• ampersandrew@lemmy.worldOP
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    4 days ago

    Cyberpunk was definitely not immune to this, and it got quite the reckoning on release. The big difference in The Witcher 3 for me was how much it copied the parts of the Bethesda formula that were fun for me while also making every side quest interesting and well-presented. Prior to that, I hadn’t seen an RPG keep up that level of quality for so long, as games that big tended to be full of routine fetch quests with no interesting story bit to go along with it, to pad them out, while The Witcher 3 made each of those question the morality of the typical fairy tale as The Witcher (in general) tends to do.