《赛博朋克 2077》

When seeing advertizements, there was the message that this game would be like no other. Features packed into massive gaming world full of life. Anything goes, forge your own destiny. I am only 25 hours or so in, and I have been largely unimpressed and, to be honest, saddened. The world is large, but feels so empty at the same time. The world is filled wih brainless civilians that will always, always cower and never fight back. Try to snipe an enemy and a civilian will walk in front of your rifle, stare at the wall and act like it's talking to the wall. They're just a nuisance that get in the way. Driving is atrocious. Just run from one place to the next. Variety of weapons is.... eh. While there is a variety of sorts, you'll see a good 99& of them over and over, only with different strengths and perks. Character creation was lacking. A few preset face, hair and body (sort of) presets. Not that I was hoping for 50+ options, but you only get the option of small, medium, large or none for the males. After all the publicity and bragging, somehow I was expecting more of a personalized touch for all of the body options. Give me some tweaking of the face, for crying out loud you could do that in other games that are much older than this one. So the game advertisements were on vehicles, buildings, billboards and all over the internet. There is absolutely, 100% nothing new that this game offers, which it touted (while maintaining enough of a vague description to leave your own interpretations). This is clever, but highly deceitful. I would expect this from Bethesda, Rockstar, EA and others, but CDProjekt Red, why? This game was going to be the one saving grace. The one reason for me to feel there was hope on the horizing for games, once again. Something that developers could strive to emulate in quality. After this, I'm losing hope for games and game developers altogether. Life is too short to waste falling for ploys like this, year after year. I'm moving on.

Why should I write more. I wish it was better.

Technical issues aside, this is the biggest dissappointment of my 30 years of gaming. A promise so absolutely unfulfilled that is borderline heartbreaking. A beautiful but completely dead empty shell.. with an ok story and great characters. 100% wasted potential.

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The game needs to be put back in the oven for a while to bake, improve, fix bugs, etc. but I doubt they are going to fix some of the fundamental disappointments here. What's good is the main story, side missions and the care put into the city. I am impressed by the detail level, the graphics and how it runs (after online guides). The investigative system used to play back memories (aka "BDs") was fun and novel -- I felt like I was a P.I. at times. What's not so good are missions locking up forcing reloads. The massive city while novel at first, is your only place to go and becomes monotonous. The combat choices offer a little bit of flavor; I've experimented with all of them to keep the game interesting as long as I can. But the skill trees to develop your character offer little more than +2% this or +5% that. One of the worst combos of their design mechanics has to be driving a variety of sloppy-handling vehicles around a city full of pedestrians you will inadvertently hit, thereby making OP murderous cops instantly spawn on you. Quickly fleeing the scene and driving away (should you survive) will reset you warrant in about 15 seconds with no other lasting ramifications. I fully expected my choices to matter, possibly making my way through a dangerous city by choosing my factions with care. But nope-- In the end you will find yourself sprinting into an area, and murdering everyone with a yellow arrow over their head as fast as you can. The AI will disappoint you even on Hard, upping it to Very Hard just means you will get 1-shot on occasions when their hit-scanning shots land. Stupid. Afterwards, get ready to become a human recycle center mashing the letter 'F' to loot everything, break it down with 'Z' and then hold your mouse button to craft...things...one...at...a....time. Look, come for the main story and the side missions and get out. But if you're looking for a game unlike one you've already seen a million times, but done worse -- look elsewhere.