@@alenkikic3531 It´s from the comic Transmetropolitan, where the protagonist Spider Jerusalem lives in a mountain until he´s called back to the city he hates. (wich coincidentally takes place in a cyberpunk setting)
Felt more like taking a shit after being constipated for a week for me. Left me with an empty feeling, an asshole with the visual countenance of a cannonball wound and the sensual countenance of a towering inferno, and the question of if it was at all worth the time I spent completing it or even the money it cost me. Which, in the end, it was, if only for the fact I now have the time to beat Yakuza 7.
That doesn't excuse CD Project for releasing a broken game on consoles. Also, that sounds like an excuse to let game companies get away with releasing bad content
@@frogglen6350 Ghost of Tsushima was a broken ass experience for me personally, With many of the same problems people are having with cyberpunk, except all of ghost of tsushimas happened during cutscenes. Funny enough Im running cyberpunk with less glitches then I have fingers (though I know this isnt the case for most people).
My biggest issue was the complete lack of pursuit AI, which is why you experienced the cops not chasing you, because they aren't programmed to pursue in cars. Which leads to my next gripe that the cops literally teleport in because they can't use vehicles.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Cars floating, cars stuck in the ground. I've seen physics with a mind of their own, I've had item pop-ups that got stuck on the screen forever forcing me to reload a save file. All those moments will be fixed in time, like Dark Souls on PC. Time to patch.
His Ferrari analogy isnt quiet rigt. Playing this game is more like driving a Ferrari with a steering wheel that disappears randomly for no reason, the engine turns over 30% of the time and the seats are made of cheap plastic and theres no seat belts. But hey, if you look at the Ferrari from the outside it looks damn good and that's what Cyberpunk is, a really good looking turd.
To be clear, I'm actually enjoying the game quite a lot, but objective mistakes, bugs and issues that dampen players' experience shouldn't be ignored because "oh god, I'm a crybaby!". Imagine if your iPhone crashed once a day, screens wouldn't load or the video player would constantly glitch out. Products with major issues need to be fixed before launch.
@@Joshua-xs4or ohhh yeah, bugs fixed and for 20$ the game is worth it. Im just really disappointed. GTA:Sa was more immersive, varied and had more things to do than CP77. Its still a good game, but not what we were promissed
@@pedroj3432 I cant agree with SA being more immersive but I would argue it would be GTA IV with graphical mods and mods for weapons and driving. The world for both of these games arent great but the things surrounding the world is very immersive
Lmao. Bad examples, really. Doom Eternal especially. The soundtrack still sounds like a 10 year old compressed and mastered it. It is an insult. Cant even play the game with my ears bleeding constantly. They didnt even fix this. Idiotic.
@@muchossaugus9927 doom eternal is a perfect example, because it looks incredible and runs perfectly. This has nothing to do with Bethesda’s poor handling of the soundtrack
That T-Pose where your bare ass is showing while driving had me in tears. I'm laying in bed watching the review before i go to bed, suddenly i see that and i explode with laughter. Thanks for that mate.
@@that_boi_kevin4585 Would be interested to see how much they manage to fix in that little time, the game's huge. Won't be touching this until it's buttery smooth on the PS4 Pro or until I get my hands on a PS5
This is the thing, ppl play the game a certain way and believe their way is the only way. So many ppl don’t understand how this game is supposed to work. This isn’t GTA
i think the biggest problem with this game is that people expected CDPR to create the perfect FPS RPG ever, but forgot this was their first FPS style game
They should have put it on the cover then. "Our first fps, sorry if shit." You people is thereason the market is failing when it needs radical approach.
@@rusampler1877 I’m sure the devs really wanted to say that. They just got fucked by management team by unreasonable deadlines for a team who never made FPS games because “this is our first FPS so don’t expect anything crazy” won’t make money
They completely forgot to add on the "rpg" in their rpg.. This, the last minute change to "action adventure game". And our expectations were a direct result of CDPRs own advertisements, and statements about the game.
@@Texelion Wait until you get the cyberware that slows down time every time you get spotted, + upgrade a katana enough to one-shot most enemies. You can decapitate most people in an area before they can even fully point their guns at you.
Spoilers You only interact with Jackie in-game like 1-2 hours or so and his death really hit me. Not like crying or anything close to it but certainly felt bad about his passing and the side quest of helping his mom to make an ofrenda for him was beautiful and heartwarming. Few characters can make you feel like that for them in so little time, bravo CDPR.
i really loved that Misty shows up but feels unwelcome at the ofrenda, and you get the ability to convince her that she's family, and convince Mama Welles that Misty deserves better treatment from her. Even better, if you do that, Mama Welles gives you Jackie's bike (although that could just be the quest reward in general, either way, i felt emotionally rewarded for bringing those two characters together in that time of mourning.) I often find that developers are too afraid of not relying on action as the driving force of the game, but in CP77, i felt more rewarded by almost every dialogue interaction than any fight. the stories told in some of the side quests are some of the best in gaming, period, and yet most people will ignore it because either A, they have a really low attention span or B, just see the flaws in a game that deserves more.
You can say all you want about this game but the voice acting, execution, and sound design is superb. That is if the game isn't glitching like crazy. Unfortunately, this game is near unplayable unless you play on a higher mid range PC or a next gen console.
Yeah tbh that's really weird. I assumed that was going to be a possibility but was sadly mistaken. I don't know many RPG's coming out these days that don't allow for post start screen customization.
The game is finished, this is the final product. I'm sure they never intended any barber shop or any customization, you are delusional if they intended it to be more than this garbage. They just wanted to sell a half-assed crap, they knew they will be successful no matter what. They built up a reputation after GOG and Witcher games, the hype, the fanbase, saying shit like CDPR are the "rebels" of the game industry and other nonsense circlejerk were all paving their success. Even after releasing a broken mess the big media still rated the game a 9/10 at release. They had absolutely no reason to make a full fledged open world experience when they can get the same profit with a rushed and broken release. At this point CDPR can release literally anything, even a buggy minesweeper clone they will still get high ratings.
@@PatrizzaEatsApizza Nah. Maybe you'd be correct if the game simply launched when they said it would. But it was delayed 3 times amid reports of horrible crunch - a clear red flag in hindsight. The game is not finished. Management just did not want to delay it again and said fuck it. It's obvious after playing for a couple of hours. Part of being "finished" is making sure it's running at a playable frame rate, ironing out obvious game breaking bugs...not only content. Speaking of which, yes certain things are too hard to fix, like the mediocre AI. But it's easy to add things to the city once you've built it. Look at witcher 3. They not only added barber shops, but also gave us 2 DLC's the size of full length games. 1 of them expanded the existing map even
@@kuruptzZz No Man’s Sky is another example, as they added so much content post-launch it completely transformed the game. Plus we’re also forgetting how shitty 2020 has been. It’s one thing to work hard on a game, but it’s *another* thing to do entirely from home! It should also be noted that CD Project Red has recently been quoted as saying “the cost of fixing the game is irrelevant to the important of rebuilding our trust.” Ya hear that? That means CDPR has their priorities straight: they don’t care the cost as long as they fix the game
Thank you! I appreciated this nuanced perspective that doesn't solely criticize the game or ignore its flaws. I just finished it, and it has some of the most beautiful endings I have ever seen. It is an amazing game to me, and I'm glad I gave it a chance.
@@anthonyknight170 It's full of bugs and can barely run on PS4 and Xbox one to the point of Sony offering full refunds, regardless of what you think about the game that is NOT "finished"
@The Doomslayer I don't have toaster nor beef PC, but I do know not to bootlicking a company, they shouldn't release for ps4/xbox one to begin with, literally ripping off CONSUMER money(thank goodness you can refund), and what do you mean having beefy PC or next gen is banger? there like 2077 bugs in the game lmao. Literally fail to fulfill their own promises
@The Doomslayer Man, you're a prick. Fault the company who announced it on ps4 and xbox because that was years ago. Next gen console started this year and there are no versions of them yet. If you buy something labaled for your system it should be playable. They are no fools as they would lose at least 50% of their preorders at least. So it's easy to release it unfinished and then say you will eventually fix it. Now, get your head out of CDProject Red's ass son.
It would've been better if CDPR marketing team actually marketed the game's bugs as "an indication of the degrading mental state of V due to cyber-enhancements and braindances" > its not a bug, its a FEATURE!
Yet again it's kind of disturbing how accurately you portrayed my feelings with a review. I really didn't have much interest in this game before, but it really surprised me when I got it. The visuals are great even if they are broken, the game scratches a lot of itches I didn't know I had, and it honestly has some really mature moments and themes I've never seen in a game. An unexpected adventure at 15 fps
Yeah, crucifixion quest made me stop the game, make a coffee, light a smoke and think about what happened for 20 minutes straight. So much good themes in side activities .
