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This game is as good as everyone says woo yeah baby

I'm not sure where to start with Cyberpunk 2077, this game has many problems starting with bugs and optimization to gameplay and story building. Keep in mind when reading this I had lower expectations than most with this game but still believed it would have been a good game, just not as good as everyone was hyping it up to be. When first beginning my adventure into Cyberpunk I walk outside the starting car to 2 different groups of thugs floating on top of each other's heads. Given that was on the first day of release I don't mind too much considering every game these days are released with a butt load of bugs and eventually problems like this will be fixed, not only did I find these thugs floating as soon as I exited the door, NPCs are clipping through elevators, doors, and walls while talking with me and getting to their destination. Optimization is also a complaint for many, I don't understand why the recommended specs for this game involve a 1060, no matter what graphics settings I change the game still has nearly the same performance, but again this is common in many games so I'm not going to fault Cyberpunk specifically for this problem, just something I wish many games would resolve. That being said I have a 1080 and an I7 7700k and only getting a max of 60fps when playing on medium settings only about 5 fps more than playing with everything set to max. Speaking of graphics this game doesn't seem to be special in any regard with their graphics, and I actually recommend you check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DWTWBpXZV8 to see the differences between ultra and low, sometimes it seems as though lower is better just to reduce the amount of blur they use when on ultra, and it seems as though there is no real significant difference when playing on one or the other. I thought amazing atmosphere and breathtaking visuals was something Cyberpunk was striving to get. But these visuals are simply not impressive, they aren't bad either but after taking a break from the game I went off to Red Dead Redemption 2 and man the difference was night and day graphically speaking.




Onto the gameplay, at the very beginning aside from the bugs I was roped in, the story was really nice and the graphics seemed impressive at that point but once you get 2 hours in you walk out of your apartment ready to take on the world, the atmosphere here is fantastic I felt like a little boy in the middle of a huge open world. Hopped in my car and drove around... with nearly nothing to do. I figured well it is the beginning I was just introduced to the world I'll do a few more missions and see what more opens up, I meet new people get more mechanics thrown at me and at that point it changed nearly nothing. Just more upgrades and neat gadgets to do things with that were niche at best. Hacking only gives you 3 options after beginning the game, attack, distract, or take over. Take over cameras, hack into people and damage them, or activate a light, T.V. or forklift to distract the enemy. It is nearly useless to use these mechanics unless you want to distract the exact same copy pasted bulletsponges. Not to mention when you hack someone and blow up their phone or cyberware and damage them, they do not bat an eye unless you actually see you. You can hack, wait a minute hack again, until they are dead. This right here I thought was a bit embarrassing, they don't even try to walk around and find you, its similar to Skyrim NPCs getting hit with an arrow and believing it was their imagination. Once I even had a civilian drive near a turf shootout and sit there, staring at us shooting instead of panicking, driving off, she sat there because my car was stuck in the way in front of tens of guys shooting near her. I truly feel like GTA V NPCs were more impressive and that game came out in 2013. There are also "Cyberpsychos" who were really hyped up in the first side mission to be cool diverse murdering cops and innocents then retreating into their little cave but I quickly found out after fighting 3 of them, they are exactly the same and even the AI here is a bit wacky. You fire an entire magazine into them and they magically dodge half the bullets that are being fired straight into them. Their AI is also only programmed to stay in one specific spot. If you get out of their fight zone they'll stand there and let you keep firing or hack to your hearts content.

