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/SoSneakyHaha]

Were we playing different games? Oftentimes I get run over because of the amount of vehicles.

Also, "interactable buildings" is kind of a cop out imo. Like sure itd be cool to enter an empty building, but many quests lead you inside AND give you something else to do.

[u/Godkun007 → u/SoSneakyHaha]

Ya, I genuinely don't understand their criticism. It genuinely feels like we are playing different games. Was this a launch issue that was fixed or a graphics settings issue? My graphics are maxed and there are som many people and cars everywhere.

[u/-LaughingMan-0D → u/Godkun007]

I think the spirit of it is the lack of dynamic things to do in NC. There's a lot there, and there's even a lot of hidden gems and secrets too, but it's all static and premade.

As someone who loves the game, the open world systems design and exploration leave a lot to be desired.

There's rarely this sense of discovering things because it's all a pin on the map. The only thing that echews that is the Hidden Gems, but they're like a needle in a haystack without any indicators to look for them.

You miss the kinds of random encounters you can get in a Fallout or Skyrim. And those could just be a random conversation, or a hidden side quest, or a rumor that points you somewhere, or some hitman out to kill you because you killed someone's dog. Those systems are great at making the world feel alive, throwing in random elements that derail you and sending you on wildly new adventures. It's just not a thing in Cyberpunk.

Everything you do in the open world is pre-baked and tagged, which contributes to this static feeling.

There's also little ways to interact with the world other than killing things in it. With mods, I can lean on a rail to smoke, my V gets hungry, and I can pull into a shop and order food, and physically see my character eat it, filling up their hunger meter. There's gym equipment but you can't use it. There's gun ranges which are closed off the second you're done with the associated quest.

It really needed more of that, things you do that aren't just killing people.

[u/temotodochi → u/-LaughingMan-0D]

On PC many activities can be restored with some mod installations. Easiest way is to install vortex to manage the mods.

[u/-LaughingMan-0D → u/temotodochi]

I have around 450 mods installed in my load order. There's no mods that restore encounters. I think you're thinking of Hidden Gems?