Cyberpunk 2077

The Night City is beatiful and a pleasure to be in, but unfortunately very empty and non-interactive. Most of the promised features that were supposed to make the game stand out were cut, the story is linear and shallow, the NPC AI is nonexistent. The life paths are a joke, they end as soon as they begin and the extra dialog options you get for your chosen life path are inconsequential. The characters are interesting enough, but the male romance options are very underwhelming compared to the female ones for some reason. Overall it feels like the game would be amazing if it had more meaningful content, more choices and consequences, more interactions with the city, and AI that makes its inhabitants at least somewhat lifelike. For now only 2 stars though, as every single aspect of the game feels unfinished. I am optimistic that the devs will deliver what they promised eventually though, then I will change my rating accordingly.

Witcher 3 is probably my favorite game of all time. But this thing is just so boring! Cyberpunk is just a huge empty city. After a good number of hours, I hit a mission I can't complete. I hate stealth, and they just see me everytime. So I try combat, but keep dying, and have to start again from the beginning. I have not enjoyed one mission, the characters are boring, everything is just too drab and depressing. A real waste of $60.

This was the first and last game I ever pre-ordered. I trusted CDPR and based on their record I hoped they would deliver. Boy, was I wrong. I won't grill on issues so many more trustworthy reviewers have touched upon. I am literally unable to complete the game without starting a new character. Even if I am to overlook the broken promises, the underdelivery on story, content and innovation. Heck, even the bugs (yes still aplenty)m I at least expect this pos to work until the end. A raggedy rusty shell that clunks and sputters but at least crosses the finish line. NEVER buying ANYTHING on GOG again. NEVER trusting CDPR or any other publisher with a preorder again. I'll feel happy to maybe, maybe play this in 5 years time at $5 from G2A when they finally fix it.

This game isn't finished. Most Early Access games are more finished than this, and those are made by small studios. Postpone your buy until this game is finished.

A world where your choices matter. A world where style matters. A world where the way you play the game matters. A dark and gritty, immersive open world that ebbs and flows around you, living and breathing, changing on it's own and reacting to the choices you make. Endless replayability with no single playthrough able to be the same. No, that's not Cyberpunk 2077. Though it seems as though it was supposed to be. The bones of that game exist within it as evidenced by many shards, dead ends, and world areas that all suggest this game was supposed to be an actual RPG. There is no RPG in Cyberpunk, no choices matter, there are tiny flavor differences based on different options that you can choose, but nothing that has any actual consequences. As soon as you realize that you can seemingly anhialate all members of a gang on sight and suffer no reprecussions either from that area's fixer, or the gang itself; the appeal of doing anything dies. There are no choices within the main story that make much if any significant difference to how it progresses, there are no branching paths, instead, you are railroaded into a one size fits all story. In terms of gameplay, sure there are bugs, crashes, etc. But every system seems barebones minimum possible to be functional. -The crafting system is hilariously immersion breaking and game breakingly strong if you want. -Hacking is an interesting take on spellcasting where the concept is decent but the implementation is boring, repetative, and requires no player skill or intelligence as the stat requirement may suggest. -Gunplay is fine, sound design is fine, visuals are fine despite insane popin at close distances of everything. -Combat AI is D tier at best, they use no interesting tactics, or unique strategies to beat you, different factions don't seem to function differently from any other faction or use unique tools, weapons or hacks. -Police are a joke. I'm out of room now for more, but the list goes on.