A Song Of Cyberpunk (The Jimquisition)
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Hey, did you hear about Cyberpunk? The game of the year, except the versions that are total junk!
It's a singin' Jimquisition this week as we take a look at the unbelievably humiliating week CD Projekt RED has endured since the incompetent release of Cyberpunk 2077. It's been quite an ordeal.
From bugs to takedowns to international appeasement, CDPR has managed to do to its credibility in a matter of days what most publishers take years to accomplish.
(Backing music for the song courtesy of Storyblocks/Bobby Cole. Lyrics written by Jim Sterling, feverishly in the middle of the night at random).
#Cyberpunk2077 #CDPR #Bugs #PC #PS5 #XboxSeriesX #XboxOne #PS4 #CDProjekt #JimSterling #ASongOfCyberpunk #Jimquisition #Music #RPG #Games #Gaming #Videogame
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I am so sorry if you see any ads on this video. In a move that should surprise nobody, the song was claimed falsely and ads have been intrusively added mid-video, vandalizing it. I apologize for TH-cam's existence, and would recommend you use adblock on all of my content.
Can't have ads defiling this masterpiece.
Never change TH-cam. Never change.
You shouldn't. We know & are just as pissed. You did great & I love what I'm seeing
Figures... youtubes a garbage fire.
Pootube
"CDPR's a tiny bit more cringe than this song"
I dunno what you're talking about. I genuinely enjoyed the song.
Same here. I thought it was one of if not the best of Jim's performances
ikr? That was really well done.
No kidding, Jim has some serious pipes he's been hiding from us this whole time! More songs please!
I immediately hit Like on the video the instant the song was over.. The song by itself was more than deserving the Like by itself..
I agree, it's bloody amazing!
"mate pass the aux cable"
"alright but you better not play trash"
Oh no, you played trash. :(
@@JimSterling You take that back! It was wonderful and clever and the delivery and visuals were phenomenal!
@@JimSterling It's just a little bit less cringe than CDPR
@@AtrociousNightmare aux doesn't transmit visuals lol
@@JimSterling It was...wait for it... quite the ANTHEM.
Sorry, no disrepect meant :(
Jim: "You all should be aware that a corporation isn't something you should stan"
Gamers: "but this one did a good game!"
Jim: "See you in a few months"
Works every time lmfao
I thought the whole 19 mins was going to be a song and thought, “Jim’s gone full Dream Theater!”
Oh my god, can you _imagine_ 19 minutes of Jim singing and spitting fire about Cyberpunk?!? Goddamn lol.
ROFL i thought the same
10 min. The rest is Justin's drum solo.
John Petrucci is a way better guitarist than Johnny Silverhand
I was SO hoping for that...
We now know that "running surprisingly well" means "we're surprised it's running at all"
I think they forgot the punctuation. It should read; "It's running, surprisingly. Well..."
@@Fenrir1 Works on contingency? No, money down!
Yes that is Lionel Hutz levels of double standards
@@Fenrir1 Nice. :-)
"it's running... surprisingly. well... lunch then?"
"No corporation is your friend, especially the ones that say they are." Well said.
It takes a lifetime to make yourself a name but it only takes 5 minutes to destroy it
RIP Devolver Digital
Just like the "we are a family" corporate mentality
@@TalesZuliani We're a family, so give us 110%. Oh, you're no longer the most profitable worker after 12 years as an assistant manager? You're fired. No 2 weeks notice for the worker, only for the corporation.
@Rock Golem Capitalism is the problem.
Who else thought Jim was going to sing for almost 20 minutes?
I was hoping
I wish he did, honestly.
@@starlimitz2 *they. The change is new and it takes a while to get used to it, it's fine.
Didn't we all?
The worst part of this video is realising it's only like a week since cyberpunk was released.
Every week in 2020 feels like a month
this is the new FO76 shit show all over again :D
Today is March 362nd
Jim Sterling: singer, wrestler, performer and video productor. Truly the Escher of our time.
Jim "the showman" Sterling, ready to give us the truth with a pinch of class and creativity.
I bet the song was planed as cringy, but accidentally turned out even somehow cute.
Some people are good plumbers, that's their gift.
There is no such word as "productor". Read a dictionary sometime.
_Smh_
And number one boglin boy. This is the one that takes the most work. I should know. I've considered boglins a holy grail of my entire collecting life. Despite my devotion i've yet to acquire even one lonely boglin and am stuck in line as the number 8,941,236th boglin boy.
The employee that said it was "hypocritical to make a game about corporate exploitation while expecting that their employees work overtime" should be made a manager.
Instead he now gets to work overtime fixing the bugs that resulted from poor management
@Professional Chav Honestly? probably not. Senior management in CDPR holds shares in the company and are on the board of directors which is a very bad combo.
Plus they seem to not understand the severity of their poor management. Having someone who suffered through it on the management staff is only a good thing.
But that wont happen. I'll be surprised if this member of staff will stay with CDPR for long. Be it due to quitting or being let go. CDPR is a revolving door of a studio anyways.
Thats not happening inside CD Projeckt Red tho.
@@DivinityOfBLaze That is a pipe dream. Unless the person is really good to manipualte their way in (and they will get sacked shortly after anyway), people who would genuinely give a fuck about the employees aren't usually elevated to positions where they would hold shares in the company. If you can't demonstrate you will trully wear the shareholder's shirt (i.e. profit for shareholders first), they won't willingly make you one.
On the note of hypocritical, a side note: journalists often lament (rightly) crunch as a bad thing, yet reward a "crunched" game's direction with awards...
The game doesn't make me feel like I'm in a city that is alive. It makes me feel like I'm playing a game that is 25% of the way done.
First
That opening is probably the closest we'll ever get to that Jimquisition Musical that Jim promised us way back when, and I'll take it.
My life is now complete!!
So you can take an half musical from Jim, but not an half game from cdpr? No sir, I angryplayer'dly demand a full musical plus additional microtransactional acts
I'm honestly surprised how great it was, and now I want to see Jim on Broadway.
