The game is ok, but feels mismanaged. It feels like an open-world setting with action-oriented gameplay. The RPG elements feel almost non-existent. Not worth it at full price in current state (sadly). Story is good but feels thin in the end. Side missions feel more like chores. Repetetive gameplay. Crafting system is useless really. Looting is tedious.
CDPR, PLEASE change my mind in the coming months.
Happy Holidays everybody!
What a shame I can't give this any higher than a 3-star rating. I refuse to keep playing until you guys get your priorities straight. Mind you, I'm not pissed at the DEVS, I'm more pissed at MANAGMENT! What the hell were you guys thinking, thinking CP2077 was ready to be released? what part of "It won't be released until it's ready" wasn't understood? CD Projekt managment is a blatant joke that needs snuffing out. ASAP! The Devs don't deserve this. They poured all of their hard work into this game and you guys just let it go it poo. For shame.
I was expecting an Adult, philosophical, and in-depth RPG.
My computer isn't great: i5-4460/12gb RAM/1050ti(4gb)-it plays (just barely)(beyond the bugfest).
I bought it on release day and have not yet conpleted it,with 70+ hours played.
I've deleted it, incomplete.
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Possible Spoiler below:
I did a rescue mission in the dessert, escaped a complex with the hostage, undetected, and then the mission marker disappeared. The hostage wouldn't enter the vehicle amidst a brutal sandstorm, so i got in another vehicle and the hostage followed me. I proceeded to complete several side-quests with that hostage. We fought many-a-firefight together and shared some intimate moments (he was present when i was using (the laughable) prostitute(s). I was disappointed that after about 20 hours of being together I couldn't proposition him for sex-Spoiler over.
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The aforementioned sandstorm persisted for the remaining 20 hours of my playthrough.
+Night City looks like an incredible place
+Written NPC's are very life-like and the dialogue (though worthless) can sometimes feel "real".
-Night City is the most hollow, transparent, empty wasteland and then there's the dessert (half of which prevents you from traversing)
-City NPC behaviour is s***,no interaction with anybody outside missions/no random encounters or unscripted deviations.Driving NPC's are the worst I've seen in a modern game.
-Too many filler-missions: allow the player to experience the map, don't overwhelm from the get-go.
-I would have preffered to have came upon the side content (police missions) myself rather than the map littered with everything, and level specific.
-Bugfest: I still haven't experienced the racing missions because like a lot of the content in the game, the god-damn mission marker doesn't f'king work. I strove to find/ buy a fast car for the races and then realised,it had nothing to do with the car i was driving to start the mission, it just wasn't working.
-The inventory and loot system is CRAP
I write this review in an attempt to let the devs know how I percieved this game and perhaps they will use it as a small guidance to the next dlcs or games or who knows maybe improve the actual game.
Ignoring the bugs, glitches and performance issues the game feels incomplete but somehow beautiful and depressing at the same time
There are many events that are lacking some dialogues, cutscenes and options that could have potantially raise the storyline even higher than the Witcher 3.
There are also weapons and clothing that even if you get to a higher level they look the same, the witcher 3 had sets...perhaps there was not enough time.
When I heard that the game will only be first person mode view only...I had a bad feeling that could turn out ugly, despite that I still bought the game at launch day, despite being from a thirld world country and was in no position to afford it.
The Witcher 1, 2 and 3 had cinematic camera and it was perfect...it is impossible for me to understand why renounce something that was perfected so well over the years only to try and force the players to see from fps perspective which it did not bring the same emotions which I've experienced in the witcher series. Perhaps if there was enought time maybe the same cinematic events could have been implemented and shuffle them with fps to indeed create magic moments in the storyline of the game.
Despite all of this the game has a beautifull story and memorable characters even with the missing elements, however there are certain parts of the story that could have been turn into something very beautifull if there were more dialouge options, cutscenes and more options to interact with, even the witcher 1 had more interactions with important npcs than this game ...but I understand that more time was needed to finish the game.
I apologize on behalf of the people that threathen the devs and forced the game out in an incomplete state.
