Recent reviews by johncock1970

So a year after release, the game is still unfinished. The game hard crashed when I tried placing a park, no error code or anything. After starting the game up again, all the settings were reset to factory default. Took me quite a while to tweak those settings so the game was..you know, playable. Because even with the graphics adjusted to modest settings on a high-end PC, the game struggled to maintain a consistent frame rate.

Sure, we've gotten minor bug fixes here and there, but it's truly astounding how many large issues persist even a year after release. Unfortunately, I doubt this game will be much better another year from now, either.

cod bad

Party system is broken, can't play with my buds.

Love me some farming games! Takes me back to being a boy on my pop's ranch in Chattanooga, 1976. No Seatbelts! Especially a fan of the Demetrius feller.

You know, this game takes me back to the Summer of '09 when I was working down in Altadena as a logistics truck driver for Sysco. Often times, stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic, you wish you could just ram right through all the entitled folks in their Toyoters and Hyundies in a 40-ton metal container on wheels. And this game let's me do just that!!!!!

Love this little feller! Bought this game for my son, said he liked the little critter too.

Nothing I Love More Than Blowing Up Evil Rusky Fellers! Hehe!

Bad.

jay nonsense

This review is spoiler-free

It's hard to give this game a fresh review when most of the reviews talk SOLELY about the bugs, glitches, crashes, and other things that I'm sure many are already WELL aware about. I'll leave that part until the end and focus on the positive aspects first.

Personally, one of the strongest things that this game has is the ability to immerse me. I had tried out other RPGs out before like Fallout or Elder Scrolls, but none of those games managed to immerse me as well as Cyberpunk 2077 has. Despite the currently poor optimization of the game, the visuals are still stunning enough to make me feel as though Night City is a real place with its own personality. I can (and have continued to) play this game for hours on end just doing side missions and exploring the different alleyways and side streets as I do so. It really feels like I'm there.

The voice acting, especially for V (both male and female) is incredible. I can't imagine how many different lines they must've had to record. The motion capture is phenomenal for the characters that have it, and the level design for building interiors is amazing.

So, you can imagine how torn one might be when they see the amount of care that went into this game plagued by bugs, optimization issues, or glitches. These aren't just small bugs either. A friend of mine's save is bugged to the point where the story can't progress without creating a new game altogether. Unfortunately, it has become common in the video game industry to release half of a game at launch and release the other half later on through updates or patches. It saddens me that this game was subjected to that fate as well, whatever the cause might have been.

It's also not exclusive to technical issues either, but also things that I just expected more from. Being an RPG, I expected a little more from the civilian NPCs, because in the current state they feel excessively empty, monotonous, and robotic. Pressing 'F' to talk to them just makes them say some random insult without even moving their mouths or changing their animation. Somehow Fallout managed to make more convincing and lifelike NPCs in this regard.

I also expected this to be the kind of game where a player's actions have consequences that affect and alter the trajectory of the story. I did notice a bit of that here and there, but for the most part it did little to affect the storyline.

With all of this in mind, my verdict comes down to me not being able to recommend the game in its current state. I really hope that the developers continue to fix this game, because it is a game that I WOULD really like to recommend to others. If you do decide to play the game anyway, I hope that you manage to enjoy the positive aspects of the game and have an immersive experience like I did.