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I've had this conversation with a few people so I think it's worth posting. Thanks to @davidrobots and @horwitz for helping me tease this thought out.
So: patterns are real. Pay attention to them. Because perspective can help you navigate noisy, useless internet discourse.
So: patterns are real. Pay attention to them. Because perspective can help you navigate noisy, useless internet discourse.
CD Projekt Red, like clockwork for a decade and a half, has released wildly ambitious RPGs that are largely informed by traditional modes but that are elevated by unbelievably skilled storytelling.
They are, invariably, very flawed on release, both in terms of technical execution AND in terms of what you can charitably call cultural naivete but is in reality a fairly poisonous, entrenched regional set of prejudices.
And they also, after releasing something that is both broken and in many ways offensive, course correct and deliver something very affecting. Eventually.
My point is: I’m sure there will be a version of Cyberpunk worth playing and discussing in 2023.
And if all the noisome chatter here and elsewhere around the video game world bothers you? Ignore ALL OF IT. And come back when a much better version of the game is released.
And if all the noisome chatter here and elsewhere around the video game world bothers you? Ignore ALL OF IT. And come back when a much better version of the game is released.
