Cyberpunk 2077

To put it out there first - I've had fun with this game so far. But that doesn't excuse the issues across the board. Missing features, buggy-to-nonexistent AI, repetitive gameplay, overall buggy gameplay - the end product screams of mismanagement. Which is a shame, because the game (at least on PC) can be beautiful, the characters seem to be mostly well written (story is hit-or-miss), voice acting and soundtrack/score are excellent. But the core gameplay is - at best - lacking, and - at worst - broken. The more I play it, the more I'm reminded of The Dark Knight Rises. Why? Wasted potential that makes me more irritated every time I revisit it. I have to say that CDPR have flushed a good bit of their goodwill down the toilet, at least for me. I hope they take responsibility and fix and 'finish' this game (sooner rather than later - and without more crunch, to be fair), but those will only be getting the game to where it SHOULD be already. We can talk about 'enhancements' when they go beyond what the game was advertised as - we don't have that yet.

Cyberpunk 2077 is an marvel to look at, beautiful neon city lights. Advertisements dazzling as "V" walks night city's cluttered streets. Like a drifter you walk the lonely road, seeing sights, feeling the pulse of the city. Though nothing feels right. It's an empty vessel, hollowed out at it's core. The substance of the city is void, nothing but noises and distractions. The same crowds, walking on streets. Which feel meaningless, in the overall appeal. The environment is unfocused, jumbled and listless. It's only a very pretty snowglobe, mounted on a mantle. Something you stare at for a few moments then chuckle and say "Neat". This title gives you a cinematic experience, but where is it's heart and soul? The characters are fine, but they're meant to drive the cinematic experience, rather than provide an enriched roleplaying feel. Cyberpunk 2077 is a tongue in cheeky diversion to rise your serotonin levels and give you that magical high. Even the music is high octane, cyberware pumping into your brain. It does not have staying power, unlike The Witcher 3. Which gave you a truly rememberance of an experience. Sadly, this is not CD Projekt Red's masterpiece that was The Witcher 3. In closing, I give high marks for the production value, the polish is lacking but that comes with time. This was an ambitious project and it has solidified CD Projekt Red for years to come. The best thing about this title is it's engine. Which will be the Cry engine of the decade. Take this game for what it is. Maybe you're immersion will not be subverted by the souless pit, oozing out of Night City. TLDR: Cinematic marvel, lacks soul. There is no ghost in this shell. 3/5: Won't talk about the technical stuff, don't seek to beat a dead horse. This game is worth a playthrough at least and at most a cat walk session, which will get Jared Leto's inner Zoolander Blue Steel'ing from his mouth.

This game is unfinished. I am playing on a decent PC and i'm not experiencing the terrible graphics problems thean the consoles. My bigges issue with this unfinised game is the abysmal AI. The AI is so incredible incompetent they shoud remove the word INTELIGENCE fron the phrase AI. Is one of the worst AI i have ever seen. I'ts even worse than Crysis 2's AI. Other issues include: police agens apearing like magic in front of you. People apearing and disapearing in front of you. Weird NPC behabiour that totally breaks the immerson . Crazy, waky phisics that just scream Bethesda softworks game. This game is unfinised, not ready to be released and i'm sick and tired of game developers treating us gamers like we are stupid , like we are just going to pretend that the game is amazing just because the graphics are beautifu. i'm so disappointed in CDPR.

There are multiple bugs and glitches, some of them quest breaking and requires either a reload or completely closing the game. Graphical glitches that get stuck on your screen, and needs a reload to remove. Suddenly dying from jumping over an obstacle, and cars that spawn inside your car. I could go on but the bugs and glitches are far from the real problem of this game which is gameplay. -Average shooting mechanics -Terrible enemy A.I that just stand around not worrying about their lives. -Boring perk tree that has a very specific perks that won't allow you to make a certain character build. -The driving is ridiculously bad (I know it's not a racing game but it's impossible to drive properly in this game. -The story is okay, Characters are pretty good and voice acting is spot on too. -The decisions you make in this game barely matters at the end. -There is a quest that could end up messing up and entire faction but somehow that doesn't affect the ending at all. -The gangs of night city, with an exception to one, doesn't matter at all as there is no option to ally with them or no specific side quest that revolves around them. -No other activities aside from shooting people in the face. The story is linear and won't feel like you become a legend of Night City at the end This game doesn't feel like it came out in this era, with exceptions to graphics, it tries to be so many things at once and fails to be average on most of them. This game just doesn't compare with the games currently available right now. This ain't it choom. The story is linear and won't feel like you become a legend of Night City at the end

I've played the game on release and then the second time right now with 2.1 patch update. I can't understand CDPR marketing claims that this is a fixed game now. Only within 2 hours of game time I had several hard crashes (mostly when tinkering with DLSS settings - I have 4090 and wanted to try out new ray tracing and DLSS options). I've fallen under the map - during fights while dashing, in elevators when reading text messages, or when driving cars. NPCs still tend to sit in the air or move through walls. Inventory item tooltips are still getting bugged, and only show currently equipped weapon instead of the item you selected. Bugs aside, game main issues are still there, that being: - no exploration - as there is nothing to explore. Night City is just a board to put buildings (which all look and feel the same) for gigs to happen in (which also are basically the same thing over and over again). - character progression feels so irrelevant. You will be leveling so fast you won't be able to tell whether those levels impact anything at all. Putting points in stats and then wondering whether anything increased at all. And yea, enemy level scaling is just such a lazy way of making poorly designed encounters (by poorly, I mean no enemy variation at all) drag on. - no meaningful choices and consequences, - no likeable characters. The game characters feel like they were designed to be a one time appearance for a single episode of Law and Order rather than a RPG game. There is no relation between them and for the most part with V himself. For most of the in-game time the only interactions with them will pertain to some gig they will have you do, rather than the main story. And when you do actually push the story, their involvement will be limited to sending you a text message that they worry about you. Johnny while greatly designed character, feels really incohesive due to the scenes that develop his relation with V being randomly thrown out on the map. 6/10