Because of this piece of shit we will never have a good singleplayer cyberpunk RPG ever again

Good. It's a garbage setting

Was just playing an hour ago after a few months off. It’s still the best game of the last few years.

I think this game jumped the shark with big chungus Keanu reeves.

Unpopular opinion - bloodlines 2 will actually be good and baldurs gate 3 will be too pozzed to be good but will at least have effort put into the remaining acts because of this disaster. I'm choosing to be optimistic and believe studios learned from this - no amount of previously accumulated good will will cover you if you buy a beloved IP and then shit on it.

Cd Project red obviously thought that a good ip and previous good pr would let them stick to their budget/time table without repercussions. They were wrong. If it was just ill will, they might still do it because they can get enough pre-orders and day 1 sales (by buying up media and preventing leaks) to pay off the costs and then either improve it or sell shares and run away before anyone notices. But it didn't end with destroyed reputation. They had a full blown worker's putsche that dramatically increased operating costs along with it. No one is gonna be stupid enough to let that happen cause even if you manage to silence the now emboldened leaders, you'll still get sued for gross negligence in running the company and dumping shares. You can see the effect of this with paradox cloistering the entire bloodlines 2 dev team and completely redoing the game - despite the crazy costs of doing so and the already significant number of pre-orders. Cyberpunk ip martyred itself for some basic qa.

The gigs and side quests are comfy. The main quest after the heist and tracking down Evelyn is awful, though. Little things annoy me, like Panam getting her friends killed because she was too lazy to tell them you were planning to down a corpo AV ahead of time, and then nobody calling her out or mentioning it.

The skill trees are half-useless, the weapon collectathon treadmill has the same problems as Borderlands, all the fights are too easy and the combat lacks depth, and even at v1.52 it still catapults stuff into buildings.

In the current state it's a 6 or 7/10 game, GTA meets Doosex meets Borderlands, but never living up to the promise of that description. It has a few good side missions that punch above their weight, and while you're playing those you're tempted to rate it higher. The hype and counter-hype were both exaggerated.

Once the game became consistently playable I'd say it was enjoyable but still poorly made.

There are interesting characters and quests but they seldom connect in a cohesive manner because the main story is a mess they just tried to gloss over with Keanu Reeves.

You know the writing team fricked up when your origin story is a meaningless tutorial, the world's largest megacorp has one of their most secure buildings bamboozled by an amateur crew, your character stupidly dies to a fat Black person despite previously mowing through an army of elite guards and 80% of the map is only unlocked after the chip in your head threatens to kill you in a few weeks so that you ignore any sense of urgency or the massive manhunt from supposedly killing the most powerful man on Earth.

Out of four romantic interests, two of them aren't even involved in the main story and are just there to tick sexual orientation boxes. Also the women will dump you unless you flee the city with the nomads.

Despite having over a hundred side quests, none of them impacts the endings besides a few characters showing up in messages telling how their minuscule stories were impacted by your decisions.

The combat is fun but redundant since every mission except for the cyber psycho ones can be won through stealth or quickhacks without firing a bullet and the game rewards you more for being subtle.

Progression and stats are awful because they arbitrarily dissociated crafting and engineering from intelligence into a technical ability tree, make us do repetitive tasks in a grinding fashion because they arbitrarily decided each stat sub tree needs an independent progression and also locked several game itens under a street cred progression you can already max out before finishing the first act that physically locks you out of 80% of the map. The original perk trees were so bad the devs completely overhauled a third of them due to uselessness, making you foi powerful or just being bugged.