Cyberpunk 2077

A real shame...broken AI, crap driving, crap shooting, looter shooter not RPG, tonnes of missing features, poor inro/intros, no NPC's riding motorbikes, no push bikes, no car customization, no pad customization, bullet spong enemys on hard and above, Old school gameplay mechanics that have all been done b4 and better, BUGS, more BUGS and then some more( my setup 2080ti+3900x), poor performance, perks are boring, city is boring and uninteractive and tonnes more but can'tbe arsed writing. Good graphics at a servere cost to performance, Sounds ok, Really gutted with this one, back to Dark souls and Deus Ex

CP2077 was never going to live up to unrealistic expectations of a futuristic life sim. But CDPR marketed it as a highly immersive open world RPG, and delivered something different. Instead, we got a story based linear shooter with all the tired old tropes of that genre. Press X to sit. Press X to hand object to NPC. Select from three samey dialogue choices. Now shoot 10 NPCs in the head and advance to the next cutscene, where your character will pretend to have human emotions despite being a homicidal maniac. Much has been said about the game's AI & physics. I think it is unfixable. Even if improved in future updates, it will still be at a level of sophistication that *might* have been state of the art in the 1990s. Mario Kart 64 had better AI! This is at the level of Microsoft Clippy. Either the game engine is incapable of supporting dynamic AI behavior, or CDPR's devs just don't have the skills required to code it. CDPR has promised to fix these problems. The only way to truly fix them is to import the raw assets into Unity or Unreal and start over from scratch. *** This wouldn't be so bad if there was a well crafted story and characters - as in the Witcher series. YMMV here, but I wasn't impressed. Plot summary: "hang out with Keanu Reeves and shoot people. Oh noes evil corp!". Cheap motivation is provided by the two Designated Player Girlfriends and some abused women to get protective over. Still better than, say, Bethesda's awful writing but CDPR has done better in the past. The overall tone isn't really that mature - the evil corp plot, family friendly lack of nudity & perversity (IMO) make it play like some direct-to-video YA movie. *** This review has been pretty harsh. What about the good things? The world design, lighting and sound are superb. 10/10 here. Also, I laughed at the "Milfguard" posters. I believe that CDPR will make a great game again, but this isn't it.

This game is a total turd in its current state. I mean, so many progression bugs that it's starting to drive me crazy. I'm not a "spring through the main mission" type of guy and explore every nook and cranny and have found TONS of bugs that cause me to have to restart from a previous save. I now have to quicksave every 30 seconds to make sure I dont lose 30+ minutes bc CDPR can't do their one job. Can't believe they delayed it so many times for this. Prob will be a good game in 6 months to a year but as it stands, it's hot garbage. Not happy.

Environments look quite nice, but you can't interact with much of it. Controls feel "sluggish". Can't rebind keys. Very annoying "burning" mechanic that just sucks fun out as renders "cover" irrelevant apparently. Driving is just awful - so bad I've elected to sprint across the city to avoid doing it where I can. This has been massively overhyped and I regret getting it. Deus Ex with some mods is far more fulfilling.

The game itself is fun, exploration and lore are great. However as one of the main story quests is completely broken unless you have everything go exactly right it makes it impossible to finish. As this is a main story quest I would expect it to be fixed quite quickly however we are now on 1.0.5 and nothing has changed. So with nothing to do other than restart and lose 50+ hours of playing the game ends here at a frustrating bugged stop.