Cyberpunk 2077

Try to compare CP2077 to what you know from other cRGP and you will end up disappointed. Cyberpunk is not your average "player as a superhero" RPG game. It is a game where you create a character and have an adventure in Night City. While at it you are free to do whatever you choose but ultimately it is a story-tell about the city and certain events. And V - your character - is just a vehicle for that story to roll and way for player to experience it. And of course - it is Cyberpunk cliche you could say - your character will have a strong motivation to become an important person or someone famous or influential or rich or powerful or all of that. Intentionally or accidentally you will take part in some great plot. But in the end whatever you do does not really matter. Yes, you will perhaps kill someone or destroy something, but overtime that someone will get replaced and that something will be rebuild. In the long run your character deeds will be forgotten and world will carry on ready for next character to step in and try hard to get into major league. Real RPG were not meant to be played "against GM" but to follow the story together. So some times even if you - the human - could foresee something coming or know something cleaver, if you character was not supposed to know that you were not supposed to role play it. . So if you chose "I'm in it to win it at al cost" approach you will be disappointed. But if you actually try to play an intended role of your character, you will discover a really great experience, something I dare to call the real role playing game. But I wish players would finally stop trying to simplify CP2077 experience to what Witcher3 or GTA or whatever other game provided and instead take it for what it really has to offer. For it is a real gem. Unpolished yet - bugs - but with really great potential of being a genre re-defining game.

I started with a female Nomad (german) and solved all sideactivities in Watson and Badlands + all cyberspychos and have seen 6 of 7 ends in about 70 hours (just 60% affinity Silverhand). Next will be a male Corpo (german) which will hate Johnny and all Westbrook activites in about 30 hours planned. And the last will be longer play with Streetkid (english) with the remaining 3 districts, a friend of Johnny, and the secret ending. My wish to a New Game+ will be a start at 0 but all done sideactivities with another colour on map (maybe with this activities named out for recognition). This is for me an extraordinary Game witch i give 6 Stars and minus 1 for a not playable V1.03 on my Win7: I had to switch to my Win 10 Partition for playing with 1 or 2 crashes in 10 hours, until V1.04 (crashfree, and better for me than 1.05 -> language settings lost and noncollected Items in screen). I play on a 8 year Dell T7600 WS: 8 core, 32 GB RAM, and GTX1070 in 1080p ultra (via steamlink) on my HD TV.

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I love what they were trying to achieve, and the core of the game underneath all of the bugs is a beautiful one. The characters, animation, and acting carried the game for me. If there's one real problem that I have with the game, is the lack of miscellaneous stuff to do. Separate from the side quests I wanted activities to do other than fighting criminals and combat events. Basically I wanted to feel like I was living on Night City on a more mundane level too, like playing cards, staying at hotel rooms, and more romance characters. The bars, and restaurants were very close to what I wanted, but the menu setting pop-up, and the lack of visualization of what I'm buying broke the immersion for me. But that's just what I wanted out of the game, and doesn't change my opinion on what the game did provide for me. Overall I love this game.

Great game. The atmosphere, the feel of being in a city ... has not been realized in any game as it has in Cyberpunk 2077. There is a lot of anti-CDPR propaganda and puritan entrepreneurship out there, at the moment. Some of it is, ironically, envy at a successful gaming company/corporation that CDPR is (or is percieved to be). Some, a result of vengeful Twitter Puritans who insist on having their pound of flesh for CDPR not having sufficiently genuflected to them for some pet issue of theirs. The remaining are plain lazy asses who want their internalized principle of 'not working hard in life but yet be rewarded,' to be validated by this game company (aka the supposed 'crunch' problem). And who can forget the entitled, who believe any game they 'waited 8 years for' (i.e., did nothing other than read the odd article online about the game) ought to fulfil all their desires? The reality is, none of the above has anything to do with the game. As a gamer, the only question that is meaningful is: how is the game? Is it good? Is it worth my time and money? The simple answer is: yes. This is a great game, well worthy of your time. Look at the online criticism of the game. Observe how silent they are about the game's fundamentals - the action gameplay, the stealth mechanics, the heist game structure and importantly, the story. Do these all work? The answer, again, is a resounding yes. The game deals with some heavy subject matter, and excels the Witcher 3 at several places. Do I have any criticism? Yes. Some of the dialog is too sweary for the gravity of the situation, occasionally. But, that's ok. I can overlook it. One can overlook flaws to appreciate the gem.