There was always an amazing game under the sh*tpile of bugs and glitches. The infinite amount of playthroughs I've played since launch on xbox over the course of 3 years and now recently finally on PC with mods shows CD Projekts dedication to the game and us as players. Shame on the publishers who rushed it and the devs who lied to us, but after everything, it's still a masterpiece at the end of the day.
They literally just washed their hands of it, threw in the towel and let the modders actually fix the game in the future. Fk CDPR. I will not be buying another game from the lying bstrds. What no we should TRUST what they market for whatever next game they try to sell everyone. If you think I'm being harsh this is how anyone would treat individual people if they did less to you. Yet we make exceptions for these game companies like they care about you when it is obvious they don't with the trash they release.
I did the same thing. The worst bug I came across was the audio not playing or playing outta sync. Most bugs i found comical. Not being able to finish a mission wasn't even the worse of it. The pop ins made me drive just a little bit faster lol. It was the best of times and worst of times.
For this kind of stupid people we will keep having developers promising crap for 10 years and then deliver an "open world" game in which you can't even customize a damn car.
After finishing every mission, every ending, all side missions, every gig, every scanner hustle, every cyberpsycho, everything the DLC has to offer. And I just feel so empty. I miss playing this game, I miss when I hadn’t done everything, I want more Cyberpunk. I love this game.
just replay it, I finished it like 7 times, there are so many good builds, you can play it like an assassin, a hacker, a gunslinger, a blade wielding psychopath, etc.
The cool thing about cyberpunk is that it is extremely replayable. You can make a new save with a new character and make new choices that could potentially make for an entirely new experience. Its impossible to experience the entirety of the main story content without doing 2-4 separate playthroughs, since your decisions can drastically affect what happens.
For this kind of stupid people we will keep having developers promising crap for 10 years and then deliver an "open world" game in which you can't even customize a damn car.
@@terceroido Its not a car customization game tho. Its a story-driven action RPG. Its about shooting the bad guys with cool guns and creating relationships with characters. The cars are there as a means of transportation, not the focus of the game like they are in forza or something
I did the same. Got the game 2020, returned it after the first few hours because it was bugged to hell. Played in again in 2024 on the ps5 and it was an amazing experience, so glad I waited.
I played for about 2 hours on release. That was enough. Here I am, years later, and I've been playing it every day for the last month and a half. After my first playthrough, I started building a modlist, and while there are still some bugs and crashes that I run into from time to time, for the most part, the game plays and looks amazing. I'm just disappointed that they've abandoned further development. I really hope they release Redkit for Cyberpunk to allow modders to carry the torch from here.
At least they fixed the qorst of them. Some of them were kinda bad, but funny as shit. Like when riding a motorcycle it would take your pants off. Schlong just floppin in the wind. That shit was hilarious, and so fuckin annoying lmao.
For this kind of stupid people we will keep having developers promising crap for 10 years and then deliver an "open world" game in which you can't even customize a damn car.
Same here, i bought the game when its first came out but knew they would fix the game so i waited 4 years too, i start playing a week ago and i can say that i love this game alot, its realy so much better than i expected
@@GreenBananasMan If you do use any mods, I highly recommend Enemies of Night City. It changes the AI and everything else and improves it in ways that i wish the development team focused on it really does change to the the gun play in a really really good way
This game got so much better after waiting 4 years for it to get better (being a day one player). Still has some bugs and downfall but the main concept, story, gameplay ideas are so 🔥🔥🔥!! If this game would have had an extra 2 years in developement, this game would have been a smash hit easily! This game rocks overall I give it a solid 8.5/9.0 out of 10 tbh. Hopefully the next one is fully complete and polished when released!
For this kind of stupid people we will keep having developers promising crap for 10 years and then deliver an "open world" game in which you can't even customize a damn car.
Good stuff. Couple notes: - Phantom Liberty kicks ass - Upgrading weapons is important for iconic ones which have unique perks - Fem V's voice is awesome
But it's kinda stupid that the game can't let the player upgrade all weapons. Why keep it to iconic. I really loved swapping out mods. I play last gen cause of that.
