| hinch said: Nice. Skimmed a few of them and sounds like if you liked or loved the origional, you're going to like this one too. Recalling back.. I was one of those people who played the game near launch and enjoyed it a lot (my personal GOTY in 2020) so preordered a while back. But its nice to see it getting good reception. And for sure, a great comeback for the series. Lots of updates later, a Netflix series, small DLC and now a big expansion which looks amazing. Plus excited to see all the stuff being added in 2.0 which should bring some of the features; that tbf really should've been in the game in the first place and more. Also a bit sad that this will be the last expansion as there's a lot they could do with the series but I guess they are moving over to Witcher 4 and UE5. Which means we probably won't be seeing much from the franchise for a while after this launches. Also idd, more game developers putting their eggs in the basket for one engine isn't great. Hopefully it doesn't end up like being during the seventh gen era of consoles where everyone and their gran was using UE3, to now UE5. Where a lot of games felt very samey from not only a visual standpoint, but also on a techical level too. Not to mention how awful the engine runs on most hardware. |
I semi enjoyed it for what it was (despite the lack of agency and it not feeling like a living world/cops being redundant), the story was alright, but not as in depth as the board game lore was (really wish we got the kind of lore the board game had).
I probably won't be playing it again until I get a completely new rig, which is likely 5 or so years from now due to tight wallet constraints (bill to pay out my backside and all that).
Though I gotta say, I did lul at PCgamer trying to make 2.0/PL DLC as the "ultimate redemption" of 2077. Like hell naw, that's not even close. A game like NMS spent years trying to redeem itself and launching free content since their original launch and they managed to reach an actual redemption arc, while 2077 had to patch their game up to 2.0 to make the game what it should have been around 3 years ago, and you still have to pay for the PL DLC (instead of pulling a NMS and making it free, they don't need the extra money because they made way more money on pre-orders alone, let alone money off the game these past 3 yrs in general, they can make PL free content and not lose money).
Still I am sad that they're letting RED engine go, because with what they managed to do with Witcher 3/2077, it looked like a decent contender to UE, just without the part where Timmy buys up tech to be made exclusive to his own engine (I will always make mention of that when it comes to his engine, because I find that anti-competitive).
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