Cyberpunk 2077

Basically, it's Dragon Age Inquisition LARPing as GTA V with a coat of Cyberpunk that holds Keanu Reeves like they're bros and poses in front of a borrowed Porche to look cool. It's 85% boring inconsequential bloat, garbage loot and crafting design, very short main story that would work only if it was the first act of a better game. When you play a game and realize that you enjoy not the game itself but what it could have been if it was made with right priorities and competence, you know that no amount of patches, expansions and mods will fix it. Just do yourself a favor and play Shadowrun trilogy instead, that's where the actual good stuff is.

Apart from bugs, here the list of issues: 1. Dialog choice is has no impact on the outcome. 2. Most actions have inpact on the outcome. 3. Starting life path has no impact on the outcome. 4. Driving is really bad. 5. NPC can't drive. 6. The driving missions are scriptied. 7. Forced to follow NPC's on slow walking speed unlike witcher 3. 7. NPC's are scripted with no routine other then walk back and forth. 8. Ripper docs and other stores are nothing more then a menu item. 9. Character customisation is a waste of time and V is a ghost in the reflective surfaces. 10. And the biggest issue is the in game physics that either non existent or very basic. Overall a really bad experience as an RPG as the games lacks any depth, it is just a shooter with good graphics. So after playing for a bit, got a refund.

The main story is kind of okay but the bugs, lack of AI, and lack of shit to do makes this game so mediocre, this is the worst game release since Arkham Knight.

There's nothing positive about a company who takes you for a ride and blames their own employees and tries to shut them up. CDPR has never been an ethically ok company. That aside: Cyberpunk has never been good, people are just too invested in hype. It could be good but all the patches including 1.12 have left the game with no real improvements. I try to play after each update but it's a chore. Bugs beyond bugs and not fun quirky skyrim types either, driving and randomly crashing, NPCs standing and staring into space. Random car and people spawns. Even the story sequences have bugs that pull me out of immersion. Music is tryhard and really annoying most of the time. I didn't get a chance to hear sound FX cause I was so distracted about how terrible it is playing. Here you have a massive studio who can't even launch patches on a regular schedule yet most indie devs are pumping out these massive content and bug fix patches, what's up with that? Yeah they never had a game to begin with it was all staged and the time came to pay their hype tax. IF it's possible for it to get better I will review again. Otherwise stay away.

Still multiple broken unfinishable quests, worse npc and cop ai than games from over a decade ago, lack of mini games and races, lack of meaningful interaction with the city, pacing issues with teleporting through missions in a game that forces 1st person for the expirence. Great gun play and steath elements with hacking but that can only carry a game so far. Double jump and a good motorcycle are a mush because on higher difficulties enemies will hit you in cover and the cars handle so terribly you'll likely kill civilians and have to deal with driving a couple blocks to out run cops. A few amazing moments in the story are marred by the tiny main plot with no branching consequences at all until the very last mission. The witcher 2 basically featured 2 compeltly separate plots with your choice of who to follow. It's shocking that this company ignored everything they did right for 10 years and allowed this to release in this state. After 100hrs I'm just more disappointed than the best moments could make up for. I made excuses for dozens of hours but looking at my broken quest log and the poorly executed potentially great story line. Your insane marketing department is still putting out elaborate ads for bug patchs that havent even released. focus on developement not marketing. I loved the first witcher a decade ago and everything since, this game is a massive step back from that series. It very mcuh feels rushed and all of the useless managers and marketing directors need to be fired for pushing this product in this state and not focusing on fixing and expanding it to be on par with GTA games over 10 years or at least your own other games.