Cyberpunk 2077

While the story is strange, the side quests uninteresting and the world events all I can say about this game. Its feels to much like watch dogs legion.

I really did look forward to this game, waited a few months post launch before buying. It was still a mess, so came back to it a few months later. Seems a lot of the technical issues were resolved, but the game is still just... bad. My biggest criticism that has meant I have decided to drop the game forever, is how slow everything feels. Gunfights, Driving, Moving - I feel like I am 10 beers down on a Friday night... constantly. In turn, this makes me feel incredibly sick after just a short play session. The UI feels like you're having an epileptic fit - and sound effects are way overused. If I am honest, I feel utterly overwhelmed - mixed in with the above point, the game is just frankly, unplayable to me. The world is undeiably beautiful, but the game just doesn't do it for me.

n Update 2.0 (aka Phantom Liberty) CDPR decided to remove all the fun aspects of the game and push the players the way they wanted them to play it. No longer are the players allowed to have fun and express themselves. Before 2.0 I like playig stealth a lot. This was what the game sold me on. I could pretty much have the watch dogs hacking experience in a propper sci-fi RPG game. I could dispatch an entire location by just getting access one camera on the network, and no alarms would be triggered. I could infiltrate into a base knockout the boss grab him and leave the location without anyone knowing. Coming to 2.0 netrunning was properly ruined. Now your hacks can be traced even without a netrunner on the opposite side. Sometimes when not using quickhacks the game just lets all the enemies know where you are even without the hack tracing excuse. Everyone just knows where you are. The other thing that impacted me are quality of life features. No longer can you upgrade a weapon of your choice and no more removable mods. It goes as far as not allowing you to remove scopes from certain weapons. WHY CDPR!? Many weapons have been nerfed and their identity stripped off just because they were adding another weapon with similar stats later in the game. Who cares, CDPR? The more choice the better! Retroactive nerfs of gear... So let's put aside the situation where you had an old save with a lot amazing equipment that got nerfed. Fine! Let's assume you need to rebalance things. But why nerf equipment obtained on a fresh save? Long story short I really wanted a tier 5 weapon before act 2. So I worked my butt to craft a T5 unity which I got the specs from a vendor. Also found a T5 silencer, and scope. I was having a blast. Along comes Update 2.01 and nerfs them to T3... T3!!! All because the game thought it was too early to have this gun. There are more bad things but I'm running low on char limit. PS: Version 1.6 still available for download on the site for now. ;)

To the ppl that stopped playing, you should give it a try again. 2.0 basically almost fixed everything. The ambiance, voice acting, story, graphics... Seriously I've never been so caught up in a game since years and i'm glad that Cyberpunk has remedied that.

For context: I started playing the game about 1.5 years ago, and stopped because of bugs, and resumed after the big update. TLDR: I played through the main game, completed probably about 60% of the sidequests, but I didn't really have any fun. I certainly wouldn't recommend you buy this as something to play and enjoy unless HEAVILY discounted. Even after the updates, there were still some situations where I had to reload an older save and redo some bits because of some bugs, e.g. a vital NPC that I needed to complete a mission was half stuck in the floor. Gameplay: Not fun. Shooting and driving and all of that is serviceable enough, but there is no joy in it. There was no looking forward to it for me. I am a sneak-based player, and the random, scatter-brained way some of the enemies behave made that a real annoying save-scum chore. Progression was just a convoluted mess. Even though I knew exactly the kind of character I wanted to play as (as pacifist as possible, sneak based), I had no idea what tree to choose and what branch to build towards. As a normal player, near the end, I had a bunch of unused attributes and perk points, that I was only using every time I needed some skill check in the game. Story was also a big convoluted mess, nothing stuck with me, nothing resonated with me, and a few months from now, I doubt I'll remember anything of it. Having said that, it was probably the strongest point of this game, and that's saying something. Music was also not enjoyable at all, even though there were genres that I could've liked on the radio. In the end I turned off the radio, and got annoyed every time it automatically came back on again.