Finally the story, I thought the very introduction was really interesting at first, as I said it roped me in gave the characters some personality and hyped me up for a really nice solo experience, until I finished the introduction and found my way into Nightcity. Once I awoke and started my adventure it just felt like a chore, I'm sitting with someone talking about a job who tells me to get in a car and talk with someone about a job I then murder for said object then sit with someone and talk about a job. Granted I'm only 4ish hours into the story but so far I just can't tell what's happening and I just don't seem to care about whats happening. Its just job to job and for some reason the big "boss" giving out jobs cares about specifically me for no real reason, when confronted with the question he just says I'm more trustworthy when I just met the guy. The only praise I can say with this story is within these fetch quests is the mini-stories there are really cool and don't seem super scripted. It felt really interactive when choosing my dialogue then something would happen and I'm slowly regretting that decision. But on the decision side of things I suppose this could be a slight spoiler so beware, everyone gets their own introduction when playing but after the intro everyone is put into the exact same spot, so not every experience seems like it will be tailored into your own unique story.

Finishing this review off I just want to say that Cyberpunk 2077 really has the atmosphere and world building for a great game but because the gameplay and story lacks so much I don't know what this game could become, the open world really seems nearly dead with every side quest seeming to be exactly the same with random punks wanting to kill you for scraps. There is so much left to be desired with this game and the gameplay is nothing shy of a B tier ubisoft game, truly it feels like Watchdogs-The Division but I suppose that's giving it some praise because at least Watchdogs had really cool unique things with their hacks. But pretty much that's about what I have to say. Thank you to anyone for reading, I do not recommend this game in its current state and it seems like it would take quite a bit of time for the game to really be something special, though in the end I am happy the team hopefully gets a small break after being in crunch mode for over a year. I'll definitely give this game another shot over time and update my review accordingly since I want this to be as accurate as it can be.

I first bought Hades after watching a video on it for just a few minutes. Within those minutes I found a game I absolutely adored, the music, the characters, the art style, and gameplay just fit together so perfectly. The music alone is what made me stop watching the video and buy it for myself. I did, however, refund it on steam simply to buy it on my Switch so I could play it anywhere I wanted. I definitely plan on recommending this game to my friends, nominating it for game of the year on steam and gifting it to my friends who want it. This game is a masterpiece.

This game is really fun with friends, although it kinda seems like a space, dwarf, Payday 2.

Helping feed Epic Games, shameful.

I have spent money and a lot of time in Dead by Daylight, this used to be one of my favorite games. Due to a third party software I used with steam (it wasn't any type of cheat) I was game banned. I tried to appeal to both the DBD devs and EAC. DBD told me they couldn't do anything and I must speak to EAC. I spoke with EAC they told me there is a third party software I was using (didn't tell me if it was messing with DBD specifically) and said they could not appeal my ban. Had they given me a warning or some kind of assistance I would have disabled this software when I went to play DBD or any other games as I was only using it for Divinity Original Sin 2. I left this software up, went to play DBD and this is what got me banned. DBD team, please be more helpful with ban appeals and don't just see a software and throw everything out the window. I've spent so much time and money on this game, I loved it. I would also like it to be known I didn't get a ban on any other games which used EAC it was only DBD.

The game still needs some performance updates and a bit more content but it's in Early Access and for what it is, it's worth the $30 I paid for it.

No more OpenIV, no more Mods, no more reason to buy GTA V

I had to write a review about this game in order to get the steam award badge, although I'm not being very productive in this and it isn't that creative. I still really love this game and I wish to play it further and see it when it's fully released.

This is a pretty damn good game, one of my favorite if not my #1 favorite survival game.
Rust takes you completely unclothed with no home out into an open environment where a trusty rock keeps you on track.
This game will show you the ropes of what it takes to survive a wasteland with nothing but you, your wits, and aim.
Rust is just a truly an amazing game that the developers really care about. Keep up the good work guys, I can't wait to see the final product.

Update: 11/27/19
I had to update a review in order to complete my badge for this year's awards and thoroughly believe Rust deserved the Labor of Love reward since the devs have spent so much time fixing issues and adding new content. These devs push out (decently large) updates every month and this is something that entices me and a few others to jump on and check out what the team has added. To have played this game years back and see through some screenshots all the differences makes me feel as though I'm growing with this game to see how far it has come. I love this team and your gem of a game.