I took the life path of the Nomad & the game really shaped around it nicely. My character developed into a jack of all but good at shooting stuff & making stuff - with a sideline in hacking. The ending I chose was apparently the “nicest” one but each one is very different
Merits of game:
Incredible canvas. Night City is immense with always something happening. Whether you be strolling along a polluted beach, or exploring the hi rises of corporate city & its parks. Or just driving in the badlands on your bike.
Also the tech - so many toys & guns to play with. Combat is always diverse & opponents generally level well. Has to be said though, your game is infinitely simpler with a sniper rifle & supporting perks.
Script is great, whilst some plot lines trip over each other the stories are always compelling: what is humanity & self seems to sit at core.
Flaws:
Side jobs are often incredibly important to main plot development. Whereas some side jobs are utterly irrelevant: there is literally no clue as to which is which & what order to take them.
And if you don’t do side jobs, it is likely not only you will have a hard time, the worst game ending but a very short experience. I would suggest you could probably speed run core story in sub 30 hours.
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I am, you know, kinda in awe of fact that the more I hear from Sunak the more it becomes apparent he is even more disconnected from being able to engage with the public in a normal way
Approximately 40% of the UK are facing panic stations on their month to month or week to week finances. There are “literal heat or eat” conversations going on. Food bank use is soaring.
My dude, “silly” would get you stabbed in this context if you used it.
Building another Twitter probably is not that hard. It’s not overly complex as a platform.
Getting people to brand it, support it and use it is the almost impossible part.
The actually impossible bit is making everyone believe it could make lots of money.
The thing I’ve learned from lots of hard years of doing cool tech stuff in one of the most lucrative sectors is that people fundamentally want technology to be free “just because” and you have to make software for very little, graft hard to meet expectations then build user base
For years you will be told by some clients you are always wrong, even when evidence is to contrary. Clients will excuse their own staff ineptitude as “a bug” & lie about affordability & value of your software
Something that seems to escape lots of people is that the average household income in the UK is actually not that big:
And that when they go all “I’m not rich, it’s nonsense, I work hard for this money” what you are lacking is not hard work, but fucking perspective on just how far ahead you are of others.
And as always, in the weeds of ONS data are some quite horrible aspects to think about with the new levels of inflation:
Poorest People have been struggling for a long time now
Setup a short message social media business with a purple toucan as its logo & call it “Tweeter” for just $1bn and spend the rest of the money on housing & getting seriously fucked up
Reckon with $20bn I could buy a couple of really nice tower blocks in London then rent them out to under 30s & really piss off the landlords as I charge incredible reasonable rents thus knocking the arse out of the market place
And with the other $20bn or so give Hunter S Thompson a run for his money on the definition of “gonzo journalism”