Cyberpunk 2077

I completed the game early in 2021. I went back to play it again, but I just couldn't... I don't know how to explain it, but it feels very lacking. There's something that just doesn't click. Everything feels half baked. It feels like a mediocre indie studio made the game. I would not currently suggest purchasing this game at full price. Maybe at 50%, it would be okay. I would highly suggest waiting for all the DLC and everything to be released before purchasing or playing it. In fact, that's likely what I will be doing. Man, saying this about this game makes me feel so sad. I really wanted to love this game, but it's just so mediocre.

There is an issue where this guy whose name i don't know is in the food factory (?). and it's impossible to enter the building because the doorway is blocked a boucner.

But sadly, isn't. Finally got to install it and jump in. After a brief absolut "WOW!"-Moment that wears off about 4 hours into the game, there's so much avoidable, horrible design choices and bugs here, that take away from an anjoyable game. The Good: Superb storytelling and worldbuilding. It doesn't feel like Night City, it IS Night City, they gave it life! And I mean from the way the city moves and breathes and sounds. Sound design is rad as well. The Bad: Yeah, that's right, there's no saving graces here, except the great feel of the city. The controls are backwards AF, the bugs are UNREAL in a game that's been out for so long, e.g. half the stuff not working as described, some stuff doesn't work from the start, disappearing weapons, etc. And it is littered with horrible design choices, like the scanning/hacking controls, the menu in general, and pretty much every aspect of this game. Horrible to see this sad state of a game. When googling about certain issues it's quickly revealed, that a lot of these things are known for years... Sorry, CDPR, but this game is NOT a good advertisement for you. It's half-baked, horribly designed, bug riddled and a lot of things are poorly or not explained, like the scaling of cyberware weapons. There's so much that shouldn't be as bad as it is in the first place, let alone in this state after sooo much time. Seriously, I barely touched the base game, and I already know I will never buy a DLC, because there are so many core issues in terms of design alone, that no DLC will fix this. Sad, I wanted this to be great.

Giving the game a 3/5 for the time being. PC Specs: i9-9900k @ 4.6GHz RTX 2080 Super Asus Z390-H Ggaming Corsair Vengeance PRO RGB 2666MHz x2 8GB Corsair H115i PRO RGB game installed on a kingston M.2 NVMe type 2280 SSD >Running the game at mostly high setting with some on ultra, DLSS on auto @ 1440p with ray tracing off and no v-sync, game's FPS is all over the place, normally runs at 50-60fps with dips down to the 30's 40's with minimal change change in the environment or effects. Turn DLSS off and FPS is cut in half (not sure if the game was meant to be played with DLSS on all the time, personally, not my cup of tea). According to the sys. specs. CDPR released on their website, the recommended for running the game at 1440p ULTRA with RTX off is a 2060 6VRAM, i7-4790 & 12GB RAM but seems mysystem is barely able to handle the game with these settings. Won't judge the game itself since i only have 2 hrs in. Will be playing occasionally but not continuously until the game is further optimized. I did enjoy those 2 hrs but not as much as i would've with smoother fps

So, after being in development for so long, this is the final product we get? I can't even begin to express how disappointed I am. Not just in the astronomical number of bugs, but also key features and mechanics that are useless or missing from such an overhyped game. First - the bugs. I have one simple a question; how come CDPR was completely oblivious to the number of bugs in this game throughout its lengthy development? Don't get me wrong, I know a large-scale game like this takes time to develop and polish. But literally on my first day of playing this game, I spotted more bugs than CDPR did in the 9 years they spent developing this game. Either the playtesters can't do their jobs right, or they deliberately ignored these bugs. Regardless, it's a huge loss for CDPR and I can't believe they didn't see this coming. I'm not even gonna bother listing out all the bugs I found in this game (not that I can anyway, because of the character limitation). There are plenty of videos on YouTube and forum threads describing all sorts of unpleasant bugs. Not to mention, parts of the world are causing performance issues like framerate drops, etc. Secondly - questioning some of the game's features and mechanics almost gave me a nosebleed. Like for example: - Why give us the ability to customise our character if this game doesn't even support third person view? I never understood games that do that, it's so pointless - What's with this keyboard mapping and why is it so hard to update? - No vehicle customization? Even something as simple as changing the color? Well that sucks - Was the wanted system in this game purposefully designed to suck this much? I can kill a cop, then get inside my vehicle and coveniently drive 20 meters around the next block at a slow pace, and my wanted level just disappears. No car chases, no nothing. Makes perfect sense Have to cut this short now. Only reason I gave it 2 stars is cause I like the graphics, sounds, weapons and a few of the quests.