Great game until you spend more time fixing crashes than playing. Welcome to Night City prologue video crashes my game without fail with the exact same error every time. Can't get through any intros just like loads of people when it first released. Tried everything, I guess I've wasted my money yet again.

In all seriousness, this game is good -- CD Projekt Red just hasn't put in the effort or simply can't fix everything that needs to be fixed. They added dedicated mod support because of this, and even then they refuse to properly work WITH modders, settling on taking credit for the incredible things they add and the insane bugs they fix.

The story is short, the RPG elements are meaningless to the story, and there isn't really much you can/can't do that matters in the end.

However, I do enjoy playing it when it works. WHEN it works. It takes a certain level of responsibility to balance the gameplay features, such as side quests, with the main story to really flesh your character out in line with where they should be. There isn't really a hardcore incentive to not do the story in one go, generally you can just keep going and waiting when necessary.

When it really shines is when that self-discipline exists and it all adds up perfectly. Unfortunately for that pleasure though, the bugs come in.

The game should not drop to 5 frames when you hit ESC for the first time in 20 min. It should not require spamming ESC for 30 seconds or a full restart to get everything working again. The game should absolutely not require d a y s of troubleshooting for bugs like thousands have encountered that cause a hard crash with one simple error expression: tried to read inaccessible file.

The shaders shouldn't reset every time you pause or exit your inventory, the inventory shouldn't affect that at all. I shouldn't be able to see the entire ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cosmos whenever I hit "i" to check my stuff. My clothes shouldn't clip and my NPCs shouldn't detonate with the equivalent force of 500MT of TNT. The police shouldn't aggro on me for walking down a street 30m from them and I shouldn't randomly die walking through doorways.

It's rough. It's so good and so bad all at once. Most of it is funny, but a lot of it is gamebreaking or just really annoying.

Great game until you spend more time fixing crashes than playing. Welcome to Night City prologue video crashes my game without fail with the exact same error every time. Can't get through any intros just like loads of people when it first released. Tried everything, I guess I've wasted my money yet again. In all seriousness, this game is good -- CD Projekt Red just hasn't put in the effort or simply can't fix everything that needs to be fixed. They added dedicated mod support because of this, and even then they refuse to properly work WITH modders, settling on taking credit for the incredible things they add and the insane bugs they fix. The story is short, the RPG elements are meaningless to the story, and there isn't really much you can/can't do that matters in the end. However, I do enjoy playing it when it works. WHEN it works. It takes a certain level of responsibility to balance the gameplay features, such as side quests, with the main story to really flesh your character out in line with where they should be. There isn't really a hardcore incentive to not do the story in one go, generally you can just keep going and waiting when necessary. When it really shines is when that self-discipline exists and it all adds up perfectly. Unfortunately for that pleasure though, the bugs come in. The game should not drop to 5 frames when you hit ESC for the first time in 20 min. It should not require spamming ESC for 30 seconds or a full restart to get everything working again. The game should absolutely not require d a y s of troubleshooting for bugs like thousands have encountered that cause a hard crash with one simple error expression: tried to read inaccessible file. The shaders shouldn't reset every time you pause or exit your inventory, the inventory shouldn't affect that at all. I shouldn't be able to see the entire fucking cosmos whenever I hit "i" to check my stuff. My clothes shouldn't clip and my NPCs shouldn't detonate with the equivalent force of 500MT of TNT. The police shouldn't aggro on me for walking down a street 30m from them and I shouldn't randomly die walking through doorways. It's rough. It's so good and so bad all at once. Most of it is funny, but a lot of it is gamebreaking or just really annoying.