I played the Witcher 3 on a base PS4 and, for better or worse, had a similar experience that I now have on my $2.5k PC with Cyberpunk 2077. I still think the Witcher 3 (on a base PS4) is one of the best games ever made. For context, I have a RTX2080 Super OC edition with a Ryzen 5 3600X AMD CPU clocked at 4.3 GHz. I'm running at 1440p, 75FPS, high settings. And it's nothing but Noctua fans in my rig. I've turned on DLSS and turned off ray tracing. Of course I'm loading off an SSD. What I'm noticing are some frame-rate dips in downtown Little China and Japantown. I think it's the mist and smoke off the streets that's hitting my GPU hard. I'll get down to 15 FPS then just go to a different part of town and get back up to 75 FPS. I'm also noticing random frame rate dips in other parts of Night City. So yeah, not an optimized game. I've seen a few NPCs in a T-pose or floating off the ground and that smaller textures sometimes don't load. And that's it. That's all the bad. But as Digital Foundry said, if you really know what performance issues to look for, you'll easily find them. I guess I'm not noticing all the supposed issues? So what's good? Everything else. The story and characters are great, well acted and have convincing dialogue. The gameplay is super fun and reminds me of playing Borderlands 2 for the first time (except trade-in humour for drama and realism). And the story is superb, Keanu Reeves is breathtaking. You can collect cars, motorcycles and deck yourself out in cazy looking sci-fi, Cybergear and body mods. The game isn't ground-breaking but feels more like it's executing everything what most people would like in an open-world game as best it can. I wouldn't touch the PS4 version with a 10-foot stick. So criticism where it's deserved. Why sell a game on platforms that clearly can't handle it? If you don't have a high-end PC, I would suggest getting this game through Stadia or Geforce Now, if or when you can.
