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Bro you dated Panam and didn’t ride off into the sunset with the Caldos?????????

I thought they went with usual buddy cop comedy with Johny untill the flashback with Alts kidnapping... Then I realised they actually flashed out the character. He turned out to be so narcissistic, self important and self centered, he couldn't believe Alt was more important to Arasaka then he was. That they just passed by him, as if he didn't matter, to get some chick he was banging. He was so dilussional, he escaped the reality, convinced himself she was taken because of him, and even acted a hero following that logic. That sold me on the writing.

A nearly 2 hour long video about Cyberpunk 2077? Count me in!

For me, there was nothing to redeem. I enjoyed the game on day one as much as I enjoyed it last week. Having watched plenty of videos on the game, I'm perplexed on how on my computer I had practically no bugs, not any that I could notice at least, until well over 200 hours into the game and several patches in, when I fell through the map - which hasn't happened since. None of the infamous T-posing, misplaced item models or collisions, or stuff like that. Granted I am playing on a beefy PC, but even so.

They added a working transit system in a recent update lol

I'm deep into my first playthorugh in 2024 and it's one of my favorite games I've ever played.

i saw the title and said "me too, lol"

My immediate thought was that you were lying. It can't have been ten years. Damn, I feel old now.

Nicely done! You got the GLADoS car, differences in combat, oddities about people walking aimlessly, and so much more. Even my oldest loved watching this! We agreed your focus on specifics makes it pop. Loved the look of the game, loved the world, loved the ideas, just couldn't find anything different on a second playthrough. Wish there were more skill check options so it wasn't always "go kill everyone" missions. Maybe in the future? I'm sure Kirby would agree!

I started waiting in 1991 when I GM'd Cyberpunk 2020 & read The Sprawl Trilogy.

Hot take, the game as it is now is not hugely different to what it was at launch. There are polish elements (many of which with minor game play impact like the police not teleporting in as obviously as they used to) and better performance on consoles and low end PCs. The parts that were good were always good, the parts that were bad are mostly still bad or at best mediocre. It deserved a lot of criticism at launch and should NEVER have released on the xbone of ps4, that was pure greed. But the major glitches were resolved very soon after launch. It wasn't a masterpiece, but it wasn't a watershed moment of bad game release.

Keanu Reeves also played the lead in Johnny Mnemonic, based on one of the books that arguably created the Cyberpunk genre. Mike Pondsmith (the creator of the original tabletop game) said he was partly inspired by the book.

Had an experience similar to yours. For the first time in my life I preordered a game (pls no comment on that) because I had jumped on the hype train as many others had, plus cyberpunk is my favorite genre. On release I realized my rig could barely run it on 1080p (low, 30fps). Created a character and jumped into the game, which left me dissapointed and stopped playing the next day. However, I didn't require a refund as most people did because I had hopes a house like CDPR woud eventually fix things. And it did. Started playing in late 2022, completed it with 3 different playstyle characters and had a blast with the story. Also had a new rig which could run the game properly. It didn't feel like a waste of money anymore AND it was bug-free, from my perspective at least. Was it Deus Ex worthy? No, but right now it's pretty close and that's a win for me. Still haven't played since 2.0 came out though. The review was enjoyable and not tiring despite its length, just had to grab a beer after the first 20 mins :)

Stadia customers were the rare segment that could effectively run the early builds of Cyberpunk. Google dropped the ball and handed it to NVidea.

Ima tell you right now that all weapons were op pre 2.0. Melee included.

I am going to finally try it today or tomorrow depending on the download. :)

I ran it fine at launch and played it for over 100 hours in the first week (on PC).

Cyberpunk was the first game in a long time that captivated me with its atmosphere/soundscape. The city background ambient sounds are really well done.

I'd say that on PC the game is waaay more stable. I've played it on release without any major issues, and I'm revisiting it right now and the experience is pretty smooth even on Linux system.

You struggled with the Bosses on Hard Difficulty? Didn't thought I'd find a review that made me feel better about my skills, but I'm thankful nonetheless

the only thing i would add to this is game music in the right places to add to the weight and feel

We are dwelling on who they just hired to write the next one.

As far as random ass children roaming around in the city, my fav are the ones who walk around like tiny little badasses 😂

If you play with Path Tracing it's trully transformative. Everything except opague reflexions looks better. Don't get me wrong, the game is beautifull either way but that Path Traced Global Illumination just makes certain scene looks photorealistic so I often enjoyed "role" playing riding to a checkpoint. You can even ride without map and just use signs like in real live. This City is truly a masterpiece.

My only issue is Very Hard doesn't seem very hard once V is maxed out in a proper build

"When it's ready." Lol.

