Cyberpunk 2077

Thank you! Really glad I got to see all the different endings. Looking forward to what's in store.

I knew that this game was not going to live up to the hype, and so I tempered my expectations accordingly. Surprisingly, underneath all the bad press and crashes is a great enough game that is worth your time IF you are a fan of the cyberpunk and open world genres. I'll admit my bias: I am an avid fan of the cyberpunk genre and I'm very happy that more and more cyberpunk games keep coming out. For this game, I was looking for two things: a good story, and more importantly, an immersive cyberpunk world. Basically, a First-person version of the Shadowrun Trilogy. The city looks gorgeous and jumps past the uncanny valley with a solid landing. There is depth in the open world if you are paying attention; if you learn about the people you kill or save, the game rewards you with more lore and loot if you continue following the bread crumbs, and I'm a sucker for a game that goes out of its way to put in details like that (RDR2, Kingdom Come: Deliverance, etc.) The little details matter more than the big ones for me. This admittedly comes with the cost of design and technical issues. I've been lucky since I haven't had many bugs unlike others, though I've had a fair bit of crashes when playing the game for hours at a time. Still, game runs smoothly for me when it runs. In all fairness, I scored a 3060TI early on in the pandemic, so it SHOULD be running smoothly. I also don't mind the skill tree since I set my own house rules when playing games anyways. If the game delivers 5/5 on the aspects I have expectations for, it can deliver a 2/5 or 1/5 experience on every other aspect and I will still power through the game. It's a 5/5 for me on all I wanted (story, immersion, details). Obviously, I recognize that this isn't the normal way people play or review games, so take that as you will. Wait until the price drops if you don't play games in the same stubborn way I do, dive right in if you do.

For me personally, this pc game ran very beautfully and I absolutely loved this game, its combat, buying cybernetic upgrades - for about a week i was sleep deprived while coming home, eating my dinner and shouting at the tv while shooting things. Amazing game. There were a few issues that caused me to stop however: Money Issues - i got lots of money from missions, and i upgraded everything ...and then i ceased having any reason at all to earn money. For me thats usually a game breaker. Apparently the Aug 21 patch has resolved this by reducing the money earnt. In my opinion they need more things to spend your money on like buying a house, install our own security, buy robots, upgrade the house furniture, possibly defend our house from being attacked. Cyberware Issues - There should be more cybernetic enhancement, and more body slots. tAlso the normal, superior and legendary cybernetic implants do not feel like a major upgrade when jumping quality level. There is no wow factor in terms of what you can now accomplish except for when installing the gorilla arms and being able to rip open doors or security window and punch people. The legendary cyberware particularly should not only be hard quest items and but also game changingly powerful. Currently the legendary cyberware doesnt feel so legendary at all - with the gorilla arms you go from doing the equivalent of 60 damage for normal, 80 damage for superiour and 100 damage for legendary and its a bit of a let down. We only saw Cyberdeck software issues - the cyberdeck level 7-10 software was too OP and needed being downgraded as it destroyed the challenge of fighting teams of npcs as i could hide and kill them one after another and this destroyed the game balance completely. Driving issue - the driving is appauling and needs a pass to fix the controls. Control keyboard bindings - amazingly no indication of which key is what and i only found out what most of the keys were by finding a website that listed them.

This game is much better than initial reviews suggest, as it has been patched to the point where hard crashes for me have been nonexistent, and bugs have been rare. I enjoy the story and gameplay, and feel as though it is a different game than it was during the initial launch. I suggest this game, especially on sale :)

If you forget about some bugs and not 100% functioning open world, which really break the immersiveness, you will get a wonderful and breathtaking RPG experience.