I played Cyberpunk at launch and while I had some bugs, I generally really enjoyed it and did each of the missions in the game,
I decided to replay it since it’s been updated a lot and I’ve found that I’m just bored when playing it. I think I spend about half the time just skipping dialog and the other half shooting.
The combat sections seem to pass too quickly just to have a bunch of story to wade through.
Maybe I’m just in the mood for a different kind of game.
I played through the game long after it had been patched up. I enjoyed it enough. When Phantom Liberty released I went back to start a new save to play it and after playing through the different character background introductory bit I realized it just wasn’t going to be that different of an experience the second time around. So I just loaded up my endgame save for the DLC. I had fun with that, but going around with a maxed out character blowing everything up with a shotgun definitely trivialized things.
Played it at launch and I’ve never had the desire to jump back into it since beating it the first time. I never had major issues with bugs or anything, the story was just on rails, there was no point in jumping back into it to play the same story all over again. Like yea, I guess they changed some systems and mechanics, but whatever.
I’ve been replaying it on a PS5 for the first time since launch (on PS4) and despite skipping a lot of dialogue I’m enjoying feeling so much more immersed in the gameplay & world.
I’m finding the Phantom Liberty DLC to be quite refreshing - fresh, fleshed-out story content and some additional variety in the sidequests. Despite all this I’m never feeling challenged by the combat (on hard difficulty) and am largely just enjoying the stealth/hacking.
I get why you might be thinking this. If you’re on PC, I suggest modding the game. Im playing though my 2nd play through. Played through to PL and then only recently decided to play with modding and it’s a game changer. Now playing the PL part of the game and already thinking about a 3rd play through. The mods I have make it feel like a remaster. If you want I’ll list out the key mods (just let me know).
Can I mod out all the story and just do the missions 😂
I think you can actually. If you’ve already completed the game there’s a mod that allows you to start a new game plus. You keep all your stats points and gear, and I think you can have it start as if the story is complete so you can just explore the world again and do all the side stuff. I’m not 100% sure but there are loads of YT vids that cover it. Just look for cyberpunk new game plus mod.
The initial play through was too boring for me. There’s probably still more tutorials and mechanics I haven’t got to yet but it got to be a slog with me feeling the same, too much story (that I just wasn’t feeling) and not enough action for it be fun.
I guess, the first play through was much better as it was during pandemic/lockdown and I had tons of free time.
My, now, wife was staying with her parents and I was in the condo alone.
But now I’m just too busy to listen to the story to play a little bit of a shooter.
I think having a wife actually is part of it for me. I’m one of those introverted guys and burn most of that social battery at my full time job. I haven’t been able to ‘feel’ relationship ties with in-game characters for years. Ive given it thought before and landed on the fact that those feelings are reserved for my wife and close friends. That along with my taste pivoting from first to third person games just made CyberPunk a bad purchase. I don’t blame the game though, CDPR seems to have done an amazing job and it looks great now.
