Cyberpunk 2077 Dev Has Played For Over 175 Hours And Still Hasn't Finished It

Jeremy, you forgot to mention it's available on Stadia too, on launch day to boot!

The time a QA spends in the game is in no way representative on how durable a game can be. I started at QA in the industry and more than once I ramped more than 100 hours is very linear games.

It comes to things like having to re-start again when a new build is available or coders requesting to perform some tasks related to balancing. Or trying to reproduce a crash in specific situations.

I mean, sure this game can be engaging enough to keep you around the 200 hours. but the work of a QA must not be understood as an equivalent to regular gameplay.

It's called testing mode, unless the developer didn't recompile the game, and write down the time added on playing because that doesn't apply.

The developer would need to add a stable build that has atleast 200hrs, other than that it's most likely a developer build testing the environment, and they happen to have acquired the hours with out realising, using it to boast about.

That's nice, it reminds me of my first Breath of the Wild playthrough. I had played about 180 hours and still had to unlock 2 zones on the map at that point, and was done with the game at around the 220 hours mark.

My first Witcher 3 playthrough I think took me about 160 hours or so, and that was before the expansion packs came out.

That’s disheartening. It’s just too long. I would love if they broke games of this scope down into 5-6 8 hour campaigns. Like book chapters or something. And really give the impression that the 2-4 hour play sessions yielded something significant. Oh well.

Perfect distraction from Covid I'm down.

His job sounds much more fun than the average QA job! Usually they just run into walls and stuff to find any glitches!

And so it begins - the onslaught of Cyberpunk articles is starting to ramp up. Does anyone remember the Destiny coverage? Holy Cow - that was just ridiculous. It was literally every single article on literally every single feature the game had, recycled, re-worded and then presented again as a new feature story. It was absolutely overkill. Expect the same for this game.

Many games can be played "endless" today, without finishing the last mission...

Tons of time no matter what basically and someone who loves doing side quests, just hoping they have level scaling, game gets to easy without when I do side quest after side quest

Just makes it easier to skip.

and I put in over 5000 hours in to skyrim and still never finished it let alone the sidequest or dlc, any game can claim this it make it easy to do anything in any order

Title is misleading and makes it sound like at 175 hrs you would still have story missions and sidequests left - which I highly doubt would be the case. Main story will probably clock in at 30-40 hours and with sidequests is probably anywhere from 70-100, and even that is probably on the higher end for someone not trying to 100% the game.

Hmmm I am expect the game to reviewed before December 10! Then we shall see if this game proves that the hype was expected.