But in all seriousness I think people came down way too hard on this game. The writing is mad good- (like only Disco Elysium and NV really compare to it good) and I love wandering around a cool cyberpunk city as my Skin Diamond lookalike mercenary
I’ve played the game beginning to end the writing was nothing special in my opinion. The whole thing hinges on V being someone who just loves doing crime for no particular reason, The actual game is okay.
I Erased those quests with that guy because From my memory because having a questline where the point is police would be good if they were just good people in a cyberpunk hellscape was a mind boggling decision.
The writing is kinda meh. Does nothing with the Cyberpunk setting, has very confused politics, doesn’t really know what it is. Someone decided they liked the Cyberpunk setting and it was only after they decided to make a Cyberpunk game that they really got to grips with what that meant and that the “punk” aspect really means “anti-capitalist rebellion against the man”. They have then sort of made this confused mess because they don’t actually like that stuff because they are all Polish and half the studio is probably fash.
The sandbox is garbage (doesn’t exist at all), 20 year old open world city games have a better sandbox where police, ambulances and NPCs actually script and do emergent stuff.
They do very little with the setting.
It’s an open world game that shouldn’t be open world. CDPR have no idea how to make an open world. They only got away with it in the fantasy setting because they didn’t actually need to make NPCs do or react to anything. They make dioramas that don’t actually do anything.
Gameplay kinda fails to really be complete, it’s not challenging, it’s not interesting, it’s just kinda eh.
Sloppy and very unfinished. I think the biggest disappoint for me is that there’s really very little modding scene as a result of the garbage launch too. Nobody wants to touch it.
The game sucks there’s only 3 good games and one of them isn’t even good.
Unfortunately this is a very bad opinion :/
