Great concept and setting, fun to play. lots of microtransactions/DLC that should´ve been part of the base game or as free updates. kinda hard to figure out how to play properly without having having google open on the 2nd monitor.
You will find many, many people who will tell you that this is their favourite game - and a lot of them will even claim it's the best game of all time. They are not far from the truth at all. It has everything you need. Compelling and fleshed-out characters, captivating main story, side quests which are actually side QUESTS (odd predicaments and strange adventures), decent amount of interesting choices to make, superb atmosphere, smooth combat, great graphics, good humour, tough moral conundrums, dark European fantasy art style, slavic folk music, dick jokes and tiddy. Just taking a walk through the game's cities, villages and natural habitats... it feels good. It feels good to do nothing, and yet there's so much to do.
The story was interesting and you can appreciate a lot of the detail in the world building. The black metal radio station was awesome and I wish it would let you turn it up higher than it does. However, the people expected an RPG. Let's not kid ourselves, we all wanted/expected this to be The Witcher 3 but in 2077. Instead, what we got was ... not that. I think this expectation was fair, because CD Projekt RED hasn't actually made much else, so this is all we really could expect from them. The game suffered a lot from an overinflated marketing campaign and hypetrain - probably the biggest I've ever seen. The marketing would have us believe that this game was going to elevate humanity into the 4th dimension. The problem, for me, starts and ends with the main character. I didn't find them compelling at all. In Witcher series, you embody a character so impressive that you almost wish it was you. I could write pages about the depth of that character, and how the conversation options and the dialogue that follows are almost always satisfying. Then, you play this game, and your character has the gung-ho juvenile personality of a character from a B-tier teen flick. You are playing as someone who is constantly cringe. It's not a good feeling. The conversation options are often not only incredibly scarce, but a lot of the time they don't feel like something you'd actually want to say/do. Whatever the game lacked in underdeveloped RPG systems, such as conversation and choice, was just a nail in the coffin. I liked the game. It was good. It wasn't half as good as it should have been.
