Cyberpunk 2077 One Year Later review is it worth it now? (no spoilers)

CG writes: We take an in-depth look at CD Project Red's (CDPR) tempestuous action-role-playing game, Cyberpunk 2077. The game released on consoles and PC back in December 2020, and now almost one year later after several patches and fixes, is it worth the time investment? You can also grab the game for under £25 as of now. CDPR aims to release a 1.5 version in 2022 with a re-release for the PS5 and Xbox Series consoles where in addition PC gamers benefit also. Take a look at our Cyberpunk 2077 one year later review for the full picture. Please note, the video does not offer any story spoilers.

[RaidensRising]

That was entertaining thanks. But as you said. You are in a minority with that PC. Not sure PS4 or Xbox One people will agree with you. The game still under delivered from pre release hype.

[Godmars290]

Game need to target PS5 Series X and PC. Either come back around for the older consoles or just ignored them.

Then there's still the whole "let's sit on our thumbs a while then contradict work already done" issue.

[fei-hung]

Played it in Jan / Feb after one of the updates. Played it from start to end with the odd crash. Crashed far less than Godfall had stutters and crashes. Maybe I got lucky, maybe it's because I played on a PS5. But I loved it and can't wait to play it again with the next gen update.

I enjoyed it more than Rage 2, GTA5, Borderlands 3, Outer world's and many other FPS's I've played or open world games.

It's a shame they couldn't release it in working order from the get go

[Jericho1337]

Still not played the game and won’t until the current gen versions are released. Clearly it’s shouldn’t have been released for the last gen consoles.

[NeoGamer232]

Ya, I bought it day one and have been in a holding pattern every since.

CDR officially was the last straw for me buying day one games anymore.

[iamrperry]

Fortunately I was in the minority that had a PC that could run it (almost) bug free and really enjoyed the game. It’s odd that they wanted to create something so ambitious whilst also wanting to release it on 10year old hardware. Really beggars belief why that decision was made.

[FyBy]

Yeah, I also played it on PC and didnt encountered any major bugs. I had some technical problems, which were solved soon. Already finished and it was really great game. I always remember my gaming beginnings on 8bit Atari, where almost everything had few fps, latency was high and graphics ugly. I happily played all the games. Now, everything must look fantastic, cant be underperforming and cant have any bug. Its ridiculous !

[yoshatabi]

Same here. I'm on PC and I loved the game. Didn't experience much ground breaking bugs

[iplay1up2]

I am waiting too!

[MadLad]

Even as a PC player, I still consider it pretty lackluster in terms of quality as in lack of bugs.
With that said, I just don't like the game that much in general. It's kind of a subpar action game, and it's definitely not the in-depth RPG I was hoping for.

[pietro1212]

We don't agree much on here, but you're on the nose. I played the PS4 version on my Ps5 during my 68 hours the game crashed on me 18 times, and ran into constant bugs. It was a really weak RPG experience to boot as well.

[justadelusion]

For $10-15 its worth a playthrough but don't expect much outside a shallow and empty world filled with horrible AI. They can fix the bugs all they want but the game is unfinished and you know that every second you are playing it.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Sounds like you're describing every GTA game to me, lol

[jordan22290ps]

Look up a comparison video of GTA AI vs 2077 AI and then come back lol. Plus I don't recall GTA releasing bug filled and broken save The Definitive Trilogy which can definitely be argued released shitty

[Profchaos]

Remove the GTA trilogy definitive edition from the conversation and name any game breaking bug from a GTA game. If you go looking for them they are there like any other game (swing set of death as an example) but not game breaking or anything near as bad as what was in cp

I had multiple game breaking bugs that required hard reboots of the ps5 console and some luck to bypass in cp

[Yui_Suzumiya]

I was referring to them being boring and bland.. especially in comparison to Cyberpunk which was anything but boring. I haven't had any bugs on the base PS4 but this is after the patches of course. I'm not denying it was a buggy mess in the beginning but to me it's far from boring.

[CptDville]

I've been plagued by crashes on PS5 even after update. Not only that, the version (at least one moth ago) was the PS4 version with low NPC count which made the town a super ghost town. Kinda Thanos bliped that universes twice right before you started playing that game.

[Nismo458]

Sound like you live in a parallel universe

[Nismo458]

Exactly

[Fluke_Skywalker]

It's worth it if you can get it for £10 but not a penny more. I bought it day one and even without the bugs the game simply isn't that good. Nowhere, not even close, to what it was expected to be.

[Yui_Suzumiya]

Hell yeah.. I played it on a base PS4 recently and didn't have any crazy bugs. Before you down vote, how many people here recently played it on a base PS4?

[anast]

I played all the updates and 400 hrs on base PS4 slim. The pop-in is a nightmare and the game feels empty and unfinished. My wife doesn't even paly games and she asked me, "Why is the city so empty?".

[SimpleSlave]

Just take a look at that map and just imagine this as a low budget cyberpunk version of an Ubisoft game with even worst everything. Hate all you want, but go play Watch Dogs Legion instead.

So, is it worth it? When I'm recommending Legion un-ironically then you know the answer to that question.

[dumahim]

Oh hell no. Legion was the more boring game I've ever played in my life. I'm not joking. Despite the bugs and lack of polish, at least Cyberpunk was interesting.

[SimpleSlave]

Oh, hell no indeed. Cyberpunk is not getting a free pass here. Legion works, and as boring as it may be it is still vastly more fun and superior to CP in pretty much every way except it isn't first person.

