Yes, I bought it. I do not trust Gamespot reviews lately (especially from Kallie Plaggie)
I find it interesting how 50 critics have reviewed this game giving it a 91/100 rating on average
48 Positive
2 Mixed
and in comes Gamespot (Kallie Plaggie) to lower the average score for this great game:
Gamespot gives it a 70/100
GamesBeat gives it a 60/100
Nothing much else to say........this data speaks for itself.
I wouldn't single out the gamespot review. 7/10 implies something broadly positive. And the numbers themselves mean nothing without context. On the face of it, Cyberpunk has been very well received critically.
Actually reading Gamesbeat's summary doesn't do me any favours.
I think that Cyberpunk 2077 delivers the big-budget gaming thrills that many people are looking for. But it falls short in a few key areas for me, and a lot of that comes as a byproduct of its ambition.
Okay, that's broad and non-committed. I've read the review now and they seem to echo the idea that nothing new has been brought to the table. For that to be worth a six, this thrill-ride rollercoaster they're talking about must've bored them.
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.
Oh. That's exactly what's happened. Reviews are weird things to write, guys.
As for me, I'll wait for a sale price to bite, if at all. I feel like the cyberpunk aesthetic hasn't moved on since the Blade Runner / Neuromancer template. It kind of bores me too unless they're trying to add something to it. I wasn't really hyped for it to begin with. Witcher sprawls and has a rich fiction ready to draw upon. This is CDPR from scratch and I'm not sure it's going to hit like their other work.
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