It reminds me of The Muppets. How I want a Jim Muppet. Please.
CDProjekt Red 2013: It'll be released when it's ready!
CRProjekt Red 2020: What does "ready" mean, really?
This would have been avoided completely if they hadn’t tried to put it on the older consoles at all. They’re too weak to run it and they shouldn’t have wasted time trying.
@@TaddiestMason Meanwhile the PS4 can run Red Dead Redemption 2, a game with better graphics and WAY more complex AI system than Cyberpunk
Or the Xbox 360 a 2005 console, able to play GTA 5 a game from 2013. CDPR is just incompetent. Stop saying the consoles are too weak, yes obviously we didn't expect 60ps full hd on PS4/Xbone, but we did expect playable versions.
Now that's punk
first
@KingArthurII Perhaps being anti-establishment, against the status quo, a person who thinks for themselves and doesn't conform to society's popular yet hypocritical ideologies be they social, political or religious by nature?
At least that's what I think being Punk has always been about, not accepting the common logic as absolute truth, being critical of one's environment and trying to have a well constructed opinion about what we perceive as correct and right. A personal concept of morality and ethics are at the core of what being Punk means to me :D
Jim Ramone
I like how in 2013 trailer they promised:
"Released: When it's ready"
Hmmmmm
Same year gta5 came out, and it still does everything better
Should be the standard answer whenever anyone asks about a game's release. Takes the pressure off devs to mandate crunch. In theory anyway.
"Released: When our investors start losing their patience"
This thing has been in development for 7 ( almost 8 years )?!
@@zyro7756 I'd say in production and I think it was even longer, closer to 10 years. They released first trailer almost 8 years ago. But I do not think that the game development was focused on for majority of the time, since Witcher 3 was released in 2015. I think they only focused on proper development after that and before it was in preproduction (e.g. art departments working on the story, characters, world and so on and it shows - these aspects are the strongest aspects of 2077)
I honestly think that everyone who did the legwork on the game is solely disappointed with how their company failed them. My main suspicion is that they released the game in a hurry to get that PS4 release (ironic, I know) since when they started developing the game PS4/XBONE were brand spanking new and when they started thinking about the IP PS3/XBOX360 were going strong and the previous next-gen was not even revealed.
I mean imagine if pretty much your whole career was crushed in front of you because an exec wanted higher revenue on a game that was guaranteed to make profit (because even it's current sorry state it did make monetary profit). Imagine it - you and your friends create an amazing world with interesting characters, amazing story, everything goes well, people are excited for the game and then the leaders tell you to release it when you are done with absolute basics of the game.
CDPR's game: flop
Jim's song: bop
@Rock Golem 8 million sold to 4 million refunded isn't exactly "selling well"
@Rock Golem Brigador is the flop and that game is good for those that care. CP2077 is a modern Skyrim, broken as hell yet people gonna mod the hell out of it.
@@ExeErdna mods are dependent of modding tools and bethesda always give modding tools for the players. So far cdpr didn't give any modding tools for us so that means people will have to make their own, problem is if the modding tools cause alot of conflicts with the game then people may give up on trying to mod the game
@Rock Golem my alliteration won't make that consideration
@Rock Golem it is a "cyberpunk game" an isometric shooter with a weird but interesting story ( I like it ) once you buy and read all the lore.
It's basically "great leader is dead" Now a lot of pilots taken from 3 factions on this planet have to fight through districts destroying all in their way before they're allowed to leave the said planet.
The game did have like three solid updates that fixed some early game issues, added things they missed out on, and a map editor. They're supposed to be working on a sequel now.
“What took you so long?”
*Realises it’s only been a week since the game was released*
“Oh uuh, never mind...”
Don't really feel like a week, do it?
@@midnightwolfwarrior It says a lot that even in the year of our Lord 2020 that Cyberpunk’s release disaster has felt like a month and a half
A weel ago, a collegue told me that he had taken Vacation for the time "Cyberpunk 2077 will be released."
I jokingly asked: "You think it will?"
Today I'd ask: "You think it should?"
@@Chimera-man-man dude i saw something that came out earlier this year and stg i thought it came out like 3 years ago
'Accidental Roguelike' seems like a genre waiting to happen.
I could see that. You CAN save, but every time there is a 10% chance of losing the whole save file, or something similar.
If you die too much in Hellblade it deletes your save file
@@collinsgichuhi8255 that was proven to be false.
@@ctographerm3285
I thought that was THE main game mechanic for Hellblade?
Like the whole game revolves around that mechanic?
@@utisti4976 I've played hellblade, love it, and I can't imagine any reason why that would be a gameplay mechanics in it. It would actively make the game wide if it was. Sure you're not thinking of a different title?
There is one alternative that's even more horrifying. When he says that he's surprised at how well it runs on last Feb consoles, he's not lying, and he's just surprised it doesn't melt the console to slag and shoot the disk out at your ankles.
Hahah LMAO yeah he probably thought, "oh shit 15FPS? That's not bad at all, it was 5FPS last week! Good job bois!"
That is literally what I thought he meant. :D Then I wondered why everyone was surprised.
@@adriang3492 not gonna lie to me that would be a huge improvement if I was lagging in a game lol would be like ok nvm I'm at 15 fps now its playable again lol.
"It works, surprisingly... well..."
Same. When he said "surprisingly well" i beleive they just put the PS5 code on a PS4 and pressed start without doing any work. The fact that the machine managed to boot at all was certainly a surprise.
“Wait.. Jim was right?”
“Always has been.”
Thank god for Jim fucking Sterling, son.
Jim is the abolitionist in 1776 going "you guys realize this shit is evil, right???"
Not a fan how he finds joy in other people failures. No gamer wanted Cyberpunk to fail, but Jim really likes it cause it gives him more content and bragging rights that he was right. I get honest journalism, and blind defending of developer is pathetic, but Jim over here finds joy he has a new punching bag to rant about. Sad.
