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ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 premieres TOMORROW 10/26/2021

I was about to announce this on Twitter when I realized I needed to announce it here first--out of dedication to my earlier proclamation that this blog page here serves The Real Stuff, and also for consistency's sake: ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 is finished. It is exported. It is uploaded. It is processed. It will premiere (in a tricky capacity I cannot at this moment divulge because I dare not spoil you) tomorrow, 26 October 2021, at 6pm Eastern.

Yes, 6pm Eastern--I dare not append a "Standard" or "Daylight" to that phrase because, really, what time it is is what time it is, whatever the worker-exploiting government-mandated clock trickery asks us to say about it. I will play along with their guideline--again, for consistency's sake (I wouldn't want to be perpetually an hour early to appointments half the year), though I won't let their buzzwords slurm into my mouth, much less out of them.

How was that? Was that politically unambiguous enough for the portion of you that crave such?

I must admit I found myself gasping aghast at an accusation-flailing occurring in the comments under my previous post. A man nominated me "apolitical"! I swear my gasp happened via entertainment: it fascinates me that someone might think this, even after I ended one post earlier with the declaration that one should EAT, not merely BITE, the hand that feeds them, because the owner of the hand that feeds you is eating food they afford with YOUR money. I do not speak publicly of my political views in any manner less nebulous than that, because if I did, I'd frighten probably most of you. Though especially guys like that guy. 

To be most honest, I also remembered to post information regarding the video's premiere here on this page because, just as I was about to post such information on Twitter, someone tweeted at me to ask "Well?? Any updates??" And I found their use of multiple punctuation obnoxious. Then I remembered, hey, I know some other people who might like this update first.

THE PREMIERE: DETAILS

I intend to livestream an ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 Special Premiere Event at 6pm Eastern on twitch.tv/actionbutton. During this stream, I'll screen the opening segment of the review for a live audience, followed by a twist. I will not spoil the nature of the twist--only that a twist in fact exists. Once the twist has sufficiently twisted itself to exhaustion, I will set the full form of the review to public on youtube.com/actionbutton.

I expect several comments both here and on Twitter asking that I delay or re-maneuver the Premiere time to some other clock-position for such-and-such time zone. I'm sorry. It has to be this way. I live here, in the North American Eastern Time Zone. Also, I know approximately how long this premiere will take, and have a good handle on how long it'll take all of the premiere viewers to watch the rest of the video. I wanted to do this on Sunday, though everything got in the way (once again). I'd wait until this Sunday so that a larger percentage of everybody has the day off and is free to enjoy, though really, enough is enough. We're launching this thing on a Tuesday so I can be done with it, and finally take the muscle relaxers I was prescribed for the not-video-editing-unrelated destruction of my neck, and watch Shrek with Mimsy like I promised months ago I'd do when this nonsense was dead. While she watches Shrek, I'll be watching Big Shrek.

At any rate, consider the premiere sufficiently announced!

SEE YOU SOON

I am going to take some kind of a walk. Then I will come back here and make sure my Twitch streaming setup still works. It's been months, Jerry. I probably have to, like, update two hundred drivers. What's the deal with drivers? Are my computer hardware devices CARS? What kind of car is my Elgato 4K60 Pro? Maybe one of those Smart Cars. If Adobe Premiere were a piece of hardware that were also a car it would definitely be one of those San Francisco buses that looks like an old-timey trolley though is actually in fact Just Another Bus.

Well, that's enough of that. I'll make another post tomorrow--you know, the one I always (feels odd to say "always" about a series that's only six episodes in) make on the day the video launches, with the thumbnail in it and everything. Then maybe one week later, once enough of you have reliably finished digesting the video, I'll start talking about what will happen in season two.

And somewhere around that time, I'll begin releasing the backer-exclusive bonus segments for this review. Wow: I've got over two hours of bonus trash for you all. Some of it is excellent, and some of it is . . . lord. It's hard to say what the other some of it is.

Goodbye for now!!

ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 premieres TOMORROW 10/26/2021

Comments

Who am I?

effiepop

I am finally mentally prepared for the one hour Open World DLC.

