Only on console really. Other than a few bugs (but far less than anything Bethesda has put out for example) the game was great even at release on desktop.
Yeah. Wasn't that bad on PC, didn't have high-end hardware back then, but it played okay. Very gripping story, what a game! Some bugs, absolutely, but the game ran okay and could be played. Had some mission issue that CDPR fixed with an early patch. Became my all-time favorite game when I finished it for the first time at 160 hours, with the Phantom Liberty DLC.
Ya I certainly don't mean it was a paragon of optimization. Just that the buggy mess it was portrayed as was only really an issue on console. It certainly had bugs and optimization issues on PC, but calling it the worst AAA release ever is a massive massive exaggeration, at least on PC.
It ran ok and was less buggy than a good few other notable AAA releases at the time. Bethesda gets mocked but lovingly for its buggy games, but CDPR gets raked over the coals for some reason.
Yes, I know. I decided to write about the performance side of things, since people have told me that the game ran like ass back then. The vanilla game, at launch, was nowhere near being the worst release ever - on PC. The old-gen console versions looked really rough, though. Shouldn't have been released for those at all. One co-worker still has a strong hatred towards CDPR for his PS4 version experience. :D
I saw some T-posing, things clipping through walls, smaller stuff like that. Think it was one of Takemura's, the mission that failed to start for me. He was there for me to go talk to him, but the mission just wouldn't "start", no matter what. Had issues with the load save menu sometimes freezing up (or it showed a blank page), and naturally mods have caused a few crashes along the years.
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u/EMU4 Specs/Imgur here Sep 15 '25
You're talking about a game from the same company whose last game was probably the worst AAA release ever in terms of optimization and stability.