Cyberpunk 2077

This is a big budget game with: 1. ...good graphics, but clearly unfinished (streets are too empty for a metropolis, distant cars are bitmaps). 2.....a good story, but the dialogues aren't fleshed out, like they were in Witcher 3. Throughout most of the dialogues I am bored. 3. ...plenty of side missions that are nothing compared to the story-twists you would expect from Witcher 3. 4....bad sound mixing. Even with good sound software and great headphones the game sounds "flat". 5.....a great world that feels lifeless. The world in Witcher 2 feels way more lively than CP2077. 6....interesting themes, but CD Project have not been brave enough in exploring them (anti-corporatism, trans-sexuality, meaning of race and racism, the destruction of indigenous populations via corporate greed, among others). Just not brave enough. Again Witcher 3 was brave in those aspects. I played through the game once, I even enjoyed it. It did grip me here and there but on the second attempt I just deinstalled it. This unfinished piece could've been a work of art.

I never completely finished the story of the game. I've gotten to the last mission where you get told that this is the end mission and I just stopped. I.... Well, I expected more. Not from the story but just from the world. Maybe Bethesda and CIG (Star Citizen) have spoiled me, but I really expected the world to be more interactable. There are things I see in the world that I feel like I should be able to just pick up but you can't. There should have been more out-of-mission Braindance content. They added a story-reason for not doing so but I feel like it was probably cut content and they just added an excuse to the story for it. Is the gameplay within the story fun? Sure. Do I feel like I'll play it again? no. There just isn't much to do outside of the missions. IF this game becomes what it truly should be, I wouldn't expect that until the end of 2023 or early 2024. A lot of stuff just feels like its missing and I think it'll take that long for CDPR to add it all in.

....sooo... heard 2077 had gotten a big update reasently, so i thought it might have gotten fixed of some of all those glitches and bugs i heard so much about when the game came out... so i load up the game for the first time aaaaand.... non-stop glitch-fest... characters talking without their lips moving, t-posing, stuff turning into N64 level graphics, all at random... so yeah i played only about 1,5 hours of them game... take that for what you will, but ill give it a nother year to see if CDproject will give it some more fixes....but given how long its been since release, i dont have high hopes :(

This is a review for the updated version, so the game is not buggy at all. Looks great. Runs smooth. So why the bad score? *Look the other way CD Projekt RED folks* The story was awful. Just awful. Who ever wrote this cannot be the same person who wrote Witcher 3. After a few hours of gameplay I was already forcing myself to keep playing, and after the 'plot twist' (you know the one I am talking about, with Johnny) I thought to myself.. you have got to be kidding me? I will say I was hoping for more of an open RPG, instead of a Lead you around by the nose RPG, but that is not fair to judge the game for trying something new. That said, I am not sure I am going to finish this. The gameplay is fun. But I have read backs of cereal boxes that were more engaging storywise. Sorry CD RED. Better luck next time.

This is really not a good game in any way besides its renderer. Cyberpunk 2077 is a vast almost-open world game that drops you into it without any proper exposition or lore. It tries to tell its story by flashing bright lights at you and playing loud music. Terrible world building. There's also nothing to be found in the way of character development. The most it does from a writing perspective is divide classes by their language, with gutter trash having their own lingo. Things are no better when it comes to gameplay. Shooting mechanics are similar to Fallout 4 which is not good: very generic, no depth, damage scales with your level which is bad design (animations/speed/player stats should scale with level instead), weapon design isn't distinct in the slightest. Guns are actually less customziable than in Fallout 4 though. Cyberpunk represents everything wrong with mainstream gaming almost: rushed, awful release, thinks it can tell a story by flashing bright lights and blasting loud music at you and flashing tits at you, gameplay is an afterthought. It also has by far the worst UI I've ever seen. The game is a discombobulated mess. The only reason I've given it 2/5 rather than 1/5 is because it's at least forward thinking with its technology and implements modern technology correctly unlike most games. DLSS, FSR 2, and XeSS are all implemented correctly - not being used with conflicting forms of TAA, being used for dynamic res, and DLAA is present as its own option. It is the second game after Portal to have a fully path traced renderer which is awesome, and CDPR was smart enough to have NVIDIA help implement things correctly. I use it as a tech demo/benchmark.