I waited 10 years to play this , once I got out of prison I got , let me tell you I've been gaming for years and grew up pc gaming with crappy vga cards no sound blaster card and blue screens of death and you know what I love this game! Anyway

Oda has the same strategy as all the other bosses. Have a katana and a sandevistan, stand perfectly still, and click on him until he's dead. Melee isn't just the optimal strategy in this 7/10 game, it's the only really viable strategy.

I’m a massive apologist for CyberPunk, I feel that day one, unpatched, on a base ps4, the game is still better than most games, TV shows and movies. As well as paintings and sculptures and operas and albums. And I feel that in its current form, with the DLC, both Cyberpunk and Elden Ring are two of the best pieces of art that the universe has yet produced.

You should have played on PC. The modding community is absolutely amazing.

I have been waiting for this since I found you.

You can prevent a lot of texture bugs by deleting your direct-x and shader cache before playing a new game. Trust me that works.

Agh I'm just having to leave for the day but I KNOW this will be good & will watch later. It's funny; I was just rewatching some fave Nth & I wonder if YT deigned to show this to me after hiding Nth for months from my fyi & I think it unsubbed me? I was sure I was subbed. No matter I'm re-subbed now, & this was on my fyi, & this is exactly the kind of CyPk77 review I wanted to see --- someone who waited for it to come around. Many videos are comparisons from release to now. But I'm super interested in this from a fresh perspective. Thanks in advance. Looking forward.

Also, wanted to say in a different post, this is my favorite game of all time and you’re probably my favorite KZfaq video game essayist, that’s why I was so pumped for this video

... and I waited 3 weeks to get this video in my KZfaq recommendations feed, apparently, even being a subscriber... The future sure is weird.

Ive gone through this 4 times , i wish there was more , 😪

Sadly we’ll probably have to wait ten years until the sequel is out and all fixed

50:00 in "Matrix, a single movie" .... denial of reality I guess is a coping mechanism.

You do actually get a chance to fight MaxTac. They are called in at max wanted level. You can beat them but they're tough. Unfortunately there's no reward, they just send more.

01:25:15 - C'mon did you let Barry to die?

zero crash for me playing last build on PC, after I make sure there is virtual memory in my SSD and installed the game there. Looks like you are on console? That is a tough...

Like you I waited until they finished it (and I’m glad I did, I only had a PS4 when it launched). I picked it up with 2.0/Phantom Liberty’s release, and I think it’s wound up my favorite game ever. Just an amazing immersive experience.

26:50 What do you mean it's a one-time deal? If you have the chip, you can use it any time to replay the tutorial.

when you said "overwhelming" i was saying "that's what I said" when this game came out!!🤣

Open world games always give the illusion of a living world outside of the player but even in RDR2, the most awesomely interactive sandbox title you still live in a bubble. And that world is scarcely populated with talking humans compared to the desperate density of Night City so it's beyond console / PC resources and budget to make such a city fully interactive on random encounters tho that's where generative AI could help. What I've realized since CP2.0 is the hundreds of conversations between NPCs, areas packed with BD & drug addicts, homeless, street kinds, soulless ppl. wandering about, underground shelters, rave clubs, gangs banging ppl. up, vomiting, doing graffiti, playing guitar, banging on doors etc. You mostly can't interact but these make Night City very lived in and my consciousness does show up walking past despair and human trash toward my condo or next big gig. Social structures were and remains CDPR's forte on random encounters and in story. You just know where you and everybody's at in the ladder and the hopelessly tangled world of lawlessness, innocents, crooked cops and ineptness creates a truly living experience.

I dunno how you didn’t get a high police rating, ive had five stars then Maxtec do turn up and clean your clock pretty quickly. Also, in my opinion, female V VA is better than the male VA, and that goes a long way to creating more immersion.

1:09:47 Wait, that's not true. You can't switch out your quickhacks in combat, but otherwise you can absolutely change them without a ripperdoc on hand. You just can't replace the implant itself without the ripperdoc. Also, you switch them out in the inventory menu. I don't really understand how that's a confusing place to change... combat equipment. Like, isn't it the place you change out all your other combat equipment, too?

This is just with my XBox Series S, so I can’t say if it’s true for other systems, but when it does that weird “catch up with itself” thing on a save I found that, if I use the X button to kick out to main XBox menu then go back into The game it resolves it. Why? No clue.

This game seems to have meant a lot to you, the same way it meant a lot to me. I have been following this game since 2016 or 2017, and I find this franchise important, and have a deep personal connection. Cyberpunk 2077 was pitched as a highly professional, state-of-the-art, almost AAAA tier game. However, what they delivered was far less than that. What was there on launch wasn't terrible, but it wasn't what it was supposed to be. Even if you had a top of the line PC. On base consoles, the HDD and cpu limit even core functionality. I thought for sure it was going to be a next-gen only title, even public development roadmaps hinted at such. Even now, the game isn't perfect, but that doesn't mean it isn't special. It's presented in a much more professional light, but it is forever scarred by poor management.

