Cyberpunk 2077

It's hard to rate a game positive if it's broken. Few game updates came but I still get crash reports and can't play it at all. Tried updated drivers, windows, reinstaled game, set low graphics and etc. I hope they will fix it soon and I would change my mind about this game...

CDPR released an unfinished game engine demo, not a game. I dig the art style and the music though, so props to the artists, composers and designers. Maybe in a couple years they will manage to deliver on some promises they have made.

The game is OK, but nothing special. It has so much potential to be more, but misses the mark in several respects. Aside from some bugs (my playthrough only had a few minor bugs) the other issues are lackluster gameplay, poor balance, missing features, and some weird censorship decisions which seem to have been made just prior to release. The gameplay is is a bog standard shooter with some RPG elements. There are melee and stealth systems, but they're not robust and there's nothing here that you can't find in another game with those features. The balance is terrible - certain categories of weapons are completly overpowered even without getting perks to upgrade them (Tech weapons can pierce through walls and can be charged up to do major damage), others are terrible even if you try to spec into them (such as the Monowire melee cybernetic upgrade, which has no perks associated with it as opposed to the other melee options, and the damage buff you receive from investing in the "Cool" stat is negligible). The world is full of detail and looks beautiful, but you can interact with so little of it that it still somehow ends up feeling empty and lifeless. The vast majority of sidequests are inconsequential. Break in, kill/steal x, then leave. Some of the sidequests have unique dialogue and interactions, and lead to their own quest chains, but nowhere near enough of them, at least in comparison to the Witcher 3. Even the story felt lackluster. Most people seem to be content with the story, but I felt like the story was very frontloaded - there was some great buildup and emotoinal scenes near the beginning of the game which sucked me in, but as the game went on there started to be less and less of this, concluding in one of several endings which all felt anticlimactic and devoid of emotion to me. The game needs some major revision and fixes and feature creep in order to justify the price tag. If you want to play a shooter, play CoD. If you want to play an RPG, play TW3.

Game is really good, very promising in many ways. But number of small and bigger bugs is really annoying. It shoudn't be released in this state. After playing about 10h, I've decided to wait until februrary or march until more patches comes out. #brokensamurai

Despite what you might have expected, I'd give this a 4/5 at best for its story (excellent) and gameplay (medeocre). The bugs, lies and everything else lose it another point. The environment is 80% there, but many of the most interesting parts of the map are inaccessible (see rooftops, many interiors etc.) or haven't enough content/rewards in them to warrant even going to them. See Bethesda games or even The Witcher for how you should reward a player for taking time playing off the beaten track. The RPG elements are sub-par. Your actions appear to have little impact on anything that happens during the game itself (not including the story ending, from what I have heard). This is expected in any game really as no developer could flesh out any conceavable option, but ontop of many sidemissions (with notable exceptions) being extremely samey, a lack of random events (see above) and many parts of the tropes of cyberpunk literature unexplored due to lack of time spent on them (see netrunning - which is pretty much 1/3 of what 'cyberpunk' is - fairly absent in a novel form). Finally, the gunplay is broken and easy due to AI issues. Even on the hardest difficulty, pinging enemies and shooting them through walls from 100m away is a ludicroudly viable tactic. AI is absolutely awful given the year we're in. Police persuits are a joke. This entire game stands upon its storywriting (which is some of the best I've seen) and flouders in actual gameplay and scope. This is unfortunate, because there was no reason for this to happen.