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These stats are what I have in my head when I am deciding on what to buy. Fact is, most people on the internet are overwhelmingly negative and unable/unwilling to give games a fair shot.
This sounds critical, but look at the numbers. I have a family member who, when asked about Cyberpunk, said it was a shit game, that enemies were too spongy, driving was terrible, and said it was "literally unplayable". (not bug related, just gameplay) When asked about story he said "Oh I only played a couple of missions".
Like what? I'm not saying you need to play 100% of Gollum to know it's a bad game, but come on, talk about judging a book by it's cover. If you aren't going to give it a fair shot then why buy it at all, just don't buy the game?
So many people go into games expecting them to be bad, or expecting bugs/problems that guess what, you're probably going to find something wrong with it. Maybe watch a few less reviewers ahead of time, maybe turn off the FPS counter, and I don't know, see if you have fun playing it.
Well, he did play the game, he's judging the book by the first few chapters. If you don't like any aspect of the gameplay, even if the story could be good, it's very understandable why he dropped it.
To be fair to your family member, a couple of missions in Cyberpunk is a couple of hours. I remember an extremely late title card in that game. That's more than a fair shake.
Fair, but I'm talking he spent 20 minutes in there, maybe started one of the main missions.
I may just have not the most critical taste but I recently picked up Cyberpunk (v1.6, not the latest update) and I loved it, my first AAA game, played it for 170 hours within a few weeks. The story and worldbuilding is amazing imo.
You're right about people not giving some games a chance. Pretty sure that Cyberpunk had quite a hate hype trend at the start.
Oh it was incredibly popular to hate it. I still see threads that are CJ'ing around about how horrible it is. Because it's fun to hate something on the internet. Now, the people who had bugs or actually "literally unplayable" statuses - genuine. That sucks, I'm sorry, but to everyone who just jumped on the hate train, well I feel bad for people who can't enjoy things because of that.
In response to cyber punk though, it's entirely possible for gameplay to be bad enough that even a good story can't save it. Personally, I had a problem getting invested in cyber punk's story because I just was not enjoying the moment to moment gameplay. Each person has subjective opinions on where that line is, so I think it's fair for someone to judge it even after just a few missions (though I agree, it might be they enjoyed it more if they gave it more time)