I Refunded Cyberpunk 2077 In 2020, Now It's My Favorite Game Of 2024

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It's always been a dream of mine to be some no-nonsense street punk roaming some future dystopia where tech has reached an advanced stage — basically, the world of . After all, I'm a kid of the 90s, and movies like,, and even the oft-panned Stephen Spielberg's (though that was released in 2001) made my childhood, instilling memories of a not-too-distant future where I could have a really cool robot arm to smash things apart with. Sadly, my aspirations to be a part man, part robot failed to materialize in any meaningful way in real life or via a good video game.

That was until 2020 when CD Projekt Red released — or at least that's what I have said had I been actually able to run the bug-ridden mess of a game., while now generally acclaimed and beloved by the masses, was actually a pretty terrible product at launch. Riddled with bugs and a severe lack of optimization for hardware most people possessed in 2020; the game was virtually unplayable for me at the time. As a result, I ended up initiating a Steam refund, relegating it to the dusty bin of the myriad of unplayed Steam games I've purchased, promptly forgetting about it — until recently.

Four years after its abysmal launch, CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 has finally earned the coveted description of «Overwhelmingly Positive.»

Though my first experience with was underwhelming, to say the least (I didn't make it out of the first sequence because of a recurring crash), having been a game journalist and editor for the past few years, I was more than tempted to pick up the game again and give it another shot. As luck would have it, I didn't actually have to do that myself, as my wife ended up getting the Ultimate Edition with the DLC included for the holidays (, she is the best).

I had read about and watched a lot of clips of and also watched on Netflix, so I knew the IP at this point was preem, but what I didn't anticipate was just how much fun I would have playing it. To give a frame of reference, after my time