The story and gameplay were fun. The graphics are great although it takes a beast to run. I played for about 80 hours and I got a bit bored near the end but I think that was just the bugs and the mass quantity. I got back into playing recently and its gotten a lot better and I replayed the end and enjoyed it. If the devs continue I think this game will be guenuinly memorable game and great experience but its not there yet.
Does CDPR deserve to be berated for crunching their staff badly? Yes
Does CDPR deserve to be berated for grossly overhyping the game as "Deus Ex with GTA level wideness" when it's really more like "Witcher 3 with guns"? Yes
Does 2077 deserve being criticized for being what it is, technical issues aside (which are pretty minimal at this point anyway)? Depends.
If you aren't a fan of CDPR's games from the Witcher series (or more particularly, W3 due to being the fully open world one and certain aspects taken directly from it such as the itemization) then I can understand not being fond of 2077. However, it baffles me from the amount of people who screech, "W3 was such a masterpiece, where did things go wrong?" when frankly W3 was a game purely held up by its presentation and writing. The actual combat, RPG systems, open world, and pace are at best "serviceable" and at worst, about as bad as any other AAA Ubisoft trite. 2077 definitely carries over some of these traits but at least bothers to improve on a decent amount of gameplay aspects and purely the fact that it's a FPS with guns that feel good to shoot with nice sound design and feedback compared to W3's bland ass combat.
Otherwise, the writing quality is still top notch (people saying this game isn't "cyberpunk" didn't do any of the side quests or missed the point of the main quest), Night City looks gorgeous, and I can bypass garbage itemization systems by investing in a reasonable crafting system. Also props for the game not being an 80s nostalgia bait take on the future.
Unfortunately, the actual open world events are dull (basically W3's but distilled to just combat arenas) and the one story element that does unfortunately fail to give a real sense of urgency is a pretty big issue (not that I'm asking for a timer, just CDPR rewrite how it's presented to the player) but really, all I want is a new expansion with original content because the general ground work of this game as an action-RPG is pretty fun.
Really enjoyed the game. It has a nice story and nice graphics.
What I missed was more gameplay, it felt too much of a story you drive through without having to do much, but it was diverse and nice. Possibly I should have put it on hard level.
It doesn't reach the Witcher 3 standard and athmosphere, but above Death Stranding.
One thing I do not like is that new games uses same key for different thing, like press F and long press F for different things on PC. I guess it is a console issue.
