Cyberpunk 2077

As the title say, the game has incredible potential, and you can see that they have put great effort into little details, but on the other hand they clearly rushed it out and did not finished a lot of things. The game try to reach Rockstar games, but they lack the needed polish. Bugs, bugs, bugs, glitches and bugs again. Sudden drops in performance untill you restart the game smells like memory leaks. Flashing, clipping animations, not finished physics and just plain silly things. The loot and progression system is broken totally, the game doesn't tell you many things so you are wondering is this a bug or a feature :D Duplicating items without you wanting it, unable to sell or drop items, its just soo many problems i can't even start to mention them all. Perhaps in an year they will kinda patch it up, lets hope so, but game developers should never release games in such state.. whoever is greenlighted this to get out to public, should be fired and never ever work in gaming industry again.

I played this game from launch and didn't experience any severe bugs or peoblems on the technical side. However, what I experienced was a tremendous disappointment gameplaywise. This game was never a RPG. A fantastic amount of promises were made prior to launch and none were delivered. I did one playthrough and uninstalled, but I have since hoped CDPR could salvage this game over time. One year in They have apparently fixed a lot of bugs and glitches, but nothing has been done about the fantasticially bland world/characters/plotline - uninstalled yet again.

Positive points: - Impressive city. - Great original score and voiceover. - Main characters are well written. - Interesting story. - Interesting skills development of the main character. - The gunplay is quiet fun. Negative points: - Empty city, full of NPC without intelligence. Never a game with such amount of NPC makes me feel so alone. - The story could last more, the final mission gets without explaining some things. - The user interface is awful, specially the minimap (using it while driving is a complete pain) and map (the tasks, secondary missions and other stuff has the same icon). - The overall IA. - Has a lot of bugs, mainly visual, but also some that causes to load a previous game. - Tons of activities... Without interest. - V is quiet bipolar, sometimes it is the most comprehensive person, but others is the opposite. - The different initial paths of the story are useless, the only thing that changes is the end of the game, but it does not depend on your origin, but on certain decisions. I would only recommend this game to people that really loves the cyberpunk genre, but still he/she should wait until most of the bugs are fixed.

I don't dislike the gameplay. Honestly it's the only thing in this game that doesn't bore me to death. I get there's supposed to be a story and story development and whatnot, but the whole sad story, sad protagnist, anti-hero BS is so cliche at this point. Also, random, but if the illustrious Johnny Silverhand in V's head was about to be fried by the EMP that Panam and V set off, then why couldn't I just sit there and let Johnny's engram get fried. No more engram trying to overwrite V's neural network, and supposedly V won't die because the chip wasn't forcibly removed from their head. Seems like a massive story oversight. I've got the hardware to run this game on ultra, no problem, according to the recommended chart at least. So why even after patch 1.06 does it take character models and vehicles 30 seconds to load in at the proper resolution? Haven't experienced too many bugs, but the one that I did notice was the random exploding. Basically I would be in the middle of something important, and V would explode. No reason for it and has happened outside of combat. The fix? Adjusting the difficulty slider. WHAT?!?!?! I don't hate this game, at all, I've logged over 200 hours in it. But after that long just running around doing jobs, because I avoid the story like the plague after the Heist. You really start to notice just how much was left out or cut, and if I have to pay for DLC to add in stuff that was meant to be in the game from the get go, I am going to be absolutely livid.

When I think about my time spent in Cyberpunk 2077, I reminisce not about the great times i've had, but of the bugs and corrupted save files that pummeled me along the way. The game is a mess from a technical standpoint, with everything from framerate issues to bugs that are at best immersion breaking, but its issues are not simply from a seeming lack of QA testing. The majority of the quests and activities feel like busy work, the weapon "variety" is simple reskins of the same models over and over again, the vehicles aren't terribly satisfying to drive, and the skills/perks feel like an afterthought thrown in only to appease anyone who might have wanted to play an RPG. It's a very shallow experience when all is said and done. There is charm to be found here amongst the heaps of refuse, if you intend to dig around for 80ish hours like I have. The vocal performances are stellar, some of the weapons are fun to use, there are bits and pieces of the story that are a blast to take part in, some of the characters are extremely enjoyable to interact with, and Night City looks pretty stellar. When everything works how it is supposed to, there are some things here to like, but that's just it. Rarely does everything work how it is supposed to. I fear that even if/when all the bugs and technical errors are addressed, this game will still be an altogether forgettable experience. Its issues run much deeper than bugs. There is so much that feels like it has been left out or ignored. The lack of player choice, awful stealth mechanics, lack of non-lethal combat options, shallow interaction with characters, and a world that doesn't truly feel 'alive' are only a few of the deep rooted issues with this game. These are things that won't be fixed with a simple patch. When all is said and done, I am left with no feelings of satisfaction as I close out Cyberpunk 2077. I'm left only with feelings of disappointment and a longing for what could have been.