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For half off definitely give it a try. It's long been patched and when i played it early this year my only problems were two times the game randomly closed.

Gun play is extremely satisfying, sound design included.

Driving is... better than in watch_dogs, worse than in GTA. But traveling through the world is a bit disappointing. Rich map with little life.

Side missions are fun and fill up the time nicely. The missions are creative and not necessarily "go from point A to point B while killing waves of enemies", but those are there as well.

I think it depends on your opinion of what was "wrong" with Cyberpunk to begin with. If your issue was the bugs, it's a lot more stable now. If your issue was that the story was unengaging and player actions lacked weight and consequence, adding more of the same isn't going to do much good.

Much like your No Man's Sky example - if you thought the core gameplay loop was lacking before, you probably haven't changed your mind no matter how many little goodies the devs have added since launch.

It's an incredible game imho! I've got around 250 hours in it by now.

Snatch the base game when you see it on sale (I think there's one now) and get the DLC when it arrives! Not sure if you should play it right away or wait for the DLC though.

Then again, I've already played it a few times and going to start a new playthrough when the DLC drops!

I've been very curious about the state of Cyberpunk since it's launch. I didn't get super on the hype train as I've learned over the years you never know what a game is like until it's out and you can play it for yourself.

It's been interesting to observe all the post-launch changes from a distance in No Man's Sky fashion. I found it pretty hilarious to read CDPRR went from multiplayer and multiple DLCs to one DLC 3 years later, but it does seem as if that DLC will include exhaustive gameplay system changes.

I guess when you rush out a big budget project and pressure your staff massively to get it out on a deadline, they get burned out to they point want nothing to do with it once it's out the door. That's definitely the sense I get. It's a shame considering how massively hyped it was in the lead-up only for it to be generally seen as a rushed disappointment, but I guess it's a lesson for CDPR to learn for the future alongside other AAA developers.

Anyway, Cyberpunk fans - how would you describe the state of the game at present? Outside of the performance issues, what is it in Cyberpunk's marketing that was missing from the released game? What are it's pros and cons? Have the gazillion patches "fixed" the missing expected features yet? Does it seem as if the DLC features are wrapping up the final missing features?

I don't think its a No Man's Sky situation. Cyberpunk 2077 suffered the most from high expectations and lies told while advertising the game. The game is decent, I personally enjoyed it a lot when I bought it for 20€ a year after release. But they did not go back and add things they promised but didn't deliver on.

Adding a post here to encourage people who haven't played it yet to wait until Phantom Liberty drops. It looks like it's going to massively improve a lot of the base game. That's what I am going to do.

Cyberpunk's honestly a really good game (although a lot of it does come down to if you click with Keanu's character or not), but since you've waited for so long already then you should wait till the expansion comes out with all the new overhauled features before diving in.

I bought it later and haven't had any issues and have been enjoying the story. And in September, the DLC, which is more like a complete overhaul, is coming.

For me it was good since the beginning, but it had its issues. Now it is a much better experience, that is true too. There is also a pretty good modding scene, so many parts that are still not ok can be modded out. Personally, I will probably play it again when the DLC releases in September.

I played long after release after a big patch. I knew the launch was a disaster but I hadn’t followed the game closely so I didn’t have huge expectations. I absolutely loved that game when I finally played.

I’m one of those game tourists who hardly ever finishes anything. I don’t have enough time to game so I’ll just drop a game if I’m not really into. Cyberpunk was one of the few games I’ve finished in recent years.

The gameplay was really satisfying, I enjoyed the story, and I loved the characters. There are a few you get to spend a lot of time with and I found myself actually caring about them. For me, it was reminiscent of how I felt playing Mass Effect. It’s one of my all time favorites for sure.

It’s definitely worth a play if it sounds like something you’d be interested in.

I played the game in version 1.0, on release, on a barely capable 1070 graphics card, and It's still to this day my favorite RPG ever made. The gameplay was janky and it was full of bug, but the world building, story telling, characters and quest design was on a league of its own, nothing even comes close. Buy the game, and play it only when you're ready to immerse yourself for hours at a time. It's a fantastic game.

If you like story driven RPGs with insanely op hacking, and beautiful grafics you should buy it. The game is still very buggy, but nowhere near as it was when it came out. To make sure that you won't lose your progress save frequently and don't do the diving sidequest with Judy.

100% buy it and the upcoming DLC as well. You can get it on the GOG Summer Sale for around 60 bucks for the base game and upcoming Phantom Liberty DLC.

It's an awesome game and they've did tons of work to get it to where it needs to be. The upcoming DLC is supposed to bring even more overhauls to the base game along with the expanded content.

I bought it when it first came out and enjoyed it thoroughly!

On PC it was completely playable from the start. Sure, they were bugs, but mostly the entertaining kind (had to reload exactly once because of a quest softlock but I was also playing day one and that bug was even fixed a couple hours later) and that helped the game for me as I found the story to be unoriginal as hell. For me that is a dealbreaker in a sci-fi game, but most people seem to enjoy it. The gameplay was fine, nothing amazing but good enough for me. Sneaking and hacking was entertaining enough. Reminded me a bit of the newer Deus ex games. There were a lot of minor annoyances but from what i heard they patched a lot of that. Not my favourite game but i think i will check out the DLC when i get a new PC.

If you're playing on a PC or console powerful enough, it's now just mostly Skyrim level visual bugs and stuff; nothing catastrophic. But they did not add in everything they promised, like for example the police system is as crappy as ever(but they said they are fixing that for 1.7). IMO, when the game is good, it's really good, but when it's not, it just feels disappointing since it could have been so much better. Mods can alleviate some of this though.

I played it months ago and it totally turned into one of my favourite games of all time. Will play it again once the.. DLC? Expansion? is released. Give it a chance, yeah. Or wait for that release.

Yes you should. It is indeed good, fun to play. I caught it on a previous sale, and have been enjoying it on the Steam Deck.

I’m in the minority it seems. I bought the PS4/PS5 upgrade version and barely made it 30mins before shelving it. I don’t think I made it past the opening bc I had no idea wtf was happening.

If you're still unsure, do what I used to do when I did PC gaming. Pirate it, and if you like it after say 2 hours, then buy it! I do wish more game companies did free 10 or 5 hours trials like EA do.

I played it fairly early after release and thought it was good even then, though there were some minor performance issues that seemed to get ironed out somewhat quickly. Worth a play.

It's rough around the edges, but totally worth playing.

Bugs aside, Cyberpunk 2077 was always a good game with an excellent story, but they haven't put in everything they teased originally yet. It got a lot of bug fixes and QoL changes. For 50% off, it's super worth it.

With the next dlc it seems like some further reworks to AI and perks are coming so it should get even better.

PS: Play as a female character because Judy is best girl

They fixed a lot of the technical issues but the original things they promised like multiple quest line paths in their old trailers didn’t make it. Understandably so I think.

Considering that the DLC will overhaul many systems of the game, you could wait until that's out for the 'definitive experience'.

Wait with playing until after september. They are coming out with a DLC then that changes ALOT of gameplay.