@@HeyJinx Come on now, look how happy he is to make this video. Jason Schreier was accused of thriving on negative reports, but he didn't enjoy industry failures, he just reported it, just like criminal news anchor doesn't actually enjoy someone got murdered and made his feed. But Sterling is legit glad over this situation, I as viewer suppose to like that, fuck that and screw videos like this. Jim is here dancing someone got murdered and that he still has a job...
That’s a pretty hollow equivalency. Jim’s laughing at a criminal prat falling on their way out of the convenience store they just robbed.
@@TheRealUcanUwill lol, he was right all along though
Additional to the general lexicon;
“Yellow apology”, noun -
A carefully worded public apology so heavily wrapped in corporate dual speak and being so bereft of the trappings of an actual apology that it basically becomes empty noise in the face of mass outrage.
The Cowards Apology
@@Hillthugsta more like piss-poor excuses. because it's yellow, the colour of piss
Also knows as the "tough Hearthstone esports moment".
It’s hilarious to me that CDPR took the metaphorical use of “yellow”, as in “yellow journalism”, and made it literal.
@@DragoonBoom Yellow is the color of Cowards...piss works as well.
Okay, that's hands down the most Jim Sterling that Jim Sterling has ever Jim Sterlinged.
Was looking for the words and damnit you seem to have locked them in perfectly XD
You, my good internet commenter, cut right past the fluff and bullshit to issue a statement ringing true to the core. Much like Jim just did in every single one of these glorious 1153 seconds, actually.
"Corporate media criticizing corporatism is fucking toothless". Jim gets it.
"Accidental Rogue-like" is such a funny description, especially after reading cdpr's response to the bug
That one made my sides hurt!
Best line of the video
Wait can anyone explain whats happening, ive been living in a cave over these past few days.
@@cekodokdurian If your save file grows to be over 8 MB in size it'll corrupt itself. Generally you'll stay around 5-6 MB, but e.g., lots of crafting can bring it over that. CDPR's solution on their own website is to not do crafting all that much. Yes, really.
@@atagobestwaifu3746 „Our game is badly programmed but that‘s the player‘s fault“
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything, tee hee hee"
(and throw in a few laughs for the community as well)
Yahtzee has always been right with that jingle, the industry never learns, look how many games should of been great, end being bad or pissed off their fan base
Than again show me an industry, any industry this isn't true about.
Fucking the consumer whenever possible is part of maximizing profits and therefor a feature not a bug.
Don't forget how CDPR promised that they'll give their staff their bonuses even if the game didnt reach *90* on metacritic (but only after the press gave it glowing reviews). WHICH isn't even the full story, employees who refused to crunch all the time aren't eligible for the bonus. It's basically wage theft.
I was wondering what was going on with this. Thanks for reminding me.
Stfu
What. The situation was that the game was NOT performing well on metacritic so they decided to give out the bonuses anyway. Press reviews are what metacritic represents so I don't know what you're on about.
They are fucking up quite enough themselves, no need to twist one of the only decent things they've done into something bad.
@@LLPTV The fact that were bonuses tied to metacritic score in the first place is kinda fucking shit.
In other companies (ND) they tell you to work or get out, they can hire cheaper programmers.
CDPR's famous, "We leave greed to others" quote is just funny/sad now.
“When it’s ready”
It was excellent PR
Just not representative of the final product.
@@calmgoodfire4662 "When its done"
People throwing death threats at devs must be a PR stunt
It was the investors. First pressured to publish the game, then were unhappy when it was out and unfinished.
The save thing is baffling. Admittedly, I have no idea what game development is, but there is no chance in hell no tester got that bug while playing the game. It was relayed to the management and ignored. Loot and craft less. In an open world RPG. Which has a crafting skill tree.
@@TheJamieellis CDPR said to keep your save file under 8mb. That's nothing. Plenty of people have already gone over that
@@TheJamieellis yeah so far the streamers and my friends who played it seems to haveno problems with it, even though the finished the game with the side quests
What's even more baffling is that CDPR's instructions for dealing with it, imply that you can somehow corrupt good saves by LOADING them. If this is even remotely true and not just support paranoia, then it doesn't matter what exactly triggers it, because only fundamentally effed up code would do that.
Worst part. Once there is a fix. The corrupted saves stay unusable.
Played for around 60 hours and my save is around 4mb. Skyrim and FO4 saves fuck up STILL today and nobody gives a toss.
I agree cdpr mgmt shouldn’tve lied, but you can’t punish them for something other games are readily doing without criticism.
The game is genuinely awesome on PC.
Jim Sterling now fully loaded on controversy and estrogen. Living the life.
Jim Sterling is slowly turning into the Anarchist Cat Girl that is ultimately inevitable for anybody who has any ability in critical thinking
#Goals
@@NimhLabs Smash the state, meow meow.
Gonna miss the videos after xe joins the 41% :(
@@EyeTry203 out of curiosity, what do you mean by 41%? Anarchist cat girls?
I didn't expect this to be an actual Song but I'm loving it.
i knew something was up, and went to do some research on CDPR, when i saw their inclusion of keanu reeves in the game, i thought: wait, they must have paid him alot of money, and this doesnt make the game really any better, this is legit a merketing stunt, riding on his successes as an actor...so i went and found a tiny percent of employees approve of cdpr ceo, and employees anonymously saying they are barely getting payed, because management says: you are lucky to work for us, such an amazing successful company, here have minimum wage, now go make cyberpunk...and for the nail in the coffin, many employees said that management only not reward innovations on gameplay, but forbit them and possibly punished people who worked on...making the game better and not a copy of previously existed games....then i knew what cyberpunk would be, and about 1 year later i knew i was right
Their name being " _Seedy_ Project Red" really should have been a hint to their true nature...
It's literally vocalized as "Seedy PR". How can this get any better?
forsenCD
In Latin, invidia is the sense of envy. Birds of a feather?
