Why Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the Most Immersive games EVER MADE
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- Cyberpunk is full of details you've never seen or considered. Let's talk about that.
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00:00 (Secret Details in Cyberpunk & Intro)
01:05 (Leave a Comment: I wanna talk!)
01:34 (The Effort of the Little Details)
02:58 (Driving in Night City & The Details of Cars)
05:01 (The Music of Cyberpunk 2077)
07:48 (Gameplay Mechanics as Immersion)
15:28 (How the Narrative of Cyberpunk 2077 is Immersive)
21:31 (Narrative in Cyberpunk - Phantom Liberty Spoilers)
29:18 (How the Story of Cyberpunk Culminates to Make a Genuine Experience)
30:48 (Please Leave Feedback!)
The gameplay shown is modded, however, none of the mods change any of the topics discussed.
The main ones you may notice are a change in HUD colour as well as more pedestrians/cars (and the ability to fly so I could get some B-roll!) I can drop a list for those who either wish to have the same as me or are curious about my transparency. [edit:] WHERE THE HELL DID Y'ALL COME FROM THIS IS MY FIRST UPLOAD
Yeah a mod list would be great. Thanks!
Dude, I watch A LOT of Cyberpunk content and TH-cam recommended your video as soon as I logged on. I'd imagine most of us experienced the same lol
I dunno, man. YT just shoved it in my face and I'm a sucker for Cyberpunk 2077 content that's not patch notes, tier lists, or challenge runs.
I would love to see your mod list, your game looks very good.
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List:
Nova LUT 2 - Supernova
Appearance change unlocker
Appearance Menu mod
Crowd E3 Restored
Enable Raytracing Player Reflection - RTRP
Equipment - EX
Freefly 2.3 (for camera shots)
Immersive Cyberpunk City 2.1
Immersive Rippers
Immersive Timeskip
Improved Radio
Metro System
Modular Military Accessories Pack 1 - Universal
Native Settings UI
NC Fashion Virtual Atelier
No Intro Videos
No More Hard-Coded Keybinds (lets you do "Astonishing" crowd size)
Nova Crowds, CET - Randomized Crowds and Increased Density, Nova Crowds
Photo Mode Unlocker
Ragdoll Physica Overhaul 2.0 BETA - Main File
Simple Flashlight
Simple Menu
Spicy HUDs 2.2
Unlock NightCity
Vanilla Clothes Atelier Store
Virtual Atelier
and all the required mods those mods have!
An additional badass mod is "Veegee X Efgrank Cyborg Skull Mask - Both V" which just looks dope. I also recommend Immersive First Person, but I disabled it for this footage /just in case/ it was what was causing the scanner ad read, I didn't want to mislead anyone!
My God, over 1,200 hours sunk into this game and I had no idea about the extended ads that show up when you scan them. Great job, nice conversational style.
Same, I have almost 2,000 hours and only noticed it the other day, just before finding this video.
3.3k hours here, didn't know that either lol
Same
I have 600 hours and I thought I was odd.
Glad that there was still something I could share with you!
I think the saddest thing is, after building this amazing environment to play in, we only have one DLC. I would have loved to see many more for such a detailed map.
I know, they at least had concepts for the moon and casino dlc.
I assume a lot of the scrapped stuff may end up in the next game, in 10 years😭
They are working on another full game. Another stand alone story. Probably 2030ish
This is surprisingly good for your first video
@@beepbeep7949 first of this kind, anyways, but thank you! A lot of love went into it :)
If I remember correctly, the celebrity Takemura gets mistaken for also appears in the Black Diamond in Phantom Liberty and V can speak to them and mention they have a friend that looks like them.
yep absolutely. just did that yesterday haha
The best thing about the Takemura gag is that you can meet the comedian Take-San was mistaken for in Jigjig Street at Hanson's party in Dogtown. A missable detail referring to another missable detail, just brilliant!
I didn't know that, dang!
Can also find a poster of hideo near fingers, and when you interact v mentions goro
#TheyWereChoomates is fucking killing me, good vid hope to see more
@@luketurnbull5100 I was hoping someone would appreciate it 😂
As you ask in the opening, I had no idea about the additional info on the ads. What a nice nugget of info that reveals what catches attention to the people who populate the world, or at least what they are being told they need by the groups that govern their lives.
100%!! And it makes sense that that would be a way that they'd advertise -- focusing on the imagery of their ad primarily and giving the details for those with augmented eyes, which would be a solid chunk of the population, I'd assume!
