Have you....played it?
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Same here, granted I just upgraded my GPU to a 3000 series, which certainly helped (my old 970 wasn’t gonna cut it), but man, people are blowing this wayyyy outta proportion. I’ve seen much worse from other triple A titles before. Never this amount of backlash though. Granted, sites like this are doing nothing to…
Which doesn’t do anything to address a fall from grace narrative the person you were responding to wasn’t even advocating, nor does it do anything to address his actual point about the way in which CDPR has squandered their goodwill in the market.
It’s not a mediocre game though, and this part is very important to note. In fact, it’s a really good game. It’s just a really good game with some enormous technical problems on base consoles, and numerous glitches on better and next gen consoles and PCs. This, by the way, is exactly the same state that The Witcher 3…
Man, come on. Have you played it? I love this game. I know it’s fun to shit all over it right now because of the state it’s in and everyone wants to do their “See? Told you so” hot take. But it’s a fun game on anything besides a base model last gen console.
I remember the launch of Witcher 3 and that it caused the same kind of commotion as Cyberpunk is but on a lighter level. Up until release I remember people treating CDPR like they could do no wrong and they make perfect games. There were so many articles about W3 and it’s issues, like the tiny font for one, and from…
Hardly mediocre lol.
The odd thing is that when you can play it, the game is actually pretty good. I’ve been having a lot of fun with it on PC.
The “mediocre” game that hovers around a 90% critical rating on PC, PS5, Xbox Series S, Series X and Stadia? It’s fine if you don’t like it but your whole premise is based around the ‘fact’ that this is a mediocre game, and for all the Reddit wish lists of what it could/should have been, the fact is that these 13…
“They managed to leverage all their Witcher 3 goodwill”
PS4 Pro player here. The game’s really enjoyable, the bugs are largely just funny, and most crashes (maybe 1 per 4-6 hours play (I’m 49 hours in)) are inoffensive because of auto saves. Only once has a group of bugs resulted in an actual issue, which is where I was permanently recognised in combat, disallowing me and…
This struck me as odd too:
By the sound of Riley’s description, I’m tempted to say that CDPR took an enlightened approach to Making A Statement with this game by not making any. They just let the world be big, and messy, and diverse, and everything at once but unevenly distributed. Maybe “enlightened” is optimistic, but maybe allowing the…
And not all creative works can encompass the world in the depth in which we each individually experience.
I think the answer to your question “why” is because a reviewer’s hot take is proportionate to public fervor. It happens in movies as well, but I think it’s especially troublesome in cases like this, where they’re reviewing a massive, open world, sandbox-choose-your-adventure RPG. Pretending that you should get a…
Given the type of game and the story it purports to tell, I don’t think it’s unfair to point this out per se. I just can’t understand why this is relevant to the assessment of the quality of the product. And it is a product that’s being reviewed (or should be) - not the socio-political progressiveness of those who…
I played Witcher 2 a lot more than 3. Assassins of Kings has a great plot! Nuff said
“It’s not a politically progressive game: these identities are all in service of the game’s vision of the cyberpunk future, one that can feel implausible and alienating but also has hints of the world we live in today.”
In 2019 the movie industry made $41 billion and the music industry made $19 billion.
Video games made $152 billion.