I tried playing Blood & Wine recently and you right. Witcher 3 did not age well.

bloodborne slam dunks witcher into the garbage can !!

witcher was good though have high hopes 4this

has anyone's pre-load started on ps

Next gen patch soon

Played it on PC

Next gen patch on pc too

I always modded the s*** outta Witcher 3 lmfao to make it more playable for me

what's the issue?

The way you interact with the city and quests is pretty much what you expect: Stealth past enemies or shoot them. If you have hacking skills, you can use those. If you’re physically strong, you can take more damage and rush at people with a katana. But don’t expect that you’ll be able to go much deeper than that. This is not a game where you try to talk your way out of fights. You’re not going to follow a guard home, interrogate him, and then infiltrate a facility using that information.

So despite how alive the city feels due to its mind-blowing ray-traced lighting, it’s still sterile. Things don’t just happen in Night City. At its heart, Cyberpunk 2077 is a map game. You choose a quest off the menu and then go and do whatever the developer designed for you.

This philosophy filters down into the world itself and how interactive it really is. You’ll find pachinko machines and arcade games, but you can’t play them. You can scan people to reveal information about them, but I never found a use for that. If you want to have sex, two s***workers appear on your map. You’ll find empty seats throughout Night City, but you can only sit in certain designated chairs and only when the game permits it. If the game wants, you can sit back and drink a beer with a friend, but this is not something you can initiate on your own.

All of this limits the potential for emergent storytelling. You aren’t going to stumble off the main quest line and into a series of unpredictable moments. Instead, CD Projekt Red is the one prescribing all of the action.

And again, those quests are usually pretty fun. But the final product doesn’t feel like a real role-playing game that responds to your decisions.

Nah the issue was the gameplay for me. S*** is just dialogue and cutscenes, use witcher sense, and some occasional combat which isn't that good.

That open world formula was good in 2015 but by now we've seen it a million times.

The difference between Cyberpunk with RTX lighting and without is massive. With RTX, it looks lifelike with lighting that brings depth to characters as their clothing creates shadows on their bodies and lighting splashes correctly over curved muscles. Without RTX, the game looks significantly flatter and more like a video game. And thanks to DLSS 2.0’s performance setting, I was able to get these incredible benefits at a steady 60 frames per second.

PS5 ray tracing upgrade when

gameplay wise for sure, except for the horrible frame pacing/FPS limit on PS4. you can definitely argue story-wise though.

The problem is that the world of Cyberpunk 2077 suggests so much possibility. The megabuildings that make up the city’s skyline suggests vast interior spaces that don’t really exist. Merchants with a finite number of eurodollars suggests a simulated economy that isn’t in the game. The bustling streets suggests the potential for emergent story moments that almost never really happen.

And, of course, no game has all of those things on top of everything Cyberpunk does offer. But the point is that Cyberpunk 2077 is so ambitious that you expect more from it. And when something is missing, it hurts the entire experience more.

It’s like the food vendor that hangs out not far from V’s apartment. His stall looks attractive in that cyberpunk/Blade Runner style that makes everything in the game pop. It has steam rising off the food and nice lighting. If I were walking through L.A. and got hungry, I would want to stop and eat there. It helps contribute to the feel of the world — but that’s all it does. You cannot interact with the stall, eat its food, or even talk to the owner.

It’s just set dressing.

A lot of the game is just there to look good. And that’s fine — but it means I don’t want to spend a lot of time wandering around the world. If the environment primarily exists to look dope in the background while I’m doing the quests, then I’ll probably mostly stick to the main story, see what happens, and then bounce. It’s fine to make a game like that — for many, that’s the promise of Cyberpunk 2077. It just wasn’t the promise to me.

PC already is the "Next Gen Update"

People's expectations were raised extremely by Rockstar's RDR2 tbh

CDPR can pull off a great game but seems like they didn't have the resources to pull off a world

And that's understandable with how ambitious the game is

do I pick up a physical copy or pre order digitally to have it ready wednesday night?

Nah. They adding RTX and higher resolution textures to pc

It has RTX at launch

not really it's gonna be less optimized than the consoles

only the same in visuals if anything

I’m talking Witcher 3

oh im stupid

I think something that seems to be going under the radar when it comes to the world is environmental storytelling. Telling stories through the actual environment and the city as a whole.

That’s also a big part of exploring game worlds to me. Finding bits of lore that flesh things out more and appreciate things you weren’t previously privy to.

i wonder if ye will play this

Maybe, he tweeted about Blade Runner 2049 a few months ago and said he watches it on repeat

ye gonna watch travis play it

didnt he follow cyberpunk on twitter