I'll add two points here:
1. CDPR are great at expressing the main character's interest in doing their quests. In all the witchers and in the cyberpunk, your character has a real, human motivation to do what he/she is supposed to do. Take fallout 4, for example: my son is missing, fuck that, I gonna build settlements. That's a major immersion-breaking point. In cyberpunk, V really has to do all those quests, and we, as players, feel connected to our character, because we'd do something similar in those circumstances.
2. I love how the game constantly reminds us about our decisions via text messages. No way you'll forget what you've done, because other characters will remind you via their texts
@@ВячеславФролов-д7я been a while since I played the Witcher (and I only played 3), but that's a great observation! (And so is the other one)!
Texting in games oftentimes feels tacked-on, and while this one could be called that, I do feel like there's more effort than most, especially just because you can directly partake in text conversations as well
I don’t need a 30+ minute video to tell me the best game is the best game🥴
would it help if I told you that my rehearsals only brought me to 21-ish minutes? 😛
Killed it dude
I eventually want to make a video about my observations and opinions on cyberpunk but im shy as hell lmao
Love the video mate keep at it.
What always takes me out most about the NUSA clinic ending is the last time talking to Johnny in the AV.
Plus any time I hear Never fade away..
Yeah, going back to it just to record the scene was tough, I don't think it'll ever /not/ hit me in the feels
Good video and hoping to see more in the future. The depressing thing about the PL ending, is that it answers Dex's question at the start "Would you rather live in peace as Mr. Nobody, die ripe, old and smelling slightly of urine? Or go down for all times in a blaze of glory, smelling near like posies, without seeing your thirtieth?"
Even though there is a hope that V could continue their life, maybe become a fixer, a lot of people would rather a different ending (Star ending, or even Sun) where V's life is shortened, but ironically, not as bleak.
Side note: My favorite line of dialog is from Skye/Angel at Clouds, "You have been keeping up. You've made an impact. Not a single thing in this world isn't in the process of becoming something else, likewise, you never look back. If you gotta kill, kill. If you gotta burn it all to the ground, then let it burn."
Absolutely! I think tonally it is basically one of the most fitting endings - that and "The Sun". Good call!
And yeah, there's some great lines in the game I actually have written down and or have used at times myself. For those truly wanting to pay attention, there's a lot of impact in the writing!
The PL ending isn't one of my favorites but I always headcanoned that V still has plenty of options even after that. Like specifically I was male nomad V for my first PL run, and I was like there's no shot V isn't tearing across the desert after Panam, doesn't matter how big the "no" Mitch gave was.
Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the greatest games ever made, EVER. Anytime video games comes up in conversations I will always recommend it.
There isn’t anything better than hopping in your car and turning the jazz station on
Great video! Pretty much summed up why this game captivated me for so long and inspired my own creative endeavors. Haven't played Phantom Liberty yet, since my computer can't handle it and no next gen console, but one day I will. Hopefully soon. This game, it's world, the characters and stories that inhabit it, really shows the breadth of the human experience and how no matter how shitty things are, somehow we keep going, hoping that things will get better. Just like V.
Keep up the great work! You already show great promise and style. Can't wait for more!
@@professorkittyhawk yeah, this is truly a game that feels constantly engaging while not being overwhelming, and almost motivating in a way!
I hope to deliver on what seems to be promised!
Also for your first video this is great quality, good lenght without too much bloat, I'd definitely watch more videos like this, about cyberpunk or other games. Keep it up!
Thanks! This video was longer than I intended (my rehearsals were about 24m long) but I really enjoyed making it!
@CallumHowISeeEm perfect lenght for watching during dinner :p
even though it is a single player game, the little details of the game make you feel so immersive that you find many creative ways to spend your time, many times without realizing it I am playing a different role, I can go from being a ruthless killer to a very careful pacifist, depending on my mood, sometimes I play a super hero, or a corrupt cop, or a ninja, or sometimes just a professional photographer hunting for the best shot... Another thing that gives immersion is the decisions you make, you can miss part of the story if you make a bad decision, and the other characters really do their job well in making you feel bad for making a bad decision.
I actually just started my first playthrough of cyberpunk and I've sunk in about 48 hours. I'm a huge sucker for story and lore (been playing FFXIV for 10 years. haha) and I had to skip some of your video,(spoiler free :P ) but I must say, the immersion is one of the reasons I'm enjoying my playthrough and taking my time. I find myself thinking about Night City a lot! The game feels more than just a game because of all the points you have said so far. Congrats on the first video! Hope to see more!
Hopefully you also got Phantom Liberty as it's even higher quality than just the Base Game.
