Cyberpunk 2077: 3 years ago today we released Cyberpunk 2077. Since then, thanks to your feedback and support, we've transformed the game through various patches and updates into the Ultimate Edition.
It doesn’t change the fact that they over promised and under delivered and still raked in pre orders.
Until consumers figure out how to be patient, this is a trend in gaming that is going to continue. To NOT criticize it at every opportunity is doing yourself and every other gaming enthusiast a huge disservice.
It was a good game, just it fell well short of expectations. When you compare the little systems that contribute to games by R* like rdr2 / gta5 feeling so detailed and alive, it felt a bit barren, despite all the gorgeous backdrop and cool abilities.
"mile wide, inch deep" would be how I described it. The story was excellent but the gameplay loop imo needed some work.
Have you played the new version / dlc yet (I've not so pls no spoilery spoilers)?
No it's not. I mean I like the game that it is and even had fun at launch but I will always be a little salty that it will never be what they said it would be.
If my years in a technical field have taught me anything, it's that this half-cooked shit sandwich was made by people in sales and management who were all promoted for making the shareholders happy. It's always up to the engineers to slap some shit together that they just learned about yesterday and was needed last week.
The shooting is great, the world is cool as fuck to explore, and the story is on point for the genre.
If you don't like shooters or cyberpunk/sci-fi as a genre it probably won't change your mind. The gameplay isn't mind-blowing; it's pretty average though the combat somewhat reminds me of Dishonored except without teleportation and time manipulation other than bullet time. The story is mostly well-written, but there's one jarring plot hole about half-way through the main story, and the pacing is a little weird when it comes to interacting with Johnny because of the open-world nature; the dialogue, though, is good throughout.
As an RPG it's very light. You have choices, and they matter and some of those choices you make by leaving dialogue and just doing something (like shooting a machine or just leaving the area). But you don't get these all the time, and when you do you have like 3 or 4 options. The skill tree is big, but it's also a mess (even now after it's been reworked twice.) I always find myself overwhelmed by how many options there are, but underwhelmed by what they actually give.
I went in completely blind, knowing just the name and it's a future shooter. It's cool, I did side quests as they became available (ignoring storyline) and I think that's the best way to do it, vs story first then side.
I'm disabled so played with a mouse only (kb for menus etc). I had a good time start to finish, and I only fucked up one side-quests (kinda mission design, kinda being an idiot). I haven't played in a couple years, want to see what the new content is, just been hooked on other games.
I know the game "fell short" of hype but idc because I was interested and very very intentionally ignored all the hype bullshit. I feel I got my money's worth, and enjoyed everything so far (story complete, all side as of 2y ago).
I thought the game was dull, characters was dull, voice acting was dull, not interesting story, Keanu was annoying. 4/10. Tried playing again after the new patch,and remembered the game was boring after 5 min.
Fine, sure, but IIRC they promised branching storyline with meaningful choices, but every review I've seen about the story claims it's very linear and the choices that do exist aren't particularly meaningful, at least in the context of branching storylines.
Okay but they didnt really add anything meaningful in that time other than the paid DLC, which was still pretty meh. The world is still weirdly barren and outside the unimpactful sidequests their's very little to do and no realy incentive to do anything.
Sure. They didn't completely rework multiple core systems, improve performance, or anything for people who didn't buy the dlc. Same exact thing it was when it released. /s