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This is a bit off topic, but I wanted to share it anyway:

Recently I got Cyberpunk 2077. I like the setting, I am a big fan of dystopian future. I am also a little radical about public transport in real life. I love to use it, I hate handling cars, I hate looking for parking.

One of the mayor things I noticed playing CP77 was the lack of public transport. I haven’t played a triple A ever and was surprised by the amount of NPCs. Everything felt so right in Night City. Urgency, dirtiness, people everywhere. Now it is coming with the next update. Thinking about it makes me not want to use the in-game car. It just pops up (hardly any waiting involved, weird) and you cannot really park it anywhere. It is just as useless as real life cars, handling is bad (maybe I am a bad driver but still). I love it. Yes, I can fast travel, but for immersion it is great.

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[–] ChristianWS 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Public transit in games is kinda weird.

I loved using trains in GTA IV, but in GTA V it sucked. Although I think it maybe has to do with the real life cities those games are based on.

Sadly, none had working buses

[–] zik@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Sadly, none had working buses

In a future where the traffic is so awful that cars are pointless, buses are also pointless because they also get stuck in the traffic.

[–] magikmw@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Just like most US cities then.

[–] Emi621@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

I remember that I loved taking the tram in mafia when I played it as a kid.