Cyberpunk 2077 (2020)

Man, imagine putting your devs through slavish work conditions to get an okay game that's still a mess on release... I'm generally pretty good at troubleshooting and rarely find myself complaining about games being buggy, because holy shit do I not care if my game runs at 90210FPS or any of that stupid shit and if turning it off and turning it back on again fixes the problem, and it's not persistent, then it's not really a problem. So far, I haven't encountered anything game breaking, but there sure are a lot of weird wonky behaviours and little annoyances...

The real issue, so far, is that this game isn't doing much (so far at least) that Deus Ex: Human Revolution didn't do better, except, I guess, having more customization options, and the ability to handpick my genitalia (which, like, who was asking for that feature).

With all the hype (and again, the slavish working conditions put on the dev team for release), you'd think we'd get a much stronger game, but... so far, it's... fine. Unless it gets a decent amount more interesting, I probably won't even finish it, I'll just play til I've gotten my fill, and drop it.

OH COME ON

The bonus system CD Projekt used for developers working on Cyberpunk 2077 was complicated. Every month, team leaders at the company gave out tokens styled after the studio’s logo, a red bird, to members of their team they felt deserved honors, according to three current and former employees. Those tokens would have then been transferred into bonuses if the game met certain criteria, like critical acclaim and a timely release. Under the new system, those payouts will be guaranteed even though Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed and the review score has been mixed. This performance bonus comes on top of regular annual profit-sharing payouts.

(Taken from this article)

Wow. Ho-ho ho ho. Well... shite.

That was a transcription of my reaction when playing the game.

Not enjoying this too much, at all. Gameplay isn't good, that's for sure, is not a good FPS.

Looking at the bright side, playing with my GTX1070, with settings medium and High, I get 45-35 FPS, not ideal for a PC game, still better graphics and performance than those poor folks playing it on PS4 and XBox. Nevertheless, remembered they recommended a 1060 to play this game in High settings 1080p. This game is very, very poorly optimized. It is an insult. Open world feels like an average one, doesn't have The Witcher's magic. Color me disappointed, but as I have said, I kind of expect this to happen, too many delays, the developers aimed to high. And at the end they have offered an incredibly good looking burger -even in medium, looks beautiful- but without any beef or toppings either. I hope things get better, I hope they patch it and improve on its performance, but that might be too much. To play this game as it should be played need a RTX2080/3080, if you are going in to play something fun, I haven't yet, I hate shooters where enemies are bullet-sponges, RPG clearly don't mix that well with shooters, for me at least.

Ah, yes. There are bugs, in a world so detailed and colorful, even the minor of bugs tend to call too match attention and drift all attention to it. A pity.

With all the hype this game had, being anything less than perfect was going to be a massive disappointment.

However, this is just painful. Absolutely terrible performance (ok my pc is not the best but I haven't had many problems running current games on 1080p medium with >30fps, this game struggles to reach 30 with 720p low) and multiple game-breaking bugs. Luckily all my issues have been fixed by a quick reload of a previous save (maybe that's why an ssd was heavily suggested?) and I haven't experienced any crashes.

If, nevertheless, you manage to get past all of that you will find a... lifeless open world with super generic gameplay and bullet-spongy enemies. It looks so full of life, but for most of the time that's all there is, a facade. Almost every single person answers you with a generic one-liner, like when you go to the dude that is selling fries on the street and he just tells you to fuck off, because that's the way of making a sale. Or when you try to go inside that cool building, or something that looks like a store, or anywhere for that matter and everything's closed and inaccessible.

I am having fun though, and if you're not as impatient as I am, I heavily recommend waiting for some patches, because there's clearly a great game here, just hidden a bit.