Hopefully the things I didn't spoiler-warn weren't too spoiler-y! Looking forward to your thoughts when you've played more of the game :)
@@georgekn3mp I did!!
So happy people are still making new Cyberpunk content! Keep it up choom
Happy to contribute to it! This channel will dabble in Cyberpunk several times, I'm sure, and I really wanted to start with this topic because I really grew to appreciate this game so much in my playthroughs with my new PC!
This is how you start a channel the right way. Awesome video dude. Curious how big your channel is going to become and hopefully you make more Cyberpunk content
Been playing for the first time since pre 2.0 and i gotta say, its so emotional, fun, immersive, and exciting. Moreso than many games ive played. And it made me watch both blade runner films which just sent me into a philosophical cyber-spiral of awesome storytelling.
I only watched the Blade Runner films for the first time in 2024, but man were they good! Definitely solidifies my enjoyment of the Cyberpunk genre
It's been a while to find a channel at ground level this is awesome!
Very ground level 😅 idk where everyone came from but now I feel more justified in making these videos in my spare time lol
Highly entertaining and professional for your first vid. Thought you've been doing this for awhile. Good delivery and analysis. Subscribed.
Commenting to bump your video, awesome for the first work! With love from Russia!
Love to see the continuous love this game is getting. Since 3 months I haven't been able to get off it . Sure, sometimes I have busier weeks and I can barely play. and usually that'd make me halt put a playthrough on hold or even abandon + restart another time when I can go all in again, but nope, I just wanna stick with it. Everything's so immersive that it feels like you wanna see how everything ends.
W vid.
I'm really glad that the anime and the constant effort of the devs to not give up on it paid off for them. Even though the game did have a bad launch, I loved it since launch, and I'm glad it is officially "Mostly positive" on Steam now! It's a very addicting game once you start a playthrough!
bought the game a few days ago on sale and literally was thinking how immersive the game feels and haven't felt bored while doing anything.
also great first vid!
enjoy your hundreds of hours of time wasted!
so true about the driving aspect, i usually drive too. when heading to dogtown i also sometimes parked my fancy car outside and the changed to a shabby car to enter dogtown lol
rite of passage soundtrack is my absolute fave. the i think it's a cello? is so haunting.. at this point you're so deep in the story and the whole world i just sat for a min and was like.. damn this game really hits hard
Really well paced video, can't find fault in it, love the memes. My cyberpunk fix currently is reading Neuromancer and watching videos like this one, until I can get a PS5 Pro for another replay
You can thank the person that helped edit some of those in, Left! She's in the description :)
I hope when you finally get that replay in that you thrive in your playthroughs! Well my old rig with a 1070 allowed me to experience and enjoy the game, I'll admit that having my new beefy PC absolutely changed the way I experienced the game -- even areas of the map I had memorized were foreign to me!
Dam dude, if this really is your first ever video then I salute you. This was interesting and fun to listen to and watch with good editing and a laugh here and there. Points came across clear and well and can hear your genuine enthusiasm for the game. Top stuff dude, would love to hear more from you on cyberpunk 👏🏻 keep improving with practice and time and you’ll have some quality content imo 👌🏻
“Oh my gahd, they were choomates”
Rite of passage it’s soooo heavy and dense it creeps me out but I love it
I don't think I've ever played a game with such a specific vibe of music but still with such an impactful and varied range. I couldn't stop thinking about it when I did my recent playthrough. Everything is so on point with the score, the team really out-did themselves!
@@CallumHowISeeEm Depends on the generation. Cyberpunk is amazing and I love every track. But there were many outstanding composers in the past. Frank Klepacki and his scores for Westwood. Simon Viklund and Payday 2. Not to mention people like Nobuo Uematsu or Akira Yamaoka.
But Cyberpunk deserves its place in the Hall of Fame.
Wow great video especially for a first vid. Editing choices also great, nice one mate.
It’s funny you discuss the 2 endings that are the only ones I’ve played through. Arasaka first, then the Langley ending. The Langley ending’s final scenes lost quite a bit of gravitas when the camera finally shifts and you can see V… and he was naked. As he walks away into the crowd, fated to become just another anonymous face in the crowd… he was butt-nekkid, strolling like a boss. Lol 😂😂😂
Excellent first video! Well done, choom. 👊
Night city is one of the most well written main characters in a video game
That's a great way of putting it
This was the game I played the most last year and I'm still figuring out new things 😂😂😂
Once I was walking along a balcony I’d climbed up to in Dog Town and walked passed this homeless looking woman, as she passed she said something cryptic in a strange tone of voice so I turned around to look at her and her eyes were burning blue and she says something like, “we’ve been watching you V, we know who you are”. I think she also mentioned Jefferson Paralez but I don’t remember exactly what she said. Only happened to me once in one play through but it was really chilling.
