Having played through the story of the game and more than my fair share of side missions and exploration, I have made a few notes on what I believe that the game is; a, missing, and b, could develop on. The point of this thread is to discuss and add what we, the players, believe CDPR may have missed the ball on and could learn from. I fully understand that in 2020, when a game is released, it is only half finished. We are long passed the days of the release and its DLC being the end of a game's life when it comes to improvement.
Given CDPR's care and understanding for their games, I see Cyberpunk 2077 getting patches and improvements for a long time to come.
But now, onto why I decided to take to the forums and lodge myself in the ever expanding process.
And after all of that, I have said my peace. I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game and is only going to get better as the patches begin to roll out. Do I think it's GOTY as it stands right now? Maybe not. Do I think CDPR has what it takes to make it a perfect RPG? Absolutely. I expect it will take time and effort before it becomes the game, I think, we were all promised. I similar wish to see the game improve as we all know it can.
Thank you.
Given CDPR's care and understanding for their games, I see Cyberpunk 2077 getting patches and improvements for a long time to come.
But now, onto why I decided to take to the forums and lodge myself in the ever expanding process.
- Player customization.
- More Hairstyles. Much from our daily life can be different from how we style our hair in the morning, and I do not see why Night City should be any different. This is not myself suggesting a system that differentiates V's hair from day to day or not suggest a system akin to Geralt's beard growth from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. What I am merely suggesting through this point is more hairstyles be made available through player customization. What can make or break a player character for the player is the lack of choices in appear, and one's hairstyle can be all that matters in the end. For the lack of better words, more hairstyles would be a improvement to player customization.
- More Color Options. In the world of Night City, people can be whoever they want in appearance. Between mantis blades to headlights for eyes, V can be whatever they want, so why in player customization, we are not able to choose non-predetermined colors? Something that I have come to adore from the modding community of Skyrim is that any personnel color is chosen through a color wheel or slides and not premade options.
- V's Name. Everyone has their own cool moniker in mind. The Warden from Dragon Age: Origins. Scorpion from Mortal Kombat. Geralt of Rivia, the White Wolf from... Well, you know. V goes with the first initial of his first name, defaulted to either Vincent or Valerie. I believe the only time we ever hear their name, but feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, is the mission which takes V to the dollhouse, Clouds. With that single incident in mind, would it be so difficult to add the ability to set V's first name through a set of multiple preset options? Vincent, Victor, Vaughan? Valerie, Vanessa, Violet? It's not completely out of the realm of possibility.
- Changeable Appearance. I'll be short in sweet with this one. A way to change your character's appearance. Night City is the place where people can change anything about themselves. Whether completely chroming out or putting rocket launchers in your arms, yet we, as V, can't change the way we look after the initial character creation at the beginning of the game?
- Vehicular customization.
- Garage Option/Display. From living in apartments near big cities all my life, I might be the first to tell you that when you park in a parking lot, you get usually one space and not much else when it comes to a vehicle and there's not much difference for V. So what could i possibly say to displaying a vehicle when all we get for V at their standard apartment is one space? Simple, a HUD menu. Instead of holding down a button to open the menu to call whichever vehicle you wish, you could hold down the same button to open a menu which allows you to view whichever vehicles you have collected in a 3D space, maybe have some information about the vehicle itself, and be able to summon whichever vehicle from there to you.
- Vehicle Parts Customization. Coming off of the more developed vehicle menu, you should be able to customize your rides. Going through Claire's missions, you may come to appreciate vehicles more than if you didn't in real life. You may want to change out some parts, color a certain vehicle differently, anything. So, with the understanding of a better vehicle menu from my last point, vehicle customization. Buy parts, sell parts, apply parts, and color them all to your heart's contents.
- Internal Vehicle Customization. Anyone else tired of looking at that dog in V's default car? Anyone wanna be able to add little things like that to your chosen vehicle? Yeah, me too. Just like the last part, customization should be key. Maybe I want some fluffy dice hanging off my mirror.
- Vehicle Control Adjustments. This one is a lot simpler than the others. I just find it annoying I can't adjust vehicle specs' considering in Johnny's Porsche, I can't try to turn and find myself feeling like I'm on ice.
- Home customization.
- Decorations. Home is the heart is, but also where all of your stuff is. With all of the stuff and 'junk' that we can pick up from around Night City, why can't we decorate V's apartment to our own desire? They even has a storage room where they can mount weapons, but we never actually get to put anything on the walls? By purchasing Cyberpunk 2077 through the GOG Galaxy platform, V is able to get a Witcher Troll doll to have placed on V's couch. That's great, but is that seriously it? Perhaps V would like to hang some classical art on the walls, bronze a favorite gun, or plant a bust of Johnny Silverhand's crotch in the middle of the room, shouldn't we be able to do that to our own apartment?
- Furniture. A smaller note can be made about furniture to V's bad. A new bed and couch couldn't hurt V.
- HUD Customization.
- Colors. Switching between V and Johnny Silverhand throughout the story, we are able to see that not everyone's personal Heads-Up Display is similar to anyone else's, so why are we not allowed to change our V's? Maybe instead of red, I'd like to be more like Silverhand with a nice blue, or my favorite color of a calming purple. A simple color wheel added to the settings menu should be able to fix that, I'd think.
- Fonts. Complete personal preference. I'd just like a different font to look at.
- Fast Travel.
- Trains/Buses. Keeping this particular point short, i am aware CDPR had made it known prior that buses and trains would not be a travel option. Simply? Now with the game out, return that gameplay aspect.
- Personal Car Autopilot. Delamain is the automatic driving series of cars that you have to deal with. On PC, you press the button V (By default) and your vehicle drives up to you. So.. Why can't we provide a destination to our vehicle and have our vehicle which, actually, has autopilot features take us to our destination? Simply a question with a easy answer.
- Third Person Gameplay. I think that is self explanatory.
- Interactive Worldspace.
- Food Stalls. They are practically everywhere, so why are we not allowed to get some cheap food on the side?
- Sitting Down. Butts are for sitting with and seats are for sitting on, for a RPG such as Cyberpunk 2077, why must be not be allowed to sit down anywhere that's not pre-destined?
- Mini-Games. You'd think with all of the arcades around, there would be some non-hacking mini-games V could play to enjoy, maybe play a nice games of tik-tak-toe on their HUD!
- Weapon Care. We are able to modify our weapons in small ways, so why are we not allowed to look at them in the world space with more appreciation. Akin to Red Dead Redemption 2, we should be able to take out and look at our weapons, perhaps with even a small box where we are able to check out its stats and modifications.
And after all of that, I have said my peace. I think Cyberpunk 2077 is a great game and is only going to get better as the patches begin to roll out. Do I think it's GOTY as it stands right now? Maybe not. Do I think CDPR has what it takes to make it a perfect RPG? Absolutely. I expect it will take time and effort before it becomes the game, I think, we were all promised. I similar wish to see the game improve as we all know it can.
Thank you.
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