Cyberpunk 2077

When this game was announced, GTA V hadn't been released yet. They made ambitious goals and gave us all hope for the future. Shortly after, GTA V released and changed the definition of what an open world could be. Since then several games have come out and the boundaries have been pushed further. RDR2 is the gold standard as of today. It is unfortunate that Cyberpunk 2077 is of worse quality and has fewer capabilities than GTA V from 2013. Nothing new or groundbreaking is in this game. Watch Dogs gave us hacking and RDR2 is currently leading the way in physics, wanted systems, NPC interactions and so much more. It really seems as though this was a failed project which had a good concept that marketing didn't want to let die. At the end of the day, this game was marketed as an open world RPG set in a dystopian world. What was delivered was a low quality, buggy game which has just enough features to be somewhat considered open world and didn't even have enough role playing to keep the RPG designation. I haven't been this disappointed since I read "World War Z" by Max Brooks and then watched the movie with Brad Pitt. My only hope is that over the next few years is that CDPR makes this right and keeps rolling out updates.

The game looks nice, it's beautiful when looking at it. But once you get passed that inital 'wow' of seeing the city the first time the facade starts to become apparent for how little depth it has. It's an RPG game without consequence, real choice, or ability to make significant changes to character/faction/story development. The building blocks are there - there are gangs, there are character backgrounds, etc. But in 99% of the time - They do nothing. I only noticed 2 quests in about 30 hours of a corpo background that were even slightly different than street kid. There are dialogue options - but generally, nothing of use/interest. You can clear out entire packs of one of the gangs and have their leader call you and offer a job. Why they didnt expand on the gangs throughout the city - Letting you pick one to help maybe take over more territory, go to war with another, etc, I don't quite understand. The main story line is fairly short in comparison to other games, filled with about 10x that in just bloat quests - Fetch an item or Kill everyone. It gets really repetitive really quickly. ' The most exciting part of the game is the first like hour where the quests are developed and there seems to be a good foundation. But after you get about 20 minutes into act 2 it becomes more of a slog and you can just feel how barebones most of the game is. How lazy it was put together. How uninspired the team was behind doing quests outside of maybe 5-10 quests outside of the main storyline. Driving is about on par with "Cruisin' USA" from the n64. Music is fantastic though.

1) The performance issues are killing my experience. Tried changing the settings for hours but the impact on framerate is very inconsistent. 2) V's movement feels very bad. It's hard to explain, but it feels clumsy. 3) The game gave me dizziness at first, but increasing the FOV helped. 4) The UI screens are so ugly.

How did this happen. Put aside the bugs. Put aside the performance problems. The gameplay is so poor, upgrades are useless and not interesting to obtain... Driving is hell, musics are suprisingly forgetable. I waited for this game for so long, I was promised an RPG and I got this...

Title says it all, this isn't about the bugs nor the performance issues. The game content itself is the problem. In general it feels like a lot of content has been cut out. Overpromise but underdeliver. Hype should not be blamed, devs have repeatedly advertise the game with so many elaborate features and mechanics through interviews, trailers etc but we only see like 20% of it in game. -Main story, pretty much just average, feels more like Johnny's story rather than the player's -Endings are ok, bittersweet tone but nothing spectacular -Side quests like gigs, secondary quests, radiant events are a huge disappointment. They are mainly to farm exp, cred, money, gear mats etc. They lack a soul, theres no good storytelling -The promise of branching storyline, decisions that matter, actions and consequences are unfullfiled. Stories and quests are more or less standalone with poor storytelling. They don't interact or effect each other, the main story or even the world. So called decisions are only for the 7 endings which mind you is basically loading a save and choosing the other option. -Lots of missed opportunities. An example being the different factions of the Cyberpunk world. They can be better used by having them as factions that players must choose to align with that effects the main story, but we get none of that here. Life paths are pointless as they have no importance except some dialogue and a short quest. -Romance is a hit or miss. I liked Panam's, others were meh. Devs tried to be inclusive but it backfired and we get only 1 romance option per gender/sexuality. -Characters and companions are forgettable and a disappointment, lacks the quality and storytelling you see in games like Witcher 3, Dragon Age Origins or Baldur's Gate. -Too much focus on looter shooter GTA open world style gameplay, sacrificed all other RPG aspects. Cyberpunk 2077 really feels like they had big dreams but overestimated their abilities, ran out of budget and cut 80% of the game out.