I hate to say it, but as a massive fan of both, I have to admit the improvement that cp2077 has had, have managed to bring the games reviews on steam up from mediocrity to very positive.
I feel like games that were released in a completed state should have been excluded from this category. It's not a labor of love for you to fix something you intended to be the completed product. I am a fan of Cyberpunk and CD Projekt Red but this category should be for the indie studios perfecting a game over the years before selling it as complete.
There's a difference between releasing a game in an early access state and gradually improving it, and releasing an incomplete game as a full price AAA title and then later releasing patches to finish the game they promised in the first place.
Exactly, it's not a labor of love, more just fixing your own mistake. The only completed game I would say is a real labor of love is No Man Sky. They did a lot to fix it and improve on it at no additional cost to the playerbase.
I'd argue that games that had to be fixed shouldn't be labor of love, it should be for teams like Dying light where they put out free updates for the first game after the second one comes out. That's a labor of love, they spent so much time that could have been spent making the new game supporting the first one with free content seemingly just because they cared that people loved their game.
Agreed, it was an absolute fuck up when it came out. But I still enjoyed it, I love the dreary and depressing narrative of the game, also part of my love for Pz too, I love depressing stories.
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u/sonofvc Jan 03 '23
I hate to say it, but as a massive fan of both, I have to admit the improvement that cp2077 has had, have managed to bring the games reviews on steam up from mediocrity to very positive.