In an extremely rare move for me, I started a new Cyberpunk 2077 (2020) game with a completely different character approach, from Normal Difficulty-Empathetic-Non-Lethal-Quickhacks-Sneak-Pistols-Sniper Rifles-Motorcycles to Very Hard Difficulty-In your face-Homidical Maniac-Sandevistan (Bullet-time)-Shotguns-Machine guns-Cars and I'm pleased to see the differences in consequences.
On top of having to fight additional enemies coming to reinforce a location's guards when the alarm is inevitably triggered (I can't turn the damn cameras off now!), I'm now actively hounded by a couple gangs I hit hard outside of missions. Getting into my car now has a random chance of triggering a vehicular ambush which, at the Very Hard Difficult level, can easily be lethal.
This is a nice step up from Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011) where I don't remember that a difference in tactical approach made a significant difference in the outcomes outside of the missions themselves.
@jynersolives Using a keyboard to drive a car in #Cyberpunk2077 is amusing if one does not want to move up in the game. Hell I am really bad at computer games, but enjoy them anyway.
The problem with scanning and extra weapons sharing mouse wheel click as a trigger, only differentiated by scan mode on/off, is that my stealth run came to an abrupt end when I lobbed a grenade at the group of people I wanted to scan.
Just want to point out that in most (western) RPGs the highest level non Unique gear is usually better with the right mods / stat modifiers.
The hunt for the perfect "purple gear" is a real thing in a LOT of CRPGs, and well.. As it now stands in #Cyberpunk2077 the gear is well... orange, not purple, but it is quite often better to get a tier 5++ regular gun with four mod slots than the unique of the same type.
I continue to be blown away by #Cyberpunk2077. Mind you, my last foray into open world RPGs was #Skyrim in 2011/2012, so a lot of this excitement is probably just me having very outdated exposure to AAA titles (such is life as a #Mac gamer, there was #WoW and not much else).
Reminds me a lot of Deus Ex Human Revolution (also 2011), which I loved. Things have really come a long way and I wonder what marvels we’ll get to experience in VR, perhaps soon?