What cdpr should do is relaunch that shit in fall of 2022, for pc and now current gen systems, roll a bunch of bug fixes and fleshed out content (make the bars, brain dances, shops, arcades, clubs etc have neat interactions) along with a gifted dlc for like 39.99 for new players or 15.99 for dlc only with upgrades for existing players (not old gen consoles tho).
Like a soft relaunch, but that won’t happen I bet. For what it’s worth I put 60 hours into the game and the city and the world to explore IS great! They clearly put love and care into it, they just forgot the “shit to do” for it. You’ll stumble across stuff in datapads or environmental detail that has no reason to be there except flavor and that kind of stuff just makes the fumble of releasing too early suck more. Also I kept out of the hype so I wasn’t expecting Skyrim + New Vegas + GTA like people were hyped for. But when I went online and saw all that had been promised and wasn’t there I did notice it, like how cool the intro mission and the hammerhead acquisition played out, but then realizing those were built for the demos that’s why, and there isn’t a full game of that here.
It’s like in Fallout 4 when you stumble across the stat checks (like all 4 of them?) in game and think ok it will be like new vegas was, and it’s like nope that all there is and it must have been some intern who didn’t get the memo not to add them.
Playing 2077 when I got a brain dance and it was “not compatible for my software” was the first time in many I came across and realized “wow this game wasn’t done yet”.
