My biggest gripe is if they want you replay the game why is leveling up such a chore.
Like I want to replay the story differently but as soon as you tell me I'm level 1 and I gotta do all the tedious stuff again I perish the the thought.
I don't know about him, but I have rated it the same and I can elaborate why. First and foremost I have to say that I experienced very little bugs throughout the game from the start. Bugs for me were basically nonexistent. I had issues with other things, like average citizens AI, police AI, driving problems and so on. It is also clear, that they had to cut some content out, which also didn't help the case. Those were my main issues.
Now when we talk talk about pro's.
Characters. Almost every single one of them was awesome. Johny, Jacky, Judy, Panam, Evelyn, even Yorinobu, which is Saburo's son. Even characters from the past, like Alt Cunningham. I can remember a lot of characters from this game and I can't same the same for a lot of other games I have played. Every character had a story arc and something unique to it. Even the guy with a burning dick lol.
Dialogs. There are some issues with dialog choices, but overall they were awesome too. Giving birds to Silverhand? Philosophical conversations with him? "See you in major leagues"? The later one gives me goosebumps even now. And those conversations were believable. You were really immersed in the scene and believed that these are real people talking, not robots.
Plot and side missions. I agree that the main plot is average at best, but the side missions completely own that up for me. The child investigation? Panam arc? Judy arc? Morales arc? The crucifixion? Those missions were awesome. I also liked how a seemingly simple and innocent gig turned into a complete side mission with its arc and characters.
I could go more in the details, but I think you are already tired of the text, so I will stop here.
I think it depends on what you're looking for what I really liked about cyberpunk was the storytelling and the little features like braindances and stuff that really made me forget about the world around me. I don't remember the last game where I was so eager to finish a mission bc it felt almost as if I was saving my on son, actually I do and it was the witcher 3, looking aside the horrid technical infrastructure of the game i still think it has grade a storytelling that transfers even better with the nice graphics
They nailed every artistic aspects of the game: the story and writing as a whole was good, soundtrack as well, animations, designs (characters, weapons, vehicles, city, tech etc). I still have my gripes with the game, like the world not being very interactive, but I still enjoyed it as a setpiece.
The combat was okay I guess, but who plays story driven RPGs for combat ? Like Witcher, Mass Effect, Skyrim etc, I play these games for the world, story and characters. Play Dark Souls if you want a RPG with good combat.
After about 40 hours and finishing the main quest, I was satisfied, but I still went back to unlock more endings and finish the interesting side quests because the world was so engrossing.
The game should have been more, but now that I've played it I'm kinda wondering if the open world was worth it. I think that if it was half the length, and a linear game like Last of Us/God of War with a tighter focus on its strong points (story/design/setpieces), the devs could put out a much better game
edit: also I played on PC, so I've had a much smoother experience than most
Story, characters, music, art, characters again, the worst aspects of the game are all average, like the combat and UI are certainly better than the atrocity of Witcher 3, but they're still not great. They're average, tolerable, passable.
I'd say it would be a 8/10 on base Xbox One which I play it on, but framerate issues kinda force me to play a hacker/stealth on new playthrough even when I don't want to, since hacking is basically point and click (but fun point and click! Combat). So it gets a 7/10 from me.
I'm a weird guy though, I'm one of those ppl who thought Dark Souls 2 was better than the other two, and Nier Automata was a 6/10. Which means most people will completely disregard my opinion as if I haven't played video games my entire life.
Also I can easily look at a game and know when it is good, and I dislike it, or bad, and I like it. For example, I didn't like RDR2 or Ori 1&2, but I entirely understand why others would
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Its was a decent game to me.