Cyberpunk 2077

Much can be forgiven in this game but the gameplay which is the heart of the experience is so incredibly bland and thoughtless that it makes it hard to get through the occasionally decent quest design. The main issue with the gameplay is the quickhacking, you can litterally just sit in a corner and take down everyone in night city easily this way. The enemies have no security against this and they will never find you. Considering how well some of the deus ex games did this aspect of cyberpunk, you would think CDPR would have tried to put a little more creativity and depth into this mechanic. The only way to really describe what this gameplay feels like is that it is painfully generic and makes the world CDPR built feel incredibly dumb, clearly they either didnt focus on this crucial element to the game very much, or they intentionally wanted to make this mechanic as dumbed down as possible to appease a casual audience, which seems more likely given the corporate greed that led to this games awful release. I'm doubtful that they will fix this issue and come up with a more creative and immersive way to hack enemies. But if they did the experience would definitely be a lot better, and I would probably have a decent time getting through this game. But as of right now this world feels too stupidly designed for me to want to keep playing. Its not as if this hacking system is even fun at the cost of immersion, it is both intensely unenjoyable as well as immersion breaking to be able to sit in a corner and take down armies of enemies just by quicking hacking them. The stealth gameplay is also extremely shallow, but at least they can easily build upon this in future updates, and hopefully they take the time to think critically about whether what they add actually adds to the enjoyability and imersiveness of the game.

Too bad, this game was suppose to be the biggest game of the year, but end up with worst gameplay and glitch. NPC are just so stupid. Pedestrian, drivers also dumb

game concept was great but very poorly realized

As of this review, Cyberpunk 2077 is as unplayable, or worse, than "The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall" was when it came out years ago. I waited from September to March to buy Cyberpunk after hearing about how buggy it was. Got it on sale, and figured I'd give it some more time still even after that. Well, I finally tried to start playing it in May with a clean install of version 1.22. Initially, it crashed after about 10-20 minutes intervals, which got me through the intro and into Night City, but it increased to the point where it crashes to desktop after 30 seconds. This is a self-built Ryzen / RTX 3060 / 64gb ram / Seasonic Gold PSU / reliable HDD that works with the majority of games. I tried all the fixes I could find, but nothing seems to help. My solution was to uninstall it and play "Deus Ex: Mankind Divided", which also is in my backlog, and a similar style game, but is playable. I will try Cyberpunk again in a few years. It's been reported in the news that the devs abandoned bug fixes in favor of new content, so hopefully the modder community will fix it eventually. It's disappointing that a AAA game is left in such an unplayable state in the year 2021.

They can patch the performance of this game until the end of time, but no patch will make it anything more than a repetitive, by-the-numbers piece of edgelord fan-fiction that dodges all the satire and social commentary of its source-material until its greatest achievement is in how forgettable it is to play. Imagine what else could have been done with the money they spent on this utterly unremarkable product.