As you can see, there are 786 games so far in my GOG account. As a ten-year unconditional supporter, I assume I am pretty qualified to say something negative about THIS game based on my 25 hour of play.
But I am not saying it today.
I have only one question to ask: CDPR, please, look at me in the eye and say this is what you have promised 8 years ago and been working very hard on since.
You will have a very hard time playing (enjoying?) this game.
1. Most of the essential keys can not be re-bound ("binding FAILED") - and some keys are hard-locked for absolutely no reason (like the interaction key is and will always be "F", period). CDPR have not learned from the mistakes made in Witcher 3 - a game I couldn't play for years because of these restrictions.
This alone results in a one star review because it completely breaks the game for me.
2. CP2077 is not ready for prime time as it suffers from abysmal performance. If you don't have a very high-end setup you might be in for a slide show unless you reduce the level of detail considerably. The official system requirements for CP2077 are clearly misleading.
3. Updating to the latest drivers solved most of the graphical glitches I had on my 1080 Ti. BTW this 1080 Ti was able to push about 40 fps at 1440p and custom medium-low settings.
I'm waiting for the devs to fix 1. but won't hesitate to ask for a refund if they refuse to do so.
Lets start with the good
- Night city is absolutely beatiful, the art team did a fantastic job, however it feels all feels fake as you cannot explore interiors outside of story missions and shops.
- The soundtrack is great
- Story is good and there are some pretty great side quests.
The Bad
- This game is advertised as an RPG, but you are given few meaningful choices, the only ones that exist were shown in the marketing and the ending. It gives the impression that (bugs aside) this game is unfinished as even those choices are more flavour than anything. There were many times I wanted to do
- The bugs, while I got fairly lucky and only really experienced UI bugs the state of this game for others is utterly unacceptable.
- Performance, with a 1080 ti and 2600x I get about 45 fps in interiors and 25-35 outside, lowering settings only decreases gpu usage and does not improve framrate (I actually expericed lower lows after lowering settings)
- UI is absolutely TERRIBLE and is clearly designed only with controllers in mind.
- AI is terrible
- Guns combat is average, but melee combat is poor and floaty
- Driving is bad
- You can't remap all your buttons (more proof this game is designed only with consoles in mind) also dodging is mapped to double tapping a direction, I don't know who though that was a good idea.
- People calling you all the time to do boring repetative jobs.
- I wish it would take itself more serouisly, I don't want a game where I can chase people with a vibrator.
Conclusion
This game is a buggy mess and seems like it is unfinished, beyond that it is surrounded by false advertising to make it sound like an RPG, when in fact you have no control over the story other than the ending. It should have been delayed another year or two in order to make a game worth $60. There is still a decent game here but I would not buy it in its current state and it is worth closer to $40. Honestly I'm just sad, this could have been something amazing but its just not.
Current Cyberpunk 2077 impressions. 7 hours 47 minutes.
Jank:
- Too janky for AAA. Virtually every aspect of the game is at least *somewhat* bugged.
- Poorly optimized no matter the hardware
- Audio mixing seems off. The dialogue is often not loud enough for the music.
Narrativ:
- V has more personality than he/she should.
- Female V's voice acting is goofy. She's trying to sound "badass" but instead sounds like a young boy pretending to be older.
- Several contrived story beats.
- I've no interest in Keanu or Silverhand, but it's at least 50% his story, not yours - the player.
Gameplay:
- The skilltree is boring. Many %-bonuses.
- Can't hide the come fuck me arrows (objective markers).
- No universal character death. Can't kill those obnoxious YouTube "celebrities."
- Can't reject cyberwear. No purist runs allowed.
- Melee stealth build is comepletely pointless thanks to instakill options.
- Stealth in general is extremely simple.
- AI is braindead in many combat scenarios.
- In general, the game is very easy even on the hardest difficulty.
- Loot is entirely pointless.
Other:
- Nudity censorship in-game no matter the settings or what was promised (Underwear bug/censor).
Current score: 7.0 (Subject to later change)