Ok, the things you are observing
1- the ads in the game comes from the film "minority report" (which is inspired by the cyberpunk genre), where the Tom Cruise character Anderson has his eyes removed, to avoid retina scan recognition and as his character is bombarded with targeted ads as he walks through the railway station.
2- the music is a significant part of the background of the RTG- TTRPG, and it's designer Mike Pondsmith had a big influence in the feel of the computer game. So "Rockerboy" is a character type in that game and the music scene of the world is an important part of the background written by Mike Pondsmith - Silverhand and Eurodyne are major NPCs he created in CP2020, so these characters being part of the game, hints to the world building history of the background.
3- Narrative world building is all covered in the background data provided by the TTRPG, the slang terms of the world comes from the TT game as do the corporations, the politics and history.
So I think you probably need to look at the Cyberpunk Wiki and get a deeper dive into the background of the game.
This is a really, really good first video. I hope your sub count does nothing but grow.
That's really nice to say 😅 lord knows this more than 60X'd my expectations!
Bro this is a great video. If this is your first video then your destined for 1 million + subscribers 😁 keep up the good work from you friend a.k.a subscriber 28 👍
@@brunofeitosa5733 I'm not sure if I'll get that big (and that's kinda scary to think about) but thank you very much! I hope to keep delivering good stuff people enjoy 🤍
The fact that you have to betray Songbird and she loses her identity as a result to get the Tower ending makes it extra spicy karma that it happens to V in return.
Yupp. The writing never lets you have a 1:1 win, even when you make the tough choices. Even, for example, Judy's reaction in the Sun ending makes you feel bad about doing what you're doing, even if you know that you're going to die anyways. Superbly morose!
@@CallumHowISeeEm Life is bittersweet. The question is what sweetness do you seek and what bitterness can you endure?
I feel you on the driving vs fast travel even if the marker is close, they designed this game well. You drive even when it’s close because you might need ur car again for a further drive, and it’s more convenient to bring it with than to walk back to it or call for it again thru the traffic. And if there’s a further drive after you reached ur marker you’re not gonna fast travel and sit behind a load screen when you still might need ur car again which no pun intended, drives the gameplay loop. Throw in the immersive atmosphere and nice traffic and boom you’re just immersed off game mechanics alone 🎉
Wow seriously? You come across very professional for doing this kind of video essay for the first time! I'm very biased as a Cyberpunk fan, but this is a good watch! I don't know about gonk, but choom is from an African dialect (idk what country) choombata, it means friend. First I heard of it was the TTRPG.
Thanks! I'm trying to incorporate my personal preference for casual and colloquial discussion of points with dissecting games as an art rather than just a piece of intellectualism. But honestly, much like my channel description, I just wanna talk about things that interest me, like this! I'm glad you enjoyed it and I hope you stick around for more :)
2000 hours into the game and didnt knew about the adds... Night city is truly the city of dreams
I think it'd help if it was on every/most ads, but the fact that it is only some of them does make it missable. I'd like to see if there's rhyme or reason for it, but I'm not sure if there is
They also invented 4 distinct design languages for the game - Kitsch, Neo Kitsch, Neomilitarism and Entropism and these shape a lot of the game's architecture and fashion. After a while you can tell what kind of district you are entering based on the clothes that crowd npc's are wearing.
Also the street signs are accurate (although if driving it can be hard to see them, especially at speed). I don't know if this is a bug, but if you enter photomode, the street signs turn into adverts. Whether it is or it isn't, I have my own personal dystopian head cannon for it.
Dude for your first video this is actually amazing, it’s clear you have videomaking talent and I can def see ur channel taking off, definitely subscribing
you're too kind! And I owe it to my inspirations and my previous experiences as well, but I admit I didn't expect having to get several hours of B-Roll lol
This was in my recommended, great video, i subbed, looking forward to more!
To add to the takemura being recognised thing, at Kurt Hansen's party you can find the guy that takemura was mistaken for and tell him he looks just like your friend takemura!
Now that you mention that I think I vaguely remember doing that, but I'm not sure 😅 really cool interaction either way!
i liked the part about cyberpunk i found it dynamic and compelling
Huh
@ 2 choices pal, sugma or ligma
There was a moment when I was taking a look at the environment and spotted one of those janky disposable gun vendors and not 10 feet away was a big blood splatter. Its such a small detail but it was that moment I realized how in depth the environmental storytelling was in this game
15:00 Funny enough, this was also a thing in Morrowind. Many missions would tell you to come back after an amount of time has passed, or after you've gained enough levels in some skills or character level. The game basically just tells you "do some side missions now".
