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Can't wait for the Joe Biden and Trump kissing update

Highly Recommended

Cyberpunk 2077 - Is just brilliant, from its dystopic yet beautiful world to its thought-provoking story.

Did I have crashes and experience bugs? - yes.
Was it anywhere near an unacceptable amount for my an open world 104+ hour play through? - absolutely not.

People really need to get over the launch - Yes it shouldn't have launched in that state but the state it is in now is a completely different story, and to those how still complain that it still has a crash and the odd bug - please point me to an open-world, RPG (or a game for that matter) that doesn't.

Considering I am currently running on 1700 + 1080 (an 8 year old design as of when I am writing this) andwhen i have have Resolution scaling, DLSS, film grain and motion blur off and everything set to max apart from Screen Space Reflection Quality which is Ultra (instead of Psycho), 24 fps is very reasonable.

I got called Mr. Sigma within 10 minutes of playing - 'I drive' out of ten

An amazing game let down.

Bioshock 2 is very well paced but the story itself feels very undeveloped and is poorly delivered, which is massive shame because it has so much potential.
Additionally, Bioshock 2 can't create the atmosphere of the first game.
There is no constant on-edge anxiety inducing, claustrophobic feeling that first game did so well. I felt completely relaxed and unworried even when pitted against big sisters and big daddies in enclosed spaces.
Why does Rapture feel less dank, dingy and dilapidated after decaying for 8 years?

Then the big disappointment of all - the graphics and performance.
I believe I crashed 3 times - which is far more than I have crashed in any other game when taking account the it took me less than 10 hours to complete. To add to the pain of the crashes - nothing saved so I lost probably about an hour of progress across the crashes.
On top of that graphics are extremely disappointing for game from 2016.
One particular thing I found completely ruined any immersion was when you take control of a little sister and whenever you climb into vents the camera clips into the player model and vent suddenly finishes
Another annoying thing is the final cut scene is very low resolution and pixelated in some parts, which is extremely frustrating.

However, I do think with all it's flaws it is worth playing - but I would only recommend picking up on heavy discount.
£13.99 for a not fully baked game from 2016 that crashed more that first 70 hours on Cyberpunk is ridiculous.

Start COD HQ (because I can't just start the game I bought)
Update requires restart
Restart
Scroll through the menu to MW2
Start MW2
Update Requires restart
restart
'please wait while we Download shaders'

Nice concept, but,
probably the thing that scared me most was poor performance, how painfully simple the 'puzzles' are and the fact people spent $5 on a game that can be completed in less than 30 mins.
The game struggles to create atmosphere, there is a complete lack of story or lore of any kind. So in between Huggy Wuggy appearances you are just left wondering why are we here and what is the goal.
It could have been written by a 5 year old kid, wouldn't be surprised if they end the game with "it was all a dream"

Rocket League in a nut shell:

Ranked - everyone is respectful and most don't take it seriously.
Casual - everyone is disrespectful and takes it far too seriously.
You will run in to people trying to hurt your feelings in text chat, but with playground insults so they don't get banned. LOL

If you like the first Little Nightmares you will like this game too. The atmosphere, art style and music are spot on, as is the gameplay, which is nearly unchanged from the first game; so if you are used to its style, you will enjoy it. I did have some problems with this gameplay style when aiming the torch but a few deaths due to camera style and the problems that come with it are to be expected.

However, I did have some problems with both the normal and enhanced version.

One of the worst ones was : [/spoiler] After you beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of the first hand [/spoiler] the fuse didn't spawn in, so I was left looking for the next thing to do for roughly 45 minutes, until I had to pull up a walk-through to see that there is meant to be a fuse, then I had to look up the issue, which said I had to reload last checkpoint. It did work but the thing is on my second play-through, it happened again. I don't mind because I love the series but I can see this would frustrate some enough to put down the game and not pick it up again.

I also had an issue when, in the first chapter, [/spoiler] when you are pushing the box to jump through the window into the room with the hunter [/spoiler], I broke a glass bottle which prevented me from pushing the box. Again minor, but a bit annoying.

The other issues were relatively minor, and normal for series (and for some add to the charm), such as minor visual clipping issues, and holding on to invisible things.


In conclusion, this game is a solid addition to the series. I still personally prefer the first game and I am definitely glad there is not speed running achievement for this game, as I feel this game lacks the same replay-ability as the first; but apart from that a very good game.

Note: this review doesn't include the deluxe edition content, nome attic dlc or digital content bundle as I have read these are worth the full price - which I tend to believe because the fans tend to be very forgiving of Tarsier and LN content.

Original review:
Like most people - love it when it first came out and everyone was putting up with bugs because it was new game and an exciting new genre of game.

Fast-forward 3 years, they have added vaulting (which should have been in day 1), a few guns, some maps (most of which are trash). So everyone has ♥♥♥♥♥♥ off because why put up with when Bluehole only seems interested in adding cosmetics and other ways of selling skins than fixing the game or making it better. To add further to this a few months ago - I came back to give it ago and was actually enjoying myself - when boom after trying to search for a new game I can't search for a game - something to do with can't find a server- so i took a break for a few hours and come back to "you have been banned for 3 days because of unusually gameplay patterns".

I find it funny how I almost never find it hard to come across a cheater in the game but I get banned when I have never used a macro, cheat or hack ever. It seems I am one of the lucky ones though - people are getting banned for a month for the same things as me.

You would think they wouldn't be banning people so easily considering how the play base is fading into nothing.

Maybe people would comeback if they made it f2p and fixed bugs and the anti-cheat.

Edit: They made it f2p but did ♥♥♥♥ all with anti-cheat,