@@Barad-Dur_IsACapitalOfMordor I'm not super fsr into the game, but there are definitely times when i feel like CP 2077 went to places other games haven't. And they definitely don't skimp on optional content
If you ignore the blind hatred from turbo sweatlords, this game is truly something special. Obviously this game has issues (a lot of bugs and inexcusable terrible performance on consoles.) But other than that this game will definitely be remembered for years.
@@ediodimacaroni all the sweatlords are conveniently forgetting their favorite games were broken at launch. Theyre just mad they gave this game an impossible level of hype
Yes, very mature moments. Like when I was randomly invited to a motel from a military official that I had like 2 sentences spoken with who then forcebly had sex with my character and then left a dildo weapon afterwards. Very mature.
@@SolidRaiden2655 That wouldn't even be accurate. You got the main quests and then the side quests are basically main quests too, and then gigs are basically what side quests generally would be. And then you got cyberpsycho's to hunt which is like an extra thing on it's own. Point being there's a lot of freedom as to what you can do with the content given.
@@TyeCozMusic you're both wrong main quest progress the main story and are supposed to have divergent options according to you're dialogue and effect the end game and progression whereas side quest are for world building (side stories, side characters, events etc.)
@@TyeCozMusic cyberpunk 2077 gave me more freedom to kill a enemy ai than any other game I played the way u can chose to kill enemy ai is so diverse I love the only other game I can think of that comes close to the many freedom cyberpunk gives u to kill the opponent is dying light
@@Xeno7373 I somehow feel like everyone forgot how janky the Witcher 3 actually is. Controlling Geralt feels like shouting at a drunken goat, the animations are a little stiff and it can get a little campy at times(although the camp is great in my opinion). You get used to it and the story makes up for the flaws, but the jank is still noticeable.
I thought people were joking about not needing a heater with a high-end PC, I literally had to take my hoodie off while playing 2077 cuz my room got too hot lmao
@@anirvana I had bad luck, in this days my room it's very cold, but we had a warm weekend... I'll can't play it in summer (I'm from México, north hemisphere).
25:28 I once had a mission with Panam where she was talkin perfectly fine in english (which is the language i set the game to) but my V for some reason held the entire conversation in polish.
This is probably one of the more honest reviews out there so far. I truly love the game. Ive put about 100 hours into it. It needs improvements in plenty of places though to make it a truly 'good' game.
@Mateus Miranda Pereira This release reminded me of New Vegas. But on PC I’d say this game has a lot less serious glitches. Usually minor graphical glitches at least from my experience.
Mines was New Vegas and KOTOR2 (vanilla copies, not modded or fixed on PC). For me, the game is on par with The Witcher 3 on launch (playable but is hampered by bugs and instability issues). Finally got to the open world being opened (Act 2) and loving my time in Night City so far.
Are you guys delusional? This is nowhere like New Vegas or other Bethesda games. There are bugs, yes but only minor ones. So far I didnt run into a single game or questbreaking bug and I am 50 hours in. Absolutely not comparable. I do however talk about the PC version.
@@distantraveller9876 Port it to last gen? Bruh - This game was announced in 2013 and was advertised for PS4 -This is no next gen game. 2013 was before ps4 even came out
This is the most honest, best review I've seen on the game. I've played it and can fully agree with everything. It's a masterpiece of story telling and detail with pretty fun but not perfect gameplay and alot of bugs to iron out over the next few updates. I remember people used to say red dead 2 was so detailed you couldn't go from one area to another without encountering some form of story beat or random event and although that is true its usually something very small like a guy running from prison you can shoot or help or a guy who keeps getting bitten by animals you can save or let die. That's it really. In cyberpunk 2077 I can't get to one side of the city from another without someone ringing me, or a random npc on the street calling me over leading to a quest that could take up to 30mins to complete and is as good as the main campaign
The brake lever on the right you use with your hand. You'd know if youd ever ridden a motorcycle. There's also a rear brake you use with your right foot.
@@sunburst8810 I've ridden bikes for years, and you mean the front brake you condescending prick? it's operated by hand, but never heard anyone call it a handbrake. You call the left lever the hand clutch too?
@@sunburst8810 and if you've ever ridden a dirtbike you would know that if you pull that handbrake at high speeds you will eat shit. This is because the hand brake only brakes the front wheel. Foot brake is for the back wheel and much better for stopping without smashing your face into whatever terrain you are driving on.
It's not only the Bugs .Game has bigger problems: BAD physics,BAD A.I.,Empty roads/streets,Lifeless City,NO minigames,BAD police system,Crap NPCs ,TP when you drive but not when you walk,NO interaction with the world...you can't even sit for a drink in a bar wtf.
AJ. I feel like this is a "Ya done fked it up," kind if game. Its been so long since the last one. I go back to the Destjny 1 review just for the first 30 seconds.
Why are people comparing this to no man’s sky? That game’s problems were that it didn’t deliver on the promises the devs made. Bugs were only a secondary problem to the lies. I know people use that game as an example of a studio redeeming themselves and their game but we really need a better example for buggy games that become good over time than no man’s sky
It'll be to late. Gamers are done with this shit. If it wasn't for us gamers these company's wouldn't be where their at. Time to wake the fuck up samurai
@Rednix Doom I can't imagine there are many people who haven't played this dumpster fire... I was one of the unfortunate suckers to pre order. I didn't have many performance or bug related issues. My issues, are that it's not an rpg in the slightest. It's a very mediocre looter shooter, at best. With a shit story, that has a great intro, with pointless "life paths", that skips the first act, then shoehorns the player into an idiotic main story that makes doing any side content nonsensical. A game with blatant cut corners, cur content, and placeholders, in lieu of actual missions. In the form of data shards. A game that gutted the stat system, with beyond broken skill trees that have no impact on gameplay, aside from percentage increases. A game that has zero customizability, very few options for cybernetics. As I said.. This games issues, are WAY deeper than bugs and performance!
@Dongs your uncalled for agressivity is a statement of your ignorance. It's a smoke screen for stupidity and funnily enough, you're not fooling anyone but yourself here
I did care about this game, but it's pretty dishonest how CD Project didn't let critics review the console version. Just like a child trying to hide how he wet the bed Edit: So I'm getting responses from these Cyber-Simps. Face the facts. CD Project is dishonest. Just like Bethesda. Ghost of Tsushima looks and is way better
@The Doomslayer CD red put themselves in that situation they said that they will make work for last gen it's not peoples fault and they should take the blame for that . I agree though that people are crazy to send death threats to CD red in no way that is acceptable and justifiable , and cd red shouldn't have pushed it back 3 times or just push it further away to polish it they stated after all they want to polish it with the extra time yet it didn't happen
I really enjoyed the story, specially the endings. The game is not finished for sure but I still have a blast with it and was by far the best game of the year for me
I didn't play No Man's Sky, but i hope so as well, i hope that there will be tons of mods for it as well that fixes a lot of the shortcoming, pretty shitty behaviour from the developers tho.
@@TTROPVNR i have it on a pc that can run it on pc slightly above 60 on ultra with dlss balanced and while I love the game and am already on my second play through, it still shouldn’t have been released like this, too many bugs that would have and should have definitely been caught. The game breaks without even trying to break it. The story and world have a lot of love behind it though
Jezz gamers like yoou are such simps.... its same like saying yeah mu husband beats me and abuse me, but i hope he becomes a good decent husband in future...
40 hours before I actually took the first mission to steal the bot... was too busy just exploring the city and killing random gang members as I went. Done a bunch of gig's though. Oddly, I have hardly seen any real bugs or glitches with the animations, but then again, I'm not exactly going out of my way to look for them. Pretty smooth experience thus far, that said, I am playing on Very Hard and enjoy the challenge of it.
@@depress0coffee yeah I'm also enjoy the harder difficulty setting, although, randomly getting 1-2 shotted can get annoying at times, but then again this was incentive for to try and be more stealth and hack then run and gun only
I heard that people complained about the story of Witcher 3 being too long and they removed around 10h of main story in Cyberpunk accordingly. That montage was playable at some point of development I'm pretty sure, and that's a fucking shame.
I've spent hours on the outskirt of the city looking at the skyscrapers. It gives me goosebumps every time. The mission in the hotel with Jackie, during my play it was just before down, like sunset sort of.. and the skyscrapers, AVs and everything it's just incredible it's like youre there.
What's a little upsetting is that beneath all those bugs and glitches, there's a fucking awesome game in there. I just hope that cdpr fixes it as soon as possible
I came back to this review to remind myself that in a wave of people shitting on this game you reviewed it fairly, this is why you continue to remain one of my favorite reviewers even if I do not agree with all of the opinions you have.
I couldn't do that quest because I got softlocked by Delamain calling me on the phone and never hanging up. So I tried exploding one of the cars and the quest got canceled but atleast it fixed it, even if Delamain's model showed up in every single phone call from then on.
