Cyberpunk 2077

This is unfinished build (optimization,***, do you speak it? seen TLOF2 on 8yo hardware?) of a promising semi-linear FPS with void open world (literally nothing to do, Borderlands have much more interesting and rewarding quests, activities), very primitive AI (like old-school crappy Polish games, which we all love and remember), and mediocre skill system Don't get me wrong, I like games with high replayability, where you can create whatever character you want for each new playthrough, but here... it's kinda like Witcher 3 (where you had 80% of useless perks and strange system for their appliance), but perks here are way more useless. Tried making no-kill run, my character was a sneaky hacker, and by level 5 I raised Tech ability once, and the perks...well, I didn't need them at all. Stealth, as I mentioned "no killing", was crucial, and it ended up quite predictably bad - you can stand almost in front or side of an enemy, he doesn't care. It sums it up: seems like all CDPR management was trying to achieve, is make a somewhat flexible LGBTQ-friendly character editor, invite that guy from The Matrix and MAKE YOU THINK that it will be Deus Ex (but better, ofc) in the most detailed and living openworld. Unlike *ahem* Deus Ex, where I truly CAN be a sneaky hacker, with every ability count, every encounter strategically played, and it FEELS great. Cyberpunk 2077 feels like a dull ripoff placed in Los Santos. HOWEVER, if they'll add AI, revamp UI (which makes me feel like I'm rope tied and need to make an effort every time for every single action), add more variety world (99% they're gonna do the Witcher 3 trick, where presumably original game parts were introduced for money, with a great stories, at least), you can give it a shot on sale. Now, I can recommend this game for those, who just want a "future city" Google Street View experience w/ ray tracing (the only thing is good about this piece, which is funny, since it's not exactly CDPR's hard work - it's your GPU's).

Really? I wont go over the bugs, they have been done to death and to be honest, I didn't really have all that much of an issue with them. I want to start off by saying that I did enjoy myself while playing, but... That was the most disappointing game I have played in a very long time as far as the story goes, I just finished it and now I feel ripped off... 9 years, really? 9 years to make that... Maybe if CDPR spent less time hand placing litter all over the map and more time on the story... That story, that story was... bad... short... mostly forgettable and boring... 9 years people... Fallout 4 took 4, and I felt more invested in that games story... All in all, it's a fun world to play around in but for all the hype, all the promises, it feels like CDPR had to cut so much stuff, it feels like there is something missing... other than a better story line... the world is nice, but it feels empty and blocked off, sure, there's enough NPCs, there is enough going on but you pass all these interesting places and you can't even check them out... and the game is not as vertical as they said it was... there is no reason to go up... it's just more closed doors...

The game should not have been released. It clearly lacks any sort of polish, or any sense of what this is supposed to be. - Night City is the most shallow, barren, devoid of any meaning city in video game history. It's pretty to look at, but meaningless since you can't interact with anything. I don't think there is another environment in video gaming that has so much effort put in to be so useless - NPC AI is non existent. enemies are dumb, pedestrians are useless, and police just spawn and shoot - There is no atmosphere in the game, no immersion - Bugs galore. Texture issues, NPCs teleporting, sounds missing, performance issues, cars blowing up randomly or floating thru the sky, NPC merging with each other etc - Driving is annoying, feels like you are skating more that driving a vehicle - itemization and crafting is flawed, and shows no thought put into it, just copy/paste from and there's the story....which is disjointed, cutted and pasted together and held up with spit. If the missions were taken together on its own, they're not bad. They're fully voiced, and fun to play thru. But there is no coherency, it just feels like someone spent 5 minutes making a storyboard with tic tac toe level skills. V lacks meaningful backstory, everything is rushed, no development for the characters or the relationship with Johnny in your head or anyone really. Best you get is a minute montage for your intro and a 10 second or less scripted phone call in the game with random "important" people. It was ridiculous. CDPR made no effort to learn from their previous titles nor other video game titles. But as a whole, man, Cyberpunk 2077 probably needs to get pulled from CDPR if this is the way they treat the franchise. Very, very disappointed with this quality from a developer and published claiming to treat consumers right. This is a C level game at the moment, and even with bugs fixed, best it can do is C+, nowhere near AAA.

So much potential wasted. This is barely an RPG, there's hardly any customization for the character, clothing, and vehicles. No mod support or tools to even let the community fix and add things that should've been in the game to begin with. There's not even a third person option so you can see your character. The whole game just feels so lazily designed that I can't fathom how it took ten years to end up in this released state. It's clear a ton of features were removed/rushed and the world feels so dead and empty because of it. The AI is horrible, the NPC's barely interact with the character, there's too many bugs/glitches, only a minimal amount of skill customization, and there's not much to do outside of the story besides shooting enemies with the unsatisfactory gunplay. It's so aggravating to see what this game could have been but only ends up being a mostly linear action game with a decent story. GTAV came out SO MANY YEARS AGO, just try to compare the features in GTAIV and GTAV to this game, it's extremely disappointing to say the least. I've gone over the marketing materials from initial announcement up till release and it just feels like they were marketing a completely different game from what we got.

Good part: - Story felt good enough. - The world is well crafter and looks good. Now regarding the bad parts, I don't know how this games sits at 90 score. This is just an average game at best and giving it a 70 is being generous as well. I would rate it at 60/100 and these are my issues with the game: - Driving car using keyboard and mouse is just pathetic. It's either all or nothing. - City is incredibly dumb and lifeless. - It's 2077 and I simply cannot have a rear view mirror in first person driving speaks something about basic stuffs not being given attention. - Most of the stuffs like BD, character customization are just pointless additions to the game and have no impact whatsoever other than the main storyline. - Look at the 2018 demo, which was marketed and then the game. They are poles apart. - I cared less about characters when they died on screen. The relationships feel rushed and characters whom I have never met contact me like they have known me since ages. - And, most importantly because of NPC issues, world feeling non-interactive. The immersion is simply not there.