I started the game the night it went live on PC, I lived with this game through it's up and down beginnings, the bugs and glitches, the updates that broke some things and fixed others, three characters and thousands of hours played. The only complaint I have is 200mb cloud save space for a game like this.
I have been waiting like many for years, I had high hopes like many... I just finished the main story after spending a long wile finishing side quests and gathering loot/weapons for the final mission. Turns out all I really did was max level 50, 50 street cred, waste about a million eddies on cars/weapons/gear/chips/implants/mods. I expected at least a 75 level game, from the amount of skills to train it seemed like there should be more than 50. It took me some time to figure out how the perk points work so I could have done better sooner, it's a pity it's not clearer how those work. I Spent hours searching for mods to combat the every day skirmishes of NC, from bleeding/burning/shock/poison and got the expensive chips for hacking and anti hack. I spent points on Body to equip a cyber mod to allow me to die and 100% heal when I would not need it once I aquire enough skill in Blade/Pistols, it came in handy when I didn't spot a land mine once or thrice! though it was nice to have the ability to bully gang members, I would like to have Legendary crafts instead. Weapons were never in short supply, gear was hit and miss till I discovered crafting being the way to aquire stuff for free in perks to recycle stuff, the perk that allows you to recover mods from scrapped items allowed me to aquire many many +15% and +30% crit damage mods, crafting rare items and scrap them for the mods! I found I could buy a cyber mod immunity for 12k where as it was over 130K for an immunity to burn armor mod. Bugs are present, I run an i5 9th gen 6 core overclocked to something like 3600ghz, a GTX 1660ti, 16 gigs ram, archaic hard drive and I have not crashed once, nothing game breaking, the odd dialog glitch, nothing a auto save load or quit to menu then continue didn't fix. Nothing like what others claim to have happen. Wierdest thing I saw was a gang was immune to damage, I shot them in the face, nothing, strong blade attack, nothing. I loaded a save and left.
I really enjoyed the game, I was excited to play it finally and see what the game was like. After having completed the game, I was extra excited to replay it and use what I had learned late game to my advantage earlier in the game, to extend the play time and relax the dificulty having an idea of how to play. To my disappointment and chagrin, I could not start a new game, there is a "new Game" option, but when selected it only starts you over in the state of the game having already been beaten and everything unlocked and discovered. None of the quests activate properly, None of the control points are locked, the missions become bugged when I attempted to re-play them, either not updating, completeing, or even triggering to begin them. Once I found that the Evade training quest was active, but not operating beyond the quest activation G option, I gave up knowing that without Evade, there is no point in going further. When I entered the break room, there was no red light flicker, the floor never collapsed, it's just an empty room. I gave the game 2 stars because of the absolute lack of any replay value, I have over 3k hours in witcher 3 and discover new things every time I play it, for example.