@@xanzibar if I remember correctly, they said something along the lines of we can do whatever we want in night city. That itself is contradicted by how restricted the game feels in terms of dialogue, customization and romance options.
Whoa my man, great review, but Crafting can be frikkin awesome. If got Trinitys leatherjacket which has only 77 Armor base but gives me 800+ through all the armadillo mods i put into it. In addition i crafted my own sniper rifle, Ajax machinegun and i keep upgrading my gear constantly. All on hard difficulty on the first playthrough and its frikkin awesome. My character build is also not one skill only but into nearly everything except hacking and netrunnig. Aaand all my 4 bully mods give me an insane crit damage. Sniper rifle can do about 40k dmg.
I am playing the ps5 version, just released. I am not one to go around making a mess, so I dont think I will be knocking that house of cards. Up until now, not a single game breaking bug either. I am loving the atmosphere, deeply. But I am still at the start by now
Yeah, people are finding out the problems, data mining, etc. People wanna REE too soon knowing something can get better. This is a whole ass map that can be expanded upon modders can add in mission types, They can add in gambling and other debauchery. Basically the same folks that gave TLoU2 a lot of chances basically shit on this game when that game had issues too.
@@marpmarp24 you can't really fix the things that weren't even added to the game (side activities, branching storylines, car, apartment and even character customization etc.). Witcher 3 had a shitton of content at launch. You can add patches but these things can really only be added to DLC's.
The game has a real cinematic feeling to it. I never really felt a cinematic feeling like this before in a game. Some of the side quests are at a very high quality and at times cyber punk really makes you feel your in a real world at times. The game play feels pretty good but nothing to write home about but I really did like it that you could go in and out of cover while aiming. Some people compared cyber punk to grand theft auto. No doubt the game does feel like grand theft auto but it is not trying to be grand theft auto. I dont feel cyber punk does not make it as acceptable to go out all out crazy with crime like grand theft auto does.
I don’t really blame them for not having extra mini games or police that chase people tbh. Guards wouldn’t chase you in the Witcher 3, other then Gwent there where no other extra Games. People just expected it to be like gta 5. And comparing them doesn’t make any sense. It’s comparing cod to destiny
Cyberpunk, as much love as it had in it's design, is really just a shining example of where modern gaming design falls apart. Back in '96, you had to ship out a game that you thought was as good as it could be, otherwise your customers were going to be playing a broken game for the rest of it's existence. The industry is more focused on quantity over quality these days, and a good example of that is literal storage. Older games had to be optimized to all hell to fit on whatever card or disc they were to be stored on. There wasn't room for 10 gigs of nipple textures or countless lazy wastes of space, it had to be perfect. Another way this shines through is crunching. Designers and managers don't just worry about a perfect game anymore, they worry about a decently functional game that they can ship out by release date. The employees, as thus, are overworked, and care less about their work. Noodle has a great video on this, and it's not something only native to cyberpunk, but it's practically an industry standard now. I'm not sure if we can fix game design, but perhaps if we eradicated release dates, employees would have more focus on pulling out a good game at a healthy pace.
How? How could this game possibly age like wine? The only possible explanation would be if said wine is badly stored, outside, constantly being rainned upon and being shoved around by wild animals. This game has NOTHING new, it does pretty much NOTHING well (aside from the looks), it's unpolished, overtly short clocking at 20 hours (which is pathetic), the side quests aren't that good, the gigs are procedurally generated trash, the driving is bad, the crafting is broken (and laughlably easy), the gunplay is broken, the dialogue is horrible, the writting is inconsistent.
@ Tears in the rain is a reference to the original Blade Runner, a great movie that was panned as shit by critics and movie goers when it released, but after a few years became a classic cyberpunk movie recognized for it's brilliance. Hence why op referenced the line. He's implying the game will become a classic like Blade Runner in the future.
@@peste2574 I was primarily appreciating the reference. I would argue that typical big budget games like Fallout 76 or No Mans Sky faced so much scrutiny at launch there was no where else to go other than refunds or update, and patch after patch. So I assume if someone buys it next year they will have a better experience. I haven’t played the game. I admired the setting but figured it wouldn’t be pulled off correctly.
They need a game that has a yearly cycle. Where activities and opportunities change over time depending on different in-game dates. Where NPCs like gang members have different operations throughout the year. It's up to you as the player when you intercept them and discoveries are purely opportunistic. When the year is up, the game resets and you can play the 365 days over again with a new character or keep the same one..
you mean BFV on launch day? Fallout 76 is something else completely since bethesda manages to create more software bugs than in game bugs. Half of the problems with that game look more and more like it’s something within their engine they don’t want to tweak and less like something they can fix by changing a few lines of code for a script
Cause you clearly didn’t play the game anyone who actually played this pile of shit knows it’s probably the biggest letdown of the year next to the last of us 2
@@jacobross735 i dont get how people expected gta levels of immersion with this level of detail in lighting. All the red flags for a not ready AAA game was there. But everyone wanted another witcher 3 lol
@Luis Martinez Didn't get a lot of what we expected, yeah. Even with that, the game was still the best I've played compared to all the more recent titles. Thus, best unfinished game for sure lol.
The only thing worst than the performance issues are the people who say "well i didn't have any technical issues with the game in my 10,000$ PC so it's good". Just plainly ignoring gameplay and writing issues altogether. It's not horrible by any means. but it hasn't reached the expectations the developers put out for it.
Honestly the hacking in my experience was so much cooler than even Watch Dogs. Literally with just the suicide hack and a good build, you could take out a whole room of bad guys by just hacking once as it would spread through the enemies. I wouldn't even need to walk into the room as I could just hack the cameras!
Gmanlives, been a fan since 2014: gotta hand it to you how you always get to the essentials of a game, and don't get sucked up in the general tendency to pander or hate a game. This review is a great example: I'm playing it in August 2021, patched to version 1.23, and your insights still hold true. It didn't deserve the hate it got, but we shouldn't put up with a release game being unfinished. Currently, it's a gem to play, just because of the worldbuilding, and the atmosphere. Is it up there with the Witcher 3? I don't know, but I do know that my panties drop everytime I boot up the game. It"s aging like fine wine.
Really don’t see how people are saying CD Project is getting off without criticism or getting a pass. Everyone online has been shitting in them for two weeks now.
This game is such a disappointment even outside of the bugs, boring sidequests (not all of them), absolutely braindead ai, no activities to do in the world, shallow hacking mechanics, skill trees with meaningless upgrades, augmentations with near pointless stats, mediocre gunplay and melee combat, teleporting police that appear out of nowhere, braindance is really shallow too, pointless life paths that only affect the first 15 minutes or so, list goes on probably. I hope they can at least improve most of this in whatever expansion they will probably make down the line.
You over exaggerating bruh lol. All people I know who actually own the game all agree it's buggy but there is ALOT of side missions and stuff to do. But it's your opinion tho, exaggerated. But honest. People hate the game for the bugs. Not the gameplay itself
@@Berserk096-z6v I know I'm in the minority but it's how I feel, there's a lot of side quests sure but the majority of them aren't captivating or that interesting to me, especially when compared to The Witcher 3.
Detail and world is beautiful but empty and useless, uninteractive. Supposed to be the most Immersive Simulation of the Genre. Now they say its an adventure RPG.
Eh, I'll probably pick it up as a GOTY for a tenner in 4-5 years when it's as fixed and polished as it'll get. Looking at this doesn't really cause me any fear of missing out on anything.
14:40 Crafting is useless? WHAT?! LMAO Crafting is broken af in this game. You can easily get your crafting abilities to a point where the weapons and armor you craft are FAR better than anything you find in the game.
What I find most interesting about this game is the dichotomy between reviews. I almost never see someone say “yeah it was fine, played it, beat it, don’t need to go back”. Either it was an amazing game that just needs some polishing or it was the worst thing they’ve ever played. I wonder how much of this is circlejerk followed by the inevitable anti-circlejerk they grew because of the original circlejerk. This whole game release has been a case study in how to market something but also how not to market something at the same time. Idek.
Imo the only mistake the marketing did was about the base console version. In every other aspect, they nailed it. Hype sells and backlash also sells. We are still talking about the game. Imagine if all the reviews were, yeah...good game, nice story, no replayability, some bugs, 7/10, lets move on.
2:07 I think the Icarus story explains this game so well. Glad to see someone else say it. This game's main problems is its aspirations were far too high. Complex games make for complex and pervasive bugs.
Sounds like another in a long line gamings great developer, terrible management issue. No excuse for this other than they were forced to release it for a holiday release especially considering a largely captive audience due to the pandemic. People still deserve refunds though.
