no content.

there's a good amount of story and voice acting in cyberpunk... but the tech to support it is extremely broken or not there.

No Man's Sky actually aged like fine wine with the updates they pushed over time. We still have to see what happens with CP2077.

If they do plan to milk the IP and eventually make a multiplayer for it, they need first to salvage this. I think I heard that they won't be planning the MP until 2022 or 2023, so I assume they'll be spending the next year at least fixing this up before working on the MP.

If it's like Witcher 3 they will sell expansion packs to further monetize CP2077.

I wouldn't hate this. I loved Witcher 3.

No Man's Sky has actually won a bunch of awards for an "ongoing game" now, most recently winning Best Ongoing Game at the Game Awards 2020, so maybe there's hope for Cyberpunk 2077 if they follow the same trajectory.

First time looking at Cyberpunk 2077 stuff online, after having just beaten the game at ~50 hrs.

Super surprised it's not being praised, it's certainly the best game singe-player I've ever played.

I can't believe the reaction I am seeing.

Part of the reason is that it wasn't supposed to be a "beat the game" (linear) game in the first place. It was marketed as primarily "open world" with a largely optional main quest line.

The problem is, if you play it that way (ignoring the main quests) it's pretty boring and repetitive real quick.

Skyrim, GTA V, and Breath of the Wild set the bar for open world games and CP2077 was marketed as pushing the bar. It did not.

You can't fix this game like you can NMS though.

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