There is one particular thing about Cyberpunk 2077 that just don´t add up to me. Everthing points out that the game was made to run only on current-gen consoles and high end PC machines. But the game was announced with a trailer at 2018 E3, when there was absolutly no talks about what would come after PS4 and Xbox One. So.. what gives?
I guess at some point on 2018/2019 CD Projekt Red received a dev kit for PS5 and Xbox Series X and that was their doom. Their focus on making the game work on PS4 and Xbox One got blown away as they tryed juggling making the best possible game for both the then current and next-gen consoles.
Now Cyberpunk 2077 is at a terrible limbo where the game doesn´t work properly on last-gen consoles and there is no actual version for the ones of the current-gen.
My God.. what have you done CD Projekt Red? Now, a very strong case can be made that Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst video-game launch in history (worse than the No Man’s Sky, Fallout 76, etc.)
This is a new level of low and I hope some people stop using the argument "every game is buggy at launch" as some kind of excuse for this horror show we are witnessing.
Every time I watched a promotional event for Cyberpunk 2077 I was like "Wow, amazing.. how the hell will they make this game run on a PS4?" Now I got my answer: they didn´t. As I tryed playing it on my PS4 I felt like I was taking all of the bad from the Cyberpunk theme without any of the good. It was, effectively, a dystopian experience where technology and corporations failed us.
The random NPCs seemed as lifeless as the trash cans. Speaking of trash cans, the ability to move objects (one the hallmarks of the Immersive Sim genre) is completely absent. At a moment in the game I decided I would like to shave, but I guess the techonolgy isn´t there yet. Maybe the beard is not that bad, let me check in the mirror, suddenly my char is bald - and the beard really is that bad. Every 10 seconds the chances of getting an immersive experience during gameplay gets completly vanished away, sometimes together with a NPC or a vehicle. Everything is blurry and distorted. It feels like a ghastly place where I am not sure the objects I am looking at is really there and where people pass right through me.
Even if they fix all the bugs and the performance issues the game will still be far from what people expected. It is hard to pinpoint the core problem(s) at the moment but I would say one of them is that CD Projekt Red got to much carried away by the Cyberpunk theme and ended up creating a place (game world) that I am not so sure anymore I would like to spend much time in. Cyberpunk 2077 was the oasis everyone wanted to reach and ended up being just a mirage - especially for PS4 players.
How to fix this hot mess that CD Projekt Red had created? Damn.. that will be a tough one. Can they? Maybe the Cyberpunk theme itself can give some directions: Yes, everything is sh**ty and the place is all f**cked up, but at the end of the day people figure up a way to live in it, each in his particular way, and even end up having some fun doing it - provided they get the bare minimum.
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There is one particular thing about Cyberpunk 2077 that just don´t add up to me. Everthing points out that the game was made to run only on current-gen consoles and high end PC machines. But the game was announced with a trailer at 2018 E3, when there was absolutly no talks about what would come after PS4 and Xbox One. So.. what gives?
I guess at some point on 2018/2019 CD Projekt Red received a dev kit for PS5 and Xbox Series X and that was their doom. Their focus on making the game work on PS4 and Xbox One got blown away as they tryed juggling making the best possible game for both the then current and next-gen consoles.
Now Cyberpunk 2077 is at a terrible limbo where the game doesn´t work properly on last-gen consoles and there is no actual version for the ones of the current-gen.
Re: Sony Removes Cyberpunk 2077 from PS Store, Pledges Refunds for All PS Store Purchases
My God.. what have you done CD Projekt Red? Now, a very strong case can be made that Cyberpunk 2077 was the worst video-game launch in history (worse than the No Man’s Sky, Fallout 76, etc.)
This is a new level of low and I hope some people stop using the argument "every game is buggy at launch" as some kind of excuse for this horror show we are witnessing.
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Every time I watched a promotional event for Cyberpunk 2077 I was like "Wow, amazing.. how the hell will they make this game run on a PS4?" Now I got my answer: they didn´t. As I tryed playing it on my PS4 I felt like I was taking all of the bad from the Cyberpunk theme without any of the good. It was, effectively, a dystopian experience where technology and corporations failed us.
The random NPCs seemed as lifeless as the trash cans. Speaking of trash cans, the ability to move objects (one the hallmarks of the Immersive Sim genre) is completely absent. At a moment in the game I decided I would like to shave, but I guess the techonolgy isn´t there yet. Maybe the beard is not that bad, let me check in the mirror, suddenly my char is bald - and the beard really is that bad. Every 10 seconds the chances of getting an immersive experience during gameplay gets completly vanished away, sometimes together with a NPC or a vehicle. Everything is blurry and distorted. It feels like a ghastly place where I am not sure the objects I am looking at is really there and where people pass right through me.
Even if they fix all the bugs and the performance issues the game will still be far from what people expected. It is hard to pinpoint the core problem(s) at the moment but I would say one of them is that CD Projekt Red got to much carried away by the Cyberpunk theme and ended up creating a place (game world) that I am not so sure anymore I would like to spend much time in. Cyberpunk 2077 was the oasis everyone wanted to reach and ended up being just a mirage - especially for PS4 players.
How to fix this hot mess that CD Projekt Red had created? Damn.. that will be a tough one. Can they? Maybe the Cyberpunk theme itself can give some directions: Yes, everything is sh**ty and the place is all f**cked up, but at the end of the day people figure up a way to live in it, each in his particular way, and even end up having some fun doing it - provided they get the bare minimum.