Cyberpunk 2077

Ok, the good and bad: Good - - Looks amazing if you can afford the hardware - City itself is really well designed, a marvel to look at - Car design, in and out, is top notch - Writing and Dialogue are good - Mike Pondsmith cameo - Tarot cards, would totally buy a deck if available IRL - Johnny Silverhand - Double Jump Bad - - There really is too much potential wasted. Why do police spawn around me when I commit a crime? Why isn't there a bounty system? Why does my car spawn inside walls / other cars? Why can't I pick up 1/6 of the items in the world due to some LoS bug? Why isn't there any visual / audio feedback for the player with the cooler perks like Coldblood? What is the point of having all food and drink offer the same pointless buffs? What is the point of food stalls if you can't sit down and immerse yourself, if there is infinite food litering the ground? Why can't I order a Jackie Welles or a Johnny Silverhand at Afterlife? Why does crafting anything of value require significant point placement in perks and attributes when it would be better to use the legendaries you find and other better perks? Why can't a change my character's appearance after creation? Why are most cyberware mods just background stats? Why isn't there a cyberware surgery scene outside the tutorial? Why do my items show as 0 armor or 0 dps in storage? Why do my upgraded weapons reset after certain missions? Where are all the futuristic super drugs? Why aren't there different playstyles for choices like a corpo start going more pro-corpo? All in all, as an action adventure game, Cyberpunk is interesting and fun at times, even if it is extremely buggy. As an RPG, Cyberpunk is a serious dissapointment, and often an outright failure in design. You will find better immersion, character choice, and self expression elsewhere.

Not sure how CDPR managed to snap defeat from the jaws of victory here. A janky game engine, awful AI and just pure failure on what should have been a home run with basic compentency at helm. This game is not ready - and we should not celebrate it being "fine" because releasing something of this quality should be unacceptable as a product. Accepting this as "OK" allows future games to also mislead us with their marketing - because if CP2077 could do it, why not any other game? For gamers, this could really be considered the crowning jewel on an amazingly shitty year.

...Dit Skyppy le flingue... Nous n'aborderons pas l'humour beauf de ce jeu ici... Je ne peux pas accomplir la quête Epistrophy à cause d'un bug... Mon R9 + ma RTX3090 ne parviennent pas à faire tourner le jeu à plus de 50 ips... L'histoire est pleine de raccourcis: 2 minutes pour changer de vie, 2 heures pour devenir l'ami ultime d'un abruti. Le reste du jeu en compagnie de ce mec, là... Non! Le téléphone...Les gens que je ne connais pas et qui m'appellent tout le temps... C'est tellement triste, cet univers aurait du être époustouflant! Mais les PNJ, le vide et même la qualité graphique... Parfois, le jeu essaie de lancer de grandes choses, notamment lorsqu'il fait référence à l'antiquité gréco-romaines et qu'il met sur la table des questionnements philosophiques. Mais même ça, ça n'est pas abouti. Il y a 6 ans, je découvrais ce jeu. C'est si triste. C'était ma plus grosse attente depuis que je joue aux JV... I tried to translate my test in english: ...said Skippy the gun... OK! I won't talk about the humour in this game...(Neanderthal) I can't accomplish the Epistropgy quest because of a bug... My R9 + RTX 3090 can't handle the game at more than 50 fps... The Story is full of shortcuts: 2 minutes to change your life, 2 hours to be the ultimate friend of an idiot. The rest of the game in company of this guy... No! The Phone...The people I don't know who call me everytime... So sad, this world should have been astonishing! But the NPCs, the void, even the graphics... What the heck!... Sometimes the game makes things great with its antiquity quotes and its philosophical questions. But even this, is not finished!... 6 years ago I discovered this game... So sad!... It was my most anticipated game ever.

Preordered the game but after seeing the poor state the gameplay is in (deliberately ignoring the bugs here) decided I would have to wait at least 6 more months before I can play it for real. Now, a month after that the game is already discounted to 30$. So in reality I payed 30$ for the game and 30$ for the privilege to play the alpha build. --- If it was not for the hype or this game was done by a different publisher I wouldn't buy it even for 20$. There is really nothing that innovative here and the core gameplay loop is boring. The first 6 hours of the game are actually ok, but the further your progress the more you see that the developers focused on the first few hours so that all the reviewers who don't play the full game before making a review can see all the good stuff. The last 50% of the game is absolutely generic, your choices don't actually matter at all for the most time and the ones that do have less impact than e.g. in Witcher 3. It's really just "Witcher 3 fan-made cyberpunk DLC" than a standalone game. --- Remember mantis blades and how cool they seemed in promo material? It's really just a katana skin, that's it, in fact there are better swords in the game than the mantis blades, making them totally pointless as they take a cyberware slot. Left click to stab, right click to strong stab, is this what you wanted?

My main gripe about Cyberpunk was that if felt like a story heavy looter shooter, not RPG. With 2.0 it's not even a looter shooter anymore, just FPS with redundant skill trees. Everything that I disliked about 2077 earlier, linear story, unresponsive world, overwhelming companion that can't be turned off is still there. Just with more tedious gameplay and some classic bugs.