Two years later are there any redeeming qualities about the game? Like specifically if I want an interesting plot and find combat in games increasingly tedious?
The plot is okay but I think it does a disservice to the open world by rushing you through it. It falls into the trap a lot of open world games do where the main story seems so urgent that it feels weird to just exist in the world, do side content, explore etc. IMO it also feels like the game is missing an act 1 to get you acquainted with the world and characters and give you a reason to be invested in them. I honestly think the game is at it’s best when it turns you loose in Night City to do your own thing. The atmosphere in the game is excellent and it can be really immersive if that’s your thing.
Additionally If you don’t like combat it can be almost entirely avoided with stealth/hacking. That’s my preferred way to play, it basically turns into a puzzle game where you have to figure out how to bypass enemies without being detected using the environment to your advantage. There’s usually (not always) multiple approaches to objectives that let you play how you want to.
Everything burns, everything burns
If you ask a communist and a capitalist to criticize each other’s ideology, they’ll both criticize capitalism.
How do we combat that level of incredible ignorance?
The only way you combat this is with bullying. This level of ignorance only gets corrected by getting literally laughed out of the room and ridiculed. Onlookers MUST see what level of stupidity is occurring and understand that it is an absolutely crackpot idiot thing to say and you only achieve that by being harsh.
no longer care about money, but about politcal power
like corps don’t have any political power now? the in-game news literally talks about Arasaka losing billions of Eddies and line going down.
Somehow people don’t understand that government and business are completely intermeshed and control literally everything.
How… I don’t even know how someone looks at any cyberpunk product and fails to recognize it as hyper-capitalism. It’s breathtaking.