LOL, I picked the game up at launch, and actually got to play all the way through 1.0. It wasn't great. I was just playing Cyberpunk last night, and I was thinking that they should have released the game into Early Access.

FYI Oda goes down quickly if you use melee, especially your fists or blunt weapons. I tried hacking at first but he's shielded. I tried guns but he's tanky and heals. I swapped points into melee under the Body tree and I actually had to save-scum because I accidentally unalived him a couple times.

I been and still play on last gen. I been playing since launch and kept my game. the bug that wouldnt let takamura call to progress in the mission got fixed but then it was happening to a different missions. Or one time i finished a mission and an elevator menu wouldnt pop up. I had to wait 3 weeks for it to get fixed. Months where the audio wasnt working or not properly syncing with the lips. and up till 1.6 the radio was always hit and miss where it would be one but wouldnt play. Alot of the major issues were very early one. And every patch an old major bug would pop up somewhere else. Not being able to finish a mission no matter how major or minor still sucks. And it was like that till 1.3. I think about a year and a half later 1.6 dropped and alot of the small bugs thats been in the game were still in. I've enjoyed the game on day one as much as i enjoy it now.

Have been playing recently. So psyched they finally finished this game.

The boi is baaaack 👌

I remember when it launched i only had a ps4 and man it was like playing in 140p. I still decided to keep playing and beat it several times over even tho playstation offered full refunds and removed it from their store. Despite all the bugs and horrendous performance on old gen consoles it was an actual good game. It definently qualified as unplayable on consoles. Phantom liberty really does add so much to the game overall. I envy someone not having played it till now.

W to everyone who stuck around since before the patches and being on last gen like me we can all be glad phantom liberty was as great as it was

I was lucky with the launch of this one. I only had one bug my whole play thru and it ran pretty well for me. However Im upset that I played it then and not now, because I struggle to bring myself to replay it.

Holy heck it's here.

Masterpiece is a bit much. I love it don't get me wrong. But no. Orion will in my estimation, be a masterpiece. This was a rough draft thrown together in a global pandemic and slowly ironed out overtime. But even today it is wildly unstable and full of bugs. That said, it is IMO, the best example of gaming story writing and character building in all of gaming history. I been around cyberpunk since my first 2020 TTRPG playthrough since 1992, so to finally get to play this in a digital world, was amazing. Then immeadiately it wast. Worst realease in all of gaming history. But now, i really is leaps and bounds better. But it doesn't excuse the facts of the release. I think much was learned, mostly the fullest extents and limits of the trash heap that is/was RedEngine. Now on to U5 for W4 and Cyberpunk Orion. Lets hope they get it right on both fronts.

Great vid, instant sub.

Nicely done, my friend!

Top 10 list for sure.

I did a 90 hour play through on Xbox series at launch with very few bugs. I am glad they added more though

I am always amused when people think CDPR revealed Cyberpunk with the 2013 trailer. Because they did not. I forget the exact circumstances, but they announced the game in 2012, one year earlier. There was only 1 piece of concept art and the name.

I was able to run it at launch (And streamed it) and I only encountered 4 noticeable bugs in my entire gameplay. Only one was gamebreaking, and it was in a secondary mission. In PC it wasn't so broken as in console.

You had a LOT of glitches by the sound of it. You listed more following the holographic fish glitch than I've experienced in 80+ hours of my latest playthrough! God's dice, man. Frustratingly, one of my only major glitches took place while I was showing a friend how glitch-free the 2.x version is >_

"You won't run into Max Tac" - yes you will, you just need to step up your game and move from 3 stars to 5 :)

Man I been waiting for this for like 3 months, ever since u posted that it was ur next video lol flaws and all cyberpunk is my favorite game of all time and I have damn near 1000 hours in it between the ps4 and PS5 versions.. I know rhe ps4 version was busted but man, I fell in love with this game almost instantly even with the tech issues I was dealing with.. once I upgraded to the PS5 though? Boy, like night and day.. ir should’ve never released on last gen consoles

What a load of ChatGPT?? I mean listening to this is like reading ChatGPT

My computer is a potato and I could run it just fine at launch, I have a GTX1650. You probably could have played it sooner. Yeah I don't have fancy ray tracing etc but the game itself works fine for me with only a handful of glitches since launch. The only real consistant bug is that my character T poses during the cinematic where V and Jackie are becoming friends and I have to skip. Other than that there's been a handful of crashes to desktop and one time my car suddenly shot up into orbit while I was driving around.