Shady project: Red. the name sounds like an alert that might go off inside the IRS offices.
The Cassandra of Video Games is maybe my favorite title for Jim Sterling.
I... Don't get the reference, I'm sorry to say. Is it a biblical thing or a wrestling thing or...?
@@DewMan001 Greek Mythology. Cassandra was a priestess who got cursed by Apollo with the ability to accurately see the future, but for nobody who hears her to believe her.
Jim has referred to themselves as the Cassandra of Video Games on occasion due to their almost uncanny ability to predict the actions of publishers and their effect on the industry, while many people laugh and claim they're overreacting.
@@radical_rat ahhh. So, to make sure I've got this right;
Village folk: Oh come on Cassandra! That's never going to happen!
*Thing happens*
Cassandra: I FUCKIN TOLD YOU
Gamers and game companies: oh shut up about loot boxes Jim. They're player choice! Not gambling! They're not even regulated like gambling
UK House of Lords: so hey we're gonna start regulating loot boxes because they sure look a lot like gambling and maybe kids shouldn't be doing gambling.
Jim: I FUCKIN TOLD YOU!!
@@DewMan001
Yeah, pretty much exactly that.
All I can hear is "Seedy" Project
Seedy project rat:)
Seedy Public Relations
consequence of f***ing the pumpkin I guess
or "Greedy Projekt"
"Nobody reads EULA" it's almost like it's written for lawyers, not actual end users a.k.a the "EU" part of "EULA"
Capitalism will sell you anti capitalism as a lifestyle.
Now that's punk.
case in point: jim sterling
Much like Elvises manager who sold 'I hate Elvis' merch to make money from both sides.
And also the internet and videogames so fat useless spergs can blame their misery on everything but themselves
@@simplelife88393 nice use of ableism.
Well then...
The Cyberpunk project has been so mishandled it's now the front runner for The Game Awards' Best Direction award
Definitely
Should win the best esports game and 2D platform while it’s at it.
Except last of us 2 ended up fine as a game. Direction has nothing to do with crunch or how the employees are treated. Plenty of shitty movie directors have gotten best director.
@@Revealingstorm. It literally does. Direction means directing people on how to make the game. Its ultimately their fault.
@@IsaacIsaacIsaacson Awarded for outstanding creative vision and innovation in game direction and design.
That's the description for the award. Seems pretty clear cut to me.
Notice how after cyberpunk comes out, Jim has a lot less down votes when he talks about how bad cdpr is.
I KNOW!!!! Thank god 4 Jim
notice these nuts
Squirrel nice almonds
Just a heads up, Jim goes by they/them now.
@@StNick119 What?
Whenever you say “CDPR” it sounds like you’re saying “Seedy PR”, funny how that works out.
Don't know why we'd spell it in any way but the latter, really.
Is there really a difference at this point?
CNN... "seein' in"
I hear 'seedy' every time they are mentioned, and think 'sounds right' every time..
Ha! He used that one in the worst games vid!
When you pioneered calling out CDPR but now everyone's doing it so you have to kick it up a notch to assert dominance. Thank god for you.
I love opening up TH-cam and seeing this immediately.
Not often TH-cam ever does that with one of my videos. We both are blessed!
@@JimSterling Well to be fair, I opened my phone right as the notification popped up. Not sure if that had anything to do with it. Your videos are appointment viewing. Thanks to you, I've delved into the world of Indy games and since then, I've largely stayed away from AAA games.
@@JimSterling My subscriptions produce mostly stuff with 10-100k views so when you make new video I see it pretty much each time after I open youtube.
@@JimSterling was front and center on my recommends page!
Well, Last week you wouldn't even be able to open youtube, so you were blessed today!
I love how “f**ked the pumpkin” is a reoccurring thing now.
Adding that to my parlance
My favorite thing Jim has said since “have their cake and fuck it too”
@@RickyStevens94 as am I. Haha
Well after the fall too lol
"If crunch was what you needed to iron out the flaws, tell me why has Cyberpunk been pulled from the PlayStation Store"
My man's spittin hot fire 🔥🔥
Enby! Jim uses they/them pronouns ^^
@@SquishyHo I checked and apparently Jim is okay with all pronouns, just wanted to add here in case you have information I don't!
Edit: Jim uses they/them, whoops!
@@ohno8398 thanks pal
This, comrades, is why you must always remember:
COMPANIES ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS
People tend to forget it and support them no matter what, especially CDPR fanboys.
Eat the rich
@Tragically Comedic happens to every company that goes public, and starts to have executives, boards, investors, etc.
"Even the ones you're working for?"
"ESPECIALLY the ones you're working for."
@@joaquinnievas9079 don't forget them nintendrones
I just rewatched it.
"Stop catering to the destructively selfish, and then complain when you are selfishly destroyed."
Jim here´s dropping scince.
The song is not cringy, it's a HIT
...It's kind of both.
It's cringe.
It’s cringe bad, not cringe good, sounds and looks like a frog getting stepped on
You brought the "cringy " subject by your own, so IT IS CRINGY
I think you missed an s off the beginning of that word.
One thing I have to say
Congrats on starting HRT, welcome to the club, we have tea
Not anymore I don't, that's kinda the point for me
Eeeyyy!
As someone also on the hrt i feel the punk line. I thought id be into frills and cooking. Naw revolution and molotovs in cat ears
Hr tea?
@@bottomXwarrior lol, _stop it you._
It's so funny how the game is all about anti-corporation stuff and has tons of messages of it, yet the corp that owns the game does exactly what the game makes fun of corps for doing.
Something something Sun Tzu quote about knowing your enemy
The Devs are the streetkids and nomads building the garbage pile up for the corpos...
That's how CDPR Devs knew exactly what to put in the game. When they needed more inspiration, they just had to attend company meetings.
Reportedly, that's what one of the devs pointed out to the management during the company meeting, Jim mentions this in the vid.
