• ILikeBoobies
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    7 months ago

    Except the Witcher games consistently failed to live up to expectations

    I think they are the next cdpr in the sense that they are AA

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      7 months ago

      In what bizzaro world did the witcher series fail to live up to expectations? The first one was a masterclass of atmosphere and had zero expectations, the second were just fine and the third one still is the gold standard for quest design in open world games.

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        7 months ago

        Third had a pretty buggy launch

        1-2 were just buggy and full of jank

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          Buggy like most ambitious open world games, but still perfectly playable. It certainly lived up to expectations, it was one of the most praised games of its time, more than what I’ve seen about BG3. Granted I don’t follow the industry as closely as I did back then.

          Just because you didn’t like 1 and 2 doesn’t mean they didn’t live up to expectations. CDPR was nobody before witcher 1 and a small studio before 2, so I really don’t get how they didn’t live up to expectations for those two games.