Hello
For the first time, I decided to share my opinion about the game publicly. I just feel inside myself that I should do it, but I am also curious if someone has similar feelings to me.I will tell you right away. I had very high expectations for this game. Why? Because CPRed itself was driving this machine, it was called "balloon inflation". I decided to plunge into this night city that will give you nothing but bad things.Then I invite you to read and comment on my thoughts.
1.World
After advertisements and posts about the game world, I wanted to lose myself in it forever. It was a dark world of dirt / gang / prostitutes / corporations and ordinary people who want to live peacefully. I tell myself. Well, this game can only be released by CDPR. After all, they do what they want. They don't care what the others say and if I'm going to get a brutal 18+ game, it's only from them.The truth is I was looking forward to this game for this world. I wanted a serious game for serious people. If he wanted to play something nice, I would play Minecraft or Fornite, but let's respect each other.
a) The appearance of the city
When it comes to the very appearance of cities, I was immediately in love. This is what I meant. These streets, neon lights. You could immediately feel that you are in an overcrowded metropolis where you can lose your life in most of the corners, and life itself is not easy. As for the appearance of the world, I have absolutely nothing to complain about. This is how I imagined it. However, it soon turned out that this wonderful world is empty and censored. Really? Why is the censorship on / off function in the settings, even if it is turned off? Do you call seeing a few guts from a cut body censorship? weak ... I don't mean that everyone should fly with their penises on top and have sex in the middle of the street. There are prostitutes, let them have sex if someone wants to. This is not a Disney princess world. Secondly, in the world of the game, not doing any side or main quests really has nothing to do. All you can do is go to one of the two prostitutes and that's it. There is no side fun
b) Bugs
At the outset, I would like to say that it connects in pain with console players. Fortunately, while playing on the PC, I didn't experience them so many. As for the bugs themselves. Yes they were. However, not so much that it was difficult to play. Sometimes, of course, because of them, I fell out of immersion like, for example, "A solemn moment. Your best friend dies with you in the car and wants to give you his last breath with what you have stolen.
Wait what? emm .. Jackie wasn't supposed to be your baby girl you pulled out of your head ... All of this tense situation dissolved into one bug.
What like what but after CDPR I expected something more. After all, they made a name for themselves over the years, and there's nothing to justify them about how the game looked at launch. Shame
c) Gangs
Various gangs. I read a lot about them and it was breathtaking just to think about finally seeing them and what interactions you would have with them. However, it turned out in my feelings that they are just themselves. So much. They are in the world and the only thing you can do with them is to murder them powerfully without any consequences. Will you kill 100 people of Voodo Boys? Ok, in a moment you will go talk to someone important from them and he won't blame you for killing their people. The gangs in this game are only for filling the world. The big disappointment for me was that it didn't contribute anything to the side game
2. Character Creator
As for the wizard itself, I have the impression that he is a bit poor. Maybe it's clinging, but I was counting on something more if it was, for example, about implants or tattoos. Why can't you choose weight and height? Why can't my character have cyber limbs? Why can't there be more tattoos? A bit of a profession, and everyone knows well. In RPG, it is your character that counts the most and you want to have her as mapped as possible to be drawn into the world. As for the choices of the past. My planned character was Nomad. It turned out that his family had split up and he was really alone. It suited me very well. Immediately in my head a scenario for a loner who must find himself in a new reality, i.e. being without family / without support / lonely. As the game progresses, however, I have noticed that it is really only used in dialogue sometimes. I'm not saying it's bad. I liked it very much that I was able to quote something from my past from time to time because I am a nomad. However, I don't see any other sense in this. I do not know how it is in the case of other choices because I have not tried.
a) Dress system
I have only one word for it ... or I don't even feel sorry to use it
It is hopeless. In an RPG, I want to impersonate a character, clothing is one of the main points, and here what do we have? Dress up like a clown because that's both. Really? I didn't give a shit. I found clothes that matched the character I wanted to play and I didn't care what stats they had. Was it good? For me yes. I did not imagine that I would go to some serious interview in which I have a contract to look like a clown. Even without seeing myself in the game, I would feel very bad about it and I wouldn't be able to get caught up in the story.As for the appearance of clothes and variety. Am I the only one who thinks he is small? that most of the clothes we have available make us create funny Fornite characters rather than serious Night City gangsters who actually kill people?.
b) Shooting system
Here I have nothing to complain about. I like this system and I was satisfied with it. Unfortunately, I did not check the Neutraners' capabilities because the tree and the skills that were offered to us somehow did not encourage me to use it
c)Driving vehicles
Here I gave CDPR a big credit of trust. I realized that creating a model of driving vehicles was completely different from driving a horse and I assumed in advance that it would not be great. However, I had a strange impression that these vehicles are hmm ... too light? a slight twist and throws me sideways and it's hard to control them. You're driving an armored heavy car and it's light ...
