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Originally Posted by Ashasx
I thought the Witcher 2 and 3 were quite polished at release. I don't remember people complaining about them.
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I don't think there was this much talk about the game's bugs, but to be fair the video game world has changed a ton in the last 5 years, to a point where there are a variety of potentially usable resolutions and framerates and visual technologies that provide a much larger array of game experiences depending on what your hardware is. And at launch, Witcher 3 did have some issues with stability and optimization, as well as a number of legitimately game-breaking problems like quest items or NPCs not being where they were supposed to be... and Gwent literally crashed the game on PS4. Add in the fact that the game received, in addition to performance improvements over time, actual free content in the form of extra quests and new assets, and I'd say the best time to play Witcher 3 was several years after its initial release.
So I don't disagree with you if you want to say this is worse, because based on all the press it appears to be. But part of that is just due to changes in the world of gaming and the way games are covered, not to mention the awkward point this was released at when you have new generations of PC components and new console generations simultaneously. The rest of it will hopefully be ameliorated over time. I'm not a fanboy or anything, but I am willing to cut CDPR a bit more slack than other studios for releasing things that frankly, needed more work.