Cyberpunk 2077

25+ hours in and the game has corrupted all my saves. Have to restart and truthfully there is not much reason to. Map markers do not show correct position. People teleport in the middle of mission. Stealth does not work properly. Weapons seem woefully underpowered at times(even when able to find components to upgrade). Could have been more than woo someone and then never talk to them again in game. Most characters just stand and do nothing afterward(no interactions like small tasks or even going out). Cybernetics seem underwhelming. You cannot even get nightvision or thermal for eyes. No barber or place to get tats(people still like seeing things on the character screen). Between the crashes, bugs, glitches and now save breaking. I will likely uninstall and wait yet another year till some dlc is out. Maybe it will be better then?

The game looks and sounds amazing, what lets it down is all the small things. CDPR promised alot and failed to deliver, the city feels dead and empty GTAV has a better living city and it is seven years old. Npc's will give you a line of dialog then stop talking all together, there are no police or gangs patrolling the streets on foot or driving, you can literally crash cars till they explode and the other drivers don't bat an eye. The promises made fall far short of what was delivered, clothing has no use aside from putting on whatever gives you the highest armor, dialog choices are meaningless and all lead you back to the same point. The game need far more time to iron out the bugs and issues let alone implement anything close to what CDPR promised. Do yourself a favor and wait for a while till it gets patched significantly or pass it up all together. Watch some reviews and do your research before dropping the Eddies on this.

I loved The Witcher 3. I loved to hear about what Cyberpunk 2077 will be years ago. I was absolutely sure that CDPR, the heroes of the modern gaming industry, would deliver. didn't want to spoil the experience and patiently waited without looking at promotional material. If I did, I would've saved some money and time. The game is... good, at first. 15 hours into it, even with the bugs galore that it is, the story is intriguing, the world is big and there's a lot of stuff to check off your quest journal. The more I explored Night City, the more I noticed that something's wrong. Bare bones AI and Police systems, no minigames, so much stuff you can buy but is basically unusable junk, limited customization - it all makes the beautiful world extremely shallow once you step outside of a quest(even some side quests feel like outsourced junk, being very short, lacking any meaning). It doesn't feel like a Role-Playing Game at all. Other reviews mention how lifepaths don't change much, and they're right - this game, by the same people that created dark fantasy games which carried choices and consequences between one another through save files, made your background a half-hour tease, then cut it short with the same montage(which even features cut content and messes with a fixer's introduction later on). Choices have next to no meaning, the endings nearly ruin the only saving grace of this game - an otherwise well-written story with interesting characters. I went on YouTube to see how many of the mentioned features, and much more, were promised, but not delivered. I'm seeing how one of most pro-consumer companies turns into EA, with them lying about console builds, absolutely rushing this to release before holidays. Check it yourself - the lies go deep. And the worst of all - they don't plan on fixing the core problems, I'm not sure they even can do so. No DLC or patch can rewrite this half-assed attempt at a Cyberpunk role-playing game. This isn't the company we loved.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with Cyberpunk’s story and photo mode. CDPR really nailed the setting and tone of the cyberpunk genre. But stepping back and looking at the game as a whole, I can’t deny that it is pretty average at best. Every aspect of the moment-to-moment gameplay represents the absolute bare minimum of what to expect in 2020. The shooting, the exploration, the crafting, the RPG elements... all of it has been done better by games that came before it. The open world is beautiful in the way that Disneyland is beautiful. You can lose yourself in the spectacle as long as you don't look too closely. Graphical bugs and glitches can be fixed over time, but I worry that the rest of the game cannot be so easily fixed. The NPC AI is easily the worst aspect. It is broken in a way that is indefensible for an open-world game in 2020. Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, a game released 16 years ago at the time of this review, has far better NPC interactions than what you will find in Cyberpunk 2077. Every open-world NPC has just one or two lines. They trudge listlessly through the map with no personality. You cannot buy goods and services from most street merchants. The NPC police spawn instantly all around you for the smallest infraction, but then lose interest entirely if you drive a block away. My expectations were not high for Cyberpunk 2077. I was not expecting a ground breaking experience to blow other games out of the water. But I was expecting for Cyberpunk to at least try to exceed its predecessors, and I don't feel it has done that.

No amount of bug-fixing will ever change the fact that just about every interesting feature, including life paths and the storyline in general, was cut and butchered to the point were you headscratchingly ask yourself if this game is from the same developers that brought us The Witcher. - utterly shallow "RPG", with little choice or customization. - life paths are LINEAR 15 minutes bits, that are irrelevant to the story - brief montage tells you (15 minutes into the game) that you're supposed to care for characters and then skips over any and all character development - each & every core game mechanic is at best passable, but never better than run-of-the-mill competitors - storyline is all over the place, especially in regards to the pacing. everything's thrown at you rapid fire like, to the point where you'll find it hard to keep up and care for any of the characters - AI is broken, or more precisely non-existent. it's literally on par with the first open world type games on playstation 1 - the world feels devoid of life. NPCs adhere to no schedule, cops spawn 2ft behind you and never give chase, NPC traffic doesn't know how to maneuver around an obstacle. - V is not properly animated, you'll spot that within 5 minutes of playing the game due to messed up shadows and an absent reflection (while NPCs have them). The game is not even remotely as advertised by CDPR. It's not much of an RPG, it's a mediocre action game at best, and it's a terrible open world game. It's almost ironic, that CDPR went about releasing the game in such a shady manner, when they had spent the last 8 years talking down on, what the public perceived as scummy publishers. Well. I hope EA, Ubisoft & the likes welcome you to the fold regardless, CDPR. Enjoy.