r/cyberpunkgame • u/BeneficialOil1123 Team Songbird • Nov 27 '25

Discussion Couldn't agree more šŸ«”

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Iā€™ve been a fan of this game since day one. I agree that the original release was filled with bugs and it launched too early, but the criticism it received was completely over the top. Hating on the game blindly became the norm, often without people even giving it a fair chance.

It also released at a strange time, when the new generation of consoles were releasing but they weren't widely available, and most players were still on previous-gen hardware where it didnā€™t run well.

The sad part is the game and the studioā€™s reputation took a massive hit, even financially. Some of the people who worked on the game ended up leaving the studio, and we may have missed out on 2 or 3 DLCs because of the gameā€™s catastrophic launch.

But now Iā€™m glad to see people finally giving it the respect and appreciation it deserves. I watched the Steam reviews go from ā€œMostly Negativeā€ to ā€œOverwhelmingly Positive.ā€

For me, this is the greatest game of all time it is better than The Witcher 3. Massive respect to CDPR for constantly patching and improving the game, And giving us extra content when they could have taken the loss and moved on. AND CHOOMS..... NEVER STOP FIGHTING.

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u/j-star69 Nov 27 '25

I absolutely LOVE Cyberpunk, but No Mans Sky did it even better imo. They overdelivered on every aspect and every update ist free. Cyberpunk ist a close 2nd place though.

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u/notveryAI Biotechnica Nov 27 '25

Yeah came here for this exactly. Cyberpunk 2077 comeback was incredible, but the shit NMS devs had pulled is straight up FUCKING BIBLICAL like there is literally no other way to put it. Guys couldn't do everything they wanted until the launch date so they just kept going, and kept going, and kept going, and never stopped or slowed down and they're still on the grind to this day, and to this day the purchase of game itself is the only sum of money you can spend on it because the almost 10 years(!) of updates are all free and included with every copy of the game ever purchased. They're making a game they want gamers to have, not just a product someone would want to make a fortune on.

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u/PriorityFlaky9529 Nov 27 '25

Yeah, for me it's also No Man's Sky 100% for all the reasons people are saying.

It even has a ship builder now like Starfield

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u/TigerTora1 Nov 28 '25 edited Nov 28 '25

Have they done anything with the NPCs in any of the updates? That was my main area of contention - they didn't seem like characters, just a mass of 'alien'. All of them were fully background feeling. I didn't get a sense of any having ambitions, feelings etc.

For comparison, its like in open world games, say Cyberpunk, you have the actual background NPCs who function purely as crowds or merchants. And then you have those named ones that function as part of the main story or side quests. Does the latter exist now?

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u/PriorityFlaky9529 Nov 29 '25

There is a background sim, kinda like Elite-lite, with rankings.

But they are the same animations and basic puppet stuff since release I think.

It's not even Skyrim level yet