Jim H
Frightening Fanatic of Horrible Cinema
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« Reply #31 on: December 30, 2020, 11:09:33 AM » |
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Been playing Cyberpunk 2077. Luckily on PC, though my rig can't handle it as well as I'd like. It still plays mostly OK though.
As far as the game goes... It's good, but not incredible. I'm like 20 hours in or so. There's some very good writing and character stuff, the world looks very good, but the actual core gameplay isn't blowing me away, it's just "good". I will say bugs and glitches have hurt the experience, even though on PC it's not generally game breaking. Stuff like parts of the interface staying on when they're not supposed to (like the popup for picking up an item), textures taking too long to load in, weird physics, the run button randomly stopping working until you reload your save.
Oh, and some of the systems are very poorly explained or oddly underwhelming - definitely feels like the game wasn't 100% done when they released it. For example, the explanations of leveling and text messaging systems in the game are very half-baked. Combat is also either extremely easy or you instantly die 95% of the time - I think I'm forever going to be of the opinion that leveling in an FPS/RPG almost never works very well.
At this point, if you haven't already bought it, I'd suggest waiting six months and then getting it. You'll have a better experience and probably pay less. I lucked out and got it cheap, so I can't complain too much.
Also, this is hard to explain and probably quite personal, but the character you're playing as, V, is definitely a defined character... But it being first person, and the way this is balanced with your choices, I dunno, it doesn't feel quite right to me somehow. Like you're HALF in control of your character, and it'd be better if it was more in either direction? From what I've seen of the Witcher games (especially 3), with Geralt being even more defined in personality than V and the game being in 3rd person, it worked better. Same with the Mass Effect games, though Shephard isn't as strongly defined of a character as either V or Geralt.
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