I adore this game so fucking much, and it's a damn shame what happened to it on launch. I recently finished a 2.0 save with 80+ hours tracked, something I haven't done in a long time with a game, and I enjoyed every minute I had with it. Not only that, but I always thought the game's overall story and message were incredibly well-written, though they were lacking in the optimization department which would cause game-altering bugs that would ultimately ruin the experience; As I'm sure everybody who knows about this game is well aware of what I'm talking about.
Now here we are with 2.0, and it seriously brought so much life to the game. I really couldn't be happier with the amount of shine and praise the game has been getting recently. Edgerunners, I believe, had a huge role in its recent praise over the last year as well, due to the show reaching audiences that were never even considering playing the game. This caused hundreds of thousands of new cyberpunk fans, which no doubt led to 2.0 being as successful as it is. Overall, the game's enjoyability is absolutely through the roof, and I would HIGHLY recommend anyone play or replay this game, as 2.0 just really brings out the vision the developers had initially desired. I have yet to play Phantom Liberty, although anyone I've talked to has said it's just as good, if not better than the main game. I'm very optimistic to see where CDPR takes Night City and how they'll continue to flesh out one of my favorite settings in a video game!
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Side note - I will say that I and many others have experienced a good number of crashes on PC recently, and seemingly the 2.01 patch made it worse? At first, the game and its performance were amazing, but then, around 30ish hours into my save, I kept getting crashes every other hour. This seems like a PC issue at the moment, but I've heard turning off Cloud Save can fix it. I'm sure it's going to get fixed, but that was the ONLY problem I've had with 2.0 so far. I highly recommend it, and as time goes by, I can easily see this game being an all-timer for me!
Now here we are with 2.0, and it seriously brought so much life to the game. I really couldn't be happier with the amount of shine and praise the game has been getting recently. Edgerunners, I believe, had a huge role in its recent praise over the last year as well, due to the show reaching audiences that were never even considering playing the game. This caused hundreds of thousands of new cyberpunk fans, which no doubt led to 2.0 being as successful as it is. Overall, the game's enjoyability is absolutely through the roof, and I would HIGHLY recommend anyone play or replay this game, as 2.0 just really brings out the vision the developers had initially desired. I have yet to play Phantom Liberty, although anyone I've talked to has said it's just as good, if not better than the main game. I'm very optimistic to see where CDPR takes Night City and how they'll continue to flesh out one of my favorite settings in a video game!
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Side note - I will say that I and many others have experienced a good number of crashes on PC recently, and seemingly the 2.01 patch made it worse? At first, the game and its performance were amazing, but then, around 30ish hours into my save, I kept getting crashes every other hour. This seems like a PC issue at the moment, but I've heard turning off Cloud Save can fix it. I'm sure it's going to get fixed, but that was the ONLY problem I've had with 2.0 so far. I highly recommend it, and as time goes by, I can easily see this game being an all-timer for me!