This is making me want to start a new play through. Finished it once when the game first came out and haven’t touched it since.
Maybe I can go back and take my time this time trying all the different side quests 🤔
The patch sounds like a pretty big overhaul so I’m waiting for that before I start playing again. I just wish we had more than a week between the patch and the expansion.
mods will probably be temporarily nuked when the patch and expansion comes out. But I’m very eager to read the patch notes.
I purchased the game and played through at launch, despite (and partly because of) the bugs. I admit, there was annoyance, but humor as well at the random naked t-pose while on a bike.
I also had (and still have) a 3090, so got to play at basically max settings (except ray tracing).
It was fun. I did another play through when they released the RT overdrive update and enjoyed it just as much. Didn’t end up using RT overdrive after the first hour or so as the performance/quality wasn’t there on a 3440x1440 display (either bad frame rate, or super low res).
Nice! Envious of people who can play it on ray tracing! RT loooks super nice on photo mode.
Nice, push it. I still haven’t played it. Is the fixed up game pretty worth it? I don’t want no spoilers. How open world is everything?
I will share my experience… I played the game the week it launched on PC. Played a few hours, forgot about it.
Came back to it this week, started fresh. It really is phenomenal. The story is incredible. So much so, that I find myself doing ANYTHING to keep the game going without progressing. The little side quests I do are so engrossing, I forget they’re not part of the main story line. I played for hours and was blown away before the words “cyberpunk 2077” scrolled across the screen and I realized I had only completed the intro.
It really is a wonderful world that feels alive. I feel like the builds are fun and actually feel rewarded for trying new things. (I was a hardcore wow player where min maxing was so essential. It’s so refreshing to play a single player game where I can actually fuck around and try to new/different things).
So yeah. The game didn’t grab me the first time. Second time around and it’s easily in my top 10.
Plus Panam.
The game is in a much better state now than when it first launched. And the open world is pretty gorgeous! Occasionally I’ll boot up the game, hop on a motorcycle, turn on the radio, and just cruise around the city without a goal in mind. Very fun environments to explore, and I’ll often end up catching myself finding little spots that I’ve never seen before, even after completing all the main and side quests.
Nice Choom,
I started a new playthrough a few days ago, and I’ve been loving it. I will probably start another once the new dlc comes out. Is there anything I should try out before that?
You can finish the main quest to get a different ending. If you already done that, you can mess with your builds, read shards near the site of the side quests to learn more about cyberpunk lore and have fun with the side quests since gameplay will a bit different after phantom Liberty since they will be changing some gameplay mechanics.
Me personally I’ll play the main and sides slowly and go photomode most of the time.
I bought this game, played it 3 hours on launch, failed to refund it. Give me 3 reasons to reinstall this on steam and try it again.
- The story
- The feeling of just walking through night city
- The Characters
The feeling of just walking through night city
Totallly this. Sometimes I just launch the game to walk or ride around
Did you play it shortly after it launched, or some time after? The game was very unstable and buggy for a while after it released, but it’s been largely improved since then. There’s still a few minor bugs that are kinda hard to fix (usually scripting issues with some quest lines that can be broken, but I think most of those have also been repaired), but otherwise it’s very solid now.
Also, are you playing on a current-gen system? PS4/XB1 are going to have really bad performance, even with the updates.
If you didn’t quit due to performance problems, why did you decide not to continue? Maybe I could shed some light on things you’re missing out on.
I played on PC only. I played it within a day of launch. It has been so long that I hardly recall. I believe it wasn’t the most smooth experience, but more so than that, I didn’t enjoy the gameplay. I didn’t feel like my bullets were making a connection. The world felt more contrived than I thought it would.
I also feel like perhaps I bit into the hype to the point that I hadn’t seen the forest for the trees. During my time playing, I realized I wasn’t that into the whole cyber punk concept to begin with. That’s my fault obviously. Shameful though that I didn’t set myself up for a successful refund.
I’m not gonna convince you playing again if you really feel like it is not for you. Maybe someday you might feel like giving it a go again and play it, so hopefully you will enjoy it that time. So for now, thank you for supporting CDPR financially! 😅
P.S. I am not a CDPR employeeeeeeee
Ahh, I gotcha. I’d definitely recommend giving it another shot if it’s been a while! Some of the early weapons you’ll find will have some pretty poor stats, but once you get past the main “intro” quest (without spoiling anything, it’s after V and Jackie part ways), you’ll unlock basically the full game at that point, with access to a lot more options for weaponry.
I also wasn’t a huge fan of the gunplay in this game, so I ended up going with a netrunner build, so most of my combat was done a lot slower and from safe distances. If you ever try rolling another character, I definitely recommend going that route, instead. Dump the majority of your points into netrunning and cyberware, and also spec into stealth, and you’re basically the world’s most dangerous computer virus, IRL. Drop a few points into some melee abilities and keep a katana or some throwing knives equipped, and you’ve got yourself a really fun “cyber ninja” character going at that point. I prefer this playstyle, personally, because it feels a bit more appropriate for the world you’re playing in. It also keeps you safe from a distance, but capable to defend yourself up close, without needing much in the way of firearms. While you can absolutely run-and-gun your way through it if you want, I feel like you miss out on a lot of what makes Cyberpunk so special that way.
That said, if you come across any “smart” weapons (instead of bullets, they fire homing projectiles that auto-track enemies), those definitely felt a lot more fun to use for me. The only gun I really keep equipped is Skippy (a smart pistol that’s tied to a really fun quest) because it’s great for those situations where you’re waiting for your skill cooldowns and need to drop an enemy or two and don’t feel like aiming.
Alternatively, you could also just “bypass” the combat by dropping the difficulty to just breeze through the story and the environments. Despite a lot of the game’s flaws, it has some of the best narrative I’ve seen in a game in ages, so the story is absolutely worth digesting even if the gameplay isn’t your cup of tea, in my opinion. The game actually poses a lot of really interesting philosophical questions to the player (if you enjoy some of the themes in Black Mirror about technology, identity, and ethics, then you’ll probably dig Johnny’s quest line), and goes into some pretty dark places. I’m usually not the kind of person to be emotional with movies or games, but there were several moments in Cyberpunk that had me really invested in the well being of some characters and making choices not for myself, but for them.
But also, if it’s not for you, then it’s not for you. There’s a lot of parts of the game that I can see being an absolute turn-off for some people, and I get that. It can be gross, immature, and even unnecessarily disturbing at times. Sometimes the humor doesn’t land, and some characters just aren’t memorable or even likable. But, at the very least, the story is absolutely fantastic, and there’s very little I can criticize in that regard.
If you’re into anime at all, maybe also check out the Edgerunners show on Netflix. It’s fairly short, and focuses on its own completely separate story from V’s, in a slightly different point in time than the game takes place in, and with its own characters, so it’s not related much to the game’s story (and thus, won’t spoil anything about the game). But it does a pretty great job at capturing the feel of Night City and the characters in it, and uses a ton of songs from the game, too. I’m not a huge anime fan, so I couldn’t really say how it compares to other shows, but the artwork and action sequences are fantastic. Honestly, I feel like the anime is a better starting place if you want to get familiar with the world of Night City.
This is probably a lot more than you asked for, lol.
