Every game is like that nowadays and its getting all a bit previous.
Game got remade too many times and didn't stick to a vision, that's why we got this mess. While the Witcher 3 even with some issues wasn't even close of being a mess like this. It had a vision and got it fulfilled, also can't help after TW3 had a huge brain leak, in a way where several employee left the company so probably they lost the talent that had know how to do a game on this scale.
Gamer expectations harmed the game. Overhyping from a gamers perspective harmed the game. Personally I never have expectations nor follow the hype for any game, I form my own when playing the game. Personally I am enjoying Cyberpunk, have only seem one bug so far and Inputmapper caused flatlining (DS4), using native support (DS4) , haven't flatlined since.
Don't know if you're trolling, I can't simply understand you and honestly don't want to so I'll just leave the conversation here
I feel like they tried to make three or four different games and ended up with something that kind of resembles a game. Feels like someone took a couple jigsaw puzzles and mixed them together, put half of the mixed pieces in a box and threw out the other half. Sure, putting together the puzzle is fun at times but some pieces don't seem to fit and others seem to be entirely missing. It has some masterful aspects to it but overall it's a train wreck and I take zero pleasure in saying that.
No it's not. It's the same castrated sloppy techdemo that makes you feel like sucker, and literally lies to you, promising something and immediately failing to deliver, with nearly every step you make. Just looks better, and runs better.
You are comparing absolutely different games in absolutely everything and putting, who knows why and where, if not a mere opinion (although respectable) that 8 years would be one or some reasonable time to make a game (if yes? tell me why - waiting here...). Not even CD has invested exclusively in CP in the last 8 years, at most, from 2016 to here, when it was freer from TW3 and its expansions. AAA + games, in general, nowadays, take about 12 years to complete. BDO, it took 10 years, Star Citizen (multi) and Squadron 42 (single) are over 8 years old (and they have a giant invested capital).
Just to remember, the new consoles are also not 100% finished ... plus, at most ... they have reached half of that (now its me especulating). Its everything recent...
That's what many pc players are saying now. It may run with ray tracing and 4k, resembling a movie but the core is the same. Flashy graphics will charm you for a couple of days, maybe a week, but then you realize you're just playing a visually stunning incomplete Gta-Borderlands clone.
The Game was developed for current gen market in mind not next gen, it wasnt ready for release they rushed it out for the Xmas slot and it blew up in thier face, wasnt even ready for PC imo. over ambitious? no, other games like it already exist on those platforms this just wasnt ready for release.
Overambition did not harm Cyberpunk, marketing and a rushed-out release did. This is not a GTA clone (nor would I want it to be one, personally) so I was not expecting any of those often-requested GTA features to be present/fleshed out, but the game was marketed as a next-gen, futuristic GTA to the mass market, which comes with certain expectations, and this is the result.
That said, the game falls short in some other, RPG-specific aspects, but I don't think the backlash would have been as strong if the game's marketing was handled differently and it performed better on base consoles. Then again, they probably wouldn't have sold 15 million or so copies in the first week, so hey, maybe marketing did no harm after all.
That said, the game falls short in some other, RPG-specific aspects, but I don't think the backlash would have been as strong if the game's marketing was handled differently and it performed better on base consoles. Then again, they probably wouldn't have sold 15 million or so copies in the first week, so hey, maybe marketing did no harm after all.
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this post makes me want to fire up new vegas again, sure it's ugly as sin compared to today's standards, but boy did it have an awesome story
On the contrary given the unrealistic ambition to create something new and never done before, I think CD project proved itself.
From zero experience in all those areas you mentioned and deliver something of this scale pretty much functional on their first try (it is of course not perfect and half baked in parts), has shown that they have some great talent indeed.
Night City even in this state it's amazing. I have no words to describe how I feel every time I am "in" to explore it, maybe euphoric dunno.
Shame they had to rush it but I doubt it would come any different from what we have now, probably less bugs that's all. As you say they lack the background for this sort of game.
From zero experience in all those areas you mentioned and deliver something of this scale pretty much functional on their first try (it is of course not perfect and half baked in parts), has shown that they have some great talent indeed.
Night City even in this state it's amazing. I have no words to describe how I feel every time I am "in" to explore it, maybe euphoric dunno.
Shame they had to rush it but I doubt it would come any different from what we have now, probably less bugs that's all. As you say they lack the background for this sort of game.
Probably their ambitions to make it work on ps4 en xbox took while trying to make it most beautiful open world, wich is a fail, them down . they probably had to work on this the whole year, letting down other aspects of the game wich still needed lot of work. only the pc version should have been out by now. but its not what happened, sad for developpers who worked hard, deserved for cdpr decisions makers. Tw3 was also a very ambitious game.
I wish I could like this post more than once, you hit the nail on the head here.
Consoles did.
Cdpr should focus on pc first, console second in the future.
Cdpr should focus on pc first, console second in the future.
I think a big issue is that they released it on what is effectively 6 consoles: PS4, PS4 Pro, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox One X, Series X | S. Then there is the issue that this is only their second open world game if we count the Witcher as open world despite it being more large open zones. Then you throw in the pandemic and not being able to have a team test in house so someone could oversee the testing to make sure it happens, I don't know if they do a lot of in house testing or if it is normally remote testing so this could be less of an issue. I am sure there is some level of laziness is going on since the attribute descriptions read like three or four people wrote them and they don't even have the same formatting on how they list the benefits, I also see this in the field I work in since we have been work from home nearly since this thing started to get big in the greater part of the world.
Well according to CDPR dev Patrick Mills, we over hyped the game ourselves.