Cyberpunk manages to both be broken and boring beyond measure. A Copypasta open word game that never could because most of the base level functionality of the world doesn't even work as it should. Again, something Legion actually manages to do at the very least. Driving? Cops? Swimming? Walking? Pedestrians? Physics? Anything Cyberpunk tries to do just ends up in failure. Again, at least Legion got these working on a base level.

In fact, the only thing interesting about Cyberpunk is the legacy it left behind as an absolute disasterpiece from a once upon a time golden studio.

[Knightofelemia]

It would need a steep discount before I even considered grabbing the game on Series X or PS5 once bitten twice shy.

[OpenGL]

Not in my opinion.

[Spenok]

I have been meaning to play this game for a long time now. I have the PC version, just never got around to it. I REALLY want to wait for the PS5 version to launch as I picked it up on PS4 when it was $10 some time ago, but I guess it's worth just popping it in on PC and giving it a go. Hmm...

[MadLad]

Why wouldn't you? PC has been the go to version since launch.

Honestly though, the game is nothing special. Why buy it on three platforms?

[Spenok]

I bought it on 2. For the PS4 because console is where I'd rather play, hence waiting on the free PS5 upgrade, and on PC because as you said, that's the place to play. But I'm expecting PS5 to be basically on par with PC when it launches.

[SurgicalMenace]

Perhaps because he can and wants to. Just a thought.🤣

[MadLad]

@surgical

People are highly allowed to do whatever they want with their money.
I'm also allowed to find it silly that someone would own the best version of it, then buy one of the worst versions of it, and then buy it again assuming that that version will eventually be patched into a solid product; considering you do, already, have the tried and true best version of it.

I mean, if you find that logical, do you. I see it as a large waste of money. If anything goes right, it literally just means you wasted good money on two editions you will probably never use. #laughyface :^)

[SurgicalMenace]

What does what you think about his spending have to do with him? He'd either have to care about your opinion or your example, which neither seem to be the case.

[eXclurel]

-You can have fun with the game.
-You can enjoy it very much.
-It might even become your favorite game.
-It's basically a photography simulator if your PC is powerful enough.
-Yet it's nothing close to what they promised and it's an average game at best.

[StarkR3ality]

Is it a bad game after the fixes? No it's not.

It was misold on features that are still missing after several updates, it hasn't had anything added to it in regards to DLC.

It's a decent game, but the problem is CDPR sold this as the best RPG ever made, and what we got was a shallow beautiful looking city, with a few good storylines.

It's a 6-7/10 game, that's why people hate it so much, the potential was so much more.

Decent game, just very disappointing.

[phctheone1]

played it on ps5 on release.. really loved it, the world and story is amazing and only put it down once i got the plat trophy..
the only game breaking problem i got was some blue screen crashes,
never played it since, just waiting for next gen patch and new dlc..

[Sirk7x]

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided did it WAY better, and didn't need an open world to feel completely full. Fantastic game, and a shame it sold so poorly.

[SurgicalMenace]

Just re-download this one recently and you might be right, sir.

[lucian229]

It's not ever worth playing garbage unless they pull something I huge like no man's sky

[starforge71]

i got a refund because no matter how much you polish it a turd is still a turd

[TheDoomedGuy]

This is one of those games where the hype generated by media and fans...running loose with their imaginations...created an impossible game. Especially considering last gen consoles and just the overall lack of gameplay. With every new gameplay video shown there were more and more features removed.

I expected a story driven rpg ala the Witcher. Got just that. Others expected some kind of huge ass rpg action game with never before seen mechanics and gameplay....which is a fine expectation but not one that's normally feasible with a developer only just tipping their toes into a whole new genre and IP for the first time.

Cdpr has only ever made 3rd person rpg games. And some could argue that their 2nd and 3rd iterations were worse than their 1st. But regardless...not a proven developer by any means.

[anast]

CDPR gave those "loose imaginations" to the fans to sell their game and failed to deliver. Fans were only responding to what their marketing hype train was pushing out. None of this is or was the fans fault. The entire blame is on CDPR.

[TheDoomedGuy]

The blame is consoles. PC was just fine.
Cdpr has always been primarily a PC developer.

[redrum06]

Despite the fact that it's a mess right now, I believe that once they fixed (most of) all bugs it will turn out to be one of the best games of this gen. If No Man's Sky could, why shouldn't they?

[Hofstaderman]

No it's not worth it.

[Ryushaa]

FOR ME: No, and probably never will.
It isn't the bugs or the game being broke, but because it seems the world they build is... boring?! Also for a RPG, the story doesn't appear that great, there isn't much to make outside missions and the memorable character are so, because they're either: Keanu Reeves or fap material

[anast]

After playing this game for 400 hours on a last gen. console. I enjoyed it. This not a CDPR "hate-athon", but do not get this game, if you are on a last gen console or have a low to mid tier PC. They won't be able to fix it. They made a statement that that are waiting for hardware improvements to make the game better, which means the game has years to go. I would only play this on a high tier PC (not the PS4 Pro and after the PS5/XBX update has been reviewed). Also do not get this game if you want an RPG type experience. It is not there.

This game is for you, if you are a fan of the RPG, don't mind serious pop-in, do not mind the lack of RP elements, just want to see the story, like action adventure games, have a top-tier PC and enjoy giving modders much deserved love.

[PhillyDillyDee]

Bought it day one and played it for about 40 hours. Ended up getting a full refund after a bug stalled my progress. Ill pick it up on sale when it hits xsx/ps5.

[SaiyanFury]

I waited a year to get it just because of the glitchy mess it was when it first came out. I have it now and it plays great for me, especially since I have a system that runs it well. But it's not for everyone obviously.