Cyberpunk 2077

...for releasing a game in such an unfinished state. Cyberpunk should have been in development for at least another year.

In current state game is semi broken, there is amazing setting and so far good story but from game and technical perspective it is complete disaster. It is at best really early beta level, very late alpha quality. Compared to to something like Kingdom Come or Skyrim this is way worse. They were just really really buggy, but not broken. From many things that are really bad: no reasonable way to rebind keys, no quick save and nearly no check points, broken wide screen display support, broken aiming controlls(big input lag...) mouse and keyboard is really not a game pad... Really shame to release and market something that broken, next time choose one platform and add the ports gradually or something, especially if you don't have manpower and knowledge to do it at once. I hope that this will be salvageable by CDPR and community modders over the coming years. For now it will be stashed on the shelf and gathering dust and wating for the (community) patches.

The lore, writing and characters are amazing and in general I'm having fun with this game. I don't have RTX but the game runs smooth and nice on my machine (but I have friends that are having huge performance issues, maybe I'm the luck one) BUT - There are missing features that were advertised; - AI is crappy; - Bugs that breaks immersion; - Bugs that forces you to reload (save often); - Sometimes I just can't pick items from the floor;

Beat the main story in 5h36m. I liked the story until Johnny was introduced then the game felt like a chore. None of the choices matter, they just force you to pick the first option to continue anyway. It seems like the devs didn't play through the chat interactions to give the player the correct responses. Misty and Jackie are the only characters that we truly friends in the game. The others were either assholes to you or flat out stab you in the back on multiple occasions but you are always forced to respond as if they were your friend. For those unfriendly backstabbers that died, you don't get to do the deed. One even introduced a new character and they murdered them in front of you making me instantly hate the new NPC for taking that option from me. The graphics are great, controls are weird. Almost impossible to aim with a controller. Police interactions are so easy to get away from they might as well have not included them. There are a couple of bugs that ruined the emersion of the game but for me nothing that broke the game. There are a couple of missions you will have to put on easy as it is impossible to beat on anything else. No matter your skill, enemies pop in attacking you and killing you before you have control of your character. On easy, you'll have low health but can pass once you have control. Make sure you are never crouched when a cutscene starts or it can prevent you from reaching a mission checkpoint. Overall I think the game was just overhyped. And was much more frustrated by not having the options to say certain things in the chat interactions. Like I was playing a stupid gullible character and there was nothing I could do to change it. I will not be playing again as most missions were either really boring or such a chore.

If there hadn't been 8 years worth of hyped up interviews, gameplay trailers and presentations, I probably wouldn't be as disappointed with the game as I am now. Objectively when I look at the released version of 2077 I'm reminded of the releases of Fallout 3 or the first release of Skyrim. It's a buggy, glitchy mess, but it's still fun to play through. However compared to the amount of polish and the amazing, deep and intricate world we were promised, Cyberpunk starts to sag under the weight of everything it came up short in delivering. There's so many bugs, so, so many. To date the ones that are messing with me the most are constant audio cut outs when the game hiccups or loads into a new area. Ladders have a 50/50 shot of actually letting V reach the top, or just dropping him back down. There's many others, but then there's other issues, like how trying to follow the map when driving leads me to often miss turns because of how little warning you get before they pop up, and a host of other issues that make the game frustrating to play at times. Now there are good sides, some of the character dialogue and personalities really shine through. You can really feel like some people are living, breathing people in night city. There's a lot of really good writing that draws you into the game and makes it incredibly immersive. Then the bugs and glitches rear their ugly head and it drags you back out of the game. Again, if there hadn't been 8 years of hype towards the release, I'd probably give Cyberpunk a 3-4, a good game that needs a lot of improvements. Once I've finished this playthought I'll definitely be back, but not for another year or two, when I know that the game is actually polished and finished.