Definitely one of the better games I've played over the year or so though. And a hall pass? This game got shit on so much and talked badly about even to this day after they've fixed everything. Has to be the most hated game of 2020-2022 for no reason, as most of the time it's by people who haven't played it but have a sheep mentality or expected it to be GTA 6.
Wake up, Sonny Jims, we've got a city to burn.
ok
Go back to sleep samurai, the game is still *RAW* !
Nah we got pcs and consoles to burn
in Cyberpunk 2077 city burns you!
Did you said "a city to bug"?
"Oh no, you don´t understand, we never said the game was polished, we said Polish, because we are from Poland"
Understandable, have a nice day
Ahh you said finished game, sorry no we heard finnish game, satana, some of our devs are from finland.
@Spider Jerusalem AYYEEE when did you get back to the city homeboy? I thought you fucked off to the mountains again
@@bluelodge I dont understand, what would that supposed to mean?
@@alenkikic3531 It´s from the comic Transmetropolitan, where the protagonist Spider Jerusalem lives in a mountain until he´s called back to the city he hates.
(wich coincidentally takes place in a cyberpunk setting)
"Cyberpunk its like driving a Ferrari with a check engine light and a flat tire" That's probably the most accurate definition i've seen so far.
Very good analogy
Felt more like taking a shit after being constipated for a week for me. Left me with an empty feeling, an asshole with the visual countenance of a cannonball wound and the sensual countenance of a towering inferno, and the question of if it was at all worth the time I spent completing it or even the money it cost me. Which, in the end, it was, if only for the fact I now have the time to beat Yakuza 7.
Steering literally feels like driving with flat tires😂
@@stit1337 lmaooo good analogy it really does but somehow I manage to make it to my destination
Funny because exotic Italian cars tend to have their check engine lights come on a lot anyway.
"Best Unfinished Game"
This sentence can change the world
Nope, it will not.
the game rocks cdpr made an awesome game despite of the bugs.
Yes
I can’t wait for this game to get polished so that people can finally start talking about how good the story was
@@jeremylister704 lol it is good
But you cany deny the bugs and issues chip away at potential of the climax
The secret to not being disappointed is to not expect anything.
That doesn't excuse CD Project for releasing a broken game on consoles.
Also, that sounds like an excuse to let game companies get away with releasing bad content
@The Doomslayer
So...you're ok with CD project releasing a broken game to console users. Ghost of Tsushima looks better than *CyberJunk*
@The Doomslayer Got ourselves a rich boy here. Can't stand those goddamn poors, amiright son?
@@frogglen6350 Ghost of Tsushima was a broken ass experience for me personally, With many of the same problems people are having with cyberpunk, except all of ghost of tsushimas happened during cutscenes. Funny enough Im running cyberpunk with less glitches then I have fingers (though I know this isnt the case for most people).
I was waiting for somebody to say that! :D
The only review that mentions how good Jackie is.
Jackie is a bro.
@@Gggmanlives though the emotional impact of his death was marred by a bug where he dislodged a pistol from his head and inserted it into my own.
I know man, After he ----- it felt like something was missing 😔 Takumura is filling that role it feels like, yet to finish the game so we'll see
Don't get me wrong, I love Keanu Reeves but Jackie is just superior in term of acting. He's the best companion one could ever have
Jackie died too early
My biggest issue was the complete lack of pursuit AI, which is why you experienced the cops not chasing you, because they aren't programmed to pursue in cars. Which leads to my next gripe that the cops literally teleport in because they can't use vehicles.
Il never forget Meredith, we had a memorable moment together.
😏
Seriously, I was thinking she was calling to give a task or something, and then that happened. It was so cringe.
That was the most disgusting and awkward sex scene I've ever seen in my life
Yes Officer this comment right here
@@alexradice8163 Yeah seriously. And I didn't want to do that with meredith the first place. The scene with Johnny and Alt was good enough.
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Cars floating, cars stuck in the ground. I've seen physics with a mind of their own, I've had item pop-ups that got stuck on the screen forever forcing me to reload a save file. All those moments will be fixed in time, like Dark Souls on PC. Time to patch.
And unlike with Dark Souls, Durante doesn't have to fix the game for the developers. They'll do it themselves like with their previous games.
hahaha nice reference
Ahahahaa I’m crying with joy I love me some Bladerunner
Love its
Genius!!
I had a decapitated NPC who continued to scream "F**K!" well after he died. Perfect analogy to the state of this game on release.
Oh come on
Stop being a crybaby for a while
This is actually a runny bug that doesn't need to be removed
I hate this vommunity of gamers so much
Still happens in skyrim...
His Ferrari analogy isnt quiet rigt. Playing this game is more like driving a Ferrari with a steering wheel that disappears randomly for no reason, the engine turns over 30% of the time and the seats are made of cheap plastic and theres no seat belts.
But hey, if you look at the Ferrari from the outside it looks damn good and that's what Cyberpunk is, a really good looking turd.
@@rom1stein505 keep shilling for the shit the game pulls, you are the literal reason bad games keep being released
To be clear, I'm actually enjoying the game quite a lot, but objective mistakes, bugs and issues that dampen players' experience shouldn't be ignored because "oh god, I'm a crybaby!". Imagine if your iPhone crashed once a day, screens wouldn't load or the video player would constantly glitch out. Products with major issues need to be fixed before launch.
Buy the GOTY or definitive edition in 2-3 years and you're golden.
Youre really not. The game is missing core features that make exploring the world pleasurable and immersive.
@@pedroj3432 Buy the definitive edition in 5-6 years during a Steam sale when it's $11.99 and you're golden.
@@Joshua-xs4or ohhh yeah, bugs fixed and for 20$ the game is worth it.
Im just really disappointed. GTA:Sa was more immersive, varied and had more things to do than CP77. Its still a good game, but not what we were promissed
@@pedroj3432 I cant agree with SA being more immersive but I would argue it would be GTA IV with graphical mods and mods for weapons and driving. The world for both of these games arent great but the things surrounding the world is very immersive
@@pedroj3432 San Andreas is arguably the best open world sandbox, so comparing cyberpunk to it is kinda unfair 😌
If this had the stability/performance/finishedness of Doom Eternal, or even Death Stranding, it would've been my game of the year easily.
Lmao. Bad examples, really. Doom Eternal especially. The soundtrack still sounds like a 10 year old compressed and mastered it. It is an insult. Cant even play the game with my ears bleeding constantly. They didnt even fix this. Idiotic.
@@muchossaugus9927 doom eternal is a perfect example, because it looks incredible and runs perfectly. This has nothing to do with Bethesda’s poor handling of the soundtrack
it will in 2 months but come on cyberpunk we had high hopes
@@stanners1714 it could run a little better.
@@muchossaugus9927 What a stupid ass point. You are not even worth arguing over.
That T-Pose where your bare ass is showing while driving had me in tears. I'm laying in bed watching the review before i go to bed, suddenly i see that and i explode with laughter.
Thanks for that mate.
exactly, I'd literally scream in laughter at that LMAO
sad to know it'll be patched out, if it hasn't been already
From T-pose people and Jackie taking a gun out of his head and putting it into mine.
It was still a fun buggy mess punching everyone in Night City.
Jackie putting his gun in my head happened to me. Funny as hell
I 2 have a pistol in my head
The t-pose is actually people intimidating you
Lol the Jackie bug was fun
Same lol
Wake up CD Projekt, you have a game to fix.
They're going on Christmas leave soon, so the fix will take some time....
@@4p4k the fix is coming on early january and feb
@@that_boi_kevin4585 Would be interested to see how much they manage to fix in that little time, the game's huge. Won't be touching this until it's buttery smooth on the PS4 Pro or until I get my hands on a PS5
Sorry - Give us your money first We have left wing party to fund.
@@asdkjh4370 the fuck are you talking about?
"Crafting being a usless skill"
Me who killed the last boss in 1 shot with my maxed out crafted tech gun
*oki doki*
I got 0 skills in pistols yet have a pistol that can still 1 shot..
The game is ez. Everything will 1 shot that goofy ass boss. Crafting sucks.
@@phant0mdummy ez? I think quite a bit even you play on very hard mod
This is the thing, ppl play the game a certain way and believe their way is the only way. So many ppl don’t understand how this game is supposed to work. This isn’t GTA
@@devus9793 yup, the overhype leading these newbies to play this rpg
I'm glad I'm not hyped for games anymore. Saves me from being disappointed.
me too. I never buy any games which comes out arround Christmas, always Buggy Games (Watchdogs, Cyberpunk etc)
Also saves money
That's Sir is called Maturity...good for you!
@Shadow Warrior 101 how can you be so irrelevant
i was excited for this game for 3 years but now i dont even want to waste my money on it
i think the biggest problem with this game is that people expected CDPR to create the perfect FPS RPG ever, but forgot this was their first FPS style game
Especially the management team
My biggest problem with this game is that I can’t erase it from my memory to replay
They should have put it on the cover then. "Our first fps, sorry if shit." You people is thereason the market is failing when it needs radical approach.
