I really like CDPR and want to support their endeavors (and this game on paper feels like it was made for me) ...but soon as I fired up this game and opened the game-menu I realized my cursor was trapped in the middle third of my screen - keeping me from accessing roughly 50% of the menu. Granted I am using a widescreen monitor (3440x1440) but this is a AAA game in 2021, and there's just no excuse for stuff like this. Had hoped the updates/patches might have cleared up stuff like this (and I was frankly ready to overlook quite a bit) but such a blatantly game-breaking bug in the first moments was enough for me to refund. ymmv
I'm very impressed. Some games feel very console/controller-centric. You can feel it in areas like camera & character movement, aiming (and some arbitrary hit/miss), etc. - and this is one of those games. It feels like a game made to be played on consoles with a controller, which is normally a liability in my book - but dammit if it doesn't deliver in nearly every other area. The voice work, story, and pacing are all top notch. The music is exceptionally good and it looks beautiful (despite being pretty easy on the hardware - runs MUCH smoother than, say, BL3 or AC: Oddessy). But the real star here is the gameplay. I generally want firearms in my ranged combat - just not usually a fan of the archery. In games like Crysis and Far Cry I'll never use the bow - just feels like once you've mowed down enemies with a Kriss Vector or picked them off with an SA-50, throwing pointy sticks at them feels like the definition of a half-measure. But here it just works. The "thwak!" of the arrow landing right in the sweet spot of the robo-dino's special area and the subsequent "ka-boom!" when it explodes is just not something that gets old. I also can't remember the last time I liked the protagonist this much. She's the anti-Jason Brody; no whining about Lisa, no whinging every time an animal needs dressing, this girl can hold her mud. For thirty bucks? That's a lot of well-made game for your money.
I spent an hour trying to make it run (5950/3090/64gb/SSD - freshly installed/updated Win10) and it was an unplayable, laggy, stuttering, freezing mess. Tried everything at PC Wiki, tried every fix on Reddit/Youtube, this game runs terribly or not at all. GoG "refund" button is greyed out cause I bought over a month ago - but they can clearly see that I only played less than an hour (ha! "played"...I spent the whole hour just trying to make it work) This will be my last GoG purchase until I'm refunded this broken mess.
