Just finished the game. about 89hrs including the ~40 minutes credits.
I hate the performance issues. with my pc (ryzen 7 2700x, rtx2080, 32gb ram, installed on an nvme ssd, 3440x1440 resolution), I have practically identical FPS (+/- 35) regardless of whether I run it on low preset or on raytracing ultra preset. in both presets I have to set it to dlss ultra performance (or otherwise I get maybe 7 fps on average, yes, also on low), but other than this, no setting makes any difference whatsoever. I really don't get why that is. I mean I am definitely not expecting triple digit fps on that system and especially on that resolution, but what I do expect is a bloody difference between the lowest and the highest settings so I can tweak it to my liking between performance and looks. but I don't have a difference in performance so I just played on the highest possible setting for it to be the most visually pleasing and was done with it. still hoping to get somewhat stable 60 fps at some point after some patch with some settings tweaked but that's for the next playthrough which is not going to happen very soon anyways.
I don't mind the bugs and glitches. I usually just had a good laugh whenever something occured, like I had with roach in witcher 3. yes of course it hurts the immersion a bit but what the hell. I am not as immersed to forget that I am only playing a game anyways.
I had only one quest ("getting warmer") bugged out in a way I couldn't finish it (because it never triggered properly), other than that I have done every main mission, every side mission, every gig, every ncpd hustle, all tarot cards and whatnot else. I did not buy every car but other than that I am pretty much 100% done with the game.
I was a female V street kid, (successfully) romancing judy and have taken the nomad ending where I leave night city in the end with the gang.
Despite all the bugs (which as I said didn't bother me too much) I absolutely loved the game and pretty much every single minute. Yes, it wasn't the super duper deep RPG as which it was advertised at some point. Yes, it is very obvious that the game has a lot of cut features and things in general, Yes the game is basically one big "that could've been done different/better" at every other corner, and would I be product owner for the project I could write up hundreds of user stories where something should be changed, but then it also would've mean that the game probably wouldn't have been released for the next 4 years or so, so it is probably good that I am not in that position. And it probably would've ended up being an entirely different game. Once I let myself into the game as the way it is, I still enjoyed it more than I have enjoyed many other games.
I did not think that a game could make me hate keanu reeves. God I despised johnny silverhand. tremendous acting job from keanu. and then, in over the course of the game and towards the end, I actually was sad that he will be gone forever in cyberspace. I grew on him and despite him having been a terrorist actually I liked the comments he gave every now and then.
one last thing I despised: the lack of freedom of respeccing my V. I could not respec my skill points, only the perk points, but this costs 100k eddies, and also the skill progressions being tied to the skill points actually meant that If I would want change my playstyle at some point, I would be pretty fucked actually. which in the end means, if I would've taken a playstyle and after like 10 hrs or so figured it is shit and I don't like it, my only true option would've been to restart entirely. and that is really not a good decision from a gameplay perspective.
my final ratings of x/100 would be:
- the way I feel about that game in the end in total: somewhere in the 80-85 region (so it is, despite everything, still an awesome game)
- fix the bugs, glitches and performance issues, and it easily hits a 91 or 92.
- after all those things are done, enhance that game over time so it might resemble again more of an actual RPG than just an action adventure, and I see this thing be the first game I would ever consider giving the actual full score of 100/100. But it is still a loooooooong road until then, and who knows if we ever gonna reach there.
oh and one last thing: I understand the decision against having third person view of V outside of: cars/bikes, the occasional mirror, the inventory screen and the photo mode. But having seen the last cutscene of my ending, V sitting on the basilisk and actually seeing her in third person basically: what a waste to not have this more often in the game. as great as the character creator is, it is really actually wasted. you could've just gone with the default look and actually no character customization whatsoever, it wouldn't actually have made a whole lot of difference. Geralt wasn't able to be customized (except hair/beard, and V doesn't even have this after the character creator), lara croft has no character customization, etc. it would not have made the game worse at all.
Oh, and one last-last thing, out of all bugs/issues etc one thing bugged me the most: why do I even have the decision in the character creator between flat, medium and big tits, if whenever I have cloths on, my tits shrink/grow to the "medium" size anyways? That is REALLY irritating. no offense.
