tl\dr: CP2077 is an okay gtav-with-rpg-elements game on it's own merit. But measured against CDPR own standards? It's a flop. CDPR set the quality bar very high for themselves with both success of witcher 3 and, for the most part, all the irresponsible hype and overpromise during the last few years. And, naturally, they failed to deliver. Like, really, at some point hype gets so high that it's just plain impossible to live up to it, even if you move release date another 2 years into the future and hire half of Poland as game designers\programmers and force them all to crunch. And I was actually dumb enough to preorder it. Hope CDPR management are happy they managed to move so many copies on release. Because any paid dlc they release for this - I'm probably going to pirate it. Because I know they will never fix it, and it will never be even half of what they promised it to be. Sorry about that. P.S.: And that rushed cinematic in the beginning of the game about V and Jackie becoming chooms? You just cut all of that awesome story and character development content due to time constraints and settled for a cinematic exposition dump, right? Right?
A slow paced turn-based strategy game, with very detailed damage mechanics, lots of micromanagement and decent story to boot. Well, that's what you usually get, when you use tabletop game as a foundation. Cons: - The interface is clunky, and often unresponsive. Strangely, in combat it's ok, but slows down considerably when in the ship, which is barely animated anyway. - Insanely long loading times. Seriously, most of modern open-world games load times fater than this. This is probably because Unity engine. - A very weird approach to voice acting. Whithin one dialogue, half of lines belonging to one person is voiced and another half is not. Devs should have just scrapped voice acting entirely instead of this, and polished other areas that really need it. The way it is now it's just... disorienting. Pros: + In a modern game market, where everything is dumbed down for the sake accesibility and maximum audience coverage, someone have the guts to make a strategy game. Turn-based one at that! + Decpite how cliche the story is, it is well written, to an extent where reading walls of text isn't really feels like a chore. + Fans of mechwarrior franchise will probably be satisfied.
A slow paced turn-based strategy game, with very detailed damage mechanics, lots of micromanagement and decent story to boot. Well, that's what you usually get, when you use tabletop game as a foundation. Cons: - The interface is clunky, and often unresponsive. Strangely, in combat it's ok, but slows down considerably when in the ship, which is barely animated anyway. - Insanely long loading times. Seriously, most of modern open-world games load times fater than this. This is probably because Unity engine. - A very weird approach to voice acting. Whithin one dialogue, half of lines belonging to one person is voiced and another half is not. Devs should have just scrapped voice acting entirely instead of this, and polished other areas that really need it. The way it is now it's just... disorienting. Pros: + In a modern game market, where everything is dumbed down for the sake accesibility and maximum audience coverage, someone have the guts to make a strategy game. Turn-based one at that! + Decpite how cliche the story is, it is well written, to an extent where reading walls of text isn't really feels like a chore. + Fans of mechwarrior franchise will probably be satisfied.
