Recent reviews by Quiescence

Needs a year of polish / dlcs before it can be compared to the quality and polish of say, the civ series. Not expecting it to be the same, but as other people have said, the gameplay just feels random between eras, and no central goal aside from fame really hinders any want to be motivated.

After beating the game
Story and world are the strong points. Combat is okay. AI is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ joke. Civilians and cars move on rails, not actually driving or having any sort of plan. There isn't parking lots, can't interact with non-marked stores, no eating or drinking animations, police literally appear out of thin air behind you when wanted and don't chase you, if you accidently run over a person or two you get pretty much insta-killed by drone police . There is a good world in this game that maybe the devs can save if they take the No Man's Sky route. But it's a damn ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ shame CDPR forced the game out in this state. Ironic - a game that ♥♥♥♥♥ on corporations ♥♥♥♥♥ over itself by caring about money and not quality. Wait a couple of months, and see if they actually deliver basic game mechanics.
TLDR; Great game, there are a few things that seem to have been misrepresented or missing like aspects of character customization. There is lack-luster performance and a plethora of visual bugs that I shouldn't have to deal with after 3 delays. Coming patches should turn an otherwise great game into a fantastic one, and CDPR currently has a track record of being good with improving the games they release. Current state: 8/10, unless you have a great computer, wait for patches.

My critiques

If you were expecting Cyberpunk 2077 and not GTA 5 + COD + Forza and whatever else, game is really, really good.
No game is going to perfectly emulate life, so please don't play any game expecting it too.
I like the game, but that's only because my ability to actually play is passable with my cutting edge computer. For the average person, performance is gonna be mediocre at best. I have already had 4 CTDs.



Optimization is not what it should be. Way more bugs than there should be, especially with 3 delays. Character customization (cosmetics) is not what I expected, and might be a case for 'false advertising'. Don't like that there aren't any barbershops, tattoo parlors, etc and that so far I haven't found a way to wear clothes as costumes and not for stats. PC movement needs a binding to walk. Breaks immersion to be speed walking around when in quests, or just looking down at your legs when going down the side walk for a scroll. NPC movement and driving overly rigid and looks weird. Cars need more visual destruction when hitting things (GTA does this well. Don't want to compare the games, but this is something I'd expect CDPR to have put in). Cars also destroy posts and rails like they are cardboard. Raytracing makes really weird lighting on characters eyes in cars when you are in a tunnel, the whites of their eyes glow brightly (playing on latest drivers, 3080, 5600x, 64 gb ram). Enemies should be a little less bullet-spongy (at the game progressed this got better though, not sure if its stronger guns or perks, or the combination). Audio mixing and cutoff is weird, sound randomly cuts off as you round a corner instead of getting quieter, and radio music volume is inconsistent in the world and needs to be louder in the car. Stealth alerting is kinda weird, where as soon as you are detected enemies are all immediately alerted without a callout (although enemies are connected through networks, so attacking someone and their friends knowing makes sense lorewise, but then why don't they notice when someone is knocked out? Either be consistent for gameplay or for lore, CDPR). That being said, most gripes I have with the game should be patchable.

What is good?

The world, when not experiencing visual bugs or weird pop-in/out looks amazing. Characters are really detailed, and facial and body language is incredible, really feels immersive when game isn't breaking. Guns feel good, sound and music designs on their own is great, and both story and how your decisions impact characters and your path are excellent. Keanu is cool.

Please please please make a spiritual successor or a sequel :DDDDD

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My sleep schedule

i have one word to describe this game.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥ garbage broken unrealistic ♥♥♥♥ physics hahaha pysonix suck my fat ♥♥♥♥♥

Was blazing when suddenly I got x-ray powers and saw through a mountain 2 bears fighting each other and I need some bear pelts for crafting so I blew them up with a sticky c4 that I attached to one of the bears heads and it blew up and flew into a trucks path and it killed some soldiers from the impact and i got xp and i leveled up
4/20 -ign not enough grass

Wood pole blocked .50 caliber bullet velocity instantly. 420/9.11 Would physics again

Lamp stopped a bus moving 40 mph. 10/10 Would barrel again.

Hide in shelter with fire infront of you = Cannibals run into fire = burn to death = WIN