Devon Childers

Tim, I've loved your work since you were at Kotaku, really, really, love your independent longform reviews, and, as someone who, as of 2020 works from home in his crummy gamer chair when he used to, during his day job, sit in a DC office with a Herman Miller chair, I really thank you for your chair review/recommendations!

Ryan Stephenson

Tim, I appreciate you very much. Your videos bring me much joy. Thank you.

Steven Carney

Tim I’ve been a fan in some capacity for ages, I think you were in a cara ellison blog in like 2011? I stopped watching yr videos after the FF7 review because they’re long as hell and I don’t have time for that, but this one was broken up into manageable chunks so I gave it a go. Now I’ve watched the whole thing, subbed to the Patreon and will watch the full backlog because it turns out I absolutely do have time for that. Hope you stick to the sane work schedule for season 2! Also because of this video I stole a steelcase leap from my office and will probably buy those Alden boots. Thanks!

Oscar

Tim I will personally send you all of my acronym jackets to try on just to hear you talk about them.

KawaiiMothra

thats a good patreon post, jerry

June Guts

I somehow found Tim by stumbling upon this review. And through watching more Tim than I'm sure is healthy over 5 days, I have found appreciation for games in ways not imagined before. I also have found my voice now inflecting between action movie trailer announcer "in a world . .. " voice and my own. Luckily, the counter point Seinfeldian Moranis-like inflection hasn't kicked in yet. Anyway, well done. *slow clap*. You may have my $3 a month . . . for now. (but seriously, great work!)

That Josh

I love how Tim doesn't swear constantly. Such class.

Tom Whitley

Would it be completely unreasonable to ask for an Action Button review of Southland Tales? Because I would figuratively die for that.

Allen Harrold

Tim, this video CRUSHIN IT

Aaron Gonzalez

I'm playing this review like I replay huge, luxurious open-world RPGs: play the opening act, put it down for a bit, play the opening bit again, put it down for a year or more, and finally come back and sink 100 hours into at some point in the future. Will check in with my review of Action Button Reviews Cyberpunk 2077 sometime in 2022 or 2023, I suppose. The opening act has been amazing though, I've played it as all three classes.

Timothy

I 100 percented the review and I'm not ashamed

Can o Jam

I did 1 to 3 to the end and finished with 6. Jus absolutely amazing

Nathan Cabisca

Thanks for the video, Tim. Is one allowed to be critical around here? Is there even a point to be critical, on the internet, and on Patreon from all places? I guess it's hard. I guess you know what was lacking... in this particular project. So, yeah. Looking forward to Season 2. Keep it up.

unlg

I really liked this review. I originally did 3 and 6, but now I'm watching them all in order. I'm going to have to re-read every William Gibson and Bruce Sterling novel after this.

Thaine Smith

I watched them all in order and almost felt bad about disobeying your instructions. By the end of Story #5 I had my fist raised in the air in elation -- we don't do that in England! Bravo, Tim. PS: it seems as though Story #6 is only in 1080p; at least, that's the highest the Youtube app on my CX would let me choose. I know others have said that video doesn't even load on iOS.

Conformist

Exquisite work. However, I will not stand for your Panam slander. Panam > Aerith

glue gun gooner

I took the I-1-6-7 path, and when i was done, i was sitting alone, in a room that was now dark because the sun went down at some point near the end of part six. i got up to have some water and turn the lights on and thought, "five is only half an hour, it's BARELY cheating if i watch five" and immediately felt both as if my nose was being rubbed in it + told it's ok i did it

Pickle

I did 1, 5, 2, 3, 4, 6 because of #5

Joseph Connors

I did the #1 and #3 route, since I experienced technical difficulties with #6 like a few others here. And with one notable exception – I would definitely let Judy kill me – I agreed with most of what you said: the quiet moments between chases and gunfights had some of the best character writing and storytelling I’ve seen in a AAA game in years. Great casting too (still hard to believe that female V is the same voice actress who played Makoto). But even without the considerable PS4 jankiness, I don’t think the “gameplay loop” would have done much for me. Part of me thinks Cyberpunk would have worked better as a dystopian walking simulator or an expensive VA-11 Hall-A remake than GTA Blade Runner. Still, I had a pretty good time despite the general brokenness of everything. Excellent work, sir. Looking forward to playing the review to completion.

