Cyberpunk 2077

It's pretty okay. The story is good, if not a little forced. The main story is not about the stuff that happens, but the relationships the main characters have with each other. That stuff is all well-written. The stuff that happens on the other hand feels kind of contrived. The false sense of urgency is weird, as is the way the game defaults back to the next main story quest every time any side mission is completed. It is like it tries to funnel you through the main line, whilst explaining ad nauseum how important and dire things are, and how you are up against a ticking clock that simply doesn't exist. This extends to the game world. It very much exists for the player character. It does not feel like a world that exists outside of what would be good for the PC. There is random stuff laying around for the taking. None of the NPCs are doing anything. They just walk around aimlessly and have a doppelgänger on every corner. No one appears to have any kind of thoughts going on outside of missions. Police wander as aimlessly as the rest and ignore any crimes happening right in front of them unless committed by the player. Vendors exist everywhere, but you cannot even talk to them. Graphically it is pretty good. It has weird stuff going on though that can be distracting. There are flaming trash bins everywhere that do not act as a light source. If the fire isn't going to emit any light, why choose to have the barrel on fire. Just have it be full of trash. Don't have other miscellaneous light sources everywhere if the engine is not capable of rendering enough shadows for them. This can be overcome if you turn on path tracing, but good luck with that if you don't have a 4090. Maybe if I had a smaller 1440p monitor instead of a 70" 4k monitor I could hit the right frame rates, and not notice that turning on upscaling borks the anti-aliasing. I hear the DLC is really good, but I am not about to pay $30 for DLC to a game that I rate as "pretty okay."

Fix the bugs please. They are too distraction and break the immersion completely. You shouldn't have released the game in a state like this. 8 years of waiting ruined Samuray out.

1-Story: Not gonna spoil, but a certain turn of events clears the air about what "it's about saving yourself" means, and pretty quickly. Maybe too quickly. As quickly as the game throws a 2 minutes montage at us and expects us to care about certain npcs. The whole plot feel rather lackluster. No stars here. 2-Gameplay: If you are a controller type of gamer like me, just unplug it and use keyboard + mouse. "Aim Assist" does not help with aiming, which remains a torture. Most of the cars felt like old muscle cars with 0 handling and poor braking power: at some point I've decided to simply fast travel to destinations. Hacking and other mechanics don't bring anything new to the table, while stealth is possibly the most frustrating: your companion typically screws them all by following you like a drunk hobo trying to walk a straight line, while you're trying to surgically sneak past enemies. Speaking of drunk hobos: Melee combat. Seriously, I'm well past my 40s, but I was yet to see anything as terrible as this. Not even 4D Sports Boxing on the Amiga 500 felt as terrible (and it's a game from 1991). Enemies benefit from some sort of perks that I wish to have, as they manage to deal damage through your "blocks", and somehow even get to hit you even while swinging in an entirely different direction. Gameplay is so bad it brought me memories of what gaming felt like in the 80s/90s: so I'm giving it 1 Nostalgia Star. 3-Graphics: I'd say the only 2 things that shine are Night City and npcs Mo-Cap. The city actually has the cyberpunk vibe, even tho it just remains a "vibe". The so much anticipated (sexy) private shows are mere cosmetics *coff* baits *coff*: too bad, for an heavily sexualized city as a cyberpunk city should be. Not to mention food kiosks, where you can't order anything (anti-covid restrictions?) 4-Audio: 1 star for the music (they've been "chippin in" on music so much, so it was to be expected); Conclusions: At least wait for a patch (and/or a discount).

I've spent the last 2 days troubleshooting this game trying to get it to run. Farthest I get is the start of the first cut scene before it crashes my entire system. That's if I'm lucky and it hasn't already crashed my display driver launching. As of the time of this review I've not heard back from GoG. I originally submitted a ticket clearly stating that if I can't get it to work I want a full refund. They asked if I would mind gog wallet funds instead or if they could help troubleshoot the problem. I was more than happy to try and troubleshoot it. I had already followed everything in the help center as well as their official cyberpunk support page and explained as such. No a word since.

Die Welt an sich ist fantastisch geworden, unabhängig von den generischen NPC's ist es eine glaubhafte Stadt die man sich so in der Zukunft Real vorstellen könnte, der Soundtrack ist auch bombastisch gut(wenn er richtig einsetzt) und das war es auch schon... Der Rest ist leider so verbugged oder nicht zu Ende gedacht, dass man es nicht positiv hervorheben kann. Die Anfangs Erwähnte Stadt hat eine tolle Sogwirkung aus der man aber leider ständig herausgerissen wird, weil wieder irgendwas bugged, glitched oä. Bsp. Man bestreitet eine Mission und plötzlich taucht hinter einem ein Gegner auf(man ist den Weg gerade abgelaufen, da war keiner...), der alarmiert alle und die schießen einen zu Klump. Neuladen and again... Gegner sehen einen teils durch Wände, Böden oder wenn man hinter Ihnen läuft. Benutzte Gegenstände von NPC's bleiben häufig an Ort und Stelle. Das Essen oder Zigaretten steckt nicht in den Händen der NPC's wenn Sie es nutzen usw. usw. diese Art von Fehlern gibt es ohne Ende, was die Immersion stark stört. Man wird mit Items überhäuft und hat am Ende gar keine Lust mehr sich alles anzuschauen, weniger wäre hier mehr gewesen. Das könnte ich ewig so weiter aufführen, aber dafür reicht der Platz nicht. Ich gehe nun lieber auf den Titel dieser Rezension ein. War es wirklich nötig letztes Jahr um diese Zeit unbedingt ein Releasetermin anzukündigen? Die 3 Verschiebungen sind nicht das Problem, dieses Spiel ist heute nicht fertig und am 16. April war es auch nicht fertig. Gestern waren die Game Awards, da hätte man einen Release für 16.04.21 ankündigen können oder noch später. Das hätte jeder verschmerzen können. Aber der sinnlose Druck einen Releasetermin bekannt zu geben, obwohl noch nicht viel fertig war, war ein großer Fehler. Ich liebe das Spiel nach wie vor, aber die Politik die CDPR hier betrieben hat, ist für mich nicht nachvollziehbar und das blinde vertrauen was ich vorher hatte, ist erstmal weg.