Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
The fact is that the PC version isn't bereft of bugs either. And it also seems that the best performance is available to people who can afford to have high-end gaming PCs can actually play this game...that's a criticism when made towards Crytek so I don't know why it's not a criticism when it's directed to CDPR.
Leaving aside the technical stuff, the actual game...aside from some well-written missions and stuff, is above average at best. In terms of narrative and themes, it's not doing anything that the Deus Ex series haven't done before in terms of dealing with transhumanism, technology and humanity merging and so on. As far as expressing a nightmare vision of capitalism run amok, even Bioshock (a game I am not too much of a fan of) does that better. That's not to mention the movies whether it's Blade Runner or Blade Runner 2049, or The Matrix 1, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report and so on, have all done this kind of stuff better, to say nothing of the obscure stuff like Strange Days or New Rose Hotel. I can say that Cyberpunk 2077 handles the same material and ideas in one game that Ubisoft have failed to do in three different Watch Dogs games but that's faint praise. Even with that, the last Watch Dogs game Legion with its play-as-anyone mechanic (however poorly implemented) is at least doing a brand new concept that might be worth improving.
CDPR in the Witcher games had Sapkowski's material to work with, and the Witcher stories within the genre provide a solid foundation, a set of cool characters and other concepts to work with. Now you'll say that the games are sequels to the books and stories, and yes that's true but again the characters, stories and ideas which CDPR introduced was all following the example and pattern and signposts set by the books, so they could riff off that material very well. I know a lot of Witcher games fans liked the games more than the books, but again the success of the Netflix show (which rather faithfully adapts the short stories and so on) proves that the material there is really solid and good.
Cyberpunk 2077 which comes from a tabletop RPG game doesn't have the same depth of characters and material as Sapkowski's books and it's a little out of their depth.