Oisín Harrell

Attaboy Tim. This rules. (I picked #6 followed by #1)

Justin Hamrick

The jacket reveal = tims odessa steps

J

thanks tim

dinnerparty

Great video! Super stoked for season 2.

Allie

Now THAT'S a review, Jerry

bustercat

Is story 6 not playing for others? I saved it for my number 2 per Tim’s advice, but I’m getting a “no stream” message. Trying to figure out if it’s just on my end!

Patrick Miller

Just completed the 3-4 playthrough. Looking forward to the New Game+!

Marc Basque

Five-Sixer here. Good, weird route filled with equal amounts of recriminations and congratulations.

Alex Jaffe

as soon as he said "I can't stop you" I was like game on

Earl

Had an absolute blast watching. Took the 1 & 6 route. There are so many books I need to [re]read now. Gonna digest it for a while & then choose another route. Cheers!

Thaddeus

I’m watching all them videos Tim what you think this is dude?

Nathan Cabisca

Story 6 doesn’t seem it wants to play

GrayFox23D

Genuinely sorry too… sorry for for email as well…

Alex Spalding

I knew upon frustratingly writing this comment I would be at one point soon SORRY for writing this comment. Now approximately 24 hours later I am in fact SORRY for writing that comment. I’m also SORRY for the email you are reading right now and the previous email you probably read before getting to this one.

Alex Spalding

You had me at the first part of your twitch introduction, not gonna lie

Celes

Congrats! I went 3-6. I will "Completionist" this over the rest of the week!

Ryan E. Geiger

brilliant

Jim Storrie

Video rocked, thanks Tim! I look forward to watching the chapters I skipped in the months to come.

Aaron

The wait was rough, but this has been one hell of a fun watch so far. If it's any consolation, your inescapable, borderline obsessive desire to go above and beyond expectations is the uniqueness you allude to every so often. You're already there, man. Such a unique writer's voice... Now what's next?!?! Jk

RonDozeee

Watching part 6 and holy crap I think I called the theme on my July 6th post to patreon… I originally said authenticity but changed it to verisimilitude which I think is a good boy upgrade

TJ B

This is great. Thank you, Tim

Mark

Tim. I’m so happy you exist. This rules.

Squit

i love it!

Sam

It’s go time boys!!!

Kyle

I was browsing around since I'm never on Twitch and checked back to find the live stream up. Not sure if you'd need to refresh? But it's on now.

Adam Johnson

▶️

Jan Martinek

I eye, Cap'ns! Happy to know that I read that wrong.

Adam Johnson

It's live!

A Smith

Cyberpunk review will no doubt flip this numbers and some how provide endless rewatch potential.

Miles McLoughlin

I love this comment. I mean depending on what you mean by “better” Donda came out and provided 2 hours of no nonsense listening with 44minutes of greatness.

Miles McLoughlin

I don’t think that would make sense, he said it’s a premiere event, not a premiere event for Patreon supporters only.

Devon Fisher

He also announced the twitch stream in his twitter post, so it's for everyone.

Bobby Brace

I thought the "for patrons only" part applied to the above post, not the twitch stream... LOL can anyone confirm?

John Public

Wasn't sure how he'd do a twitch stream for Patrons only, like if I needed to link Patreon and Twitch or learn a secret handshake or something. We don't have a secret handshake, do we? You'd tell me if we did, right?

Adam Johnson

Is refreshing required? I've got his twitch channel page open on another monitor...do we need to refresh to pickup the change when he goes live?

John Public

I shan't! Thanks for taking the time to put my mind at ease.

Adam Johnson

I'm in the same boat. I keep hitting refresh every few min.

Peter Williams

Which had the better drop cycle this year - DONDA or this Cyberpunk review? Vote in comments.

Marc Basque

he doesn't appear to be live just yet

Justin

You are! I don't think he's live yet....

John Public

Do not adjust your television set.

