It was bad at launch, but the game itself is mediocre at best. Except the art of it (acting, graphics, sound…), which is amazing, the game itself is boring, fairly lackluster progression systems during launch (I heard they got revamped later, but never went back), the narrative is limited and uninspired, and there is literally nothing innovative about it. Just your bog standard AAA shoot shoot game with big budgets and small ideas. I doubt Witcher 4 will be any different, just swords and spells instead of guns and hacking.
I mean, all they’d have to do is treat their workers with more respect and maintain realistic expectations for features with that in mind. 2077 was a fucking disaster because they were on crunch almost the whole time and leadership kept adding in features mid development.
I’m going to have an unpopular opinion, brace yourselves.
I had a good pc when cyberpunk released. I waited a few days after release to purchase it. I saw the bad reviews and went ahead to see if it’s truly that bad. I experienced a single bug in my first playthrough. This to date, is one of my favorite games. I loved the story, the atmosphere, the art, the gameplay, exploring…
It didn’t deserve the hate it recieved. I don’t think they would have had the reception they did if they didn’t release it for older gen hardware.
Most people with early problems were on console.
Well, the people with the most problems were on console, anyway.
I had enough bugs to render it unplayable on launch, but I was also using much older hardware and running Linux. Returned it on launch, bought it on sale a year or two later after a big hardware upgrade, and I’ve played through it twice now and loved it.
Similar experience.
I had 2 bugs that I noticed explicitly, one being a T pose on a character and the other being props just existing behind invisible walls or floors (like money that you can’t pick up on the floor)
The rest of it, performance was spotty at times when it was spawning mobs but mostly without issue, I also ran it from a HDD so that might’ve had something to do with it.
It also crashed every so often, sometimes an hour in, sometimes 4, but I think that’s an issue with the nvidia drivers more than anything because even gothic 1 remake does that to me.
I did hear that people experienced more issues if they ran the game on medium or low settings, so while I had mine cranked up to max, I think I was averaging 50-55 fps, but at the same time, nothing that prevented me from finishing the game
Bugs are sometimes very individual. I played many games considered broken, and experienced few issues. I tried playing Cyberpunk multiple times, and the game was completely busted every time.
As someone who has worked in the video game industry for a few years, including in QA - I don’t have an explanation for you.
It didn’t deserve the hate it recieved.
The game? Maybe it did. Maybe it didn’t. CDPR as a company, however, absolutely deserved all the hate and more. They have an extensive history of blatant lies in marketing, then gaslighting players who notice it. It wasn’t just Cyberpunk, but it was the worst. So far, at least.
The company is awful and deserves to go bankrupt.
It wasn’t the bugs that I was disappointed by it was the years of teasers for a largely different game than we got. It’s still a very good game but not the one I was anticipating.
Remember the hype about the game tho? It was lauded as the next coming of Gaben
I was excited for it to come out which is why I bought it despite the reviews being bad. I have no regrets.
When it launched, I had it Day 1 on PS4.
It was fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccked. Crashing, performance was shit, bugs galore, janky textures. There were a lot of people who ended up with a dogshit product from a playability perspective.
I played through it and beat it while it was still in rough shape, because I loved it so much anyway. Obviously, it improved later and it ran well when I upgraded to PS5 (and better when there was a PS5 version released). This game is currently on my PC, because I bought it again just to keep playing it there. It runs great on Linux.
CDPR used to just be a name you trusted because they built a reputation. They hurt their rep with the launch for CP2077, especially after their marketing “Out when it’s ready.” But they have also done the woork to rebuild it, we’ll see with Witcher 4. Big promises to fulfill for that one.
I really think they’re overestimating how bad the CP2077 launch was. Compared to No Man’s Sky it was just a slightly bumpy start. That said, what turned me off was the lack of a 3rd-person perspective and the general setting. A dystopian corporate hellscape “future” is just too close for comfort in reality! I’m sure I’m not the only gamer excited to return to the fantasy world of the Witcher.
Comparing Cyberpunk to No Man’s Sky is unfair too.
No Man’s Sky is an indie game, who’s team - normal people - simply made mistakes, and later made up for them.
Cyberpunk is a product (or service) from a multi billion dollar company that made 100% calculated and deliberate decisions.
This is a very important distinction to make when judging these two (and many other) titles and studios.
People are too kind in hindsight. What was promised and what was delivered were two completely different games.
