The joy of multiple replays?

[.Esík]

I love this game. I finished it in 2 weeks when it released in 2020. I had 3 years pause now so i just enjoy it like fresh game in my current second playtrough. I will also go for third one in 3 months because they will change whole game and add DLC so it will be again like playing new game.

BUT.. there are people who play this game each few months and have like i dont know 500 hours here. By this time you basically know every single gig, mission, weapon.. nothing is new to you, no joy for discovering stuff and dont know what going to happen in story.. I just want to know what make you go trough this game AGAIN and AGAIN in very short period. I like to replay games after 2-3 years but this is very weird to me.

[Sloth]

Same thing that people play skyrim over and over and over again ...Mods.

[Zero McDol]

For me, it's a matter of what drives me to play.

While I will eventually play to an ending, I have yet to do so in 700+ hours of play. I haven't even done all of the gigs, nor completed any side quests. With 1.7 and the expansion coming, I'll be playing to an ending and playing through all of the other content (gigs, sidequests). Until then though, I'll be holding off.

So what drove me to put so much time into this game, despite never once playing to an ending nor completing all of the gigs and side quests. The world, or more specifically, the modded world.

In the modded world, I can:

- Eat at a vendor with animations.
- Drink at a vendor with animations.
- Sit anywhere.
- Invest in stocks.
- Have a companion follow me around, fight with me, and say some dialog as well.
- I visit the female Joytoy and the scene lasts much longer than the vanilla game. Just more immersion basically.
- More mature ads.
- I can play the shooting gallery and enjoy it whenever I want.
- I can tune my vehicle and even have my own lines of code that I've added to the mod.
- I can steal and sell cars.
- I can play arcade games.

I'll stop there, but my main point is that an immersive world, via mods, is what has kept me playing.

Even to this day, I still play this game at least once or twice a week.

[Death Approaches]

You are not specializing your builds; maybe you never played the tabletop, but this game is really DUMBED DOWN to make it more approachable to the masses that think every tabletop is either "Monopoly" or "Dungeons and Dragons".

There's no way to make a melee Solo into a Runner w/ tech... but of course in a computer game, you can just half-ass all the stats and still come out OK, with a workable character, because you don't want to someone whining and crying about how they can't do anything , how it takes 200 bullets to drop one person but they get killed in 2. Etc.

That's always been my idea for the best update - ULTRA-NOVA Mode. Not just much more lethal, but way less flexibility. And expose the die rolls, I want to see on-screen if I hit. (don't have a d10 icon)

But anyway, how? Easy! - By pretending the game is harder than it is... pretending there's no respec but you must live with your choices. Pretending there's no reload to reverse a bad mission decision, pretending there's no internet to google a wiki about what to do before you do it. (like to know where unique weapons are you never saw before.) Et cetera.

That's how. Pretending.

[Rabidnid]

CP gives a lot of scope to RPing your character so it is possible to play through with slightly different builds and make different choices. There are also multiple ways to complete each gig and side mission. Even some of the main missions offer the same flexibility.

[Empukris]

Mods and character build also char alignment. There are a few branching quest so it include the worst choice also not sure why people want to do that but there are people that want to try every single possible experience that including the worse choice or evil playthrough.

Another reason is mostly those roleplaying playthrough. I dont do it because recently there are just too many game that I want to play. Playing this game for 300hr+ is not that hard and completely understandable.

[Tokenn]

Okay....I've been playing this game obsessively for over a year...about 2500 hours. I find the differences in how I build my V character (gender, lifepath, attribute/skill set), the random variation of loot and enemy behavior, the approach I take to gigs and side jobs, the choices I explore in the main jobs (dialogue, weapons etc.) make for brilliant replayability. Playing on very hard make every encounter a challenge, and I am still finding new aspects of the game, new areas to explore, new treasures to find, etc.

I understand perfectly that others may not see things the same way, and that's fine.

[ΛΞL™⚡]

This game is fun, but it lacks replay value. It feels very scripted, and the world doesn't feel alive. I wish it were more like Skyrim or GTA, where random events occur during quests or in the open world. Even the mob spawns are always in the same locations. I hope the DLC adds some randomness to the game it feels like it was designed as movie first and a game second.

[Death Approaches]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

I understand perfectly that others may not see things the same way, and that's fine.

Well I got a contract for you, Solo. I need you to break into their house, erase the game from their computer without being detected. They have really good ICE so doing it remote will leave a fingerprint, this has to be done on-site. The client wants it done by the weekend so not much time to decide if you want to scout the location for points of entry and egress; note when you exfiltrate if you leave one bit of evidence not only will the gig not pay, they will take out a contract on you. Because of the precision required and severity of slipping up, this gig pays 1600 eddies with no chance for a bonus, it's do or die here. Interested?

[Tokenn]

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Originally posted by Tokenn:

I understand perfectly that others may not see things the same way, and that's fine.

Well I got a contract for you, Solo. I need you to break into their house, erase the game from their computer without being detected. They have really good ICE... it's do or die here. Interested?

Challenge accepted! IMO CDPR could have done more to vary the way gigs and etc. could be done. Incentives...double payouts by stingy Regina for live cyberpsychos...bonus payouts for stealth, or for jobs where you don't fire a shot in an explosive environment where you have to do it bare-knuckle style...all kinds of things. I like the boxing matches, the races and even the shooting competitions...too bad there weren't more. This is already a great game...the ways it could be added to are endless.

[Silverbane7]

Originally posted by Tokenn:

Originally posted by Death Approaches:

Well I got a contract for you, Solo. I need you to break into their house, erase the game from their computer without being detected. They have really good ICE... it's do or die here. Interested?

Challenge accepted! IMO CDPR could have done more to vary the way gigs and etc. could be done. Incentives...double payouts by stingy Regina for live cyberpsychos...bonus payouts for stealth, or for jobs where you don't fire a shot in an explosive environment where you have to do it bare-knuckle style...all kinds of things. I like the boxing matches, the races and even the shooting competitions...too bad there weren't more. This is already a great game...the ways it could be added to are endless.

If you fancy more stealth gameplay....maybe this might tickle your funny bone?
https://www.nexusmods.com/cyberpunk2077/mods/7616
Stealthrunner - Stealth gameplay expansion.
You get rewards for being totally undetected (ghost) for pacifist and other gameplay style stuff.

Personally, I just enjoy walking around the City. Got close to 800hrs now and am getting familiar with Little China, Northside and Kabuki to the point I don't need to use the map, I recognise areas of the game just by looking on a YouTube vid XD

What gets me about games (and their players) is.... How some cannot help themselves but min-max. Then cry about 'game is too easy'
Then don't get the best in slot. Don't use the best build. Stop using the best weapons.
I find it confusing sometimes, that folks can't just stop themselves.
I'll wear white grade gear, pick a weapon that's sub optimal for its looks, choose skills for flavour over the best, pick sub optimal perks ect.
(Not just this game. My bank is filled with gray grade junk items I just like the style of in mmo games XD)

[CaptainChaos]

Thanks so much for this tip! I wish I found this mod 200 hours ago.