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Witcher hasn't had a new game in almost a decade (unless you count gwent which i don't) and cyberpunk 2077 was a complete joke until the trigger OVA (and even then it's still extremely broken).

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Check the game again, they updated the game recently that revamped and added a lot of features (Cop AI, vehicular combat, clothes arent armor) that should've been there at the start.

The 2.0 update is extremely overhyped. Even with all of that, it’s still an extremely dull and clunky game. It’s trying to be GTA: Cyberpunk but honestly it’s closer to watchdogs and I had more fun with the watchdogs games.

it's far cry mixed with deus ex.

it's a great game from that perspective and side missions are great in expansion

I'm replaying with 2.0, and it's honestly a much smoother experience. I'm not sure if it's over hyped. It was small bits here and there, but it was a very holistic overhaul of the game in the end.

(FWIW, I'm someone with around a hundred hours in the game)

even before 2.0 the game was pretty playable and decent, but it's far from everything they promised. RPG aspects are put aside and when I played I felt my impact on the story was less than that of Skyrim missions. The main quest in particular is basically resumed to one option in the end, a lot of side quests are like that, and the factions are very clear "endless enemy" burden. It's not a bad game, but it's a bad role-playing game

The main story has multiple endings, and also a hidden ending. It's not really that single choice. Also, there's all the characters and how they interact has some impact on the end story depending. Some side quests can similarly become available or unavailable depending on some choices. There's also the relationship with Johnny, etc. The roleplaying aspect apparently improved in Phantom Liberty. But I wouldn't say CP is worse than Skyrim! Both have their moments

I agree with you on the point it was decent even before 2.0 and that there's missing features. If you're on PC though, there's a lot of mechanics added in by mods too!

Did they fix that bug where Jackie after the medivac takes the girl in the intro would walk dead ass through a wall and send all the physics objects flying?

2.0 level scaling just removed all the fun and point of leveling up.

Everything is the same difficulty if you're level 1, 15 or 50.

idk about 2.0 but i tried it out last year when the anime released and there was still extreme pop-in artifacts, with NPCs walking directly in front of me with their low-polygon models on.

Doesn't change the fact they sold over 80 million copies, you can do the math.

yeah they sold 80 million copies three years ago, and now instead of being three years into developing The Next Big Thing they're struggling to catch up to where they were supposed to be in 2020. You don't need a PHD in mathematics to see how that would lead to them losing money.

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