harmfuljays wrote:
Cyberpunk 2077....I initially bought this for the PS4 when it came off but shelved it when it would crash. A year later they seemed to have patched the bugs and I have a PS5. The game still crashes frequently...every hour or so...but the autosave feature and saving frequently plus the insanely quick load times from the PS5 make this a minor inconvenience when you take into account...............
The Story......I am blown away at this point at the amount of thought and development put into some of these story lines. Possibly even deeper than Mass Effect if that's possible. This is an adult story line with an amazing and, one would argue, somewhat accurate portrayal of our future in transhumanism and corporate ownership/control. I've read some reviews where folks said stick to the main story as there is nothing to see but that's not correct...some of the best story angles are in the side gigs. I think this Keanu Reeves performance is far better than Jon Wick!
Even the small booklets/shards you pick up are well thought out and worth reading if you want.
The story compensates for some of the lack of readily accessible features......The menu and crafting is a bit of a mess. Managing inventory in these types of games can be a bit of pain in the ass when it isn't done right. This one is wonky and hard to understand what you should be doing....For example its very easy to miss crafting armor upgrades that significantly impact your armor....you can wander around for many hours with a 30 power single piece of armor and then realize holy cow this upgrade gets me over 100.
The battle is ok and fairly enjoyable....many different approaches to take and the game doesn't penalize you too bad for maintaining balance...however you should really commit to a style as there is always an option to reset your skills.
The world itself is lofty and large....and often times devoid of interaction. Driving is also a bit sloppy which I find odd as this has been done well several times before.
Overall the game itself could have used more polish and you can tell that it was rushed out the door.....fortunately though...the story came first over some of the tweaks to the mechanics. Hopefully they continue to tweak these and they are addressed in the next gen version to be released shortly (free upgrade I hope). I am extremely happy that I gave this a second chance and will update when I am finished.
Put in a decent amount of hours on this. about 3/4 of the way through they released the free nextgen upgrade......much better, faster load times, no crashing, more activity on the street....however still some persistent game bugs. I got right to the end and the quests where you have to wait a day and then someone calls you can be a bit troublesome. You have to pass time with the wait feature and then go find an activity that will trigger the call otherwise you can run around forever waiting for it and potentially miss it.
The upgrade wasn't totally seamless as it fixed the out of control armor over power and didn't allow you to collect existing trophies. It also made you reallocate your skill points but that was fairly minimal.
Multiple endings depending on how you behaved...and really overall the story is still amazing. That's the matrix sequel that should have been!
With the potential for 100 plus hours, a price of 29.99 and a free trial on the nextgen consoles this one is a no brainer.
Finished up just in time for Elden Ring.
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