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Nah, I'll wait it out again. Fuck pre-orders. I'm pretty burnt out on this game from the buggy release on console.

The fact that you people here are excited to pay for features as a DLC that should have been available on release confirms cuckoldry is acceptable here.

So in september we get Starfield and Phantom Liberty? Damn, looks like that upgrade to my PC is gonna have to come sooner rather than later.

Super excited about it. I LOVED the base game (I played ~6 months ago, definitely not on day one) and I can't wait to go back to Night City.

Looks like WoW going from Vanilla to Burning Crusade. Lots of cool stuff I see.

Disclaimer: Sorry, I’m old

PS: Dang that Lemmy thing is so cool.

As someone who has loved this game since launch, this is crazy. Pretty much every feature I wished the game had is being added.

This sounds like an incredible update. Can’t wait to replay this game.

This is easily the most hyped release this year for me! Love the game and can't wait to go back to Night City for yet another playthrough!

Trying not to before this drops but I'm not sure how that'll go..

Took them a while but I can finally have epic chase battles with the police after committing accidental vehicular manslaughter.

I played this game semi-recently (within the year) so I had a pretty good experience with it compared to a lot of the early players (via proton no less), but if this expansion lives up to all this then I'm pretty excited nonetheless.

Sounds great, can't wait to finally play this. I've been putting it off after the disappointing feedback from the original release.

All of these changes are exciting. It's what we were promised in the initial game.

The entire trailer and images feel as if something massive happened in the previous game. Like the government went down or something, and it's chaos in the streets.

TBH I didn't finish the last mission. I got to it, and didn't finish it.

So are these updates free or only for Phantom Liberty owners?

This sounds like they're finally making the game what it should have been in the first place. New perk system in particular peaked my interest. Still haven't played it, and not picking up this at launch, but if it comes out and they didn't fuck it up this time I might pick up the game+dlc on sale after a couple months.

I love the current iteration of cyberpunk but I'm also excited to see this new version of it. I'm most excited about the new skill trees.

Despite its obvious flaws I really enjoyed the game so anything that improves it is fine by me. Probably a next year purchase for me though as with Starfield and Baldurs Gate 3 coming out I can't see where I'd even find time to play it any time soon

I'll remain skeptical until it releases, but hopefully this will be a reason to revisit the game. It has so much potential

Sounds like they are finally adding some of the things they promised before launch. Won't pre-order that but will probably buy in a sale if it actually lives up to the hype this time.

This is actually really cool. Sounds like calling it a "DLC" is far short of the reality. I picked it up on release and played like 5 hours or so maybe, but when I tried it again a few days ago, I had no idea what I was doing anymore. Might be time to start a new game and give it a fresh try once the new DLC lands.

Oooooh. I adored the original. (Well, I played it in 2022, so the bugs were worked out). I can't wait for this!

Oh wow, I had no idea this was so extensive. I doubt I'll have time for this on release, but I'm looking forward to trying it out. Sometime...

Can anyone explain to me, a dumbass, what it means for my current save file? I haven't beaten the main quest yet because I've been doing everything else for over 120 hours (finally got all the gigs and NCPD scanners, at least), but I still don't see how an overhaul of that caliber is going to play well with the current balance of things. Judging by that one update that reset my skill and perk points, I think we can expect some resets again.

I think Phantom Liberty is my incentive to finally finish the game and then start a completely new playthrough, preferably with a consistent build and playstyle this time from start to finish. So much to choose from!

Cor, that all sounds amazing.

This actually sounds pretty boss. Wonder if I'll need to start another play through, I'm not very deep into my second one.

I had dropped the game after the intro, wanted to give it another try, so maybe this will be a good reason to try again !

Hot damn, I bought the game when it came out, never finished it, picked it up again earlier this year, beat the story (the updates they made by that time were awesome) and loved it. I saw the trailer yesterday for the DLC and looked really good, but dang the updates sound amazing.

So maybe its time to play the next time there is a good sale?

I was banking on starting a new playthrough before the DLC dropped but if these changes are coming with it vs before than perhaps I should wait. I’m curious on how the base game will feel with these kind of implementations.

I still have not played the 1st one, is it something I should pick up and play in order to understand this second one??

For me that game is Tears of the Kingdom. It has a lot of really good ideas and even execution but there are so many aspects of the game that make me wish to never return to it again. The battery power being held behind a grind, the time limit on some the things you can build (wings for example), the repetitive caves scattered all across the map, the repetitive grind of clearing all the shrines and all the light bulbs under ground. And worst of all the the intense babying of the player as if they have no awareness. I remember doing the wind temple and walking into a room with only a single thing in it and Tulin still paused the game to point out the only object in the entire room. That's just one example, every major dungeon and shrine will eventually pause gameplay to show / explain something to the player that is already clearly conveyed by the level design. I know if I press the button in the shrine that a door will open, but the game still pauses the game to show me the door opening, even if I am 1 foot away from the door when it opens.

The shrines in general are extremely disappointing to me, just as the BOTW ones were. They rarely make you think of a solution, instead making the solution appear incredibly obvious the moment you enter the shrine. There are combat tutorial shrines that you may miss and come back to 20 hours into your playthrough only to get stuck in an unskippable tutorial on how to block or something.

Another thing that really rubbed me the wrong way was the re-use of the Hyrule map just with changes to it. I think they should've focused on the Sky Islands for the majority of the gameplay, you couldn't imagine my disappointment when 30 minutes into the game I jumped down to Hyrule and slowly realized I was going to spend most of my time in Hyrule (again) instead of the Sky. The underground area is really cool conceptually but I find myself just flying around on machines with lights attached to them because it feels so EMPTY. And the loot often isn't enticing enough to go explore the hundreds of rock-blocked tunnels in the game.

And the enemies are so incredibly easy, most of the time landing a single hit will stun the enemy, then you can just mash till you knock them on the ground, and if they're still alive you can shoot an arrow into them or run up and attack more. The combat isn't very deep, the flurry rush mechanic's timing seems inconsistent, and sometimes seems to not work at all. It's overall a good game, don't get me wrong, but IMO it's not the flawless masterpiece a lot of people are making it seem like.