Cyberpunk 2077

Gift for Xmas 2023 along with all DLC. I like, but didn't love Witcher 3, and I'm not a big fan of FPS, but Cyberpunk gripped me more than most other game in recent years. I am currently 159 hours in, and only just started Phantom Liberty, after completing the main game and all sides, and I can honestly say, it's now one of my favourite games. I have enjoyed every aspect, from the main story, to sides and extras, even spending way too much time on outfits and cars! I am glad I avoided all of the bugs and performance issues of the launch, I understand if you played it back then and was put off, or read the reviews and avoided, but I must recommend you revisit it now in 2024, it's the time to try it!

As someone who grew up playing Cyberpunk 2020, the tabletop game, I used to joke that as long as 2077 let me find Rache Bartmoss dead in a fridge, it would be a 10/10 game. GOG only lets me rate it 5 out of 5 stars.

This is slowly turning into no man's sky 2

**Note: this review is only about the character creator, as I couldn't tolerate its weaknesses long enough to finish creating my character. I'll edit it if updates allow me to reach the actual gameplay.** Pre-release promotional material boasted an impressive character creation process, but I nevertheless had low expectations, and still ended up being disappointed in the end. 1. Keyboard navigation is messed up. For example, pressing E rotates your character, but also scrolls down in the menu if your mouse is hovering one of the options. I played on an AZERTY keyboard, which might have made an impact, but A was bound to both rotating the character the opposite way of E, and the equivalent of clicking the left/previous button on options. 2. Some options, like hair colour or skin tone, allow showing a menu with thumbnail previews, while others, like hairstyle, don't. 3. On the subject of hairstyles, there are no ponytails whatsoever, even though it's one of the "custom character 101" hairstyles. I ended up pressing Alt-F4 once I realised I couldn't create a character that would look even somewhat close to what I wanted him to look. I still give two stars because, well, it had some nice stuff, like a decent selection of hair colours.

This is a terrible console port of a Watchdogs copy. Terrible controls, crashes every 5mins, bugs, bug, bugs and glitches, laughable design decisions and many more, all negative. CDPR simply used Witcher's success to create a huge hype for a game that is currently unplayable. This is not the company that made the Witcher. It's just a bad mutation copying Bethesda's and Ubisoft's practices Even if this game gets fixed, it will remain a very average copy of Watchdogs. It's a bad RPG, a bad FPS, a terrible stealth game. I really don't what's good about this! It is disgraceful to even put it in the same sentence as the Witcher! Save your money and spend it for a company that deserves it and doesn't lie to its customers. CDPR and GOG just died for me.