Against my better judgement I preordered, CDPR was alway on the level in the past but not this time. As of Dec 12, Cyberpunk is buggy and crash prone. If the game was off the charts good, I'd overlook but tbh the ancient GTA V is a better open world game. CP 2077 is absolutely not worth $60.
I asked for a refund. When the internet says Cyberpunk is patched and working without major bugs and crashes I may buy again...
Currently the game cannot start; every time i launch the game, i received the message “Cyberpunk 2077 has flatlinead” and the game crashes.
I update the video card drivers, i rebooted the pc, currently i’m verifying the game cache and downloading 42 gigabytes, but is very disappointed that a game is released in such state.
Bad work, i absolutely regret of wasted 60 bucks for a game in such state.
Update: After several patches, the game is truly enjoyable, thanks to an impressive setting and a varied and fun combat system.
What didn't convince me was that the vehicles are quite useless, despite their abundance and variety; you could basically finish the game with Donald Duck's car you have at the start without any problems.
The story is beautiful and engaging, although there are too many cutscenes where you just talk without doing much (though fortunately, there's a skip button).
What I didn't like was how the game handles netrunning. Unlike the original or titles like Shadowrun or System Shock, the net is not a world unto itself, but one of the game's many menus to interact with (basically, the netrunner is a typical wizard in fantasy games).
I recommend it, but certain aspects of the game might not appeal to everyone.
Fails even on the absolute basics, such as controller/mouse feel and input customization. Gunplay is horrid, world interaction is sparse and limited strictly to window dressing, and the lifepath introductions do nothing to build rapport with the cast.
Looks and sounds great, but that's about it.
May be great when it's eventually finished, but it isn't much of either, right now.
Cannot shake the feeling that this was supposed to be a Witcher3-like RPG with complex characters and story with plenty impactful player decisions, but somewhere 2/3 into its developement some dirty corp-rat decided to gut it, and turn it into a looter shooter with bare bones of the original story.
Player decisions are basically non-existent, conversation "options" sometimes do give you additional information, but generally lead to the same or very similar results. The city is huge, but feels empty because lot of the content is anonymous. You have no connection to fixers, no complex interactions with gangs...
But the most painful thing is, that i, as a seasoned Dungeon Master can see, where the story hooks were and roughly where there were supposed to lead, and have decent enough feel for the tons of complexity that OBVIOUSLY nede on the floor of the cutting room.
This game is a dessicated corpse of an RPG with chrome ripped out of it. This gameis like a digital imprint of a personality created by the Soulkiller. The data is there, but the soul is gone.
It is a decent enough game, by today's poor standards, but if you really needs that cyberpunk itch scratched, do yourself a favour and play somethign from the Shadowrun franchise. As for RPGs... the old VtM:Bloodlines were better at being an RPG than this is.
In other words: Welcome to the ranks of the Corp-rats, CDPR! You are up there with EA and all the other corp-rat trash! All it cost, was your soul.