That's something that Oblivion lost to a great deal, and just dropped in Skyrim.
Oh, and nearly all the slang came from the TTRPG.
This is actually quite good! I was kinda distracted at first by your non hand held mic, with a logo taped on it.But still I got immersed (haha) in your message. The editing and quality and effort is noticable, like, very good examples of the music fitting the moment of the game..... I didnt have time for 30 minutes. But you definately passed my screentest! Subbed!
this is a cool video. be fun to see more of you in the future
I hope I can deliver!
I totally agree. I also have 100s of hours in the game because it´s so beautiful and the art and environment so captivating you just want to drive and experience the ambiance of city or the desert, which motivates you to do side missions even if they seem boring.
The devs even made the experience of sitting in a car and watching city life go by an experience. It´s truely amazing and imo one of the best roleplaying games ever made. Can´t wait for the next cyberpunk game, because this is an incredible IP.
Would be awesome if you´re playing Johnny Silverhand(with keanu Reeves voice acting) in the next one and you have V in your head this time and have to find him a body lol
I remember playing cyberpunk on patch 1.61 and net-runners hack you too. Back then they spam overheat more often, but you can buy cybernetic upgrade, that make you immune to fire damage.
I'm not quite sure when my last playthrough was before Phantom Liberty, but it had been a while, so its possible it was added prior. But either way, imagine the look on my face when I start seeing "Overheat" getting applied to my character for the first time 😂😂
The one thing I like about Cyberpunk 2077 is the dialogue, the characters when they talk to you they feel like real people, they move like real people, you can clearly see their reaction either with their bodies or their faces and is way better in the phantom liberty expansion, most games that are first person don't do that, they just give you a static camera and the npc talking to you feels lifeless because they just stay in one place while they talk, there are some games with amazing facial animation but they still lack in the expression of the bodies they always choose to have the conversation with the player while standing in place, another game I think that does it like Cyberpunk is the Metro games
You touched on a lot of the reasons why I think this is hands down the most immersive game I think I've played. There are so many small details in the game that you may not notice but just feel natural. Things like how in dialog scenes NPCs will hand you things, or make you a drink. Or how in the first Peralez mission his wife will make him a drink while he sits on the couch across from you, then she'll come up behind him and hand it to him, sit on the back of the couch and put her hand on his shoulder. There's random side gigs, like one in Phantom Liberty, where you're asked if you were tailed. You kind of say no, but if you're paying attention you can see Johnny appear next to some suspicious looking dude who shows up after you sit down. How various side gig stories can, if you're paying attention and catch it, tie into an overall much larger plot indicating something big is going on behind the scenes. Big players are moving, completely unrelated to you, and you can completely miss the evidence of it. There's just *so much* stuff. As rocky as a launch as the game had, a lot of this stuff was there in the beginning too. I've done many play throughs, different endings, looked into a ton of lore. I had no idea the ads did this as well lol.
Seriously one of my favorite RPGs. I really hope they pull off the second game, but I'm a bit concerned since they're apparently handing it off to another studio of theirs in Boston I think it was.
For sure! There's a lot of elements in the game that I didn't touch on, especially the fact that "big players are moving, completely unrelated to you". I want to bring that up if/when I revisit the game for a future video!
How is this your first video?!?! It’s so good. You really hit the points that I love about Cyberpunk. I’m on my 3rd play-through finally as a Corpo. This game is truly unlike anything I’ve ever played. I love how CDPR still puts out updates and made it one of the best games of recent times! My only 10/10 so far.
Can't wait for Orion
I'm looking forward to seeing how different it is and how similar it is -- I wonder if one could even compare the games, given that it will be in a different engine and a different presentation
Make a part two.
@@CalvinX I have a couple video plans before revisiting Cyberpunk, but it's definitely on the list!
In the meantime, I do have a Short going out ideally in the next while that will showcase a small aspect of world building most players won't have seen!
To your point about the end credits, just like your friends will call you in the end credits, you can call Jackie after the Heist. I love that V will leave the same kind of message for Jackie that they leave for V. It's great foreshadowing, but I only just made that connection.
great first video man
One thing about the PL ending, with Johnny. If you're in a good place with Johnny, he'll actually be happy knowing that you get to live, and he will act like that during your final dialogue in the transport, but if you don't do his quests and you are not on good terms with him, he'll be pissy about the situation.
