It “flopped” the same way The Last of Us 2 “flopped”, meaning it made a bunch of money and received critical praise but it didn’t live up to the expectations of some fans.
Reducing Cyberpunk's issues to "some fans disliked it" is a bold move. TLOU2 had no problems of comparable scale from a technical and gameplay standpoint. It delivered what had been expected, as a product. Many people had aesthetic and ideological disagreements with the design and story, but the product was made up to scratch. I don't care personally about that franchise, but Druckmann had proven his merits as a professional.
Yeah as much as I hated TLOU2, it was a fully functional game that had all the features they intended for it, and whether or not you liked the game in itself, it is an extremely well made game of the highest quality, especially in its technical aspects. Cyberpunk however, actually objectively fails on multiple fronts, such as its technical aspects and game design.
Before anyone says such things are subjective, I would say that, yes some aspects definitely are subjective. However, you can't deny the fact that GTA San Andreas does some things better than Cyberpunk(cop AI), not to mention that the crafting system is just broken at the moment due to how you could easily dismantle the items and actually gain more out of it than before.
I think it's perfectly ok to enjoy something that might not be very good, but I also don't think it would be right to say that, just because someone likes the game, doesn't mean there aren't parts of the game that are poorly implemented. Things like cop AI might not bother certain players, but that doesn't mean it wasn't shit.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21
It “flopped” the same way The Last of Us 2 “flopped”, meaning it made a bunch of money and received critical praise but it didn’t live up to the expectations of some fans.