People are dumb. They just kind of repeat things they've heard on the internet before. Such as "Duke Nukem Forever is the worst game ever".
It's not too unlike everyone shitting on Cyberpunk even though most people who bought it on a current system actually enjoyed the game. Same with Borderlands 3, great game. People latch on to blog headlines and parrot them ad nauseam. Ignorant bandwagon criticism is weird. It's a phenomena as old as the internet itself and just look at how far they take things on Twitter now. At least the vocal minority hasn't gotten Chappelle cancelled yet. But screw Hollywood in particular for responding to that kind of crap. People don't even watch The Oscars anymore because it's sickening.
Eh, Cyberpunk was a trainwreck when it released and deserved it's bad name. I'm sure in another few years and a dlc or two it'll be a competent game. And I'll probably buy it a year or two after that when it ends up in a bundle or a promo with something else I'm interested in. It's not as if Witcher 3 was particularly impressive at launch. But it eventually found it's feet. And Cyberpunk probably will too.
It's also not as if CDPR is the only one that does this stuff... it would be an odd situation that finds me buying anything by Bethesda at launch. I'm not going to beta test the next Elder Scrolls for them... other hype chasing fanboys that love typing page long diatribes can do that. I'll buy it a couple years later on a discount, probably with some extra dlc included.
Cyberpunk deserved to get dunked on. They released an unpolished, bad product. Even if it becomes good, when you're courting the masses- and simultaneous releasing to console- you need to expect that stuff. Console gamers aren't used to the whole "This will be improved via patches over the next several months" and more often than not will be on to the next overly hyped game by the time something gets to a more playable state.
It's how it is, and I don't know if it's worth the hassle to champion mediocre games that eventually became competent.
Borderlands 3 isn't a great game. It's a decent game that has a ton of baggage because the designers and developers are morons and got greedy. First controversy was the time-limited Epic exclusivity, second one was the that the Developer/Designer DLCs were pure bullshit.
2K/Gearbox reaped what the sowed on that... that the game was basically seen as a constant disappointment is the result of their hubris.
Duke Nukem Forever just happens to be a great example of what happen when you fall into development hell.
Is it the worse game ever? Nah.
But it was in development for 14 years and 44 days. It deserves to have a good number of lumps pounded on it because that's a significant failure on so many levels. Sure, if you look at the game in a vacuum, you'll be a lot kinder to it, but on release it was still dated-feeling and just kind of cringe-y.
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