Cyberpunk 2077 - The 2022 Review

Cyberpunk 2077 has seen numerous updates over the last two years. With Phantom Liberty on the horizon, it's time for us to take a good look at Cyberpunk 2077 again from top to bottom. Its story, gameplay, RPG mechanics, bugs, and many additions. Is it finally the game people wanted? I hope to answer that for you today.


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[Gbag]

I’ve never been so in love with a game I don’t really want to play. It has such incredible moments. The city is such a joy to be in. It’s just once the surface level stuff wears down there’s nothing to do. I wish so badly you could hang out with friends and do side activities. Properly go to bars, play mini games, stuff to supplement the city. Make it feel like you are actually living there. I’d take that over any number of improvements or new content at this rate. Just make the city less surface level. Let me just exist in the gorgeous world you created beyond walking around. The fact that two of the most popular mods are a mod to visit friends at the bar and one to use the monorail system says a lot about what kind of things people want. I think the best improvements would be tiny stuff like that to immerse us deeper in the city.

[Miss_Claire]

Each and every gig has story, multiple ways to complete them, and can be done using stealth, full on blast, cyberware, etc. I never felt like the gigs were a "check-list".

[RemedyTalon]

I can't believe this game is already 2 years old, feels like just yesterday that it was released.

[zartul]

Immersion wise, the gigs have some secrets, like if you did some gigs before some main quests, and choose the right options during dialogues, you can get some small extra scenes, or if you do certain gigs before doing others, you can actually have different ways of solving the gig. Cyberpunk choice and consequence has some impacts in the world, like, some side quests and gigs can generate small changes in the world, like a news about some person you let live or if you failed to help someone you might see their apartment with a crime scene line, or even meet someone again after the gig.
But a take on it, that happens in The Witcher 3, and that is much bigger in Cyberpunk, is that in real life sometimes all roads lead to the same end! Sometimes it doesn't matter what you say or do, something will always end up that way, and in Cyberpunk that's the main thing about the whole story, it's not about the end or impact you might have, because in the end not even the biggest legends in Night City have that much of impact, it's about the journey, and the people you meet and things that you do along the way. That's the core of Cyberpunk 2077, and Edgerunners, so it's not so much "illusion of choice" it's more of "somethings will always be this way".

[gustavl]

The gigs are great in my opinion, they add to the lore and story. Also V is a merc, the main mission and a lot of the sidemissions isn't really a mercenary work but the gigs are and therefore I think of it as V doing his/hers day job

[c.jarmstrong]

I played through a katana / shotgun build through the main campaign, about a month or so ago, and it was the best 50hrs of action rpg that I've played since Mass Effect 2

[hanyolo]

I finally bought Cyberpunk Friday. played all of the story missions except the last one. working on side jobs and gigs now. some of the things are put together in a way that makes it confusing sometimes but i havent encountered a single bug that i can remember. game runs flawlessly on my rtx 3050. cant imagine what it looks like on high end systems. it is the most incredible game world I have ever played in. Cant wait for my second playthrough

[ZrodyApo]

Replaying the Witcher 3 after spending so much time with Cyberpunk 2077, I'll have to say that the latter took the spot for me. And I'm not saying this lightly because the Witcher 3 is among my top favorite games of all time.
And what's funny is when you see people saying that Cyberpunk 2077 had too many dialogue and moments where you just talk, the Witcher 3 has more of those and it's a lot slower 😄

[DrGaslight]

I’m addicted to this game. It’s so much fun after all of the fixes. Can’t wait for the DLC

[awkwardGardener]

Imagine a game with the fun and varied gameplay of Cyberpunk combined with the side activities and content of Yakuza. That would be insane.
Also pretty based using a quickhacking build. Imo genuinely the most fun gameplay style and really well implemented.

[promaxmedia]

Cyberpunk is a game in which I genuinely feel intertwined with the world and characters. After my 2nd playthrough I just felt this sense of dread by the end because I'll never be able to experience it for the first couple times again

[hazederyanoda]

I was reluctant at first as it had bad reviews upon release but i started playing a week ago and ive hardly gotten anywhere on the main story because of all the side missions and stuff, the games solid! Had zero issues with glitches and its probably my favourite game this year, definitely worth a go if you haven’t already played

[NeutralGloomBot]

I can't speak for how this game played at launch, but I just started it on PS5 two weeks and I am in love with it. I mean its CDPR so you know you will get good characters and story telling but I tend to get bored with city atmospheres real fast so I didn't think this game would grab like it has. I can already tell I'm going to do everything. I'm chipping away at sections now of gigs, side quests, and cyber psychos and let me just again praise this company for being one of the few devs that understands how to do a good main story and have side quests that are actually interesting and have their own unique stories as well. The gameplay is solid too. This is an 9/10 game for me and its only losing a point because there are like minor visual glitches here and there but nothing that ruins the experience. Again I cannot speak for the old gen version, but if you have a PS5 or Series X and you enjoy a solid open world RPG, you're going to enjoy this game. Keanu's character is awesome too btw.

[ftsquintyd]

I admit I excitedly bought the game when it launched on steam. I tried it out and attempted to play it, but just couldn't get passed the mess it was. I also considered the option of waiting it out because I didn't want rich story moments to get ruined by elements of an unfinished game whilst also keeping the novelty of them. Here I am two years later enjoying it so much! The game is unbelievably fun. It also really has an aesthetically and pleasing explorable world. I must also mention I revisited the game after watching Edgerunners and it definitely brought more enjoyment to the entire experience.

[telboy]

It is in a really good place now, well worth a play through if you've been holding out.

[TheSavvyDevil]

Glad I waited two years to play it. Just finished my first play through as a stealth net runner totally blind/no guide. Definitely a good game that could be great with more updates.

[Things_n_Stuff]

Been saying this since launch: Cyberpunk 2077 isn’t a bad game by far, but it’s a shining example of an unfinished game. The true problems with it can’t be patched out, but instead need to be fixed with quality sequels. Hell, was the same track record with The Witcher and look at how that turned out

[djstef]

I have put in so many hours into this game and making different builds is fun I just wish we could have a NG+ or an ability to be able to reset our perks and attributes as well this game is amazing

[synth_pulse]

Easily one of the best open world
Games I’ve played in a long time. Own it on PC and PS5. Phenomenal game.

[hhjk]

That illusion of choice bit is why I'm not holding my breath for Starfield. I saw a lot (well, some) of hype for the last dev diary, with the whole "you can ask your companions to speak for you, but you have to live with the consequences" bit. But, I mean, with Bethesda's low focus on writing? I imagine the consequences are like... I have to spend eight seconds fighting someone my companion lied to/pissed off somewhere down my playthrough. And that's it. Hope I'm wrong, but... it's Bethesda. Once lack of choices and consequences are in a game, that's baked in. No patch is gonna fix that.