Cyberpunk 2077

i was very excited - because I love the cyberpunk aesthetic since my teenage years - so I am always looking forward to games that represent this aesthetic and so with all the advertising of how extraordinary and advanced it will be - it is plain and simple a huge let down. when it comes to creating your character, games like saints row IV (2013) and fallout4 (2015) had a more advanced system than cyberpunk - even skyrim's (2011) character editor was better. what bugs me a lot: in the game you can't change yourself, as the story continues and makes progress, you can't have progress in your style: getting more tatts or change the hair, piercing, make up or change your augs at plastic doc - first i thought you can look into mirrors and at least change your hair & make up but no, you can just stare. a friend said: you feel like the most average character in NC under all these npcs. true and so sad, bc he is right. lifepaths, dialogue options, nothing is of impact. no relationships to the people around you. they hate you or they don't care, there are no deeper connections to them. risky situation, you know all is f***ked. dialogue. 3 options. you know all s***s but you calm your partner down with option 3. and instead from going on and make progress with that choice, dialogue just ends by using option 1 where you scream and blame your partner. 97% all of the dialogues are like that. the characters are not enough to go but the technical bugs with keys and all, has been adressed by others. the only plus point is the rich enviroment and the open world (and even here it lacks badly with interacting with it). when i see, all the other games and how they all were on release date and how far back they came out - i don't know where CDPR takes the audacity to bring out a game with so many bugs and flaws and delay it two big times.

Every time I try open the game up on my PC. I get the same message. It goes like this, "Whoa! Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlined. We've created this anonymous error report, which you can send our way to help us fix the problems in the near dear future." I successfully downloaded the game and yet I can't play it. I've restarted my PC. I logged out my account and relogged in. I don't know what to do. What I do know is that $60 is not in my bank account no more and yet I am unable to play a game is officially out and that I officially purchased.

I enjoyed this game at first, but it gets old really fast. The combat and driving are lackluster, the characters are bland, the MAIN character is completely forgettable - unlike Geralt, which is the caliber of writing I was expecting and paying for. Then you have all the bugs, which screams that nobody tested this or that if they did, nobody cared to fix the problems - too busy playing with their virtual dicks, I suppose. The graphics are amazing, but I paid for a game, not a movie. I have requested a refund. My only hope is that they'll pull a "no man's sky" and make the game significantly better, in which case I'll grab it when it goes on sale.

Others have reviewed the clunky mechanics, shallow combat, and world that is simply an initially impressive but ultimately shallow stage, so I'll focus on the narrative and how it led to expectations that were sadly not met. Without delving into spoilers, the main story locks you out of exploration in Act 1, and in Act 2 it opens up with one of the most "urgent" main storytelling I've experienced in an open-world game, making doing the side-gigs feel tonally dissonant to say the least. Worse, there is a grim and at this point overdone theme through all the available endings (unless there's some no one has discovered yet hidden behind high-% completion) that makes going back to do more side content feel pointless once you beat the game. I was also particularly disappointed in how little available interaction there was with the few NPCs that V can come to consider friends and lovers; outside their interactions in the main story most get no further content. There is little point in stopping at your lovers house or calling them, most have a few lines of extra dialog, and that's it for the entire game. What you get in their main story/side gigs is all there is. After the rich interactions with friends and even acquaintances in the Witcher games Cyberpunk falls massively short. The side-gigs are also a mixed but mostly shallow bag. Side-gigs with any depth are usually given to you by phone call, but there are are very few that come anywhere close to a satisfying depth. Most of the maps 'extra content' consists of MMO style repeatable events consisting of gangs/crime scenes, cyber psycho mini bosses, and 'rogue AI taxi' missions that constantly intrude on main story quests via reports from the taxi HQ. Unless further % completion unlocks another 30 hours of side-gig narratives, locations worth exploring, more NPC interactions with friends and lovers, offer a less grim series of endings, and post-credit play, I think I'm done with Cyberpunk after several days of play.

I purposedly didn't watch much of the game's advertisement before launch, I wanted to experience the game fresh without a tainted view from watching too many "hype" videos. I expected an new and exciting kind of RPG in the Cyberpunk setting. What we got is a relatively generic shooter which does nothing new except for the visuals. Sure it looks great and some of the story missions are quite nice, but nothing feels special in any way. Everything that we see in this game has been done before, and better at that. The crafting system is a mess, the item progression is broken. After nearly every fight you find better weapons than you had before, you are constantly switching out your items and selling stuff. Many of the talents are rather useless. The AI is broken at points, especially the Police system. You can't play the character you want because in the end every lifepath is the same. Sure you get one different mission at the start but right after a montage plays which is the same with every lifepath making every V essentially the same story wise. Sure you sometimes get +1 dialogue option but in the end it doesn't change much of the game. There are different endings though and I haven't seen every one of them yet. All in all I am somewhat dissappointed, I didn't expect Cyberpunk to be a 11/10 masterpiece. But what we got is a pretty generic game at best. I would only recommend playing this if you are an absolute fan of the cyberpunk visuals, if you just want to play a good rpg/shooter there are better games out there.