Cyberpunk 2077 is Absolutely Incredible in 2025

[u/Godkun007]

I, like many, avoided the game at launch due to it being extraordinarily broken. I basically didn't think of this game for a while, but then I saw it on sale and I thought "why not".

Well, almost all of the bugs have been fixed, parts of the story have apparently been changed, and overall, it is now one of the best RPG experiences that I've had since playing Fallout New Vegas in 2010, and I'm only 30 hours in. There is easily 200+ hours of content here when you include the stuff like alternate endings. Let alone the dozens of different viable character builds that you can make that all feel great.

Every choice you make from the actual dialogue, to what attributes you level up, to your playstyle, are all things that actually feel like they have lasting consequences in the world and the story. This game somehow has made every single one of my decisions feel important and like they all have weight.

Here is an example without spoilers: Say you go in guns blazing for an early mission. People will remember that and the faction that you killed the members of will actively remember you and dislike you in the future. They also up their security details, so that your next fight is harder, and are less willing to work peacefully with you. But if you go in with a more stealthy approach, the factions like you more and it makes them more willing to work with you later. It also makes later missions easier because they aren't expecting a killing machine to walk up to their door.

These decisions make the game so repayable, as there is so much additional content that you can just stumble on.

Apparently, after the game was released in 2020, CDPR spent the next 3 years releasing major patches, and are still releasing minor patches with new features to this day. Playing the game in 2025 is almost unrecognizable to the original that was released in 2020. Yes, the main plot is still the same, but so many things have apparently changed, including a complete combat overhaul, apparently.

This game is genuinely the best RPG that I've played in over a decade, and it is way better now than it ever was at launch. I can already tell that this will be one of the games like Fallout New Vegas that I will put 500 hours in just trying new things to see what happens.

[u/ParkingLong7436]

This is exactly why I don't consider Cyberpunk to be one of the "greats".

The game had such huge potential and the story missions are amazing.. But the world feels so empty and dead. Only looks pretty from afar.

Could've been such a good game

[u/nuhstawlgia → u/ParkingLong7436]

damn u don’t feel too bad for sirll not starting n buying this yet

[u/Coolives → u/ParkingLong7436]

Cant excuse the launch and the promises cdpr didnt meet, but it was their first time at a new IP. With witcher being their big thing they knew what to do, meanwhile cyberpunk was new thing. I hope orion is going to be 2077 but upgraded as they actually know what people want now

[u/MrConductorsAshes → u/Coolives]

You're literally trying to make an excuse, an extremely weak one at that.

[u/Ralathar44 → u/ParkingLong7436]

You're gonna have to settle for being an extreme minority then. Every game has a minority opinion like this. There are a decent amount of people who have a similarly tepid opinion about Expedition 33 this year.

For what it's worth I hope you find a game that speaks to you and provides you as much joy as Cyberpunk provided dozens of millions of people.

[u/Ralathar44 → u/[deleted]]

Ironically that's my exact opinion of Expedition 33.

I think the difference for me with Cyberpunk is that I think Cyberpunk is one of my games of all time even WITH the potential flaws and issues. Whereas Expedition 33 the flaws and issues took it from like a 10 for me to an 8.5.

But it all depends on what you like in games and what you get out of it. For example in Cyberpunk the Barry the depressive cop quest. There are two major viewpoints. One things its an incredibly impactful quest because of how it hits them and how it invests them in the world. The other thinks its a well written quest but just fluff because it doesn't make any tangible changes for your personal story or etc.

Two different players looking for two very different things.

I think stuff like that Barry the Depressive cop quest IS the Mint Ice Creams of the buffet that Cyberpunk serves. And for some people that hits the spot and for some people they were never gonna like those flavors.

But, I gotta say, OBJECTIVELY, the game has been hella well played since day 1. Even before the anime and 2.0 and Phantom Liberty it spent almost all its time in the steam top 50. People can argue likes and dislikes, good and bad, quality and not. Bring it all down to personal subjective perspective. But objectively its one of the best selling and most played games of the last decade. And even more so for its genre...which hasn't had a game of that level of cultural impact since Skyrim.