See, I remember the bugs. When CP2077 came out, and later after they fixed most of the issues with it, people were saying things like "If they can release a game like The Witcher 3 in a flawless state, there is no excuse for the way Cyberpunk came out." I'd reply that the game was pretty buggy, with at least 1 progression halting bug I fell victim to. Got excoriated. Everyone called me a liar, or if they were a bit more kind, that I must be mistaken or thinking about some other game. Kind of crazy how people remember only what they want to.

The biggest problem on release for me, for Witcher 3, was fall damage. You could die walking down stairs. Lol.

I love that old Witcher 2 style, it had a really interesting artistic flare to it that was really just a result of the technological limitations CDPR had at the time.

Thank God Geralt was reworked. His W3 look is iconic

We have to appreciate the fact that the 2 dlcs werent cut content from the Main game

10:00 the developers actively lied and said the game runs "surprisingly well" on last gen consoles

I got the game really recently so thankfully it's been nothing but a more or less polished experience for me. Occasional glitches do happen but they're always minor and kind of funny instead of game breaking so I'm totally fine with it.

I think the only potion I used on Death March is swallow. Fully upgraded Quen was super OP

i think people forgot about the bugs in it because it was so damn good and it's released a long time ago and also because of culture and the internet have changed. i can imagine if the witcher 3 gets released noweadays it would've gotten the same outcry and memes about the bugs like cyberpunk

perfect example of the reverse of the mandela effect is the movie shazam with sinbad lol it existed 100 percent but people forgot about it and now it cant be found anywhere

CD Projekt has never had a non buggy launch lol

I think I got fairly lucky in terms of encountering bugs at launch. I remember them being mainly visual bugs, some stuff popping in, and the famous Roach the Roof Horse teleportation bug. The only game breaking bug I encountered was one that caused the game to crash when I tried to go to Skellige for the first time. Hilariously this actually made me explore all of Velen first, so by the time it was fixed I was hilariously overleveled for the Skellige stuff. But I do remember seeing the bugs everyone else was experience and OH BOY were some of them rough.

Played it at release but I've never experienced bugs. The only bug I experienced was in a far patched release where I couldn't open a chest back in Kaer Morhen.

There were some controversies when W3 dropped. I remember there were more trailers where the graphics was even better and of course people pointed out that the game was re-scaled and re-configured for the consoles so they had to nerf the graphics further down.

I remember playing the game the first day after release and I stopped playing after an hour or two but after like 2 years, better PC, better understanding I can say it's one of the best games I ever played

i don't mind multiregionality of the world at all - this adds a sense of scale. cp77 is just one city and it doesn't suffer from being one area.skellige isles or kaer morhen shouldn't be 5 minutes swim or ride away from novigrad. and it actually helps making mods or expansions - you can easlily slap some toussent on even if it's supposedly far far away. in fact it would be possible to make one piece seamless remake of both w1 and w2 on the red engine.

I believe the witcher bugs atleast the major ones were fixed quite quickly and that was one of the main reasons that people forgot about it.

About time, every one forgot about this game with Cyberpunk.

The term that fits most is circle jerk. I know I didn't forget, I figured CDPR learned the wrong lessons from their goodwill PR and free DLC from Witcher 3, that they can release a broken game and win them back over time as well as cash in some of that goodwill from the witcher 3. The problem was people didn't really see them as the little (red) engine that could anymore and expected a little more polish and actually got far less, because those more corporate pressures and marketing costs were the driving force. I knew it was it in trouble the day they announced they were dropping the third person perspective entirely, they tried to sell it as immersion, but in a game so heavily marketed for it's character customization to go full first person all the time reeked of time saving to meet the release date. In other words, red flag, red flag.

Sometimes I just find bugs charming lol. Like the ones in skyrim make me laugh. As long as they aren't game breaking

I played thru the Witcher 3 last year for the 1st time on PS5 there is a ton of graphical pop in and the underwater visuals are jank other than that I really enjoyed the game.

This game is one of my favourite of all time, its awsome, with some good combat mods its perfect.

Yeah when I heard that a Cyberpunk Game came out I was hyped, when I learned it was gonna be from the People that made The Witcher 3 I thought "Its gonna be great but almost unplayable at Launch" so I waited for a bit until it was fixed. Cyberpunk and the Witcher 3 are two of my favorite RPGs and Open World Games but both their Launches were Disasters

Luke the Witcher 3 updated critique is still happening right?

