Cyberpunk 2077

Currently I suggest waiting a year or so for them to actually REALLY finish the game. Unless you find the AI not being able to figure out how to follow you around a corner "Peak Gameplay". Good AI will save a game, bad AI will bury it in a pit of boredom. Currently they can't figure out how to shoot you when you're both in plain sight, can't figure out how to get in to melee range when using melee, can't figure out how to stop hiding in cover when you're basically clearly flanking them, can't seem to figure out that throwing a grenade at a wall infront of their face might be bad for their continued existence. Interesting game, but also needs probably another year of polish at the rate things seem to be going.

This game has some very good points, the atmosphere is great and the gun play is great, sadly there's not enough gunplay and the city is only skin deep, this game is 90% cutscenes, its more like an interactive movie where you have to press the f key all the time to keep advancing if you want to have long cutscenes then have proper cutscenes, not this illusion you try to portray that the player is in control, i'd rather watch a good proper cutscene and then carry on with gameplay then have 90% just an interactive "press F" all the damn time to continue cutscene Deus ex human revolution is a great example of a game where gameplay is prioritized and cutscenes are there to support the story, cyberpunk just railroads you and is literally an interactive movie

I do not often pre-order games, but for Cyberpunk I thought, "it's CDPR of course it will be a good game." And long story short, I learned that pre-ordering is still a bad idea. The game itself is beautiful, but the world feels empty. There is little interaction that you can have with the world and you do not have to go far before cracks begin to appear. The NPC behaviour in this game is laughable at best, worse than games which came out over 10 years ago. The police have become an absolute meme where they spawn behind the player after you commit a crime, and can be easily escaped because they cannot drive, so you simply run around the corner and the chase is over. The story is okay, but if you were expecting your choices to actually matter, you will be disappointed. The game feels like you are just put on a rollercoaster which carries you through an entertaining but predetermined set of loops and turns, where occasionally you will get to pick between 2 paths. The game feels like it needed another couple of years to cook. Its not an Ubisoft game or anything, but it does not feel like it was made by the same studio that brought us the Witcher games.

The game itself I guess is not so bad but not worth it considering all the bugs and linear gameplay. The world felt as if it could have been significantly better. I wished it had more rpg elements to make me feel like a part of the world and not just an observer. As in my title I bought the game early so naturally there were several bugs and glitches. Although these were subsequently ironed out, I do not feel the need to replay this game. It is difficult to explain but it is not something I would want to replay because it felt linear to me despite the illusion of freedom. Anyways I would only recommend playing if it went on sale for no less than half price.

The good: Visually, when the bugs aren't doing crazy things, the game can be stunning. The voice acting is mostly really well done though the male lead can come off frequently flat. Some of the missions are superb - the Portal limo reference mission pick of the bunch. The bad: Interactivity is tiny to zero. There's a mall, full of arcade machines, no interaction. Unimportant NPCs have one line of dialog that the lead doesn't even respond to. The gang turfs will never change. In fact, everyone is waiting for you to do their jobs, but there's no payoff in the world. It's painfully obvious this game is so far from unfinished. You have an assassinate skill perk from water that's useful nowhere but the very final mission. Origin stories are a waste of time after the opening mission. The driving. Not only are the physics awful, they went and made a race mission out of it just to double down on how bad it is where you can also see competitors mariokart teleporting behind you rather than actually racing. The AI is painfully stupid. Companions always getting in the way/setting off alarms, enemies standing around being shot at. Cyberware gets grossly unbalanced very quickly. You can wipe an entire area in 15 seconds without even needing eye contact on someone. Some things just don't work as advertised. Gorilla arms explicitly say they help low str characters open doors of a certain level. Then don't. The racial stereotypes and one romance for each gender and orientation comes off as nothing but a checklist. Police spawning is still not fixed. Time means nothing. In a setup where the lead is panicking they have finite time to live, through the quick wait mechanic, you can literally spends months in world time (mostly to farm inventory). Makes no difference. "Time sensitive" missions sit patiently waiting for you to pick up whenever. It's so half baked - the train station, the hinted war with rogue AI that's never fulfilled, the voodoo boys setup that turns to nothing.