It's easy to come up with scenarios of corporations gone wild when you're working for one.
Holy shit, it's literally a song!
FYI, CD Projekt Red never apologised in that statement. They said they were going to but never did, they avoided it in typical PR fashion.
And people laughed at me and called me names when I said I'm not pre-ordering Cyberpunk (or any game for that matter). 😂
Yeah, I faced my fair share of CDPR fanboys as well. I am going around and mentioning them in their comments now, 🤣.
It worked well for me. RDR2 launch was different, that game did not even launch and crashed multiple times. The ultimate troll was to advertise and hype up the game for years and show bad hw the consoles had :D "Want to play a nice new game? Buy a new console or gpu that are out of stock everywhere" :D
You made the right choice my friend.
I'm lucky that I'm too broke to own a console today. I quit mainstream gaming when the PS4 was released.
It just wasn't the same since they made it mandatory on all consoles to pay that monthly premium just to play games online with your friends (unless it's Free-2-Play).
Now that you’ve shown your hand, I think we’re going to require much more musical content.
Sincerely,
Humanity
He's got "it"!
Ew
Since most people seem to have forgotten this absolute gem, here is when Jim first shared his musical talents (with some instrumental help from Miracle of Sound) enjoy this masterpiece :
th-cam.com/video/hEJph8sd828/w-d-xo.html
We should've been suspicious of CD Projekt Red. That abbreviation is literally "seedy PR"
The writers of this season have really given up on subtlety.
Oh, I'm keeping that.
game was overhyped for its own good, kills me CDPR hasn't made that many games, seriously i doubt most gamers even touched witcher 1 or 2, they were okay at best, 3 was really solid game, just because one game people went ape shit? there's to many morons out there.
@@kyotheman69 it took them three tries on a Witcher game before they got a home run.......... And we all conviently ignored that.......
@History Eraser Button they are polish, what did you expect?
HRT: Popped
Cyber: Punk'd
Toes: Tapping.
Hotel: Trivago
@@SpoopySquid woomy
Head, nodding!
Jim Sterling out here showing us how to be a true fucking rebel. Now THAT'S PUNK.
*guitar riff*
You've really got to just love the toothlessness of "We have heard The Gamers! We will not be allowing Devotion on our store because it would displease The Gamers!" - 'The Gamers', yeah right...
Who knows, maybe Xi Pooh is a capital G Gamer.
"accidental roguelike" 😂😂😂 there's nothing more glorious than watching sterling in his element
It gets better, there's now a post, allegedly made by an official GOG mod, claiming _it was actually on purpose_ (he's full of it) and a stan conspiracy theory that the only way to trigger the bug is by using an item duping exploit, so nothing to worry about... Which is a whole two new levels of unreality added to the whole thing.
Jim uses they/them pronouns
@@Zythria
Well...
“watching Sterling in ‘his’ element”
They were, but honest/understandable mistake I am sure.
@@Necrophadez I made a stupider mistake. Haha. I commented to a comment, thinking it was commenting to an original post not a comment to a comment. I thought this was 3dent's posts. Hahaha.
@@Zythria I'm pretty sure TH-cam comment UI is actually being optimised for maximum confusion. :)
You forgot to mention the hilarity that is "they couldnt even properly print the CDPR icon on the digital xbox game cards" as reported by rubyinnes on twitter, truly the cherry on top!
They're patching it at a frenzied pace... meaning they're still working developers to the bone, now with added stress and pressure and the inevitable threats from gamers. The ground-level developers are *still* suffering to appease the higher-ups.
I'm glad that while we're waiting for the next season of "Bethesda fucked up again", CDPR is here to entertain us with its own brand of baffling decisions!
it just works lols
@Steven Browning Well apparently it also on par with 2077, just 57 years ahead of the curve.
@Steven Browning I mean, telling people that other people are going to give you refunds without letting the people giving the refunds know that you just told people to expect refunds from them is pretty baffling behavior.
Except Bethesda is now owned by Microsoft. They will either deliver on their pedigree or their franchises will be given to other studios. That sounds like a win-win.
@@silverblade357 To be honest, that was the best thing that happened to bethesda in a long time. Microsoft has not been in any shitty game controversies in a while. They're still a shit company though, but their management is far better than Zenimax's and Todd Howard's.
to quote the late Total Biscuit “STOP PREORDERING VIDEOGAMES”
It's at times like these it becomes apparent how much was lost with TB, his snarkey comments about the console frame rate for this game would have been legendary
"the late Total Biscuit" are words I never want to get used to. For all his faults, I do miss him.
Not just preordering. People need to stop buying games at release and spending more than $20 for a game.
@@christianbethel Not sure about "spending more than 20 bucks", tho. When I look at all the DLC I bought for Total War: Warhammer and Cities Skylines, I'd like to think that I got my money's worth. Given that I got thousands of hours out of both, I think I am right. As for AAA Open World whatevers, that's what Steam sales are for. 10 bucks including DLC and all the patches. If I still am interested at that point.
@@christianbethel While I do believe more people should wait before buying games, there are games that I believe are worth over 20$. Most of those games are probably more worth 25-30$, but there are some games that might even be worth 40$.
I honestly almost expected the song to go on for the full 19 minutes.
Same. I was all ready to settle in for the whole thing too.
"The Cassandra of Video Gaming"
This is why I love you.
Specifically, the Psychic Princess of Troy. Well...!
Who is Cassandra?
@@scourgi5274 A woman from Greek mythology who was cursed to have predictions that always come true, but for no one to believe her.
@@Zarastro54 To be precise predict distasters but no one would heed her warning. Famous for warning the Trojans of the Trojan Horse. You probably know how that one turned out.
IIRC she warned them from the beginning that this whole "robbing a foreighn queen" gig wasn't going to end well.
@@kaltaron1284 In all fairness, you wouldn’t need to be Cassandra to see why that was a bad idea lol.
