Keanu is why this game failed

[oChalko]

if you spend most of your budget on one actor, your game wont turn out as well, this shows with keanu, anyone couldve voice acted johnny and probably couldve done a better job, the main story line fails in all aspects and the "rpg" staple made it seem like my V couldve been alot cooler than he is.
plus dont get me started on the cringy ass romance scenes, what a joke lol

EDIT: Jackie is a better side character than Johnny

[Azukaos]

Johnny silverhand feel too much out of this world for the kind of game, sometime he talk about old stuff who could be used as lore but on other hands he will just pop out of thin air to ramble about what V is doing and they will have pointless chit-chat.

he's here only to be used as a device for the plot but feel awkward after a bit.

[Hold this L]

Publicado originalmente por Overeagerdragon:

Publicado originalmente por KillahInstinct:

thats the reason why they ditched all LIFE PATHS and they all became KEANU PATHS

tell me the differences between lifepaths ?

You've never played some of the earlier RPG's huh? It's called flavour....the lifepaths give you different perspectives of insight depending on your choices in dialogue. Sure I would've liked for them to do more with this aspect but there are plenty of RPG's out there where you can start as "thug" and that's it...no actual rewards for starting as it, no bonusses, no optional dialogue.

People hyped this game up to absurd levels and expected way too much from a smaller company whilst not realising that if they DID get everything they wanted in the game they wouldn't even be able to play it in the first place because it would take a supercomputer.

did u see dragon age origin make a big marketing campaign/trailer specifically just on background? no, cos they are just background, with occasion story telling varies.
skyrim's race selection even has more impact on its gameplay compares to cyberpunk's life path.

cpdr made it sounds like life path is an actual big thing in this game, but sadly its not.

[Captain Pansy]

Publicado originalmente por Geralt:

"Analysts at Polish brokerage company DIMBOSS believe that the budget to develop and promote Cyberpunk 2077 will be in the excess of $314 million USD"

Yeah the game failed because they got Keanu, sure.

jesus christ, 300 million O_O
i saw better games made by small indie devs. i don't know why they stick to that buggy game engine of theirs, when there are so many good options though. just like bethesda and their ancient engine.

[shado]

sounds like a special ed kid when voicing his lines. weird af

[Sunbow]

It always struck me as a bit of a marketing gimmick to have Keanu Reeves in 2077.

I like Keanu as an actor and a person, but having him as major feature in a PC game just seemed like a distraction or diversion for me. I'd much rather see a developer's resources directed towards the relevant aspects of game development, such as game art and the game mechanics.

This game claimed to be ground breaking, but it doesn't introduce any ground breaking technology to the genre. For example, when you consider the application of deep learning today, one possible route for video games to go with that is using it to create autonomous behaviours. It can't be too difficult to use it for vehicles, surely? It could also be used in dialogues with NPCs. Literally hundreds of applications. This is just an example of a the kind of thing I would consider ground breaking in a game.

[Larry Craft]

Maybe instead of being an engram, if he was a main protagonist like a fixer or something, would you like him more?

[Larry Craft]

Publicado originalmente por Milcc Trucc Honk Honk:

keanu is like 1 out of 3 or 4 people i like/respect in hollywood...that said.....uhm

As an actor, he has my respect and admiration, he is a fine actor.

[TechnoDethMetal]

Is not just that actor guy..
Games industry are now bringing hollywood inside games because video games surpassed hollywood already.

[Bizarroskull]

Publicado originalmente por KillahInstinct:

this game was gutted and cut around Keanu, He is cool character but all game is about him and his plot.

Mmmmm the character may be represented by Keanu but it actually comes from cyberpunk 2020 rol game

[Ben Elohim]

I don't think the issue with Cyberpunk came solely from having Keanu join in on the project, especially from a financial perspective. The budget for the game as a whole was massive and I don't think that Keanu's salary offset the game enough to be particularly detrimental. That being said though think his presence did hurt the final state of the game. Keanu came onto the project late, but he has the most lines of dialogue of any character and is one of if not THE central character of the game. What this tells me is that once CDPR was able to secure Keanu for the game then they completely reworked their script to expand upon his role at the expense of other plot and features. Remember the "childhood heroes" section? Saburro Arasaka, Morgand Blackhand, and of course Johnny Silverhand. My guess is that they were originally planning a much more roleplay intensive game with branching storylines, but once Keanu came on board they decided to scrap all that in favor of a more narrow focus. A linear story that's essentially a Streetkid lifepath with Johnny Silverhand as the childhood hero locked in from the start. Yes, you're still able to choose other lifepaths, but it seems to be signifigantly stripped down compared to what was originally promised and the "default" V dialogue seems to line up most with a Streetkid.

TLDR: Keanu didn't ruin cyberpunk, the Devs ruined cyberpunk by putting all their focus on Keanu.

[Poljanan]

Publicado originalmente por Bizarroskull:

Publicado originalmente por KillahInstinct:

this game was gutted and cut around Keanu, He is cool character but all game is about him and his plot.

Mmmmm the character may be represented by Keanu but it actually comes from cyberpunk 2020 rol game

The 2018 proof of concept showed that your "mentor" could have either been Johnny, Morgan Blackhand or Saburo Arasaka. They probably realized they can't make 3 games in 1 so they just focused on Johnny being the central character and took Saburo out of the picture amusingly, you could have written the plot in a way that Saburo still gets killed by Yorinobu but it's his engram which is stored in the chip instead of Johnny's

[hyperion]

It's only disappointing because I cannot chop him up into little pieces with my Katana.

[hyperion]

Publicado originalmente por oChalko:

EDIT: Jackie is a better side character than Johnny

And you see what happened to Jackie. Disappointing, he was the best side kick in the game.

[valleyforge1778]

I wish they had left him out of this game... hate the entire premise of the game... Johnny and the Virus stuck in your head. Worst concept ever conceived...soooo annoying times Infinity! Remove Johnny and the Virus.... and this game is Game of the Century

[Zarginnia]

xbox one and ps4 is why the game "failed".