My short, harsh, honest thoughts: A bloated version of the recent Deus Ex games and worse soundtrack; play those instead.
Longer: The Witcher 3 is a difficult game to follow up on. Where so many other developers saw Skyrim and merely imitated size, CD Projekt Red managed to stand out by making a huge world with barely any filler. I still remember quest lines and the turns contained within years later. CP2077 feels like it was made by one of those "other developers" chasing trends.
The game is huge, but lifeless. Tons of filler content (the fixer jobs are particularly bad stand outs). There are some neat game-breaking abilities, but nothing that I hadn't seen in Deus Ex or Dishonored and done better there. Whereas Geralt managed to be a character that somehow had muted emotions but distinct desires, V is so utterly a cypher that I forgot who I was.
Without a doubt there are stand out character moments. Panam and Judy's story lines are great. The quest where you ride along with a murderer seeking redemption is memorable as well. Somewhere in the grinding machine that made this pablum of an open world game, the energy that made W3 memorable is still there. Unfortunate that it doesn't stand out more.
Longer: The Witcher 3 is a difficult game to follow up on. Where so many other developers saw Skyrim and merely imitated size, CD Projekt Red managed to stand out by making a huge world with barely any filler. I still remember quest lines and the turns contained within years later. CP2077 feels like it was made by one of those "other developers" chasing trends.
The game is huge, but lifeless. Tons of filler content (the fixer jobs are particularly bad stand outs). There are some neat game-breaking abilities, but nothing that I hadn't seen in Deus Ex or Dishonored and done better there. Whereas Geralt managed to be a character that somehow had muted emotions but distinct desires, V is so utterly a cypher that I forgot who I was.
Without a doubt there are stand out character moments. Panam and Judy's story lines are great. The quest where you ride along with a murderer seeking redemption is memorable as well. Somewhere in the grinding machine that made this pablum of an open world game, the energy that made W3 memorable is still there. Unfortunate that it doesn't stand out more.