Getting it for PC and all that jazz hoping it's a graphical showcase but everything I've seen so far looks kinda boring? A lot of walking, out of context talking that wasn't all that compelling, and a shooting section that looked sort of rudimentary. I thought the Witcher 3 was a solid 7 after hating it for years so I'm not the biggest CDPR fan but that setting does interest me, wish what I saw matched how interesting that setting can be.
I know where you are coming from and I am kinda in the same boat. Most open-world-games have to up their actual gameplay mechanics. We don't know yet how this one plays, but many open-world-games still have very mediocre or even bad gameplay with lots of jank. I still enjoy these games a lot, but they could be so much better.
I think Sony and Nintendo are doing a great job with offering open-world games with great gameplay. Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Spider-Man, Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade and Horizon: Zero Dawn are all a blast to play with refined gameplay mechanics that feel good to use. Dragon's Dogma is still king.
These games make it sometimes hard to return to Elder Scrolls, Witcher, Piranha Bytes games or Assassin's Creed which are all janky as fuck and just don't feel good while navigating through the world or doing combat.
Sure, these games have other advantages and like I said I still enjoy them a lot. But I really want them to refine their core gameplay mechanics as well. I mean just imagine the next Elder Scrolls game with combat as tight as Dragon's Dogma ... Curious how Cyberpunk 2077 actually feels while playing, but the shown combat didn't look that great so far.
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