Cyberpunk 2077

+story +sidequest -graphic/performance -unplayable/bugs/etc

So I had no real trouble on PC. A little hickup on release day making me download it again. But no crashes, not a single one on my medium-end PC. Stable and fluid FPS, graphics look nice enough for me, though that never really was important to me...raytracing and stuff. And I cannot lie, I had a blast playing it so far. Reached Act 2 but really loved doing the side missions, as I love sneaking around Thief/Dishonored style. And if I had enough of this, I went to an organized crime scene and unleashed hell. Fun. Not groundbreaking or anything, but I never was on the CP2077 hypetrain anyway... Some mostly minor (to me) issues that CDRed should add over time, like a better clothing-system (previews at sellers, a vanity cam, transmogrihpication etc) would be nice. Better enemy/police AI, better controls of vehicles...too bad vehicles are never really used for car chases and combat outside some specific scenes... Anyway...I had a blast. Characters are all really great. Judy, damn, Evelyn...Jackie, and I learned to hate Keanu Reeves, now that is something...And the story had me hooked...until... Well, no spoilers. But I got the endings spoiled (my own fault) and was shocked at how bad, sad, depressing they all are ... and I could not go on playing the game. Sounds maybe silly to some hardcore gamers, but I cannot bring myself to follow this ... journey anymore. Maybe, if CDRed gets it together, and we get some proper DLC that ... changes the bleak outcomes (totally possible btw), then I will gladly return to the game again, and finish what I started.

tl;dr I was promised a really large game in terms of story, interractions with NPCs and world; something better than New Vegas and the gameplay of the 2018 showcase. What I got instead was a game with the story development of Fallout 3 and NPC interractions of Skyrim; the gameplay somewhere between GTA5 and Fallout 4 and, in the end, the looks aren't even that good: before I knew that getting the population lower via the slider improves performance I prefered to play at 20FPS at Ultra Performance DLSS rather than turning off RTX because otherwise the game would've looked flat. I finished the game once. I don't like it. I bought this €60 games to do multiple playthroughs, instead I'm no longer willing to play it again after an almost 39 hours one. IF YOU WERE EXPECTING something special, unseen, really well developed then don't buy this game, not even after they fix it, because it will never be "that" game.

Welcome to Beta Test for $29.99

Story: It's decent for the most part, but it's a disappointment compared to Witcher 3. It feels shallow. It's basically just V's personal quest to remove a chip from his head in order to survive, nothing more. I expected the game to talk more in-depth about the corporations, why they do what they do, why did they copy Johnny Silverhand's personality on the chip, etc. I expected there to be some sort of big mystery, behind it, but nope. Deus Ex: Human Revolution does a much better job at this. Characters: They're mostly boring and shallow. I ended up almost falling asleep when talking to some of them (khm, khm, Judy, khm, khm). They're basically just there to give you quests so you could earn XP and Eddies some way, nothing more. There is no emotional connection with any of them whatsoever. The moment you end their questline, they become irrelevant, and might just as well delete themselves from the game. The only exception is Johnny Silverhand, which I think is one of the best side characters in gaming. I honestly think it would've been way better if we could've played as him for the entire game. Gameplay: It's decent. Some aspects of it are borderline useless, like crafting, which I didn't use AT ALL. Driving is kinda clunky, like in GTA IV. Guns are good, have a good punch to them, and I generally liked using them, although some gimmicky weapons (with tracking bullets and ricochet shot) are just too complex and not worth bothering to learn how to use. Stealth is fine. Gameplay is all in all decent, but nothing to write home about. World: All flash and no substance. LOOKS interesting, but it ends up FEELING empty and boring. You don't have the same feeling of openness you had in Witcher 3, where you would go off the beaten path just for fun or to satisfy your feeling of curiosity. Here it just serves as a backdrop while traveling from point A to point B. Nothing about this world is memorable. Reccomendation?: Not in current state(bugs, glitches). Wait for sale.