Cyberpunk 2077

I purposefuly avoided the hype, news and leaks around this game. Witcher 3 blew me away, so this one should, too, right? It thoroughly disappointed after just 2 hours of gameplay - that's the full intro and an hour spent "freeroaming" Night City. This game is tagged as role-playing, but there's no role play to be had here. Your influence on the goals and actions of the protagonist is negligible - you can say the smirky option A, smirky option B, or stay silent. You can't change V's ultimate goal, his aspiration. You can't even customise his appearance all that much: neither in character creation, nor during gameplay. Mechanics are all over the place. Shooting is OK, but you're shooting at bullet sponges. Melee is completely overpowered and AI doesn't stand a chance (as long as it doesn't massively outlevel you). Hacking minigame is engaging, but the results of hacking are incosistent (I can hack something to distract a guard standing right next to it and he just won't react). Part of the game loop is looting, which was a terrible choice. Ultimately this is a shooty-looty, where you constantly hot-swap weapoons for the latest "ebin drop XD" English writing is mediocre, on par, nothing to write about. The story structure is just horrendous. You're railroaded terribly, forced to follow events in sequence and you better read the devs' minds and not deviate from the path, lest you get a game-breaking bug. Parts of the UI, especially the inventory, in which you will spend a lot of time, are terrible to navigate and make important info hard to read. At least I wasn't getting game-breaking bugs on my system, although a fair share of broken pathing, objects hanging in the air, and T-posing happened. This game is NOT worth its pricetag, and I doubt it will be, even after bug fixes and discount.

Not buying another game from GOG till they finish the game the way they wanted to and not just fix bugs/add minimal features. While playing the game it becomes very obvious that CDPR knew they won't make it in time so they went with essentials while leaving everything else at barely playable state: Basic gameplay without much polishing - cars are just bad, skills have icons that dont match the description, cyberware is mostly +stats while not even allowing V to overcome his meat body limitations with it, and other stuff. But you can play the game. Story that lacks choice. It is great and has tons of good moments but 99% of the game an is illusion of choice. Was one of promises btw. Still, as one of essentials it's there and it's the most polished part of the game. Placeholders in level design and features - almost no citizen and cop AI, hacking access points which are obviously part of level design and infiltration are just minigames to earn not even scaling amount of money. Also everyone is a cyborg and has cybereyes because limiting cyberware is extra work. Minimal required amount of features, not sure if they could do less. And etc etc etc. The sad part is that underneath all that crap you can see that they made effort and cared about the game, potentially a very great game. But, from how I see it, for some retarded reason CDPR/GOG decided that people who earn them the money and who they are supposed to care about (consumers) and their goodwill are less important than a bunch of other people who only lend them the money (shareholders) and tell them to shoot itself in the foot. Actually I don't even know whose fault it is, the deal is unless CDPR/GOG fixes the mess which is Cyberpunk 2077 and their management, they don't deserve peoples trust.

At first I was defending the game, on PC it run perfectly, without much glitches. But 50 hrs into the game (where at least 20hrs was due to me forgetning to turn off the game over 3 nights) I decided to finish the main quest, and be done with it. The game is nothing but a sack of lies, where 70% of promised context is missing. The AI is so stupid, that once you have enough street credits and eddies, buy yourself legendary cyberdeck (I've done this after 5hrs of doing quests, side quests, and killing the gangs). Once you have legendary cyberdeck, you can finish the game on quickhacks alone! I played the gameon hardest difficulty, and only difficulty I had was during the initial 2hrs. Once I learned how to beat the gangs of 5+ people at once, the game is a breze. It doesnt even scale! I went on a hype train, told myself I work now, I can pay for games, no need to pirate games etc. I never throught I was wrong about that. This game is not even worth developer paying me. Waste of bandwidth. What hurst the most, is that if you quickhack, there is nothing that could stop you. Enemies don't have netrunners, don't utilize cameras etc. It... the game makes you dumb. Not that the game is dumb, it makes you dumb. Back to HOMM3.

I'll start off by saying that the game is by no means "bad", you can play it and have a good time. The combat feels good, and the graphics are amazing (once you manage to get settings that doesnt make the game look blurry/weird). But i could just not bring myself to play more than 3h, because the game lacked so many different features, both features were promised over and over again, but even basic stuff such as changing your appearance after the character creation. I doubt ill ever play this game again until CDPR actually, you know, delivers on what they promised, not all of it, but cmon, this is anything but acceptable. The most insulting part of the game is the AI. Civilian and Police AI is the absolute worst. Games like GTAV nailed it, this game fails horribly. The world is dead, nothing really happens unless you start blasting. I strongly recommend watching the video BeatEmUps did on the game, he doesnt talk about the bugs, he talks about the legit problems the game has. Give us the game that you guys showed and described in the 48 min gameplay footage you released in 2018. Thats the game we want, not this dead husk of broken dreams.

The first act is very enjoyable, the story kicks off quickly and you are drawn in. Sadly later on you notice that there are not so many decisions anymore, whose impact you feel during the game and not only as some minor alterations during the credits. The problem of the game is not bugs, which can be patched over time, but an immersion breaking shallow stage in which a quite linear story is set. You could write pages about missing little activities to do in the world, or how it is not possible to change your avatar in game, and all the tweaks this game would need in regard of useability. What is really annoying and upsetting over time are the reactions and AI of NPCs, police, by-standers and traffic. The AI is ridiculous! If Act1 had been released as Early Access I probably would have given 4 or even 5 stars. But even and especially as a fan of the future-noir setting I cannot rate the whole game with more than one star. It is sad to write this game off as a missed opportunity, as you can see in game hints of many features, story lines which have apparently been cut on release.