After all these years, he finally did the musical episode he teased.
Jim Sterling: The Musical, is going to be amazing when it comes out. As long as it's not rushed like 77 was.
Not, but it's gonna be lethal, like "Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark".
But what if it's rushed like 76??!
@@hco4203 I think the rush of 77 turned it into 76. You see, you rush fast enough you seem to go backwards, so the minus 1 happened. (Doppler effect slam!)
Remember earlier this year when so many gamers were angry about Jim calling CD Projekt Red out on their use of crunch?
I guess you can said this was a I told you moment.
peppridge farms remembers
The joke's on them now.
Dude, this merely another of perhaps a dozen times that Jim's critics have had to eat their own shit.
@@samcooper2474 Jim's critics have been on a steady diet of their own feces for years
When Jim gets cybernetic augmentation and evolves into Cyber Jim then the true cyberpunk can begin.
jim uses they/them pronouns now, in case you didnt know
@@drunkenhobo8020 thats not a very nice thing to say. why do you care what other people do with their lives and bodies? it doesnt affect you. worry about your own self.
@@crazwizardlizard You're the one trying to correct someone else's language. Maybe you should take your own advice?
@Nyghtking Jim's already got tits
Play streets of Red...he is in there... already augmented 😂
please do an actual musical with me
I'd pay literal tons of reddit silver to see it happen.
That would be the most iconic colab of the modern 20s
YES DEFINITELY!!!
YES!
Can it involve wrestling? Because we need to show how Jim Sterling is such a great wrestler
The emperor is not just naked at this point, but also spreading his cheeks and pretending to be a duck.
I spat out my drink reading this comment thank you 🤣🤣🍻😭
And then getting banned for a weekend from Twitch only to return like nothing happened!
don't threaten me with a good time...
"This is the best game I've never played" is a great description. That's how I've felt as I'm watching it all burn down as I go play good and/or obscure games from a decade ago.
Exactly how I felt also with Fallout 76 and Anthem.
Yeah I have been enjoying this tain wreck from the sidelines as well. I'm not sure what that says about me.
I was doing the same until GOG shit the bed.
Stop crying about the game... gameplay is solid and has very good story , there is some bugs but they dont matter. Maybe my opinion about Cyberpunk 2077 is good becasue I was playing games which do not have any graphic and they was awsome !
@@antyteistapolskix3275 that is 100% YOUR OPINION (and nothing more) and you are entitled to it, glad youre having fun with it, but you cant deny others are not having the same experience.
dont diminish others for their opinions.
imo the game is shite and half baked. should have stayed in the oven a few more years, and with Polski in your name im sure youre impartial in your views on this matter......
It is quite sad, but not at all surprising. Although the game doesn't directly cause deaths, there is a similar comparison to General Motors with faulty key ignitions. The car would stall while driving and cause accidents. The similar comparison is when GM knew this to be true before accidents started to happen and chose to do nothing. The reason they did nothing is because they calculated the number of deaths, payouts and costs of lawsuits and compared it to the cost to recalling and fixing all the cars affected. The cost of lawsuits was lower than the recall costs. So cd projects probably weighed the costs of not releasing it and pushing it back or taking a lose from sales
eturns. They saw more profit from releasing it with bugs then not...
It's so disgusting when you understand the thought process of giant mega corporations.
“This is the best game I’ve never played” sums up this game so perfectly, thank you Jim.
Not really, that implies the game is actually good but you've just not played it
The quote is from 16:10 but...
You need context- 15:20 on explains how the game gave so much content (about its shenanigans not in game) in one week.
I'm on base ps4 and I have to disagree to extent. Yes its a buggy mess, yes there is a million problems with the game, and they hid the gameplay from console players. But if you pay attention to what the devs were actually trying make its a good game, it was just rushed by executives to reach a deadline.
this is one of the best games I have ever played so if people have never played it then it would be one of the best games they've never played. sure the game has released buggy but games like assassin's Creed Valhalla are even more buggy so I don't understand why all the huge developers that are too big to fail get a pass to release buggy games but a small time developer from Poland gets their head ripped off because they refuse to remove a transcock from a mix-it-up commercial. I have a base PS4 and when this game first came out I practically was living in the living room I had to purchase it on PC as well because I was hogging the living room from my son that's how much fun I was having on a base PS4
You know what i learned from yakuza. You don't need a giant expansive wolrd to have fun. A few city blocks full of absolute absurdist comedy are good enough.
Just picked this up rather than finishing Cyverpunk on the X whdre it actually runs well. The frustrating thing is outside of all the technical issues, the game at its core isnt even the rpg we were promised. Yakuza so far has been beyond amazing as a rpg. Movies/cutscenes just as long as Cyberpunk but I dont find myself dreading them like in the other game.
Yakuza series is so good 😁
Yes, I am only on 0, but man this game serie is awesome (but also, really long).( I did refund cyberpunk after 40 minutea because of a crash and I decide just to continue to play Yakuza 0, best choice).
@@somik-i3x but it is defintely worthwhile. When you play each game you can feel the progess of the story..Song of Life ends right and Yakuza 7 is just great
@@elidasilva5558 It's worth and it isn't long boring. I love doing the side story and the buisness mission.
Meanwhile, EA, Activision and Ubisoft being left alone for once, be like: thank god for Jim!
Naw, they're just the baseline of awfulness to which CDPR gets compared XD
EA's actually done decently this year, they released Command & Conquer Remastered Collection without screwing it up! It's been 6 months now and it still hasn't been EA'd in any disgusting fashion! I almost can't believe it.
@@sylviewrath2199 comparison being they're better overall.
Just saying; hasn't been a single year since the existence of glassdoor where EA wasn't considered a better place to work than cdpr.
@@mjc0961 Yeah, I can see people are more willing to forgive a lifetime of fuckups than the first offence.
Meanwhile, Ubisoft is sneaking in microtransaction XP boosters to AC Valhalla since all eyes are on CDPR lol.