The enviroment and worldbuilding is what kept people interested in CP despite its very rough launch. And it also showed that a believeable like in GTA5 takes alot of little details to just work right.
Now CP is a game like Witcher3, its so big and has so many details that I will probabaly never see them all :)
Even when I was flying around the city to get B-Roll for this video I found some great spots, including a location I'm going to show off in a short!
I have played over 500 hours of this game and never knew this. Its amazing the more I play the more new stuff I find. The only other games that ever feel this immersive ate GTA, WD’s 1/2, and Witcher 3.
I "discovered" the game 2 or so years ago on PS5. I avoided because I was no fan of 1st person games..but I was so bored with GTA & Red Dead that I needed something new. Since then I've amassed a combined 1700 hours in numerous playthrus. I loved it so much that the next logical step was buying a high end PC and experiencing the game in its greatest form and gaining the ability to use mods. I have found no other game since that is so immersive. There is so much to see and do that it has yet to get boring for me and Im not sure it will. Phantom Liberty was a stroke of pure genius...however CDPR stating they'd move on after was a total bummer. With recent events Im secretly hoping they've maybe changed their minds and are working on one more expansion (or farming that work out to another studio). Im just not ready for the experience to end and Im a tiny bit apprehensive they'll achieve the level of immersion in the second installment they did on the first one. A lot of turnover in that studio since!
I do think the next game will have its concessions, whether due to being on Unreal 5 or trying to make sure things work properly than make as an amazing of a world as they did with this one, but I don't doubt that there will be immersive experiences to come!
I just started playing it recently, doing my blind first playthrough and i have to say i nearly feel like im playing VR just looking at my tv
Quiet life or go out in a blaze of glory? I have done both, the Tower ending where you lose everything but your life, and The Sun ending where you become a Legend in Night City but you aren't cured.
Both endings are completely different and each one hits you differently, right in the feelies.
Both are bittersweet in different ways as you play to the end.
The Phantom Liberty unique endings are really well done, depending on who you betray or which decision you made.
The 3+ hours of music is spectacular, and the different ending credits songs are powerful.
Best game for me in this decade, I have poured over 1000 hours in rhe game and still haven't seen everything yet.
Not to even mention how much better the game looks after DLSS 4 rolled out even for users with 20-series cards. I feel no pressure to upgrade from my 4090 to a 5090 for now as the graphics are already top-notch.
I can wait until the 60- series cards come out to maybe upgrade. Depends on the general uplifts in graphics quality in the next 5 years.
Absolutely, this game's writing and direction are masterclasses! I upgraded from a 1070 to a 4070 super and it was so dramatic I literally didn't recognize most areas and actually teared up at how beautiful the game can look 😅
Good video. I enjoyed this breakdown. Keep at it.
yessir! o7
i really want to explore night city in VR with high quality graphics
Chill vid Choom.
Very nice vid and interesting topic. Thought I'll just take a little sneak peek before going to bed but ultimately watched the whole video :D
CP77 is kind of underrated game in my opinion.
Sorry for keeping you up, but I'm also really flattered I had that effect!
The game is in a weird spot of being underrated in some of its aspects (like how I think it being in first-person all the time is overall a good thing for the immersion) but it did get rightly flamed at launch, and even some features that should have been in much sooner taking time to release. But at the end of the day, I've been a believer since Day 1 and am happy that general consensus has turned around!
@ yep, “in a weird spot” describes the game very well. It is overhyped and same time underrated. I waited for the game since first teaser trailer which was showed 13-ish years ago? And its really hard to express what I felt when it released (I even bought new GPU). I played long enough at start to appreciate great story and atmosphere, but game mechanics did not make sense. Performance weren’t terrible but it was mediocre. After some time I just dropped it and accepted that the game was in fact unfinished and well we just have to wait.
I started a new playtrough recently and oh boy it feels great. Its not perfect in any means, but its still a masterpiece. I havent completed it yet but im already amazed and have forgot about real life.
22:04 have you noticed that in Phantom Liberty ending Rouge has a black "X" instead of "SURVIVE" on her chest? Hints that survival at whatever cost isn't the utlimate life goal after all...
@@jbal5468 I actually missed that inference, though I did notice the change. Good catch!
ts is fire, please keep making videos dude
I'll do my best! Just wish they didn't take so long to make lol
What i really liked in Cyberpunk is when there is a scene with conversation or smth - despite you playing as first person, you can see gestures of v, things v does with hands and legs like sitting cross-legged etc
21:49 - You can straight up do this for Jackie. Try giving him a call sometime.
