i gave cyberpunk2077 another shot after hating it at launch because multiple people pestered me about it for two years. i was repeatedly told of my lengthy list of criticisms, āthey fixed all that, itās like a totally different game nowā.
10 hours later itās clear that theyāre either:
a) delusional b) liars c) literally cannot hear criticism of the game being spoken aloud
because that shit was 99% identical to at launch, bugs included. the difference between the game that people keep describing to me and the game in front of me is so stark that iām fucking baffled. itās like itās a cult or something.
y r u so passionate about disliking a videogame š
because i was harassed into playing it again after playing and disliking it once and the people who harassed me into playing again refuse to hear anything i have to say about the game they insisted that i MUST play again, and so now i fully intend to put it on blast at least as much as itās been crammed down my throat in particular.
why is it acceptable to simp but not to criticize?
Look, buddy, seriously, if you have a friend circle that harasses you into a playing a game that they know you donāt like, and / or your PC canāt run ā¦ and they do not listen to your criticisms, which, while I personally think they are a bit overblown and hyperbolic, but they are nonetheless specific and detailedā¦
What that means is your āfriendsā are not your friends, they are trolling you, they are bullies, they are assholes, they donāt care to listen to you, they amuse themselves by provoking you.
An actual friend would not pressure you to do things they know you donāt want to do, itsā¦ its not a situation like āyou should stop smokingā or āyou should get at least a moderate level of regular excerciseā where that kind of insistence comes from a place of caring about your health.
You donāt need to like this game, but you also donāt need to take out this level of frustration on everyone who does like this game, nor do you need to keep simping to an abusive āfriendā group of assholes who fuck with you for fun.
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Also, if it is the case that you have a lower spec PC by āmodern gaming standardsā, frankly thats nothing to be ashamed of, modern GPUs are stupidly expensive in comparison to just 5 years ago, and theres nothing wrong with being mad that many newer games have absurd requirements that basically require you to be pretty darn finan financially well off to afford easily.
Thereās nothing wrong with lower spec gaming, gaming should be for everyone, there are tons of amazing games that run on lower spec kit, the economy is fucked, fuck the corpos, fuck classism, etc.
Because youāre taking it out on all of us because a few people pissed you off, you havenāt clarified what pisses you off, nor shared your specs.
And neither here nor there but while you think youāre being counter culture by bitching about the game, it was so popular to shit on this game while it was being fixed, that it was common to have your opinions. So you actually just sound like every other normie who shouted at fans for liking it.
I get why people kept telling you to try it, you probably complained this loud day one and wanted you to experience it fixed up.
The irony is now /you/ sound like everyone else to us fans who wonāt shut up about how much you hate this game.
Let people like shit, stop being so antagonistic out the gate. And donāt act like you didnāt want this debate, acting high and mighty. Youāre a milquetoast rebel without a cause.
iāve repeatedly clarified that iām pissed that i was outright lied to by fans of the game who apparently did not hear a single thing i said about why i didnāt enjoy it (in calm polite subjective terms, and only when they brought the game up to try to sell me on it yet again) and insisted repeatedly that all my complaints had been addressed, and pestered me to āgive it another chanceā.
i donāt know why you want my specs because itās (mostly) not about the game performance, everyone has bugs and memory leaks and while annoying af itās not a dealbreaker to me.
i donāt think iām ācounterā anything, iām just being genuine and thatās a sin when you donāt feel the ācorrectā way. youāre projecting.
and yet back then all i did was leave my thumbs-down review and didnāt think about it again for years. i laid aside my opinion because i trusted in my friends, and landed on the same opinion after trying the āfixedā version expecting a better experience. almost like iām not some dipshit on a hate bandwagon the way youāre so eager to cast me.
sorry, i flat out donāt believe this happened.
it was more like they brought it up and i said i played at launch and didnāt like it and briefly summed up the reasons why and they took every opportunity to badger me about playing it for a year afterward. again youāre projecting a narrative onto me so you can dismiss me about it.
things i wish the game would let me say to johnny silverhand. also lmao more projection.
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the ālampshading how hacky and bad my story is makes it clever and self-aware actuallyā trope is the entire conceit of the gameās central character?
thatās hilarious and sad, everything i learn about the parts of the game i havenāt played make it sound like it gets so much worse.
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