Cyberpunk 2077

I had the utmost faith in CDPR with this game. I have been a huge cyberpunk fan and this was to the ultimate experience...The gameplay videos sold me on this instantly and was hyped for many years. Unfortunately, this didn't have a happy ending. Many, many people already have said a lot about performance and bugs so I won't bore you with those details. My gripe comes with the completely dead city. The videos had initially touted the most advanced open-world experience to date. I'm sorry, but this doesn't even compare to the earlier of Grand Theft Autos. To start, the NPCs have no real AI. Probably a simple routine that checks for violence and they cower in fear. No real response to stimuli just the same generic voice line when you interact. Half the time, they are just in the way and the police AI is even worst, they just spawn randomly on you and forget you were every alive after you move slightly away. For a game that claimed to have the most believable city "to date" with their "greatly enhanced crowd and community system" it was sorely lacking. The city itself honestly feels like a backdrop to the main story line, nothing more. It doesn't stand on its own. It just feels like one large billboard that looks good from far away. Combat including gunplay and brawling are very clunky and just tedious in the harder difficulties. Increasing HP and damage is not a good way to increase difficulty. I'm tired of devs using that to be lazy. Instead of making AI smarter, they make them into bullet sponges. The only saving grace for this game is the amazing main story, voice cast, and level design for main missions. It is well done and it makes me believe that the team originally had planned this level of finesse for the entire city but ran out of time or were forced to strip most of it out. Overall, it's enjoyable if you take it for what it is: A generic FPS with a good story. This is NOT an Open-world RPG. Stick to Witcher if you want to have that kind of experience.

Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. Updated graphics drivers (and other drivers just to be thorough) prior to install. Lowered my expectations on my humble set-up being able to run anything other than medium/lower end settings. Disabled Win10 DPI on the game exe. This is pitiful. I simply cannot express my disappointment. Floating trees throughout; crashes during character creation, 14 fps at worst with a 1080 and massivley ramped down settings/scaling, T-posing spotted, graphics settings which seemingly make no difference... ... Lord only knows what state the game must have been in back at the original April 2020 release postponement if THIS is the result of 8 months extra fixing. 2 stars because we could always get the magic update in coming weeks. Assured my hype was severely tempered. I'd be massively disappointed if this game had 10% the publicity and hype ot received, let alone the supposed game of the century. Wait until the game is patched, at least once if not twice before getting this.

Don't bother reading 5-star reviews that are showering the game with praise. Some are trying to convince themselves that the long wait and emotional investment was worth it. Even with the recommended specs and updated drivers, the game runs terribly, if one can even say it runs at all. It's got a ridiculous amount of bugs, frames tank every 2 or 3 minutes, and the game crashed more than once within the first 20 minutes. Turns out crunching your workers with 100-hour weeks only makes them perform poorly, who would have guessed? Gameplay itself its very poor. It's a jack of all trades, but none of the play styles are actually as rich and developed as dedicated FPS or stealth games or as CDPR might have thought, they're average at best. Also, key bindings are awful and feel like a console port. I can't speak about the story itself because I haven't finished it, but from what I have played the only thing cyberpunk about the game is the aesthetic. I don't wish to fan any flames so I won't mention the most likely reason CDPR decided to completely cut off the inherently political nature of the genre, but in doing so CP2077 just became "wow cool guns and neon lights". If the only thing keeping you from buying this game is the bugs, then just wait 3 or 4 months until they're all squashed. Otherwise I'm gonna have to say: hard pass.

I waited so many years for this, I even got a new PC with 3070 card. And now all I see is huge amount of bugs, with game physics, game scripting, broken AI for every NPC to the point where they cannot drive and all of them get stuck and pretty poor graphics quality in terms of character details and textures. Not to mention pretty disappointing beginning for different character types - Bioware did it much better with Dragon Age: Origins. The UI is unintuitive, the stealth system is pretty poor, the looting and inventory management systems are also pretty poor, This game should have been delayed for at least a year instead of rushing it in such poor state. And so far not a word from developers, no acknowlegement of all those issues, especially on gaming consoles of last generation which are even more affected by all those bugs and no mentions of when the next patch is planned to be released. Witcher 3 was a much better game and Cyberpunk feels like it was developed by completely different team of people.

As you can see, there are 786 games so far in my GOG account. As a ten-year unconditional supporter, I assume I am pretty qualified to say something negative about THIS game based on my 25 hour of play. But I am not saying it today. I have only one question to ask: CDPR, please, look at me in the eye and say this is what you have promised 8 years ago and been working very hard on since.