Cyberpunk 2077 5th Anniversary Trailer

i never gave this a fair shot

I waited all this time and did a full, all-encompassing, 100% playthrough earlier this year. Had a blast

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I love how much of a success story this game became.

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I will say that CD Projekt Red performed an absolute masterclass in how you handle a bad release.

You own up to it.

You fix it.

You follow through on your promises.

You don't blame others, you don't try and mask the issues.

Follow those simple rules and become one of the most beloved game designers in the industry.

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i never gave this a fair shot

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Probably a top 3 biggest frick up of all time in gaming at the beginning that they turned into an all time great game

Was free on PS +, gave it a go. Wasn't digging it at first, didn't understand everything. Once I figured it out...hooked.

Played it once at launch, the worst way possible (base PS4).

Game was technically a mess but still playable after the first few patches.

You could definitely see the potential for greatness all over theplace, but the world was remarkably barren of interesting things to see and do outside the storyline quest.

Half baked gameplay systems, cut content, lack of depth to the world, no interesting side activities, etc.

It was clear they released a game still years a way from being "ready"

Not really in the mood to ever revisit it but it doesn't surprise me it's in a much better state now.

Didn’t play it at launch for obvious reasons. I waited until about a year or two ago to finally try it, and it was absolutely phenomenal.

On my first two playthroughs, I quit a little over an hour or so in. I would always fall off at the same point. Where you are having to spy on the guy and listen and all that stuff.

This time I pushed a little farther and the game just started popping off.

After that, I was more immersed than I ever was in The Witcher 3, Red Dead, GTA, whatever. Maybe even more than Elden Ring. No…definitely more than Elden Ring.

I wanted to do everything. All of it. Anything to trigger the soundtrack and a gun fight.

The story was top tier. Had I just played a little longer on my first two attempts I would have figured that out a lot earlier. There was this moment that the plot just kind of puts the pedal to the metal and never let off for me.

It helped that the world felt so alive and that the sidequest were quality. It all felt connected. It truly made the city feel alive.

Really felt like I was living in another reality. Kind of scares me now that I think about it.

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Definitely recommend pacing yourself on the police scanner mini missions. I decided to knock out every single one at once and it almost made me quit. There's gotta be over 100.

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It’s not unlike TW3 in that you can utterly ruin the game’s pacing if you spend too much time focusing on the basic filler content.

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It’s not unlike TW3 in that you can utterly ruin the game’s pacing if you spend too much time focusing on the basic filler content.

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I will say that, unlike some games, you can do as little or as much of the side missions as you like. Many games make it where if you don't do all (or at least most) of the side missions, you're underpowered.

I'd tell people do the things fun to them, but the game does have one benefit in that there's basically 4 tiers of quests, IMHO:

1. Main Story
2. Important NPC Quests (like the Judy and Panam quests after your done with their part of the main story, or Claire's racing quest)
3. Fun Open World quests (like Skippy, the jacked BD, the shooting competition, etc)
4. Murder hobo open world quests (mostly the ones that come from your fixers, or NCPD alerts)

The most immersive/least grinding is probably to do the first two, and leave yourself open for the third. The fixer quests are not important; honestly they're just good for leveling and loot.

It's awesome on PS5 in its current state. Loved my playthrough.