The Witcher 4 is looking to Cyberpunk 2077 in one specific way
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The Witcher 4 is set to continue a CD Projekt Red trend from Cyberpunk 2077, and it's all about how we interact with the studio's stories.

“Our trademark is the freedom given to the player, but always with limits,” Kalemba tells Lega Nerd

Aye, they try to hype the idea of a main quest line as something that defines their design.

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Thinking back I’m not sure I want Witcher 4 to feel more like CP2077, tbh. Less, if anything.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    127·
    1 year ago

    I feel like cyberpunk was a great game, even on release. The story and gameplay were great, it just had performance issues for some PCs and it shouldn’t have been released on consoles at the time.

    That said, CDPR marketing team needs to learn to temper expectations

    • quams69@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      1 year ago

      I got it at release as well and I could not disagree more. It was buggy, broken, and incomplete. I watched police NPCs spawn in from the sky, my game softlocked when a story essential npc fell through the world. These were commonly observed issues, among a litany of other ones. You gotta have some serious rose tinted glasses to think it was an acceptable product on release.

      Imo Gameplay and story were like a 2.5/5, went back for PL and it might be a 3. Gameplay is serviceable at best. Story was lifted from an GITS:SAC episode which is about the most praise I have for the game aside from the art department. The 3D assets in 2077 are inarguably beautiful.

      • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
        93·
        1 year ago

        I know survivor bias or w/e but literally no one I know irl who played it 10+ had those issues unless they were on console.

        I played it for over a hundred hours immediately after release and only saw a few minor bugs like audio/lip animations not matching for some scenes. I don’t know how all my friends/coworkers were so lucky when all you see on the internet is “worst game ever, doesn’t work at all on release” comments

        • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Same! Pre-ordered and played hundreds of hours. It should’ve been released 6 months later but most of the bugs weren’t game-breaking. If an NPC had their arms stretched out to the side or whatever, I’d just have a laugh and move on. I’ve had to reload a save to get a side quest to trigger twice. I don’t think it’s even ever crashed on me though.

          It’s just become blindly accepted that it is/was unplayable. I remember seeing so many articles months, even a year, after its release just confused about how so many people could be playing this unplayable game. Yet it’s always been consistently in Steam’s top 25 games for active players. It’s a weird disconnect.