Cyberpunk 2077

I get the feeling they rushed out the game to avoid another delay. The bad Doesn't exactly feel like an RPG sometimes. The game is very easy once you know whats op and whats not. Hacking is completely useless. There's only 1 lmg in the game and 1 tech shotgun. Not a lot of weapon variety, that would be ok if they let us craft custom weapons. Melee weapons are in practice bad. The balance is terrible. No newgame+ as of now but that might change in the future The three life paths don't really impact the story. I've finished street kid and I'm currently on corpo. It's disappointing to find cool areas in Night City only to be met with locked doors and NPC's that say one line that the last NPC said. The way you interact with fixers is just meh. I would like a system where the fixers are in their base or whatever and they have all the vendors around them like HUBS in MMORPGs. You would have a reputation level with each fixer. Doing missions for that fixer increases your reputation level with them and unlocks things from vendors allowing you to purchase certain items etc etc.

I have not been following the development of the game to avoid been spoiled or have high expectation for it. I had no crashes in the 100 hours I have played the game, thanks to a good computer, but I got a lot of visual glitches, bugged quests, crazy AIs, unreliable menus, player rushing into things because there are no walking toggle, bugged phone calls, etc. I am pretty sure those problems will be fixed in the future. But one thing that really pissed me was censoring the game even more after its release, I am able to dismember an NPC with a katana but I am not allowed to see a nude male? Isn't it supposed to be a mature game?

For something marketed as an immersive experience, it does little to make you feel as if you're part of Night City. Here are just a few of the things off the top of my head that I found disappointing: - First and foremost is my main pet peeve: - Perks are badly/incorrectly worded. (I have a big gripe with this one as I had wasted so much time planning out my build only to find that the perks do not work as intended. ) E.g. I took a couple perks from the Annihilation skill tree that I thought would work with weapons outside of the Annihilation tree weapons (i.e. shotguns, light machineguns, heavy machineguns) only to find out that they do not. I assumed that the perks I took would work with other weapons because the descriptions did not specify that they must be used with specific weapons unlike other perk descriptions that specify that it only works with particular weapons. Now I've allotted several points into Body only to find out that it's worthless and of course there's no way to reset your attributes. - You can't eat and/or drink in food stalls or bars except for a few scripted moments in quests. - Generic NPCs you talk to all give the same redundant lines that just completely break immersion. Just terrible (TERRIBLE) AI . - NPC cars just stop when you leave your car in the middle of the road. - Poor inventory system. Honestly no one touches the food consumables in their inventory. Just get rid of it and replace it with actual interactable stalls. It takes so long to go through your backpack to look for one single thing. - You cannot reset attribute points. (it's an RPG for crying out loud!) This is in no way a complete list of the issues in this game. Yes, bugs can be fixed but the gameplay itself and how you interact with the world is downright disappointing in terms of immersion, especially compared to other games that provide better immersion such as Red Dead Redemption 2. You can't blame this on bugs, this is just poor system implementation.

You can enjoy the game, even in the horrible release state it is. I certainly did, but the game I played was a fun looter shooter, not a cyberpunk game and not a proper RPG. Undelivered promises and stripped down game is what Cyberpunk 2077 currently is. I might revisit this review if things change. Pros: +- Good story. Totally linear but good. + Great interactions with Johnny, probably the best part of this game. + Good sound design +- Very detailed map. Almost every single location is prepared for all playstyles - brute force, tech or stealth. Sometimes this feels awkward when there's 3 doors right next to each other labeled "stronk go here" "stealth" and "tech". Cons: - One of the buggiest games on release. - Pretty limited character customization. For example I wanted more hairstyles... Mods will eventually fix this I guess. - Your choices matter not. At all. 99% of dialogue options lead to the same results. There's a bunch of endings, but you can choose any of them in one place (some only if you finished a few side quest chains). - Not cyberpunk. It might seem to be on the surface, but it's skin deep. A few main story quests did get close though. - 25-30 fps low on overclocked 1060/6 - recommended for 1080p high :( - AI is either horribly executed (cops, pedestrians) or non existent (combat) - Annoying controls with no way to rebind them without mods. - Empty non-interactive world. Crowds of NPCs that have a single interaction that is a "fk off" one liner. - I did mention a ton of bugs, right? - Unbalanced character progression (combat viability), crafting, economy. After level 15-20 V becomes so overpowered that combat doesn't pose any challenge - Car handling could be better. Locks you out to 1-2 cars that can actually steer properly. Mods fix it partially Again, I did enjoy the game, but that's NOT the game we were promised. Just watch E3 2018 footage, most of the good stuff was stripped to some bare bones substitute. Such a disappointment

Never have I played a game I loved and hated so equally than this one. Its up there with my fave games but if someone would ask me to rate this from 1 - 10 it would get a solid 3.5... This thing is a dumpsterfire... FIX IT...