Graphics: my system specs are not the best in the world but still probably higher tier : i7-10700K, 32GB, 2070 Super. The game is installed on an SSD. I run it at 50-70fps@1080 on *ultra* with RTX on, and it looks great (though I'm a bit disappointed that my own body doesn't get its own reflection:( Gameplay: I'm playing on Hard, as a streetkid, with autoaim off. Experience told me that games which are also released on consoles tend to be on the easier side when it comes to Enemy AI, so I generally go for higher difficulty by default. From what I read this might have been a good choice, as the AI, whilst not stellar, really isn't bad and can have some nice moves and tactics. The Night-City citizen's AI is pretty generic, but useable. At least the amount of people on the streets is generous and the city feels lived in. The game is very much like the Witcher serie, with an open world you are free to explore but with a main story line which keeps pulling you back on the rail from time to time. This might sound bad, but it avoids the Elder-Scroll effect in which you go from side-quest to side-quest, ignore the main story and end up 1000 of hours in without having seen a tenth of the actual story. The story itself (so far ... I just entered Act2) is true to the Cyberpunk world, and the characterization of the protagonists (anot not only V) is particularly well done, with QTE-dialogues giving you the ability to steer discussions and replies in different ways if you react fast enough. I ended up caring for some of the characters much more than I anticipated. Audio: spoken lines are delivered perfectly (english version), nothing spectacular but serviceable rest. Bugs: two flying ashtrays and one video phonecall not showing up after a reload. Oh ... and about 20 seconds of spoken lines during a quest "cutscene" in a braindance place being silent (thanks to the subtitles this wasn't too annoying). That's it after 17 hours. I've seen *much* worse. tl;dr:I'd buy it again.
My experience in Kenshi so far : Start out as a wanderer, get mugged within 5mn. Go into a bar, meet some dude who wants to join me. Sure.. why not? Start exploring the island with him ... avoid roaming bandits by sneaking past them by night. fun! .. not much fauna so far .. argh! Spiders! run back to town, get mugged again. Don't have any money left though, so getting a beating. Both guys in my squad are unconcious ... and dying ... slowly bleeding out on the door step of the city! Band of soldiers now start killing the bandits who mugged me! My guys will be saved! I *LOVE* this game!! The bandits are dead or cunconcious, my guys get medical attention! wait .. what? Shackles? NOOOOOOOOO! Those were slavers ... now everybody is a slave ..." I actually reverted back to a previous save game (playing as a slave is *super ahrd*. Can't recomment unless you know what you're doing), but this time I got gang-jumped while mining ore by starved bandits. One of my guys was knocked out, the other one played dead, then grabbed his buddy on his shoulder and limped back to town. By now they have a shack and are in a pretty good place though. This kind of random things just keeps happening in Kenshi and everytime it is purely accidental, not part of a grand scheme centered on You ... Just normal happenstance in the wasteland. It's not easy, it's not super relaxing, but it is incredibly immersive and believable. If you like open world sandboxes with a maximum of freedom, then just buy it. In detail, the grafics are a bit dated (use reshade to fix that) but can run maxxed out on a i5-6600K(16GB)/GTX1070, sound design is barely there with the occasional nice but very short music piece, (writen) dialogues are sparse (but actually quite good) and the UI would fit in the X-Universe. Also don't believe the fear mongers : Mods for the GOG Version are available at nexusmods.com ... only the DRM is Steam Exclusive.
