Or is the whole game traveling from one spot to another to talk to someone and then a thousand phone calls in-between? I have 12 hours in this game and I’ve only had 3 actual gameplay moments where I got to shoot or fight people. Is this a visual novel pretending to be a shooter? Wtf
Stop checking off quests from your list and just go in another direction and explore the world around you. I don’t wanna be that guy and say “You’re playing it wrong”, but if you’re just working off a checklist, then you’re definitely playing Cyberpunk wrong. There are things happening all over Night City that aren’t given to you by the main quest line. Open your map and look at the icons scattered around, and you’ll see tons of side gigs, gang activities, and other missions that aren’t tied to the main story at all.
Or just walk down the street and see what’s happening near you. See a group of people standing around with yellow triangles over them? Go fight 'em. Sometimes they’re random gangoons just standing around on a smoke break, but sometimes there’ll be new things to discover by cracking some skulls.
Get drunk with the 6th Street Gang and join in their shooting contest on the rooftops, go climb the ranks in Night City’s underground boxing club, talk to the mysterious monk and learn how to meditate, recover Johnny’s lost memorabilia, find a gun that talks to you and has a bad attitude, buy some fine designer clothes from the Jinguji store, track down and capture cyberpsychos for psychiatric evaluations, help a former soldier suffering with PTSD, take Jesse Cox to see a doctor about his penis problem, become best friends with a vending machine, help a J-pop star with their stalker problem, pick a fight with the police and see if you can survive until MaxTac gets called, buy some cars and travel in style.
There’s a ton of things to do outside the main quest. But if you’re just going down the list for the main quest line, then yeah, there’s going to be a lot of talking, because Cyberpunk is a very narrative-driven game, especially for the main quest and the side quests for other characters like Judy, Panam, River, Kerry, etc. I’m on my second playthrough of the game with 140 hours logged so far, and I still have undiscovered content to complete. There’s plenty to do in Night City, you just gotta look.
Thanks for the write up, I guess I am just approaching this wrong. I figured the checklist of quests would actually lead me to the stuff you listed.
I kinda did the opposite and just wadered off and did whatever. But that did not work at all for me. It became pretty stale and showed off the weaker side of the game. I guess the trick is to do something in between
The side quests pop up based on location for the most part. But the story only gets deep if you do a lot of those quests. The romances and friendships are side quests for the most part. The stories you uncover. I want mention specifics, but a fan favorite involves a couple of rich politicos that call you. The weird shit you find out with the cyberpsycho quests are pretty neat.
This doesn’t have a KOTOR light side dark side meter, but if you start to connect with your character, then some of the choices you make are rather emotional. Like you get hired to kill someone, but they talk to you when you get there and you have to decide what to do. And sometimes that changes some things later.
I played all of the original endings (I have about 300 hours in the game since launch). Prior to Phantom Liberty, I decided to try a certain ending and it absolutely crushed me. I was legitimately angry at some of the people and crying about how things went for some others.
If you just want an action rpg light on the story, this isn’t it. This is like getting to jump into the action of a really interesting comic series. Lots of shit going on that isn’t the main focus of the story. Some of it matters and some of it is just something to do. I imagine if you only hit the main storyline it’d probably be kind of bland. For one, you want have a good reason to kill every tiger claw that you see.
I’d recommend delaying quest competition and just go wandering around town and find some fights to get into, get some leveling done, and upgrade your equipment. I find the open world to be more interesting than most quest plots.
See, I was going to do that. I heard act 1 was narrative heavy and to just get through it for the game to open up. Immediately after finishing it, I get in my car and the a.i. taxi service wrecks my car and gives me another quest to do to get it back. Find out after finishing the quest I have to wait for the car to be repaired, so I find online about the quest to get Jackie’s motorcycle, but that leads to the funeral quest with even more talking! Maybe that’s the break point and after I could finally go off and do my own thing but I just got frustrated and quit.
Lmao the thing with the car is a pain in the ass but I find it funny you’re complaining about talking at a funeral for what was a main character for the first hour or so. If you want more pew pew, do gigs and the ncpd icons.
I’m not complaining that a funeral quest has a lot of talking, I’m complaining that my vehicle is taken away when I’m trying to go do more pew pew quests and the quest to get another vehicle involves more talking.
Just walk up to a car and steal it.
Or…yanking some schlub out of their car and stealing it.
“When do I get to play the game?? I haven’t been able to rotate blocky shapes at all yet just been forced to hunt ghosts as a yellow man??” -Moron playing pac-man instead of Tetris c. 198X
WTF are you saying? That I confused this game for another game? Did all the advertisements for this game not show a ton of action and then just feed me tons of story instead? I understand that there is going to be dialogue and story in this game but right now the ratio of talking to action is like 90/10. I didn’t expect to be playing a football game instead of a shooter or something like your flawed comment leads on.
The story quests are called that for a reason, if you want a break from story, do other quests or other objectives. Story quests will indeed mostly be story, tackle them at a pace you want to do them at, just keep in mind if you do all the story quests, the game will be over at that point.
Think of it more like a GTA game. If you just keep running from story quest to story quest, you finish the game and only experience like 5% of what was there. At any point, go to any other random place than the story quests and see what else there is to do.
You can for sure spend hours shooting bad guys at any point in the game.
As for when delamain wrecks one of your cars, you are expected to have a handful to choose from at that point. But I could see if you did nothing other than story quests the whole time, it being possible to not have any other car by then. Delamain wrecked my car about 100 hours into the game for me. I had 8 owned cars by then. But I had also killed thousands of enemies by then.
That’s crazy. Del wrecking my car normally was in the first hour or two of the 3 playthroughs I’ve done. I’m not sure I could find 20 hours of content before that part, let alone 100
I like to take my time and enjoy games. Not just a flavour of the week that I try and rush through. Exploring and finding all the interesting stuff. I started my first game as nomad, so I didn’t even make it into the city until 4 or 5 hours in.
Don’t you get the motorcycle keys right after recovering?
It is.
Minimize traveling. There’s always something to do around the corner
When I started walking the other day instead of driving my mind was blown at how many little things are going on. I’ve played through it twice, and been satisfied with the experience, but this time I’m just… Hanging out and it’s amazing.
I’ve been enjoying the game. Didn’t do any quest after the first one with the car shootout. I just drove around to find stuff to explore. Found weapons in my car, then went into random encounters. Been doing that for two days straight.
What part of the game are you in? Still early on?
If you really want more gameplay right now, stop following the quest markers and go do something else.
I call bullshit. If you’ve spend 12 hours in this game and have only played about 3 missions, you’re just letting the game sit idle for most of that time.
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Not sure if you found one already, but you get a free car in the northern part of the city. It helps to talk to Delamain first to get his quest, then do his Northside Epistrophy quest.
