The only good things about this game is how amazing the graphics are, how beautiful the world looks and how good the music is. Everything else feels at least unfinished, with some mechanics being just laughably bad.
GTA 2 often superior in key gameplay areas, it has more advanced AI (police chases) criminality and gangs systems than cyberpunk, it sounds like an exaggeration, but it is unfortunately seriously that bad.
I really was looking forward to play this game and I am sure in a year but most likely 2 it would deliver promised features, but for now I feel cheated mostly by false advertisements and reviews which frankly I have no idea why were so positive.
I have heard all the criticisms and I just don't care. I don't care about the stupid civilian and police AI, I don't care about the immersion breaking bugs. I don't care about the "lack of open world depth". I don't care about the annoying console inspired interface and key bindings, and I don't care about performance issues (I played on: R 3900x, 32gb ram, NVME drive, and a GTX 980ti - solid system but not designed with gaming in mind),
Clearly, the game has more than its share of issues, but the heart of the experience is in the narrative, characters, and in the beautifully rendered Night City. The game nails these key components, and as far as I care, everything else is null sweat. I was hooked and loved the game for what it was. I can't believe how many hours I pumped into this game since release and I will be savouring the experience for some time to come.
I'm one of those gamers that usually avoids all the boring arse side quests, but here, they are actually fun. They bring new perspectives to the city and develop some important human interaction and sense of connection that might otherwise be lost in the cold, harsh reality of Cyberpunk 2077.
If you want a bland FPS that runs at 200 fps buy a different game. If you want a deep roleplaying game you should probably look somewhere else. If you want a game where you can waste your life exploring every nook of a vast open world, look somewhere else. If you want a solid cyberpunk themed, narrative driven game then you have come to the right place. I'm sure there's a broader "grey zone" of appreciation, but that's all I wanted. GG pls make more. Give me a net runner specific DLC. That's my one criticism. I wanted more running (like some would have been nice) and less pewpew, and quickhacks are no substitute.
I tried to reserve judgement and hold my expectations to a reasonable level. I know for sure that a great deal of the wider communities vitriol towards this game is because of unrealistic expectations (we've seen it happen before), so I avoided getting too worked up about it.
However, after sinking ~40 hours into the game I can confirm this is not what was promised.
Put aside the bugs, which are shocking (and it's truly disgusting that the game was released in this state) but will inevitably be fixed, there are so many fundamental flaws in the way this game is designed that I can't stay silent.
The main story is good and so far what I've done of it is told well. As someone who is very much a story driven person this is a big plus, and is the main thing keeping me going at the moment. I should also note that the world is absolutely beautiful, clearly a great deal of time has gone into designing a vast and immersive world with districts that each have their own style and feel. But that's where the good points really end. The world is vast but oh so empty, most of the side quests are short and really shallow. It makes clearing the map a chore rather than an adventure.
The AI is truly terrible (this is again patchable) with many enemies either running toward you without any further thought, or getting stuck behind a box or in a corner and simply waiting for you to come and finish them off.
The stealth sections are poorly thought out and unimaginative. The gun play is very simplistic and again, unimaginative. And the RPG elements are basically non-existent, there are skills that can be upgraded, and different options to allow you to customise your character to your play style, but they make so little difference that it really isnt worth the effort.
The game we were promised was a cutting edge, story driven RPG with the promise of many paths to explore. What we got was a cookie cutter shooter that could have been another entry in the Far Cry series.
Cash grab, very disappointing. It's a Nvidia RTX ON(disgusting bait)selling machine a poor product nothing more(Middle finger to AMD users). Wish i never pre-order this the moment i could. It just did not give what was promised.
Dumb A.I
Dumb NPC's
No dynamic breathing world.
Not a RPG.
Trying to be GTA???..lol you failed.
A lot of folks are expecting “the next big thing” and this isn’t it. I have over 20 hrs in now and I’m enjoying it and coming back for more.
I didn’t watch endless footage or obsess over this game ahead of time so I can’t speak to those who seem to have their souls tied into this. It seems wrong to complain about what isn’t here rather than what is.
The good:
- The game is pretty thanks to extreme lighting and particle effects that are very hard for current hardware to handle.
- The map is huge
- The style is on point
- There is a lot to do within quests
- The guns and arm weapons are fun
- The vehicles are varied
- The stories are interesting
- There is a fair amount of humor
Now on to the real flaws and complaints:
- This is not a sandbox. It is a somewhat open FPS akin to borderlands or deus ex (the original one)
- ...therefore there is not much to do outside of quests
- Unsurprisingly the inventory is not a good idea experience- I say this because cdpr has yet to Mae a good one.
- The vehicles handle too realistically. Once you’re doing over 45 mph you’re not going to make a sharp turn in an average vehicle. That’s not fun in a game context.
- The performance is bad: the game is designed for hardware that doesn’t exist yet a la Crysis at launch.
- Enemy AI is embarrassingly bad. This is perhaps the biggest offense of Cyberpunk 2077.
- The writing is juvenile and characters all feel like they’re trying to to be “hard”
- The voice acting for V is uncomfortably lame at times.
- Randomly the ui vanishes and you can’t continue.
- Floating objects and vehicles
- Duplicate key binds are idiotic- crouch and skip dialog on the same key?
All in all, the community is extremely hard on this game yet everyone is playing it and enjoying it regardless of the complaints. Play it, enjoy it, and stop asking the world of the devs.
