Cyberpunk 2077

So, 23 hours in and Finished the Main Story Line, I did most of the side quest and gigs. If you only do Main Story, like from A to B it is even less than 20 hours, A shame, because it feels like a lot of content has been cut from the beginning "Acts". A lot of montages which I am 100% certain were supposed to be well planed missions and interactions are just montages of you going through motions. Spent good 30 mintues in game to make my character when I first started and the character creator is really mediocre, I just said fuck it because in the end it is FPS and it won't even matter. Also can't change your hairstyle in 2077? WOW oh boy I am so glad I won't live to see 2077. Final Verdict 7/10 - It's a game.

Open world, looter shooter. Remindes me of Borderlands. Kill a dude, get a gun upgrade. RPG elements all over the place. After 8 hours of playing, I still don't understand anything about crafting or upgrading your gear. I found out how to change my armor/clothes accidentally. Stealth was useless, enemies saw me in the next room while I was crouched and not moving. Hacking was either useless or so confusing as to what I was supposed to do, I gave up on it. Found running up to and enemy and shooting them point blank to be the best way to play this game. Now to the plot. I felt like I was being led by the nose through the story. My first impression was Saints Row's quest progression was used. One linear main quest, and a bunch of filler quests to pad the play time. My choices made no difference as far as I could tell.

I think this game could be really great. The problem is it crashes to desktop every few minutes. I can't get in a car without it crashing. It crashes while I walk around. PC specs: ryzen 3800x, 5700xt, 16gb ram, 1tb nvme drive. All my other games work just fine.

The controls are truly some of the worst I've ever had to play with. Some things, which would have been just perfect with a MOUSE to press buttons, are just ruined by needing to press ESC. Some menus require pressing ESC on your keyboard to exit? Obviously just a one to one mapping with a console control scheme. Why is there not a back button I can press? The UI design generally is AWFUL. The controls are just terrible console crap, and was not designed with the PC in mind, which really is the biggest disgrace of all. The bugs, are out of control. I legitimately considered refunding this game due to the insane amount of bugs (literally every 2-3 minutes gameplay, I notice a bug. (Missing prefabs, UI rendering issues, AI behaviour, missing animations, wonky textures, collision problems, control problems) Fundamentally these problems are because everything occurs in the same game loop. Having a dialogue menu appear dynamically when you approach someone, sure is immersive, but if i'm trying to pick up an item near them, I simply CANNOT do it. It also creates annoyances like I'm trying to access a computer so I have to tap in a sequence of 15 key presses just to get him to sit down and use the computer. You should have put everything into seperate game loops/sequences. If I go to a container - open and menu, pause the game and show me the contents. That way, I'm way more invested in the contents of the container rather than just blindly picking everything up in the environment and sorting it out later. When I'm talking to someone, pause the game and let me talk with them - this way you can have longer and more meaningful dialogue and you don't have to worry about all the design constraints surrounding talking to someone while the entire game is happening at the same time. These design problems were figured out in the late 90s early 2000's. It's hubris. However, I do give a star for the level design.

..this would still be a poor game. I got it running at fairly stable 45fps with a few tweeks in the settings and with RTX on. I have a RTX 2060 super, SSD and last gen i5 processor. I would class my PC as mid range, it ain't no beast. I won't go on about bugs and glitches, those are well reported. But they are real and are immersion breaking at best, game breaking at worst. The real issue for me is that the core gameplay mechanics and RPG system don't live up anywhere near the levels of what you should expect of a good or great game. When it comes to encounters you have many ways of muddling your ways through these, guns blazing, stealthy assassin, hacking, pacifist and so on. But this is really only how you start the encounter, it'll always end up guns blazing and grenades. I wanted to play as a corpo assassin, but in 12 hours of play I didn't manage to go through a single encounter how I would of liked. Stealth kill 2 enemies, then have another 8 bearing down on me as I hide behind a box pinging them off, or run out and shotgun them in the face was the usual outcome. Character/gear progression. Perks seem to do nothing. I never added a perk or skill point after leveling up and felt more powerful because of it. If there are 200 perks, maybe 10 are useful. And gear..jesus wept..this game has a looter shooter gear progression system! How on earth in 8 years no one said "this isn't fun, lets take a look at how ME2, ME3 and fallout did it" is baffling. If you like switching out weapons every encounter, looking like a clown with whatever attire has the best armour rating and going to vendors between each fight to sell your loot, you may like this. Choices matter? There are no choices. I highly doubt a 2nd playthrough would yield a different experience. You may find quests you missed or do them in a different order, but the results and your character will be the same. Avoid this, check back in 6 months and see what people are saying then.