Cyberpunk 2077 faced a tough reception at launch, but with the Phantom Liberty DLC nearing launch, one CDPR dev feels the RPG was better than history records.

…uh, no. It was a hot mess at launch.

  • Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    New Vegas and Fallout 3 were borderline unplayable on PS3 when they launched too.

    Old timers keep warning people not to buy on launch. But every time a ‘big’ game comes along, there are a lot of people who ignore the warnings and do it anyway.

    Witcher 3 was the same. Roach(horse) on a roof was a meme at one point. But CDPR wasn’t as famous then, so far less people played that on launch.

    Oh, and while we’re at it, Witcher 3 isn’t a true RPG either. Cyberpunk is quite a lot like Witcher 3 IMHO.

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      How quickly we forget that the Witcher superfans were absolutely livid about CDPR having dumbed down the potion system. I mean, I disagreed then and I disagree now, but “they dumbed it down for consoles” was a bit of a talking point at the time.

      Now, the atrocious input lag and having to shimmy for five minutes to pick up a thing werre always bad, and they aren’t even great after their passive-aggressive option to make it slightly better under objection.

      Still, I do think Witcher 3 is the better game, I was just suprised to find out how many of its strong points do carry over to CP after hearing all the online rage at launch.