While Cyberpunk 2077 is back on the PS Store, we’re being advised not to buy it on PS4. I don’t mean that someone has done a tech analysis and concluded that it runs a bit worse on PS4 than, say, Xbox – I mean we’re literally being told ‘don’t buy it on PS4,’ by both CD Projekt Red itself and PlayStation. Instead, both recommend using the juicier PS4 Pro, or just straight up using a PS5. It’s worth noting that the game is not out on PS5 – the PS4 version is compatible, but the PS5 version of the game, along with the Xbox Series X/S versions, is still in the works on top of the game’s still ongoing bug fixes and DLC. Thanks to the problems at launch, we still don’t know when any of this stuff is going to arr
Ah, artificial intelligence. There are few subjects that are as interesting to write about as the concept of giving robots the capacity to think and feel. It’s a rich topic of discussion because it opens up all kinds of questions about what exactly it is to be a sentient lifeform. Do androids deserve rights? Should they be treated equally? Are we monsters for creating beings solely for the purpose of performing menial tasks for our own convenience? Silicon Dreams asks all these questions and more, which not only makes it a good piece of science fiction but also a fascinating, entertaining g
While you play as an interrogator, you’re actually more of an investigator. You’re given a list of questions that each have multiple choice answers that have to be filled out and sent to Kronos. To get the information you need, you ask the androids questions which might then lead to even more questions based on their answers. After you’ve filled out all the questions on the list, you’re given three choices based on what you’ve found: release the android, send them for maintenance, or decommission them (which is the death sentence.) At the end of each interrogation, you’re graded by Kronos and can get a nicer office if your superiors believe you performed your duties adequat
CD Projekt Red had made the rather unrealistic announcement that they wanted to get free DLC content in the hands of players within the first quarter of 2021, but clearly that’s not happening. It isn’t known when players can expect their first DLC package to come out, but it’s looking like Q3 of 2021, or even la
‘Anti-consumer’ is a phrase used a lot in gaming, and not always accurately. It’s not anti-consumer that Nintendo doesn’t support Smash Melee tournaments, for example, and while locking story content behind DLC is awfully money grubbing, I’m not sure it’s technically ‘anti-consumer’. Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 undoubtedly is, however. It’s a PS4 game being sold on PS4 while the PS4 makers tell you not to play it on the PS4. I know we’re all bored of talking about Cyberpunk 2077 beginner Guide 2077 by now, but this seems to be sneaking under the radar. It’s disgraceful that our industry allows it, and it’s a worrying sign of the growing divide between the players and the suits out to make a quick b
One look at Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and you can see why. It’s locked at 30fps, but the world is also completely empty. The NPCs and cars in the game at launch were fairly dull and predictable, disappearing or resetting as soon as you turned away and looked back, but the PS4 version seems to have removed all but the most essential ones entirely. It’s a ghost town, and regardless of my own thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077’s quality or themes, it’s clear that this is a shadow of the game it once was. Not even a shadow of its looming potential – the game seems to work on a basic ‘does not crash’ level, but aside from that it’s demonstrably worse than it was at launch. I’d love to hear an explanation for why it was finally deemed okay to sell now, when the game is so obviously not ready that it’s being sold with a warning that it’s not actually going to work on the console it is currently being sold for. The conspiracy theory that Sony is pissed CDPR left it carrying the can for refunds doesn’t ring true for me – if that was the case, I doubt it would be back on the store
After the controversial launch of the game and the subsequent backlash from fans and pre-purchasers, CD Projekt Red was forced to go on full damage control mode to try and mitigate the ensuing fallout. They’ve had mixed success since that time, indicating that this might be another No Man’s Sky story all over ag
As competitive as EA are, after the massive success of Destiny , the developers set out to develop their answer to the creative first-person shooter. Though Destiny has had some issues of its own, which have inspired some hilarious memes , it was nothing compared to the rollout of Anth
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