Marc Basque

hope you get to absolutely mung out to some big shrek soon Tim

Ty Underwood

So I don't really use Twitch...ever...but figured I'd check this out since I'm actually home and free! I'm at Action Button using Twitch on my Amazonian Stick of Fire, but I don't see anything happening live. Am I twitching correctly?

Adam Johnson

I hope this rebooted Cyberpunk 2077 review doesn't retcon everything from the 2019 original.

Timothy

🥳

Sam

Hngggg

Mundane Pixels

The suspense is killing me. I hope it lasts.

Marc Basque

It's like regular Shrek, but you're high on muscle relaxers.

Timothy

I'm going to assume not, but don't fear! You can probably watch the VOD version of the live stream on twitch afterwards, or someone will archive it on YouTube (search for "bootleg action button twitch vods" to find a channel)

Cleftist

Will those not watching live still be able to experience the twist with a regular viewing of the YouTube upload?

sophie

what is Big Shrek?

Bon Glover

Heckin' Blargian Yeah!

Alex Dabertin

I hope I can catch the VOD before it disappears, I want to pretend to be surprised too! Can’t wait :)

Geoffrey Mitchell

I am beyond excited for the video, but I am even more excited for you to give yourself a chance to rest and enjoy some down time, whatever that may be for one such as yourself! With much love and appreciation, - Brock

Brock Thomas Walsh

HOLLAR!!!!

Matthew D Wilder

nice work bud

Frocto

To bad he couldn't do it like 2 or 3 hours earlier, I got work tomorrow morning :(

amazonen66

I couldn't be more excited. I hope you still intend to take a very long and deserved break after this!

Charlotte and Virdal

That's like midnight in central Europe :(

Celes

I will be both there and square ⬜

Joelle

Excited for the video but pretty disappointed that the premier is prioritised with US viewers… would be cool for us all to experience whatever this twist is….

Alex Spalding

Gosh. Late night action button stream in the UK? I think I can manage that!

jdhathrisen

see Dune, go to sleep be refreshed and super cool and then watch the review/stream brotendo

Sebastian König

I’ve got tickets to see Dune on IMAX at 5:50pm Eastern today. It’s a real rock and hard place decision for me. Help.

Marcus Malone

In case you didn't know: scroll back down Tim's Patreon posts to find a delightful outtakes video!

Conformist

congrats! you did it! I'm so excited!!

Greg Meyer

Well that was uncharacteristically concise. Ready for that -b o n u s- content though.

Garm The Terrible

A very auspicious day. Now go take a break you maniac!

alex convertito

Yeah! I'm gonna try real hard to watch the stream at 8am on the train to work. I love a good twist!

Malcove

Looking forward to it, Tim. Please, please enjoy your well-deserved time off after this.

Justin

Muahahahaha... ?

Jutty

Super hype for this!

irriadin

Needless to say, I'm going to devour this and then probably devour it again. Your thoughts are the fuel for many a serious discussion 'round here. Go easy.

Nathan Noble

Congratulations, Tim - earnestly looking forward to the culmination of your labours on this one, and on the season, the year, on a lot of stuff! This feels big! Huzzah Huzzah!

Nathan Noble

Thanks for all the effort, Tim. Was pumped for this game initially but grew fairly disinterested and never spent time with it. Excited to see how it went for you. Hope you enjoy some good rest

Shane O'Sullivan

This is about as hype as I've been about anything in a long time. I'll be late, but I'll be there. Thank you, Tim!

John Hays

You can't say you've seen ALL of Big Trouble in Little China until you've seen ALL of Big, Big Trouble in Little China.

Scott Mills

Its happening!

Christian Munoz

Backer trash! That's us!

Paul Drager

Funny how i am 140 hours in Cyberpunk 2077, cleared all the side missions, and i still didn't do any missions with Takemura after i met him at the diner. we planned our attack. I met Panam, did some missions with her and met the Vooddoo Boys and that's all. other side missions get vacumed until i turn off the game from exhaustion. but most of all i enjoy just being in this game. I hope you all had the same or close enough to my experience.

