Cyberpunk 2077

I can't be the only one who thought the guy on the cover was Justin Timberlake.

Unfinished as hell (fuck you corpo rats!!!!) but the writing and map are easily as good as Witcher 3 and honestly surpass it at times for me. Loved the combat and traversal and characters. But yeah it’s not fuckin done, is it? So this score is more of a placeholder for what it will eventually become.

I would be easy to jump on the bandwagon of shitting on this game, as it has many legitimate issues with bugs, but CDPR still did what they did best which was make insanely interesting characters and side stories that can take dozens of hours if one wanted. The look and feel nails the Cyberpunk essence, now it just needs tidied up and fleshed out. Fix it and ramp up for DLC.

I didn't play this game until 3 years after release. I really enjoyed it! I didn't run into any significant bugs. I really enjoyed the story.

I'm so glad I waited 2 years to play this until after it was finally fixed. The state it was released in was unacceptable, and you know it was a case of the money people forcing out a product they knew wasn't ready and giving short shrift to all of the creative people who made something incredible that just needed more time to finish. CDPR are some of the best storytellers in the game industry at this massive level, just above Rockstar and just below Naughty Dog I'd wager.

The writing is just so horrible, it outweighs nearly everything else it has going for it.

Buggy, glitchy, clippy-through-wally and game-breaky as all hell. And I love it. It needed 6 more months in the cooker, and poor console players, but the base game (on PC) delivers on what I expect from CDPR games: well written story and characters. Most games just aren't written or paced this well. It's sorry state betrays the treasure hidden beneath its beautiful but coming-apart-at-the-seams exterior. Truly a diamond in the rough. I will happily replay once it's patched and presentable.

Wow this is such an unfinished mess. Probably the most impressive city ever created in video games to look at but when you start exploring, it feels empty and is full of unfinished locations that are either unescapable traps or you fall out of map into the void. As an open world RPG it sucks, but if you focus on main and major side quests and look at it as a semi-linear story-driven shooter it's actually a lot of fun. (PC version, played from D1 till 1.06 patch)

On the day of release, the character creation was terrible and nothing like what was described prior to its release. The AI is currently pretty bad - NPCs jump in front of your car rather than away from it, they barely react to you, police spawn right behind you, and if you leave your car on the road it creates a traffic jam. I am sure these things will be improved upon in the coming patches. The world is impressive and is ultimately what I wanted from a cyberpunk RPG.

Great Game