A Song Of Cyberpunk (The Jimquisition)
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. Lyrics written by Jim Sterling, feverishly in the middle of the night at random).
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I love this new blue and pink wrestling mask - I don't think I've seen this exact design before. Song's good too :P
So how are the Jimquisition Awards and Top Ten Shitties Games videos for this year going to work? After this there's only one more Monday before the year ends.
I don't like doing things outside of the year they apply to, but one of the episodes will have to be in January.
reaching some Oasis level word stretching there and I love it so very much
I want to play this game... and enjoy it... at some point in time. And I have to wait a month, because this has to be cleaned up with patches.
THATS FUCKING IT. Jim, that HRT line, and the whole fucking year of amazing content caused me to finally feel the need to sub after watching for. fucking. years.. The effort in that fucking song, and ESP the Bethesda song? Please take this dollar directly from my pansexual canadian anus and enjoy. Fucking royalty. Also, is there a PO box? I have cosmetics (lippies and liner, not microtransactions to send)
Jim used to have a PO box when he was in Mississippi, but he hasn't gotten around to setting up a new one just yet. Which is too bad as there's some stuff I want to send him.
Remember 76? It was 1 day that they went from gamers defending th to their death to ripping Todd Howard apart and demanding blood. It was about 6 months of total fuckups and another 12 to get a patch that made it a fallout game. Their stock sunk so low that Microsoft bought them. CDPR didn't learn from this. CDPR will get purchased by someone soon.
I doubt it, unlike 76 Cyberpunk at least sold VERY well and has a considerably larger amount of defenders, so I can easily see CDPR turning 2077 around with a few more patches and it'll enjoy a resurgence of good will much like No Man's Sky did after it got several huge updates.
Glad I'm a patron for stuff like this. Good work, Jim.
Given that Jim Sterling is the punk and CDPR is the antipunk, we should have all anticipated the brilliant explosion that is this musical.
Are you saying ANY positive reviews of big AAA games like Last of Us 2 are "useless"? Gonna have to strongly disagree with you on that one, Last of Us 2 wasn't misrepresented in interviews or a buggy mess on launch, so comparing it to CDPR makes no sense. You can't expect EVERY single review of a AAA to negative, that's just unrealistic, I don't find it all hard to believe that people genuinely loved that game, I sure as hell did, it's my favorite game of all time.
Well yeah that stuff is relevant to 2077, but for a game that launched without those issues like TLOU2 it's not relevant, so i'm not quite sure why Jim claimed that ALL positive reviews of all AAA games are "useless' when in reality that's just plain not true.
I hope you're not implying that the behind-the-scenes stuff with Naughty Dog should automatically disqualify Last of Us 2 from any and all awards, as that's definitely not fair to the devs that worked hard on this game(BTW Best Directing has nothing to do with project management, it's about cinematography and things of that nature, if we're going to follow that logic, then like 90% of films that won Best Picture would be disqualified as well) and regardless of what you think it's still a huge landmark to have a AAA game with a lesbian protagonist and a prominent trans character be a massive critical and commercial success and i for one am glad it won all those awards as a giant middle finger to all those shitheads that harassed Laura Bailey and Neil Druckman with death and rape threats.
"Direction and design" isn't related to project management though. I asked this question because i've seen other pundits argue that it was only the "Best Direction" award the game should not have won and not the others. Like its really not fair to say penalize Laura Bailey for winning her award just because of a few behind the scenes issue.
Okay well I didn't expect today to be the day I decide to write a song for Jim Fucking Sterling Son to perform vocals on... but I hear P O T E N T I A L in that voice
I did not expect the title to be literal. And I fucking love it.
Fantastic opening, fantastic video! 😃
so..... when are you going to upload the song on its own?
I do wish Jim had added 20 seconds to mention how CDPR used Cyberpunk 2077 as a gateway to adding DRM to GOG (via its in-game activation required "My Rewards" system, which is basically a "first hit's free" microtransaction), pissing off tons of us who didn't even care about the game itself (but rather care about GOG as the preferred digital games store because of its consumer friendly DRM-free status), and just showing how happy they are to burn all their goodwill at once.
The song was marvelous! And yeah, it's been about four days of Cyberpunk Buyer's Remorse for all the people that were OFFENDED that I wasn't going to buy a game for consoles I don't own and that I wasn't getting it for my computer that couldn't run it. Now I make a point of asking them every single day how they're enjoying Cyberpunk. Aaaahhhhhhh...... 'real gamer' tears are true nourishment!
I actually am enjoying the game quite a bit, no tears here.
Jim knows how to take a victory lap and drink in all that sweet vindication.
I would hope that yet another example of a game studio over promising and under delivering would be enough to divert the discourse into something more critical, but chances are slim to none that anything will change in the long run.
Ha, this was great! At this point you might as well rename the show to "I Told You So".
This song is amazing! I'm happy to be able to support you here, it's worth every penny. Thank you for all you do!
Wow. That was pure gold.