Worked on Xbox. Played a couple hours this morning.

Where do you get that from the text? "on topics the reviewer didn't like" She indeed says those topics don't get adequately explored or contextualized, but not that she doesn't like them being in the game. Just that putting real world references into the game without using them correctly adds to the superficial feeling of the game.

"He can't "believe" that someone would bring other people cultures into the game that the developer/setting isn't a part of, as if that is something awful to do."

That's purely your interpretation, it's not stated anywhere in the review. Although the bad points section at the bottom adds the trigger word
"The incorporation of different cultures and backgrounds is wildly inconsistent, from good to inaccurate to downright offensive"
which is puzzling, since the offensive part isn't mentioned anywhere in the review itself. The good and inaccurate part making it inconsistent, that she addresses. I think the offensive part comes from the transgender add. "The result is that there's a fetishization of trans people at every turn, in a game with only one very minor trans character"

What it says about the game is, forget about the real world references, they won't help you get more immersed in the game since they are often used wrongly leading to misdirection. That's not a big problem, certainly not for those that don't even know what ofrenda and yukata mean, yet some Spanish and Japanese players might shake their head at the wrong use of words from their language. It's minor, but it subtracts from the immersion rather than adds to it. And that's what the game is about, providing an immersive, believable world to get lost in.


Anyway this is all very minor compared to the rumors of early footage on the base consoles. I saw a short clip of some gameplay, without the day one patch for sure, it was ugly, very ugly. That day one patch needs to perform miracles.

In my couple of hours with the game so far, I’ve twice had the game freeze for maybe three or four seconds. Haven’t noticed any other glitches or frame rate issues. Playing on my SX in performance mode.

Game already seems incredibly deep. There are so many options to customize an experience, combat is so good.

Isn't it the base ps4 game with Pro optimization for us Pro owners, I have been paying for around an hour no bugs so far.

A quick glance at early screenshots on Steam, people take crap screenshots...

It looks like the penis pictures are winning from the boob and vagina pictures, but there are also women with penis and men with vagina. The character creator seems a hit lol. Can't see much of the game between all the naked character models.

And the usual day one woes of course, installation issues to frequent crashes to lockup on startup to crackling audio. No clue how widespread. It's the norm nowadays with a new game release.

Seems like this game will live up to its hype. Unlike the other super hyped game this year..........

Runs at 15 fps on X1 and PS4, game is going to fail on consoles unless they get their shit together. CDproject the new Bethesda, pathetic really.

Game is amazing my 3080 hasn't ever run this hot. Think I might reinstall an exhaust fan I had above my GPU. Need to check temps first though and see if I need to even bother with it.

I spend so much time just walking around the city looking around slowly walking to my destination. Just amazing. Gunplay is much better than I thought it would be. I almost always go stealth for these games but I'm using guns this time around. I'll stealth a bit but once there's not to many people I'm going Rambo.

The game sold it's 8 million pre orders..... It is too big to fail I guess.

Anyway this cracked me up:

Wonder how many refunds? Anyway completely disrespectful and immoral to release a complete shit fest on consoles, just for the money. Probably blacklist the developer in the short term.