Picked it up in 2020 i forgave the launch a long time ago, this game came a long way

I don’t think you can call it a sponsor if that sponsor is yourself lol 😂

Cyberpunk is still a thing damn... good to know people never get tired of listening abt the game... Cyberpunk the best game I have ever played

ok man this is a great review but some of the parts with you complaining about the gameplay or basic mechanics makes you sound like the ign journalist who couldn’t beat the cuphead tutorial. are you unfamiliar with fps games?(not hating but sliding is literally just pressing circle while sprinting. this applies to all fps games that have this mechanic)

When the game released, most of the critics were focused on the bugs, but it was NOT the main problem. The problem was that the game was absolutely not what they promized and showed in advertisement. A lot of features were missing and the bugs were just the cherry on top of the sh.t pie! Now the game has got a lot of improvements, but there are still a lot of bugs and various problems. The game is still not what it should have been, well a lot of youtubers have clearly been hired to convice us that now it's perfect but it is NOT. Don't misunderstand me, i loved the game even at start, i got mad when i see all that was missing but i still enjoyed playing it as i had a high end PC and i did not experience many bugs. Bugs were more some fun experience than a drama, i laughed a lot at that time. I replayed it recently with the DLC and all fixes but i did not noticed a big change, yes you have a better police driving cars or trying to at least, my god this feature is still so horribly bugged. I don't like the new perk system, it's worse than before and makes the game less enjoyable. So well it's in a better shape but still crippled and incomplete with some changes i don't like. It's still a good game but certainly not a masterpiece like TW3. So a redemption? No it looks more like an old pair of pants full of patches that your momma sewed on it to cover the holes.

Just like PT they're gonna do case studies on this game for years to come.

never buy a game day one if it is not a playstation studios game, at least they make sure game is ready to launch

I played it right after release (on PC) and it was a fine game, imo better then TW3.

*I think the games biggest mistake was being completely open world. had it been structured more like Deus Ex or Life Is Strange, they could've put a lot more attention into the characters and story choices....would've made for a deeper experience* 👌

I'm still waiting. Once the ultimate edition is about $30 I might bite. I need to buy a new laptop anyway, not for this game, but for Kingdom Come 2.

Play only on PC: not consoles, you're missing out on Raytracing and mods

500+ hours on pc with no major crashes outside of me fucking up my drivers at one point......anyway....

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For anyone watching this...I've played nearly 1000 hours (on Steam) and never had a crash, and only a few goofy glitches.

It was always a great game in there but it was the bugs and bs....

I love this game. I had fun on release even though it was a objectively broken mess. I just love genre. Most of the cyberpunk games we got previously were the deus ex style. I like this dirty sordid blade runner style more.

im still waiting lmfao my pc sucks dick, wont play this until I have ray tracing with 4k and a 144 to awe at every pixel

great video but i did have to skip over the cat bit coz..cats :D

babe wake up, new cyberpunk video dropped :) Awesome video man, subbed!

I can certainly appreciate the work that went into the game, and even having Keanu Reeves around, but once again, I'm not big on the cyberpunk genre. I appreciate you playing this so I don't have to.

ive had more bugs and game crashes with gta 5 tbh....hell even to this day i can load up gta 5 and get more crashes and bugs

Still no new game plus.

The GlaDOS cab is voiced by the same VA from the Portal games, just FYI. :) Edit: you mentioned melee but only mentioned the Blades tree. Blunt Weapons is a diamond, especially compared to how it used to be, and hammers, pipes and bats you can also use your fists, augmented with elemental Gorilla Arms are amazing. Paired with the Tech Tree you can become a Hulk-Smash lightning god. For your stealth plays, if you use a sonar grenade enemies will move to where it dropped and be distracted there. This is great when you go Sandy or Berserk, as you can no longer hack cameras or use quickhacks with these OS modules.

"It looked like it would be a fun enough adventure to justify the abuse of workers, who had to sacrifice their health, family life, and sanity for this product." - Nth Review

Was waiting for this. I played the game when it launched. I haven't played it since. So yes. Just like Fallout 76. If it didn't work from the get go. I won't play it two years later.

Same here

I honestly adore this game, I recently played all the way through it all, did every mission including all the smaller ones. And the story plus characters story lines are just amazing. The only games that will come close to Cyberpunk is The Last Of Us part 1 & 2. It's emotional, heartwarming at most times and thrilling exciting, plus even scary at certain points. This is what full emmersion is supposed to be and what good games with stories can do. Al and all a briliant game.

You really think games will simulate every NPC with 24 hour life cycle. LOL! Go play Bethesda games where you have 20 NPC in one ''town''.

1:32:09 ?? Tf? 😂 You can slide pretty easily.