@@rusampler1877 I’m sure the devs really wanted to say that. They just got fucked by management team by unreasonable deadlines for a team who never made FPS games because “this is our first FPS so don’t expect anything crazy” won’t make money
They completely forgot to add on the "rpg" in their rpg.. This, the last minute change to "action adventure game".
And our expectations were a direct result of CDPRs own advertisements, and statements about the game.
I wouldn’t say crafting is useless since it actually allows up to craft epic and then legendary versions of unique or names weapons and armor.
And bullets.
It’s extremely useful especially trying to make Aton of money
yeah, friend of mine says it's essential and that technical is the best attribute hands down
Legendary crafted guns with good rolls can oneshot bosses, its brokenly overpowered like most builds
again, gman being a dumb dumb about an aspect of the video game.
Shotguns and smgs. A man of true class.
VANGUARD VIBES
Katana is the way to go. Makes the game a bit harder too since you bring a katana to a gun fight.
@@Texelion Wait until you get the cyberware that slows down time every time you get spotted, + upgrade a katana enough to one-shot most enemies. You can decapitate most people in an area before they can even fully point their guns at you.
ive been going katanas and SMGs
stealth pistol gang
Spoilers
You only interact with Jackie in-game like 1-2 hours or so and his death really hit me. Not like crying or anything close to it but certainly felt bad about his passing and the side quest of helping his mom to make an ofrenda for him was beautiful and heartwarming. Few characters can make you feel like that for them in so little time, bravo CDPR.
i really loved that Misty shows up but feels unwelcome at the ofrenda, and you get the ability to convince her that she's family, and convince Mama Welles that Misty deserves better treatment from her. Even better, if you do that, Mama Welles gives you Jackie's bike (although that could just be the quest reward in general, either way, i felt emotionally rewarded for bringing those two characters together in that time of mourning.) I often find that developers are too afraid of not relying on action as the driving force of the game, but in CP77, i felt more rewarded by almost every dialogue interaction than any fight. the stories told in some of the side quests are some of the best in gaming, period, and yet most people will ignore it because either A, they have a really low attention span or B, just see the flaws in a game that deserves more.
You can say all you want about this game but the voice acting, execution, and sound design is superb. That is if the game isn't glitching like crazy. Unfortunately, this game is near unplayable unless you play on a higher mid range PC or a next gen console.
I was also very disappointed that in this huge city, there isn't 1 barber/tattoo/piercing shop. The game is just not finished
Yeah tbh that's really weird. I assumed that was going to be a possibility but was sadly mistaken. I don't know many RPG's coming out these days that don't allow for post start screen customization.
I thought they would add it post-launch like in the Witcher III.
The game is finished, this is the final product. I'm sure they never intended any barber shop or any customization, you are delusional if they intended it to be more than this garbage. They just wanted to sell a half-assed crap, they knew they will be successful no matter what. They built up a reputation after GOG and Witcher games, the hype, the fanbase, saying shit like CDPR are the "rebels" of the game industry and other nonsense circlejerk were all paving their success. Even after releasing a broken mess the big media still rated the game a 9/10 at release. They had absolutely no reason to make a full fledged open world experience when they can get the same profit with a rushed and broken release. At this point CDPR can release literally anything, even a buggy minesweeper clone they will still get high ratings.
@@PatrizzaEatsApizza Nah. Maybe you'd be correct if the game simply launched when they said it would. But it was delayed 3 times amid reports of horrible crunch - a clear red flag in hindsight. The game is not finished. Management just did not want to delay it again and said fuck it. It's obvious after playing for a couple of hours. Part of being "finished" is making sure it's running at a playable frame rate, ironing out obvious game breaking bugs...not only content.
Speaking of which, yes certain things are too hard to fix, like the mediocre AI. But it's easy to add things to the city once you've built it. Look at witcher 3. They not only added barber shops, but also gave us 2 DLC's the size of full length games. 1 of them expanded the existing map even
@@kuruptzZz No Man’s Sky is another example, as they added so much content post-launch it completely transformed the game.
Plus we’re also forgetting how shitty 2020 has been. It’s one thing to work hard on a game, but it’s *another* thing to do entirely from home! It should also be noted that CD Project Red has recently been quoted as saying “the cost of fixing the game is irrelevant to the important of rebuilding our trust.” Ya hear that? That means CDPR has their priorities straight: they don’t care the cost as long as they fix the game
Go the f back to sleep samurai, the city hasent rendered yet
If I had a dollar for every time I've heard that, I'd be filthy rich.
@@mse2130 It was funny the first 100 times a read it now it is just eh find a better meme.
@@I_Cunt_Spell damn! on Xbox one I got killed by a police npc that would just popped in right as I killed a pedestrian
Gonna credit the hundreds of people who commented that before you?
@@ladyhawk7408
How's this?
Should've been delayed till 2077.
Thank you! I appreciated this nuanced perspective that doesn't solely criticize the game or ignore its flaws. I just finished it, and it has some of the most beautiful endings I have ever seen. It is an amazing game to me, and I'm glad I gave it a chance.
"Wake up, samurai..."
Nah, I'm a go back to sleep and wake up once the game is really finished
That’s funny certainly seem finished to me.
@@anthonyknight170 It's full of bugs and can barely run on PS4 and Xbox one to the point of Sony offering full refunds, regardless of what you think about the game that is NOT "finished"
Yeah, get those bugs sorted out, maybe add some vehicle and apartment customization, and then we'll talk
@@anthonyknight170 *Surprised Pikachu face*
@@anthonyknight170 Yeah this game is completely polished and there are zero bugs. LMAO.
I’ve never been out this early. Cyberpunk shouldn’t have been either.
That’s a good one 😂
Well that's what happens when you over hype something
@The Doomslayer I don't have toaster nor beef PC, but I do know not to bootlicking a company, they shouldn't release for ps4/xbox one to begin with, literally ripping off CONSUMER money(thank goodness you can refund), and what do you mean having beefy PC or next gen is banger? there like 2077 bugs in the game lmao. Literally fail to fulfill their own promises
@The Doomslayer Man, you're a prick. Fault the company who announced it on ps4 and xbox because that was years ago. Next gen console started this year and there are no versions of them yet. If you buy something labaled for your system it should be playable. They are no fools as they would lose at least 50% of their preorders at least. So it's easy to release it unfinished and then say you will eventually fix it. Now, get your head out of CDProject Red's ass son.
@The Doomslayer I blame the dumb execs setting up unrealistic release dates without communicated with the dev team.
It would've been better if CDPR marketing team actually marketed the game's bugs as "an indication of the degrading mental state of V due to cyber-enhancements and braindances" > its not a bug, its a FEATURE!
Yet again it's kind of disturbing how accurately you portrayed my feelings with a review.
I really didn't have much interest in this game before, but it really surprised me when I got it. The visuals are great even if they are broken, the game scratches a lot of itches I didn't know I had, and it honestly has some really mature moments and themes I've never seen in a game.
An unexpected adventure at 15 fps
Yeah, crucifixion quest made me stop the game, make a coffee, light a smoke and think about what happened for 20 minutes straight.
So much good themes in side activities .
@@Barad-Dur_IsACapitalOfMordor I'm not super fsr into the game, but there are definitely times when i feel like CP 2077 went to places other games haven't. And they definitely don't skimp on optional content
If you ignore the blind hatred from turbo sweatlords, this game is truly something special. Obviously this game has issues (a lot of bugs and inexcusable terrible performance on consoles.)
But other than that this game will definitely be remembered for years.
@@ediodimacaroni all the sweatlords are conveniently forgetting their favorite games were broken at launch. Theyre just mad they gave this game an impossible level of hype
Yes, very mature moments. Like when I was randomly invited to a motel from a military official that I had like 2 sentences spoken with who then forcebly had sex with my character and then left a dildo weapon afterwards. Very mature.
Man early access prices have really gone up.
indeed
@Michaelo LEET G4M3R at least baldur's gate is honest lol
@Michaelo LEET G4M3R Storyline has it's moments, but it's RAW as well, unfinished.
DayZ is in early access after a decade
@@tonyaxis3063 I cant agree but you have your own opinion.
Finally a review that accurately covers the game.. if you go to other channels it's just people complaining about glitches and poor AI.
@@SolidRaiden2655 That wouldn't even be accurate. You got the main quests and then the side quests are basically main quests too, and then gigs are basically what side quests generally would be. And then you got cyberpsycho's to hunt which is like an extra thing on it's own. Point being there's a lot of freedom as to what you can do with the content given.
@@TyeCozMusic you're both wrong main quest progress the main story and are supposed to have divergent options according to you're dialogue and effect the end game and progression whereas side quest are for world building (side stories, side characters, events etc.)