I've played Cyberpunk 2077 since launch and never encountered a game breaking bug on PC. However, I've encountered game breaking bugs on well beloved games that are supposedly polished like GTA 5 - Jeweler on a main mission won't appear, and won't appear no matter how much I reload the game. A bug that also won't let me progress through the main mission is what made me uninstall Far Cry 3.

I didn’t play the Witcher 3 until at least late 2017 so most of the bugs had been ironed out (except for a couple for side quests. Nothing game-breaking). Othewise, it seemed fine. When the next gen update came out, though, some roughness started to show. A common bug I ran into on console was the purple cobwebs glitch. And then there were the ‘disappearing saves’ glitch…that particular one was awful.

I replayed it when the next gen update came out and I made the decision to not install any mods. And what would you know, I didn't encounter any issues.

As always, great content sir! May I ask what keyboard you are using? Looks nice. Thank you.

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I had tremendous issues on launch. Some characters had their hands floating like Rayman, my file was corrupted multiple times, and the Witcher gear that's in my opinion the best looking armour was solo bugged I couldn't get it no matter how many resets I made, when everyone else had their best experience I struggled...

yeah man the ice giant quest literally bugged for me and i had to reload a save 6 hours before then because the last 3 were corrupted.

*Glitcher 3*

I played witcher 3 in 2016 and yes there is some bugs but when I played cyberpunk 2077 in 2024 there is more bugs than I found in witcher3 in 2016 like boss stuck and crashes and menu screen freezing the witcher 3 ps5 version is worse than ps4 there is a lot of bugs when it came out the game freezing any time but they fix it but still there is flickering in the sky espcially in blood and wine I hope they take their time with witcher 4 and release it with no bugs

One thing that annoys me as player on his first playthrough (i love the game), even though I'm on death march, i have leveled beyond the recommended level for story quests, making everything super easy even if I use a shit sword. i have played the game fairly slowly, doing a lot of side quests. Its one thing I hope the next game can fix.

I never encounter any crash or game breaking bugs

The only bug I had in Witcher 3 release was: riding down Roach down the mountain too fast flying horse. Thats all. Everything else was perfect. Maybe I was lucky. But for me the game was perfect from the start to the end. Now Oh Boi Cyberpunk tho lolololol.

The Bugger 3😢

Love the game but it’s still buggy as hell. Currently playing complete edition on PS5 and so many times glitches will happen for example I won’t be able to dive. Making a save & reloading or letting an enemy (if one is around) drag you under fixes it but ffs.

i played it at first launch, on my gaming laptop... actually i did not experience the crazy bug you guys said, honest to god! (minor ones.. yes, here and there... nothing crazy)

Witcher 3 was always buggy. To this day I can't forgive it by making one of the Witcher armour sets unobtainable by having one of the item gear chests permanently closed.

Yeah, I've been saying this since Cyberpunk 2077 released. CDPR makes fantastic games but they have yet to have a smooth launch on consoles. The Witcher 3 was about as bad as Cyberpunk was and it was on PS4 and Xbox One when they were relatively new consoles. I specifically remember the Crookback Bog quest was bugged for me, Roach would randomly disappear, and it ran at like 20fps. It was not a great experience at launch but is one of my favorite games ever now, as is Cyberpunk 2077.

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Witcher 3 PC was reasonably fine for a western RPG, far worse on consoles and it had performance issues. Most of the bugs and issues were fixed pretty early in the first couple of weeks of launch, they rolled out the patches faster than Larian with BG3 in fact. I think the reason people don't talk about it as many people didn't start playing it until much later. CDPR did a good job post launch to squash the bugs as fast as they could. But I remember the performance issues at the beginning, which they fixed pretty quickly thankfully. Witcher 3 was not any worse than say BG3 or any other Western RPGs, western RPGs having a lot of bugs is kinda the norm as unfortunate as that sounds. Compared to Bioware, WItcher 3 was the most polished rpg launch. I'm not even gonna mention Bethesda. Dragon Age inquision was far more buggy and had far more issues at launch, and then 6 months later Witcher 3 launched which had some bugs but nowhere near as bad as Bioware games had issues. Cyberpunk was a different case, because there were far more fundamental issues with the engine and needed a lot more work to make it stable.

i have a bug on my ps5 version now that i changed the camera speed and it is stuck/buged on the lowest of rotation speeds and i can not change it

Preordered on the fat xbox one i had screen tearing pretty bad but honestly it was damn amazing otherwise.

If CD will release The witcher 4 with 1 2 and 3 for 70$ they WILL make billions

Nope I remember buying W3 day 1 back in 2015. I played it incessantly for 3 weeks. I experienced zero bugs. Fact.

