Cyberpunk 2077

There is no meaningful open world, no interesting game mechanics, decisions and player actions barely ever matter, bugs and glitches are still omnipresent and the graphics, while beautiful at times, regularly fail to convince due to stuff popping in and out of existence, strange lighting, low-res textures, … I really hope the management at CDPR gives the devs another 5 years or so to make the game they originally envisioned.

I have a really complicated relationship with this game. Pros: - The graphics are absolutely insane. - The story is very engaging from about hour 2 to hour 7. - The animations are very detailed and (in theory) provide immersion to the player in an almost unprecedented way. - The radio is full of some of the best music I've heard in a video game, ranging from Cyberpunk-themed black metal to groovy soundcloud rap. - Jackie and Takemura Cons: - The story feels extremely disjointed and an amalgamation of several narratives that the game doesn't really give you any reason to have personal attachment to - The immersion is broken with extremely janky animations and bugs. - The game is optimized like hot garbage. - Night City is more or less empty. - Your choices don't really matter since you're always railroaded through to the same result, so you just pass through the game with no regard for consequences. - V has one personality with slight variations depending on player choice, leading to a jarring disconnect between how the player wants to approach a conversation and how V approaches the same conversation. - The combat is moderately fun but you can mindlessly shoot your way through every encounter with whatever gun you want. There's player choice with no challenge to contextualize said player choice. Overall I'd say it's a game that's not really worth it, I plan to finish it but it feels like an absolute chore to play because it's hard to get involved in something that doesn't demand your attention and involvement.

6 months on the game is still a mess if you buy it now your paying to be part of the alpha testing phase of a game! Outside of the performance issues and bugs the game mechanics for an open world game feel very dated! GTA3 had better police and npc interactions.

The developers bonuses paid out for this buggy broken mess was less than a thousandth of what management took home and make no mistake: MANAGEMENT is responsible for this mess. There are better Cyberpunk games out there. Play those until this game is fixed and at most a quarter of it's initial price.

The problem are not (just) the bugs, but the whole concept that is disappointing. The world is empty, the possibilities shalow. There's nothing that invites you to just BE in that world.