Cyberpunk 2077 Reception

This game is an unmitigated disaster. Non-existant AI, cops spawning from nowhere, boring and static NPC's, few dialogue options, awful driving, clunky gun play, shitty performance even on high end gear, poor character customization that you can't even change after leaving the creator, no side activities or minigames like in GTA V from 2013, cringy voice acting (especially for V)

This game is pure window dressing covered in dogshit.

CDPR pulled a CORPO on everyone and forced their employees to crunch a 6 day work week for nearly a year.  

I'm playing on a One S and only a few hours in (so I haven't done a whole lot and I haven't played since the patch downloaded for me yesterday), but so far I've only run into a visual glitch where Jackie had crazy arms in one of the first cutscenes and a bug where I couldn't get out of a dialog, but that one could've been drunk operator error on my part as I didn't realize you could just walk away to end a convo That said there is something...off about the graphics. While some things look great, there's other things that look like shit and overall I was expecting better graphics. For me all the vending machines, for example, look like they're in 240p and the game overall seems grainy (at 1080p) if that makes any sense; I should've taken some screenshots. EDIT: I should mention I'm surprised at the amount of loading screens I have and how long they take (probably an lolconsole pleb thing though) and the elevators remind me of ME1. There's times where I feel I'm running an elevator and locked door simulator. 



Gunplay, and even the movement, for me was subpar until I turned all the aim assist and thumbstick delays off (why would that even be a thing?!) and that helped, but I can't speak for PC or PS. I'm still playing around with the controller/movement settings to find something I like.



I was expecting a lot more. There seemed to be certain things that had a lot of presets, but no sliders, and as you got further into creating your character there seemed to be less and less. Cybernetics and tattoos especially. I was really disappointed with how little tattoo options there were (and where they were) and they were locked on a few body parts, like I just wanted a lone forearm tattoo and that wasn't an option.

All that said I am still enjoying what I've played so far.

Game of the Year

Do you remember the days when people would bang on about how Cyberpunk was 'obviously' going to be the GOTY?

(even before the launch dates messed up, pushing it out of most 2020 awards contention?)

Maybe, but by then it'll be very old news.

And unless it's delayed, The Forbidden West is dropping later in 2021.

I enjoy the gameplay and the game, just not that happy with how the endings and romances were handled. Also the story depending on the lifepath can start off bit weird. Things feel bit rushed at times and there's quite a bit of wasted potential. I hope it gets polished and later added content will also come with some changes to how certain things are handled in the base game. I also feel they could've done so much more with lifepaths.

The lifepaths could've added more to the replayability, if they had bit more meat to them. Currently I don't understand how they think this game has a lot of replay value, especially due to how the story is handled. It can still be fixed, but whether they will remains to be seen.

I don't see it winning GoTY, I feel even without the bugs and performance issues, it's gameplay really isn't that good to qualify and the story only goes so far before it kind of gets all over the place. I won't spoil anything story wise/dialogue/choice wise here but I'll bring up certain features and what's lacking to them below↓ (and yea they'll be my opinion for those that wanna be like "well that's like, just your opinion dude).

I also believe this game underachieved as well for what it was hyped up to be. It seemed this game was meant to revolutionize and be something so big for the future of gaming, but really it's mediocre in a lot of areas with nothing really that unique or well, grand.

