Enjoying it quite a bit but I managed to temper my expectations pre-release, wasn't expecting revolutionary. On an ancient GTX 970 (oc'd ~15%) I'm able to get 35-45 FPS on a mix of low and medium settings with textures on high @ 1080p. Not ideal, but it's playable. It's clearly not well optimized because I've played better looking games on higher settings with more FPS like AC:Odyssey. Hopefully they can address this soon.
I'm currently playing through with a blades+pistol build on a corpo fem V which is nothing short of OP. Second play through will be a hacking/tech focused build on a male street kid V. I haven't had any crashes in ~38 hours of play, and only encountered a few minor visual bugs (feel like I've dodged a bullet here). This game is worth full box price to me personally, but I can see how to some it might not be, so best to wait for a sale
Serious question - why would you play this again? like 2nd playthrough?
I enjoy the game/atmosphere and many of the characters. I've played a lot of games through multiple times that don't technically have a lot of new stuff to encounter, simply because I enjoyed the first time through. This is my first brush with a cyberpunk style game, as I typically can be found in the fantasy genre, so it's kind of fresh for me, too. Once again, I'm not saying the game is an absolute masterpiece, it has its fair share of shortcomings, but overall I find it to be an enjoyable experience, and I think they'll work to improve it. Also looking forward to the multiplayer in the future, so I'll consider anything I do now as practice for that.
CDPR changed the game genre in its description from a “dark RPG” to “action adventure story”. They know it’s not an rpg and customers need to take that into account and adjust expectations.
I agree pretty much with everything this article says but this quote here is pretty telling too.
There a reason they changed this even though some want to argue the contrary.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
After spending almost 110 hours in the game and just finishing my first ending; I discovered that there are only 5 endings total. Compared to the 36 endings The Witcher 3; i'm left with a lot of questions.
*sighs* There was something hollow about what the game does to you once you beat the main story, and i really hope it's changed in patches or DLC, because it's something i can't stand in Open-world games and Batman: Arkham Knight did the exact same thing.
It just doesn't sit well with me that all of the game's side-quests and Gigs are so interwoven with the main story, that it cannot allow the character to enter true free roam with no "death strings" attached.
There is alot of things this game does well, but of the things it doesn't do quite as well, just puts a bad aftertaste in my mouth, and just.... it makes it difficult to want to continue playing; once i saw what the game did to me after i beat the main story.
I'm sure i'll come back to Cyberpunk eventually, but this really didn't feel like the rpg experience i was hoping for, perhaps i just set my expectations too high.
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013 Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005 Fishing in RL since 1992 Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
I did like the story allot. But it was very short imo.
Yep and when the game ends - you can't keep on playing with your "end game" character - without going back to the save point (rooftop)....
Just horrible.
That is pretty bad game design, but with any luck they will patch the much like Bethesda did with Fallout 3. That game didn't allow you to continue game after completing the main story as well.
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I enjoy the game/atmosphere and many of the characters. I've played a lot of games through multiple times that don't technically have a lot of new stuff to encounter, simply because I enjoyed the first time through. This is my first brush with a cyberpunk style game, as I typically can be found in the fantasy genre, so it's kind of fresh for me, too. Once again, I'm not saying the game is an absolute masterpiece, it has its fair share of shortcomings, but overall I find it to be an enjoyable experience, and I think they'll work to improve it. Also looking forward to the multiplayer in the future, so I'll consider anything I do now as practice for that.
Brenics ~ Just to point out I do believe Chris Roberts is going down as the man who cheated backers and took down crowdfunding for gaming.
*sighs* There was something hollow about what the game does to you once you beat the main story, and i really hope it's changed in patches or DLC, because it's something i can't stand in Open-world games and Batman: Arkham Knight did the exact same thing.
It just doesn't sit well with me that all of the game's side-quests and Gigs are so interwoven with the main story, that it cannot allow the character to enter true free roam with no "death strings" attached.
There is alot of things this game does well, but of the things it doesn't do quite as well, just puts a bad aftertaste in my mouth, and just.... it makes it difficult to want to continue playing; once i saw what the game did to me after i beat the main story.
I'm sure i'll come back to Cyberpunk eventually, but this really didn't feel like the rpg experience i was hoping for, perhaps i just set my expectations too high.
Fishing on Gilgamesh since 2013
Fishing on Bronzebeard since 2005
Fishing in RL since 1992
Born with a fishing rod in my hand in 1979
That is pretty bad game design, but with any luck they will patch the much like Bethesda did with Fallout 3. That game didn't allow you to continue game after completing the main story as well.