Not all. th-cam.com/video/bexA1Oolp0k/w-d-xo.html
@@OXY187 is the game worth buying?
@@TyeCozMusic cyberpunk 2077 gave me more freedom to kill a enemy ai than any other game I played the way u can chose to kill enemy ai is so diverse I love the only other game I can think of that comes close to the many freedom cyberpunk gives u to kill the opponent is dying light
Being honest here: one of the best Eurojank games I’ve seen
True ,but people expected that Cd projekt Red would be able to do more than eurojank
@@Xeno7373 Well the marketing was the one to make everyone think that in the first place.
@@Xeno7373 I somehow feel like everyone forgot how janky the Witcher 3 actually is. Controlling Geralt feels like shouting at a drunken goat, the animations are a little stiff and it can get a little campy at times(although the camp is great in my opinion). You get used to it and the story makes up for the flaws, but the jank is still noticeable.
Wake up, Sonny Jim’s, we got a computer to burn
my house burnt down
I thought people were joking about not needing a heater with a high-end PC, I literally had to take my hoodie off while playing 2077 cuz my room got too hot lmao
lol
@@anirvana I had bad luck, in this days my room it's very cold, but we had a warm weekend... I'll can't play it in summer (I'm from México, north hemisphere).
@@MrlspPrt oof lol
25:28 I once had a mission with Panam where she was talkin perfectly fine in english (which is the language i set the game to) but my V for some reason held the entire conversation in polish.
Thought this game lacked polish?
The bugs and glitches and fricking hilarious comedy gold.
@@viktorhultcrantz8625 Apparently V became self-aware and wanted to speak in his native tongue.
This is probably one of the more honest reviews out there so far. I truly love the game. Ive put about 100 hours into it. It needs improvements in plenty of places though to make it a truly 'good' game.
Jesus dude it's only been out for five days
Unfortunately, you need a beefy system or next gen console to really enjoy the game.
The most Aussie thing this dude has ever said is “Ad-ver-tis-ment”
I would argue it was "nose-beers"
Well crikey
Welcome to the Aussie roast thread, please add more sayings below
@@romansabella1209 yeah nah
10:44 "I mean they're really just waiting for the player to move far enough away so that they can despawn"
Guy's face: "Please just let me die"
EXISTENCE IS PAIN JERRY!
The buggiest game I have ever enjoyed.
@Mateus Miranda Pereira This release reminded me of New Vegas. But on PC I’d say this game has a lot less serious glitches. Usually minor graphical glitches at least from my experience.
Mines was New Vegas and KOTOR2 (vanilla copies, not modded or fixed on PC). For me, the game is on par with The Witcher 3 on launch (playable but is hampered by bugs and instability issues). Finally got to the open world being opened (Act 2) and loving my time in Night City so far.
Y’all have never played kingdom come deliverance, and it shows
Are you guys delusional? This is nowhere like New Vegas or other Bethesda games. There are bugs, yes but only minor ones. So far I didnt run into a single game or questbreaking bug and I am 50 hours in. Absolutely not comparable. I do however talk about the PC version.
@@muchossaugus9927 which is what I stayed also, I didn’t encounter any game breaking bugs. Usually just items stuck in air.
I'd like to imagine the delays were to get this to run on last gen at all.
The game was designed for next gen and pc, having them port it to the last generation of consoles is probably why there were so many delays.
@@distantraveller9876 Port it to last gen? Bruh - This game was announced in 2013 and was advertised for PS4 -This is no next gen game. 2013 was before ps4 even came out
This is the most honest, best review I've seen on the game. I've played it and can fully agree with everything. It's a masterpiece of story telling and detail with pretty fun but not perfect gameplay and alot of bugs to iron out over the next few updates.
I remember people used to say red dead 2 was so detailed you couldn't go from one area to another without encountering some form of story beat or random event and although that is true its usually something very small like a guy running from prison you can shoot or help or a guy who keeps getting bitten by animals you can save or let die. That's it really. In cyberpunk 2077 I can't get to one side of the city from another without someone ringing me, or a random npc on the street calling me over leading to a quest that could take up to 30mins to complete and is as good as the main campaign
"The handbrake on a motorbike" the what?
The brake lever on the right you use with your hand. You'd know if youd ever ridden a motorcycle. There's also a rear brake you use with your right foot.
@@sunburst8810 I've ridden bikes for years, and you mean the front brake you condescending prick?
it's operated by hand, but never heard anyone call it a handbrake. You call the left lever the hand clutch too?
@@sunburst8810 and if you've ever ridden a dirtbike you would know that if you pull that handbrake at high speeds you will eat shit. This is because the hand brake only brakes the front wheel. Foot brake is for the back wheel and much better for stopping without smashing your face into whatever terrain you are driving on.
@@squanchysquanch1840 "There I was on my moto & I pulled a hectic E-brake turn. Only true bikers will understand"
@@InnuendoXP Well aren’t you a fucking asshole.
It's not only the Bugs .Game has bigger problems:
BAD physics,BAD A.I.,Empty roads/streets,Lifeless City,NO minigames,BAD police system,Crap NPCs ,TP when you drive but not when you walk,NO interaction with the world...you can't even sit for a drink in a bar wtf.
That was something I was disappointed with when I went to a strip club 3 hours into the game...
Gotta say, worst stripclub I've ever seen
Johnny's pistol is so fucking awesome
"Maybe they're just tired. I know I'm tired."
Same, man. Same...
That tears in the rain line got me jonesing for a rewatch. Such a great scene.
2012: wake up john
2020: wake up samurai we've got a city to burn
1999: Wake up, Neo ...
@@a_tired_dad Neo is the man! John sucks!
The review we've all been waiting for
The comment we've all been waiting for
I'm waiting for AngryJoe's review and Crowbcat's new video.
I after I found my first game breaking bug I guess
AJ. I feel like this is a "Ya done fked it up," kind if game. Its been so long since the last one. I go back to the Destjny 1 review just for the first 30 seconds.
@@utisti4976 I hope crowbcat comes back man
If no mans sky is anything to go by , this will reach its breathtaking potential eventually.
If they don't go under first
Why are people comparing this to no man’s sky? That game’s problems were that it didn’t deliver on the promises the devs made. Bugs were only a secondary problem to the lies. I know people use that game as an example of a studio redeeming themselves and their game but we really need a better example for buggy games that become good over time than no man’s sky
It'll be to late. Gamers are done with this shit. If it wasn't for us gamers these company's wouldn't be where their at. Time to wake the fuck up samurai
Yeah……But you have to wait until 2077
@@D00000T Alright wise guy. What's your choice?
The bugs and performance issues are the LEAST of this games problems.
@Rednix Doom I can't imagine there are many people who haven't played this dumpster fire... I was one of the unfortunate suckers to pre order.
I didn't have many performance or bug related issues. My issues, are that it's not an rpg in the slightest. It's a very mediocre looter shooter, at best. With a shit story, that has a great intro, with pointless "life paths", that skips the first act, then shoehorns the player into an idiotic main story that makes doing any side content nonsensical. A game with blatant cut corners, cur content, and placeholders, in lieu of actual missions. In the form of data shards. A game that gutted the stat system, with beyond broken skill trees that have no impact on gameplay, aside from percentage increases. A game that has zero customizability, very few options for cybernetics.
As I said.. This games issues, are WAY deeper than bugs and performance!
@Rednix Doom No, the story is bad. The world is bad. The politics are absolutely horrendous. It's an insult to Cyberpunk as a genre.
“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”
- Mark Twain
kiddhkane Everyone and their grandmother knows who Mark Twain is
kiddhkane ah yes you are truly a gifted mind who is educated past the sheep of the masses.
@@Exaltable Why thank you kind Sir, that is a real compliment :)
@@LtSprinkulz I rest my case :)
@Dongs your uncalled for agressivity is a statement of your ignorance. It's a smoke screen for stupidity and funnily enough, you're not fooling anyone but yourself here
I did care about this game, but it's pretty dishonest how CD Project didn't let critics review the console version. Just like a child trying to hide how he wet the bed
Edit: So I'm getting responses from these Cyber-Simps. Face the facts. CD Project is dishonest. Just like Bethesda. Ghost of Tsushima looks and is way better
Honestly I dont give a shit hahahaha. Damn old gen console peasants getting what they deserve. Having a blast on PC.
I'd go as far as to think the corpos didn't want them doing it, not the dev team.
@@muchossaugus9927 that's something very immature to say and you know it
@@I_Cunt_Spell I've done it plenty of times. Wetting the bed tho, was bad at lying 😂.
