Cyberpunk 2077

A half complete game, not even close to Witcher 3.

The game is good, the characters, their stories, the setting, the graphics (minus the lifeless city),the gameplay (minus the crafting and shallow RPG elements) are well done imo, but the glitches and bugs really pull me out of the imersion of the game even after all this time they can't seem to figure out how to fix the random pop ins, pedestrian being stuck on walls or having cars disapear out of nowhere when you turn away from them. And that's me not even taking into consideration how pretty much half of the sh!t promised is not even in the game. This is what CDPR is gonna be sadly imo, because we as gamers let it happen. CDPR will become one of those overpromising and underdelivering companies like EA or Ubisoft. Welp if they are gonna make their games like this I'm just gonna wait about 2 years after the game's launch until it's in a somewhat playable state and only gonna buy it at half price, hey you give me half of the promises? I'll give you half of the money. You dropped the ball with this one CDPR. Good thing the writting is still really good in your games. 7/10 and if we are couinting what was promised to us it's a 5/10.

I purposely avoided info about this game while it was in development so as not to get my hopes up. I feel like CDPR dropped the ball on this one, and regret having pre-ordered. Keybinds are all jacked up. How did you not catch this considering the first thing most people do is configure graphic options and keybinds prior to even playing. My mouse cursor randomly jumps around and scrolls up/down on the character creation screen making it very difficult to even get started. The chargen itself is pretty lame as well with few choices and weird colors. Very unstable frame rate and lots of graphical oddities. The vehicle controls are terrible, and I am unable to exit the vehicle at the games start. Graphics are also a mixed bag. Even at 4k it reminds me of a console game from a few years back that has been hastily ported to pc with little to no regard for improvement or optimization.

How did they manage to miss the mark on so many levels? It's an OK game riddled with bugs, poor decisions, and cut corners.

This game isn't ready for PC or consoles and requires at least another year of development time. The A.I for NPCs is clearly rushed, offering no depth to the world and the number of glitches is simply staggering. The A.I cannot respond to the world and the player to anywhere near close to a convincing manner, which is a shame as this has been done to a better standard in games from 2 decades ago. There are times when this game looks fantastic but character animations are stiff and jarring on the whole, including facial animations (we're talking comparisons to Mass Effect Andromeda here). The gunplay is great, but all of this comes crashing down all too regularly. Characters are one-dimensional and inspire very little empathy or consideration from the player (apart from Jackie). There were many points in the story where I was left asking 'why do I care?' which is in stark contrast to something like The Witcher. Beyond the technical problems the bigger problem is the writing - it isn't good and will not be fixed in any patches. It seems at times like a kid has written the dialogue trying to make it edgy but it just falls flat and most of the time makes you cringe - this could definitely be my own personal preference though. It simply isn't ready and reeks of mismanagement. A huge shame but hey, this is what happens to companies sometimes. They really have a lot to prove in 2021 and I imagine they will have to pencil in a lot of improvements for 2022 as well, because none of the technical issues are quick fixes. Good luck CDPR!