Cyberpunk 2077

The world is pretty and makes for some good screenshots. Otherwise the game has a lot of problems, technical and gameplay wise. The glitches and performace issuses can and will probably be fixed, modders are already beating cdpr to that. Things that can't be fixed: Weapons are rarely unique with very much the witcher style 10 of the same weapon with slightly different stats. You don't really get to find weapons to enjoy and improve, you'll find a better one on the next thug, feels a little too looter shooter similar to boarderlands. Pedistrian ai is almost non existent, they run away in a janky fashion (best case) or crouch in fear forever when shots are fired. Cars are on rails and only react to things in front of them by breaking, they can't avoid obsticles and actually crash into the world geometry one after the other in some places. The enemy ai that is there is pretty bad, police don't really have ai and will just spawn behind you if you comit crimes, they can't for instance chase you in a car. There are less gameplay features in the final game than in demo footage from 2 years ago. All that said I am enjoying it as a futuristic walking simulator aside from when I die in 1 shot from walking too close to a skull enemy or die from walking on some angry world geometry. Night City will continue to be a city of dreams, because it's not quite a reality yet.

I don't want to spoil the story (which is anyway useless since your choices don't matter at all). It's a poor written bugfest...it's so bad that I feel like the marketing campaign was the real game all along. Hopefully I'll get a refund.

I love what CDPR stand for, and I love the Witcher games. I was so looking forward to this as it seemed like it had so much potential. The release has a tonne of bugs and the game was released early, but those problems are things easily fixed. Less fixable however is that there's not really much game under the graphical glitz. It doesn't feel like the bugfixes will take a mediocre game and make it worthwhile. Crowds are just automatons walking set routes on rails. Shops with open signs have locked doors. There's all this space but nothing really happening in it, any sense of a real world swiftly destroyed as soon as you realise that none of it is interactive and none of it has any kind of AI driving it. The game is undeniably pretty, and it has that Blade Runner vibe. The Brain Dance is a wonderful extension of the photo magic from Blade Runner too. The problem is that outside of that it's all a bit 'so what'.

Months of delays, shady review practices, and most importantly the unending crunch of the workers, all to produce a rushed unfinished product? Should have waited longer and took the time neccesary, and TREATED YOUR WORKERS BETTER. 1/5 until the pull a "No Mans Sky" and provide extreme levels of quality fixes and content (not just bug fixes). THE #1 promise over the past few years was Immersion. This game has failed to provide a living city.

The game gets disappointing really fast. The quality is nowhere near the final product. Story is enjoyable but everything else is clunky and broken in some way. From main menu to driving around it feels somehow rushed and unfinished. I get constant bugs when switching equipment, dialogues cut in the middle, there are missing sounds, missing props (e.g. guy taking selfie without a phone), stuck npc, broken/stupid AI, driving not even close to this from GTA...you get my point. This title needs serious work...shame on me for getting hyped and trusting CDR enough to preorder the game, not to mention this bloody tshirt ;)