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33. "RE: a few more general thoughts"
In response to message #16
 
   >It's been a while since I saw a game that polarized opinion so
>strongly, too. Everyone who's playing it seems either to love CP2077
>in spite of its flaws or despise the fact that it was ever greenlit.
>I have yet to see anyone who is interested in it (so, leaving
>out the people who just don't give a crap one way or the other) whose
>opinion about it is equivocal. Different people's experiences of the
>same game being so diametrically opposed makes a strong case for the
>pointlessness of third-party reviews.
>

30-odd hours into the game and I think I'm your unicorn on this topic. It's not a bad, un-fun game, and a lot of the aesthetics are great, but there are enough rough edges and sharp bits sticking out of all layers (performance, bugs, game mechanic design choices/failures, and plotlines) that while I think it's a decent enough game and don't want to demand my money back I am also not putting this into my personal top 10 games. Which, since I was greatly looking forward to it previously, is a let down. Honestly the best quick summary I can think of for the game is 'unfinished'. So many potential systems, plotlines, features, etc. are started or hinted at and just lead to nothing that it's pretty obvious this game crashed into its deadline hard.

That said, CDPR has been known to push out fixes and updates, and some meaty no extra cost DLCs, with earlier titles so we'll see where things stand in 6 to 12 months.

I will say that I can fully see why this game is running like trash on aged consoles. My rig is older but still usually capable (i7-6700K, 32 GB RAM, Crucial SATA SSDs, GTX 1080 GPU) and I get some issues now and again, all while the game hammers my CPU and GPU. XBox One and PS4 are running older AMD CPU and GPU chips which were a bit underpowered when those consoles were released, let alone now, so it's frankly a miracle no one's console has burst into flames trying to run this thing yet.


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   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't MoonEyes Dec-08-20 1
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Matrix Dragon Dec-08-20 3
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Pasha Dec-08-20 6
              RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-08-20 7
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Matrix Dragon Dec-08-20 2
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Zemyla Dec-08-20 4
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't MuninsFire Dec-08-20 5
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-11-20 8
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't MoonEyes Dec-11-20 9
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-11-20 15
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't BZArchermoderator Dec-11-20 10
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't TheOtherSean Dec-11-20 11
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Peter Eng Dec-11-20 12
              RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Pasha Dec-11-20 13
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-11-20 14
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Rieverre Dec-23-20 38
   a few more general thoughts Gryphonadmin Dec-13-20 16
      RE: a few more general thoughts MoonEyes Dec-13-20 17
          RE: a few more general thoughts Astynax Dec-13-20 18
          RE: a few more general thoughts BobSchroeck Dec-15-20 26
              RE: a few more general thoughts Gryphonadmin Dec-15-20 27
                  RE: a few more general thoughts Zemyla Dec-16-20 28
      RE: a few more general thoughts drakensis Dec-14-20 19
      RE: a few more general thoughts Sofaspud Dec-14-20 20
          RE: a few more general thoughts StClair Dec-14-20 21
              RE: a few more general thoughts Astynax Dec-14-20 23
                  RE: a few more general thoughts Sofaspud Dec-14-20 24
                  RE: a few more general thoughts Gryphonadmin Dec-14-20 25
      RE: a few more general thoughts Verbena Dec-14-20 22
     RE: a few more general thoughts Astynax Dec-21-20 33
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Zemyla Dec-20-20 29
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-20-20 30
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Sofaspud Dec-20-20 31
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Bushido Dec-21-20 32
              RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't MoonEyes Mar-14-21 45
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Dec-25-20 40
   it's about respect Gryphonadmin Dec-21-20 34
      RE: it's about respect Zemyla Dec-21-20 35
          RE: it's about respect Gryphonadmin Dec-21-20 36
              RE: it's about respect Astynax Dec-22-20 37
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't CdrMike Dec-24-20 39
   RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Rieverre Jan-08-21 41
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Astynax Jan-08-21 42
      RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Gryphonadmin Jan-08-21 43
          RE: Someone Didn't Think This Through dep't Verbena Jan-08-21 44


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