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The Cyberpunk 2077 stream leak is honestly v. boring and not worth watchingIf Cyberpunxsutawney Phil sees the leak, we get six more weeks of delay
If Cyberpunxsutawney Phil sees the leak, we get six more weeks of delay
Mmm, delicious leaks, with which we may make leak and potato soup. Physical copies ofCyberpunk 2077have made it to retailers, which means leaks are now inevitable as disgruntled low-wage employees chance their arm and liberate copies from Bezos’s loving grasp. Once such maverick even streamed 20 minutes of it on their PS4. Now, I know that, perversely, the title of this post will just make some of you want to watch it, like a teenager being told they shouldn’t date the 21 year old that hangs around outside the OneStop, but I have watched it, and it is honestly a waste of 20 minutes. If you watch it, you will regret the use of that time.
Not because the game is rubbish, I hasten to add. It might be rubbish, it might be brilliant. I don’t work in an Amazon warehouse so I haven’t played it yet. No: it is just a bad stream that shows very little of the game. Seriously, a laughably small amount. And they talk over all the dialogue.
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Here is the sum total of what you actually see in the stream (so, spoilers):
An officially released screen showing the sheriff of cybertown that features in the stream.
This is interspersed with long sections where the streamer is AFK or… well, AFC, I guess… so literally nothing is happening, the streamer asking the people they’re on voicechat with to stop saying their actual name because they don’t want the Feds to turn up, the streamer and their mates giggling about the fact they have the game and are playing it, and the streamer freaking out about the fact that people who aren’t their mates are watching. This last one is kind of adorable.
It doesn’t really show you anything you might be at all interested in at this stage, assuming you’re not one of those people who are now on spoiler lock down for the foreseeable. Even if you are one of those people, I dunno if you could say this spoils much of anything purely because of the minimal amount of game it actually shows.
It doesn’t go into any of the potentially interesting bits of character creation, we’ve seen more of the Badlands inofficial videosthan in this stream, and you can’t even appreciate the voice acting, because the streamer and their mates seem to have a very specific affliction that means theymustspeak whenever an NPC is talking. And they do nothing for so much of the stream that waiting for the streamer to do something amounts to more than half of the run time. There’s a legitimate case for “20 minutes of Cyberpunk” being a gross misnomer. If you were selling copies of this stream with that as the title, I could have you under the Trades Descriptions Act.
That would probably be the least of your legal worries at that point, but still.
I guess it does show how the game runs on a PS4, but it doesn’t have any pre- or post-release patches installed, so it’s hard to draw any meaningful conclusions from it.
Things you can do in 20 minutes that you will enjoy more than this stream:
Anyway, if you still really want to watch the stream in question,NeoGaf is keeping up with the mirrorsas the footage gets taken down. I can’t recommend not watching it enough. Pray for better leaks. Or, failing that, none leaks.
