I've played 5hrs so far and I actually like it. I'm playing on a rather high end pc, so it runs an looks great. Few minor glitches, but I haven't seen a open world without any, so that's fine with me.
But I really don't get it why my best gear has to make me look like a draque queen. Nothing against draque queens(!), but I'm trying to play a gunslinging badass hacker in a dystopian city. I dont' want to look like a christmas tree in hot pants and a life jacket! I'm actually wearing bad early gear, so my character looks decent, but everytime I open my inventory I'm getting annoyed because I can't (or don't want to) wear my best gear. Just add a transmog system or two slots, one for stats, one for looks. And make it possible to hide headwear.
I think I'm gonna wait till this clothing "situation" is solved and play a game where i don't look like an idiot.
I got this game with no prior knowledge other than playing the witcher 3 and enjoying it. I have no expectations of different features of the open world or anything of the sort.
This game is buggy but not unplayable, you do need a good PC to run it, but it is using the latest and greatest visual APIs so what do you expect....
The story is so far really interesting and the side quests are fun too, it reminds me of the witcher 3, plenty to do but not a true open world in the sense that GTA is. A large world with plenty to explore.
I disagree with all the hate, yes the game has bugs but nothing game breaking. The core game is really great, nothing groundbreaking but the witcher 3 wasnt as amazing as everyone seems to remember either.
I think the general expectations were high and this failed to reach them, but for me its great and worth the money.
If you like single player games with a brilliant story and side quests, own a better than average PC then I would recommend playing this game, no rush though, might be worth waiting for a couple of patches as the one annoying bug is that this game eats all my 8gb of VRAM which tanks the frame rate after about 1.5hrs playing
Just finished the game. I've played 66h and got 52% of achievements.
My setup is PC, AMD Ryzen 5 3600, 16 GB RAM, Radeon RX 580, SSD.
I played on Ultra settings, and FPS stayed in 25-35 range with 100% GPU load. Such FPS may seem low, but it played fine and I wasn't noticing it. The city was looking fine but not best (Johnny sometimes resembled Adam Driver instead of Keanu Reeves :)).
There were no crashes at all for me. 3 times I had to reload the save because I've encountered a serious bug.
Pros:
- The atmosphere is great, visually, audially and setting-wise. The city and its surroundings are beautiful, diverse. Music and sounds fit what's on the screen. Cyberpunk component was pretty well represented in this game.
- Great English voice acting and localization. I've enjoyed different accents and slang.
- Johnny is great companion. Absolute win :)
- Interesting mechanics: braindance analysis, cyberhacking, mobile phone.
- It seems that there are tons of viable builds that you can choose. I've only played as stealthy pistol guy.
- Main quest and some side quests are really interesting.
- Nice cars.
Cons:
- Lack of roleplay. You are V and can't change it. Different dialogue options rarely change the way things go.
- Some side quests are just boring, some seem unfinished with hanging endings. E.g. the 'mediation and zen monk' line doesn't seem to influence anything. The Peralezes quest suddenly ends at the most interesting point.
- I'm mostly disappointed in endings and how to achieve them. E.g the sun ending is too vague and V's decisions in epilogue are at least questionable. There is too little info on what happens to the world and characters after the final.
- Car driving physics is weird.
- Balance seems to be not good. E.g. I could craft +120 armor mod with zero crafting skill.
- Some unexpected unpleasant unfixable consequences of your actions. E.g. couldn't buy nice implants from Fingers, couldn't use Skippy.
- Lots of minor bugs.
