It really doesn’t make sense from a story standpoint. Essentially all of your choices in the 1st game are irrelevant as is any gear you obtain. It’s the antithesis of what an RPG is supposed to be, where your choices matter.  In this game they mean nothing because the next part is just going to ignore them.  Yuffie…

To be fair, you have to play the game at least that many hours to get a good idea of the game’s writing.

Heck even if you put all the crap CDProject pulled aside, compared to the witcher 3 CP2077 is just a vastly inferior game in regards to how good the quests are and how dynamic things can be. 

There are comparisons to GTAV in regards to how smart the AI is. Suffice to say it’s a lot worse than a game from 2013 and that’s considering that GTAV didn’t really have five head AI to begin with.

Putting aside performance issues at launch, after about 20 hours into the game you realize how boring and flat a majority of the quests are in the game. The devs clearly got a lot of work done on a lot of the early stuff but the further you dig the more you realize what was left unfinished.

I’m sorry I laughed out loud when you said the show was a masterpiece. It’s good but it ain’t no masterpiece. It’s clearly designed to appeal to a broad audience but as a result lacks a lot of depth in regards to the universe / lore.

“notable flaws”

It is a train wreck. Most other open world games are better and that’s saying something given that most open world games are generic repetitive trash. CP2077 can’t even be bothered to do a remotely competent police system.

It is half done.  Broken police system, zero faction content, and pretty clearly cut things like faction wars and a mass transit system among many other things.  Even if you were to play this game without any preconceptions it’s pretty obvious where stuff was going to be filled in and never was.

While a memory leak can cause issues, it can never cause hardware failure, prevent your PC from booting (memory leaks reside on a abstraction layer higher that your OS after all) or anything serious that a simple system restart won’t fix.

“Also, I’m pretty sure most people dropping $700-2000 on a video card are running benchmarks and stress tests.”

“JayzTwoCents put out a video on this today and says it is very likely the game and not the cards causing the problem and that anyone playing the game should reduce their max GPU power to at least 90% if not lower and cap their FPS well below what they are capable of playing at. He is so worried about the game that he…

“Completely fair take. We all have our values and we have to draw lines somewhere”

Medicine isn’t really comparable. You need to take medicine, it’s not really a choice. You don’t need an entertainment product though.

“I could be the best filmmaker in the world but I can’t go out and shoot a bunch of scenes, add them to an existing film, remix the existing stuff and then go on tour with “my cut”.”

“Doesn’t matter if the game is old and not supported. The EULA still stands. Jaws is a film from 1975, but I can’t charge people to see it without making a license deal with the studio.”

In short money = power.

Legally speaking, you don’t own any digital product. You own a license (which is a fancy way of saying you don’t really own anything).  This is what people were warning of decades back and as the world becomes more digital, it’ll only get worse.

“No, it’s DMCA and its ilk, which state it’s illegal to circumvent DRM to modify software. It’s a loophole corporations figured out to prevent people from doing legal things.”

“Big software corps tend to treat mods as “IP theft” because they involve tampering with the protected code”