While the graphics, sounds, music are great and the story seems very interesting the way there is paved with so many boring main and side quests, like pick those flowers, bring that goat etc. This is exactly the type of experience that made me stay away from open world games.

Everybody here needs to know what CDPR did to annoy the enthusiast community, why it's being review bombed, etc.

CDPR has (probably in some arrangement with Nvidia) removed a well established and efficient lighting technology from the game that has been part of the beautiful visuals since 2015 (HBAO+) in order to make the "Non RT" part of the game look worse in comparison in this next gen version. People all around are praising comparisons for how "good" this RT implementation is, when in fact if you dig a little - you'll see what they've actually done is forced an update onto users with cut down lighting technologies in order to make the jump to RT more appealing. On top of this, you cannot (even with a 3090TI) get a stable 60 FPS on 1440p with RT on without going to balanced DLSS or performance DLSS where you begin to notice the distant terrains and detailed textures become washed out or pop in. It also constantly stutters - so not only is it RT we must use to regain our 2015 level (AT A MINIMUM) lighting quality, but also make the 4000 series more appealing because they're the only damn cards that can run it, never mind that many games like control or metro exodus were able to pull it off without needing to sell your left Kidney for a 4090.

They do not deserve a positive review, because at best it's a poorly optimised implementation and at worst, a greedy, Anti-consumer ploy to upsell users onto newer graphics cards, specifically Nvidia (because AMD cards crash using RT on this game).

I'm sorry it's come to this CDPR, but selling your soul to Nvidia - I've lost respect.

Newest update added a launcher and crashes on Steam Deck.

This game made me realize you don't have to like every critically acclaimed game. It's undeniable that it's very well made, I just didn't find it fun. This game is story first and game second, and clunky combat was definitely an after thought in the development process. You may like it, but just know what you're getting into before purchasing.

I don't know why I find this game so boring. Theres something about it that burns me out of it after I've picked it up and played for 30 minutes. I know its an unpopular opinion but I genuienly enjoyed Skyrim for hundreds of hours but can't muster up the care to finish half this game. I feel your just a passanger to the main character instead of feeling like the actual main character and just stab the spacebar to get through the dialouge. I enjoyed and was thrilled with the first 2 hours but the next 30 felt like a dry chore. Also I feel like theres about 3-4 songs in the entire game that play through over and over. None-theless, I'm sure whoever is reading this will probably enjoy the hell out of it and thinks this comment on the game is stupid to even write but I just didnt feel like it was fun.

they completely ruined performance with the 4.0 update, what used to be 140fps on max settings is now 70fps on minimum settings with 40% gpu usage.

stay clear until they fix it

plictisitor

This game is broken after the "next gen" update. On a 3090 @1080p max settings, I'm barely touching 60fps with dips into the low 40s. On top of that, the frame times are awful. I also getting more than 70ms render time. The game feels terrible and I would NOT recommend this to anyone. If I can't hold 60fps consistently on a 3090, then stay the hell away from this. This game deserves to be review bombed with how much they screwed with the whole thing.

RTGI is insanely heavy, reducing FPS by about 40. None of the other settings in the game seem to affect your frame rate at all. DLSS and FSR 2 just straight up don't work. All they do is reduce texture clarity by a lot and don't give any performance back in return. I tested all modes on both and it's the same. TAAU has exactly the same performance as DLSS and FSR 2 and looks significantly sharper.

This update is a mess and no one should have to deal with this.

Reposting this fix for this trash joke of an update done by clown devs:

1. Rolling back to old good game:
1) Right click on game in library -> properties -> Betas -> in drop-down select "classic"
2) Enjoy 36-50GB re-downloading ....

2. Disabling launcher
1) Right click on game in library -> properties -> General -> add "--launcher-skip" (without " marks) to LAUNCH OPTIONS
2) Right click on game in library -> properties -> Local files -> Browse
3) Find file called "launcher-configuration.json"
4) Open it with notepad
5) Change line <<"fallback": "DirectX 12">> to <<"fallback": "DirectX 11">>
6) Save changes
7) Enjoy the game without launcher!

After 170 hrs of game play we get a free next gen DLC. Yeah I didn't want or ask for a free "auto" download next gen update. I am still running a i7-4770 with a gtx-1660ti and 36gb of ram. The game was running great. WAS!!! Know its a hot mess. I feel as if my game was stolen from me. This was not what i bought. This should have been a optional DLC download. It broke my game to the point that I have to set all the settings from ultra to low. And it still is not playable. Holy screen tearing. I am so mad right now.