Cyberpunk 2077

It's clear a lot of content was cut between when the first gameplay footage was shown, and when the game was actually released. The delays did nothing to rectify this, instead they tell a story of a game under incompetent leadership, and abusive working conditions. Every feature CP77 has, I could point to another open world game in the last 10 years that has done it better. From Skyrim to GTAV to Far Cry 5 and Spider-Man Miles Morales. All of these games have something that CP77, a next gen game, does worst.

Night City is really one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen in a game. The main story and some side quests are great, too. But that's it. For an open world game, lacks almost everything an open world with character customization needs, like tattoo parlors, barbers, vehicle stores/customization (at least sometimes you get to buy new cars from fixers), houses to buy/customize. Some of these features were announced being cut from the game, but I was not expecting they would cut everything that makes an open world a fun game to play. Even The Witcher 3 had barbers, and Geralt is not a fully customized character. Also in Blood and Wine DLC you get to customize Corvo Bianco, while in Night City, with hundreds of skyscrappers... I only get to have a poor man's apartment, and nothing to customize. The AI is one of the wors't I've seen in the last decade, not to mention the completely broken wanted system. Vehicle physics and driving are poorly implemented, and if there were taxis I would get them all the time just so I wouldn't have to drive. And for last, this game is not an RPG. Without giving any spoilers... there's a side quest where you have to save someone from a forced surgery and you can't kill the baddies if you want to the most positive outcome. My character was supposed to be a stealth hacker who never enters combat, but there's no way I could complete this quest in the way I wanted to. I could not lure them away (and even if I did, the quest would not trigger the next stage where I save the person), I could not incapacitate them via hacking. I tried to "beat" them by using a non-lethal weapon and that also didn't work. They died... from a non lethal weapon (why even having non lethal weapons then?). The quest forces you to eliminate all the targets, by shooting or force choking them, these are the only two possible ways to finish the quest. Also, I can't rob cool cars in the street, since it require 6 points in Body. What about hacking?

The game has a lot of potential, but feels close to No Man's Sky's Launch version. A lot was promised, and the actual product is disappointing. The controls aren't great. The AI on the streets is abysmal. Why did they even bother with vehicles if the other cars are all on rails? If it had been delayed for another two years, maybe we would've seen a finished game.

So, I watched every night city wire leading up to the game... I watched all the official release stuff... They lied to me and all of you pretty hard and I can't really forgive that. I can forgive a bad game coming out, but this? This is a joke after 7-8 years. Compared to a game like GTAV or RDR2 which took similar times to produce this game is a shallow joke. You can choose your life path, but as everyone has mentioned, that basically means you have some impactless comment you can bring up in convo and that's literally it. Night City Wire... OK, so they interviewed them on the guns... but the guns feel almost the same. There's multiple shotguns and they all do the same thing slightly stagger the opponent and do whatever the RPG dice roll x stat level damage to them and feel the same. You get smart guns and then an entire gang just jams it. This part is not terrible because it's an RPG shooter, you expect a borderlands gun feel to it... But there's no strategy to the gunfights because of it and less mobility than you have in borderlands to compensate. It's just hide behind cover and shoot them in the head 42 times. NCW 2, they interview and talk about the gangs and how they're all unique and interact with the player differently... But no, in fact if it wasn't for the different skins they have you wouldn't know who you're fighting at all. There's some interaction with the main storyline but your choices and actions have entirely NO impact on the gangs or the locations at all. All the nonmain story missions are handed out with a very soulless phone call system where it's not a conversation even, just a "There's a guy in there that I want you to save, detes in your text messages". Try to sneak in... I dare you. Oh, no, because the stealth is garbage. Try to hack in, well, sometimes you can but it doesn't get you anywhere without still stealthing and fighting people. You save yourself one door worth of sidestepping. This game is not what we were sold.

Good: - City looks nice - Great soundtrack Bad: - City only looks nice. There is no depth to it - Map filled with icons, but those feels like fillers, not proper quests and jobs like in Witcher 3 - City layout is confusing. Sometimes to get to near quest, you need drive a around a lot - Very buggy - Almost no RPG mechaniscs, and those which exists feel very flat. Overall feels more like looting shooter - User Interface is made for game pads without proper version for mouse/keyboard users. Overall this is the last game I have ordered from CDPR.