Why I HATE CyberPunk 2077 (2022 review)

Hello. Welcome back to a new video. So

recently I've been playing a lot of

Cyberpunk 2077. I decided to get back into

the game after watching the anime series

Edgerunners, which I really enjoyed. And

to be honest, if it wasn't for

Edgerunners, I would have just forgotten

about the Cyberpunk video game and never

tried it again. And I'm so glad that I did

get back into the Cyberpunk 2077 game

because it seems like it's really improved

as a video game since it first came out.

Over 2 years ago. I remember trying

Cyberpunk when it first came out in 2020,

and like many others, I didn't really like

the game. It felt buggy, it felt glitchy,

it just felt kind of janky overall. But it

seems like they've put a lot of work and

effort into the game over the 2 years that

have passed now, and the game does

actually play really well, and I can

honestly recommend the game. I've played

it for 109 hours now, and I've finished

the game twice. I've gotten 2 endings,

and I'm thinking of doing a second

playthrough with a new character. And even

though I'm going to say some pretty

negative and critical things in this

video, don't get me wrong, this has to be

the 2nd most enjoyable game I've ever

played this year. Obviously Elden Ring is

my number one game for this year, but

coming in at a close second, Cyberpunk has

definitely been one of my favorite games

to play this year. I really appreciated

the design theme and aesthetics of Night

City. I think the game and the graphics

and art style are really good and I really

like them and I really enjoyed the

gameplay. I really liked how you could

branch out into different types of

playstyles, and there's different builds

and abilities you can spec points into.

Unfortunately, even though I really

enjoyed playing the game and had a great

time overall, I still feel like there's a

lot of things that are wrong with the game

that need to be fixed, and there's some

very broken aspects of the game that

frustrated me during my gameplay sessions.

So the number one most annoying and

frustrating thing about the game has to be

the inventory and the menus. So when you

open the inventory, or any of the menus,

the game really lags and you lose like a

load of frame rates and the FPS just drops

by a huge amount. The game just becomes

really laggy for about nearly 10 seconds

or 15 seconds. I don't know if this is

because my laptop isn't the best laptop in

the world, even though it's a pretty

expensive 17-inch Razer Blade Pro gaming

laptop with RTX 3060 graphics card. I

don't expect my game to be lagging this

much just from opening the inventory or

the menus. It just really disrupts the

flow of the gameplay when I want to

quickly open my inventory, change some

weapons, upgrade some stuff, and then I

have to wait for like 10 seconds because

the frame rate is so laggy. And then

closing the inventory or any kind of

settings or menus and going back into the

game also takes like 10 or 15 seconds

before the game returns to being smooth

again. And in all of my decades of gaming,

I have never seen a game that struggles to

open and close a menu or an inventory

screen. It's just ridiculous. I don't

understand why opening your inventory or a

setting manages to lag out the game so

much. And And I tried fiddling with

different settings. I tried turning the

settings of the graphics down, but it

didn't really make any difference, and I

still had to wait about 10 or 15 seconds

every time I opened or closed the

inventory system, which was really

frustrating. The other thing I found kind

of annoying in the game were the weapons.

Now, even though there's a lot of weapons

in the game, which I really appreciate— I

love all the different varieties of guns,

and I love the wide range of different

guns— but for some reason, most of the

guns are really weak. For example, using

any kind of machine gun or submachine gun,

or even the pistols, these guns just don't

really feel very deadly or lethal when you

shoot them at the enemy. It just feels

like you're shooting BB pellets, or it

feels like an airsoft gun or like a

paintball gun. It doesn't really do much

damage. Sometimes you can upgrade a

machine gun or submachine gun to as much

as you can, and still you'll be unloading

an entire clip of bullets into an enemy

and it still doesn't take them down. The

game just seems to suffer from extreme

bullet sponginess where enemies are just

massive bullet sponges, and only a certain

few guns actually feel realistic and

deadly. So for example, the sniper rifles

are good, they can usually one-shot or

two-shot kill an enemy, or the shotguns

are pretty good, and some of the pistols

like Comrade's Hammer can usually just

one-shot nearly every single enemy and

blow their arms and legs off, which is

pretty satisfying. But the machine guns

and the light machine guns are just

useless because even when fully specced

into them, they just take ages to kill

anyone, and you have to unload an entire

clip or half a clip maybe into an enemy,

even with headshots, and it just feels

kind of lame. So I ended up using mostly

the katana, the melee weapons, which are

pretty fun to use. It's fun to do stealth

and try to sneak around like a ninja. And

I also use Comrade's Hammer, which is a

really powerful one-shot pistol that just

has one bullet and does insane damage.

That was the only way I could find any fun

in the gunplay. It's a shame because so

many of the weapons are cool and I want to

use them and mess around with them. But

they just don't really feel very powerful

and ended up avoiding them completely.

The other annoying thing in the game has

to be the police. So around the city,

there's just police standing around doing

some crime scene investigations or just

standing around doing nothing, really.

