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Ted Litchfield

EXPLAINED: Wait was cyberpunk 2077 just quietly in early access for three years | Rare Historical Photos

Cyberpunk 2077 character Johnny Silverhand with arms crossed looks away from the camera and smiles.

"A delayed game is eventually good," Nintendo legend Shigeru Miaymoto is falsely claimed to have said, "a bad game is bad forever." What about a game that I really liked but had some serious issues on launch, so nobody else liked it, but it gradually improved over the course of three years and now everybody kinda digs it?

I'm talking, of course, about Cyberpunk 2077. With its significant transformation since an initial launch in 2020, Cyberpunk feels like it was in early access that whole time, even though it never laid claim to the new-school release model.

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