I come back to this every once in a while just to listen to the song
I'm new to Jim, and thought this would be a 20 minute song.
Nah, its length is just right. 🎵 And hey, enjoy your stay.
I've been watching Jim for years and still thought it could be a 20 minute song 😂😂
I'm not new to Jim's videos - and I thought this was going to be a 20 minute song.
Im just happy I wasnt the only one.
I am old to Jim and am slightly disappointed it wasn’t but that would have been an insanely herculean task and this game deserves to be roasted much harder by them than just one song.
Apologizing after knowingly doing something wrong is basically saying "Sorry we got caught". Maybe they over-estimated the amount of fanboys who'd come to their defense.
Also that song was one of the best thing you made, ever.
Reminds me of that South park episode with the bp guy saying "Sorry" in a soft voice over and over
Nah man, check out the subreddit r/lowsodiumcyberpunk they were right to assume they have diehard fans who would defend them no matter what.
people on that sub blame the fans who were mad at the delays for the quality of the game, they say sony was a dick for pulling the game off of the PlayStation store. at every turn, they try to blame the shadowy figures known as investors for the state of the game, they blame everyone but cdpr
A true apology needs two things
1) An acknowledgement of what was done that was wrong.
2) A clear plan to never repeat the incident in the future.
this is what ive beeen saying all along. they didnt know the backlash was going to be this bad. but now that the shit has hit the fan they are "truly sorry for all of whats happened." its all bullshit. last game i preordered was Halo 2, and every year that has passed since then has shown me that you never ever preorder videogames
@@cocobarbarian1510 That subreddit, from what I've seen so far, is just people trying to enjoy the game. It's not bad game, it's an unfinished, mismanaged game that was lied about. The developers did a great job with what's there, it's just... not complete. The main story is excellent and I had a lot of fun with it.
The people there just wanted to be free from the drama of CDPR and the angry "fans" of the game. Leave them alone.
Broke: "The devs dropped the ball on this one, so it's justified to force them to crunch to fix it."
Woke: "The corpo suits running the show screwed the devs over and forced a release window before the game was ready while keeping themselves out of the limelight so they could throw everyone else under the bus while still getting their cash."
Also look at the dates of when Cyberpunk was re-announced as an action RPG and when they sold themselves as a public company. The start of the rot becomes clear
Fans: "WE WANT THE GAME RELEASED NOW, NO MORE DELAYS! Wtf, it's bugged? WHY DID YOU RELEASE IT BUGGED".
@@Abedeuss TRUUU.
Having to do crunch in the first place is always a management failure. It's quite evident by looking at corporate world that their perceived meritocracy definitely doesn't allow talent to rise to the top.
The execs seriously thought releasing an utterly broken game would appease the shareholders more than having to make another deoay. The execs turned what would have been a dip in their stocks into a full-fledged nosedive!
Whenever the dark overlords at my paycheck dispenser start talking about a “crunch” that means they are going to have as many of their slaves as possible living there 12 hours a day about every day for months because of some self imposed crises often as a direct result of their last “crunch”. Damn good times.
I saw someone on Twitter say that we should call this godforsaken thing Neonliberal
That's fucking brilliant
hhaaahahha
Neonliberal 2020. Yeah that sounds about right
Yess!
"I started HRT instead" Just throw that in like it ain't no thing.
Now THAT's punk.
What is HRT?
@@dickbutt18 Hormone Replacement Therapy.
@@dickbutt18 hormone replacement therapy
@@dickbutt18 Hormone replacement Therapy.
Jim, I hate commenting. But I loved this so much. You are adorable and I loved the song. Thank you so much for being a constant delight in a year that has been more or less shit.
I was hoping the song was 19 minutes long.
So was I, it was glorious
Yeah, this was almost as disappointing as C77.
i was kinda expecting that too ...was like please dont be the full clip ...thank god it wasnt lols ...good stuff tho xD
I was afraid it was
If only he'd done the song 19 by Paul Hardcastle for a 19min video.
i'm dead that CDPR did a speed run on ruining their reputation 😂😂
They're just CD now...
Because they sure as shit don't have much PR left
I'm honestly impressed.
Most studios will fuck over the investors, consumers, sellers, or employees. Can't remember the last time someone went for a damn hat trick.
Kill All Goodwill Any% WR
Did you see that QA skip? They are mad lads!
CDPR have never been different from other companies, they just haven't had as many opportunities to fuck up.
They are a one hit wonder, who are never able to repeat their success. So they decided to cash-in the goodwill...
Well, when they were a small localisation company that also ran retro gaming online shop... But then again, even EA was more decent back then and people thought horse armour is as bethetic as Bethesda could get...
I always see people say they could make this or that's company's multiplayer games solely based on their success with a single player game.
No one even knew about CDPR before TW3, their entire reputation as a "consumer friendly" company was based on a single game.
GOG was known and had good reputation, at least if you were interested in indie and retro games, although, come to think of it, AAA companies releasing on it simultaneously with Steam is also the result of TW3 doing so well.
Exactly, and CDPR was lucky enough to gain this reputation after the game had been released for a while with many layers of polish and nearly bug free. Many don't realize TW3's release was as bad or worse than cyberpunk's release.
thats nit fair, i knew about them, cos tb
... Everyone who had even a passing interest in videogames that are something other than disgusting loli art dating simulators would have been aware of CDPR through the GOG link.
A hololive pfp in a Jim sterling comment section. How do you feel with GOG kneeling to chinese people
"Cyberpunk 2077, now an accidental Roguelike."
Underrated line in this video
@@ethicalcheeze1407 Completely agreed, that was THE line for me.
It's funny because it's a bit nostalgic of the past, things like this going on due to technical limitations or just being a poor kid without a Memory Pak.
But it's a tad bit more of a real blunder in the modern day, through entirely official means, from a so-called top-end developer.
Best line, even post 1.06. 😂
And this is bad why?
