Cyberpunk 2077 Review Thread | 83 OC, 87 Meta

[DonFerrari]

BraLoD said:

VAMatt said:

Yes, ND and SM make great games.  But, they just aren't of the same scale as those made by Rockstar. 

GOTY awards are well deserved by all of them.  But, making a massive game like GTA or RDR is a totally different, much larger task than making TLOU.  To bring it back to sports, TLOU is like a great tennis match.  It is thoroughly enjoyed by tennis fans, and will be talked about for decades in those circles.  GTA is like an epic World Cup tournament where many of the matches go down as classics and a quarter of the population of planet earth is watching.  They're great sporting events in both cases.  But, one is simply a much bigger deal than the other.    

I don't think that kind of analogy holds any ground here honestly.

GoW(4) was also an open world game with extremely impressive, well, everything, on it, and TLoU2 is to me the most impressive game out there, what ND accomplishes with animations, sound design, graphics, lod, story telling, just nobody else is able to top to claim a whole above level about them, quite the contrary, actually.

I don't see how SM and ND are not in the same level as Rockstar by any kind of quality metric.

The only metric SSM and ND doesn't compare to R* is the size of their map and duration of the game, but honestly that is pointless to me and if was the purpose of the studios or Sony they could pull a giant open world, if Ubisoft and even a lot of small teams (like team Yakuza, which can even make 80 creative sidequests and still release a game a year, without such major bugs and breaking game as Cyberpunk) can I see no reason why ND and SSM couldn't if that was their objective.

Insomniac was able of not only make SM near the end of PS4 life it also were able to make a beefy spin-off, make it crossgen, add a lot of stuff that can't be done on gen 8, remaster the original all for launch and they are Open World and will release RC next year.