Cyberpunk 2077

After 30 minutes of play, reloading causes the game to hang and suck up all the free CPU cycles. On the plus side, this has kept my feet warm. But there were a lot of cheaper ways to do that. I want to come back and give a higher rating because I feel a lot of these bugs are fixable with more time. From the gameplay so far, it's worth being concerned that V will not be making any meaningful choices in this game unlike in so many Witcher 3 quests like Ladies of the Wood.

Bought it full price in the moment it came out, couldnt disappoint me more than this. Its not about the bugs, its about the game itself. No RPG to be found here, lifeless, unfinished, full with fetch and kill side missions and the unskippable dumb main quest that sometimes feels downright like rape... No one to talk to, no effect on the world whatsoever, random generated garbage loot, etc, etc. It is simply shocking when you compare it to any of the Witcher games, where the heart was beating together with your characters, here I couldnt care less if somebody lived or died, because the game never gave me a chance to connect with anybody. Still cant believe these games where made by the same devs...

Pros: I really like the music Lots of shiney things Some great characters Cons: Inconsistent writing Juvenile tone Poor pacing Lack of basic pc control options/functionality/interface customizations Lack of depth It is old news as far as the cyberpunk genre goes The more I play it the more I realize it isn't about very much and hollower it feels Replay value nonexistant - your "choices" are mostly inconsequential and your backstory is irrelevant I've realized that if it weren't for the cyberpunk setting and what I thought I was getting terms of story and mechanics (deep choice and consequence rpg) I'd never have bought the game. All that aside, I'm having fun and hope the game gets some much needed tlc and will eventually be worth more stars.

tl\dr: CP2077 is an okay gtav-with-rpg-elements game on it's own merit. But measured against CDPR own standards? It's a flop. CDPR set the quality bar very high for themselves with both success of witcher 3 and, for the most part, all the irresponsible hype and overpromise during the last few years. And, naturally, they failed to deliver. Like, really, at some point hype gets so high that it's just plain impossible to live up to it, even if you move release date another 2 years into the future and hire half of Poland as game designers\programmers and force them all to crunch. And I was actually dumb enough to preorder it. Hope CDPR management are happy they managed to move so many copies on release. Because any paid dlc they release for this - I'm probably going to pirate it. Because I know they will never fix it, and it will never be even half of what they promised it to be. Sorry about that. P.S.: And that rushed cinematic in the beginning of the game about V and Jackie becoming chooms? You just cut all of that awesome story and character development content due to time constraints and settled for a cinematic exposition dump, right? Right?

I didn't experience many bugs, so I'm not going to talk about that. It's bad. They really, really managed to screw this up big time, like nobody could ever in their right minds expect from CDPR. If you're playing because you loved The Witcher 3, this is going to be a sour disappointment. Boy would I be glad if it were a third as good as that game. If you're playing because you're a fan of the source material, this is going to be devastating. Nightcity by day looks like a poor man's GTA. Nobody passing behind you while you're playing would ever guess it was a Cyberpunk game and the "fashion" in the game is so grotesquely messed up that you will spend 50 hours praying to find the jacket you saw in the trailer so your character will not look like a joke - but to be fair it doesn't matter anyway because you pretty much only ever see them when you're driving a motorcycle. CDPR just mercilessly killed the fashion element which was such an important part of the Cyberpunk 2020 books. Speaking of killing elements, they came up with some plot trick to kill the Net (I wish I was making this up), so they wouldn't have to be bothered to include netrunning in the game. I'm not exaggerating. Netrunning in the game is just stuff like remotely activating vending machines to distract guards and playing an encryption minigame to open randomly placed caches of money. The 1993 SNES Shadowrun did a better job at letting you play as a hacker. And how about the thrill of getting dangerous missions from fixers? Getting the job done as part of a memorable mixed-roles team? Nope. 99,9% of the game is you killing people alone and missions are "kill/steal/investigate" phonecalls you get when near a place of interest. I swear it feels impossible that the same company made the Witcher 3 sidequests which were each so original and meaningful. In all honesty, is this an RPG? This was so unexpected that it took me a while to be able to admit it, but the game is an extreme disappointment.