Cyberpunk 2077

A major, and I mean MAJOR disapointment. I bought mine on steam to get the steam achievments. But I don't see myself playing this game very much because it's certainly no---where--near--as--good as the Witcher was. Combat stinks. Keyboard and mouse is horrid. And, most importantly, the game is really not much or a true open world NOR should it really be labelled as an RPG. ..I was so much looking forward to this game. And it turned out to be a turd. The game is pretty and that's about it. It looks good with my RTX 3090 Aorus Extreme...but that's about it. I give it 2 stars for looks alone. All else is really a major letdown. What a waste of a game...and...ALL THIS TIME WAITING for what was being marketed as the RPG of the decade. It is really a sad shame. ..I'd rather go and play an older game that IS a true RPG and IS NOT a mere console port like this game. I would advise ALL of you potential buyers to wait until next year and maybe buy it for less than 20 bucks. If you're looking for RPG freedom story wise. The game has zilch. If you're looking to play on PC via mouse and keyboard...forget it. If you're looking for great combat and meaningful choices that produce a fully custom story etc....the game has zilch. Such a shame.

Optimization is terrible. Controls are horrible(even on gamepad crouch is for dialog skip). Immersion sucks - if you leave your car on driveway, you will get traffic jam that will silently stand behind your car. You build up your game about openworld with cars, but those cars have terrible controls. Quests are buggy sometimes, nothing critical but you need to dance in front of an npc before quest trigger will activate. This game can becobe one of the best games in 2021, but in 2020 thats a dissapointment. Oh and btw you have dicks and guts everywhere in this game, but you can't kill a child? wtf?

Disclaimer: 25 hours played, couple main quests after lockdown. Don't treat this as a completed review. I'm dissapointed and feal slightly cheated. I've been waiting for this game since the teaser aired all those years ago, I didn't really think my expecations were unrealistic - I wanted an rpg with an immersive open world - full of memorable stories and the freedom to engage in them in whatever way I pleased. What I seem to be getting is mostly a pretty good story on rails and shiney, superficial fluff. I really think the game could have benefited from a node based approach like Deus Ex, because of how shallow the current open world feels. In the interest of saving me some time, I'll just do some bullet points: Pros: -Gorgeous visuals and graphics design/art direction -Fun combat -Great story writing, character design, and voice casting -A lot of side quests of varying complexity to do (spent most of my time so far in Watson) Cons: -Stealth gameplay leaves much to be desired -Perks don't feel impactful, mostly just passive number boosts -City feels like a setpiece, there is almost zero interactibility. You can't sit at food stalls, grab a bite, chat, and soak in the atmosphere. You can't join in at roulette tables or arcade machines. You can't play pachinko! I feel like even GTA San Andreas did a better job at making the city feal interesting -A lot of immersion breaking nitpicks such as the lack of eating/drinking animations outside of scripted events or repeating setpieces. I'll continue to play as I still find the game to be fun but I do hope that CDPR will pull a No Man's Sky and really save this game from mediocrety, because as it stands, I feel like the marketing/media/critics have been extremely disengenious and misleading.

Some issues you can overlook in a AAA title, some you can overlook in an indie title, & there are some issues: annoyances, tedium, poor design choices you just can't take. Cyberpunk has all of them. In some ways it reminds me New Vegas in the sense that it's bugged out of it's mind but you still want to go back to it. It 's a game you want to like and want to give a chance to, not because you pre-purchased it or it's overhyped. Main story is not much to look at, nor are the side stories. Mostly generic, nothing that shocks or amazes you. You can see how it'll end from the start and you don't get surprised at all. Game doesn't bother introducing a huge plethora of insignificant characters that does very little, other than calling you randomly causing phone interface to occupy 1/3 of your UI, limiting movement for some reason and scuffing whatever you were doing may it be driving, fighting, moving towards a marker in the middle of a quest or running from cops -who decided to summon an army with drones and all because you bumped into or God forbid, walked too close to one of them. It's the open world filled with things to do and places to explore that drives you to go on. Unfortunate that so many of the missions, gigs, jobs whatever tey're called are bugged to a point that you end up having to return to an old save. Almost one in every 3 activities get bugged. So hard save before you start, and keep quicksaving. There's seeming variety in guns, armor, abilities etc but doesn't go further than "seeming". I think controls are designed with consoles in mind, so PC users: get f**ked. Your character gets input lag or straight up becomes unresponsive especially if the quest you're in dialogue etc gets scuffed from time to time. Especially driving, to me at least, was terrible. You may think a studio like CDPR to know a thing about what not do in an RPG like sticking people behind a slow walking NPC, unskippable/mandatory long monologues, tedium but nope, you'd be wrong.

An unplayable mess of unfulfilled promises, made for consoles in every way (but even less playable on them).