Cyberpunk 2077

I'm absolutely sure it's a good game, but the poor optimization and various bugs prevented me from enjoying the plot. The game is an unfinished sculpture. It must be excellent when it is finished.I want to give this game 4 star AT FIRST. But when I know it will have a new free "dlc"in 2021. How dare you call it DLC, it just be and must be a patch of game itself.Do you think players will appreciate the perfunctoriness?You think we don't know the truth? There is a Chinese idiom called ”好高骛远“.Hopefully you know what that means 2 star 2021.1.1

1st: the amount of game breaking and immersion breaking bugs is unacceptable. And the performance on all platforms is unacceptable. Progression: I like the Skyrim-inspired way of leveling. The more you use the skill, the more it levels up. But the perks in this game is uninspired. It's just vertical progression where numbers increase. Increased health, stamina, damage, etc.. It's unfulfilling and lazy. There's not much perks that gives horizontal progession, where new paths and ways of playing are introduced. Like dodging in air like in titanfall or wall running. Which can give new ways to experience the game. And the amount of xp needed for skills are high in crafting and athletics. It takes forever to level up athletics. And crafting was a last minute thought. You need a lot of resources to craft and upgrade items. And you can't craft multiple items at once. You can spend hours in the crafting menu to upgrade a legendary item. There's perks that helps with it but its still a hassle to do. Earning money takes forever without exploits. To buy all the cars, you need a lot of money, and you get so little from doing the side jobs and gigs. Story: The story feels rushed. The 3 lifepaths don't really alter the game. It's disappointing compared to how they advertised the game. You spend little amount of time with character they introduced. So you don't care for them and forget them. Few characters are well written. But most of it is rushed. The game ends abruptley without answering questions. The are good quest, but they are few. Most are simple kill these people or something, nothing profound like Ubisoft games. I can write more about the game but I am reaching the max amount of characters. Overall, I like the aesthetic of the game. There's promise to the game if they fix it up and expand the game. There are some things that needs an overhaul or completely change. I enjoy some parts of the game.

A lot of features anounced are not in the game, i feel like cdpr cheats on me..

Positive: - Storyline. - Characters. - Soundtrack. - Side quests. Negative: - Countless bugs and glitches. - Lifeless Night City. - AI is a total mess. - No third person cutscenes. - Open world is not open at all. (invisible barriers putting you back) - No enterable buldings, bars, strip clubs. - No car and bike customization. - No character customization after creating a character (haircuts, tattoos, cyberware). - No basic RPG elements (animated eating food, drinking, sitting on random bench/chair etc.) - Main story is very short and linear, choices matter only endgame, how you want to end the story. Plus i dont like how you can repeat the endings, because after credits, it will load you the latest autosave before you started the final quest. - Lifepaths are basically pointless, you will always end up as a Street Kid. Dialogue choices based on lifepaths, doesnt matter at all. - Cut Content: This is my main problem. There are few i mentioned above like no third person cutscenes, rpg elements. But promised features shown even in trailers and gameplay demos doesnt exist. Like why there is no Thermal Katana in the game, when it was shown in the " Tools of Destruction " trailer??? - Gangs are meaningless, just enemy NPCs to kill, loot, repeat. - This is simply not a mature RPG set in the dark future as it was presented and promised... And it pains me to add this review from my experience, as i was very excited for Cyberpunk 2077 for years. I really hope developers can make this game better, in the future minor dlcs, great expansion packs like in the W3 and constant patches and updates. I really want to love the game and keep coming back to it, but Cyberpunk 2077 STILL needs a lot of work, because it is not finished product.

So, where to begin. My credentials: approaching 40, played a lot of pen&paper Cyberpunk 2020 back in the day, even wrote some content for the unofficial portal (Night City Limits ahoy). I've put in 110+ hours to date, on my second playthrough. The good: - Art and design is amazing. Even after 50 hours I could discover a small street or a location that awed me. Simply beautifully handcrafted, you can see the level designers poured their hearts into this. That also includes vehicles. - Story is ok. You can spot that the writers read William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy and a couple of other things. And of course respect for Maximum Mike's material. The ok-ish: - Gameplay loop is reminding me of Deus Ex from 2011 or, even farther, to Vampire Bloodlines. There are some nice ideas here and there (like the automatic leaning system... however not really a new invention, just copied from somewhere else, like Viet Cong). They put more emphasis on shooting and violence rather than stealth. It works, but the skilltree design is messy. The main problem is that it's very derivative. - Quest system. Now I have a problem with this one. I like the "buffet" narrative where you can build your experience from the parts you want and not just be shoehorned into completing all quests until you reach the last one. However, the writing is all over the place. There are some very well designed quests with multiple outcomes. One excellent example is the "repentant murderer gangoon" quest on the road to redemption. No spoilers, but I had a real moral quandary with this one and it left a very lasting impact on me. On the other hand, there are some quests that seem to be simple go-kill-fetches. I like the general idea, but the execution is a messy. The bad: - State of release and removed content. I will not comment on this, but man, if you guys at CDPR stop don't take this to get rid of your know-it-all arrogant attitude then you don't deserve to have a company.