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Yes, it was far far more than just a buggy release. Even if the game was originally released in the state it's in now people would still have been pissed. The bugs were just a distraction.

Yeah, the only other game that was so brazenly lied about before launch was No Man's Sky and to their credit Hello Games actually implemented everything that was promised back then now and then some, for free.

Even now, years later, there are still unfixed bugs. I have a game where there's one mission showing up in a building that is impossible to enter. I even started the game clean from the beginning a year ago and hit the same damn bug again.

Others have reported it too, so I'm not the only one.

I didn't have any gamebreaking bugs, but had soooo so many "how the fuck did this pass quality control?" bugs. Most of them were pretty funny, like the time I didn't understand how the cyberpsycho quests worked, and tried to take the unconscious body with me.

The game system did not like having that body in the trunk of my car, with hilarious Dali-esque consequences.

Aside from that, the deep systems that were promised were extremely shallow; the onscreen map was fucked, too small to see turns coming (pathing too CPU-intensive when zoomed out?); the onscreen HUD still last time I played was too small to read on a 4k screen; the car handling / driving is still atrocious (at least, last time I played). It is a fun game, especially for those picking it up now. Mods make it much more fun.

Honestly you're not wrong, the launch of the game was actually horrible. The game was good in theory but was halfway executed and shoved into our faces as something great when it obviously wasn't when they shipped it.

Not only did it have all the bugs and missing features, the game was disappointingly mediocre even if it had been working perfectly. The only thing I thought was excellently done was the layout of the city itself.

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.

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.

I see this argument a lot when people criticize this game and it seems like you are all suffering from some Mandela fever dream. Or maybe you just didn't watch any of the trailers and dev commentary?

CDPR literally marketed the game as and constantly raved about how the city was the most immersive sandbox possible. With fully scripted AI living full lives and reacting realistically to you. A full police system that would enforce harsh punishments. They wanted players to believe it was going to be the same level of interactivity with the world as games like GTA or Watch Dogs.

Idk what made you think they were "never going to deliver" that when it was constantly being talked about by the PEOPLE WHO MADE THE GAME.

"Well, CDPR has never made a game like that and the Witcher series wasn't like that so it doesn't matter that they spent years telling everyone that it was going to be that way! It's you're fault for not knowing!"

Classic.

You can't say that when for literally YEARS CDPR advertised the game as being exactly that. A futuristic, play-who-you-want RPG sandbox. Instead we practically got a Far Cry clone with light RPG elements. They just quietly stopped advertising it as such.

But people remember. Just because you didn't expect it yourself doesn't mean it wasn't advertised as such.

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I stopped playing the game because of how bad I found the story and the characters.

One of the first pieces of clothing I picked up were chaps. When equipped, I was running around with my dong out.

I stumbled into ninja hacker as my build too. It's so fun!

Working public transit would have gone a long way towards this kind of immersion. It's a damn shame too, because the system technically exists, and there are even placeholders for stations.

I think there were a lot of resources put towards getting the whole damn thing to run on last gen XB and PS4 which just made so many things impossible, and obviously you dont really want to have a couple versions out there without feature parity. They ended up with it anyway, but I think we may have seen a more complete product on launch had those dev resources not been needed for the older consoles.

HG hasn't implemented EVERYTHING as promised. Honestly....

But the game is a lot better. Very little bugs. Spent some hours with it via Game Pass. I enjoy it way more versus Day 1 release. But the core mechanics are still a problem. That loop of "mine, find stuff, build a quick base (new), leave planet" is still present. They've just added extra stuff to do, but that little quirk is what makes the game get boring REALLY fast. Even the planets are still single biome which creates this lack of need or desire for exploration. I want to do things outside of that, and while I can with missions, the missions are boring and lackluster. Without a doubt, the game is still decent in its own right. But $60 dollars? Hell no.

You just can't fix how a game was intended to be played unfortunately.

It plays well on PC too. It was mostly last-gen consoles that had issues iirc.

Thanks much! That's a relief because I really want to play it.