Month: December 2020

Cyberpunk 2077 has a ton of stuff packed into its open world, and some faces are more familiar than others. One NPC looks similar to the infamous CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk.

The game opens with a choice between three character back stories, known as lifepaths. The Corpo lifepath starts you off in a bathroom with your character throwing up in the sink. A Musk-like character walks in shortly after. CD Projekt Red hasn’t confirmed anything, but his profile does resemble that of the tech magnate as originally reported by cnet.

Musk had a friendly back-and-forth with the Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account back in 2019 when he revealed Tesla’s Cybertruck. The exchange was short, but has led some fans to believe that the character really is him.

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After spending 50 hours with Cyberpunk 2077, reviewer Kallie Plagge and Jake Dekker tells us about the highs and lows of CD Projekt Red’s latest.

Cyberpunk 2077 releases this week, and the latest role-playing game from CD Projekt Red is massive in scope–despite the studio’s claims that it’s actually shorter than The Witcher 3, it’s still big. We’ve been playing it for review, and now we know exactly how long it will take you to get through.

How long is Cyberpunk 2077?

If you are rushing through the main storyline in Cyberpunk 2077, you can expect it to last you about 30 hours. This number can increase to around 40 hours if you are doing side missions fairly regularly. Should you want to see everything the game has to offer, you are looking at a much, much higher figure.

For comparison, the aggregate site How Long To Beat estimates that it will take you around 50 hours to beat The Witcher 3 if you are focused only on the main story, with dozens more hours if you are seeing everything in the game.

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Early on in Cyberpunk 2077, there’s a series of side quests that has you tracking down rogue taxis run by faulty AI. You have to talk one of the taxis down from suicide as it contemplates driving off a bridge, while another needs to be brute-forced into behaving, and a third is an obvious reference to a famous video game AI that manipulates you as you chase it down. It’s one of the best minor questlines in the game, an intriguing and surprisingly human substory that rewards you with lots of much-needed cash. It’s also an excuse to send you to every corner of Night City, a clever introduction to all the areas you haven’t yet been.

I spent a lot of my playtime following side-quest threads like this one, excited about the premise and hoping to find something as interesting or fun or rewarding at the end and, in many cases, I did. But now, after finishing the main story, I can’t see how most of those activities fit into the overall narrative or the character I was playing. The main story doesn’t even gel with itself.

Cyberpunk 2077 draws heavily from its source material, with everything from the world itself to the life and death of Johnny Silverhand coming from its pen-and-paper inspiration. But unlike in a tabletop RPG, you aren’t playing a role of your own creation in Cyberpunk 2077; you’re playing V, and this is V’s story, not yours. I often felt like I was role-playing two different characters: one V for the side quests and one more limited V for the main story.

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El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron will be released on Steam. The information was shared by developer Sawaki Takeyasu on Twitter, and no date is currently attached to the apocryphal action game’s PC release. El Shaddai was previously only available on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Originally released in 2011, El Shaddai received praise for its creative abstract design and dialogue. The game roughly follows the protagonist Enoch and his mission to stop the destruction of mankind. Throughout his journey, he beats up demons, finds fallen angels, and meets multiple archangels like Michael and Gabriel.

Along with platform elements, the gameplay includes a sophisticated and yet deceptively simple combat system. There’s only one button for attacking, and two others for blocking and jumping. With a sparse combat toolkit, timing and positioning become crucial in late-stages of the game.

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With games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, it’s become somewhat common to expect big AAA releases to require a significant portion of your hard drive for installation. But not only is Medal of Honor: Above and Beyond just a VR-compatible title, it somehow requires even more than what has become standard.

The PC requirements for Respawn’s latest title are steep, so much so that even PC’s capable of handling Valve’s Half-Life: Alyx earlier this year might have some issues. It seems like listing an RTX 2080 as the minimum GPU is where the spec sheet reaches its most ridiculous, but it’s the storage requirements that are a real eyebrow-raiser.

Above and Beyond will ultimately require 177GB for its install, but in order to begin the installation in the first place, you’ll need 340GB free. According to Polygon, the game will need nearly double of its resolving install size to unpack assets, with developer Respawn assuring players that subsequent patches will not take the overall size much higher.

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