Cyberpunk 2077

Gameplay feels better and nice quality of life features such as customizing your appearance and driving system changes. Haven't dived deep into the skill tree rework but looking forward to more balance changes. Hope we get more updates like appearance sliders, expanding the Jackie storyline, expanded romance quests, side stories, more accessible open world buildings, etc

I had a pretty great time playing overall; it has an utterly massive, diverse city-scape trailing off into a New Vegas-like badlands, satisfying weapons with a plethora of melee, explosives and firearms and various cars and motorcycles for which to explore every alleyway, street or desert hilltop all laced wonderfully in gorgeous ray-traced lighting (if your card can handle it). As you might seam from this review, the strength of this game definitely stems from the exploration, scenery, art direction and action packed RPG elements; you can level up and upgrade your character based on your playing preference, be it stealthy or tanked out. Character customization is pretty decent with the exception of your name (you're stuck with the name "V") and the main plot, while intricate, isn't as deep as it could have been. But now with what I feel are some of the weakest elements of the game and that is the dialogue and linear personality-building of your character. For the most part you're stuck with a very sarcastic, one-liner-slinging, not realistically speaking punk (surprsing, I know). I often felt like I was in a tug of war of how I wanted to portray my character and how the game intended them to be like as the majority of dialogue options were either passive-aggressive/sarcastic or try-hard one liners befitting of a generic hard boiled detective straight out of a noir comic. Most of your reactions, either to other characters or to story events, feel like how any human being would actually behave in that particular situation. There are exceptions here and there throughout the story but I found it difficult to react to situations as I wanted to or at least like a decent person. Same for the rest of the characters, some have very two dimensional personalities while others have actual depth to their characters such as inner conflicts and motives. As others have complained about, it really feels like a non RPG story adapted into an RPG formula. Still worth checking out.

Got the game since launch, loved it since then, and it just keeps on improving, so glad to see edgerunners give the game more love.

I bought CP on day of release and went went through the prologue in the night the game got unlocked, and I had my fun. I spent the following week putting my free time into this game and enjoyed exploring Night City and the occasional T-posing NPC or car emerging from the ground rather entertained than bothering me. Running around town and looking for side quests is fun, but suffers from the obligatory open-world sidequest dilemma of 60% being boring filler mission, whilst the other 40% almost deserve their own main plot. Leading us to one of CP's biggest problems, the plot itself. Despite being full of plotholes (especially in the prolog), the story itself is very simply, you are terminally ill and desperately looking for a cure. Sounds simple, sounds good, but when the story comes to execution the games fails to find its balance between saying too much and saying too little, while talking far too much for the most time. This problem becomes especially obvious when going through the game a second time, as you will find yourself stuck in a conversation that takes up to 5 minutes, even though you are skipping through the whole dialogue. On the other handside you also got parts, when you don't want to skip even though you heard the conversation thrice already (I am thinking of Johnny and V talking about what they do and what will remain of them somewhere near a landfill on the roadside). Another plot-problem is its linearity. The games can end in more than 6 different ways (if I remember correctly) but what happens up until the endig is almost irrelevant. Before starting the final mission you are given a choice on how you want to approach, resulting in an ending often also giving you a yes/no choice kind of option. Wether you played the game as a bully, lunatic, kind guy, smart guy, dumb guy or whatsoever doesn't matter. Since I am running out of place to write, I am gonna keep the rest short: The game world is beautiful, but empty The gunplay is there Buy on sale

It's 2024, the game has been out for 4 years. And while they've done a lot to improve it, which is commendable, it's still got some fundemental problems. Even after multiple patches calling out keybindings, and as of patch 2.12, you still cannot bind all keys... This blows my mind, this was a solved issue in the games of the early 2000s.