Cyberpunk 2077

I'll be blunt, I don't get why some people love this game so much, and I don't think this is a very good game. Just over two years after it launched, it's still a very pretty game. The graphics are top notch and it's one of the few games out there that I feel like I might actually be missing something because my AMD card can't do proper ray tracing without butchering performance. But, aside from that skin, there's just not much here. The story is okay, but the only reason I'm finding it compelling is that it seems to be the only way you can actually find anything to do in Night City. If I don't play the main quest, nothing seems to be happening. Side quests seem to be few and far between, and wandering around the city randomly you won't add much else to your to-do list. Pretty much nobody you come across interacts with you meaningfully, and almost every door you find is locked tight. The few people of any consequence that you come across, like the various fixers, don't really get fleshed out in any meaningful way, and nothing you do seems to really matter. Hacking and sneaking works, but isn't really very useful anywhere compared to just going in guns akimbo, and dialogue options always seem to boil down to the same outcome no matter what approach you take. Everything is just so, sterile. The whole city is dead, like nobody has ever actually lived in it. I guess my biggest complaint with this game isn't that it's necessarily a bad game, it's just that it doesn't really offer anything interesting. It's an open world game that lets you run around a big city, but it's a boring city. It's a city filled with violence and corruption and opportunity, but you always feel like you're an outsider to all of it unless the main story forces you to participate. At the end of the day, the thing that condemns this game isn't the terrible, buggy launch, it's the fact that even after all the effort to fix it, there just wasn't really anything worth fixing to begin with.

Why the hell is F blocked? And I,O,P,J,K,M...too? Yes, some of them I would need. A game like this, where I can't freely assign the keys is worthless.

The game itself, meaning story and gameplay is good and could be much fun BUT the technical state of the game is just abysmal. The game is poorly optimized and bugged. It is simply unfinished and should have NEVER been released in this state. The recommended system requirements are an absolute joke, the game runs very poorly even tho i have a better system then recommended, it cant get a stable 60 fps on 1080p and low to medium settings. You cant play for 10 min without comming across a bug. I really would like to give this game a good rating but i can not recommend it to anyone in its current state, except people with NASA pc´s that dont mind playing a unfinished beta. I was so hyped for this game, it was the first game ever i preordered. Well thats a lesson for me to never preorder again.

Performance is.. non-existent. I'll just write down some random stuff: - I love netrunning and infiltrating a building - Dialogue sometimes doesnt play(forced to reload) - There is no AI for cars, the npcs just float along a predetermined path, cutscene driving feels like the skyrim intro cart ride to give you an idea - Item comparisons in inventory sometimes compare wrong items - the Lifepaths are an illusion, they do not change the game at all, they essentially are just 3 styles of pre-prologue - not an RPG as advertised, V is the V cdpr wants him to be, your clicking barely makes a difference. - cant say much about the gunplay as 25fps make it hard to begin with - character creation is totally meaningless unless you use an immersion breaking photomode which is entirely optional - character customization does not include any adjustments to the body type, Nose, Ears, Eyes, Mouth, thats it, the rest is on top - there is an option to add genitals to your character, you will never see any of that outside of the inventory screen - Scanner is a cool thing as it also slows down time in some scenarios, but it just blurs the already blurred imagine even more making it hard to see what you're even looking at - you cannot reliably use the scanners zoom because zoom and choosing a quickhack is on the same controls(mousewheel) - arcades are purely cosmetic, no minigames - during brawls NPCs will immersionbreakingly teleport up to 2m meters to make a miss connect anyways - 95% of the skilltree is just "deal 5% more dmg while 'generic condition' is met" - driving needs a lot of getting used to but even if you get the hang of it, it doesnt feel great - no car customizations at all - your vehicles are just spawned in whenever you need them, no garage to view all owned - apartment is meaningless, no reason to return to your home despite it being a cool place - the shops for weapons and armor feel meaningless - map is actually pretty small

This is not a game I had been expecting. I expected a revolution in open world gameplay and what I got was not even an evolution. There is a potential but so far it's been missing. The game tries to feel like a next-gen experience, but in reality it's very old-gen. I stopped playing the game entirely (RTX 3070, everything ultra, 1440p) because I am offended by: - the stupid/boring side quest system - the horrible AI - tons of visual bugs - the horrible in-game map - the game's missing potential to be exceptional I actually dont mind frame drops at all, yeah it's annoying but...the game treats me like if I was an idiot. VentureBeat is right - Cyberpunk 2077 is a map game. This level of immersion and map quality is expected from Ubisoft, not from you guys. I had expected more than just looking at the map and walking towards exclamation marks. This city is not living, the city is actually static. Where are those thousands of people with their routines like you had claimed it would be? There's nothing like this in the game. Geez the cops next to my room had been knocking on the same door for 3 days! On the street there are two cops standing there maybe for a week. The people on the streets really do nothing, they just randomly walk, they randomly appear and also randomly disappear. Yeah I also experienced this when I ran over a pedestrian and a cop appeared out of nowhere and started to shoot at me. This is Cyberpunk 2077 goddamit! It was supposed to be revolutionary! Why does it have to be played like every other open world game? You did The Witcher 3, an open world game with the best design of the world and quests! Why did not you evolve what you had started with The Witcher 3 into a perfection?