>>23895>Just fucking no you rose tinted eyes maniac. Bruh, I first played Morrowind on the og xbox and died to a kwama forager and got confused as to why I died looking at this barking worm thing and then rage quit because waiting five minutes for the game to load on the xbox was annoying to my preteen brain. There are no rose tinted glasses here.
What I did do a year back was finally sit down and play the game with the intent on actually learning its systems and what I found was something awesome. I literally made another character to see if ranged/steatlh build was shit like ppl always said. It was annoying at first, but by level 13 my character was a goddamn ninja who could jump twenty feet in the air, owned a demon dagger that gave them an unbreakable daedric dagger, could merc ppl yards away with explosive arrows, was so fast that they could stunlock most enemies before they could ready a weapon, and who had already assassinated some of the most powerful beings in world just because they could.
Now imagine an un-fucked version of Cyberpunk 2077 where you could do the futuristic version of what I described above. A cyber ninja solo with a fuck ton of augmentations and cyberware that
allows them to kill some of the most influential/powerful figures in NC (with a robust faction system to boot). Sure it you could kind of do that in CP2077 (to mindless gangers) but enemies are just bullet sponges and there is no depth to anything and loot is scaled so there is no sense of progression. You have a predefined character with 3 predefined roles with no weight on anything tangible besides lore dumps. You can't make yourself look like a cybered up monstrosity or roleplay as a master hacker. There's no Net which is funny because Netrunning makes up a large portion of the tabletop rules and could very much be its own game.
Another thing that is ironic about how CDPR adapted the setting is that the whole fucking back story of the vidya is literally a rip of the example adventure from the rule book, which does not feel like a homage but rather a lazy rehashing because the depth of what the designers and writers did was just a glance through the main rulebook and some source books and was like "oh you know that example adventure thats just to help players see how a game of CP2020 runs? lets just have the play
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