Cyberpunk 2077 has been in development for EIGHT years or even more; it had to be delayed THREE times for "playtesting, fixing & polishing" yet CD Projekt Red failed miserably to deliver the Cyberpunk experience they aimed to.
The Official System Requirements for PC are FALSE, the game struggles to run on 1060s & 1080s.
The performance is downright awful & the game is infested with BUGS (Most of them are Visual Bugs) this is why I decided not to play Cyberpunk because in its current state, it is absolutely not worth your time.
I played for a couple of hours so far and I have to say the main story so far is great (it's declining a bit though, but I have to wait to see if that continues or not) but I have a few problems with the game, that others experience too.
1.) Of course the elephant in the room - the bugs. I buy PC games on launch day for at least a decade and I never complained about bugs on Day 1, but when I talk about bugs I mean maybe a car glitching but here it's insane. NPCs being scared of you for no reason, cars spawning and de-spawning, exploding objects, Partners in main story glitching, duplicated items in cutscenes, fighting with 0 HP and not dying, AI of enemies not really good, enemies don't move or look dead but are still alive and so on...
2.) The Main Story is great and I feel I haven't even scratched it, but when I tried to take my time with the main story and try open world events and sidequests I got disappointed, they don't feel fleshed out like side quests in Witcher 3 for example, they just feel... empty? And the NCPD events also are repetitive and I wouldn't have a problem with them if the sidequests would be more unique.
3.) You can't change your character after the first character creation. Maybe it's just me but in a game that plays in the future with rippers I thought I actually can create my own unique character and change it completely. Also not even small things like hair, that should be the minimum.
4.) The clothing system is just weird. I understand that clothes are armor in this game, but why can't I put optical items on top of them, I look like shit all the time.
5.) Lack of explanation on how to upgrade weapons/armor (at least so far, so if that changes, I will take this back) and also on how the skills work. I see enemies teleporting and doing awesome movement and my only blade techniques so far are passive.
I wish I would have waited and not buy this game so soon. My final note is that the main story is worth it, but the rest NOT at all.
Lets get the stuff I like out of the way first.
I adore the atmosphere of the game, when it isn't glitching walking Night City is fantastic. I like the shooting, it feels good to shoot and there aren't that many exclusively single player games that go for good feeling gunplay. I like the clothing options you have, however the problem is that you're generally going to always, ALWAYS be picking clothes for stats because upgrading items is frankly too expensive for the gains you get. I like the story so far.
I hate the interface. in order to eat a burrito as best I can tell you need to go through three menus, and the backpack/selling inventory window is garbage, it lacks critical information and prioritizes showing boring icons that tell you almost nothing. You can't see secondary stats when upgrading an item like headshot bonus. You CANNOT REBIND KEYS BY DEFAULT. The minimap had a really hard time telling me how to get out of the apartment for the first time.
The ai for citizens in the open world and cars is frankly pathetic, less than what you'd get in open world games almost ten years ago. The first time I alerted the cops they instantly spawned directly behind me and I evaded them by, of all things, seemingly glitching them out of existence by walking nearby them. The reason the cops spawned was because I was trying to take a stealthy approach to handling gang activity and the game just couldn't handle that at all because I'm pretty sure it was using an area based trigger to not have the cops care about you killing violent wanted gang members(the area trigger seemed to be about the size of an area rug).
The biggest problems I can see with this game, what REALLY brings it down seems to be the direct implementation core features of the game that you have to interact with in an open world game are just bafflingly deficient. When the game works it can be a lot of fun I like the story a lot, but stepping outside of that story this feels like an early access game.
The game is clearly not finished and i'm not talking about bugs i encountered 2 bugs and just had to save and reload not even reload a previous save, i reload a save i made in front of the bug and it was gone when i reloaded.
Graphical glitch are plenty though but that doesn't bother me much.
The AI is from the 2000's and i think by saying that i'm mean to 2000's games, because damn it's bad in cyberpunk 2077
The RPG element are non existent, dialogue choice are meaningless
There is nothing to do for meaningless fun, i mean like in the Yakuza games or in GTA 5
It's just very shallow
Maybe with a ton of DLC and recoding the AI, that can happen in 4 years, people will be able to enjoy a finished product.
