Cyberpunk 2077

The city, the music and the atmosphere is fenomenal. Bugs I don't care about much, and aren't too severe. However. While I didn't buy into the feature hype, it very much feels downscaled for the way too early launch. But, what saddens me the most is the very short story and relatively low amount of conversations in contrast to the Witcher3. What there is, is good, in many places even great... but just not nearly enough. Comparitavely I don't think there are in total as many voiced story content in Cyberpunk2077 as just the main story relevant dialogues in the Witcher3. To me thats the major flaw, as it was CDPRs forte so far. As is, its a good game. The highs are very high, but many of the cons just drag it down. Hopefully they'll hammer it out as time goes on. The city and the ost deserves it.

Overhyped, features that were annouced for release still missing over a year later. Forgetable story, boring gameplay, weak RPG elements. Weakest game from CDPR.

To give a fair and accurate review of this game it's important to compare it to other games in the same genres. 1. Role-playing Game It's strange that this is the first genre listed on GOG, as it is not an RPG at all. There are very few "choices" you can make in this game, and none of the choices you make for the first 95% of the game make any difference. The only other RPG mechanics are the XP system and the inventory. GTA: San Andreas is arguably more of an RPG than Cyberpunk. 2. First-person Shooter The gun mechanics in this game are passable but gunfights themselves are quite boring. Enemy AI seems to have come from the 20th century. 3. Sandbox Game I have played a lot of Grand Theft Auto like sandbox games. Cyberpunk's sandbox would probably rank the worst. There is no fun to be had interacting with the random NPCs. The driving mechanics are stiff and boring. The "wanted level" system in Cyberpunk adds no degree of difficulty. Cyberpunk 2077 is bad at everything it tries to do, and its failures don't stop with the gameplay. As many others have mentioned, the game is very buggy and has frequent performance issues. The most important issue that's not brought up is the quality of the writing. The main story is decent for the first couple hours, after which the quality drops off dramatically. The side quests (if you want to call them that) are all extremely generic. An AI chatbot could have written more compelling stories. The dialogue throughout most of the game seems like a placeholder, and the frequent unsolicited phonecalls from NPCs seem like a prank on the audience. Cyberpunk 2077's failures are especially shocking because they are things CD Projekt Red used to be very good at. It seems apparent that whatever CD Projekt Red was no longer exists. It is truly a tragedy for the industry as a whole.

If you play only the main missions and a few side quests and don't look at anything else, you'll have a great time. The illusion of the world falls apart really quickly when you try to find anything else in the world. Hell, even Ghostrunner has hidden collectibles, but in this game you will find doors you can't open, NPCs that say one line if you can talk to them at all. And this I find very painful for what was advertised. Also one big problem is the game world itself. I turn off the minimap do get fully immersed in the game and unfortunately a lot of places in the game look similar. A regular organic city has different quarters that evolved differently and at different times and have different art styles, but here you'll have a hard time telling the different districts apart (except for Pacifica and the huge mega building). The stealth system isn't perfect and the gun game doesn't feel right, but it's okay for what it is. So while I loved the main story line which would deserve a 5/5 I can't just brush away everything else which feels like playing an unfinished game. I have very high hopes for the addon, so let's see if they can deliver on that.

first played this game when it came out yes, it was not the greatest. but they really switched that situation for the better. Every update bringing new things into it and more patch notes and bug fixes. personally think its a great game now. The story is great, the characters you meet are fun and interesting and the world of Night City is amazing. Would definently give this game a try if you havent and if you have and left, give it another chance because I did and it is great now.