Cyberpunk 2077

I don't know where to start, I just fell in love with the game since day one. Yes, I decided to ignore the pre-launch buzz to try to stay unbiased by the hype created (ME:A has taught me well, it seems). Yes, there were (and still are) bugs and glitches but over my 400 hours spent ingame I had to reload once (one of the cyberpsychos didn't spawn, reload fixed it), the rest were/are mostly visual and I can live with that. Love the visuals, both the creation and the execution, from City Centre skyscrapers to shaby huts in the Badlands. Love the voice acting, Cherami Leigh simply owns everyone as FemV, all the different accents and dialects - VDB Kreole, Valentinos' spanglish, Takemura's coarse japanese accent and all the others make Keanu look a bit weak in comparison. I can just walk around Night City admiring the views and listening to NPCs talking. And look for Nibbles once I'm back home. Some of the quests are among the best I've ever encountered (Sinnerman, the Hunt to name but a few). Katana + Sandevistan? Big yes. Crouching, stealthy hacker? Why not, make your own way. Cons? I think the prologue is too short, there should be a few quests and a bit of a story between the prologue and Sandra Dorsett gig - I want to know Jackie better, not just be tossed into the friendship by the devs. Also, in a way (but it seems it's typical for CDPR - cue the Witcher 3) some of the quest (main storyline included) outcomes are defined by earlier dialogues (looking at you, Beast in Me). I should probably get used to it tho. Oh, and all the menus and loading screens are in 16:9 ratio, luckily the game itself runs well in 21:9. Overall, totally worth my time and money. Upgrading to 3070 Ti didn't hurt either, it's gorgeous with most of the eyecandy turned on. Can't stop diggin' Night City. Oh, last but not least - the quest names make a nice playlist ;)

I got an 1080Ti and an 5600X on FHD and the FPS aren't too great. My 1070 i had before made like 33 FPS on AN High/Ultra Mix.... Excepting that, i for myself never really had bugs. The Game is really great.

It's far from the RPG I expected following The Witcher series. It seems like they tried doing too much and couldn't make a super deep branching story that everyone had expected. The game is good for what it is if you look past the bugs/glitches (even an enormous amount of bugs following patch 1.2). I do really like the presentation, the story, graphics, sound design and weapons. Driving is fine, not the greatest. RPG mechanics and character customization should be fleshed out a bit more and tweaked to impact gameplay better. I play this type of game for the story and it does a great job at that even if it is linear with little choice. Hopefully if they can smooth out all the bugs, they will mess with more of the systems and make them better. But I won't hold my breath. Just fixing bugs is the main thing i'd like to see. Must suck being a dev grunt for CDPR right now. I feel bad for them having to go through all of this just because management apparently screwed up big time. I'm rooting for you guys, just please don't abandon Cyberpunk.

It is perfect? No. It is worthy of 5 stars for sticking out? Yes. +++ Some of the best specific scenes in a video game. The funeral. Specific conversations. Night scapes. Writing is good good good for a shooter. Actors are top notch. Music is amazing. Voice acting and concept are amazing AFTER FIRST 2 HOURS. The lead in story is a bit flat, which is not the way to do things. The game itself is fun, but set to easy and enjoy the ride. It does not feel like a game you want to spend 30+ hours mastering. Most of the bugs for PC are fixed now, so it didn't bother me. --- Biggest downside was the lack of immersion. So, so pretty to look at. Each NPC on the streets is just a cookie cutter which was disappointing. However, I got more into this game than most games I played in the last 3-4 years, I played to the end and loved the ending, couldn't put it down, so I say that is a 5 star moment.

As someone that was there from the original teaser trailer to having played through the game more than once, we were initially promised the world in terms of features but with each delay, my hype was tempered and died down to expect something....more realistic given the size of the studio behind it. That said, my first playthrough of the game had me hook until I finished it. The music, the characters and the way the story and endings are handled are great and were more than enough to carry me through the first playthrough and be initially satisfied by it. However, on a second playthrough, you come to realize just how much the "game" itself is pretty lackluster. The "life paths" are actually just a short 10-to-15 minute intro before you come to the same starting point as the other life paths. All the freedom and customization that was promised initially is baically paper-thin and doesn't actually matter at all. The gunplay is bland at best and really interacting with the main cast of characters is the only thing worth going back for; although I have to admit that the game's "true ending" was also a very strong point and made the other endings look weak by comparison.