After taking part in via the sport a second time and simply beginning phantom liberty, I do agree with a number of what the article states. As a lot as the sport disenchanted me on launch, The writing, voice performing, visuals, animation, fight, driving, world constructing are ALL practically unmatched. Most each sport I like has drawbacks or issues that bug me, however CP appears to excel in all places.
This is not to excuse the state of the sport at launch, however simply to level out how excessive CDPR set the bar with this sport. I am unable to inform you what number of occasions I’ve merely wandered across the metropolis admiring the structure and residents (all with distinctive names) doing their factor, marveled on the element of the working gauges and distinctive interiors of the automobiles and interactive constructing interiors, or began randomly capturing all the things round me to see how nicely the atmosphere reacts to projectiles. It simply all comes collectively so rattling nicely.
The one space the place I feel there’s a number of room for enchancment is in regard to AI and NPC interactions. Think about a sport like this the place every NPC appears utterly distinctive and is given a set of parameters and AI takes it from there. Full on conversations and emergent missions, romance choices for each single character within the metropolis and many others and many others. I feel THIS is what’s going to unlock the subsequent big leap in video gaming.