This regards 1.0 only; I haven’t played 2.0 yet. 2.0 will probably fix a lot of the issues regarding the skill tree and playstyle for me, but I can’t really speak on it.
I first played this game on PS4. Wow, what a buggy piece of shit. I still enjoyed it enough to grind through 80 non-functional hours and beat the overall solid main story.
Cyberpunk 1.0 had some really fantastic pieces of a game that just needed more time in the oven. I think my biggest problems with it are the reduction of pre-Act 1 montage, awful gringo Spanish, and the Ubisoft-esque filler content like gang hideouts and vigilante missions that appear far too often in place of better side content. For that reason Night City sometimes lacks the lively feeling of a world like Rockstar’s or (pre 2015) Bethesda. Regardless, for the incredibly ambitious scale, messy development, and borderline abusive practices of executives, its impressive what CDPR was able to pull off here. Revisiting a functioning Night City on PC in 2023 (pre-update) I very much enjoyed my time. I can’t wait to revisit 2.0/Phantom Liberty and play something more akin to the original vision of the game.
I first played this game on PS4. Wow, what a buggy piece of shit. I still enjoyed it enough to grind through 80 non-functional hours and beat the overall solid main story.
Cyberpunk 1.0 had some really fantastic pieces of a game that just needed more time in the oven. I think my biggest problems with it are the reduction of pre-Act 1 montage, awful gringo Spanish, and the Ubisoft-esque filler content like gang hideouts and vigilante missions that appear far too often in place of better side content. For that reason Night City sometimes lacks the lively feeling of a world like Rockstar’s or (pre 2015) Bethesda. Regardless, for the incredibly ambitious scale, messy development, and borderline abusive practices of executives, its impressive what CDPR was able to pull off here. Revisiting a functioning Night City on PC in 2023 (pre-update) I very much enjoyed my time. I can’t wait to revisit 2.0/Phantom Liberty and play something more akin to the original vision of the game.