Posted March 08, 2021
nightcraw1er.488: How did he manage to play cyberpunk for 42 hours? What else does he do for relaxation, hammer nails into his testicles?
paladin181: Have you even played the game? Just curious. I have about 200 hours and counting. It has problems, certainly. But it's also quite playable and enjoyable. I have posted several times before what is wrong, but to summarise:
Bugs, everywhere, all the time, from graphical ones through collision meshes through broken dialog to crashes.
The company’s actions, lying to customers, shareholders, storefronts, buying reviews, etc.
The game itself, it fails at all the advertised points. The basis is an open world simulation, it is not. It’s a vast empty area with some billboards moving around in straight lines with no AI. Comparison to proper open world sims are out there:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bexA1Oolp0k
It’s frankly laughably bad. Then there is the loot, they obviously thought borderlands was popular and wanted to do that, it doesn’t work, but will fit in nicely with their planned microtransactions. The dialog is pretty cringeworthy most of the time. No real difference in intro story. Bad driving controls. Broken stealth. Skills and add one make no difference. Didn’t really get to the story. Over world map is an eyesore. Graphically it’s ok, but very static, no idea where these thousands of objects interacting they keep on about are. There are other things but that will do for now.
And finally the future plans, they obviously built this as a multiplayer microtransaction fuelled money spinner, that’s clear from the mechanics. I suspect that due to it being removed from Sony, and being unfavourably received by those in the world not brought by CDPR has pushed that back somewhat, but that is what all this is about (I would even say the massive push of galaxy has been since the success of gwent).
So yes, not a lot good to say about it. I am sure they bug fix a lot, however it will not change the underlying broken mechanisms that has put this title on my all time worst list. Even patched it will only scrape a 3-4/10. It’s contributed to me not buying from gog at the moment, and I will not be buying anything from CDPR again. Was not sure why Witcher 3 was so popular, it was alright, have tried it several times and got to various amounts of hours before getting bored. I preferred the first one. So I didn’t have any preconceptions for this. I just played and thought it was really bad throughout the experience. Really can’t see why anyone would not of refunded this, but you can’t help everyone I suppose ;o)
Just an additional thought, I see the downvote bots have been bought by CDPR to downvote anything daring to say anything bad about cyberpunk, nice to see nothing has changed here.
Post edited March 08, 2021 by nightcraw1er.488