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OP is the one complaining about people enjoying a game because they didn't like it themselves. They aren't quietly enjoying a different game, they're posting about not liking one everyone else is enjoying.

Others: "I like this game, I think its really good" OP: "STOP SAYING THE GAME IS GOOD I THINK YOU'RE DELUSIONAL"

I dont see anyone in this thread pestering OP about changing their opinion, only OP railing against it and accusing everyone else of lying or being delusional.

The concrete reasons you've mentioned so far are essentially rationalizations of your subjective experience. "Bullet sponge" isnt a 'concrete' metric, and neither are a lot of your other complaints. Again, you're absolutely free to hate the game - but pretending as if your feelings on the subject are somehow universally constant and the many people who disagree are just making their opinions up is fantasy.

The only one insisting on their review as an objective fact is you.

i just want to play the game everyone is describing to me but the cyberpunk 2077 that i downloaded is absolutely not that game.

Nah, that shit was wack, sadly the most fun romance options were a lesbian and a straight manly man ex cop, so I didn't see no neon light booba, driving was shit, especially that race missions scale to your car's speed, so that its actually harder to win with faster vehicles. Setting was... ok. After playing Shadowrun and Ruiner it was kinda meh. What was good was music (it would be fucked if it was bad when the main character is a rockstar) and writing (not everywhere, but like, the delaiman quest was cool, even if it started of as a "collect 5 items") Johny was actually kinda cool, in the way that you get to see him both at his highest and lowest and I kinda grew fond of that piece of shit. The themes were usually not that deep, but had good moments. Nothing superb, but cmon, I would take this any day over the elder slops 5

not to mention how fucking awful all of the voice acting is.

Are you sure you're not talking about a different game? The voice acting is perfectly fine and on-par with any other game up there.

It's perfectly fine not liking this game, but on steam it has ~90% positive reviews, so it kinda fits my rating. What similar game would you recommend instead?

(sure wish i could put the phone on silent, or at least choose if i answer it)

You can do either of those. They're both options. You can even choose which calls to send to text automatically.

Are you sure you updated the game?

See, you're using inflammatory language. You're framing your subjective experience as objective fact by using such definitive language. If you softened this up just a touch by saying things like "I didn't like the dialog", "I thought Keanu Reeves performance was cringe", "I think a 9 is too high of a score for this game", your thoughts would not only be more well received, you'd invite follow up questions like "what made you dislike Reeves' performance?" and then we could have an actual discussion about it, instead of just collectively shouting at walls.

If you turn down the graphics settings, it starts looking like shit

Who would have known ? lol

y r u so passionate about disliking a videogame 😭

PC specs?

I play CP77 on a Steam Deck, through Proton, and encounter literally none of the issues you describe.

As to your second paragraph:

lol ok buddy, clearly you hate literally everything abkut this game, maybe rpgs that require some actual long term planning type thought, and an attention span exceeding 5 seconds, maybe this kind of a game just is not for you, and maybe you have in this thread described literally every single aspect of this game as atrocious.

Clearly you are emotionally raging right now lol, just being extremely critical of everything, like this game cheated on you with your best friend, and you're having a crash out.

Man there is so much to unpack here.

janky "bullet sponge" combat

Turn down the difficulty or make a build that isn't ass, nearly every build can one shot enemies on Hard if you aren't just shotgunning perk points at random perks at all times

awful vehicles

Most of the cars look great but driving gameplay isn't CDPR's strong suit, I'll grant you that

fugly characters

Turn up your graphics settings

invincible enemies bc they clipped into the ground AGAIN

Literally never had this problem once

bad voice acting

You might be the only person with this opinion, I can agree with you in regards to Johnny, this doesn't apply to almost anyone else in the game

distinct lack of player agency

In what manner, exactly? V is railroaded down the story somewhat, but I challenge you to find an RPG where that isn't the case, only one I can think of is Kenshi and that game literally doesn't have a storyline.

feeling of being constantly harassed whenever i try to get my bearings for a second

Honestly have no idea what you're talking about, please elaborate

fake dialog trees

What does this even mean?

fake options in the fake dialog trees (ie nice and mean options presented, upon picking nice the character says the nice thing, then follows it up with the mean thing)

Oh no, God forbid you have a dialogue option that gives you, you know, dialogue instead of just having an "Accept Quest" button attached to the NPC

misleading options in the fake dialog trees (character line does not match menu option at all)

Examples? If you're just complaining that the dialogue selection tree doesn't tell you your entire line of dialogue ahead of time, that's silly, and also there is a mod to change that.

poor level design

You are the only person to hold this opinion that I've ever met

ludicrous amounts of padding in every dialog

See previously, Oh no, God forbid you have a dialogue option that gives you, you know, dialogue instead of just having an "Accept Quest" button attached to the NPC

poor environment design language

"color vomit" aesthetic (as opposed to having a color palette)

I'm sticking these two together because they're similarly nonsensical, Night City has incredible environmental design sometimes on the level of Fromsoft games, and the game has an incredibly obvious red-dominated color palette when it isn't giving way to the interesting and correctly multicolored city outside of the immediate threat of Arasaka boot. The color language used in the game is supportive of its themes and quite well implemented in my opinion.

awful stealth mechanics

I wouldn't call 'em great, but they're more in depth than 90% of other RPGs with a stealth gameplay option. Do you prefer the Skyrim style of "you're invisible if you're crouching"? Because if so you're just wrong.

shit gunplay

Absolutely insane take, the gunplay is on par or better than any other FPS I've played other than Titanfall or Destiny

broken control configurator (m+kb back then, gamepad today)

Don't know what you're talking about, I played with M+K on launch and I played again on controller after the release of Phantom Liberty, never had a problem.

lack of any engaging "toys" to play with in the "sandbox" of night city

Unsure what you mean by this, but if you explain it a bit this might be one of the few things on this list I might totally agree with you on. There isn't much to do out in the city other than quests, or hunting for loot in tucked away corners or on rooftops. I still got 120+ hours of gameplay from just doing that though.

lack of a "skip intro" option for successive playthroughs (though im told the dlc includes one. so very pro-consumer of them to put it behind a fucking paywall.)

It got old after the 4th or 5th time through it, sure, but if you're raring to skip Konpeki Plaza to get to "the real game" then you have completely missed the entire artistic purpose of the game. This is like being Big Mad that you can't start Final Fantasy 7 at the point where you escape Midgar. Have some appreciation for an extremely well constructed classic cyberpunk mission gone bad that sets up 100 hours of further storyline. The Konpeki Plaza heist is by a long shot the coolest part of the entire game up until you get into Phantom Liberty.

Maybe for you, but I like it

That's why we have different games and genres