Cyberpunk 2077

I might as well have played Farcry 3, their isn't much difference in gameplay mechanics, rpg elements, dialog, or story.

Before I review the game I want to state that I meet/surpass all the minimum system requirements provided by CD Projekt Red's support page. My OS: 64-bit Windows 7, CPU: Intel i7-4790, RAM: 16GB, GPU: Rtx 2060 super (8GB Vram) and lastly a SSD with plenty of left over space (200GB). The substance, (the story, the characters, the animations, the music, the combat etc) is amazing. CD Projekt Red put a lot of time and work on this game and delayed it multiple times over to make sure it's, "coming out when it's ready". However, in it's current state the game lacks a lot of fine tunning and technical stability. The game will crash randomly even at the lowest settings and with constant fps drops in cpu and gpu heavy areas such as when you're driving around in night city. Honestly, it's unplayable right now because you can't really play a game where you lose progress all the time at random. I uninstalled the graphic drivers about four times with DDU in safe mode and installed the up to date nvidia drivers provided by their website. My graphics card is brand new. I'm not the only one with technical problems either. I don't recommend this game right now. It's not a complete game from a renowned company such as CD Projekt Red who knew that the game was going to sell well and still decided to release it unfinished when it clearly needed 4-6 more months of stability optimization and fine tunning the systems to make this game a masterpiece. What I don't like especially is seeing this kind of business practice from CDPR. I don't want games unfinished today and I have to wait weeks and months to be able to play the game I paid full price for. The game should have been released in 2021 around March and May to adhere to the statement, "coming when it's ready". They already made back their development costs from pre orders alone so I don't believe for a second that they couldn't wait 4-6 more months and release a proper experience for players of all platforms to enjoy.

In the amount of time that I had with this game, I did not experience any of the bugs that others have been having. Unfortunately that does not mean the game is better without them. That "Role-playing" tag is false. This is just another standard action game where you go around and kill people until the game tells you to stop. Features that were shown in trialers that made it seem you could roleplay your own experience are now gone. All lifepaths are basically useless as it only affects the first 20 minutes of the game. The "Braindance mechaninc" is only used a few times and is never used again, despite the fact you can find other ones that were supossedly supposed to use on your own. Night City is beatuiful to look at, but feels dead to be in. There are just NPC's that walk, cops that spawn out of nowhere once your wanted, and the only side activities are all dervatives of "go here and kill the enemies. Stealth is completely useless, as enemies will all be alerted to your position the second you get caught. And the gameplay loop is another looter shooter where you are constantly switching weapons and equipment to raise your defence and dps. Any hope of having a unique loadout is killed as you will always find something that is better than what you have. The only thing I can say this game has going for it is it's story which is carried by great performances by it's characters. In the end, if you have played any open world action game, you are not missing much by skipping this one.

very buggy and not at all what was advertised

I can forgive the stuff that will be fixed by patches over the next few weeks, but my complaints are more fundamental. The game is too grindy. It wastes your time on stuff that isn't fun, and that ruins the whole experience. Firstly, I've never seen an FPS with so many junk items. For every minute of combat, you'll spend two minutes looting the environment. If you don't collect the junk items, you can't craft or upgrade your equipment, so psychologically it's hard ignore all these prompts to pick up ashtrays and soda cans. It's really dull shoving your face in bookcases and briefcases to pick mundane crap up after every battle. The game would be much better without collectable items all over the environment, but unfortunately they balanced crafting/upgrading around having so much junk around, so I doubt they're going to fix it. Secondly, so many of the upgrades are incremental: 10% extra damage, 2% chance of electric discharge, etc. Once you find your preferred weapon type, most character/equipment advances won't affect the gameplay, but you'll be forced to make 1000s of decisions on whether you want to sacrifice 0.1 shots per second for 1.7 more DPS, or whether you want to wear an uglier t-shirt because it gives you 0.6 more defense. These decisions cost time and effort, but rarely give you the satisfaction of having actually improved your experience. The story, exploration and FPS parts are genuinely fun, but it's hard to enjoy them when they pad the game so much with unnecessary loot management.