I'm 19 hours in... only bug I've experienced so far was when the mission stage tracker didn't update so the stage never moved on. You simply track another job, fast travel away, track the job and travel back again to restart the mission stage.
if you would have played the game at release which you said you didnt, you would have realized all those bugs and glitches were from people playing a new gen game on old gen, or with shitty pc specs. This is a big game that needs a rather powerful build to enjoy it. Playing cyberpunk in 2020 on the newest console, the Xbox Series X I dont believe I had a single crash, and only a few bugs, Which is typical with any new game. Sure it was rushed to be released but it was not an absolute disaster you and so many others claimed it to be. 9/10 review though.
The game definitely had bugs aplenty and a lot of things needed fixing not just visually but gameplay wise too. Cyberpunk is probably one of my favourite games now but if I'm being honest I played it at launch and it was genuinely a trainwreck. Texture problems, AI problems, Police problems, cars spawning in and out of existence... There were story missions with multiple bugs and I even got hardlocked at one point early in the story during the Arasaka heist so I gave up and decided to come back later. I played this on PC then with a GTX 1080Ti which is no slouch by the way. It is good to give the devs a pat on the back of course for fixing things, but it never should've been broken in the first place. Just hoping its a reminder to them to take their time to let things cook because 2.1 with Phantom Liberty feels like the director's cut version of what they had envisioned in the first place. Launch CP2077? big oof
It's funny how he spent so much time shitting on the launch like he actually experienced it. Review the game in its current state. A lot of people had no bugs whatsoever at launch.
@@eponymoustwo-yu3okdude, so many other games are slightly less broken and nobody bats an eye. Cyberpunk clearly had bugs but also had a small majority who played the game with less bugs and still had a good time. I'm not one of them as i game on 2013 xbox one, the game caused my xbox to turn off more then a few times. And crashed like 100 times the first month. But what kept me playing was the story. The mystery. The game is a real contender for gta.
For this kind of stupid people we will keep having developers promising crap for 10 years and then deliver an "open world" game in which you can't even customize a damn car.
@@ddsmitty1 for myself personally it really got going after act 1 when the entire map opens up, but there's still tons of content in the starting zone of Watson as well
Finished the game playing since day one, medium PC also. I did 2 runs with only 1 reload due to quest bug. Game was cool back then and absolutely amazing now :)
I thought we were able to get into the oil fields via Johnny’s quest and the airport via the DLC, the little silver sliver near Pacifica is that animal mall hideout where we blow out in the vodooo boys quest I think?
I’ve been playing video games since the Sega Master System…and I don’t care what anyone says. Cyberpunk 2077 is, without a doubt, one of the greatest games I’ve ever played. Great gameplay, characters that you actually ‘care’ for and feel a connection to, and a story that really pulls you in. CDPR should be proud of this masterpiece. They worked HARD to deliver a quality game and they sure did deliver.
Exactly the same for me. Got on the hype train, got off it quick smart when the game actually dropped, started playing three-four weeks ago and so glad I waited. CDPR have done so much work in righting the wrongs and it shows. One of my favourite games of all time that has obsessed me like no other.
I'm in the same situation, bought it at launch, and then just waited to play. After I saw on Twitter there are no more developers working on it according to CDPR's development roadmap. I decided it was probably time to come back to Night City on give it a proper go.
I'm having a similar experience, having bought the game on sale in 2022 and just picking it up about a month ago. One thing I've found lacking in the game is the car handling - they all seem to pivot around the center of the vehicle rather than on their rear wheels like they should. Kind of a bummer because this is the rare game I could just cruise around in, but the odd handling is very distracting. The motorcycles seem to handle a lot better than the cars.
@@GreenBananasMan You can go back and repair the fusebox you should not replay the game and it doesn't matter which lifepath you chose, you should scan the cart and V will say you should find to repair somehow and not too far there is a fusebox V switch a few cables and here we go.
I enjoy cyberpunk 2077. Wish they’d continue to update this beautiful masterpiece and wish people would push for addons through whatever means rather it be updates or dlc
I played thru this game at launch on Xbox One. I don’t recall any crashes but the bugs were to the point where it was ALMOST unplayable. I finished it on that console after about 170 hours because I had spent so long looking forward to playing the game. However, now my impression of the game is deeply shaded by the bad time I had with it at launch to the point where I don’t see myself going back to it even tho it’s been wildly improved and I have Xbox Series X now.
