We live in a timeline where the chances of that happening are non zero.

Who cares?

ACAB is retarded, especially in Europe.

The mission structure is shallow. No room for creativity at all. There’s only one way to finish most quests. If you step outside the path the developers created for you at all, instant fail.

The fact you unironically use this to detract from GTAV, a game released during the PS3 era, while ignoring the exact SAME issue for Cyberpunk, a modern RPG advertised as the epitome of choice, should inform anyone to the validity of any of the opinions you hold in this matter. The only staying power of Cyberpunk is people benchmarking with it.

You literally contradict yourself trying to defend Cyberpunk…

I didn’t play Cyberpunk for the police and NPC AI. I don’t give a fuck about that. I played it for the story, world-building, characters, dystopian themes, and shoot em up style hacker gameplay.

So you play it like a linear shooter, which is the exact opposite of what was advertised. Mayhap you are part of the population Kojima also mentioned as fundamentally unable to process anything that isn’t “shoot the baddies”.

On that subject, the story of Cyberpunk is pretty shallow. There’s one good arc, the tutorial, after that it reads like it was written by a completely different team and the original writing team was relegated to one or two side quests.

Edit:

maybe you’re just a cunt

Very classy, one can Tell Cyberpunk is one of your favourite games.

All of this is true. I neglected to mention that because I didn’t think you could survive with 150€ a day in Paris as a tourist

Please explain to me how GTAV was shallow. One can absolutely dislike the caricature like style of world building however, calling it shallow borderlines illiteracy. Especially when defending cyberpunk, there’s no underlying message of any sort in Cyberpunk. It’s like, shoot the baddies, corpos bad, mohawk and neon good.

I can tell you from the top of my head Cyberpunk issues that haven’t been solved to today or promises that haven’t been addressed:

Ai of NPCs Ai of police - both still much worse than even sleeping dogs… The promised branching narrative never happened, it’s wildly linear. No functional karma system. The writing of the main characters, the beginning is promising with the

The world is basically a ubisoft map minus interesting, organic things to do in the open world The driving is horrendous in cars, unbelievably bad in motorbikes The characters are wildly one-dimensional and villains are absolute moustache twirling levels of bad.

They failed on over half of the promised features to this day. It’s not a bad game, it’s just mid.

Cyberpunk is still utter shait when compared to GTAV and still delivers on less than half of what they promised. If they hadn’t become the de facto hardware showcase for NVIDIA the game would have long been abandoned. NVIDIA’s marketing development funds sponsoring half of “gaming” youtubers did more for CDPR’s reputation than anything they added to the game. It was never going to be better than mid, and it’s still mid. Ai is still worse than GTA3.

150€ will net you a stay in most countries in the EU except scandinavia and too big cities.

For 150€ a day, Budapest, Warsaw, Split, Prague, Vilnius, Salamanca, etc.

Be mindful of where you rent, make sure to have travellers insurance, don’t get scammed for BS reasons (like peeps trying to make you believe you need to pay high money to use the autobahn in Czechia). Be mindful of pickpockets anywhere southwest of Paris and enjoy the food and locals.

Cool, shit is bad for you if you eat it, 100%.

Go try that now.

No, Apple bent the knee for concessions on tarifs. If you live in the US the chance your comms are backdoored on iOs is 100%.

They learned from Israel <3

Ars doing an advertorial. Nothing to see here.

Ye, that shit is everywhere, also gaming indian sites that recycle and produce AI slop are popping everywhere like mushrooms. Perhaps the dead internet theory is closer than expected.

The joke that keeps on giving

Who cares, as long as it has enough oomph to make good expansive games at good frame rates without costing a kidney and your firstborn, that’s all we need. Maybe it will be good to have teams incorporate more graphics programmers instead of cheaping out and having just artists working with middleware, churning out unoptimised trash…

*looks at UE5

“Kids, play nice!”

Or, they fuck off leaving space for competitors to develop. Isn’t that the essence of capitalism? I guess the US keeps living in the “rules for thee but not for me” philosophy.

Yes, you would. Some of the best alternatives are German (like Hetzner) and they don’t take off because of US government influence stopping local businesses from accruing profitable contracts both in the private and public sector.

I’d love to see tariffs on US tech Invaders and a moratorium forbidding US companies from buying EU direct competitors for 20y. A cursory look over the meta anti-trust suit should tell you why. Meanwhile MS has killed Nokia, Skype, still owns (and continuously enshitifies) Mojang, just to name a few.

Deals with Australia are a dangerous thing. See AUKUS. I’d be unsurprised to see the US leverage their outsized influence over AU to pressure France.

If the SD pans out well in the control scheme, this one is going in the library.