Cyberpunk 2077

After playing the game for over 100h, I can't but feel...cheated. I think that if CDPR would have launched the game on the 10th of Dec as an Early Access build, they would have saved themselves a lot of well deserved headacke. PROs: -Awesome city & great architecture with great potential (although is mostly potential, with not much realized yet) -Great cast of characters with a good, but not great, story -Great voice acting -Cyberpunk...altough this is not something that CDPR created, i'll consider it a win :)) CONS: - Unfinished in its technical, design and physics aspects, which if you search for comparison videos online, you'll see exactly what I mean. Ffs, this game doesn't even have effects for bullets hitting the water. -Bugs are legion -Not an RPG -Story is on rails -Choices don't matter -The loot/gearing system is in conflict with your ability to customize your character -The police system is infuriating and should have been reason enough not to launch this game yet -The perk system is a joke & unbalanced. Most of the "skills" are % multipliers, so everyhing goes out of control once you start stacking some modifiers -Cars feel like they are floating for the most part. Some of the worst car driving mechanics I've ever had the displeasure of playing with, -Horrible, down right atrocious AI. I would have never expected this from an "Nex-Gen" title or CDPR. -Map is full of boaring "events", that are meaningless. -Factions don't matter. Any enemy is pretty much the same as the rest. -There is no reputation system -The Cyberware system is lackluster and is a huge missed opportunity. -No-brainer Quality of Life Features are missing or poorly implemented I could go on and on, but it's not worth the effort, just like this game is not worth your money. Maybe wait for a sale or some patches, although I don't really know if they can fix a lot if this stuff. Very dissapointed in you CDPR! And in myself for pre-ordering. It will not happend again.

Beautiful city...if only there weren't missing textures, places you move to only to fall through map etc. Lots of NPC...if only they had any purpose and has any semblance of AI. Cops...if only they didn't teleport behind you anywhere you are. Indoors, roofs, cabinet. They're behind you. Quests...if only there was something more than "go to X and shoot dudes" Cars...if only they had weight so they don't bounce around like on a trampoline. After 89h inside of this game and finished main story, I want to go back and replay it again. Except I won't, because there's no reason to. This game promised so many things, too many if you ask me, and then failed to deliver even the most basic ones. Gone are the days of Witcher where you talked to NPC, got quest, explored, then made your decision how to end quest. Outside of main story this game has only 1 quest: Shooting people. There are some 3-4 side quests with actual story, the rest exists just to pad runtime. Not like you need to do side quests. Heck, you're better off not doing them since if you level up, even on hardest difficulty, final fight can be done in 1 shot. Yes, you read it right, 1 shot. I've seen bikes riding on top of persons head, I've seen NPCs fall through map during missions, I've ran into building like a maniac, shooting everyone I can see...then gotten bonus reward for doing mission quietly. This game could have been so much more, could have been one of the best. Instead, it's a broken mess barely worth your time. Get it in 6 months when it's fixed.

This is the most dissapointing game for me. CDProject intentionally lied, tried to hide the state of the game. I see a lot of traces of a great game, but so much was cut, and it feels so incomplete. Shame.. I feel for the devs, they are not to blame, and their passion is showing in a lot of the assets.

Audio: - mastering is all over the place: sound effects are blasting at high volume, letting you think that something is happening right next to you - but it is actually taking place 15 meters or more away. - Same for ever-repeating unimportant NPC one-liners or NPCs which were given more lively interactions with their surroundings Graphics: - still wondering what's next-gen about it - game depends heavily on DSSL. Environment and details have a 'washed-out' / blurry look. - game only runs smooth in 1440p when using DSSL. On a 3090 nvidia graphics card. Yes. Seriously. Gameplay: - feels broken - rough looking animations (with the exception of a few key characters) - you will spend a lot of your time in menus. This may be acceptable for accessing my inventory. But this also goes for bars, vendors, ripperdocs... know what would've been cool? Interactions within the game-world that the game wants the player to be invested in - but that is never happening for what you will be doing in 90% of your ingame time! Final words: The problem with Cyberpunk 2077 is that it's not only the bugs which keep you from getting invested into the world of the game. It's how the game is presented to the player. It's what is happening around you and how it's happening. And the game telling you: 'Yeah sure, you can do that... but that's not what we intended. That's not how you should play the game.' - most obvious example for this are the cops which will simply spawn right next to a very short moment after you commited a game in the game. The game relies on the illusion of choice. Many games that came before CP2077 were able to deliver content that reflected on your choices in your playthrough. This is a game which heavily relies on immersion and - sadly - completely falls on its face trying to deliver just that. A problem that is beyond 'fixing the bugs'. You have to re-design the game in its core. Not something to blame the developers for, though. The leading positions are at fault.

Every part of this game feels unfinished, bugs, glitches, broken animation, cars falling from the sky, broken ai, missing features, texture pop-in, bad ui, useless mini map, broken quests, unstable framerate and the list goes on and on, even on my new high end computer with a rtx 3080 did the game run poorly. Last time I was this disappointed in a game was Mass Effect Andromeda, at least the writing, voice acting and animation (when they work) are all great in Cyberpunk and there is a good game hidden somewhere in this whole mess. It's good that Cd Projekt Red is committed to fixing the game but I have already finished it and played every ending, there is no reason for me to come back, I already had my first impression and that is most likely how I will always remember the game. I really wanted to love this game, but unlike a lot of other fans this was nothing but a sad experience for me and I am not okay with paying full price for an alpha version, last time I will buy a full priced game from Cd Projekt Red .