I played Cyberpunk at launch and while I had some bugs, I generally really enjoyed it and did each of the missions in the game,
I decided to replay it since it’s been updated a lot and I’ve found that I’m just bored when playing it. I think I spend about half the time just skipping dialog and the other half shooting.
The combat sections seem to pass too quickly just to have a bunch of story to wade through.
Maybe I’m just in the mood for a different kind of game.
This was my experience playing it when it first released. It felt like a bland shooter and didn’t interest me in the least.
Needless to say, I’ve been playing the crap out of tarkov pve lately. About time they removed the pvp tryhard stuff
I’m no fan of the 2077, but thinking of it solely as a shooter is doing it a bit of a disservice given that you usually* have different approaches to in-game situations.
You can build around hacking, engineering, speech checks, melee combat, stealth cyberwarfare etc.
I felt that the projectile mechanics were sort of neat but I will agree that I don’t think the game really has legs when merely thought of as a FPS. Perhaps it had some potential in the past, part of their PL govt funding agreement was to release a multiplayer mode as well. I’d imagine that’d focus a little more on gunplay, and slightly less on QuickTime interactions involving hacking and such, but who knows.
*there are situations which require direct combat iirc
I recommend giving it another try if your only experience was the game on release. It really received a labour of love and has very fun gameplay options. I went for a throwing knife slow mo grenade build and had a blast throughout the whole playthrough
Played it at launch and I’ve never had the desire to jump back into it since beating it the first time. I never had major issues with bugs or anything, the story was just on rails, there was no point in jumping back into it to play the same story all over again. Like yea, I guess they changed some systems and mechanics, but whatever.
I played through the game long after it had been patched up. I enjoyed it enough. When Phantom Liberty released I went back to start a new save to play it and after playing through the different character background introductory bit I realized it just wasn’t going to be that different of an experience the second time around. So I just loaded up my endgame save for the DLC. I had fun with that, but going around with a maxed out character blowing everything up with a shotgun definitely trivialized things.
I played once on PS4 (yes the one they had to pull from the store) and when the DLC was released I replayed everything on PS5. I had a great time and was doing even more sidequests than before. Wouldn’t mind going back in to 100% it, but there are just too many other games.
It’s not the game everyone hoped to be but it’s very good when including the expansion Phantom Liberty. You should give that one a try. It’s probably the best expansion CDPR has made so far, or at least on par with W3 Blood & Wine (I’m still not sure, but I have to give credit for their huge effort with Phantom Liberty). It (alongside the 2.x patches) was CDPRs genuine effort to save the game and their reputation, and I think they succeeded. The base game without the expansion can get very boring in the second half of the game which is why I consider PL to be mandatory. A good time to start Phantom Liberty is just before going to Embers to meet Hanako. If you haven’t played it for a long time, you should play it again with PL, it’s really well made.
I just played through the bulk of it, and it was quite good at first, but it started feeling very samey pretty quick. And now I’m so OP that all the gigs and missions I’m doing now are a dull cake walk. Just wading through dismembered viscera. I can’t even remember the last time I had to pop a heal…
Turn up the difficulty?
It’s already topped out fam…maybe it’s the shotgun I’m using…hmm…
I’ve been replaying it on a PS5 for the first time since launch (on PS4) and despite skipping a lot of dialogue I’m enjoying feeling so much more immersed in the gameplay & world.
I’m finding the Phantom Liberty DLC to be quite refreshing - fresh, fleshed-out story content and some additional variety in the sidequests. Despite all this I’m never feeling challenged by the combat (on hard difficulty) and am largely just enjoying the stealth/hacking.
I get why you might be thinking this. If you’re on PC, I suggest modding the game. Im playing though my 2nd play through. Played through to PL and then only recently decided to play with modding and it’s a game changer. Now playing the PL part of the game and already thinking about a 3rd play through. The mods I have make it feel like a remaster. If you want I’ll list out the key mods (just let me know).
Can I mod out all the story and just do the missions 😂
I think you can actually. If you’ve already completed the game there’s a mod that allows you to start a new game plus. You keep all your stats points and gear, and I think you can have it start as if the story is complete so you can just explore the world again and do all the side stuff. I’m not 100% sure but there are loads of YT vids that cover it. Just look for cyberpunk new game plus mod.
The initial play through was too boring for me. There’s probably still more tutorials and mechanics I haven’t got to yet but it got to be a slog with me feeling the same, too much story (that I just wasn’t feeling) and not enough action for it be fun.
I guess, the first play through was much better as it was during pandemic/lockdown and I had tons of free time.
My, now, wife was staying with her parents and I was in the condo alone.
But now I’m just too busy to listen to the story to play a little bit of a shooter.
I think having a wife actually is part of it for me. I’m one of those introverted guys and burn most of that social battery at my full time job. I haven’t been able to ‘feel’ relationship ties with in-game characters for years. Ive given it thought before and landed on the fact that those feelings are reserved for my wife and close friends. That along with my taste pivoting from first to third person games just made CyberPunk a bad purchase. I don’t blame the game though, CDPR seems to have done an amazing job and it looks great now.
