Cyberpunk 2077

So much potential wasted. I was really gunning for CDPR but corporatism ironically became their downfall.

This game is so horrible optimized that with an i9 9700k, 32gb and a RTX 3070 I can barely run it at 60 fps on 1080. I dont care about the bugs/glitches/etc, you just cant a game that cannot be played at 60 fps no matter which options you select, sooner or later you will get FPS drops.

This would be nice for a pre-alpha linear story game. Sadly cdpr is trying to give attention only to how poorly optimized the game became on last-gen consoles, and try to forget about the overall state of the game on all platforms. The game is filled with bugs, the AI is on the level of a 2009 games AI, and they will want us to pay money for future "dlc" that will give us back all the lots of cut content that was promised to be in the core game the first place. CDPR should have been the good example they established with the witcher 3, but they became the same as EA. overpromise, sell, underdeliver.

I loved this experience a lot, up until I encountered a bug which prevents me finishing it. After how much I had emotionally invested in my character and the story discovering I literally cannot finish the game has left an extremely bad taste. I reported this issue in early January, was told the team were aware of the issue. I stopped playing till a patch was released. 1.1 does not address the issue at all. I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. My advice to anyone is to wait a year at least before purchasing. I look forward to updating my review once the game has been finished.

When I designed my character and the game kept jumping to the top slider instead of changing my eyebrows, tattoos, ..., I knew I was in for a ride. First of all, a quick disclaimer: I have not played much of the main story so far but only finished most of the side quests and random encounters in Watson. I did not enjoy doing so. Why? First of all, because my frame rate is awful, to put it mildly. I am running a Ryzen 5 1600, 32GB RAM clocked at 2933MHz and a 1060 6 GB. I should be able to run the game at High settings according to the reccomended hardware. I can absolutely not do that. While I can put anisotropic filtering to 16x, Textures to High and Shadows to High, this is only due to the high amount of RAM I have at my disposal. Even with everything else on Low or outright disabled I usually have no more than 40-45 frames running around Night City - without fighting anyone. There are quite a few games out there that are 5+ years old and look much better on my PC than Cyberpunk does on the max settings I can run it. Very disappointing already. Now, the game world. It is hollow and shallow. Quite a few parts of Night City are not accessible, and those that are fail to deliver a feeling of belonging. For example I could not care less about V's apartment. Never mind the fact that, unlike initially promised, there are no other safehouses or apartments you can buy or own. NPCs behave very weirdly; jumping down next to them triggers their fear animation and them running away. Starting a fistfight with a juiced up weightlifter causes them to cover in fear albeit being thrice your size, including his pals of the same size running away. Cars will not drive around your vehicles if you block the road, even after hours of ingame time. You can't visit any bars, brothels, restaurant or anything like that while exploring the city. Even San Andreas would allow you to hit the gym and work out. Cyberpunk doesn't. There is much more, but I am running out of characters. Laters.