And sometimes when you're driving, you

accidentally run over pedestrians because

they just get in the way. And sometimes

you'll do this in front of the police and

then you'll get like a wanted star, like

in GTA. And the annoying thing is when you

get a wanted star is it prevents you from

progressing in your mission. So sometimes

you have to get to a checkpoint and you

need to access an elevator or access a

drop point to drop off some kind of quest

item. And if you accidentally run someone

over near the checkpoint location

destination, then you'll get a wanted star

and then the police will start coming

after you and you can't even use the drop

machine. You can't drop off your quest

item. You can't access the elevator that

takes you up or down to the place you have

to go. And what you have to do is

basically just load a previous save or

just try and run away from the police.

Now running away from the police is kind

of ridiculous because unlike GTA, the

police in this game don't chase you in

cars. They'll follow you for a bit, but if

you just get into a car and drive off,

they don't follow you in a car and there's

no like police patrol cars that start

chasing you. Just drive away, maybe a

meter, a block away, and they'll stop

chasing you. And then you have to wait for

like a minute for the flashing wanted star

to finally go away, and then you can

finally go back to your quest and access

the elevator or access the drop-off

machine that you need to use. It's just

kind of silly. It just makes it feel like

it's pointless having a police system if

they don't really pose much of a threat or

danger. You can go on a rampage and then

just drive down the street and then evade

the police. The wanted stars go up to

about a maximum of 3 stars, and you think

they would send heavier units or more

challenging units, maybe MAX TAC. I don't

know if they actually send MAX TAC

eventually if you kill enough police. I

haven't tested it out. But so far I got to

about 3 stars and all they do is send more

and more police. They don't send upgraded,

more challenging versions of the police,

which would have been a nice touch. My

other problem with the game is even though

Night City is a pretty cool looking city

and there's a lot of stuff going on, it

still just feels kind of lifeless. It

doesn't really feel as full of life or

realistic in the same way that GTA does.

So for example, in GTA you have random

stuff happening all the time. You have

civilians just having car accidents, and

then they'll get into fights with each

other. Maybe they'll try and rob each

other's cars, and then the police will

come and chase them and gun them down. Or

a car will explode, and then the fire

engines will come and put the fire out,

or the ambulance will come and try to

resuscitate people who have fallen down

and gone unconscious. And that's really

cool little nice touches, attention to

detail in the city life in GTA.

Unfortunately, nothing like that really

happens in Night City. The most you'll get

is like a bunch of police standing around

a crime scene. Doing some kind of

investigation work, but nothing really

happens apart from that. They just stand

around and nothing progresses from that

point. Sometimes you do come across a

random gunfight on the streets between

police and gangs or gangs versus gangs,

and you can join in, choose a side, or you

can just spectate. And that's pretty nice

and everything, but I would have liked to

see more random events happening in the

city and more NPCs reacting to these

random events like fire services, police

services. Ambulance services. Oh yeah,

there are the trauma team that are

standing around sometimes as well, and

they're just standing around a corpse and

taking pictures of it. So that's kind of a

nice touch, but it just feels kind of

scripted and not really spontaneous. Now I

know this is a story-driven RPG game, but

I just found some of the side missions and

some of the side characters to be

extremely boring, especially the Panam

missions where for most of the missions

with Panam you're just sitting in a car

listening to her go on and on and on about

her boring sob story, and then just

walking around, sitting around with the

Nomads. There's just too many missions

where you're sitting in a car listening to

dialogue and it's just really boring. It

would be nice if they let you drive the

car whilst you listen to this boring

dialogue like in GTA, but there's just way

too much sitting around listening to

characters speaking really slowly. For

some reason, the voice actors in this game

speak very slowly, especially Keanu

Reeves. Johnny Silverhand has this way of

speaking that just sounds like he's

slurring the whole time like he's had a

few drinks to drink. He's a bit drunk and

he's just slurring his words the whole

time. He takes ages to get out a sentence.

I also found the endings kind of miserable

and depressing. So there's multiple

endings in the game based off dialogue

choices you make and side quests you

complete and side characters you help in

the middle of the game. They can come and

help you at the end of the game, and the

endings of the game are all just kind of

So they're so depressing. You can't really

save the character V. There's no way you

can actually prevent her from dying.

There's just different ways that she dies

and there's more depressing ways. For

example, one ending, she's on a space

station and you get to choose to sign over

your soul to Arasaka and then get trapped

in cyberspace or get sent back to Earth.

And you've only got 6 months to live.

There's just different variations of the

same ending. And I guess that's the kind

of direction they're going with Cyberpunks

have this very miserable ending, kind of

like in the same way Edgerunners, the

anime series, has a very, very sad and

depressing ending where the main character

dies. I guess that's the theme they're

going for with Cyberpunk. It was just

frustrating that even after playing this

game and following V through their story,

you can't actually save them, and it just

feels a little bit frustrating. And I

didn't feel closure when I finished the

game, which as a gamer felt a bit

frustrating. So in conclusion, even though

I do have these main complaints with the

game, I don't really feel like they are

game-breaking. Apart from the machine

guns, they should be a bit beefier, a bit

more powerful to make the gameplay more

fun. I don't really think that the game is

terrible, and I would actually recommend

you buy this game, especially when it's on

sale. I got it on 50% off, which was a

great value for price, value for money,

and I really enjoyed playing the game.

I'm going to play it more and play it a

second time with a new character. So I

definitely think it's a good game. These

were just a few complaints that I had

about it, which I would appreciate if they

would fix it.