For now, I´ll let the game rest. Here´s why: The game has so much potential, its looks stunningly great, but benath the surface, there is not much to be found. To me it feels like another year of development time would have been good for CP2077. I didn´t encounter many bugs and the few graphical issues I had went away after getting the latest graphics drivers. As long as you follow along the main storyline, everything is fine, the game just of rushes you through it up to a point, where you feel kind of guilty if you break away from it for just doing side quests. Good storytelling at first hand, but bad for the side content at the other side. Why not giving the main character a break from time to time in which he can do...well...stuff? Immersion is another big issue to me. It seems like a lot of things have been cut out. Braindances, eating animations, almost all kinds of "XXX-activity", gambling in a casino, modding cars, doing stuff to my apartment, terrible KI regarding traffic an people behaviour: Immersive stuff like that is missing big time! I mean, come on: What is the sense in being able to define very, ehm...private parts of the character, if they are not being used in the game? Thinking of the witcher games and about how CP2077 was advertised, I expected something else...(and for sure not just XXX stuff. Hell, I had a blast during the braindance tutorial (Investigations!), but soon found out how much potential was wasted there) Another thing is the weapon / armor exchange rate. After literaly every mission, i have to change a weapon or a piece of clothing. The character looks like a clown within the first minutes of playtime And finally...the endings. Sorry, didn´t like them at all. Why the heck can´t the character just survive? The game is meant to give me a good time, not even more depressive thoughts! (6 Month is not "survive"!) 3 stars just because of the great potential this game shows so far. Lets wait until February...
Okay, reading the available reviews made me wonder, if I bought kinda different game. The only performance related issue I got was a sometimes stuttering sound, which doesn´t annoy me much. Graphics ingame are fantastic (I play everything at max level), which also applies for the voice acting. I have to confess; I am a long term BattleTech fan, so i actually like puzzling how a mission is to be solved the fastest way. Also trying to find out the best setup for a mech is quite fun to me, especially, if you have to keep an eye on the units funds at the same time. Keeping this merc unit up and running feels to me exactly, as I always imagined back in the time, when I read all the BattleTech novels. Also, I can´t agree with some of the review´s concerning "bad storytelling and spoiling". Oh, you get to know right in the beginning, that you are the merc, that brought a certain lady back to the throne? Oh my, BIG surprise. I for my part, wouldn´t be surprised to that at all, its always how those stories end. But finding out, how exactly a small merc unit managed to do that is what puzzles me. So, Harebraid: Thumbs up, the wait was worth it. Now just keep on patching the game in order to reduce the troubles which some players seem to have and you´ll have a go. I really like what you did!
Okay, reading the available reviews made me wonder, if I bought kinda different game. The only performance related issue I got was a sometimes stuttering sound, which doesn´t annoy me much. Graphics ingame are fantastic (I play everything at max level), which also applies for the voice acting. I have to confess; I am a long term BattleTech fan, so i actually like puzzling how a mission is to be solved the fastest way. Also trying to find out the best setup for a mech is quite fun to me, especially, if you have to keep an eye on the units funds at the same time. Keeping this merc unit up and running feels to me exactly, as I always imagined back in the time, when I read all the BattleTech novels. Also, I can´t agree with some of the review´s concerning "bad storytelling and spoiling". Oh, you get to know right in the beginning, that you are the merc, that brought a certain lady back to the throne? Oh my, BIG surprise. I for my part, wouldn´t be surprised to that at all, its always how those stories end. But finding out, how exactly a small merc unit managed to do that is what puzzles me. So, Harebraid: Thumbs up, the wait was worth it. Now just keep on patching the game in order to reduce the troubles which some players seem to have and you´ll have a go. I really like what you did!