Imagine being one of the hard working devs having to watch this disaster unfold. F
Imagine being a game developer period. Not just do "gamers" not care about you, but you get to watch any 'product' you create, and god forbid you actually passionately cared for it, get torn apart by publishers who did literally next to nothing for *their* corporate gain. While you live off Ramen and $5 working all night just out of courtesy so some other dev doesn't have to suffer for any slack. In my book these people are goddamn heroes.
@@ericlamb4501 Welcome to capitalism. The workers/devs seem to enjoy this treatment or else they would start kicking corporate butts.
@@ericlamb4501 and game developers are like the pinnacle of the mixture of job holders. It's both a skill and also requires both a breath of theoretical knowledge along creative/artistic talent, with just great and constant problem solving skills.
It's like no matter which camp you're in, you can't really give game devs shit for not having a 'real job' or a 'cush job'.
@@BlazingBunny I think it's more that a lot get into it when they're young and idealistic, and by the time they realize the truth may be too late unless they want to work low wage job, many of which are pretty bad themselves. No one likes it, but America especially has been raised to worship capitalism to the point Stockholms. No matter how bad things get, capitalism good socialism bad, they've been pushing that since the fifties.
@@azuretiger-kfpmarketingstr6018 I’m studying game design at college rn and I plan on going into the industry after I graduate. Trust me, my peers and I are all painfully aware of the state of the industry we’re trying to enter but for me, game design is not just the thing I’m best at but it’s also the thing I love the most. Still for many of us, the choice is to either attempt to earn a stable income at a company that may exploit us, or gamble with stability and job security and go indie. Not the best situation to be in for sure :/
When even online stores are starting to advise against purchasing a game you know something ain't right about it.
"Justin Note: I lowered the vibrance for this cause it legit hurts my eyes"
Some heroes do not wear capes...
Or shades.
"I'm glad instead of cyberpunk I started HRT instead"
Mood hahahahh
I know this feel. It's a GREAT feel!
Heccin' same
God i wish
I'm probably being dumb, but I didn't know what he was referring to.
@@bificommander7472 hormone replacement therapy
"Look, I just don't want these woke devs forcing their politics into my games." Xi Jinping
Too true
Cyberpunk 2077 is the "Chinese Democracy" of gaming - not worth the wait.
@@Tzilandi This comment destroyed president Xi.
I love the “keep politics out of my game” argument. In a futuristic cyberpunk game....
That's CERTIFIED GAMER Xi Jinping to you!
best HRT coming out song I’ve ever heard. 10/10
They mentioned it before (snuck it into last week's video too). I agree that the song was awesome though!
Jim lacking T or going trans?
I am confused because that initials mean Croatian radio television to me. HRT- Hrvatska Radio Televizija.
@@traceyrinaldi4759 Jim's nonbinary (or 'genderfuck' as they themselves call it), and takes estrogen, I think.
@@matijamaksan4344 HRT stands for hormone replacement therapy, which trans and/or nonbinary people use to make their bodies feel more aligned with their gender(s).
Absolutely in disbelief that people sent someone prone to seizures videos that could cause her to have a seizure intentionally. What the absolute fuck
Attempted Assault in some states/countries!
You really shouldn't be. It was absolutely predictable unfortunately. Human beings, collectively, are assholes.
Which is why you very quickly learn not to give out any weaknesses you have, people WILL use them against you even with threat to your life. I know I only learned that in First School, nevermind Middle School (before I turned 10) but.....!
@@sypherthe297th2 I disagree. I think humanity collectively isn't that bad, but a few turds sometimes float to the top and stay there.
@@StNick119 Its like Agent K once said. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."
To paraphrase from more sci-fi, "Its easy to be a saint in paradise. But all the problems haven't been solved out there yet." Humanity has not evolved as far beyond our primal roots into rational, thoughtful beings as we like to tell ourselves. Make a human scared, hungry, or give them an enemy and watch what they are capable of. We are still very tribal.
In this case, attack something they think they want and care about being successful and get seizure inducing tweets.
I love how he just TEARS into the argument that mean gamers demanding an early realest is a cop out and then RIPS a hole into management where the onus it is richly deserved. Well done!
jim uses they/them pronouns now, btw
Literally can't recollect a time Jim mis-called his shots, and I've been watching for about a decade now.
If you're curious as to why, Ollie of Philosophy Tube did a pretty great breakdown of it. th-cam.com/video/IYkLVU5UGM8/w-d-xo.html
Wasn't Jim wrong about Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice? Or am I remembering it wrong?
“Within a handful of days, CD Projekt Red has gone from darling to laughing stock, doing to its’ reputation in a week, what Bethesda needed 10 years to do.” - Mic drop 🎩
Fallout 76 was still way worse
@@MrTakeYoBitsh Hmmm.... Do I want to eat the liquid vomit from the dog on the left, or the chunky vomit from the dog on the right? I can't decide. Maybe I should go play something like the original Deus Ex or Fallout 1/2 instead which are just... you know... good. (Edit: my frustration with Cyberpunk 2077 isn't meant to be directed at you, but I'm tired of the " is worse" argument)
@@MrTakeYoBitsh it really wasn’t. For all its issues fo76 still ran at launch. I managed to (regretfully) play 6 hours straight and only experience a few minor bugs on base PS4.
@@jordanwood3150 ran at launch? Jesus christ it was the same mess, it needed to be downloaded twice, crashed like crazy and peolle got disconnected constantly losing up to an hour of progress, it was a frickin mess, it was the same crap
@@jordanwood3150 Exactly!
Dude... These lyrics are legitimately GOOD. Jim... you're a student of MANY talents...
That song isn't cringe, it's unironically enjoyable.
nah it’s just cringe
Very cringe, but i was happy to hear it
It's really not tho is it
Agreed- if videogames don't work out for Jim, I'd love to be there for their music career!
I unironically enjoyed it. I mean it still is cringe but he did way better at this than I would have expected...genuinly impressed