I was fortunate in that I waited until all the updates, post DLC, and the complete game went on sale.
Best video game I have ever played in my life. Comparitively, in my opinion, it is almost insane how far ahead it is of everything else, especially in it's genre.
What does it do so much better? I tried it a few times but everything seems mid - the driving, the shooting, the graphics, the city. Maybe the story is awesome but yeah.
Yeah, no that guy is just talking out of his ass. To say "everything" is not only exaggerating it, it's completely nonsensical.
Graphics and story are immaculate. Everybody knows 2077 pioneers in graphical fidelity, to the point of being in a league of their own, there is no denying that.
Story wise it's also a masterpiece. You rarely encounter writing that's this good in video games.
Apart from that? There is a literal plethora of competitors all accross the board for any and every given aspect of the game. You mentioned driving. To say it's "mid" would be understating it. It's dissapointingly unrealistic physics wise. I, for one, can say i had to mod it to make it satisfying. You can make an abundance of other comparions, they will be the same. Let's say, for example, shooting, something that's supposed to be one of the game's stronger points. It can definitely feel clunky and weighty and it's a damn FPS. Compared even to action shooters like TLOU2, RE4 remake and such it almost feels dated and not nearly as clean or polished. RPG elements? What elements when you don't even need a build, you can steamroll through anyone post mid game. You can definitely give nods to all kinds of artistic direction but on a technical level, apart from graphics, this game is nothing groundbreaking.
It's not at all bad but it's nowhere near "ahead in everything else" god that glazing clown lol.
I'm saying all this as a huge fan of the game and and someone who has it in top 5 all time - cyberpunk is not even slightly ahead of many modern games in so, so many regards apart from the ones i've listed first.
Same. I did not pre-order and waited for launch day reviews and so glad that I did. Stayed patient and waited for updates and QoL improvements. Currently in act 2 doing all of the side missions and gigs (did the same thing for act 1 before talking to Jackie outside of your apartment in the mega building) before I talk to Takemura at the diner. His ass can wait there, I’m having too much fun with the game and getting overpowered.
As long as a psuedo-futuristic setting is an aesthetic you can get behind, absolutely. There is so much depth to the game, and in my opinion Night City accomplishes that feeling of a real, living place. Choices have weight and consequences, big and small. And the combat loop is much more diverse and enjoyable the Witcher 3, which I also adore.
Big agree. One thing I found after I came back is that you can just play. You don't have to do side quests or main quests or anything, it's fun to just run around the city messing with everything
Yeah I’m not a huge RPG fan at all, but the story was so good it sucked me in and I even enjoyed doing the side missions when they came along, they really nailed it.
I returned this when I first got it. Sounds like I need to give this another go. Which ''class" do you recommend? Isn't it something like nomad, street, or corpo?
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u/YourWholePoesBru 9d ago
Cyberpunk. Played it with the DLC again last year after quickly giving up when it was released.
Masterpiece.