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Essays 20 January 2021, 15:18

Cyberpunk 2077 (console versions). Most disappointing video games of 2020

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  1. Release Date: December 2020
  2. Genre: Action RPG
  3. Platforms: PS4, XOne

This is a real precedent – one of the best games of the year is also a strong candidate for the the worst game of the year. And certainly the biggest disappointment. Anticipated nearly as eagerly as the second coming of Christ by Christians, Cyberpunk 2077 finally graced our discs and, despite a flood of bugs, turned out a great game. On PCs, that is – on consoles, meanwhile, CD Projekt RED scored a spectacular disaster. The more so because until the very premiere, the illusion was maintained that everything was fine and the versions for PS4 and Xbox One would run "surprisingly well."

Well, as it turned out after the release, regular people have a slightly different definition of "surprisingly well;" one which doesn't include a veritable plethora of smaller, bigger, and in extreme cases, game-breaking bugs. Not to mention travelling back in time, waiting of textures to load and reminiscing the era of the first PlayStation. On top of that, we had interface poorly adapted to consoles and microscopic font sizes.

The old-gen console versions of Cyberpunk 2077 weren't just underdeveloped – they were simply incomplete. And while now, after several patches, some of the biggest issues have been fixed, the state of the game on PS4 and Xbox One is still very far from what could be considered a "surprisingly good" performance.

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Michael Grygorcewicz

Michael Grygorcewicz

He first worked as a co-worker at GRYOnline.pl. In 2023 he became the head of the Paid Products department. He has been creating articles about games for over twenty years. He started with amateur websites, which he coded himself in HTML, then he moved on to increasingly larger portals. A computer engineer, but he was always more drawn to writing than programming, and he decided to tie his future with the former. In games, he primarily looks for stories, emotions, and immersion that no other medium can provide - hence, among his favorite titles, are games focusing on narration. Believes that NieR: Automata is the best game ever made.

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