It's what I expected. Give it a different name and lower the price a bit and it's pretty great. I'm not a big fan of the fighting, but I like the atmosphere, characters and overall feeling so far. If I want Bloodlines I'd go back to the Bloodlines 1 though, while this one is a great entry for a Vampire the Masquerade game and I'll just take it for what it is. Concerning the that Paradox launcher: I don't really know what the fuss is about. It's just some launcher that installs witht the game and is not a standalone. Most importantly though, it does NOT need you to log in.
You probably knew what you were buying, but in case you didn't: it's a great classical RPG, 11/10, like the old days.
Horizon is absolutely great! Beautiful world building, great story and you need to learn and adapt when it comes to combat. Really love this game. I also wish I could turn of data collection completely, but they don't collect more than others and only about their own games. Really not such a big deal others try to make out of it. I don't get the criticism when it comes to GoG and the DRM free guarantee when it comes to the data collecting. DRM free means, you don't need activation and there's no check for ownership for running a game. It does NOT mean, the game won't connect to the internet or sends data... GoG absolutely holds contract here.
It's cute, menacing and adventurous, and perfect if you don't know what to play but you want something adventurous and need to occupy your brain, solve a few puzzles and look at a little girl in a steam and sail driven machine driving through post-apocalyptic emptied ocean floors...
Despite the bad launch blabla... That said: I simply LOVE the game. I don't care much for technical stuff, glitches and all, but I love a good story, well-written characters, love for detail and respect for original lore. Cyberpunk 2077 has it all. Not only portraying Pondsmith's vision of the dark future, it also doesn't fail to acknowledge its roots and other influences of the genre. There's references to William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy and I see Blade Runner either directly or woven into characters, scenes and storylines. Night City is an awesome recreation and future interpretation of its version from Cyberpunk 2020 which was trashed and rebuild through Cyberpunk Red, which is set 2045. If you know where to look you can trace back the development through the years until 2077. This is one of those games I will replay again, again and again, for there's simply no other that delivers this kind of atmosphere.