Good script. I enjoy listening to your voice and your dry delivery of your jokes. I wanna add that I played the game day one on PS4 which was probably the worst version of it and it wasn't as bad as all the youtube videos made it out to be. that said I can say that it was a wise decision of you to wait the 4 years. Subscribed so one day you don't have to sponsor yourself. Keep it going.
1:19 wasn't just a DLC; it was also the long awaited 2.0 update that CDPR (or so they claimed) said brought it out of "beta". (I don't really agree with it either because they never originally claimed it was in said beta but, cut em, some slack) 4:19 Dogtown (or the little sliver as you called it) literally opens up like an hour or two (four at most; being generous) after dealing with maman brigette and the voodoo boys then songbird calls you right after and the town is entirely open to you but, I digress. 5:47 Maiko is smoking here and the game recognizes that, not a good example of the proclaimed "Delay between dialogue" also, never experienced any delays myself with 1,600 hours but, sure. 7:19 that's not Johnny's Porsche per-say but, I see what you're getting at I'm just nit-picking on this one. All in all; I appreciate that you recognize cyberpunk is in a better place now. Personally, the game literally never crashes on me post 2.0 like... at all. I do not play with mods and it doesn't seem that you do either so, that's weird; probably your specs or something but, either way; well rounded video and review. Maybe give yourself some more time to play it as its worth while, try out some different builds and what not. I firmly believe this game deserves more than 70 hours of playtime
I'm on playstation so maybe that's the difference? The delay was not necessarily that clip, I couldn't find a good example of it in my recordings, but I noticed it a lot. I think I had 2 or 3 crashes, so not a lot over 70hrs, but also not 0. I'm starting the DLC soon and I'm pretty pumped!
@@GreenBananasMan yeah always heard the console versions were a bit buggy so, that makes sense. You'll enjoy the DLC and even the gigs they did in it are so much more thought out and you can tell they busted their asses making it happen. Hope to see more content of cyberpunk come out from you!
Yeah, I've got a couple hundred hours of play on PC. I've seen the delays, but I only notice it when I'm skipping through large chunks of dialogue very quickly.
This is one of my fav genres (love things like the OG Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Deus Ex) and I was hyped for this game, but the launch was genuinely disappointing as someone who played it day one on PC. I'd be inclined to agree with the "beta" metaphor because that's essentially what it felt like to me. It always had the makings of something great but you could easily tell how raw and undercooked everything felt. Stopped playing and came back to it when 2.1/PL released after years of waiting, and I genuinely find this to be one of my favourite games to play. The world building and characters were always amazing but now the foundations upon which they rest are actually stable. Cyberpunk 2077 and No Man's Sky seem to have a lot in common actually with regards to their disastrous releases and then eventual turnarounds. Commendable efforts, but it is sad that this has become an industry standard.
@@GreenBananasMan The delays you've experienced are likely to do with occasional idle animations that kick in every once in a while. It's more noticeable the longer a player selects an answer. Once the idle animation (aka smoking for e.g.) is being played, player's timing on the answer doesn't matter, the NPC will finish its idle animation before proceeding with the scripted one. The good side of idle animations is that it makes NPCs feel natural with their body language. Not particularly new, but CDPR did a phenomenal job on that front.
One thing I definitely disagree with. You said you thought the amount of fast travel points was good? I thought they have WAY too many. It's probably because I have a hard time not using an added convenience feature if it's there and actually is more convenient but I found myself enjoying things more after using a mod to customize which fast travel nodes were available. I reduced it down to basically V's apartments and then just a couple of spots per district, all placed far from each other to necessitate travelling through the city. Then because the loading screens suck I included the "GTA V Style fast travel" mod that replaces it with a zoom out to birds eye view before panning over the city to the destination where it zooms in and drops you. The city is just so goddamned pretty and has so much going on in it that you can miss if you blink at the wrong point (let alone fast travelling constantly) that being forced to walk or drive from place to place actually makes the game more enjoyable. And yes, the spaceport and that area of pacifica are the DLC zones. The oil fields are just that, abandoned oil derricks that nobody goes to because there's nothing out there other than rust and cancer.
I mostly drove everywhere. I only used the fast travels when I had to go a long distance and didn't want to wait. In those cases it was nice to be able to find one close by.
Finished game on PC first week after launch, no bugs except for super stupid Night City's population. With all patches + DLC game became my favorite till today.