Ivan Dolvich from Jagged Alliance 2

Funny how i am 140 hours in Cyberpunk 2077, cleared all the side missions, and i still didn't do any missions with Takemura after i met him at the diner. we planned our attack. I met Panam, did some missions with her and met the Vooddoo Boys and that's all. other side missions get vacumed until i turn off the game from exhaustion. but most of all i enjoy just being in this game. I hope you all had the same or close enough to my experience.

Ivan Dolvich from Jagged Alliance 2

Watching Shrek in Korea was a whole thing. No one laughed at any of the jokes, except for Eunkyung and I. Alone in a room of strangers, inside of the inside of the joke.

Reza Seranitai

Thank you, and congratulations! This is good news

Mitchell Geller

Woooooooooooooo

foglabs

Aw man, I'm busy tomorrow night. And Wednesday night. And Thursday *and possibly Friday* night as well. I'll have to wait an agonizing near-workweek to hang out (what I imagine to be) literally all day with my buddy Tim.

Tanner Schultz

I hope the Twitter segment will be archived! I'll be 30 minutes late! :O

Steven Bowser

Folks, you love to see it. Big ups to Tim.

Jack Gardner

Jutty if you input an awkward creepy laugh here you will officially be a Dark Souls NPC

Jay Caron

The Promise Has Been Made

Jason Chu

So excited! Thank you, Tim. Take whatever kind of break you need after this. I can't imagine the toll this has taken on you

StuTheShoe

HELLO, Tim. Your content convinced me to join my first Patreon ever. Excited for this review. Keep doing what you're doing!

Paul Gandersman

There may or may not be a youtube channel which may or may not record Tim's streams. A bootleg actionbutton twitch vods channel if you will. The kind soul running it may upload the stream at some point and you could maybe catch it there in the future? I mean, if such a channel were to exist that is...

Jutty

Twitter is for goblins and patreon is for raccoons cause we’re all here for bonus trash.

Finn

I'm beyond psyched for BONUS TRASH!

robobeau

you do what works for you, King! Take that walk, drug that neck! I am gonna enjoy the fuck out of this thing, as I have every other Action button video.

Grrrbah

Can’t wait! Glad that the reupload worked in the end. Make sure you take a decent break after all this. Sharing news with us about season 2 is not as important as your own mental and physical wellbeing.

James McIntyre

been looking forward to this. here's to hoping you have a merciful stream setup / driver install

Emma Raymo

🙏🏼

EmpanadaEater

Congratulations, sir! Almost vacation time!

Jutty

Thanks for your hard work, Tim. Can't wait to watch this tomorrow.

Cocokkura

Hoooooooo baby! Thank you and cannot wait. I'll be there with bells on.

Robby Huang

The only thing I want to say is, "Thanks Tim."

King Giddra

ah, they're not actually in san francisco! lol. they just look like san francisco trolleys. they have them in (for example) honolulu

tim rogers

So exciting! Congratulations and thank you!

Squit

proud of u

James Owens

I don't know if I'll make it tomorrow but damn if I'm not gonna try. I actually found out by way of a friend who tagged me with the news in a discord server before the Patreon notifications arrived - the Action Button Fan Base in my life is well connected and filled with power. Glad you've defeated the Trials and Tribulations of "YouTube", and I will see you (either live or time delayed) tomorrow!

Vinushika

Man, I am beyond excited for this one. As Patrick Rothfuss once wrote, "When you wait a few span or month to hear a finished song, the anticipation adds savor. But after a year excitement begins to sour." And although the latter half of that quote might be applied to not a few people 'round twitter, for me the former has only grown stronger this past year. Great job on finally finishing the thing, man. I'm not your dad or nothin. But a good break is definitely earned in my opinion

Canis_Divinus

I am happy, this makes me happy, I am happy to be happy

David Klein

Congrats on getting it all done. Can't wait!

Trent Blackburn

Let's go big daddy!

Juan Barbosa

Oh heck yea! 2 additional hours of delectable Jerry-actic trash! That will make a nice treat for later after having fully digested the Main Course!

