So I pirated the latest version and attempted to play this game again. It just blows. It's still buggy as fuck, the driving sucks, the combat sucks. The story is kind of meh. Cut scenes go on for far too long. A scene that could be told in a handful of lines is 15 minutes long of droning monologues when a condensed version would be more emotional or impactful. It got to the point where I was just skipping the dialog because I get it, move on.
Last time I played and gave up a few hours in, it was because even at the hardest difficulty I could just rush everyone with a shotgun and kill everyone sometimes having to do the quick melee if I got overwhelmed. So this time I tried to specifically rely on my quickhacks, stealth, mantis blades and use no guns(except for a silenced pistol). It also made combat a joke. Especially when I got a cyberdeck that spreads quickhacks. I haven't looked at any guides or how to build my character, I just put points where I wanted at the time and often had 10 or more unspent points and perks. My character definitely isn't min-maxed and is probably ass, but combat is a joke. I banged that panam chick, and the parade mission was probably the highlight of the game. So I gave up again. Shadowrun series is a far superior "cyberpunk" game, so I decided to play through shadowrun: dragonfall (the directors cut) again.
I will say that on my pc the game looks great, until a motorcycle is vibrating and flipping out during an emotional scene where you're grieving the death of your best friend, or the ghosts of T-Posing fat chicks in spandex constantly walk into the cutscene. I felt like I was playing a janky borderlands clone with a nice reshade filter. It's a shame because I can see if this had a couple more years in development, got polished and optimized it could be not just "playable" but good. As it is now, it's not worth even pirating it, the 70gigs of space it takes up is better used for something else. Like god of war, which I just played, and it was amazing.