*Janky driving and gunplay
*The dialogue can be good, even great at times but then there are moments it falls apart and goes all over the place, heck I also believe some choices really aren't hmmm that meaningful which I know I've heard others bring up. Then the ones that do, well they're done so to a bare minimum.
*Crafting is utterly pointless when just looting gives you just as efficient if not better stuff 🤷. It also doesn't help that it's pretty expensive to craft IE you need to find a ton of components. I didn't craft myself, but I've seen the reviews and I've asked other players on here what they think of crafting and it really needs revamped to be worth doing. I like the idea of iconic weapons and I've wanted to upgrade some of what I have, but what's the point when soon as I do it I'll find something off a dead AIs body that is just as good and without the hassle of crafting? Crafting should ultimately be a little better because of the time put into it but it's not :/ hopefully CDR fixes this soon.
*Customization is good in some areas but really lacking in others. Tbh I expected it to be so much better than it is because of the marketing and all that. The tattoos are lacking in variety, can't do to much on body pysique the clothing choices could be better and you can't do much about personalizing your cars. This one is a small grip but a grip nonetheless, I know very few RGS actually give me the customization I'd like.
*The AI really is dumb, it's not even what I'd consider decent tbh because I've had cops that don't chase you, I've had AI that stood still and let me shoot at them, I've had AI randomly shoot their guns off in an area I used to be but I'm in an entirely different direction, etc etc. Outside of bullet sponges, they're very easy to kill or avoid entirely and it ruins the challenge ultimately. Hopefully this improves but I doubt it can.
*Side missions can get to where they're repetitive IE neutralize x target, steal x item, plant a bug, hack into x computer, neutralize area and find evidence, etc etc you'll be repeating a lot of that but in different sections of the city.

There's definitely good to the game as I'm frickin having fun on it, I'll likely replay it as least one more time to try different choices and such too. Visually it can be one of the best looking games I've ever seen, I also just like the theme to it being in a Cyberpunk world. The story has been good to me for the most part as well, and heck it had me feeling emotions in one instance so far ) just got into act 2 yesterday).

That said my point is I feel it really has to many flaws to even be in consideration for GoTY but because it is CDR it won't surprise me one bit to see people trying to give it to them anyways even if they really did put out a product that doesn't deserve it. People need to ignore a companies name like it means something and instead judge case by case or in the gaming Industry, game by game. I really don't care if these are the guys that made TW3 (the only game that even put them on the map to begin with🤷, if you're gonna put someone on a pedestal at least let it be someone who's done more than one game that has drawn mass attention) because clearly their success with that hasn't translated to cyberpunk so well. It's funny because this is now their worst rated game and this was supposed to be the big one that blew everyone away. Instead it really is just your average open world RPG that can absolutely be fun, but is really underwhelming in a lot of areas. It's even more funny because people can see CDR is human and just like any other developer out there that can launch buggy to average games.

I'm enjoying myself. The game has issues with loot and skill progression. I don't think it allows people to fully experience the variety that is possible. Hacking, sneaking, brawling is different approaches. Yet in my REF - based PT I originally aimed for a melee tank, but the loot and money and skills just isn't there to spec at start and by the time it rolls in, I have a completely different character to get on with the game.

Apart from that is medium diff and it doesn't matter I don't minmax. Side content isn't as strong as TW3, imo. Main story has some epic moments (act2 so far here). The initial characters are nice - especially Jackie. It pays a lot of homage to CP 2020 lore characters - we never included them in our sessions but I know them from the rulebook.

They have a good track record, I mean I don't think they could ever come up with something as bad as Andromeda.

Then your tastes deviate massively from the normal. Even when compared to previous Mass Effects, Andromeda isn't considered to be a good game. Just because one plays a game multiple times doesn't make it fantastic game, I played through ME2 over a dozen times with over 300 hours played and I'd still not considered anywhere close to Witcher 3 with which I have less than 100 hours played.

I dunno who said that, but given how TW3 was when it shipped, I think people are quick to forget history. I think in the end, however, all this bugs fiasco will subside when they roll out the numerous fixes. Whether or not this is something we should accept, especially given the review block that we now know the reason for, I think that underneath those quibbles, the game is a real gem and will only greatly improve with time. 

I expected haters/trolls to piss on the game at release and CDP kinda made it easy for them to do so with the pre-release conditions and old gen status. I think some people had a weird idea of what the game was going to be too and dump it after a few hours when they barely touched at its systems.

Saying that, I wasn't expecting something that reminded me of Bethesda open worlds too (in a good way). I'm liking it the more I play it too. And I can't say the same of the other "city open worlds" games I played (GTA, Saint-Rows, Sleeping Dogs). I usually get bored after 20 hours, but here I wanted more after 20 hours.