I absolutely adore witcher 3 but make no mistake it is the most buggy triple A game I ever played even to this day.

People are far more willing to forgive games for being buggy and broken if they’re able to still have a good time playing them in spite of those bugs. It’s not just The Witcher 3 or CDPR, this was the same for Bethesda for a long time. Despite being total messes, stuff like Skyrim, Oblivion, and Fallout: New Vegas were still heavily praised and went on to be remembered for what they did right rather than what they did wrong. The only reason that’s changed in mordern times, beginning with Fallout 76, is due the games being perceived as no longer feeling “magical” like they did in the past. FromSoftware is also in this boat. They’ve been releasing broken PC ports pretty regularly for years. Not just Dark Souls 1, but also Dark Souls 3, and Elden Ring, and Shadow of the Erdtree. Even now, most of the negative reviews that ciriticize the performance issues with SotE have been largely buried underneath the heated discussion of whether the content is too hard and not fun. Proof that people care more about having a good time than if the expansion is put out in a functional state, which is very ironic when people then go on to constantly complain about games being released broke and buggy. I’m sure Cyberpunk is also going to shed its bad reputation from launch day as time goes on, because now people are enjoying playing it, and that’s what actually matters for the majority of the gaming community.

I'm playing again, first time since pre-DLC release, and I've had to reload a few times. So far it has been because I was stuck in the map, bug of diving now working, and movement controls not responding. There have also been 3 or 4 crash to desktop. All of these were over a full playthrough and close to half of a NG+. Enemy upscaling (enemies are your level or higher) is a must to keep the game interesting. Witcher 3 Death March with just food and some potions on tough boss fights is perfectly doable. The secret is 'Gourmet' from Blood and Wine that makes food last 20 minutes. That and don't get hit or have Quen up.

It's a great game

The issue with CP2077 is that everyone expected the Witcher 3 when in fact it took CDPR 2 previous games to hit the nail on the head

Yeah, witcher on launch is pretty much a bug mess, but the game it self so good, I forgot about bugs.

Hairworks works for amd. Lol. Sorry, I couldn't help myself.

Hello there

It was super buggy. All of CDPRs games have released that way. I was fortunate enough that I didn’t pick it up till 2018 after all patches.

Not really. I haven't had any issues with the game at launch.

Every CD Projekt´s game, at the release, was a bloody disaster - from Witcher 1 (I still remember the "original" Witcher 1, which is now called Witcher The Enhanced Edition) up to Cyberpunk. And, most likely, that trend will continue on with Witcher 4 and the next Cyberpunk.

TW3 was extremely buggy at launch, with people calling it 'The Glitcher 3.' However, it's great to see that they have since fixed the bugs and glitches, making the game better than ever.

Luke team Triss or Yen

it wasnt just buggy; it controlled like shit. That's why they added an alternate movement type... and then made it default. Trash game at launch. Oh yeah, and they Ubisoft lied... I forgot about that.

You could also question why FromSoft gets literally all the passes for all their games. Same issue. Blind af fanbois.

Oh common it was glitching sometimes like roach clipping into the ground and stuff like that. Nothing that broke the game or made it unplayable. Even the video you show.. is someone clearly trying to break the game. No one is gonna jump off a high tower in regular gameplay.. no one is gonna run of a cliff and get off roach. Why would you even do that. Something like cyberpunk released in the state.. that could be called pre alpha. It took years to fix after release. A complicated game like the Witcher 3 is gonna have bugs on release. Bethesda released different game with same known bugs.. hell even the same game with the same broken shit over and over again. They ask money for minor content..but let shit on the one developer that gives small content for free and fixes issues.. yeah lets do that

Weird... Been playing with Nvidia Hair works for a few hours without issues, settings set everything in Ultra/Ultra+. Maybe it's something with 40series cards, I'm running a 3080Ti

Cyberpunk came out far worst than Witcher 3 release 😂😂 like how is this even a question. Not only was cyberbyg buggy as hell but it had missing rpg elements and just story choices

All their games are buggy and unfinished on released

Duh it was buggy. Ever since they could no game is fking finished upon released

The game has all the flaws to this day for which we give assassins creed and ubisoft so much sh"t

CDPR has never released a game that wasn't a buggy broken mess at launch. Witcher 1 buggy af, Witcher 2 buggy af on pc and consoles, Witcher 3 nicknamed the Glitcher 3 was so buggy on console and pc they issued a formal apology, and obviously Cyberpunk was biblically fuckin broken at launch. They're no better at launch than Bethesda (performance wise).