You see samurai. One day you will be the at the top of this Night City.
But today is not the day.
When this game was first revealed, like everyone I was hyped, not as much as everyone else but still I had a desire to see the game. But when they announce the delays and especially the last delay after it gone gold made me hesitant. Because that meant "gold" wasn't the finished version.
And I was right. It was a mess of a game and I stayed away from it for a long time.
Then why did I play it? To be honest I don't know why I played this game even tho I am not big fan of Witcher 3. I guess I believed the lie of 2.0 fixes everything to the point it makes it a pure masterpiece.
At least I had a little bit more fun than witcher 3 so that's what it's counts right? Fun?
Anyway if you want me to go delve into deeper you can read my Witcher 3 review. It's gonna be essentially the same review anyways.
Overbloated world with copy paste enemy camps that kills the entire exploration curiosity? Check.
Main story is not much other than it's beginning and ending? Check.
Weak villains that isn't even remotely interesting? Check.
"Rpg choices" that only big change you can do is the last 20 minutes? Check.
A side mission collection with fun characters that sometimes can better than main story? Check.
I said I had a little bit more fun than witcher 3 because unlike Witcher 3, this game actually have rpg classes to choose be it melee, be it hacker, be it gunkata etc. And being able to mix and match them actually made me enjoy this game a bit longer.
But of course even that thing comes to an end when I realized how idiot the ai of this game and just taking a silent sniper or sticking a corner with shotgun enough to conquer an entire area that deletes the entire challenge of this game even in HARD mod.
Not just that this game's main story is a giant mess. It's filled with hundreds of side quest like character stories that nothing to do with this game and If you remove the forced side quests from this game what do you left with? 5 hours? 6? Really? And in that time only thing you engage properly is just an angry samurai looking man called takemura and his revenge missions for Arasaka? That's it? That's the story? What the hell that's even more disappointing then badly paced witcher 3...
So yeah that's witche... Sorry Cyberpunk 2077. A game where priorities lie on being everything and also nothing. There is no focusing on one thing and expanding on it to push it's limits.
Look I am gonna admit one thing and it does one thing good and that is it's sidequests and the reason that makes this game better than most of the ubisoft junk. For example sinner side quest that comes to my mind first and showed to us the grim reality of how religious people get used by the media and I can say I got invested more than the main story and that is one example.
But you see, I am a main story person and always is. So I am not happy with this... Badly paced... Disappointing... Feeling both too damn short and too long... Main story.
You will probably say what expectations did you had with the story tho? Witcher 3 was like this too isn't it? And I will say they managed to satisfy me with their main story actually before. With the Witcher 2. But it wasn't an open world game so maybe that's why.
Anyway I am mixed against this game with it's clashing highs and lows but if you do love it, I can do nothing but respect.
But when it comes to people that finds this game perfect I just don't understand. You are either blind when it comes to glitches (my game crashed 2 times and one time a quest completion glitch resulted forcing me to return to an older save just like witcher 3, I don't even want to talk about countless of stutters or visual or combat glitches) even in the later 2.12 update. Or you are just a weird hardcore cd project fan that believes everything they will do is equals gold.
What can I say then nothing I guess. But even with they somehow "redeeming" themselves on most of the people's eyes, you can be sure that their next game also gonna have a rocky launch and more so with them using unreal engine and it's " Shader Compilation issues ™ " that plagues every game it's made with. You can count on that.
But today is not the day.
When this game was first revealed, like everyone I was hyped, not as much as everyone else but still I had a desire to see the game. But when they announce the delays and especially the last delay after it gone gold made me hesitant. Because that meant "gold" wasn't the finished version.
And I was right. It was a mess of a game and I stayed away from it for a long time.
Then why did I play it? To be honest I don't know why I played this game even tho I am not big fan of Witcher 3. I guess I believed the lie of 2.0 fixes everything to the point it makes it a pure masterpiece.
At least I had a little bit more fun than witcher 3 so that's what it's counts right? Fun?
Anyway if you want me to go delve into deeper you can read my Witcher 3 review. It's gonna be essentially the same review anyways.
Overbloated world with copy paste enemy camps that kills the entire exploration curiosity? Check.
Main story is not much other than it's beginning and ending? Check.
Weak villains that isn't even remotely interesting? Check.
"Rpg choices" that only big change you can do is the last 20 minutes? Check.
A side mission collection with fun characters that sometimes can better than main story? Check.
I said I had a little bit more fun than witcher 3 because unlike Witcher 3, this game actually have rpg classes to choose be it melee, be it hacker, be it gunkata etc. And being able to mix and match them actually made me enjoy this game a bit longer.
But of course even that thing comes to an end when I realized how idiot the ai of this game and just taking a silent sniper or sticking a corner with shotgun enough to conquer an entire area that deletes the entire challenge of this game even in HARD mod.
Not just that this game's main story is a giant mess. It's filled with hundreds of side quest like character stories that nothing to do with this game and If you remove the forced side quests from this game what do you left with? 5 hours? 6? Really? And in that time only thing you engage properly is just an angry samurai looking man called takemura and his revenge missions for Arasaka? That's it? That's the story? What the hell that's even more disappointing then badly paced witcher 3...
So yeah that's witche... Sorry Cyberpunk 2077. A game where priorities lie on being everything and also nothing. There is no focusing on one thing and expanding on it to push it's limits.
