Baldur's Gate 3 or Cyberpunk 2077

[u/RustyDog87]

So far I'm planning to buy Skyrim, Terraria and Persona 5 Royal. I want to get cyberpunk since it seems good and my friend has recommended it to me. Thanks to the steam deal it's only £22 and with dlc it's £40. On the other hand, Baldur's Gate is £40, and it seems that everyone loves it. Some people will probably say buy both, but my friend will most likely ask me to get a bunch of games that we can play together, which would stop me from being able to get both games.

[u/Sirlacker]

BG3 a million times over.

Cyberpunk is basically a tech demo. There's about 4 hours worth of actual unique gameplay/content before it starts repeating itself.

[u/Edgaras1103 → u/Sirlacker]

what the fuck is this post

[u/Sirlacker → u/Edgaras1103]

What does Cyberpunk offer other than good graphics and a good story?

Theres fuck all exploration. There's no reason to, nothing is out there, no secrets, nothing to stumble upon.

Driving is diabolical for a AAA game.

Loot is shit. The non-iconic weapons are pointless and you're given the best weapon in the game early on. You don't have to grind or go searching for a unique good weapon, they're handed to you on a plate. Like a weapon but it's a low tier? No problem upgrade it. It's the exact same as finding that weapon at a higher tier anyway.

With the exception of about 5 missions, they're all exactly the same.

The AI is absolute dog shit. Stand 25m away and headshot everyone with a silenced pistol and even the guy standing next to the guy you shot doesn't give a fuck.

The controling cyberware is shit. The only useful things are disable camera, suicide and on the odd occasion destroy vehicle. The rest are useless.

Wanna do something fun like drive a tank? Yeah one mission and that's it, never use that asset again, not even for fun. Wanna get in a flying car and roam around? Nah that's reserved for one mission as basically a cut scene.

If you want to play the game that doesn't involve using the iconic pistol, then you have to literally make a conscious effort to not use it. That's not good mission/game design.

Upgrading, well it's okay when you don't have many points because you're forced down a path. But in the end you can pretty much put point where ever you want, there may as well not be a skill tree.

Wanna get a 5 star wanted level and get chased by jets and helicopters round a futuristic city? Nope. All that happens is drop ships drop off more senseless AI.

I can go on and on.

Beyond the story and graphics, the game is a complete downgrade from any other similar type of game out there. Zero actual effort was put in to the gameplay after the initial concept. It's not even an opinion, there is fuck all, gameplay wise that can be considered good, or even different. Everything they touched they managed to half ass.

Again, it's a fun first couple hours and then that's where it starts to show it's true colours. An empty open world, with copy and paste missions but change the dialogue.

They could have added the lore for NPCs to talk about but no they even took the easy route of just adding them as collectible tapes that just display text.

[u/Edgaras1103 → u/Sirlacker]

ok, have a nice day

[u/Starry080 → u/Edgaras1103]

Dude is a straight up hater lmao, what a scrub 😆

[u/Sirlacker → u/Starry080]

Not hard to see the game for how bad it is when you're not simping over Keanu Reeves and CDPR

[u/Finalwingz → u/Sirlacker]

It's an objectively amazing game. It has some of the best combat in any action RPG. It's fast-paced, skill based, and very fluid.

I'm sorry you're a hater.

[u/Sirlacker → u/Finalwingz]

Have we actually played the same game?

Some of the best combat in any action RPG? The AI can't detect you beyond around 25 meters. They don't take cover, they just scatter. If you're on a roof or up high, they don't move back to be able to see you, they move closer so it's even harder for them to hit you. In a world full of cybernetics that include high jump, double jump, they don't utilise them.

Fast paced? The fuck are you, a tortoise? You get one or two enemies that 'rush' you and the rest just sit back for easy pickings. There's nothing fast about it.

Skill based? Do you mean it has a skill tree? Because none of this game requires any skill. Even weak points on enemy bosses are fucking highlighted and completely obvious. You can't even take actual cover and shoot over/around cover. All you have to do is just strafe and shoot. Bosses basically just do more damage and have more health. There's nothing really super unique about them or difficult except maybe the odd hard to avoid aoe splash damage attacks they do, which is boring.

Fluid? Okay, I can give you this one. If you want the combat to be fluid it can be and all the missions on the map are viewable from the off set so you can easily just go zone by zone rather than running back and forth.

I didn't play on the hardest difficulty but I did play on the second hardest. So unless the hardest difficulty changes EVERYTHING then I'm assuming it's extremely similar.

Am I a hater? Yes absolutely but for extremely good and obvious reasons, the game just doesn't even hold a candle to any similar games from the last 20 years. There are indie games that are more complex and thought out.

[u/Finalwingz → u/Sirlacker]

Lmao. You haven't played the game. Half of the things you said are just blatantly untrue.

[u/Sirlacker → u/Finalwingz]

Mate I completed every mission and side mission except collecting the cars.

[u/Starry080 → u/Sirlacker]

Good thing I'm not doing either eh? Stop being an NPC and repeating yourself whenever someone mentions Cyberpunk, you complete dunce 😂

[u/Finalwingz → u/Sirlacker]

Troll/ragebait

Everything is wrong

[u/achisholm → u/Sirlacker]

BG3 by far. Agreed with the others. I hate the game with a burning passion too. A huge disappointment, personally speaking!

The environment feels utterly dead to me, despite the polished visuals. Not immersive at all.

The illusion of choice is mostly a facade over an underlying linear structure. Many missions are in some tunnel system where any attempt to step out of it quickly reveals that there is actually no freedom to play in a novel or creative way in that Baldurs Gate III can offer. Some sections are so bad for this that you might as well randomly mash the buttons for half an hour while some predestined story plays out.

I had no emotional connection with the main characters. They all annoyed the heck out of me.

The guns and fighting systems are unrealistic and not fun to me whatsoever while the AI is pathetic.

The UI design and theme choices in the menus drive me crazy.

I could go on and on! 🤪

[u/qwtd → u/Sirlacker]

Gameplay is easily one of the best things about the game???? People have the right to their opinions but it gets to a point lmao