I've been a huge fan of CDPR since the witcher 2. I love the world of cyberpunk. The combination seemed like a dream come true. So, I deliberately held out on absolutely any and all spoilers. It was not easy.

I bought a new computer for the game. I booked a two week vacation to play the game.

And, I mostly enjoyed it. It was a little bit underwhelming, and some systems seemed a bit contrived. But, it was still fun, with some amazing city design. Definitely not something that I would call GoTY.

Then, I looked at all the outrage, and I looked at the promotional material. And, oh boy, did that seem fraudulent. Like, "how come no one went to jail"-fraud. Pretty straight up lying about every part of the game. And why? I don't know, but it seriously stained my view of CDPR.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Never ever ever buy a game until after reviews come out. It's not worth it. It doesn't matter if it's from a legendary game studio, they can find all of the developers, they could fire all of the managers, and still be called the same thing. The name is no guarantee of anything.

Pre-ordering games had a point back when they were mostly physical, because if you didn't, you ran the risk of them running out. Although I didn't pre-order GTA V, and just walked into a game store on the day of release and bought two copies, so since then I've rather been of the opinion that even with physical products, it's probably not very likely they're going to run out.

But now everything's digital there's 100% no reason to pre-order. Make them make the actual product they claimed to have made.

[–] ADTJ@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

I played through it at launch on my lower end gaming laptop (1050 GPU) that I had at the time. With some fiddling, and basically turning everything to lowest I got it to just about playable framerates.

Massively enjoyed the game and its universe. I hit a few bugs but nothing that was hugely game breaking, at least nowhere as bad as people were saying. I also managed my expectations knowing my hardware at the time was low-end/dated.

Then I saw footage of the game being played on base tier PS4 and Xbox One hardware and holy shit, if I'd bought it on either of those (especially Xbox), I'd have been furious. The game was not ready and should never have been released for those consoles. It clearly needed at least PS4 Pro or One X to even be remotely playable at launch.