Cyberpunk 2077

As the title says: even with most of the bugs fixed the game (v1.31) barely lands above mediocre. The open world is a nice looking stage to drive by in your bad handling car. But don't stop and look closer, because it will collapse right in front of you. AI switches between 2 stages; walking around in circles or cowering in fear. There is nothing to see or explore apart from the generic go there and shoot something areas. The gameplay consists of you running around meeting forgettable people, shooting at forgettable gangs and occasionally hitting buttons to "hack". Your characters background doesn't matter. You will get the occasional added dialogue line, which will change exactly nothing in your progression through the attached quest. The Story and character development are okay, but not good enough to keep me going. They might be able to improve on what is there right now. But it will never be an outstanding game, let alone something you'd call a RPG.

While I personally enjoyed the game quite a bit, I have to say that until we get it to the standard set during that 50 minute E3 presentation, I cannot recommend the game in good will, 'least not without a heavy discount. There is tons of missing features like NG+ (The "cinematic intro that you can't exactly skip" can only be entertaining so many times -- don't even get me started on braindances), QoL improvements that still need to be implemented, and even content that was promised and not retracted after release. While the latest patch (1.52 as of when this is written) does do a lot to push the game in a more positive direction, and approaces what the Alpha of the game should have looked like, it's still not enough.

I guess people had a bad start, but honestly I came in after the 1.5 patch, and by that time everything was pretty much fixed. On my first play through only had 1 issue. If you like Blade Runner or Altered Carbon, you'll love this game. If you have Netflix go watch Edgerunners to pump you up!

I played Cyberpunk before Witcher and Witcher 3 showed me afterwards how Cyberpunk should have been in my view... Witcher 3 had much more depth. Pro: -it really looks good, nice graphics -great soundtrack -cyberpunk atmosphere -I dont think its that buggy anymore, was more or less stable (in 2022) in between: main story is ok but somehow it left me untouched. Silverhand is cool but i didnt like many NPCs (thats much better in Witcher for example) Cons: -many side quests felt boring to me -you dont really feel the RPG part... -the devs wanted to please the woke part of our society in every aspect which at some point went on my nerves...

I was really excited to see the game on sale in GOG after the release of 2.0. I'd heard that they really fixed the game up properly now, and was eager to see what all the fuss was about. Imagine my disappointment then, when I was still unable to customize key bindings, and the game slowed to a crawl every 2 minutes even on medium graphics settings despite my gaming rig sporting an R9 with 16GB RAM and an RTX 4080 (well over even the recommended specs). I ran the benchmark on Raytracing High and averaged 120fps, but during actual gameplay I got no where near that, and even with the fps locked at 60, still ran into consistant freezing despite my hardware not being taxed (cpu and gpu both under 50% and RAM staying steady at 12/16GB used). I love the setting and really want to love this game. But right now, I'm having trouble thinking of a reason not to refund it....