3. Quest
a) Side quests
Aside from the typical quests for open worlds such as Eat Kill, as was the case here with the police assignments. These side quests weren't that bad. Everyone tried to have a story there and was enclosed with a description. But with time I got used to "Steal it / kill it / steal. Probably the best quest was the one in which you had to take a guy with a problem to the" doctor ". However, as far as the quests themselves are concerned, they still do not contribute anything to the story. fixers, but what does it bring? Everyone likes us from the beginning. They don't change their mind about us, you don't have other threads with them when you do a lot of jobs for them. Just like gangs are to be.
b)Romances
This is one of the brightest and most depressing things about this game. First: Why can't we romance everyone? What's the problem to do this. Everyone sees this game differently. I understand that there are other orientations, but it's not others who are playing your game. It was a profession for me. I say in advance that I am straight and the only option I had was Panam. Luckily, she was the perfect woman for my type. From start to finish, I had nothing negative about her. From cool relationships, slow walks to jokes and passionate romance where. We were a perfect match, and I felt that my nomad wanted to help her, her family, and to become part of it. It was magical for me that while doing a side quest I got a message from her which I could send back to. It was a very good flavor in which you could feel that it was going to something and it was not just an empty NPC. The whole thread of romance with Panama was for me the best thing that was about the game. I got into quests because I wanted them / her help. I lived with her problems and relations with other nomads. I felt a bit like watching a really well-told romance. However, it was short enough and ended hopelessly. After all, it was finally sealed as a close-up and ... the end? Really? What surprised me most was the conversation with the lady in the news after this was finished. I had the impression that it was supposed to be more developed, but for some reason the whole thread was cut off. It disappointed me a lot, because the body of this message / conversation / the whole outline was fantastically arranged and written, and then suddenly such a pile.
c) The main storyline
Hmm .. For me, it might not be .... Really. I apologize to all the people responsible for creating the main story but I don't need it. In order not to get lost, let's start from the beginning. A "new" boy in town with a buddy are trying to become known as "Premier League". Cool. A bomb for me. Typical "From zero to hero". If it is properly written, I will buy it. Unfortunately, it quickly turns out that we get an unpleasant guest. Let me put it straight. I didn't like Johnny Silverhand. I arranged it in advance. This is me, I want to live and you are just a virus to me. This is what I would do in real life. Okay, there were some fun inserts with Johnny when I was doing side missions, but for me, he was just a virus that I want to get rid of. Unfortunately, I had the impression that this is not a game about my character. That my character does not live as it would like in this world. But I still had the impression that this is a Johnny Silverhand game and he is the main attraction here, and I am supposed to literally play it. It pulled me out of this world ... really why was this character creator like this story about Johnny who tries to take over our body and we see his past? Even when performing side qyests or hitting on Panama, you might have had the impression that your mother (Johnny) was watching you while having sex with her.Overall, the story did not attract me ... there was nothing in it that I will remember very well or something I was wondering. The saddest thing was that it was short .. You won't start well, it's over.Just ... endings ... ehh ... After finishing this game, it was my saddest moment in this game. I had an impression that everything I did, I could actually stick it up my ass and shoot myself right away. You want to survive at all costs and get rid of the virus in your head, where suddenly it turns out that you can, but you only have 6 months to live ... really? **** really? Ok, I understand that someone will think "dark game and world" but *** really? I don't even know what to write ... I'm so upset that ...
4.Overall assessment and reflection
After finishing the game, I feel sad ... but not sad because I just went through a great game that gave me a lot of impressions and now I have to wait for my hands. I feel sad that this game was bland .. I didn't get involved. The world was beautiful but empty. I had mixed feelings about the threads which I had the impression that they were incomplete and cut to make them look somehow. I'm not talking about the things that were supposed to be in it, but there aren't any, or things that are censored. It is simply deceiving customers. It was supposed to be a bun and the bread came out. Sadness because no matter if I did not try, my character will die anyway. Not only is the world today as it is, it is even impossible to get involved in a game that has been waiting for so long ... and from such a company that previously provided us with great games. Now my confidence in CDPR has dropped drastically .. Will it improve? I don't know ... Currently, I hope that she can deal with bugs quickly and start adding to the game what should be in it from the beginning. I do not hope that the endings or the main story will change. There is no hope for that. Overall, I summarize everything in a few words. I have the impression that I played the demo ... only such a poor premium demo of the game
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