That is the sad thing. PC Release was always fine. All they had to do was to delay the console version. It would have been a good launch. But greed made them do stupid things... I really hope they did learn their lessons.
@@Eragon7331 Their Shareholders could wait any longer for their sweet-sweet dividends checks. It wasn't up to the Devs, but they were the ones who got all the death threats from butt-hurt console gamers.
Having also played Cyberpunk only recently for the first time, it is clear that a lot of work and dedication went into making the game. I feel that the disastrous launch was a case of CDPR biting off more than they could chew and maybe also their in-house engine not being entirely suited for this type of game. It is great though that they kept releasing updates, turning Cyberpunk into a genuinely great game.
Never played Cyberpunk cos of the bad reviews awful launch at first. I was debating for over a year if I should get it or not. I love Witcher 3 so I just wanted to play a game by the same devs. Been playing this game for 3 weeks now. 60 hours in. Amazing. Besides a few bugs and crashes. It’s crazy I didn’t play it sooner.
Man I hate when I read these comments cause I done 4 back to back playthroughs with Male V and loved him. I think I even got watery eyes once cause he was so good for me lol 😆 . . . I'm gonna try play a girl
You can ride roller coaster. It’s Syed quest there. I played it after phantom Liberty on series x. I didn’t encounter only 3 bugs. At the airport it’s a songbird Mission, oil fields another. The game it’s really packed, crowded. Need a good mono and a very nice processor besides a shit tone of ram. It renders a lot all the time. When I saw some kind off bugs, my cpu was burning, gpu was burning. What I like about the game it’s that every time something else it’s going to happen. You make a choice a witch looked good just to find later that was a bad one. You don’t have the stats, many missions won’t even appear. 7 endings, Easter’s eggs all over the place. Played a lot of good games, but this one really makes you think. I didn’t like it that much the 1st time, was just another slice , shoot, game. Basically I was killing everyone left and right, Didn’t knew how cyberware works and all off that. After a few videos I can say I started to play for real. And something mediocre turned out to be really, really impressive. Like a bunch of games that I really liked. A read dead mixed with watch dogs, mixed with deus ex but more towards mature gamers oriented.
What will forever bother me is that people will always look at CDPR as the reason for the game launching early and buggy as hell, not the investors and others who pushed for the game to be released ASAP.
Took me almost a whole year to find out you can change the color of your vehicle's headlights. Hold left for a while n this weird little menu pops up n you can change the color of the headlights. Apparently it's leftover from an earlier build, it's not supposed to work but it still does for whatever reason. Only car it wont work on the the Murkmobile because of some "bios system error" with the car. How cool is that? A lore reason why you can't change the color? Shiiiiit. What's most funny, is the dude who found it, actually got a reference on the screen. "Cosmetic_Troll". How fucking cool is this game and CDPR.
Yeah the launch was really bad from what I have seen on videos. I got it on PC so while not perfect it was more stable. But I was still very disappointed in a lot of the game. Coming off the Witcher 3, which you could argue is on the Rushmoore of games.
5:27 My girlfriend and I tried playthroughs of both male and female V separately and agreed that, for some reason, female V's voice acting was far superior to male V. The She-V sounded just as good as those all-important female characters in the game, while the He-V sounded like a character who showed up for five minutes in some forgettable side-quest. Still better than Keanu himself, but that's not a high bar.
You're not wrong, I played fem V for my full playthrough and she has some incredible voice acting. which is why I was surprised he didn't like V's personality. Then I realized he was playing as male v
the best open world game to me, and morevisually impressive than gta, ill play this over that anyday, outside of online, gta story, is boring honestly and u cant make decisions its linear as hell
This review is 4 years too late, the game runs great and after all the shit they fixed it works great, and yeah the dlc is needed for airport area at least.
Try playing with the female V. That's one of the best voice acting ever in any game. And you can ride the roller coaster. And finally: why do people always want to bring up the bad launch of the game? It's not fashionable, just sensationalist and does disfavor to both the developer and the youtube channel. Just concentrate on what the game is today, not 4 years ago.
I played female V on my full playthrough after 2.1 and she was great honestly, played the part very well and her banter with Johnny felt more real to me than male V
You went too far with the pineapple on pizza!! When I grew up anchovies was the worst thing you could put on a pizza. This new generation it’s pineapple. Weird
