Cyberpunk 2077

It's a 'late to the party' review, so i missed a lot of the contraversy of the initial release. It's a shame as this is a really good and unique game. Just getting lost in Night City and seeing the amount of detail there is a pleasure in itself. I played though a very different game that the one the ealier reviews of this game talk about. I honestly hope more people try or revisit this title as it would be too sad if it's only remembered for the initial release and not what it became after all the work the devs have put in to make it the Night City people hoped for.

Nope Wish that quote was true for this game, I would happily review it and write down if it's good/decent/trash, if I could. But the problem starts with being unable to even start up the game, while having an above minimum system requirement. They should've stayed with the quote "It will be ready, when it's ready", casue they will deff. need to delay this again and get their shit together. I hope after pre-ordering it a year before, I still will be able to get a refund, if they don't fix it. But I should've saw this comming, so I'm also to blame for putting even some expectation into CDPR to achive making a workable game.

Pretty sure they know along with everybody, this game was not finished one bit. Excluding the bugs and glitches overall, It definitely needs more time for development because there are LOADS of features not present in a game thought to be SOOO ambitious. This game could have been released in 2017 and the tech would have matched the time but for a 2020 "Next-Gen'' game, I was expecting next-gen tech, the character creator looks like they made it in 2016 and never touched it again. Lacks Immersion, being a first person RPG you would think the world around you would be more alive and more interactive than just going through the main story and side quests etc. Aside from that there is nothing you can do outside of those things, nothing that lets you know what it's like living in Night City, no glorious back story other than what main story characters tell you, there are no meaningful themes of cyberpunk dystopia that you can explore yourself outside the stories. Almost everything in the city is in-active, besides being awed by the sights, If you're not doing a main story etc, there is simply nothing else to do but kill NPCs or pick up a prostitute and even then the AI lacks considerably, dont expect GTA style AI. Sure you can go to venders buy some guns, go to your local ripperdoc for some cybernetics but that's it. Can't go to the girl/guy house you romanced and just chat, lack of mini games, no apartment customization, no barbershops, no tattoo parlors etc.. The lack of things to do outside of the main story is just awful. What is most disappointing is that you can definitely tell this game is 7+ years old. Only next-gen thing you notice are ray tracing and it's beautiful graphics on PC. Besides that, Inventory menu seems thrown together, weapon mods and skill tree are mostly irrelevant, the perks you get are so minor with mods it makes no meaningful change and you can't get anymore perks after level 50 SC and no New Game+ at release is disappointing.

Buggiest game I've ever played. Worst AI I can remember. Even Saints Row feels more alive. Atrocious PC controls. Did anyone playtest this steaming pile? I give it two stars because the art direction and sound are top notch. Everything else falls extremely short. Seems more like a tech demo that they tried to slap a AAA game onto in about a year or two.

Let's put aside the well-documented bugs and glitches; the main issue for me is that Cyberpunk is not a (good) RPG, it actually strips the player of the freedom it is supposed to give (with respect to other game genres, and within the limits of consumer-grade technology, of course). I have not ventured much into the storyline, but in thirty or so hours (split in two life paths) even the small details make evident the railroad we are forced to follow. Character customization is quite poor; small variations in noses or ears or or genitals do not make for meaningful choices. Besides, there is not even a barber shop in town, what is done is done forever. Shouldn't body modification be a central theme? Attributes and perks are trivial in the setting: health and stamina, ranged and melee, stealth, crafting and "hacking", with incremental bonuses. More about this later. "Life paths" are just short prologues of ten minutes or so, and some additional very sparse lines of dialogue. As I have not played the whole story I could be entirely wrong, when it comes to further developments, but the fact stays that for thirty or so hours I haven't seen much change from street kid and corpo. Dialogues offer choices without real impact on the script; also, no small measure of annoyance. Sometimes choices are "condensed", forcing the player to guess tone and meaning; some other times, there are pointless 'quick events'; every time, if the player takes the time to think, he is nagged by the NPCs ("Hello!", "Talk to me", "Gonna take long?"...) Main jobs are heavily spoon-fed. Side jobs are basically gunfights at the O.K. Corral. It is so hard to avoid confrontation that "Cool", "Intelligence" and "Tech" branches provide not different ways to achieve objectives, but small tinsels for weary eyes. Equipment? +X DPS (and clownish looks)... The world itself is terribly static. No interactions with, say, chairs or street vendors? NPCs literally walking in circles? The infamous driving AI?