The idea of this game is great; however, it has been ruined by poor design choices and bugs. I want to like this game, I really do, but every time I start it up I immediately run into an immersion breaking bug, today I couldn't park my car next to other cars, in a car park, as the game has invisible walls and chose to put one just in front of the car parking space, or when I couldn’t complete a quest as the NPC I was supposed to search glitched out and the quest couldn’t end. There are also some extremely questionable design choices, skipping the entire first part of the story and instead showing us a cutscene? Instead I just accept the relationships in the game instead of building them. Having navigation on a minimap that does not dynamically zoom so I miss every turn when the main character has AR built into her eye, the awful driving physics which makes the constant U-turns an absolute chore. there are too many more to mention but those are my personal highlights. The worst thing about this game though is that this amazing, beautiful city that CDPR have created is utterly lifeless, by this I do not mean it lacks NPC, no there are plenty of them, but they are completely useless in terms of AI none of them seem to be going anywhere, there is no interesting dialogue, the same people are stood at the exit of my apartment building every time I leave. The traffic AI will just sit behind an obstacle indefinitely, no horn beeps, no attempt to navigate around. The police will just shoot you for the anything but will not chase you at all, so just run to a different street and wait 5 seconds and you are fine. CPU and GPU usage never go above 60% and 40% respectively, this is on max, running a Ryzen 3600 and a gtx1080. this game should be stretching the limits of that graphics card at these setting but its barely even breaking a sweat which means there is performance being left on the table. I hope these bugs are not masking a bad game and i hope they can be fixed soon.
