Yep— I played Infinite when it first came out and loved it. I hadn’t played a Bioshock game before that. My positive experiences with Infinite are probably what drove me to play the original.

This makes sense. TW1 has a few things going for it that CDPR earned by releasing TW3:

I think, generally, games survive due to certain special pieces of non-mechanical magic within them. In general, games that blaze trails with dialogue, spirit and fundamental human truths seem to be more rewarding to play later than games that revolutionized combat, or were mechanically significant.