Cyberpunk 2077

This Game is a narrative masterpiece. It takes up the philosophical question: What is the core of being a human. It dragged me into the world and bound me to its characters. This was done with excellent storywriting and even better (German) localization. In fact, the best (German) localization ever done in a computer game - zero mistakes. Levelling missions are a little too easy - can be solved quite easily and are repetitive. Racing missions could have been more (I liked it :-)) - The brawling missions, I left out - not my style. Story-missions (also side missions) are great, really taking up serious topics and confront the player with decisions that are not to be categorized with "good" or "evil"... really a game for adults. The decisions in the game really mirror the player's intention and reflect them in the game world. This is quite rewarding. The Gameworld presentation is fantastic and immersive. For me personally, the story, the characters and the game world are most important. The mechanics, the "keyboard action" and that stuff is not. Technically, it is true, that it needs really strong hardware to play in 4K. The bugs are not disturbing the game experience, but get a little bit on my nerve (little bit at least!) So, I do absolutely recommend this game. It is a masterpiece - maybe a little bit behind the Witcher 3. For me personally as a player who loves open world games, CDPR is the studio with the highest potential and I'm curious about the next project.

Playing on PC so, yeah, I haven't tried it on a console. I don't justify CDPRs mistakes with PS4 release. But if you try the game on PC that can run it on high graphics settings or better... Damn! Its marvelous! The amount of work they did, attention to details. Graphics are just astonishing! People, cars, buildings, weapons, clothes - everything in this game looks cool! I am having fun just riding the city and looking at sites. PC controles are fine. Shooting is quite pleasant, especially for an RPG. Combat AI requires some improvements to be good but its okay now. Yes, there are bugs. Much more than everyone expected. And sometimes they can ruin your game experience. But I truly believe devs will fix the majority of them, if not all, eventually. They already released a few hotfixes and today we received a 1.1 patch. CDPR team made an incredible job! The game is complex. And every complex project has tons of bugs at first. Maybe Cyberpunk deserves its ratings on the web but I don't think so.

If you pay full price for this game you will probably feel tricked since it's not a AAA experience. But if you picked it up on sale you will find a fun sanbox game with a cool city and some unique mechanics. The game doesn't have any staying power but if you run the nomad lifepath and nomad ending you will find a satisfactory fun story in a city just deep enough to keep you entertained for the duration of the story,

Story and characters: I actually loved the majority of the story and character work. 90% of the main plot is fantastic, has great setpieces, bombastic soundtracks, meaningful deaths and more choice and consequence than there initially seemed to be. The side characters are much richer than I thought; for example, I initially ignored one character's quests thinking they were some obligatory shallow racing thing. I had no idea that they built on her character and provided a moral choice at the end. The game stops to provide quiet character moments that take the game beyond flash and style. The female romances are deep, involved and could rival the best Bioware characters. Negatives; the male romance options have so much less development than the females it's honestly shocking, given that we were told to expect equality of content pre-release. It's about a quarter of the content the girls get, neither are in the main quest and the m/m option is met literally right before the final quest and only if you make certain story decisions. Why even bother? Both males feel like an afterthought. I also wish there more RP opportunities to have agency over who my V is/what motivates him in dialogue. Both these issues need work for future content. Other thoughts will be shorter because the story and characters are mainly what I care about but; gameplay was still fun for me after 100 hours, which, for me, is the only metric of whether it's good or not. I did have to police myself with quickhacking, though, and felt REALLY overpowered with a crit headshot build REALLY quickly. It's quickly trivial, but remains fun. The feel of the car became fun as I got a feel for it. Character animations are meticulous and most importantly, are used in unique ways to build character for the NPCs. The soundtrack gave me chills. Voice acting was top-notch (except for Grimes's cameo). Playing on PC I didn't have a single crash and only encountered minor bugs which were usually fixed by a reload.

I agree with many criticisms of this game, but fact is that I've nevertheless enjoyed the 40+ hours I've spent in Night City. My hope is that there will be free expansions and patches, and maybe even some kind of multiplayer mode in the future. The world is beautiful, although it lacks the immersivevess of Skyrim for example. The voice-acting is great, there are lots of fun side-missions, but the main problem is that Cyberpunk 2077 was massively overhyped from the getgo and didn't live up to expectations. Hopefully CD Projekt Red have learned from their mistakes and will do better if they decide to make a sequel (which I hope they will)