RDR2 set the bar for me now when it comes to new open world games. Seriously if you develop a open world for 5+ years there should be no excuse as to why you can't have a similar level of detail now. My most memorable moments in the game was just running up on people and doing the random encounters/side quests. Sure RD kinda went over the top in some aspects (horse balls lol) but its still endearing when a game takes note of finer details that you wouldn't even usually notice.
RD was in development for 8 years while cyberpunk uses the excuse "well yeah we announced it 8 years but only worked on it for 4 tee hee" yet there is no fucking excuse. Its also very retarded to announce a game years before you actually start development considering how quickly the game industry can evolve. I'm glad that a friend gifted it to me for my birthday, but felt bad for him when I saw how mediocre the game was.
Even RD had better gun customization and both games are bare bones in that regard. At least RD has the excuse that you can't put laser sights and silencers on your 19th century rifle. The fact that a cyberpunk open world game has almost literally no customization besides some decent clothing is an extremely grievous sin. Isn't one of the core aspecst of most cyberpunk genre stories about people customizing the cybernetics they have?
Can't customize your car, your apartment, your body, or even your fucking gun. Just slap a "attachment" that gives you 5% more damage yay! Some of the missions ingame weren't too bad, since I do like thinking of dystopian aspects like "hmmm what if we do crucify someone infront of millions of people just for media profit?" or "what if you just brainhack the mayor?" but that can only carry you so far. I haven't played the game in months and i'm 75% done with the story, and I just can't bring myself to re-install to enjoy a medicore ending that I already spoiled myself on. I would rather play RD three more times than pick up cyberpunk again.
Its kind of insane. I know Rockstar has a huge budget, but holy shit, how can you release that in the year of our lord 2020? It feels like Sand Andreas level or Vice City level, a complete and utter throwback. I do too, I'm like busy crafting the last satchel on chapter 2 so I don't have to deal with inventory space and just the amount of shit that is around is crazy. None of the map is off limits to you (except on part for story reasons) but basically you go anywhere, do anything. The encounters and side quests are far superior to anything in Cyberpunk 2077, which has very very very little random encounters, usually dead people with a gun, meanwhile there are multiple occasions to help out strangers or rob them, rob random stage coaches. There was even a damsel in distress hog tied on the back of a horse. Then a guy pretended to be asking for a ride and I beat the shit out of him, knocked him on the ground, cocked my single shot revolver and blew his brains out as he lay there. That ONE experience is more memorable than anything in Cyberpunk. Because it CAN'T HAPPEN in Cyberpunk.
Red Dead made up for lack of gun customization by letting you customize literally everything else. The amount of outfits and clothes and color combinations (Oh wait, you can't change colors on anything in Cyberpunk lol) is crazy. It suits your playstyle and what you want to be. Want Arthur to be some medicine man hunter? Sure. Want him to be a fancy pants, gambling man? Sure. Want him to look like a crazed outlaw? Yup. The gun customization in RD is weak, because what the fuck are you going to do, put a picatinny rail on a fucking enfield? They did have good cosmetic customizations and there's still a ton of weapons for you to use. And they're all different. Also, ammo types and even customization for your knife. If you make Arthur eat too much he can get fat as well and so can your horse. And you can fully customize your horse as well. Imagine being able to customize a horse but they don't even let you customize a fucking car.
In Cyberpunk, your outfit looks like it was cobbled together from a store in the 1990s that had a gay terrorist explode it with the brightest, most garish color bomb ever conceived by man. Oh, and good luck picking out a decent outfit if you want to have shit armor. Though if you manage to suffer through the crafting tree, by the end of it you can craft mods that give obscene multiplers to anything that made the game a fucking joke.
I just broke the game on the hardest difficulty. I went hacking tree and crafting tree. I killed every enemy on the map before they noticed me. And if I didn't bother with hacking because I got bored, they couldn't touch me thanks to my literally 4k armor value and 1k+ gun damage. It was just boring. Nothing was balanced at all. I've broken games before, but they're fun to break sometimes because you have to actively know the mechanics and you feel like a god. I literally did not even try. I broke the game simply by following the skill tree and crafting. That's all it took for me to be basically unkillable.
Not to mention the fucking WEAK excuse that they couldn't do anything but first person. RDR 2 has a first person mode if you want it and a third person mode. They're fucking liars about the third person because they didn't do jack shit to V's skeleton. Which is why clothes are basically magnetized to you and you aren't given body type options and any tit options, because the close stick to you like a texture, since they aren't properly modeled. I mean, how fucking idiotic do you have to be to fuck up THE most basic part, the player character? That's the reason why. Because they didn't properly model anything and fit it to skeletons. Its why all the females have similar tit sizes except the main NPCs.
And I know its been reiterated, but I also can't go back because I fucking can't stand Johnny. He's grating and the way he takes over the entire game is fucking obnoxious. He's portrayed like a drunk drug addict abuser that they try to get you to care about, except progression is so poorly done his personality is schizophrenic. One time you'll have a touching moment and then another time he'll just be a cunt to you. So he comes off as terrible. I'd rather buy the 40k Necromunda game with better gunplay and gore effects than this shitpile.
I guess the biggest issue is the massive lying they did. And provable lying. They KNEW that V's skeleton was broken and that's why they couldn't have 3rd person. They knew all the defects and put out a 100% fake trailer and gameplay footage. And they banked on it with their reputation. I hope it was worth losing their entire rep for and being a fucking joke. Have Sony so fucking pissed at you that you can't even get it on their store.
Going to other games just makes it so obvious how bad this was. And they obviously knew. I hope they lose their fucking lawsuit. IMO, the game is unfixable and you're better off buying something else. This is an extremely mediocre open world game with very light RPG elements from 2005 from a AA eurotrash studio.