@The Doomslayer CD red put themselves in that situation they said that they will make work for last gen it's not peoples fault and they should take the blame for that . I agree though that people are crazy to send death threats to CD red in no way that is acceptable and justifiable , and cd red shouldn't have pushed it back 3 times or just push it further away to polish it they stated after all they want to polish it with the extra time yet it didn't happen
Fun fact : CYBER PUNK 2077 was targeting 2022 but instead they released the game 2 years earlier
I really enjoyed the story, specially the endings. The game is not finished for sure but I still have a blast with it and was by far the best game of the year for me
How can you make that statement? Releasing a mess like this should not be acknowledged at all.
@@morradi10000 no opinions allowed, huh?
Story is amazing imo
@@RealLenny That’s not what I said. Only that it’s absurd to call this Game of the Year material
@@morradi10000 he didn't say it was the game of the year for the world, he said it was his game of the year. That's entirely his opinion.
I just hope this becomes a No Man's Sky situation eventually. And yes, I know the two aren't really comparable. But just in concept.
I didn't play No Man's Sky, but i hope so as well, i hope that there will be tons of mods for it as well that fixes a lot of the shortcoming, pretty shitty behaviour from the developers tho.
it is no where close to nms situation. This game should have simply not released on old gen. it is an amazing experience on pc.
Their never gonna abandon this game as far as I'm aware but for fuck sakes, its should of focus on a PC release and then release on consoles later.
@@TTROPVNR i have it on a pc that can run it on pc slightly above 60 on ultra with dlss balanced and while I love the game and am already on my second play through, it still shouldn’t have been released like this, too many bugs that would have and should have definitely been caught. The game breaks without even trying to break it. The story and world have a lot of love behind it though
Jezz gamers like yoou are such simps.... its same like saying yeah mu husband beats me and abuse me, but i hope he becomes a good decent husband in future...
Will wait until they release Cyberpunk 2077: The Finished Edition.
In 2077
3:45 - "couple of hours" Didn't even go to Konpeki Plaza till I was 45 hours into the game.
I take 20 hours roaming before the hotel heist, so I believe you.
40 hours before I actually took the first mission to steal the bot... was too busy just exploring the city and killing random gang members as I went.
Done a bunch of gig's though.
Oddly, I have hardly seen any real bugs or glitches with the animations, but then again, I'm not exactly going out of my way to look for them. Pretty smooth experience thus far, that said, I am playing on Very Hard and enjoy the challenge of it.
@@depress0coffee yeah I'm also enjoy the harder difficulty setting, although, randomly getting 1-2 shotted can get annoying at times, but then again this was incentive for to try and be more stealth and hack then run and gun only
"Really Memorable Moments" - Like the 6 month montage with Jackie 10 minutes into the game. LOL
Oh yeah, the fact that you don't get any levels in any gun category yet you use them so well in the montage.
I heard that people complained about the story of Witcher 3 being too long and they removed around 10h of main story in Cyberpunk accordingly. That montage was playable at some point of development I'm pretty sure, and that's a fucking shame.
@@Ardioss1 I doubt they removed that much.
@@Ardioss1 you heard that from CDPR, because they cut half the content
@@Ardioss1 Obviously that part about people not liking it is a lie
They scrapped 10h because they couldn't finish the 15h they left in
I've spent hours on the outskirt of the city looking at the skyscrapers. It gives me goosebumps every time. The mission in the hotel with Jackie, during my play it was just before down, like sunset sort of.. and the skyscrapers, AVs and everything it's just incredible it's like youre there.
Yes
What's a little upsetting is that beneath all those bugs and glitches, there's a fucking awesome game in there. I just hope that cdpr fixes it as soon as possible
Yep im enjoying the game so much
I kept myself in the dark. I am personally having a blast with all of this
I came back to this review to remind myself that in a wave of people shitting on this game you reviewed it fairly, this is why you continue to remain one of my favorite reviewers even if I do not agree with all of the opinions you have.
Self aware machines in fiction fascinates me. I loved that delamaire quest with its rogue self aware cabs.
That was probably my favorite side mission
That side quest was the most cliche one in my opinion. The last part was just a drag to me
I couldn't do that quest because I got softlocked by Delamain calling me on the phone and never hanging up. So I tried exploding one of the cars and the quest got canceled but atleast it fixed it, even if Delamain's model showed up in every single phone call from then on.
Just finished that quest, yeah, that was briliant! (Ani)matrix, vibes, maybe Detroit too? Haven´t played that one yet.
@@hitpeppens2932 Animatrix for sure!
nah even without all the bugs, its still only an alright game that doesnt come close to its promises
@Michaelo LEET G4M3R nah nigga, the devs promised some wild shit while they should have kept their mouths shut
@Michaelo LEET G4M3R It's all their imagination. They assumed too much and taught CDPR would make their dream game. They forgot it's just a game.
@@xanzibar bro the devs gave interviews themselves, I did not imagine shit
@@peekingkitten Still haven't said what you think they promised.
@@xanzibar if I remember correctly, they said something along the lines of we can do whatever we want in night city. That itself is contradicted by how restricted the game feels in terms of dialogue, customization and romance options.
Whoa my man, great review, but Crafting can be frikkin awesome. If got Trinitys leatherjacket which has only 77 Armor base but gives me 800+ through all the armadillo mods i put into it. In addition i crafted my own sniper rifle, Ajax machinegun and i keep upgrading my gear constantly. All on hard difficulty on the first playthrough and its frikkin awesome. My character build is also not one skill only but into nearly everything except hacking and netrunnig. Aaand all my 4 bully mods give me an insane crit damage. Sniper rifle can do about 40k dmg.
I am playing the ps5 version, just released. I am not one to go around making a mess, so I dont think I will be knocking that house of cards. Up until now, not a single game breaking bug either. I am loving the atmosphere, deeply. But I am still at the start by now
This really feels like one of those games that will be fixed by modders
The game have that fallout feel to it too, the modding community will definitely be crazy over it
Did y'all really forget about The Witcher 3?? The game will eventually be fixed by CDPR.
I'm positive of that, but as we speak, there are already community fixes and optimization tweaks for the game lol
Yeah, people are finding out the problems, data mining, etc. People wanna REE too soon knowing something can get better. This is a whole ass map that can be expanded upon modders can add in mission types, They can add in gambling and other debauchery. Basically the same folks that gave TLoU2 a lot of chances basically shit on this game when that game had issues too.
@@marpmarp24 you can't really fix the things that weren't even added to the game (side activities, branching storylines, car, apartment and even character customization etc.). Witcher 3 had a shitton of content at launch. You can add patches but these things can really only be added to DLC's.
The game has a real cinematic feeling to it. I never really felt a cinematic feeling like this before in a game. Some of the side quests are at a very high quality and at times cyber punk really makes you feel your in a real world at times. The game play feels pretty good but nothing to write home about but I really did like it that you could go in and out of cover while aiming.
Some people compared cyber punk to grand theft auto. No doubt the game does feel like grand theft auto but it is not trying to be grand theft auto. I dont feel cyber punk does not make it as acceptable to go out all out crazy with crime like grand theft auto does.
10:08 ah Schwacked meme, how I've missed you.
Thanks for including it G. Been missing it of late. Solid include here.
All those people dancing in the nightclub to what you thought was silence, were actually dancing to Pootie Tang's new single.
A man of culture.
I don’t really blame them for not having extra mini games or police that chase people tbh. Guards wouldn’t chase you in the Witcher 3, other then Gwent there where no other extra Games. People just expected it to be like gta 5. And comparing them doesn’t make any sense. It’s comparing cod to destiny
Cyberpunk, as much love as it had in it's design, is really just a shining example of where modern gaming design falls apart. Back in '96, you had to ship out a game that you thought was as good as it could be, otherwise your customers were going to be playing a broken game for the rest of it's existence. The industry is more focused on quantity over quality these days, and a good example of that is literal storage. Older games had to be optimized to all hell to fit on whatever card or disc they were to be stored on. There wasn't room for 10 gigs of nipple textures or countless lazy wastes of space, it had to be perfect.
Another way this shines through is crunching. Designers and managers don't just worry about a perfect game anymore, they worry about a decently functional game that they can ship out by release date. The employees, as thus, are overworked, and care less about their work. Noodle has a great video on this, and it's not something only native to cyberpunk, but it's practically an industry standard now.
I'm not sure if we can fix game design, but perhaps if we eradicated release dates, employees would have more focus on pulling out a good game at a healthy pace.
Appreciate the like “tears in the rain” reference when comparing how it will age better with time.
How?
How could this game possibly age like wine?
The only possible explanation would be if said wine is badly stored, outside, constantly being rainned upon and being shoved around by wild animals.
This game has NOTHING new, it does pretty much NOTHING well (aside from the looks), it's unpolished, overtly short clocking at 20 hours (which is pathetic), the side quests aren't that good, the gigs are procedurally generated trash, the driving is bad, the crafting is broken (and laughlably easy), the gunplay is broken, the dialogue is horrible, the writting is inconsistent.
