I think they wanted to make a good game but... this is nowhere near writing of Witcher games.
This have to be:
- Most generic and bland side quests I have seen in a while
- Driving is terrible without controller
- Police have access to the teleportation devices
- Calling this and true RPG is a bit of a stretch
- I'm so overpowered with my katana no one can stand chance and I've just stated main quests.
- speaking about swords only one finishing move with katana, really? I most of seen it hundreds of times by now
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This game has impressive graphics and decent gun play, however the guns are still plentiful and far more infuriatingly the game seems to forget that it is a game. What i mean by hat is that this thing keeps offering up non-choices such as singular option or only one out of multiple choices being something that permits player to continue, it is a movie in that regard, you are not here to play but to do as you are told by the almighty developer and their leash.
For something that seems to be hellbent on telling a compelling story it dose keep trying to force player to do only what writers thought of, as opposed to more game centered idea of actually having diverse choices, even at important points of game, that are both valid even if not necessarily equally helpful to story or progress.
This trait is something i am exceedingly against, if you want to make a movie do bloody go and do that, here in computer games it makes things far more interesting if you actually try to allow player a gaming experience as opposed to first person perspective cinematic.
On technical level the game is impressive offcourse, the graphics is pretty, and somehow manages to run at good amount of detail even on my olden computer.
Some environments are downright gorgeous, especially on high detail at night and rain. Clearly great care has been given to the city itself.
Gun play, as mentioned above, dose work fairly well, tho it is not anything original and somehow ends up reminding me of DeusEx 4, in fact alot of the game versatility seems to resemble that particular game. Which is a good thing for me as i did enjoy the mechanics there quite a bit. The method for slicing / hacking into things is somewhat difficult to grasp at first but once i gotten used to it worked amicably. Driving feels little disjointed (potentially due to low frame rate, which is sacrifice i made for detail and quality of visuals), first vehicle is bit unwieldy but this may change later down the line.
Worthy try, poor.
I pre-ordered this game mainly to continue supporting CDPR directly and in respect to the quality of previous releases in the Witcher series.
I happen to fall into the group of people still running Windows 8.1 - so if I install Linux I can play through Steam Play but because I'm not on Windows 7 or 10, I can't play at all and there is no plan to support my system. The game looks great from what I can see in other reviews, but my review is that the game is unplayable in its current state.
I am resolving to return to it when I decide to upgrade to Windows 10 or switch over to Linux. Hopefully other stability issues I have read that others have experienced will be resolved by that point as well so I can fully appreciate what I expect is a really fun interactive store to experience.
The game still runs like junk on an RTX 2060 S. Bugs happen frequently. Frame dips all over the place. We supposed to wait a year for the game to be playable?
Managed to fix crashing, and now 1.04 fix has me crashing every 5 minutes. What little bits of game I get to play are good, until I randomly die by stepping on a bin bag or exiting my car.