Great first video. Love video essays like this. I always watch content like this, especially on games that I love. I probably have 1000 hours in CP and I swear im still seeing new areas of NC. Thats why its so immersive, there is just so much to see. On the other hand GTA5 there is almost nothing to see outside of facades. And it all looks so average, almost every location in CP is so unique and interesting.
I've found myself down a rabbit hole of video essays over 2024 and had the goal of this channel being my humble contribution to the space, happy to see that apparently it is! And definitely, it feels like every individual alley has something in it for the player to experience, that you can miss after 1000s of hours of playing!
I'd say that GTAV probably gets a pass in the fact that it is an old game by now and what it did have was quite technically impressive for its time. I have no doubt that Rockstar will be introducing elements to enhance the immersion of the world in GTAVI! I just wish it came out on PC initially because I'd love to make a video on it lol
3:39 I've used fast travel less that 10 times throughout my many playthroughs of cyberpunk. cyberpunk has such a pretty and exciting to explore world that is so beautifully made and I'm disappointed its not talked about more. Game devs across the world should use cyberpunk of a prime example of great open world design
I'm playing it in VR now and holy cow, being and driving in that world is unbelievable.
Gteat video, I really enjoyed it.❤
the section about the soundtrack got me hyped up
Once I heard "Never Looking Back" I knew I'd never forget it.
Regarding the voicemail you get at the end of the game… you can call Jackie and if you do (I called by accident) V will leave him a message about what he they have been up to, and you can keep calling him and leaving messages as you go through the game.
Charter hill is one of my favorite places to walk around in in night city. Relatively small area, but i absolutely love the vibes there. City center is a very close 2nd. And man do i lament over the fact that they cut so much content when it comes to enterable buildings are verticality. That's the only thing that has me excited for cyberpunk's sequel, a better and more immersive night city
So many places to see, so little time! I wish there was more enterable places, too, but looking at the amazing detail and immersion just in the environments you /can/ go into is crazy! I'm a bit reserved on my expectations for the world of Cyberpunk 2, but I'm also just trying to avoid getting my hopes up in the case that my heart is crushed lol
For a first video you're really fuckin' good, amazing all around!
Thanks so much! I hope that I can hit close to this standard (or surpass it) every time!
Walk up to a random NPC and start a conversation. They are empty and purposeless and kill immersion. The NPCs in RDR2 actually have routines: they wake up, go to work, go home and go to sleep. You can follow them and observe while they live their lives.
The best decision i made to immerse myself further into this game is turning the map and hipfire retical off. Unless you're using the rasetsu or arm grenades of course. It kind of makes those useless but otherwise it's really fun
Honestly, allot of these things contribute to immersion, but on their own don't create immersion. What I mean by that is you can watch a movie that doesn't have any of these things, and still be completely immersed into it, because the very most important thing for immersion is interest, if something doesn't interest you in the slightest, you will not be immersed.
There's a reason why you love driving in Cyberpunk and find it boring in GTA 5, because the GTA 5 map IS boring, it's just current day Los Angeles, something that already isn't very interesting design wise, with a degree of realism that makes it hard to really care about small details because they're so prevalent your brain can't process all of them, especially when you're already uninterested to begin with.
Cyberpunk on the other hand transports you into a completely novel world that oozes with "cool" and everything about it just looks awesome, so you don't even have to look at the small details because the complete picture is already fresh and interesting, and THAT creates immersion.
And it is when you are already immersed that you start looking closer and noticing all these small details in the world, that act exactly like they should and push the realism of the experience so much further and ADD to the immersion, making it feel closer and closer to reality, and that is where Cyberpunk is excellent. I truly think that if it was a VR game with a good control scheme and a better open world sandbox, people would be addicted.
Definitely! These are elements that contribute (and aren't even remotely all of the elements that do), but they're also elements that have been tuned to the max for immersion. They could have half-assed the soundtrack, script, or details so long as the facade was strong enough to be immersive, but they didn't, and that's neat!
I have every intention of making a video in the future talking about what actually makes "immersion", and what the difference between immersion and realism is, but I just wanted to start with this lil' project :)
@@CallumHowISeeEm Yep, I really hope they will do even better with the next Cyberpunk, I don't expect it, but I still hope so lol
And I wish you the best of luck for your coming videos, I will sub and keep a watch out because I love this topic :)
@@BxPanda7 I think there will be parts that will be better, and parts that will be worse. Overall, probably seen as an improvement, but not without concessions!
Thanks! Not all will be on Cyberpunk or specific immersion topics like this, but I'm really thankful for all the love this video received -- there's more comments here (including my own, to be fair) than I expected views!
