Cyberpunk 2077

I played this when it came out. I am now playing through it again. The fact is, even with all the patches and all the fixes, the game is still a beta at best. Everything is missing. The city is empty. Driving is a chore. It feels like playing a demo version of something, only that you can go ahead and complete the story. The story is great, the graphics are awesome, but you can't shake the feeling that you're playing something pirated, something running on an emulator, something that you know it's going to break at the weakest push at the boundaries - perhaps permanently. It's sad, because you can feel the awesome potential the game concept has. This could have been the game of the millennia. If they only had released it like it is - a very expensive early access closed beta - the experience would have been completely different. See what happened to Baldur's Gate 3 - They released it incomplete, no lies and half truths about it, and the reviews are rampaging through the roof. TL;DR Even with patches, Cyberpunk is a gigantic, unfinished mausoleum to what it could have been.

Cyberpunk 2077 looked great and I was glad to play it on launch day. But the gameplay is plagued by bugs, some minor and some game-breaking, so I've given up playing and am waiting for the title to be patched to the point where it actually plays without problems. I pre-ordered this game because I thought CDProjektRED would make a great game, but I've learned my lesson. The game is on sale and still filled with bugs that make it too miserable to play so I'm still waiting, but I could have paid less if I had waited to buy. I've learned my lesson. I'll never buy another pre-order again and especially not from CDProjektRED.

Bought this game on release. I finished eery single side quest and main missions in the game (as buggy as they were). Came back to the game almost a year after its release to see what has changed.... Not much... It is still a buggy , broken mess. I even went ahead and got some mods to make the game less glitchy , but it is still a mess. Cops still spawn right behind you or better yet, under ground and shoot you from there. NPCs spaz out and jerk around for no reason etc. Im sure you have heard the rest... Overall: a buggy , glitchy, messy gameplay with horrible "bullet sponge" fight mechanic. DO NOT RECOMMEND.

Not even close to the 2018 demo or gameplay shown in the Night City streams, tons of features gone, and basic mechanics that have been a staple in Open World games are completely missing or done poorly. For example, this game doesn't have a wanted system, police spawn right behind you, they can't drive vehicles, so no car chases. NPC pedestrians are incredibly stupid, they do not have a 24-hour cycle, they disappear as soon as you turn around. The city has no mini-games or racing events, essentially everything GTA did seven years ago, Cyberpunk 2077 cannot do. Yet the biggest crime of all, the fact they couldn't even deliver an RPG based on the tabletop of the same name, what a sham. Until this game turns into the 2018 demo, don't even bother with this game.

While some people were hyped for the game for years, I only found out about it a year before its release. So I did have some hype for it and was the first game I ever preordered. That said, CP2077 has convinced me to never preorder a video game again. The game was a buggy mess on day 1. IDK it's current state but there are still features missing that should've been in the game. Example, the Wanted System is barebones and barely works. The cops don't chase you but instead teleport behind (which they changed to teleport further away but they still teleport). They pubicly advertised wall-climbing on their twitter but later removed it. Disregarding all the hype and missing features from the game, literally watch a comparison video CP2077 and any old GTA game. How does a game that came out more than a decade ago have more features? Examples include water physics, flat tires, proper NPC AI, buildings you can enter to do various side tasks, etc. I would never recommend someone to buy and play CP2077. The only circumstance I would recommend it or play it again is if all the major bugs are fixed and you want a nice screenshot of a beautiful city for a wallpaper. Witcher 3 is literally better than CP2077 in every way, no argument.