It's taken me almost 200 hours to realize this and mind you, I still haven't finished it, but I just don't like Cyberpunk 2077. I got to level 49 as Nomad, level 17 as Streetkid and now level 1 as Corpo. No matter the life path I choose, it's the same damn intro, same string of missions once you meet up with Jackie, so the choice is meaningless in terms of what I personally need from this game, freedom. I would like to do a completely pointless low-risk mission in whatever part of Night City I like and I can't do that, cos Watson is on lock down and I've got this mandatory intro I have to get through. They really tried to emphasize in marketing that this is an RPG first and yet I feel playing a role more as a fixed character, Geralt, than as a randomly moulded clown I've made in the character creator. I always wake up to my short life path intro and then go through the same motions of this linear FPS. It's the same experience CDPR's competitors offer, so it doesn't stand out in any meaningful way and I've clung to the hope of enjoying and finishing it almost 2 years running now. A bug of the intro montage failing to load just brought all this ♥♥♥♥ back to my mind, so I think I'll revisit this game whenever the hell I'm ready for it, pre- or post-Phantom Liberty.

It's taken me almost 200 hours to realize this and mind you, I still haven't finished it, but I just don't like Cyberpunk 2077. I got to level 49 as Nomad, level 17 as Streetkid and now level 1 as Corpo. No matter the life path I choose, it's the same damn intro, same string of missions once you meet up with Jackie, so the choice is meaningless in terms of what I personally need from this game, freedom. I would like to do a completely pointless low-risk mission in whatever part of Night City I like and I can't do that, cos Watson is on lock down and I've got this mandatory intro I have to get through. They really tried to emphasize in marketing that this is an RPG first and yet I feel playing a role more as a fixed character, Geralt, than as a randomly moulded clown I've made in the character creator. I always wake up to my short life path intro and then go through the same motions of this linear FPS. It's the same experience CDPR's competitors offer, so it doesn't stand out in any meaningful way and I've clung to the hope of enjoying and finishing it almost 2 years running now. A bug of the intro montage failing to load just brought all this shit back to my mind, so I think I'll revisit this game whenever the hell I'm ready for it, pre- or post-Phantom Liberty.