I was interested but not decidedly so, pre-launch; certainly not interested enough to violate my strict "no pre-purchase" policy, even for a developer (CD Projekt RED) whose games I've enjoyed in the past and whose refreshing attitude towards DRM has made me willing to pay premium prices, both now and in the past.

I am however a huge fan of the cyberpunk setting (in general, not the Cyberpunk RPG setting specifically) and all the Gibson/Stephenson/Dick/Ellison/etc books and whatnot. Cyberpunk is my jam, man. What can I say, I grew up in the 80's.

I've been watching a playthrough, in a sort of "well let's go see if it's as bad as the reports say" kind of way, and my god, the developers nailed the setting and the story is so far engaging and has me genuinely curious as to what's coming next (the streamer hasn't finished it yet). I've seen a couple of visual bugs but frankly nothing on the order of, say, a Fallout game. Admittedly the streamer might be editing those out but I've been keeping an eye out for the cuts and so far every one I've spotted has looked like it's due to a load screen rather than a bug. (I did spot one amusingly bad graphical typo -- the devs misspelled "Delivery" on an art asset and never fixed it -- but hardly anything game-breaking.)

On the other hand, I have it from someone whose opinion I trust that there are problematic elements in both the game (w.r.t. LGBT representation) and the developers behind the game. Which makes me look dubiously at the idea of opening my wallet. I'm fully willing to believe I'm not clueful enough to spot them myself (I haven't so far, but the streamer I'm watching isn't gawking at everything the way I would be either, so there may be a lot I'm missing, I dunno). And while I know the seizure thing is a real concern, I'm not susceptible myself, so while I absolutely support fixing that, it's not a problem for me specifically? If that makes sense.

So I don't know. I'm torn.

--sofaspud
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