How is it better? i know its an opinion and you are entitled to it, but everything you just wrote is done WAY better in Witcher 3, like every aspect of the game.
You did explain what you liked about it but you didnt explain how it was better.
For me, factoring in budget, development time, hype, what it tries to do and what it ended up achieving, post-launch support, expansions. All those factors adding to my personal preference makes Witcher 3 an easy choice for the better game.
1) 80M$
vs 300M$
2) 4 years
vs 8 years
3) ok/average triple A hype
vs massive GTA 5 levels of hype
4) Tries to be medieval grey moral fantasy inspired my slavic folklore, a continuation of novel saga and third in a trilogy, main job is to tell stories through quests that flesh out the world and promises to give the player immersive role playing in Geralt's shoes
VS Sci-Fi Cyberpunk modern metropolis about dystopian future, tries to be deep rpg according to marketing and class system but fails, tries to tell stories about human relation and dystopian future but falls short, marketed to be a fleshed out city bustling with life but failed, claims to be next gen open world experience but fails and has worse world than farcry.
5) Fixes most major issues 1-2 months within launch, released big meaty story driven expansion that is 10-15 hours with some of the best writing in the video games history, releases 30-40 hours content DLC that feels like a sequel and regarded the best DLC ever made with 16 free dlc all in a span of 1 year!
VS a jacket and a car and bug fixes that FINALLY reached a stable state AFTER 2 YEARS!!
6) Personal preference: A better, more meaningful and consistent story and better side quests, better enemy variety and even better a.i, more inspired and iconic soundtrack and world compliments narrative and better romances and characters.
VS a rushed story with prologue that means NOTHING, a relationship with a character told in a 5 min cutscene flashback, kind of episodic act 2 with forgettable characters except 2, worse villains, OST that is less iconic, terrible radio music, lackluster and lifeless city, gangs that are set dressing and has no difference between others except for clothes, worse Gigs compared to contracts, less interesting main character, forced out buddy who is Johnny that imho under-performed and generally side quests that felt unfinished or anti-climactic (dream on)
The problem with Cyberpunk 2077 is that the developers (aside from the known fuck ups) tried to implement what worked with Witcher 3 to Cyberpunk and imo it didnt work and even exposed the previous issues Witcher 3 had that managed to hide, so i would call that an amateur mistake by them, they thought Witcher 3 succeeded so that it gives them green light to simply cut and paste most design choices to Cyberpunk and it ended up biting them in the ass, one of those examples is the skill trees and the class system, it seems in W3 its acceptable due to Geralt being a Witcher and the system was already implemented from the start so saying faithful to the source and OG principles is seen as ok, but Cyberpunk skill system which is similar in a way, was seen as a bad thing, because it does NOT take advantage of the character creator system, nor it does present a fluid or deep rpg mechanics system, this in turn makes the flaw itself much more apparent and annoying.
Anyway, that's just my opinion, and i appreciate that you liked it more, i think Cyberpunk is not a bad game and it deserves some love after its disaster, i dont share your opinion and i thought i owe you an explanation as to why i disagree.
Lets hope for a good expansion.
Fallout 4 is a better game. That's how bad CP is
Hey, Fallout 4 is not a bad game, its just decent enough, i think people treat it way too harsh.
New Vegas > 2 > 1 > 3 > 4 > 76 > Shelter
Fallout 4 had a great open world and the gameplay feels fun, the mods make it a much desirable purchase and i think its better than The Outer Worlds for example.
Fallout 4 is like Dragon Age Inquisition, its not a bad game but fails to live up to its franchise.
After i finished Cyberpunk 2077 i thought it was better than Fallout 4 but now i think i would give both a decent 3/5
