Cyberpunk 2077

Does CDPR deserve to be berated for crunching their staff badly? Yes Does CDPR deserve to be berated for grossly overhyping the game as "Deus Ex with GTA level wideness" when it's really more like "Witcher 3 with guns"? Yes Does 2077 deserve being criticized for being what it is, technical issues aside (which are pretty minimal at this point anyway)? Depends. If you aren't a fan of CDPR's games from the Witcher series (or more particularly, W3 due to being the fully open world one and certain aspects taken directly from it such as the itemization) then I can understand not being fond of 2077. However, it baffles me from the amount of people who screech, "W3 was such a masterpiece, where did things go wrong?" when frankly W3 was a game purely held up by its presentation and writing. The actual combat, RPG systems, open world, and pace are at best "serviceable" and at worst, about as bad as any other AAA Ubisoft trite. 2077 definitely carries over some of these traits but at least bothers to improve on a decent amount of gameplay aspects and purely the fact that it's a FPS with guns that feel good to shoot with nice sound design and feedback compared to W3's bland ass combat. Otherwise, the writing quality is still top notch (people saying this game isn't "cyberpunk" didn't do any of the side quests or missed the point of the main quest), Night City looks gorgeous, and I can bypass garbage itemization systems by investing in a reasonable crafting system. Also props for the game not being an 80s nostalgia bait take on the future. Unfortunately, the actual open world events are dull (basically W3's but distilled to just combat arenas) and the one story element that does unfortunately fail to give a real sense of urgency is a pretty big issue (not that I'm asking for a timer, just CDPR rewrite how it's presented to the player) but really, all I want is a new expansion with original content because the general ground work of this game as an action-RPG is pretty fun.

Really enjoyed the game. It has a nice story and nice graphics. What I missed was more gameplay, it felt too much of a story you drive through without having to do much, but it was diverse and nice. Possibly I should have put it on hard level. It doesn't reach the Witcher 3 standard and athmosphere, but above Death Stranding. One thing I do not like is that new games uses same key for different thing, like press F and long press F for different things on PC. I guess it is a console issue.

I can tell the game is amazing after the 1.5 patch. I restart the adventure and after more than 21h of game no bugs at all !! So go got it !

v 1.05, technical state of game still bad, language preference on subtitles doesnt persist, broken tranq darts and many more... But to the thing that piss me off most... WHY THOSE F***ING FORCED PHONECALLS POPUP ONY MY SCREEN 10 TIMES PER MINUTE??? WHY PROJECT RED??? Hate to beying free beta tester for this game...

Despite all the bugs, poor balance, clunky UI, and some broken game systems after 200+ hrs play through the game leaves me in complete awe. The City, the characters, directing, writing, and design are next level. I don't remember ever having such deep and natural relationships with in-game characters or being so lost, in a good sense, in the game world, probably since Morrowind. The way every single ending path is a unique and coherent story fully fleshed out in terms of actual gameplay and directing is absolutely amazing. Listening to Never Fade Away during credits is a cathartic experience on its own. HUGE thanks to every person who participated in bringing this game to life, looking forward to your next work (take all the time you need though :))