I hate the performance issues. with my pc (ryzen 7 2700x, rtx2080, 32gb ram, installed on an nvme ssd, 3440x1440 resolution), I have practically identical FPS (+/- 35) regardless of whether I run it on low preset or on raytracing ultra preset. in both presets I have to set it to dlss ultra performance (or otherwise I get maybe 7 fps on average, yes, also on low), but other than this, no setting makes any difference whatsoever. I really don't get why that is. I mean I am definitely not expecting triple digit fps on that system and especially on that resolution, but what I do expect is a bloody difference between the lowest and the highest settings so I can tweak it to my liking between performance and looks. but I don't have a difference in performance so I just played on the highest possible setting for it to be the most visually pleasing and was done with it. still hoping to get somewhat stable 60 fps at some point after some patch with some settings tweaked but that's for the next playthrough which is not going to happen very soon anyways.
I don't mind the bugs and glitches. I usually just had a good laugh whenever something occured, like I had with roach in witcher 3. yes of course it hurts the immersion a bit but what the hell. I am not as immersed to forget that I am only playing a game anyways.
I had only one quest ("getting warmer") bugged out in a way I couldn't finish it (because it never triggered properly), other than that I have done every main mission, every side mission, every gig, every ncpd hustle, all tarot cards and whatnot else. I did not buy every car but other than that I am pretty much 100% done with the game.
I was a female V street kid, (successfully) romancing judy and have taken the nomad ending where I leave night city in the end with the gang.
Despite all the bugs (which as I said didn't bother me too much) I absolutely loved the game and pretty much every single minute. Yes, it wasn't the super duper deep RPG as which it was advertised at some point. Yes, it is very obvious that the game has a lot of cut features and things in general, Yes the game is basically one big "that could've been done different/better" at every other corner, and would I be product owner for the project I could write up hundreds of user stories where something should be changed, but then it also would've mean that the game probably wouldn't have been released for the next 4 years or so, so it is probably good that I am not in that position. And it probably would've ended up being an entirely different game. Once I let myself into the game as the way it is, I still enjoyed it more than I have enjoyed many other games.
I did not think that a game could make me hate keanu reeves. God I despised johnny silverhand. tremendous acting job from keanu. and then, in over the course of the game and towards the end, I actually was sad that he will be gone forever in cyberspace. I grew on him and despite him having been a terrorist actually I liked the comments he gave every now and then.
one last thing I despised: the lack of freedom of respeccing my V. I could not respec my skill points, only the perk points, but this costs 100k eddies, and also the skill progressions being tied to the skill points actually meant that If I would want change my playstyle at some point, I would be pretty fucked actually. which in the end means, if I would've taken a playstyle and after like 10 hrs or so figured it is shit and I don't like it, my only true option would've been to restart entirely. and that is really not a good decision from a gameplay perspective.
my final ratings of x/100 would be:
- the way I feel about that game in the end in total: somewhere in the 80-85 region (so it is, despite everything, still an awesome game)
- fix the bugs, glitches and performance issues, and it easily hits a 91 or 92.
- after all those things are done, enhance that game over time so it might resemble again more of an actual RPG than just an action adventure, and I see this thing be the first game I would ever consider giving the actual full score of 100/100. But it is still a loooooooong road until then, and who knows if we ever gonna reach there.
oh and one last thing: I understand the decision against having third person view of V outside of: cars/bikes, the occasional mirror, the inventory screen and the photo mode. But having seen the last cutscene of my ending, V sitting on the basilisk and actually seeing her in third person basically: what a waste to not have this more often in the game. as great as the character creator is, it is really actually wasted. you could've just gone with the default look and actually no character customization whatsoever, it wouldn't actually have made a whole lot of difference. Geralt wasn't able to be customized (except hair/beard, and V doesn't even have this after the character creator), lara croft has no character customization, etc. it would not have made the game worse at all.
Oh, and one last-last thing, out of all bugs/issues etc one thing bugged me the most: why do I even have the decision in the character creator between flat, medium and big tits, if whenever I have cloths on, my tits shrink/grow to the "medium" size anyways? That is REALLY irritating. no offense.