I was like you in 2022. But then I gave it another shot this year and I'm loving it. I feel like it's because of the whole hype surrounding it that, when you try the game, immediately shoots down your high expectations. Trying it again after 3 years makes me enjoy the game and side content better since I know what to expect, and believe me when I say this: the open world and the side content is anything but soulless, I find some sidequests and gigs to be better than the main story.
I haven't tried the DLC yet so I can't comment on it.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xXULTRAXx:

I was like you in 2022. But then I gave it another shot this year and I'm loving it. I feel like it's because of the whole hype surrounding it that, when you try the game, immediately shoots down your high expectations. Trying it again after 3 years makes me enjoy the game and side content better since I know what to expect, and believe me when I say this: the open world and the side content is anything but soulless, I find some sidequests and gigs to be better than the main story.
I haven't tried the DLC yet so I can't comment on it.

i finished the game with over 80 hours, but at the end i forced myself to play, side quests are good im not denying it but open world is so souless and blend, if you want to see rich open world check rdr2 and upcoming gta 6, this is how open world should be and feel like

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xXULTRAXx:

I was like you in 2022. But then I gave it another shot this year and I'm loving it. I feel like it's because of the whole hype surrounding it that, when you try the game, immediately shoots down your high expectations. Trying it again after 3 years makes me enjoy the game and side content better since I know what to expect, and believe me when I say this: the open world and the side content is anything but soulless, I find some sidequests and gigs to be better than the main story.
I haven't tried the DLC yet so I can't comment on it.

and if you like main story try DLC,its better

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ADONIS7:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย xXULTRAXx:

I was like you in 2022. But then I gave it another shot this year and I'm loving it. I feel like it's because of the whole hype surrounding it that, when you try the game, immediately shoots down your high expectations. Trying it again after 3 years makes me enjoy the game and side content better since I know what to expect, and believe me when I say this: the open world and the side content is anything but soulless, I find some sidequests and gigs to be better than the main story.
I haven't tried the DLC yet so I can't comment on it.

i finished the game with over 80 hours, but at the end i forced myself to play, side quests are good im not denying it but open world is so souless and blend, if you want to see rich open world check rdr2 and upcoming gta 6, this is how open world should be and feel like

Differents games, differents studios, differents strenghts and weakness.

+150 hours here for my first run CP77 and +110 for the RDR one. The quests, DLC, story of contracts, the dialogues, the musics, the graphics and animations, the differents builds and ways to play the game, you can be good, you can be bad, you can be both just like RDR, this is what make this game and The Witcher 3 top tiers RPG. And the feeling of shooting is way better than RDR 2 on 3rd person imo the best one for that is Fallout. But yeah the world in Cyberpunk is full of details, buildings, cars and people lack of randoms encounters but this is not their things, but for that I agree RDR 2 is god tier. Anyway they are both great games and I love them

If you want more out of this game's world, then you're going to need mods, OP.

Sorry to say, but the vanilla game simply isn't filled very well. CDPR are more of a story first kind of Studio, so they're not going to be focused on improving the sandbox aspect of the world much. This was essentially my gripe with the game for years, but over the years, mods have greatly helped with this aspect of the game, for me.

It’s crazy to think how overhyped this is. Glad I only paid half the price. I’m sure some of the devs said a living city etc but it didn’t deliver. Also the ads, within a few hours you’ve seen the same billboard ads eventually. I’ve seen countless npcs where there were twins or triplets. It’s so bad you laugh at first then can’t believe how bad it is. Even watch dogs 1 has more variety in npcs and that game was from 2014. Rdr is the same, you rarely see the same npc twice. Go into the clubs and you’ll see.

Masterpiece, sorry, crymore.

Yawn. Opinions...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcBWOtXMork

Ah ♥♥♥♥, here we go again. Your opinion about combat/shooting is subjective. For me combat in this game as exciting as, for example, in Ultrakill.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ADONIS7:

they promised us very good npc ai with daily rutines

Hmmm...

They never actually promised "daily routines". They said that the NPCs would be "living their lives within a full day and night cycle", and they actually do.
For example, some dance parties only happen at night, but are cleared out during the day. Same with bars. Not much happening during the day like in 7th Hell, but they become more congested at night. It is even more prevalent in Dogtown.

Less NPCs walking late night, but bustling during morning and day time hours as if going to work, etc. That's the very definition of day and night cycles, friend.

Please tell me you weren't expecting to follow one home and watch them cook dinner, then brush their teeth before bed time. xD

The gunplay in this game is actually quite solid, so I must disagree with you there.
Not sure how you play the game, but for me, it's anything but clunky.
I'm pretty fast and aggressive, relying a lot on movement reflex abilities.
It can feel clunky at first when you have practically no cyberware or reflex perks installed, or if you're more the type to stand still to shoot or hide behind cover a lot (or if your aiming is not sharp).

High reflex points and certain leg cyberware, can provide excellent movement and compliment the shooting mechanic quite beautifully. So I dunno man.

It's of course your opinion and I respect it as just that.

People (me included) glaze the game because we genuinely have lot of fun with it. The way we play it. How much we sink our teeth into the lore and the many stories of Night City. The characters we end up caring for, really brings enough to the table to keep us deeply connected and entertained.

It's not senseless to love something, just because someone else doesn't. :)

I now have 1950 hours burned in with 4 playthroughs in my belt so far and I wouldn't play as much if I found it to be as soulless as you make it out to be.

Btw, you can't shoot in all clubs, but there's a few in Night City where you actually can and probably will, considering the tasks handed to you. The fact that this went over your head even after 80 hours, makes me question the validity of your complaints.
You may have slept through some of these details since you were so bored. :D

So for you, the game is overrated. But for a lot of here, it isn't. We're just different kinds of people who find enjoyment in different ways. Sorry you didn't enjoy it and hope getting that off your chest made you feel better.

Yeah I agree with you. The game is empty and soulless in terms of open world. There is basically nothing to do besides the story. It is on par with GTA 3... The animations, physics, driving, combat, interaction, NPCs are suck. Everything looks like set dresser. Dunno why are people fond of this game lol

Is no one gonna talk about how they said "open world should be like upcoming GTA6"? We have no idea if the open world in that game is going to be any good, because we haven't played it. It's still a year off release lmao. This is clearly bait.

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย GreyAlice:

Is no one gonna talk about how they said "open world should be like upcoming GTA6"? We have no idea if the open world in that game is going to be any good, because we haven't played it. It's still a year off release lmao. This is clearly bait.

you can see that its the best open world oat on trailer and on screenshots they gave us, also rockstar created rdr2 and set bar high so gta 6 will set it even higher, use your brain please

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย ADONIS7:

NPC AI is worse than in gta sa from 2004 i believe, they promised us very good npc ai with daily rutines and its worse than old gta games

And they delivered on that promise. You just simply don’t know how to decipher marketing speak.

NPC routines means exactly that: Routines. A civilian walking or driving to a certain location is considered an NPC routine. A child NPC playing in public is an NPC routine. An NPC buying snacks from a vending machine is an NPC routine. Hell, even standing around and loitering is an NPC routine. The reason you don’t actively recognize these routines is because you underestimate just how boring and mundane everyday life is.

“Unique daily NPC routines” is just marketing speak for “NPC will do things at certain times of day” in reality. You can literally market a bottle of water as “A refreshing, thirst quenching elixir of life that all living creatures depend upon for survival.” If you cut through all the BS marketing speak, you can very easily recognize it for what it is: Just plain old water contained in a plastic bottle.

as much as i love the game, i agree to a certain extent. the DLC compared to the base game is like coughing baby vs hydrogen bomb