Cyberpunk 2077

Great concept and hype before release, but the result directly aber publish (now version 1.05), is mediocre. I like the idea and want to like the game, but there are major drawbacks in its current state. Bugs! After delaying the game to polish it, there shouldn't be this many bugs in the game. Examples: After equipping a piece of armor, the game still shows the previous equipped item for comparison. Only exiting to the main inventory screen and going back to equipment screen, changes that. Seriously, WTF?! After update 1.05 I cannot use the zoom function on the gun, which was equipped and select in game. This gun is basically broken now. Others still work. The main story is... short. Only 2 chapters... Back to the main story, it's really short, basically just a handful of missions. This could have been more. Something good, the performance on a PC is actually pretty great! On 1080P my 5500XT can run the game on ULTRA with a little bit down turning one or two elements. It looks pretty nice. The side missions are actually boring and repetetive after a couple. Some side-story related missions are great (e.g. regarding the romances), but this is the exception. Night City, great open world! Looks nice and within the city it's nearly believable that NPCs actually live there. NPCs can live there, but what about the main character? All the food stands and other small shops/businesses are just props, no interaction possible. Why? It shouldn't be too difficult to create a standard interaction for ordering and eating food, especially since there is not much variation of food stands. All in all, the game shows a lot of potential, but with drawbacks after release. If you plan on buying, wait for 3-6 more months. By then all the annoying bugs and glitches should be patched out and Night City will be more enjoyable. Ps.: The game is nothing for children and deserves the "R" rating. Don't allow your children to play it, some scenes in the game are pretty upsetting.

I have been enjoying the game since the day I got it logging in 40 hours and now I am taking a break due to a bug where save files get corrupted once it reaches 8mb or more. I hear that it is a big problem to people who does the duplicate glitch, but there are also people who do not do it and just hoard items and materials that unfortunately got their saved files corrupted. I really like and enjoy the game, but I have logged in so much time and effort in my first playthrough that I don't want to risk getting my saved files corrupted, videos online of the response to this bug saying that they "might make it bigger" doesn't sound good or promising which makes me wonder if they would even fix this bug. This game has plenty bugs and missing quality of life things such as being able to transmog and not being able to favorite weapons/armor to prevent it from being sold or disassembled accidentally that I overlook, but all my saved files potentially being corrupted after playing and collecting a certain amount of time is just too much.

Ignoring all the technical issues with the game, it's an ok game and nothing more. 1. The open world is barebones, there are no interactions and the AI is poor. Compare it to say GTA V, where traffic and people react to you and don't appear/disappear out of nowhere, where you can shoot a car's tires, windows even gas tank, and the result is a very bad impression. The one good thing is the verticality but even then it's only for a few locations and only comes into play in one story mission. I heard there used to be an option to climb with the mantis blades so i guess at some point it was used for more, but that's been cut i guess. 2. The customization is non existent. If you want to change your look you are going to take a hit to your stats, a poor choice to say the least. You have all these cars and bikes but there is zero customization for any of them. 3. Gameplay is also barebones. Now the gunplay and melee combat feel good, but there are very few options in how you use them. Usually going guns blazing is the best. The cybernetic augments don't play a big role in how you play with the exception of the ones for the legs, arms and hacking. Compare this with say the last 2 Deus Ex games and the result is pretty underwhelming. 4. Difficulty is too low, even on very hard. At the start of the game it's fine, but play for too long and the game becomes trivial. Using hacking is the worst, you should only use it if you don't feel like playing the game and want to see the story. Smart guns become room wipes, charge guns become one hit killers. The barely balanced option is for ricochet or melee. 5. Finally the story. Now this is supposed to be an rpg, but you will not play the story the way you want. There are only really 3 choices at the ending and that's it, no other character development. The stakes are also too low and you have minimal impact on the world. It's not a bad game, but every thing it does was done miles better by other games nearly a decade ago.

This is the climax of what this industry is going through. I love the game, I love what the developers have done with it; however, I have to give this review because you have disappointed me as a company. I thought you were doing things differently. I really hope you get sued until you you've to close. All those who worked so hard in the development of this game do not deserve to have that class of greedy and incompetent people on top of them.

In my opinion, this game is broken to a degree, that can't be fixed/patched and I am not talking about glitches or performance. The storytelling is just terrible. Why did they think, that the initial time skip was a good idea? Why are there so many "conversations" in the game, that make no sense (like, first V is like "Fuck you, I'm out here" and in the very next sentence, without any given reason, he is like "Yeah, I'm totally cool with it, let's do it")? Another thing, is the terrible game flow. You get interrupted by the most boring shit all the time. Why do I have to be the co-driver all the time, why won't you let me drive? Why do I have to wait for NPCs all the time (there are a lot of escort passages in this game)? You have to wait all the time, even if it makes no sense (once I spoke to a woman in a bar, that gave me a mission and she told me to wait a whole day and come back. What is the answer from the game to that? Sit on next to the barkeeper like 10m away from the the woman and wait there for a whole day...). I already went into the game with the expectation of facing a buggy mess, but what I got was this broken piece of garbage.