I stupidly preordered this game after one of the delay announcements because I stupidly believed that CDPR was making good on their promises. Then I stupidly didn't ask for a refund in the 30 day window. I don't have an excuse for that other than sheer laziness. You would think that I would have learned my lesson when I preordered Rome Total War 2 in 2014...
But the train of stupid continued when I bought a 3090 and I don't even own a g-sync compatible monitor.
The main point of all of this is, is it safe to play CyberPunk yet or do I need to keep waiting?
They fixed the memory bug but it still isn't what I'd call stable, still has weird texture bugs, braindead ai and missing features. It doesn't fix the story lazily throwing in religious and spiritual discussion with no connection (Crucifying a guy for a BD), characters who address V and not you the player (there's one point where V talks to a doll about losing his/her identiy and it would work real well if I was roleplaying ala Revan or the Currier but it's just press X to feel anxious there) and ham fisted social issues (Claire is a tranny that's revealed in a throwaway line that doesn't mean anything. "She" then proceeds to ram the supposed guy who killed "her" husband off the road and while he sits there and bleeds out "she's" ranting and raving about how bad he is).
The game is busted beyond the bugs, the basic questline and story doesn't engage the player for the simple fact they promised an RPG but delivered an action adventure.
And the thing is, CDPR have been tipping this way for awhile, Witcher 1 was a pure RPG, 2 dropped alot of stuff but still had some elements, 3 was a tipping point, less RPG and even less quest outcomes but combat, characters, story and world managed to save it. This is a Bethesda result of cutting so much off the RPG tree they essentially don't have an RPG anymore, only one that looks like it.
You're not to blame, we were all blinded by the light, ME3, NMS, FO4, and this have all caught me.
t. someone who played it so you don't have to.
I bought into the initial hype, but when I saw they changed its descriptor tag from RPG to action adventure I knew I was going to be disappointed.
Even having never played it, this is why I'd 100% recommend avoiding it. These aren't the kinds of issues that can be solved with a few patches.