Originally Posted by Boblawblah
Cyberpunk 2077 was always what it was an nothing more. If you're suddenly expecting it to be GTA, then yea, that's on you, that was never going to be the game. "choices matter"? Well, there's a number of completely different endings, and a number of quests end completely differently based on YOUR choice, but sure, let's go with choices don't matter. There's a reason it has mostly/very positive reviews. I have little sympathy for people that let hype take over.

It's not a perfect game, and if you're expecting the Witcher 3 in sci fi, you'll be disappointed, but it's a solid game.

When they originally marketed the game they classified it as an RPG - and then right before they released they re-classified it as an Action Adventure Game. Even now you can find where it is being advertised on some platforms as an RPG and others as an Action Adventure Game. It sounds like they were/are a little confused about what they were/are making.

Is it a decent game? Sure. I played a hundred hours or so. I just got fed up by the lack of player agency.

The Witcher 3 didn't have a huge amount of player choice either, but it had enough to make it so it felt your actions were having an effect on the world. Not a high bar to reach.

And you are right, we shouldn't allow hype to influence our decisions on games we buy. Witcher 3 was an amazing success and everyone expected great things from CDPR. We should have been paying attention to the fact that they were so reluctant to show us anything or provide a demo of the game as proof that the game was not in a good state and they knew it. That's on me.


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