Look I am gonna admit one thing and it does one thing good and that is it's sidequests and the reason that makes this game better than most of the ubisoft junk. For example sinner side quest that comes to my mind first and showed to us the grim reality of how religious people get used by the media and I can say I got invested more than the main story and that is one example.
But you see, I am a main story person and always is. So I am not happy with this... Badly paced... Disappointing... Feeling both too damn short and too long... Main story.
You will probably say what expectations did you had with the story tho? Witcher 3 was like this too isn't it? And I will say they managed to satisfy me with their main story actually before. With the Witcher 2. But it wasn't an open world game so maybe that's why.
Anyway I am mixed against this game with it's clashing highs and lows but if you do love it, I can do nothing but respect.
But when it comes to people that finds this game perfect I just don't understand. You are either blind when it comes to glitches (my game crashed 2 times and one time a quest completion glitch resulted forcing me to return to an older save just like witcher 3, I don't even want to talk about countless of stutters or visual or combat glitches) even in the later 2.12 update. Or you are just a weird hardcore cd project fan that believes everything they will do is equals gold.
What can I say then nothing I guess. But even with they somehow "redeeming" themselves on most of the people's eyes, you can be sure that their next game also gonna have a rocky launch and more so with them using unreal engine and it's " Shader Compilation issues ™ " that plagues every game it's made with. You can count on that.
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Yeah, Cyberpunk's history revision might be the strangest thing I've ever seen. And it's still crazy to me how the game got good review scores despite the game-breaking bugs. Their next game will definitely have a similarly rocky launch, since CDPR now knows that they can get away with anything with gamers defending them.
It's wild how easily people were tricked just after the anime and the 2.0 updated aired. It's still same ol' cyberpunk.
It has some moments of brilliance when it comes to the story, mainly comming from the Arasaka plot. Yorinobu and his family were interesting, then the game just ends. Felt too short, yet long as you mentioned.
Wish Cyberpunk was longer, way longer to give their world and characters sense without any bloat in between. Or they could've kept it simple like the anime did.
It has some moments of brilliance when it comes to the story, mainly comming from the Arasaka plot. Yorinobu and his family were interesting, then the game just ends. Felt too short, yet long as you mentioned.
Wish Cyberpunk was longer, way longer to give their world and characters sense without any bloat in between. Or they could've kept it simple like the anime did.
@Hresvelg I would actually be very surprised if their next game has a similar launch. CPs initial launch was so terrible that it shook up the whole industry and resulted in games being delayed more and more to opt for more finished products at release, because they didn't want to do what CDPR did. It was such bad press. Yes there were some hardcore fans defending it, there always would be, but the majority of players were outraged, getting refunds, getting it pulled off the playstation store, it was an actual disaster, despite the review scores.
The only reason it is so successful now is because, from what I can tell, they actually did manage to improve the state of the game tenfold over the next couple years and players genuinely enjoy it now, but that no doubt ate into many many many of their development costs and resources that they would rather not have done. If they had a really good launch think about what could have been.
Maybe I am wrong though, because I think they did actually cover their development costs for the game very quickly after launch, so I guess it depends on if they prioritise that or absolute profit? I still think the launch was so uniquely terrible that they would be too scared to doing anything close to it again.
The only reason it is so successful now is because, from what I can tell, they actually did manage to improve the state of the game tenfold over the next couple years and players genuinely enjoy it now, but that no doubt ate into many many many of their development costs and resources that they would rather not have done. If they had a really good launch think about what could have been.
Maybe I am wrong though, because I think they did actually cover their development costs for the game very quickly after launch, so I guess it depends on if they prioritise that or absolute profit? I still think the launch was so uniquely terrible that they would be too scared to doing anything close to it again.
@Wollom I hope so, but management that is currently on the top is still the same management that released cyberpunk in that state. As long as they are there I don't hold much hope for them to not pressure every developer to release it faster for the next game. I would hope to be proven wrong tho.
Im not really sure if I agree with that the story is is not much other than it's beginning and ending. I can think of plently of great writting, fantastic moments and memorable characters that happen all through out the game. Everything involving your relationship with Johnny or Goro Takemura and his whole story for example. I terms of gameplay Cyberpunk carries over a lot of the flaws from Witcher 3 but is a way better rpg in the end. And no, im neither blind to the glitches nor am I a hardcore CDPR Fanboy. Witcher 3s combat sucked and most of its sidequests people creamed their panties over were mid as fuck. Still Cyberpunk I think has some exceptional qualitys, im gona die on this Hill. Good review.
@NovaNiles hey thanks for the comment. I agree that main story had excellent moments but I don't agree on it was fleshed out, but I guess everyone's expectations is different. Other than that I had more fun than witcher 3 and finds w3's combat not fun as well. Btw liking this game had nothing to do with being fanboy or not, you can make it your most favorite game or not, I just find people that promotes this game perfect with no faults weird that's all. It's still a fun game in the end. My big complaint is none of my expectations felt delivered in the main story and that's the reason of my big disappointment. Other than that it's a fine game.
@gsifdgs Yeah, I respect that. That fanboy comment at the end wasn't really meant to be taken seriously. I was just being goofy. I find Cyberpunk discourse weird anyway. It's often just either this game is the peak of all gaming ever, or It's just straight up the devil. I rarely see people discuss any middleground with the game. Your review was a good read in that respect. Good shit.
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