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They overhyped the open world. I was expecting a living world, but everything was pretty dead. NPCs dont really react to anything or do anything.

I was (wrongly) expecting a living, breathing world like RDR2

I played it a few weeks after launch on a high end pc and it was so unacceptably buggy I had to stop playing after ten hours or so. I think you might have gotten lucky.

That said, the game as it currently stands is one of my favorites of all time. I felt a noticeable lack when it was over. I’d buy their next game even if the reviews were awful.

It didn't deserve the hate it recieved. I don't think they would have had the reception they did if they didn't release it for older gen hardware.

And yet, they did. They took people's money happily knowing how it ran on last gen software. It was so goddamn bad that Sony removed it from their store after launch. I don't recall that happening ever before or since, let alone to a high profile, highly anticipated game like Cyberpunk.

I don't think they would have had the reception they did if they didn't release it for older gen hardware.

You're probably right. I'm sure that factored in. Who knows how much dev time went to old console hardware that was never going to run the game well.

I had a similar experience playing on PC with what was a nearly brand new PC build. I ran into a few bugs but nothing broke the game. It was a lot of fun.

I think many people took issue with the launch features CDPR promised that weren't delivered until much later. I haven't kept track but maybe some weren't delivered at all.

It wasn’t the bugs that I was disappointed by it was the years of teasers for a largely different game than we got. It’s still a very good game but not the one I was anticipating.

I had enough bugs to render it unplayable on launch, but I was also using much older hardware and running Linux. Returned it on launch, bought it on sale a year or two later after a big hardware upgrade, and I've played through it twice now and loved it.

Most people with early problems were on console.

Well, the people with the most problems were on console, anyway.

Similar experience.

I had 2 bugs that I noticed explicitly, one being a T pose on a character and the other being props just existing behind invisible walls or floors (like money that you can’t pick up on the floor)

The rest of it, performance was spotty at times when it was spawning mobs but mostly without issue, I also ran it from a HDD so that might’ve had something to do with it.

It also crashed every so often, sometimes an hour in, sometimes 4, but I think that’s an issue with the nvidia drivers more than anything because even gothic 1 remake does that to me.

I did hear that people experienced more issues if they ran the game on medium or low settings, so while I had mine cranked up to max, I think I was averaging 50-55 fps, but at the same time, nothing that prevented me from finishing the game

Remember the hype about the game tho? It was lauded as the next coming of Gaben

Same. I saw a civilian car bug out with some weird physics and some texture pop-in issues and that was pretty much it.

It felt like it needed some more polish/balance in the combat system/mob AI system (esp the cops). I thought I became powerful too quickly, playing Netrunner I could just pull up in a car outside and use the cameras to kill everything in the area before walking in and collecting the loot.

It was fun, it just didn't feel too challenging. The balance pass that came with the expansion is much better.

My friend was playing on a Playstation and his experience mirrors the social media complaints.

Bugs are sometimes very individual. I played many games considered broken, and experienced few issues. I tried playing Cyberpunk multiple times, and the game was completely busted every time.

As someone who has worked in the video game industry for a few years, including in QA - I don't have an explanation for you.

It didn't deserve the hate it recieved.

The game? Maybe it did. Maybe it didn't. CDPR as a company, however, absolutely deserved all the hate and more. They have an extensive history of blatant lies in marketing, then gaslighting players who notice it. It wasn't just Cyberpunk, but it was the worst. So far, at least.

The company is awful and deserves to go bankrupt.

The pre-release marketing was also written for an entirely different product. Even the narration of the extensive gameplay footage they showed was completely dishonest, at a point in time where the product was very close to its release state.

I'm amazed when I read stuff like this because I don't understand where people find the time.

Although I'm really glad you like it so much and get so much out of it

God, turning away to leave the lake gets me every fucking time. Even just reading about it makes me tear up.

I've never actually finished it. I've gotten to what I think is almost the end, I've done every task and mission and everything else, all that's left is just driving around or finishing the game, and I don't want it to end and restart.

Narrators voice: they did not, in fact, learn their lesson.

Yeah everyone I've seen complaining about the launch had it on consoles. I played it on PC a couple days after launch and played through the whole thing in a week or so because I was off work, and don't remember having a single crash or issue.

Comparing Cyberpunk to No Man's Sky is unfair too.

No Man's Sky is an indie game, who's team - normal people - simply made mistakes, and later made up for them.

Cyberpunk is a product (or service) from a multi billion dollar company that made 100% calculated and deliberate decisions.

This is a very important distinction to make when judging these two (and many other) titles and studios.

People are too kind in hindsight. What was promised and what was delivered were two completely different games.

This is ignoring the glaring problems with the half-baked design that was missing any kind of innovation in open world design that had occured since witcher 3. It just felt bland and unfinished in a lot of ways, not to mention bugs galore that had nothing to do with the hardware running it. Cant blame all the glitches on the machine not being powerful enough....

Excluding consoles that could not handle their game would have been worse than them happily taking consumers' money for a game that was so broken that Sony removed it from their storefront?