Media thread - 30 September 2024, 21:54

A screenshot of my Cyberpunk 2077 character. She's a Black woman with purple hair pulled up behind her head and the sides shaved, a bunch of piercings, and she's standing there with her arms crossed and a slight smirk on her face. In the background is an empty street curving away to the left.

Having forgotten about Cyberpunk 2077, and also having forgotten how to play it, I decided to start a new character and maybe actually play more than a couple of hours this time.

Unfortunately the lack of being able to use a Southpaw control scheme means I'm absolutely ATROCIOUS at aiming at anything, so I'm playing on easy difficulty and will be primarily leaning on not actually shooting at stuff for this playthrough, hopefully it's not too frustrating — I have an extremely low tolerance for frustration at video games these days. (I can swap the control sticks around at the Xbox controller level, but that fucks things up in a bunch of other ways like navigating through menus, so I'm going to just have to see how it goes. For the love of $DEITY, game devs, JUST LET ME REMAP CONTROLS!)

Posted on 30 September 2024, 21:54

A screenshot taken in Cyberpunk 2077 on the Xbox. It's a city street at night at ground level, looking across a pedestrian crossing towards a bunch of tall buildings rising up in the background, high contrast and lots of neon signs everywhere, and it's pretty much what you think of when you hear the term "cyberpunk".

Another screenshot, similar aesthetic as the first with some tall buildings in the background, but this feels decidedly dingier and much lower-rent. It's looking down into a set of shops below street level, with a big blue neon "HOTEL" sign in the middle and a bunch of cables crisscrossing the space above it, and there are some red Chinese-style lanterns hanging from the eaves of a building at the right.

Man, they've certainly done a fantastic job with the art direction for Cyberpunk 2077! Absolutely top-notch cyberpunk aesthetic right here. I'm very early-on in the game so I imagine it gets even better.

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Posted on 2 October 2024, 21:28

A screenshot from Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox, it's very wide-angle view of a huge wall of futuristic buildings with neon lights on them, many of them with Japanese writing on them. It's late afternoon so everything is a bit more orange than usual, and you can just see the shadows from the buildings behind starting to encroach on the ones in the screenshot.

Another screenshot, this one is far smaller in scope, it's night time and you're looking down an alley in between two brick buildings, with pipes running along them, grafitti on the walls, and steam coming up from the ground. There are some puddles on the ground reflecting the light.

Another screenshot, back to the wide angle view looking up but this one is closer to night time and it's inside the city with neon-lit buildings towering all around. There's some steam coming up from a couple of places here too.

Cyberpunk 2077 update: still absolutely enjoying the hell out of the atmosphere in this game.

And no spoilers so this is a bit vague, but you go to the funeral of a character and man, I was not expecting to get hit right in the feels by a video game.

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Posted on 13 October 2024, 21:02