Welcome back chooms! I’ve been having a blast playing Cyberpunk 2077 and now that I’m just shy of 30 hours into the game, I’m ready to share my first impressions of the game.
First, I’ll quickly go through the hardware I’ve been using to play this game. I’ve been playing the game on a PC running a Ryzen 5 3600 with 16 GB RAM and a GTX 2060. With a tweak I found on the PC Gamer website (I didn’t test it to make sure it worked, or even if it did anything, derp) I set everything on High or Ultra settings with DLSS on and was able to achieve framerates around 70fps. I was very happy to see that my machine could handle the game. With ray tracing on though, my frames tanked by around 20+ fps, and while it’s still playable and looks great, I like to keep my frames around 60 for maximum visual enjoyment.
As for the game, I’m really enjoying it. All bugs/glitches aside, the game is a visual treat and the music is stellar. The synthwave/darkwave/whateverwave music really gets me pumped when I play and I’ve really been digging the photo mode. The story and dialogue has also been enjoyable even though I haven’t touched the main story much! I’ve decided to do a slow crawl through the game, completing side missions and leveling on the way to create an Ultimate V with maxed stats. Ha! We’ll see what happens.
Now, I did mention the game has some glitches. So far none of them for me have been game-breaking and I’m sure by the time I get to some of them (slow crawl, remember?) a patch will be released to fix the issues. Most of the ones I noticed were graphical or AI and while they did pull me out of the game a little, they didn’t pull away from my enjoyment of the game. I guess most people expect a AAA game release like this to come out of the gate perfect and a lot of people were pissed about the quality of the game, and rightly so, especially for console gamers. As for myself, I’ve played some Early Access titles over the years, and while it’s kind of like paying to be a beta tester, it gives you a little look into what the development process is like. I was into Rust back during early access and that was a wild ride for sure! With that in mind, I’m a bit more indifferent towards the situation. I’m sure the game will be fixed in time but I can certainly understand why some gamers are upset. The game feels like a paper you handed to your teacher/professor the night before and wonder why you got a C on it. They likely know you rushed it, and it shows in the work. Certain things in the game do feel like they were rushed or unfinished. I won’t get into the detes too much, but in my opinion I would have been okay if they had delayed it for another month or two to make sure it was rock solid before release. But, what’s happened has happened and CDPR is going to have to work hard to earn back the trust of many gamers.
Well, that’s about it. Is it a good game? I think so, especially if you’re into cyberpunk genres like Shadowrun. One of the only things missing from that series is the Matrix, which I think would’ve been a cool addition but then again, it might not exist in the Cyberpunk universe. Dang, I’m off track! Anyways, if you’re on the fence about trying it and have a PC that can play it, give it a shot. It’s been good fun so far.
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