Cyberpunk 2077

First impressions matter, right? Well, the first impression was great. Seriously. And then something something and boom everything's shite. The graphics are top notch, no complaints at all here (if your PC can handle it). The gameplay feels quite good and smooth, different weapons actually behave differently and are fun to use. Sounds are great aswell, the english voice acting is on point. And well .. there they were.. my first impressions. The story was goddamn great ... in the very first Act of the game, then everything goes south. Whilst the story is interesting, it isn't good, it's disappointing at the very best. The game tries to build up tention but "Hey, have you done those side missions yet? And have you already beat up those thugs and bought that car?" There is simply too much unnecessary stuff to do. Besides the very weak story there are still the bugs everyone was talking about at launch. Wanna climb up that wall to get to the mission quicker? How about the physic engine just kills you instead. Want to hop in your car real quick? How about the HUD gets stuck and requires you to tinker with the game to fix it. Got that cool new quick hack thing to lure enemies to you? Yeah, fuck you too, imma teleport back to where I started walking. The crafting "mechanics" and the skill trees are mostly a joke. Nothing much to say here. You can craft a weapon that will be obsolete 2 minutes later because you already killed an enemy and got a better one. To put it short, I honestly don't know what took them about 8 years to release this game. There is nothing major about it. There is nothing that made think like: "Woaaaahh that's sooooo cool, omg!!11!1" The game as a whole gets about 3,7/10. If you really want to see a good story, character development and an ending that feels good, whether it is the "good" or the "bad" ending spend your money elsewhere. If you like cluttered games with too many side missions and random stuff, you might very well enjoy this.

I almost don't want to spend the time writing this review as I don't want to give any more time to this game or quite honestly this company, so I'll make it brief. If at this point you have been living in a cave and don't know about the hype and under-delivery that is the launch, I won't beat a dead horse here. There are countless youtube videos going in depth as to why the launch was bad. What I will say is that depsite all the flaws in the performance and the bugs and crashes (of which there are many), this game is the most vanilla 'RPG' that I have ever had the mifortune of spending time on. The thing that blows my mind is that they had the perfect oppurtunity to make a game world so full of colour and interest. Something that was truly different. A futuristic world set in a distopian society where anything you can dream of is possible, and they settled for a piss poor character creation (which is buggy. How do you have bugs in a menu for character creation lol?). The vanilla V that you make cannot be visually upgraded with any cyberware. All the NPC's walking around with awesome and disturbing faces and you cannot change anything more than the colour of your eyes and your genitals. The story. Oooh boy where do I start? I'll just put it this way, I have never been so bored and uninterested in an RPG in all my gaming life. I attempted multiple times to really try and get into the story. To ignore all the hate online and the reviews and just get into the world and the characters and give it a crack. I tried 4 playthroughs and I didn't even bother finishing the main storyline. The characters are empty and vanilla, and the game does nothign to make you care for a single one of them. When Jackie dies right in the begining I was like "Sucks I guess... Anyway!" Two things to remember, never preorder games, and vote with your wallet

So, I bought this game on launch day, and most of my hours of play followed that. After getting through a decent portion of maybe the first half of the game, I encountered a game-breaking bug where I was permanently stuck in the hacking view after exiting out of a terminal I was hacking, unable to do basically anything except move around while being surrounded by enemies. Since I would've lost about an hour of progress, as loading the previous autosave didn't really fix this issue (character would get stuck in the hacking view every time), I decided to uninstall the game. I heard they were going to be working on fixes, and I'd seen what other people were experiencing. Thankfully, up until that point I hadn't had really any issues aside from some frame drops. Fast forward to earlier this last year, sometime in summer or fall 2021, and I reinstalled the game to give it another go. Within the first couple hours of playing that time around, I had Jackie walking through walls. I also was driving around for a little bit after that, and noticed how the radio signal dropped in tunnels. Pretty cool, I thought, good attention to detail. Then all sounds except for road noise faded out while I was just driving around a couple of minutes after that, no tunnel involved. I gave it up again. I want to believe that there's been some work done in the past few months that fixes all of these minor and major issues, I really do. Witcher 3 has its share of bugs too, even in its more current version patches, but nothing that would really throw up a red flag like Cyberpunk has. Hopefully CDPR isn't just focusing on getting quick fixes out, since some of the issues I encountered are with core systems (broken audio cues, issues that stop progression, etc). These type of things need to be looked at from a macro level, then broken up into workable sections based on importance. Maybe I'll reinstall this game again and take a look, edit this later. Doubt I will though.

So I was one of the pre orders. At first regretted it. Game was rough. Controls didn' t not work well, and I like many others set it aside for a while. Last night, I finsihed my first play through, and I have to say I will be doing another. Despite all the noise, despite the early bugs, CDPR finally polished this up to a good gem. Over all, I really ended up enjoying the story. Yes, V runs on rails but the story is solid. A character infected by the soul of a Rock Star in teh Classic Cyberpunk setting with all its rotten glory. Give it a chance.

I really was looking forward to Phantom Liberty and 2.0. But after playing the last weekind I was really disappointed and sad in which direction the game went. It sounded interesting, the new features and the new skilltree. The features are fine, but the skilltree is just horrible. Everything is 90% Combat now. There are not really interesting things and stealth netrunning got completely destroyed. If you use an quickhack, you get tracked back. By another netrunner? Well, it seems like everyone is a netrunner now. And if the tracking finishes every enemy is going after you. It feels like you are being forced to do combat now. Stealth is just uninteresting now, active combat is the way to play. And personally I don´t like that. You could experiment with the old skills and make crazy builds. Now it feels like getting punished for experimenting. Pure Netrunner Builds are impossible now. Okay, so gunplay instead. But enemies are bullet sponges now and shooting a gun drains your stamina, which is... huh? Why? It just isn´t fun anymore. I don´t feel like I can play the game in my way anymore, it feels like the devs wanted you to play it in their way. Which is weird. I could understand the nerfs, if it was a multiplayer game. But it isn´t. Now it feels like being that you get punished, when you try things. Like you have no choice how to play the game anymore. Cyberpunk 2077 was one of my favorite games, with its story and the different playstyles. But now it is just like every other shooter out there. Skill something, then take a gun and kill people. That said, if you like playing a Lootshooter like borderlands, but with lesser weapons and none of the humour and like GTA, CP2077 2.0 is the right game for you. For others who liked netrunning, stealth and not using guns everytime, maybe you should dodge the game in its current state.