Cyberpunk 2077

So, I watched every night city wire leading up to the game... I watched all the official release stuff... They lied to me and all of you pretty hard and I can't really forgive that. I can forgive a bad game coming out, but this? This is a joke after 7-8 years. Compared to a game like GTAV or RDR2 which took similar times to produce this game is a shallow joke. You can choose your life path, but as everyone has mentioned, that basically means you have some impactless comment you can bring up in convo and that's literally it. Night City Wire... OK, so they interviewed them on the guns... but the guns feel almost the same. There's multiple shotguns and they all do the same thing slightly stagger the opponent and do whatever the RPG dice roll x stat level damage to them and feel the same. You get smart guns and then an entire gang just jams it. This part is not terrible because it's an RPG shooter, you expect a borderlands gun feel to it... But there's no strategy to the gunfights because of it and less mobility than you have in borderlands to compensate. It's just hide behind cover and shoot them in the head 42 times. NCW 2, they interview and talk about the gangs and how they're all unique and interact with the player differently... But no, in fact if it wasn't for the different skins they have you wouldn't know who you're fighting at all. There's some interaction with the main storyline but your choices and actions have entirely NO impact on the gangs or the locations at all. All the nonmain story missions are handed out with a very soulless phone call system where it's not a conversation even, just a "There's a guy in there that I want you to save, detes in your text messages". Try to sneak in... I dare you. Oh, no, because the stealth is garbage. Try to hack in, well, sometimes you can but it doesn't get you anywhere without still stealthing and fighting people. You save yourself one door worth of sidestepping. This game is not what we were sold.

Good: - City looks nice - Great soundtrack Bad: - City only looks nice. There is no depth to it - Map filled with icons, but those feels like fillers, not proper quests and jobs like in Witcher 3 - City layout is confusing. Sometimes to get to near quest, you need drive a around a lot - Very buggy - Almost no RPG mechaniscs, and those which exists feel very flat. Overall feels more like looting shooter - User Interface is made for game pads without proper version for mouse/keyboard users. Overall this is the last game I have ordered from CDPR.

I enjoyed the game a lot with the side objectives, the environment, stories of all the characters, love the music and can tell the developers put their hearts and soul into the game. Nevertheless, in further progression, I experienced six game breaking bugs where buttons will not work on important quests. This ranges one quest have to do brain-dance where the button to switch from visual, audio and thermal stopped working and had to reset the game. When do a non-lethal take down, the button for picking up bodies will not show up on the screen and stop working until re-load the game up from a quick save (happened four times). I had a promote to hack a terminal, but my character got teleport into another room and was unable to get out the room. I am aware of the bugs from reading and watching a lot of reviews, the majority of the bugs I have experienced were not game breaking for me due to have played a lot of Bethesda games. Nevertheless, 50 hours into the game, the bugs became a lot worst further into side quests that started to loss its charm. It is sad that higher ups released the game in this state. It is sad that the game breaking bugs turned a great game into a game that would rate 6.5 out of 10. When the game works, it is great, when it does not work, it ruins the immersion.

Great game, broken promises, bad RPG.

Pre-ordered the game against better judgment because i got caught up with the hype train. Played the most painful, bug ridden, glitchy, crashing experience of my life on PS4 for about 15hrs and returned. Was clear game was never meant for anything other than a supped up computer. Aside from the technical issues my real problem is the game fails to deliver anywhere. City is empty, AI... well its nonexistent. Crafting sucks. Perks are a joke. Driving is painful. Story was... ok, not superb. No netrunning. Rudimentary hacking. All the features that were promised and either barely delivered or removed completely. This game failed everywhere... everywhere...