Leaves out that reviewers were only sent the PC version, which has far less bugs than the consoles. Should have been a big red flag, but it wasn't and various reviews gave decent reviews because of it. The first reviews were on Stradia and PC.
And there it is; just a few tweets in and someone is trying to defend them.
I’ve seen footage of the PC version and while it may not crash all the time or have the most egregious bugs from the console versions, it is still an incredibly buggy and unfinished mess. The idea that the PC version “isn’t that bad” is utter nonsense.
Except it isn't that bad. If the bar for "that bad" is constantly crashing and corrupting save files and barely loading everything a few graphical glitches is pretty tame in comparison. Especially for a crowd that gives skyrim rave reviews every time it's re-released with the same game breaking bugs every time.
That being said, it doesn't matter if it's "not as bad" because, as the tweet says, they wouldn't be able to compare it to the console versions because they never got them in the first place.
Guarantee they only played the prologue that was super polished and just reviewed that instead of the rest of the game because they're just that incompetent.
Gaming reviews are pillared upon a double standard. If this game was released by a studio out of vogue right now, say 2K or Blizzard, they'd be trashing it and it would be in the bargain bin by the end of January, no "pulled from the store until fixed" shit. You'd be hard pressed to find a single reviewer willing to take the studio's side.
But this is CDPR, the internet's dream developer. User reviews of Witcher 3 were written like erotic fanfiction. They could release driveway gravel as a breakfast cereal and some soy-faced dipshit would eat it on youtube, tell the world it tasted like fairy pussy, and then claim his ambulance trip to the hospital later that day was for "unrelated reasons".
Sorry but I have to disagree... On a second playthrough on PC already and while there have definitely been bugs and crashes it's nothing unexpected with something this big. It's probably better, even, then Bethesda releases, for example.
The idea that glitches means "unfinished" is also nonsense. Unpolished maybe, but "unfinished" implies that the core functions, narrative, or gameplay are incomplete, and that is simply NOT the case.
And there it is; just a few tweets in and someone is trying to defend them.
I’ve seen footage of the PC version and while it may not crash all the time or have the most egregious bugs from the console versions, it is still an incredibly buggy and unfinished mess. The idea that the PC version “isn’t that bad” is utter nonsense.
Except it isn't that bad. If the bar for "that bad" is constantly crashing and corrupting save files and barely loading everything a few graphical glitches is pretty tame in comparison. Especially for a crowd that gives skyrim rave reviews every time it's re-released with the same game breaking bugs every time.
That being said, it doesn't matter if it's "not as bad" because, as the tweet says, they wouldn't be able to compare it to the console versions because they never got them in the first place.
Guarantee they only played the prologue that was super polished and just reviewed that instead of the rest of the game because they're just that incompetent.
Gaming reviews are pillared upon a double standard. If this game was released by a studio out of vogue right now, say 2K or Blizzard, they'd be trashing it and it would be in the bargain bin by the end of January, no "pulled from the store until fixed" shit. You'd be hard pressed to find a single reviewer willing to take the studio's side.
But this is CDPR, the internet's dream developer. User reviews of Witcher 3 were written like erotic fanfiction. They could release driveway gravel as a breakfast cereal and some soy-faced dipshit would eat it on youtube, tell the world it tasted like fairy pussy, and then claim his ambulance trip to the hospital later that day was for "unrelated reasons".
Sorry but I have to disagree... On a second playthrough on PC already and while there have definitely been bugs and crashes it's nothing unexpected with something this big. It's probably better, even, then Bethesda releases, for example.
The idea that glitches means "unfinished" is also nonsense. Unpolished maybe, but "unfinished" implies that the core functions, narrative, or gameplay are incomplete, and that is simply NOT the case.