@ You nailed the title and thumbnail, youtube got better at recommending smaller channels, but most importantly, it's a good video that kept me watching until the end, the perfect combination to get views, keep at it and you'll hit 10k subs in no time !
Funny how you actually looked up the word “indefatigable”, yet still managed to get the stress wrong 😊
In-de-FA-ti-ga-ble, my dude 😊
This is a great first video. You earned a subscriber.
I just started my 10th playthrough to try out the new Nvidia settings.
Neon Haze is Rihanna and TELO$ is Asap Rocky 🦾
LOVE the hud colour choice!
Nice takes too; keen to see your takes on other stuff now. What are your thoughts on doing similar videos for Arkane's stuff prior to Redfall, like Dishonored and Prey?
There were a few options with the mod but this felt super clean (and is also why my mic is pink)!
It's a tantalizing topic! I'm not quite sure where I'm gunna take the channel for a bit (I have video ideas, but don't know what will end up being made) but I like the idea of going back through some games or publishers! But I also work a 9-5 and playing through several longer games (and then getting the footage from them if I need extra) would be a chunk of time, so if I do something like that it'd probably take a few months to come out 😅
@@CallumHowISeeEm Well you've got a good schtick and some great insights, so hopefully this channel will take off and allow you support yourself :)
Only like 5 minutes in to your video but on the driving around GTAV vs 2077, I think there's two things that make driving in 2077 more fun:
1: Night City is just a beautiful place to look at. Tall buildings draped in neons, winding and bustling streets, chaotic highways, etc etc. Driving around Night City really just makes you want to look at the surroundings. Meanwhile GTAV is just... Los Angeles. And Los Santos isn't exactly the most interesting place to look at, with the rest of the island even less so.
2: The roads in Night City are far more engaging. As I mentioned before, they're very chaotic and don't really have the organized, grid-like flow that's in GTAV. Then in GTAV, when you're leaving Los Santos proper, there's really only 2 roads in and out of the city that you'll be driving through over and over and over again.
Immersion, if you think about it, is not just a result of what is in the world. It also comes about by the absence of certain things. Immersion is broken by things that jar, little things that make you go "wait, what?", things that don't belong, things that break the consistency of the world around you.
Everything in Cyberpunk 2077 just _makes sense!_ All the various city districts, and the areas outside of it, make sense on their own, but they are also connected to each other very fittingly. What you see in Pacifica belongs there, what happens in Dog Town all fits in its little mini-world. But together they also belong. The roads and metro lines connect them all in a very credible way, a way that mirrors what we could expect from a city that would be run like a money-making corporation. Or, well, several corporations. It has lore, it has backstories and it is all fully consistent with itself and it is _utterly believable!_
That is, I think, what gives CP2077 its incredible captivating power. It isn't real, obviously, it is a world in a computer game. But in some sense this world _IS_ real because its creators have gone above and beyond to make it credible!
I've got like 900ish hours in Cyberpunk and I never noticed the signs...🤯🤯
easy to miss, but once you notice it you do it at every ad to see what they may say!
I love Cyberpunk one of my all timers
Always liked any austen type video you will be blessed by algorithm ❤
The greenscreen-holding-the-mic recording is definitely better than the sitting-and--talking for this type of content, I feel! I feel honoured to even be compared lol
@@CallumHowISeeEm Don't undervalue yourself choom you will be there in no time just keep posting regularly
This is a good ass video choom no notes
Slang was def from the TTRPG. It is crazy how much of this world was created like 40 years ago even down to things like Choom. CDProjectRed still a lot to bring it to life obviously though. I'd also point out how great of a job they did with making sure Edgerunners was made very faithfully and then backfilling that into the game world.
I love GTA radio and at first I was a little disappointed with cyberpunk's radios. I loved all the sound tracks ... Just didn't like the radio as much. But then it grew on me and it did more than grew on me. I absolutely LOVE countless songs on the radio. I love the fictional Samurai band, I love all their songs. I love tons of songs and all of them are unique to the game. Only song that I truly absolutely despise is pon pon ... I cannot stand that song and I will likely mod it out of the fn game if that is possible when my 5080 arrives and I start a new playthrough lol
I like ponpon because it shows the range of things that came together to make Night City what it is, but I can see why it's annoying lol. When I streamed the game on release (on my old, now-defunct channel), my chat would pop off with pugPLS and stuff when it came on. But now when I listen to it, it can be a bit drab!
I didnt realize you could ping enemies until i was like 100 hours in and was playing my stealth runs on hard mode lol