@ Tears in the rain is a reference to the original Blade Runner, a great movie that was panned as shit by critics and movie goers when it released, but after a few years became a classic cyberpunk movie recognized for it's brilliance.
Hence why op referenced the line. He's implying the game will become a classic like Blade Runner in the future.
@@peste2574 I was primarily appreciating the reference.
I would argue that typical big budget games like Fallout 76 or No Mans Sky faced so much scrutiny at launch there was no where else to go other than refunds or update, and patch after patch. So I assume if someone buys it next year they will have a better experience.
I haven’t played the game. I admired the setting but figured it wouldn’t be pulled off correctly.
They need a game that has a yearly cycle. Where activities and opportunities change over time depending on different in-game dates. Where NPCs like gang members have different operations throughout the year. It's up to you as the player when you intercept them and discoveries are purely opportunistic. When the year is up, the game resets and you can play the 365 days over again with a new character or keep the same one..
I never imagined I’d have fun playing a game that is just as if not buggier than Fallout 76 on launch day.
you mean BFV on launch day? Fallout 76 is something else completely since bethesda manages to create more software bugs than in game bugs. Half of the problems with that game look more and more like it’s something within their engine they don’t want to tweak and less like something they can fix by changing a few lines of code for a script
Lol not even close to the same level of bugs as fallout 76, the game was completely playable for me I rarely saw bugs just crashes.
Cause you clearly didn’t play the game anyone who actually played this pile of shit knows it’s probably the biggest letdown of the year next to the last of us 2
@@jacobross735 i dont get how people expected gta levels of immersion with this level of detail in lighting. All the red flags for a not ready AAA game was there. But everyone wanted another witcher 3 lol
@@distantraveller9876 i still bought it knowing it was going to be a 40-60% hot mess. Not dissapointed
I subbed, I'm glad to see I am not the only one who loves the game despite having issues
Played a couple of other recent games and I had an interesting realization about how far ahead Cyberpunk actually is.
@Luis Martinez Didn't get a lot of what we expected, yeah. Even with that, the game was still the best I've played compared to all the more recent titles. Thus, best unfinished game for sure lol.
How so? What recent games did u play and what did u think to bring u to this conclusion?
Lmao nope
Its really hollow experience
The only redeeming quality is story which is not bad (but not good either)
The only thing worst than the performance issues are the people who say "well i didn't have any technical issues with the game in my 10,000$ PC so it's good". Just plainly ignoring gameplay and writing issues altogether. It's not horrible by any means. but it hasn't reached the expectations the developers put out for it.
The dialogue options range from yes to yes
Not at all. I've played through most the game and the options are almost always yes, no or a question
Ah, I see FO4 influence:
question
yes
no (yes)
sarcastic yes
"Will you do this for me?"
- Yes.
- Maybe yes.
- [CORPO / NOMAD / STREET] Yes
Yes
Yes please
Snarky yes
Yes yes
Just because they don’t do the BioWare good evil option for you don’t mean it’s yes and yea
Combat is really good. The amount of variety of unique weapons and hacking really is great.
Honestly the hacking in my experience was so much cooler than even Watch Dogs. Literally with just the suicide hack and a good build, you could take out a whole room of bad guys by just hacking once as it would spread through the enemies. I wouldn't even need to walk into the room as I could just hack the cameras!
Gmanlives, been a fan since 2014: gotta hand it to you how you always get to the essentials of a game, and don't get sucked up in the general tendency to pander or hate a game. This review is a great example: I'm playing it in August 2021, patched to version 1.23, and your insights still hold true. It didn't deserve the hate it got, but we shouldn't put up with a release game being unfinished. Currently, it's a gem to play, just because of the worldbuilding, and the atmosphere. Is it up there with the Witcher 3? I don't know, but I do know that my panties drop everytime I boot up the game. It"s aging like fine wine.
the text exchanges between v and takemura are my favorite parts of the game
Really don’t see how people are saying CD Project is getting off without criticism or getting a pass. Everyone online has been shitting in them for two weeks now.
This game is such a disappointment even outside of the bugs, boring sidequests (not all of them), absolutely braindead ai, no activities to do in the world, shallow hacking mechanics, skill trees with meaningless upgrades, augmentations with near pointless stats, mediocre gunplay and melee combat, teleporting police that appear out of nowhere, braindance is really shallow too, pointless life paths that only affect the first 15 minutes or so, list goes on probably. I hope they can at least improve most of this in whatever expansion they will probably make down the line.
You over exaggerating bruh lol. All people I know who actually own the game all agree it's buggy but there is ALOT of side missions and stuff to do. But it's your opinion tho, exaggerated. But honest. People hate the game for the bugs. Not the gameplay itself
@@Berserk096-z6v I know I'm in the minority but it's how I feel, there's a lot of side quests sure but the majority of them aren't captivating or that interesting to me, especially when compared to The Witcher 3.
Detail and world is beautiful but empty and useless, uninteractive. Supposed to be the most Immersive Simulation of the Genre. Now they say its an adventure RPG.
The motorbikes are sliding because they tried to copy the famous Akira pose. You know the one.
You hear that familiar tune?
"COUNTRY ROADS.... TAKE ME HOME..."
edit: 76 likes nice
Oh God no
This so much better than fallout76 t
@@god_hand576 so... it just works?
@@thecheekychinaman6713 It moderately works
@@aytony4090 TODD IS SATISFIED
It may be unfinished, but there is always something to do. You will never get bored. I sometimes spend more time with side missions.
Eh, I'll probably pick it up as a GOTY for a tenner in 4-5 years when it's as fixed and polished as it'll get. Looking at this doesn't really cause me any fear of missing out on anything.
Playing this on Xbox One is like playing Roblox on an old Laptop
I'm 22 and I played roblox when I was 10, that game had so much stuff to do but I played it on my parents laptop, ran like dogshit
14:40 Crafting is useless? WHAT?! LMAO Crafting is broken af in this game. You can easily get your crafting abilities to a point where the weapons and armor you craft are FAR better than anything you find in the game.
What I find most interesting about this game is the dichotomy between reviews. I almost never see someone say “yeah it was fine, played it, beat it, don’t need to go back”. Either it was an amazing game that just needs some polishing or it was the worst thing they’ve ever played. I wonder how much of this is circlejerk followed by the inevitable anti-circlejerk they grew because of the original circlejerk. This whole game release has been a case study in how to market something but also how not to market something at the same time. Idek.
I feel its just a lot of exaggerations and hyperbole that taints this game's image.
Imo the only mistake the marketing did was about the base console version.
In every other aspect, they nailed it. Hype sells and backlash also sells. We are still talking about the game.
Imagine if all the reviews were, yeah...good game, nice story, no replayability, some bugs, 7/10, lets move on.
Ive seen plenty of people says this game is mediocre
All of the memes about this game being ready by 2077 weren't kidding.
2:07 I think the Icarus story explains this game so well. Glad to see someone else say it. This game's main problems is its aspirations were far too high. Complex games make for complex and pervasive bugs.
Sounds like another in a long line gamings great developer, terrible management issue. No excuse for this other than they were forced to release it for a holiday release especially considering a largely captive audience due to the pandemic. People still deserve refunds though.
They deserve the consequences, especially the share price drop. They aimed too high, they promised too much, they lied, they lose respect.
12:50 nice Blade Runner ref. Love how there are literally dozens of easter eggs and references in this game too
8 years of development yet how did this game failed to be polished. Were the devs sitting on their asses all day watching blade runner
This is one of the most accurate reviews of this game unlike a majority of them
The game needed another year. The game is almost finished it just needed polishing on AI and police and random encounters
The "stuffing dudes in boxes" animation is strangely comical. I can imagine a cartoony *Flumpf* sound effect when it happens.
just like hitman games :D
its 2021 and they still havent fixed the npc models, faces still take forever to load, npcs spawn out of nowhere, cd red does not update their games
wait 2023
STALKER, New Vegas, Deus Ex. Alot of bugs and jank can be tolerated in an otherwise great shooter/rpg
There are no bugs in STALKER; it's all effects of the Zone
@@Mrkabrat guy clipping through the floor? nah, that's just the zone, son.
@@house_cocoon Bandit being able to hit you with pin point accuracy with a sawed off shotgun across the swamp? Such is life in the Zone
@@Mrkabrat Get instantkilled by a radiation spike despite the fact that you're indoors and underground? 'Tis nothing but the zone
@@house_cocoon Mutants behing able to teleport through locked doors? Such is life in the Zone
Definitely one of the better games I've played over the year or so though.
And a hall pass? This game got shit on so much and talked badly about even to this day after they've fixed everything. Has to be the most hated game of 2020-2022 for no reason, as most of the time it's by people who haven't played it but have a sheep mentality or expected it to be GTA 6.