When low performance on consoles is responsible for taking away time that otherwise could have been used for developing immersion and AI (mechanics), than it actually is a performance issue.
Unlikely you will hear what you(we) want to hear before second half this year.
If they tell you know, we are going to improvide on X,Y and Z, and they deliver only X and Y, you(we) will bitch about missing Z. Safer to just work as hard as they can, do as much as they can, and then tells "hey look there, we did X and Y"
Yeah I know, but on the other hand, PS4 have been on the market for a very long time and CDPR have been well aware of their limitations. Again, they must have looked at games like GTA 5 and what is possible and then adjust it accordingly. I don't have a PS4 so don't know what the differences are between GTA 5 on PS4 and that of PC, besides some graphic stuff I would assume?
I played a bit of GTA 5 and I don't recall there being a lot of loading screens either?
At least I would assume that CP with maybe some reduced settings etc, should be able to run on a PS4, if GTA 5 is.
I guess you don't own the Witcher 3 and all its extra content. Among the game's free DLCs were not only skins for characters like Yennifer, Ciri or Triss, but also a few new side-quests. And then the paid expansions, especially Blood & Wine, added content worth an entirely separate game. Got the complete package for a total of €50 on my Xbox One, and after playing through the entire game, I feel as if I should've bought all of it full-price when it came out instead of waiting for price cuts. It's that good, in my opinion.
And it is based on that experience, that I pre-ordered the Collector's Edition for Cyberpunk 2077 without a second thought, and why I have faith that this game will yet turn out to be the masterpiece it deserves to be, even though I already enjoy it plenty on my Xbox One X. Yes, it has bugs, like one often preventing me from using my Nekomata unless I reload the most recent save, and the game crashes once every eight hours of play, but it auto-saves plenty, and I've yet to lose more than five minutes of play time whenever I need to reload, so
For me it has completely failed but that does not mean that I do not want CDPR to make this the game they claimed it would be. What it does mean, for me personally, is that I am unwilling to leave good money idle while I wait for that to happen. I have no obligations to CDPR (they cannot say the same) legal or otherwise, and while they continue to signal an obstinate refusal to accept valid criticism my position on this game will remain the same. When I hear from those whose opinion aligns with my own that the game has undegone significant improvements I will return with new money to consume their content.
I'm happy you have had that much pleasure from the game, but I have not and your pleasure does not supercede my displeasure and vice versa.
That is not what I meant. Perfomance is an issue, yes. But after fixing the technical side, the game is mediocre and lackluster in too many ways.
Also polishing the tech for older systems takes no resources form the quest designers or from balancing the skill trees. 90% of the side activites feel like work and the play exactly the same. Most of them are just steal, destroy or kill. In one word violence. You can't solve the majority of these mission by talking. It's by design.
Geralt and V are both mercenaries. But in the witcher series you solve a lot by talking.
And I completely understand your view point. You have the right to your opinion and choices where and to whom you spend your money. No one has obligations to CDPR "unless they work for them" they provide us games. And I do agree that what was advertised is far from what we got. I don't blindly support them but do enjoy the game. I can only speak for myself though. But I do have faith that they will rework/overhaul systems to align it to somewhat which was advertised.
No.
Just fixes and that's it. Massive overhaul in that case means re-designing the whole game. Not going to happen, they already make money on CP2077.
Just fixes and that's it. Massive overhaul in that case means re-designing the whole game. Not going to happen, they already make money on CP2077.
I know what you mean, but I disagree. imo, "lackluster in too many ways" are not issues that exist aside of performance issues. They exist because of the performance issues.
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This. To fix the true problems of the game CDPR would have to scrap the work of the last four years. Some mistakes have been made in the design phase. This is not going to happen.
They are better off planning a sequel. They already know how to do it wrong. Next time should be a lot better
And, in general, it should.
However, the Jaguar CPUs of the last-gen consoles were, certainly performance-wise, already pretty much obsolete when they were introduced. Whereas the GPUs could be considered mid-range back in 2013, the CPUs were near the bottom of the low end, and you'll notice many a game on the older generation of consoles is CPU limited, resulting in NPCs being cut back compared to PC or performance tumbling in areas with lots of NPCs, like Novigrad in the Witcher 3.
And then there's the slow disk drives to make matters worse. Even by 2013 standards, the disk drives used in the Xbox One and PS4 were slow as hell, and literally any external drive, regardless of whether it be an SSD or HDD, is faster. I've used an external 6TB drive for my Xbox One since launch, and my load times are pretty consistent and always faster than any internal solution, including the '40% faster' drive in the Xbox One X. Blame it on them using the long obsolete SATA II standard instead of the, even in 2013, already commonplace SATA III.
I do believe they will go back to the Witcher series, as this is what they do best.
Oh boi, these old gen consoles... I don't know how many times I had to repair my Sega Dreamcast by putting toothpicks between the contact plates on the mainboard.
I have no doubt that they have the ability to deliver on expectations and to go further still. My doubts are not directed at developers, artists, musicians (what a cracker of a soundtrack, imo one of the greatest ever made) or those who got their hands dirty creating the game. Management on the other hand... good grief... what an appallingly bad series of decisions. Marketing on the other foot... despicable.
I do believe they will get there in the end, and I really want the old CDPR back because they were my friends.
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Seriously, there is no need to read articles with negative vibes, to have a opinion. You just have to play the game.
We all got eyes and if somebody can look over the flaws and have there fun of their life that is okay. But if persons can't, then it has nothing to do with it that they are brainwashed from journalists.
They gonna patch up the game, maybe develop 1 big dlc and the suits going to push CDPR to start working on the witcher 4 coz the DLC wont meet the financial expectations.
Hell, after the disastrous CP77 release, I wouldn't be surprised if the Witcher 4 is already in pre-production.
Hell, after the disastrous CP77 release, I wouldn't be surprised if the Witcher 4 is already in pre-production.
This. I completely agree with you. It is unfortunate that what has happened, this truly was a lot of bad calls on managements behalf, and marketing. I just hope our voices get heard and they turn it around. I believe they can and will, there is too much noise from us to just bug fix and patch out glitches. I most definitely want this game to succeed in the end and have a long life. There is so much right and good with this world/City but also so much wrong, especially with 2020/21 systems "AI, physics and such" And yes the soundtrack is a banger! Again everyone is free to feel and voice their concerns and opinions especially with how their money is spent, but if we just give up and focus on the negative "not saying you are focusing on the negative" things will never improve or change.