I pushed myself to finish this awful game to get my money's worth because I am a sucker for the sunk cost falicy.

I can't believe the depressing, cynical, hopeless plot of this game. People are killing themselves during this lockdown, and you blue-haired reak devs are making it worse. Stop trying to make the world as dark inside as you are.

And I couldn't possibly be more disspointed in Keanu. Is this the image he's cultivating now? Grizzled, irredeemable asshole no one could possibly trust or enjoy the company of? He's like the kid outside of high school playing hookie with a pack of smokes who wtill thinks that's cool. His character was cringey and pathetic and being forced to serve him throughout while he's totally ungrateful and cruel was actually hard to do. I had to force myself to put up with devs' and Keanu's abuse just to get my $60 worth.

I am so tired of dark, cruel human garbage represented in the plot and creation of this game. I'm sad that I financially supported the nihilists from Big Lebowski. These Boondock Saint cutters ripped me off to buy more tattoos and whiskey...

Did you not know what cyberpunk was? It's literally(as in from the books) the existential death of hope. You can't have a happy story in a cyberpunk setting; it's not merely dystopian, it's a hopeless character in a hopeless world that sees the empty promises of technology and industry. It's meant to make you feel bad; that's how you know it's working.

How did you not know that?

Look next time before you jump on the hype train for a type of game you obviously had no clue about. The key word in any cyberpunk writing, movie or game is "dystopian." Maybe start by looking up the word dystopian in the dictionary.

tldr, you are an ignoramous....

It is not good to hear that the game was not for you, look at it this way, if you have spent more than 5 hours on the game then you have gotten 2 movies at the theater from it for around the same cost (including snacks and stuff). So the money loss is not so bad.

Personally I love this game, first game in a while that I have actually finished, I did all the quests, bought all the cars and there is nothing left in the game except 1 type of ending and maxing out skills, 100 hours in.

My advice in the future, ignore all marketing and hype building, it is the one thing I try to do for everything (movies, tvshows, games, new items etc), go into the stuff with little to no expectations.

I'm guessing you know nothing about Cyberpunk settings? You should have done some research first.

A couple of people are writing impolite things, trying to argue that cyberpunk is always sad and unpleasant. I would disagree with that.

Bladerunner was not an overall happy movie, granted, but it was not all that sad either. It was grim, but it was not about existential angst and despair over the futility of life. Same with Johnny Mnemonic, it was dark without pushing viewers into despair. Altered Carbon, extremely dark franchise, but Tak never lays down to die and if anything his achievements come down to aggressive perseverence and a fanatic refusal to give up hope. When he finally does sort of give up, in book 3, he sets himself a new mission that is no less ambitious.

How about the Judge Dredd franchise? RoboCop?

It is a core element in the genre that the setting is dystopian, but that does not force the story to be nothing but doom and gloom, and indeed most of the stories contain some positive messages and happiness here and there. It is dark, but it is not eternal blackness.

Now consider the story of this game, and yes, spoilers ahead.

V comes to Night City for a fresh start and a shot at life. We know that Jackie's goal is to be a legend, but we don't really know what V's goal is. And we don't really get many options to define it either, with the story pretty much railing us into some semi-optional "die a legend" claptrap that sends V off to do a completely idiotic job with a bunch of misfits and zero chance of success. Then that horrendous Heist nonsense is over and V has one clearly defined goal: Survival.

And that is a goal we don't actually get any chance whatsoever to reach, because there's just no path to that outcome. It doesn't matter what we do. Either V dies before that point or V ends up getting soulkilled. The end. It must happen and while there's a million choices along the way that one might have wanted to make, we do not get to do so because CDPR made that choice for us and put the story on rails to get to that point.

Further, the way the story works, there's really no change to the world if V had never been born or had died before making it to Night City. Except dying before the six month montage with Jackie would have been easier on all the friends V makes in and around NC, probably.

And that is why the story in this game turns into despair. Calling it bleak or something to that effect is actually an understatement. A bleak situation can still be resolved. Bleakness does not necessitate despair, the feeling that any struggle has ceased to serve any point.

If you've somehow fallen out of an airplane without a parachute and you're dropping a few miles for a splash in the middle of the ocean then you're done. Landing in water from that altitude is fatal and there are no soft spots in the middle of the ocean. And even if you somehow miraculously survived with a million broken bones, you'd be in the middle of an ocean, drowning. You can scream, you can wave your arms about, you can wet yourself. All of those are equally good options that won't change a thing, because you're done. Game over. This is despair.

But if you're inside a plane that is going to crash somewhere then you're not entirely dead yet. There is some chance. The situation is grim as hell, you will probably die, but you have not quite died yet. May as well keep your eyes open and hope an opportunity will present itself. Chances might be low, whatever you can might be one ridiculous long shot but a long shot is infinitely more likely to work than no shot.

Working those long shots is often what the Cyberpunk genre is about. That those long shots are low percentage but still a shot, that everything looks very dark and invites despair but actually there's still something to struggle for. You are not dead until you're dead, and it doesn't matter what everybody else is thinking, it doesn't matter that it makes no sense, because there is still something you can do. One foot in front of the other, seeking out that nearly hopeless long shot.

But in this game, that's just not true. There is literally no shot. You don't get to have a chance. You do not get to fight for it. You are being plot dumped a few miles above the middle of the ocean without a chute. Make your peace with it. Or don't. Die with clean underwear, in a way that would make Geralt proud, or don't. Whatever. And that really sucks. There's no meaning to V, no meaning to V's life, and not really any meaning to V's death either. Does anyone remember the