Dear god I have been looking for a way to buy this game for as long as I can remember! Ok story time kids. So, when I was a wee lad many many moons ago, we didnt have these fangled things called the internet .we had to go to arcades to play our games against other people. Anywho, my mother gave me £5 one day back in the early 90's which was a lot of money for a kid back then. SO instead of saving it I happened to walk past an arcade machine in an old furniture store with this game on it. Like a moth to a flame I was hooked. After losing about £4 to this game the store owner says "I think someone wants to speak to you" As I was currently concentrating on my game I said through gritted teeth "If they want to play tell them to wait their turn" I heard a throat clear that was all too familiar. As I turned my mother was standing there visibly annoyed that I had spent money on something so stupid. Had I not turned 18 I think I would still be grounded to this day but man totally worth it for this experience. CDPR There isnt a chance in hell I will ever forgive you for ruining Cyberpunk but thank you for making this happen.
I'm sure that back in 1999 this game was hot shit but sadly controls and tutorials have moved on. This game has not. The controls in the manual are wrong. So you end up mashing buttons to figure out how to do stuff. This game should have stayed in the 90's.
I have no problem with a little bit of RNG. In the right circumstances it keeps things fresh and can add excitement to a game. But for the love of Christ man did the game need this level of that? So I'm in the first dungeon and I'm still learning the ropes. I carefully set out my team making sure understand what everything does and who should stand where. I'm then faced with my first fight (not the tutorial fight) So rather than going in Leroy Jenkins stylee, I decide to find out what weaknesses they have and how best to exploit them. I find out one of the enemies has a 10% resistance to blight. "Ho ho" thinks I "I got you now"........ I throw the plague grenade..... RESISTED. Are you fucking kidding me? Its almost like the devs don't understand how probability works.10% may as well be zero. This is the entire game. Numbers don't mean anything, they may as well not even be there because it becomes a guessing game as to whether the AI is going to stick to the rules. I could understand if the game was being played on the hardest difficulty because as we all know, games cheat which is how they simulate difficulty. This was on normal....NORMAL! Now for anyone who has a basic grasp of numbers...a 10% chance of avoiding.....MEANS 90% success chance for the other guy! This is sheer laziness on the devs side and if you are the type of person who buys several monitors a month because they end up with fist shaped holes in them for some unknown reason and then later have to sit with a group of strangers and talk about how that might have happened, then may I suggest you avoid this game.
Ok so let me start off by saying that during the 90's I missed out on a lot of adventure games because nobody I knew owned a PC. I was busy on consoles playing Sonic until I went to a friends house and saw the box. It looked interesting and I knew it was an adventure game I was curious. Fast forward to now and I finally got around to playing it. First of all, kudos to GOG for handing this out for free when they could have easily charged money for it. I appreciate that. The reason I gave it three stars was because I dont really play adventure games very often. It's not a bad game but you can clearly see that thinking outside the box is not enough its more like setting said box on fire, throwing it into the ocean and then firing a rocket propelled grenade at the box. They often require you to do things which fall outside of logical thinking. Like if there is a monkey blocking your path instead of giving the banana to the monkey you are required to listen to its life story. ( I know what a red herring is before you object) I think back to the time when tip lines were a thing and they must have been raking it in with people calling in. These games were made by true evil genius. The voice acting is great however and its nice to see one of the old games restored to working order so that young whippersnappers can see what we had to deal with back in the day.
