Rockstar is in a league of their own.  While Santa Monica and ND are great devs, they're not playing the same sport as Rockstar.  They're doing much different games with much, much lower sales, for one or two systems at a time.  Rockstar is making AAAA blockbusters that release on anything powerful enough to run them.  

Rockstar is in a league of their own.  While Santa Monica and ND are great devs, they're not playing the same sport as Rockstar.  They're doing much different games with much, much lower sales, for one or two systems at a time.  Rockstar is making AAAA blockbusters that release on anything powerful enough to run them.  

From a sales point of view, sure. Rockstar is in a league of its own.

Production value and game polish wise, Santa Monica Studio and Naughty Dog are easily up there with Rockstar, even if the style of games they make isn’t the same.

I will refrain from commenting on that incredibly stupid AAAA mention of yours.

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.    

Double post

I would say on the current state of this game, crashing a lot, bugs all over the place, framerate consistently below 25 and staying a lot even lower than 20, sections where the game stops for 1min, vaseline looks, etc any other game you would have zero problem giving it below 6.

Well you yourself if I'm not wrong have said for you the best PS4 exclusive is GoW and you rated it a 7/10, and for TLOU2 I don't remember you scoring it above 7/10, nor SM. And these games are smoothier, prettier and without bugs and crashes gallore of this game.

So if CDPR wanted the game not to be reviewed based on all these shortcomings they shouldn't have released the game with all of them. You liking the game doesn't make the scores needing to be bigger even with so much flaws. I'm much more concerned with so many critics giving 10/10 even recognizing the game is full of flaws but that they expect those to be corrected at some point, that isn't a fair review at all, that is pandering at best.

The game released on PS4 and X1 shall be evaluated on those systems not on Series X or PS5. Whenever they release those consoles version sure review on those and probably by that time they will have solved most bugs, crashes, performance issues, etc one would hope then the score could be higher.

What you want isn't a fair review, you want everyone giving it a free pass. Just as much as a 6/10 score for the PC version is truly out of the average (and from what I saw and read it is a 85-95 game depending on what you look, and sure you could even defend a 75-80 if the reviewer gave true reasons for it, I doubt it can be defended though), over 6/10 on consoles is the out of average. Because truly the game is broke.

Please defend this shouldn't take major points from the console version:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberpunkgame/comments/kcve8s/promised_but_missing_feature_list_will_update/

https://www.wired.com/story/cyberpunk-2077-bugs-reviews-nda/

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-refunds-ps4-cd-projekt-red

This is just atrocious.

I feel like a lot of devs could do what Rockstar does if given the budget and workforce. 

Considering the profits Rockstar make with each entries other publishers/dev would give the budget and workforce if they believed in it.

Look at budget from several AAA studios of similar size and nope they don't deliver the same level of quality.

Idk of any studios that get the budget, workforce, and time to cook that Rockstar gets besides maybe Naughty Dog and I’d say the same of them. Budget and time are limiting most developers.