Dan Allen

The man, the legend delivers. My body is ready.. ;-)

Dan Hogarth

Looking forward to it. Thanks for the update.

Eric Hamilton Schneider

Inject it into my veins, Jerry I'm chipping in!

Naheem Bogard

Wonderfully exciting news Tim, as much for us as for you to (hopefully) finally be able to enjoy some well-deserved R&R! (emphasis on the "R"!) Thanks so much! 23hrs, 48mins, and counting!

John Public

LMAOO I can't believe it

Kyler Clarke

Looking forward to it, thanks for all your work!

Kiel Cross

That's great news! Well done. 🥳

David Pickavance

Man. I was prescribed muscle relaxers some few months ago that I never finished. Maybe I’ll do a Big *Something* too! Perhaps Big, Big Trouble In Little China

Ross Hamrick

I've been looking forward to this ever since Cyberpunk Pre-Review, congratulations on this Big Thing coming to an end tomorrow, making way for all The New Things!

Aeroza

Take more than a week off, Tim. You deserve some relaxation time after this clustermuck.

Ozymandious Rex

Enjoy Big Shrek!

Danmaku Poser

Oh and Hungry Harvey, obviously xD

Ming Lui

Thanks for the update and all the hard work, Tim. Hope the Unwashed Masses who refuse to Remain Patient haven't been driving you too crazy, I know that stuff gets rough these days.

Andrew Clark

Enjoy the premiere everyone! Unfortunately, it falls within the time of day where I have to be Present (capital p!) in a meeting with the Hand that Feeds tell me that I'm not feeding it fast enough or in sufficient quantities. How cyberpunk is that?

Eben Sullivan

I’m glad to see this YouTube-induced insanity finally come to a close! Thanks for all your hard work, Tim! See you at the premiere :)

Ming Lui

Nice. But more importantly I'm 100% behind you about daylight savings time and all that. It must be a meme now, somehow, to care about whether people use the right term or abbreviation; and it's, uh, I refuse to care. Haven't found anyone to correctly identify why until now.

The Gr8 Scott

maybe the old orange and white muni buses?

Jack

Nice!

Dan Cantu

oh right, I *did* read that! good post.

Mrs. Policewoman

THANK THE STARS. BOB SAGET.

Dave Iacono

So happy to see that it’s finished and you are closer to complete this season of Action Button. Will tune in tomorrow!

Davo Galavotti

In TES4 Oblivion Arena announcer voice: Leave the arena now and rest. YOUVE EARNED IT

JINORU

thx!

Mrs. Policewoman

"it would definitely be one of those San Francisco buses that looks like an old-timey trolley though is actually in fact Just Another Bus." Ok I'm SF resident and I'm not sure what you are talking about. The trolly's on market street are actually real rail cars. And the cable cars are real cable cars. And the buses are just buses. Maybe your talking about those fake touristy things people rent that drive around the city?

Scott

Lookin forward to it thanks Tim!

Nathan Grim

YES

Jim Harrington

I’m so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you, Tim!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emilio

I saw that apolitical comment and couldn't help but think of you killing those cops in GTA and saying, "they just got defunded... Of their lives!"

Conformist

Get outta here!!

György Dudas

One before that, on September 28th.

Jay Caron

Great news! I hope you treat yourself to a well earned break after this!

Robert Booth

Thank you friend I'm very happy can't wait to see it

Sebastian Shumway

Congrats, and get some rest ASAP!

garret

Video games forever. Congrats Tim! This is going to be epic

Josh Bartlett

Pog

Austin Black

I am so excited, Tim! I am glad you were able to get this up, finally. I cannot wait to watch it! 😎

Zack

wait, where's the post in which you mention eating the hand that bites you? that sounds based as hell. was that the last one? I meant to finish reading it, but I got distracted.

Mrs. Policewoman

Awesome, congrats Tim!

Chad Brunet

So excited this saga is finally coming to an end, for your sake! Can’t wait to watch tomorrow. :)

beefo

Great news.

RonDozeee

Cool, thanks Tim.

Chris Cabezas

Paydirt babyy

Jim D

Im super excited!! Thanks for all the hard work you put into this!!

Matsy


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