Minor spoilers for beginning of Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty
Butch:
OK! Made it to Dogtown! I guess accounting said "Keanu or Idris. Not both." I'm not that far into it.
Finished up with Kerry. Had him make nice with the Japanese band. Found it kind of hilarious that the game made you use photo mode to progress the quest. I don't think I've ever seen that.
[later]
OK! Met the badass president. Accidentally punched her. Sorry, Mrs. President.
That sequence was a little different. I can't remember another run and gun sequence like that in this game. Urgent, frenetic. That was a big change. I did kind of love the pacing, though. All slow, then the market (I kind of love the market, except for bald guy's message over and over. We get it. Fuck taxes. Move on.), then the climb up then the running then the fight. Excellent, slow burn crescendo.
What was with those AR goggles in the market?
I kind of loved the kid netrunner. Though there was a glitch and he ripped me off! Bought something and it didn't turn up in my inventory! Reloaded, same thing! Grumble.
On the market….did I miss a fast travel point? I might want to get back there, and I haven't seen a fast travel point in dogtown yet.
Of course, I just met the president.
Loothound:
Yeah, the start of the Phantom Liberty stuff is pretty cool. It reminded me of some of the Uncharted levels at times with the pacing. Once you're through the Phantom Liberty intro stuff there are plenty of ways to travel in and out of Dogtown. Just do yourself a favor, don't try driving into Dogtown too quickly or they will FUCK YOU UP. They have a ton of firepower at the checkpoint, and they are not shy about using it. Found that out the hard way.
I did some mission stuff, because I have almost nothing else left to do. I've even resorted to doing the road races to keep from story missioning too hard. Some humorous results on that front, though. I've also been buying apartments, thanks to your talking them up. Got the Corpo Tower one, which is not as cool as the one with the pool table and video game. Speaking of which, Butch, I have two very specific questions about that:
1) Is there a way to actually PLAY pool that you've found, or do you just keep missing that one shot over and over again? Because if so, then fuck that.
2) In Roach Race WHY THE HELL DOES HE RUN ON HIS FRONT LEGS WHEN HE GETS A CARROT!?!? It's funny as shit (Carrot Get!) but makes no sense. Is that a callback to something from Witcher 1 or 2 that Femmy and I don't know about, because we are both all WHAT THE HELL?
Butch:
Wait, you're DONE? How long is it? Is it that short or did you just play your head off?
Another reason not to drive.
I did not figure out how to play pool, but then, Judy hasn't shown up to that one yet.
I just thought Roach really liked that carrot.
Feminina:
No one is done!
Doing races and stuff to AVOID finishing super fast.
I mean, not me, I'm not doing races. I am re-doing stuff I finished on my previous playthrough but not at the time of this save, like Kerry's stuff and Judy's underwater adventure.
I'd forgotten that if you don't romance Judy she has no reason to stick around Night City, and she leaves and sends you postcards from Oregon where she went to stay with her grandparents. I hope she's happy.
Me, I'm sending flowers to River, accepting River's gifts of cupcakes and coffee that was previously eaten by iguanas, and encouraging River's plan to set up shop as a private investigator.
The president IS pretty badass. I kind of liked her, though I don't trust her even as far as I can see her since she could be communicating with all kinds of people inside her head making plans I don't know about. Still, I saved her and I'll do my best to help out with…whatever…in the probably vain hope of getting some help with my relic issue.
All politics is local, meaning the inside of my skull!
Butch:
I hope Judy's OK, too. I texted with her grandmother! I did well. I can call her abuela now. I was all sweet and polite and charming.
Then I killed a bunch of people.
Man, how much Phantom Liberty is there? I haven't even met Idris Elba and you guys are trying not to finish? Is it wicked short?
Feminina:
I don't know, I feel like there's a fair amount. Just no need to rush through it, you know?
The other day I was waiting for it to be evening or something. Checked the time, it was 6am. Wandered around doing this and that little bit of biz. Got in three separate gunfights, killed a bunch of people.
Checked the time, it was 10:40am. Damn, I'm productive.
OF DEATH.
Anyway. I've noticed a couple of glitches from the past are still glitched: Lt. Mower (cyberpsycho) is not there, cannot be fought, but her voice still taunts me and the quest is still open.
Random fetch item icon is still highlighting an empty patch of floor in a building where there's nothing to pick up, but the quest is still open.
Also, the Tarot card in Dogtown – I scanned it, it's clearly been seen and added to my collection, but the quest is still open.
Ah well. I wasn't going to get platinum in this game anyway.
Loothound:
Yeah, I'm not sure how much stuff there is in Phantom Liberty, but I definitely don't want to outpace everyone by too much. First time around I put about 30 more hours into the game than Femmy, so I have almost nothing that's not part of PL left to do. I still want to play, though.
Actually, one thing there's been to do is to steal cars from Dogtown for El Capitan Reyes. These are kind of fun, but they can get pretty bonkers. One involved stealing this super high tech car from a gang. Okay, fight gang steal car. Driving it away, and Reyes calls me to tell me how awesome this car is. It can override systems, it's invisible to the net, etc. So he tells me to drive close to this OTHER car he wants me to steal so this tech super car can override it. Okay…except this other car is a beat looking truck with some barrels in it. I steal it, drive it away, and just leave the super car which never comes up again. No sense.
Feminina:
Ha! El Capitan is also a master of understatement.
I did one theft for him because whatever, and when I got there he pointed out "this car is a little the worse for wear."
Given that the bumper was hanging by a thread and the driver's side door fell off as I was pulling into the garage, yeah, fair criticism.
I'm maybe not the person to call if you want cars in good condition or people not murdered.
Loothound:
He gets real sassy, too. I abandoned one of his cars to go after a loot crate, and got a very salty message from him. Kind of made me want to go kill him, which I'm not sure is possible or not. Maybe when aI have literally nothing else to do I'll give it a try. Like taking out the Dogtown checkpoint single-handedly.
Butch:
Hey, I like El Capitan! It's that Padre motherfucker that creeps me out.
It's true, we needn't rush. We don't have BG3 yet (or, at least, I don't) and I'm on a plane writing bad poetry soon. Maybe I'll do some writing in Dutch! They speak Dutch there.
Brown bread, I learned, is "Bruin Brood." Wait until Nugget sees that on a menu. He'll be so confused….
Feminina:
The Padre is a little disturbing. I finished all his jobs and he said there was a reward for me and I was thinking "Is it death? Because I kind of feel like in your eyes my just reward is death."
I mean, not that he's WRONG, I suppose.
Spoiler: he did not, in fact, try to have me killed. Probably wants to keep me around just in case something else comes up.
Butch:
He is SO DISTURBING! Even his missions! Sneak into a crematorium. Dude.
Also on that, I have one gig left for Regina and I can't for the life of me find it. I finished the copro plaza guy's deals, though. I think I still have a couple for the creepy old lady.
They can wait. I have a president to save!
Feminina:
If Regina is the one who's interested in cyberpsychos, maybe it's broken, like mine. I shall never be able to complete her list of jobs.
I sorely miss the iconic weapon she'd probably give me.
Butch:
She's the one up in Watson. Maybe she cares about cyberpyschos. Sad.
It would be so awesome if you could romance the president.
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